JP

LMAO

I endorse this Lux review. Please read the footnotes

I feel seen. Uma passagem mto gentil sobre interações nas redes sociais

oh Fidel I gotta finish these two books first 😭

I can't wait can't wait can't wait to do a book tour again. nothing hits like the fight or flight of walking up to the front of a room and looking at a bunch of faces and being like "who are you? who am I??"

MARTIN LUTHER IN 1517:

My review of Frankenstein (2025)

bad writing can lowkey be beautiful. not because the language is beautiful but because bad writing can reveal things about the writer that "good writing" would know to conceal or distract from. sometimes when reading bad writing I feel a terrible, thrilling closeness to the author.

thing: [occurs]
me: this is in some ways about catholicism, which I don't condone, of course,

when MY crucifixion comes I will be clocking in

not a soul in this scandal has good prose

My strat rn is to read it quickly while letting it wash over me first then go back with a guide

UPDATE: I still don’t know necessarily what’s being said but there’s something IN this stuff like I swear my mind sentences are going crazy since reading it daily

Fantastic piece “digesting” a fantastic album.

Weaves reflections on our collective consumption of slop and our consumption of god.

Best essay I've read on this album, truly understands how it's working within the culture

okay but this is great music writing!!

Eat Me On Rosalía's "Lux" and our collective gut health

I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me

May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive On Trump, Epstein, and TV

I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...

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no one is writing for lapsed catholics like @jpbrammer.bsky.social is writing for lapsed catholics

texto chocantérrimo pra quem quiser consumir uma resenha boa de verdade sobre esse álbum

Incredible essay on spiritual affliction that brings together the lowly worm & the lowly pop genre:

"But the great animal representative of death and rebirth isn’t the lion. It’s the worm, the abbreviated anatomy of which lays bare that casual miracle under our feet: in goes death, out goes life."

She loved the politician.

the first paragraph is rotating in my mind palace and that's not something most writers would want (I don't keep good stuff in there)

Devouring the album, loving this piece

high school strikes me as a wild time to approach this but also my brain has been fried by The World Wide Web haha

Another incredible JP Brammer article about music, culture, and how we find meaning in a society that consumes everything. JP you can’t keep getting away with it!!!!

I joke bc the thing is the parts I understand like where he describes a dog on a beach are GORGEOUS

I will definitely check it out

delighted to see such a visceral take on lux. its arrangements immediately suggest something ethereal and otherworldly but it's really surprisingly bodily/grounded

favorite little gem: a body is a thing that wants and needs and gets in the way!!!