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Highlights of our week. Things worth a second look. Things you should keep.
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Hello, Hello
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Hi everyone,
It's been a long time and I hope you're well. There are a lot of new things at UFR, and there's a lot ahead. I want to get back to sending these but I'm switching over to MailChimp. It'll be cleaner for all of us. Please do subscribe:
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Let the Music do the Talking
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It's easy to say that songs are like poetry, but I don't think that's always true. I think songs are like stories, and that poems are too. There's a point where genre is irrelevant. It's all a way for people to talk to you about what they've lived, or at least about what's on their minds. I was watching a documentary about U2 and their music and... more »
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UFR Weekly Newsletter #25: Where to Begin
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I was thinking about Judy Clement Wall’s review of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This. In it, she says that Robin Black’s stories are about “the bonds that connect us, the loneliness we struggle against, the ways in which we are here for each other and the heartbreaking ways in which we are not.” I thought about my time in Vermont a few... more »
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UFR Weekly Newsletter #24: You Are Not A Monster
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It’s hard to pick favorites, but there are things you’ll always keep close. This interview with Lidia Yuknavitch is one of those things. I read The Chronology of Water back in December, when I needed it. A few weeks ago I lent it to a friend. She needed it too. When Lidia agreed to talk with us we came up with some questions. Really, a lot of what... more »
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UFR Weekly Newsletter #23: What I'm Trying To Say
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I’m thinking of when I was younger. I would spend hours in my basement using a portable version of Dance Dance Revolution, that game where you shift your feet across a mat while looking at the screen, waiting for directions. It was summer and I would sweat through my shirt. I would put my hands on my waist and hold my belt, telling my brother I... more »
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UFR Weekly Newsletter #22: When A Story Counts
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Sometimes I read books about fast times because they show me a world I don’t know: the willingness to get high off anything, the ability to live off nothing, the baddest love, or else the best. I listen to music that talks about the same kinds of things, songs about being alive and desperate, right where you’re supposed to be. Maybe because... more »
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UFR Weekly Newsletter #21: The Things We Listen To
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Everyone has a favorite soundtrack, songs working within a narrative to make it all sing, to make it all work. Some movies make up their own and others use them as filler, something to take up space in the background. They’re always important, though. No one ever said the background wasn’t important; if someone did then they were lying.... more »
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UFR Weekly Newsletter #20: How the Metaphor Ends
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There’s that old metaphor about what you should do if you’re with someone on a boat and the boat starts to go under, which person you should save first. There’s a song where Springsteen talks about going down, down, down, down, a cliché that starts with sink and ends with swim, a quote that goes, Come live in my heart and pay no rent. That... more »
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UFR Weekly Newsletter #19: Something to Keep
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While working at a bar on the ocean, I’ve looked at a customer as she asked for another gin and tonic. I’ve wondered why she was there alone, why she wanted more, what she really needed, where she was going. I’ve served a man who came in asking for anything that would sting. I’ve heard customers sing along with bad cover bands, not... more »
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