michael röbbins

new poem in @grantamag.bsky.social f/ sonic youth, charli xcx, minutemen, eagles, joni, delines, mazzy star, the cure, sugarhill gang, geto boys, motley crüe, iron maiden, slayer, reo speedwagon, adrianne lenker, def leppard, gram parsons, ani difranco, n.w.a., et al. (free to read)

what i do when i should be writing something else

what i do when i should be writing something else

Select all images with the sense of futility that comes from doing anything at all in a darkening world

Select all images with the sense of futility that comes from doing anything at all in a darkening world

They could just take you up yonder, honey You're already wild and blue RIP John Anderson, whom even the Mekons loved www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGRB...

A defense based only on “duh free expression” that does not touch the rightness of her support for Palestine is cowardly

preorder this or get left in the past

This textual note to Donne’s “The Prohibition” is a little avant-garde prose poem, shades of Gertrude Stein

This textual note to Donne’s “The Prohibition” is a little avant-garde prose poem, shades of Gertrude Stein

people ask what the humanities are good for, but if you read all of John Donne’s poems you gain the ability to distract your enemies with elaborate conceits in tricky metrics

I started seeing “Deft ones” in Deftones & now I can’t unsee it

I started seeing “Deft ones” in Deftones & now I can’t unsee it

The plastic pumpkin in the office across from the elevators on the first floor of Dickson Hall has free Butterfingers

Márgarét, áre you securing the bag Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Márgarét, áre you securing the bag Over Goldengrove unleaving?

fine

fine

In the late '80s & early '90s I basically worshipped Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. I named my tarantula after her. Now she has blurbed my friend's book & I have been reduced to ashes by envy us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

In the late '80s & early '90s I basically worshipped Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. I named my tarantula after her. Now she has blurbed my friend's book & I have been reduced to ashes by envy us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

385 years before Taylor Swift described Travis Kelce’s dick as a redwood tree in song, Thomas Carew wrote “A Rapture”

385 years before Taylor Swift described Travis Kelce’s dick as a redwood tree in song, Thomas Carew wrote “A Rapture”

always an honor to be included in Greil Marcus’s Real Life Rock Top 10, which I’ve been reading since high school greilmarcus.substack.com/p/real-life-...

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we're like if the dinosaurs built the asteroid themselves

I wrote about Shelley, whom I always think of in autumn gunsnrobbins.substack.com/p/music-and-...

I wrote about Shelley, whom I always think of in autumn gunsnrobbins.substack.com/p/music-and-...

J Mascis is trying to tell us something gunsnrobbins.substack.com/p/listening-...

I asked a student how much she paid to see Harry Styles. She said, sheepishly, "Less than a thousand." You could go to Paris for less than a thousand, youngsters, come on

J Mascis is trying to tell us something gunsnrobbins.substack.com/p/listening-...

there are some insane Dinosaur Jr rankings on this planet, man, so for the record (new album has at least two great songs, but too early to rank): 1. Where You Been 2. Bug 3.. You're Living All Over Me 4. Green Mind 5. Hand It Over (for "Alone") or maybe Farm (for "Said the People")

I asked a student how much she paid to see Harry Styles. She said, sheepishly, "Less than a thousand." You could go to Paris for less than a thousand, youngsters, come on