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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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Pure Adiemus.

on music manufactured for a new millennium.

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Music for dolphins

Gregorian moods

Enjoy the noises.

writes about Gregorian Moods and chasing the fugue.

Gregorian Moods

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…or pure horror?

on the strange link between the Pure Moods franchise and horror soundtracks.

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Pure Moods

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 "I was wearing dangling sword earrings the day of my attack."

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The world has turned and left me here

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Is it better to desire, or be desired?

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The Desire Question

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Pulling off the machine assist.

on Alphabetical Diaries and thinking defensively about effort.

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Sheila Heti’s Gimmicks

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"One time, our friend Shane snuck in an entire rotisserie chicken."

on sneaking in concessions, shoplifting DVDs, and recreating the experience at home. 

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My Movie Theater: Isaac Fitzgerald

Ruthie

A dog in a song.

previously wrote about [putting people in songs](https://dirt.fyi/article/2023/06/lonely-heart "Lonely heart"). Today, she writes about her dog Ruthie.

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