FRIDAY!

Arab Strap

Hold Steady

Damien Jurado

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and I'm starting to think that this book that I told you to go read last week is truly important and remarkable.

I'll say more after I've finished my second trip , or maybe third trip, through, but I haven't been this worked (in the rube sense of that verb) by an author in a long time, and I mean that as the highest possible complement I can give. And that I think it's possibly a *Ship of Fools*/*Lord of the Flies* for our time... but more later. Go read it.