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leave the car running, i'm (still) not ready to go.
A note before we begin- The seeds of this essay were planted in 2017. It’s a year I struggle to recall fondly. It’s also a year that brought us three…
Monica Ek
May 12, 2021
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leave the car running, i'm (still) not ready to go.
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forgive me // give it to me
tell me what to do, t-tell me what to do, t-t-to keep it. It’s been a while. Long enough that if I were a person with any vices left I’d wager that you…
Monica Ek
Mar 2
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forgive me // give it to me
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i'm overmatched / i'm half as wise
If this is flat, brother, I apologize. — I am not a runner. I can count the number of times I’ve run in the last year on one hand. On one finger. I ran…
Monica Ek
Mar 13, 2021
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i'm overmatched / i'm half as wise
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you've got to learn to be much stronger
at times your head must rule your heart. Nina Simone, were she still with us, would be turning 88 today, and even though she isn’t here to celebrate …
Monica Ek
Feb 22, 2021
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you've got to learn to be much stronger
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still set on ten to burn this house down
count the band in, then kick into overdrive… There are a number of reasons I’ve questioned my dependency on Spotify over the last few years. Reasons…
Monica Ek
Feb 6, 2021
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still set on ten to burn this house down
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there's a name for this, i'm sure
always pacing around in revelation, repositioning the plants and paintings… I’ve been cleaning up a lot lately - my house, my head. Sifting through the…
Monica Ek
Jul 5, 2020
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there's a name for this, i'm sure
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Five
or, The Doors were just a bunch of jazz nerds and we probably all should be.
Monica Ek
Mar 16, 2021
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Five
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it's sixteen miles to the promised land
and i promise you, i’m doing the best i can. About this time two months ago (when the last one of these things went out - hi, hello, how are you?), I…
Monica Ek
May 8, 2019
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give yourself a rest / give yourself some room
you can’t get your arms around everybody / you cannot carry the doom A few weeks ago, I finally remembered what day it was in time to tune in for one of…
Monica Ek
Jul 27, 2020
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gonna live my life in this hot country
take a deep breath and you reach out to me. In the absence of concerts as a way to stand in communion, I’ve been thinking a lot about all of the other…
Monica Ek
Aug 22, 2020
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so count it on your fingers
if we got it wrong it’s ‘cause the days have numbers. This week I’ve been rooting around for some words that felt like the right words to say here, but…
Monica Ek
May 29, 2020
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Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Two
Albums 21-40, or, a lot of stalling and wondering why I took this on, and then remembering it's actually kinda fun to have a spreadsheet tell you when…
Monica Ek
Dec 21, 2020
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