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On the George Washington Bridge Project: Fender Repair Edition

21Mar09

In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. For the past ___ years, I’ve been neglecting my guitars and amplifiers; for example, I stored my ‘blackface’ 1960s Fender Princeton Reverb at my friend John’s house, and everything else sat in the forgotten recesses of closets, which is not exactly the […]

Filed under: Bad Rock, Gay, Good Rock, GWB Project, Longing, Memory, Obsession, Resignation | 2 Comments
Tags: Alan Greenspan, Amps, Apple Macbook Pro, Death Culture at Sea, Dick Cheney, Fender Princteton Reverb, Fender Telecaster Custom, Guitars, iTunes, Metaphor, Queens, Repair, Saturnine, Steve Malkmus, The Donald

On You Have Seen the Worst in People

18Sep08

In which The Gay Recluse records and tumbles. Hey fans of the British Invasion (by which we mean the one with Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine)! Why not tumble on over to the latest in Saturnine Death Culture at Sea — recorded by us like five seconds ago on this very laptop — where […]

Filed under: Bad Rock, Capitalism, Communism, Death Culture at Sea, Dissonance, Dream, Good Rock, Photography, Pleasure, The Gay Recluse | Leave a Comment
Tags: Evergreens, New Songs, Saturnine

On a Song for Saturday Morning

13Sep08

In which The Gay Recluse writes a song for Saturday morning. Oh hai! So apparently WordPress.com (on which The Gay Recluse is hosted) doesn’t allow you to upload MP3s, but for those souls interested in hearing our first musical composition since like forever, why not tumble on over to our Tumblr blog and have a […]

Filed under: Bad Rock, Gay, Good Rock, Ruins, Search, The Gay Recluse | 1 Comment
Tags: Epic Diva, Lo-Fi, Recording, Saturnine, Tumblr

On the George Washington Bridge Project: Special Labor Day Edition

01Sep08

In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. Summer was a waste. “I, too am obsessed with the George Washington Bridge, and have been ever since as stoned youths me and my friends cavorted in the park on the New Jersey side that is directly below the place where the […]

Filed under: Architecture, Good Rock, GWB Project, Infrastructure, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights, Weather | Leave a Comment
Tags: Saturnine, Summer Was a Waste, The George Washington Bridge

On Saturnine: WMBR “Breakfast of Champions” Band of the Week

10Jun08

In which The Gay Recluse relives his past as an indie rocker. Hey everyone, Saturnine is the WMBR “Breakfast of Champions” band of the week, which means you should tune into the legendary MIT station and rock out to some classic Saturnine! For more info: http://wmbr.org/shows/boc/BotW.php

Filed under: Good Rock, Infrastructure, Memory, The Gay Recluse | Leave a Comment
Tags: MIT, Saturnine, WMBR

On the George Washington Bridge Project (Special Mindblowing Cloudcover Edition!)

13Apr08

In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with the George Washington Bridge. Date of Photographs: April 13, 2008 The clouds over the bridge were riveting today. It made us remember: once we were in Vermont, on tour with the band. We were eating dinner at a restaurant overlooking Lake Champlain. (The sixth great lake.) […]

Filed under: Architecture, Gay, GWB Project, Infrastructure, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Burlington, Saturnine, Sunsets, The George Washington Bridge, Tour Stories, Vermont

On the Longest Sunday of the Year

01Jan08

That cloud overhead — you really don’t recognize it? That hovering and inescapable dread, which makes New Year’s the longest Sunday of the year, particularly now that we no longer have to endure the last day in August before returning to school? No, it’s not so much the prospect — or let’s be honest, the […]

Filed under: Brooklyn, Memory, New York City, Pleasure, The Gay Recluse | Leave a Comment
Tags: 2008, New Year's Day, Resolutions, Saturnine

On Our Life as a Plastic Bag (A Theme Song for Washington Heights)

22Dec07

Each morning we turn the corner onto Broadway and are newly amazed by the cataclysmic arrangements of trash and debris on the streets and sidewalks. Plastic bags and dead leaves circle south in violent little eddies, while chicken bones, boxes, mannequin torsos and car batteries can be found heaped up on the curb. A barren, […]

Filed under: Decay, Gay, Good Rock, New York City, Resignation, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Broadway, Dead Leaves, Litter, Parking Meters, Plastic Bags, Saturnine, Washington Heights

On the Blue Atlas Cedar in Snow

04Dec07

The first snow of the season in our Washington Heights garden, and naturally we are drawn to that most unnatural of colors: the electric slate blue of the atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica). Suddenly — are you with us? — we are on a train in northern Italy, watching the countryside drift past; here, it seems […]

Filed under: Communism, Landscape, The Gay Recluse, The Russian Blue, The Winter Garden, Travel, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Blue Atlas Cedar, Cedrus atlantica, Columnar, Fastigiata, Saturnine, Snow, Turin, Venice

On Certain Fields of Our Past on Which We No Longer Play

01Dec07

The bright and cool December air brings us back to the years we spent in Brooklyn, when each weekend we walked up Third Street to the park, and there on one of the inner fields — away from the strollers and the “ultimate” Frisbee players — met for a game of soccer. As ex-athletes and […]