Sophie, Salute! I just saw that you are totally in the Path of Totality. I hope you're ready with your lil special glasses!

| Massive Attack : Protection

| The Beatles : Fool on the Hill

I hope this postcard finds you well. I’m writing to you from the bustling streets of New York City, where every corner seems to have a story to tell.

| Hot Butter : Popcorn

| Focus : Hocus Pocus

"My favorite pieces of music are those that I didn't understand, those with which I had to wrestle, play again, examine, sit with, play yet again, before I could wrap my head around them enough to pull them into an emotional space." -More words, photos and links at the click.

So click already. Dang.

| tim buckley : i woke up

| tim buckley : i woke up ("the show" 1970)

Last night, when I wrote that piece, I had no conscious knowledge that tonight was the Wolf Moon. This is why events unnerve me, you know what I'm saying? This is why events unnerve me.

| howlin' wolf : little red rooster

| yello : goldrush

I won't lie, I could jump to the top of a hill and howl for hours, crying and screaming, spitting and cursing, rolling around in the dirt nekkid

| mantronix : who is it? (uk club mix)

| anselm : official us trailer

This is the famous "Knights of Malta Keyhole" found in Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta. I love the wabi-sabi of the doors, the wear of which is a testimony to the thousands and thousands of tourists who visit every year, just for a peek through the famed keyhole.

| duet emmo : or so it seems

| solaris (1972) trailer

Both of these were submitted by one of my good friends, going on 30 years now. He is a good friend, a true friend. I call him my cultural attaché, because he regularly turns me on to a lot of high-quality art. I wish there were more like him.

| tool : reflection

| ukonpower : decompress of empty

Speechless. I wonder what this page looks like with no text? Hey, I can do that.

| atlas sound : scraping past

| a guide to self transformation : the school of life

Every human institution is a mess of contradictions and conflicting methods and complex motives and no one knows this better than Italian Catholics and, I would argue, the Romans most intimately.

| chinese man : he said

| vatican fashion show : federico fellini (roma)