@motherslug.bsky.social
Detroit writer. Books, jazz, records, eclectic music, bleak sci-fi, depressing and upsetting fiction and films, the works. Read me in print media (Uncut Magazine & Maggot Brain), plus motherslug.substack.com and some other places when they will have me!
#NowPlaying I’m walking as it snows, dainty spectral flakes in the air accompanied by these unbelievably lovely sounds in my ears, Nailah Hunter on harp & Alia on theremin & chimes playing music from Harold Budd’s The Pavilion of Dreams. Fucking exquisite!
nailahhunter.bandcamp.com/album/the-pa...
I knew I would like it, but it’s even better than I imagined. Perfect book!
02.12.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My dude was like, “Is this book somehow about Pink Floyd???” ANIMALS are a huge theme so that’s three. Funny coincidence!
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Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall is a remarkable, devastating book. It will be a source of contemplation and strength for the rest of my waking life.
02.12.2025 13:38 — 👍 33 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Watched John Huston's THE DEAD (1987) last night. A beautiful film and a wonderful act of adaptation. The last few minutes in particular, as the last few paragraphs in the James Joyce story, are spine-chillingly marvelous. #FilmSky
30.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I love never-ending sentences and grocery store coffee.
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Pynchon gone fucking beautiful describing a motorcycle: “…no substitute for his old Harley Flathead, which, though less of a coherent machine than a history of maintenance melodramas each waiting its turn to be enacted, he now misses heartbroken as a cowboy in a song…”
30.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“…a theremin of uneasiness, sliding around a narrow band of notes, in which it's said you may come to hear repeated melodies, themes and variations, which is when you know you're going bughouse, with only a very short period of grace to try and escape before it no longer matters.”
28.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#NowPlaying First time listening to Judgment!, a marvelously playful Andrew Hill joint recorded in January 1964 on which he is accompanied by a killer line-up, typical for this era of Blue Note.
25.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1I don’t have a career path. I’m a worker by day and a writer by night and neither do I consider a career. Pedantic? Perhaps!
23.11.2025 17:44 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had the same thought re: Lynch. Definitely know exactly what you mean. I'm also really bummed I missed Come Back to the Five & Dime, it left at the end of October and I hadn't realized it would be!!!
23.11.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My jaw dropped!!!
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FOOL FOR LOVE (1985): Robert Altman does a Sam Shepard Greek tragedy set in a seedy Western motel, perfect for this haunted story. He does gorgeous stuff with neon reflections in mirrors, a kind of subdued funhouse of roiling emotions that don't make sense until they abruptly do. #FilmSky
23.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 36 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
One of my shelves. I love the lighting in the house at this time of morning!
22.11.2025 14:29 — 👍 77 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
“The wind unrelenting all year long is believed by some to be the vestige of this free city that never came to be, as the breath of ghosts may sometimes be felt in haunted locations—a great history-wide sigh of unrequited political desire.”
18.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My top 5 movie genres:
• Black comedies that skewer the media and modern life
• Existential journeys through the mind of the most neurotic person you know
• Ragtag crews investigating poorly understood phenomena
• Bleak sci-fi
• Sprawling ensemble stories with too many interwoven characters
Paris Bar! A newer spot that I think is gonna rule.
15.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No one in Detroit is doing anything even remotely like MRKT, easily one of the best bands in the city right now. Experimental space-prog inflected with jazz fusion and krautrock, incredible jams and unusual time signatures, totally fantastic live. Link to their music in comments!
15.11.2025 14:04 — 👍 110 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 1
#NowPlaying The Natural Bridge is my favorite Silver Jews album, hard stop. Nearly every song embodies the psychic geography of eternal skin-ripping melancholy like nothing else except maybe all his other music.
14.11.2025 00:29 — 👍 48 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
#TeamQuaternionists
12.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Name the book this could be about.
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Over at @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about the Freedom to Spend/ @rvngintl.bsky.social reissue of Sister Irene O'Connor's 1973 LP Fire of God's Love, an album of experimental electronic folk-pop devotionals that has the power to thaw yr hardened heart.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/12/s...
How it feels to make a new folder in my Google Drive for a publication I haven't worked with before.
12.11.2025 13:17 — 👍 59 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My latest review for Uncut!
09.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 46 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
#NowPlaying New experimental ambient neo-classical drone out of Detroit. Michael Malis (pipe organ, piano, melodica) & Zara Teicher (French horn, harmonium, melodica) recorded this in St. Anthony’s Cathedral, w/the space as a third ensemble member of sorts.
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
Does the inside count?
08.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 38 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 7
Detroit pianist Kenny Cox was born on this day in 1940. Cox made two excellent late-1960s albums for Blue Note with The Contemporary Jazz Quintet including his debut “Introducing Kenny Cox” which was reissued in our Classic Vinyl Series. Listen or get the vinyl here: bluenote.lnk.to/IntroducingK...
08.11.2025 14:31 — 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1The pic makes it look like Trey is laughing at them, hee hee.
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