How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lucrecia Dalt (@lucreciadalt.bsky.social) is coming to Baltimore to release her new album, A Danger to Ourselves (2025). At Hopkins, Dalt will join me for a conversation & listening session of tracks directly from her vinyl records. Oct. 29, 2025, 12:00 PM, at the Levering Arellano Theater.

Dale, che!

Today at noon in Gilman 479, Johns Hopkins hosts an open class by art historian Tatiana Flores (UVA) on Mexican avant-gardes, examining the intersections of art and literature in Maples Arce’s landmark manifesto "Actual No. 1" (1921)—open to all.

Ceci n'est pas une livre

Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
Venice Film Festival, 1961 bit.ly/k41Nye

Elis Regina gostava de cozinhar e mandava bem nas panelas, inclusive gostava de fazer feira e era rigorosa nas escolhas.

Quando chamava os amigos pra jantar na sua casa e ganhava elogios, respondia:

-- É que você ainda não me viu cantando!

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) - 1080p AI Remastered YouTube video by NSMBW

The only conceivable GG biopic ever:

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Publishers, please take note that at least one person just bought three books SOLELY based on the viscerally appealing covers designed by a human being.

Disculpture: Cildo Meireles’s Vinyl Records as Sculptural Objects This article shows how Cildo Meireles’s perspectives on sound and sculpture using the phonographic record offer a metacritical assessment of the medium as a platform for sonic investigations, while...

Like an artist’s book, artists’ records are fascinating objects. In my latest article, I examine the long trajectory of the renowned Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles with vinyl records. The article is available as open access and can be downloaded for free. doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Disculpture: Cildo Meireles’s Vinyl Records as Sculptural Objects This article shows how Cildo Meireles’s perspectives on sound and sculpture using the phonographic record offer a metacritical assessment of the medium as a platform for sonic investigations, while...

My new article, "Disculpture: Cildo Meireles’s Vinyl Records as Sculptural Objects," has just been published in the latest issue of the JLACS (Vol. 34, No. 2)—and the PDF is available as open access for free download.

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Minha geração cometeu um erro ingênuo O falecido militante histórico uruguaio José “Pepe” Mujica argumenta que o capitalismo não se resume apenas as relações de propriedade, mas um conjunto de valores culturais que a esquerda deve confron...

Mujica entendeu que fact-checking não nos salvará: "Minha geração, racionalista com uma visão programática da história, não compreendeu que os humanos muitas vezes decidem com a intuição e então sua consciência constrói argumentos para justificar as suas decisões."
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Elis & Tom: só tinha de ser com você YouTube video by YouTube Movies

Elis Regina and Tom Jobim: two giants in one record. The 16mm footage is a lasting gift. Pure joy, music as high art. Now free to watch. Don’t miss it.

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New ISLAA 2025 Research Fellowship Program Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) Library and Archives. Photo by Olympia Shannon.

Opportunity for MA and PhD students in the US—deadline on May 16.
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Just finished this excellent book on the cultural backgrounds to ‘The Waste Land’ and its relationship to the work of Eliot’s contemporaries, with a refreshing emphasis on women modernists. A good book to read alongside Matthew Hollis’s ‘The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem’ (2022).

O grande (e grande amigo) Ailton Krenak levando a palavra da floresta para a Neuropa ouvir.

For very specific stuff I listen to occasionally, I keep a well-organized digital library. I miss spending time with it—reviewing and expanding my digital collection—so I might set aside time for that soon. It’ll be fun.

I also collect LPs and 78s, which are reserved for listening rituals. I’ve been making more space for those lately, and that’s where I go deep into the experience. I buy both old and new records, often directly from artists at concerts or through their websites.

I should add that I also have an actual radio in my kitchen, and I have a wonderful time listening to my city’s late-night broadcasts—real shows curated by people who care about and study their repertoire, no algorithmic slop. So there’s always an element of chance built into listening.

Still, I’m open to trying other platforms until I get a real sense of what’s out there. In fact, I’m excited to keep exploring. One thing is certain: I won’t be going back to Spotify. They offer the worst product, and they’re neither more affordable nor more user-friendly.

By the end of the trial, I decided to move on. I bought a new pair of AirPods and received three free months of Apple Music (my thinking was, this basically gave me a $30 discount on the earbuds). The sound quality there is solid too, and it integrates seamlessly with my computer.

My biggest concern was losing years’ worth of carefully curated playlists, but in a way, that loss felt liberating. Without playlists, I opened myself up to change.

First, I signed up for Tidal’s one-month free trial—just to ease out of my old habits without going cold turkey. The sound quality was noticeably better, which made me pay closer attention to the listening itself. That, in turn, became a joy on its own.

Ghosting Spotify: A How-To Guide The Joyful Sabotage Guide to Supporting Real Music and Reigniting Pleasure in the Age of Tech Oligarchy

True. I've been off Spotify for three months now, and my music-listening habits are doing great—better now, actually. Opting out looked impossible at first, but let me tell you this: it is not only possible, it is liberating and transformative. Just do it!

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One to One: John and Yoko | Official Trailer | Experience It In IMAX® YouTube video by IMAX

Movie theaters are struggling because people no longer assemble in front of the big screen. I went to Baltimore's coolest place for “One to One: John & Yoko” just to find an empty room. The film is magnificent, inspiring, galvanizing; but people were “absolutely elsewhere.”

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Verve To Release Billie Holiday's 'All Or Nothing At All' On Vinyl Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series, which masters classic LPs from original tapes, is releasing Billie Holiday's 'All or Nothing at All' on vinyl.

Billie Holiday 110 today and we're making our annual April 7 late at night pilgrimage to Billie’s Alley here in Baltimore—which is literally 3 blocks from home. Gonna drop a few of her tunes out there with a portable speaker. Lady Day's day!

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Oh, that would be wonderful! I'll DM you to discuss it more.

Just ordered a copy to our library here at Hopkins. I have been using in classroom for quite some time now. Always great!

Got it! ;-)