Black Vines
@epicharmus.bsky.social
Exhausting veteran of 27 years' worth of internet. I still invented liveblogging.
Had Plotinus made it to India and met Nagarjuna we'd all be beings of light by now. Makes you think, don't it.
December 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Had Plotinus made it to India and met Nagarjuna we'd all be beings of light by now. Makes you think, don't it.
By the way...do you want to know what Leonard Cohen's favorite fragrance was? Of course you do—you're a sensible person. www.aftelier.com/Oud-Luban-Fl...
Oud Luban Flask
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December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
By the way...do you want to know what Leonard Cohen's favorite fragrance was? Of course you do—you're a sensible person. www.aftelier.com/Oud-Luban-Fl...
Been thinking about this a lot: Efdemin's Jean. Heartstopping. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cn...
Efdemin - Jean [Full Track]
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December 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Been thinking about this a lot: Efdemin's Jean. Heartstopping. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cn...
Listening to the Pitchfork 2025 Top 100 and I'm hearing a lot of lowercase rock: deliberately small, deliberately understated, rather affected about it, cute but not cute in, like, a K-Pop way. Music that tries very hard not to make itself a target. I understand.
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Listening to the Pitchfork 2025 Top 100 and I'm hearing a lot of lowercase rock: deliberately small, deliberately understated, rather affected about it, cute but not cute in, like, a K-Pop way. Music that tries very hard not to make itself a target. I understand.
No-boil lasagna noodles: first batch too dry, second batch had the noodles curl up like raw cannelloni. My standby recipe, ruined, just ruined. No picture, because some things aren't worth the bother of sharing online.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
No-boil lasagna noodles: first batch too dry, second batch had the noodles curl up like raw cannelloni. My standby recipe, ruined, just ruined. No picture, because some things aren't worth the bother of sharing online.
To my delight, my alma mater recently instituted a Master of Middle Eastern Classics program to complement its Eastern Classics and undergraduate Great Books programs and fuck it, I'm-a gonna do all the readings on my own just like I did with the MAEC: www.sjc.edu/academic-pro...
Graduate Institute Eastern Classics Reading List | St. John's College
The St. John's College Eastern Classics Graduate Program allows master's students to explore great works of the East, including works in Sanskrit & Chinese.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To my delight, my alma mater recently instituted a Master of Middle Eastern Classics program to complement its Eastern Classics and undergraduate Great Books programs and fuck it, I'm-a gonna do all the readings on my own just like I did with the MAEC: www.sjc.edu/academic-pro...
Have you ever idly looked through a stock photo site and stumbled upon a picture of the man to whom you lost your virginity? I did last night! I don't even remember his name!
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Have you ever idly looked through a stock photo site and stumbled upon a picture of the man to whom you lost your virginity? I did last night! I don't even remember his name!
Using the discography at the end of Nate Chinen's *Playing Changes* as a mere jumping-off point, this year I've been methodically exploring 21st century jazz, and yes, I've made a spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Using the discography at the end of Nate Chinen's *Playing Changes* as a mere jumping-off point, this year I've been methodically exploring 21st century jazz, and yes, I've made a spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
"Are you supposed to be Keith Hernandez?" Siiiigh. The kids don't know.
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"Are you supposed to be Keith Hernandez?" Siiiigh. The kids don't know.
Good Reasons for Stubbornness: THE METS; the second run of Marclay's The Clock at MoMA; linden trees in bloom; Bogue Profumo's MEM and Serge Lutens' Tubéreuse Criminelle; The Planet Crafter; physical therapy; new pants that fit right; @centuriesofsound.bsky.social's mixes always always always.
May 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Good Reasons for Stubbornness: THE METS; the second run of Marclay's The Clock at MoMA; linden trees in bloom; Bogue Profumo's MEM and Serge Lutens' Tubéreuse Criminelle; The Planet Crafter; physical therapy; new pants that fit right; @centuriesofsound.bsky.social's mixes always always always.
Back on my bullshit.
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Back on my bullshit.
Yeah. Still here.
February 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yeah. Still here.
Last year, I discovered the first installment of my beloved overview of the music of 1950, Mixcloud GO! 1950: The Bomb in the Heart of the Century, had been removed from Mixcloud because it was less than 15 minutes long.
January 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Last year, I discovered the first installment of my beloved overview of the music of 1950, Mixcloud GO! 1950: The Bomb in the Heart of the Century, had been removed from Mixcloud because it was less than 15 minutes long.
Maybe you can see further than I can see.
Maybe things all just look differently.
Maybe things all just look differently.
January 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Maybe you can see further than I can see.
Maybe things all just look differently.
Maybe things all just look differently.
In *Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris*, David Toop identifies the album as the center of all music, the nexus from which everything arrives at and flows from. You only wish your favorite album could receive this kind of loving scrutiny.
January 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In *Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris*, David Toop identifies the album as the center of all music, the nexus from which everything arrives at and flows from. You only wish your favorite album could receive this kind of loving scrutiny.
Back on my bullshit.
December 28, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Back on my bullshit.
I'm still around.
November 22, 2024 at 5:56 PM
I'm still around.
Fragrances to kill for: Clinique's Calyx (fruity florals); Serge Lutens' Dans le Bleu qui Pétille (a heady amber? for the summer?!?! yes!!!); Pineward's Ivymoss (IFRA wouldn't approve); and Lorenzo Pazzaglia's Sugar Kisses (a major exception to my loathing of dessert gourmands and "sexy" vanillas).
August 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Fragrances to kill for: Clinique's Calyx (fruity florals); Serge Lutens' Dans le Bleu qui Pétille (a heady amber? for the summer?!?! yes!!!); Pineward's Ivymoss (IFRA wouldn't approve); and Lorenzo Pazzaglia's Sugar Kisses (a major exception to my loathing of dessert gourmands and "sexy" vanillas).
I'm sorry, I'm alive, I still love you, but social media makes me plotz right now. If you'd like a chat, my real official email is epicharmus followed by the g and the mail and the dot and the com.
August 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I'm sorry, I'm alive, I still love you, but social media makes me plotz right now. If you'd like a chat, my real official email is epicharmus followed by the g and the mail and the dot and the com.
I found my people decades too late.
who else had the world book encyclopedia (we had the off-white fake leather cover ones) and the time life series with the cold blooded dinosaurs who else had these treasures
I’m going to have to find an old set of World Book Encyclopedias
May 23, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I found my people decades too late.
Oh no, I found a neighbor's blog.
May 22, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Oh no, I found a neighbor's blog.
A guest list from Studio 54. (Every archival image I've posted comes from collections.mcny.org btw.)
May 22, 2024 at 5:23 AM
A guest list from Studio 54. (Every archival image I've posted comes from collections.mcny.org btw.)