Mr Magpie

Because all the pieces matter.

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  • [Announcement] The Waves – Radio Show

    Hello! I’m sorry to have added to the undoubted clutter of your inbox with this most unimportant news, but I will be hosting a radio show on CalArts’ college radio station KCIA each Tuesday starting this next, the 22nd. The show will air live from about 6PM EST to 7:45 or so, or 3PM PST…

  • Summer Reading

    This month’s piece is something of an improvisation, as by a small miracle I managed to sell the piece I had intended to use to fulfill my obligation here. Forgive me. My mother likes to tell an anecdote about how one summer, when I was in elementary school, we were obliged to keep a list…

  • Everything’s Fucked: On Dirty Three and Being Alive In 2026

    “This is a song, ladies and gentlemen, about – [long pause] finding yourself in a very big fuckinghole and deciding to decorate it and hang around there for like two or three good years and(getting) to know yourself more than anybody really should… and anybody could…” Thus spoke Warren Ellis–front-violinist, spokesman, symbol, and soul of…

  • Whisper Music

    On the music of Grouper and memory. I find it very difficult to remember any of the time I have spent with the music of Liz Harris, who records mostly as Grouper. That may have something to do with the fact that the periods of my life in which I have spent the most time…

  • Nest Material – 2025

    The works in film, literature and music that kept me warm this year, in no particular order. If you decide to have a crack at any, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. To a less fucked new year, yeah? Books: The Rest is Noise – Alex Ross The Overstory – Richard…