Not a thematic narrative, but a conceptual mapping. Not really a mix, more like a syllabus. A reader. Take each entry more or less literally and certainly metacritically. Cascaded within each section by relevance—most to least—or else into a mini-narrative.

I’m not uploading this into a mix because it’s a dangerous political climate for internet content, and because it doesn’t really matter except to the extent that it’s so exciting when “Everytime I Look For You” ends things. Maybe you should listen to them on your own time if it helps you read more carefully.

Consider particularly that “What’s My Age Again?” was so important to last semester. Consider irony, apostasy, blasphemy, misandry, separatism, the serpent, setting and place and space, the classroom vs. the internet as domestic/public public/domestic interior/exterior self/other, immaturity as anachronism, immaturity as refusal, poles, binaries, ritual and repetition, I never let what happen stay in the past, canon, theft from canon, fucking of canon, cosmetics, things I didn’t want to include for political reasons but did anyway if you know what I mean, resentment, this gun’s for hire, heterotexts as biblical allegories, or else selfish feminist hijacking of the bible, internet archives, #feminist whatever, the love song of x.x. whatever, my temporal reversal of the “josie” mythology, jokes about anarchists, my hesitance to choose an anne sexton poem that’s about feelings, my refusal to talk about feelings without either pathologizing or framing in terms of archive, pick the worms off me like sticky pearls, or anyway my inability to experience anything else, “What A Dump,” and I’m not even sorry. I mean it really. Consider all of those things.

Pt I: unteaching & regrounding the subject

1. Soophie Nun Squad - “Unspeaking”
2. blink-182 - “What’s My Age Again?”
3. Bad Banana - “Green & Red”
4. Los Gatos Negros - “Beans & Franks”
5. Sum 41 - “Fat Lip”

Pt II: mixed episodes & coping mechanisms

1. blink-182 - “Online Songs”
2. blink-182 - “Josie”
3. Everclear - “Strawberry”
4. The Taxpayers - “It Gets Worse Every Minute”
5. Good Charlotte - “Waldorf Worldwide”

Pt III: the manic compulsion to name the enemy:
itching/meanness/unapology/terror/terrorizing

1. Bruce Springsteen - “Dancing In The Dark”
2. The Bananas - “Amy’s Birthday”
3. The Kelley Deal 6000 - “Dammit”
4. The Max Levine Ensemble - “Nihilism”
5. The Bananas - “Sugar Bear”
6. blink-182 - “Pathetic”
7. Delay - “Gray Like the Whale”

Pt IV: i recognize the garden of eden,
i am made of mud & i dream of returning to dust:
theory/memory/theology/archive

1. blink-182 - “Roller Coaster”
2. Nicki Minaj - “Did It On ‘Em”
3. Good Charlotte - “Screamer (demo)”
4. blink-182 - “Everytime I Look For You”

Pt V: tearing old Mary’s garments off, knot by knot:
gesture/body/affect/performance/perpetuity

1. Swearin’ - “What A Dump”
2. Team Dresch - “Freewheel”
3. Lava Lava - “Last Night”
4. Nicki Minaj - “Superbass”
5. Spoonboy - “Always Leaving”
6. Waxahatchee - “American Weekend”

“Sedimented space” (alternately, “mapped perblogs”) “is an emblem for history as excavation rather than projection, simultaneity rather than sequential time, and collective geography rather than individual biography” - Lisa Lowe, although I think this kind of work falls somewhere between the two latter projects. “Geography” makes more sense than “narrative” but: fuck a Public; overshare selfishly, publicly, self-reflexively and with a radical narcissism.