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Hullabaloo @hullabalootunes.bsky.social · Feb 4
Hullabaloo is on this one now! Probably not very much, as I have developed a very serious allergy to social media. But I will be writing about music again and plan to post about it here if you would like to follow along.

Also we're back to trying to post more than once per year.
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TUNES // Grace Rogers - Tranquility

+ a little essay about hope and books.

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Tranquility // Grace Rogers - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // Because it is a hard time in which to have a lot of hopeful type emotions, I try to pay extra attention to the ones that present themselves, even if they are small and fleeting. Someo...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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TUNES // Wednesday - Elderberry Wine

A perfect little tune from Wednesday and a little healthy railing against the 12 hour workday.

Out via @deadoceans.bsky.social

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Wednesday // Elderberry Wine - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I just finished a week of 12 hour work days. Not the kind of 12 hours where you clock in and sit around waiting to be told what to do, but 12 hours of the breakneck, acute awareness t...
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May 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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TUNES // Grace Rogers - Tranquility

+ a little essay about hope and books.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/06/25/t...
Tranquility // Grace Rogers - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // Because it is a hard time in which to have a lot of hopeful type emotions, I try to pay extra attention to the ones that present themselves, even if they are small and fleeting. Someo...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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TUNES // Nuovo Testamamento - Picture Perfect

Forgive the long time between posts. I have been busy and sick. Please enjoy this delightful disco song + some words on Italy and dancing.

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Nuovo Testamento // Picture Perfect - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // This song makes me wonder when the last time I went dancing was. Which itself is a sort of answer to the question: long enough that I can’t readily remember when it was. Anyway when I...
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June 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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ALBUMS // Men I Trust - Equus Caballus

+ some words about perfect summer days and the music that soundtracks them.

@menitrust.bsky.social

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Men I Trust - Equus Caballus - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // Last weekend we drove over to Olympia for a day. Olympia is the kind of mid-size town where there is not one or even two but three bookstores with radical politics within a few minute...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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ALBUMS // Men I Trust - Equus Caballus

+ some words about perfect summer days and the music that soundtracks them.

@menitrust.bsky.social

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Men I Trust - Equus Caballus - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // Last weekend we drove over to Olympia for a day. Olympia is the kind of mid-size town where there is not one or even two but three bookstores with radical politics within a few minute...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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TUNES // Lauren Auder, Wendy & Lisa - I Would Die 4 U

A track from the wonderful TRANSA compilation from @redhotorg.bsky.social , plus some words about local libraries and the importance of protecting them at all costs.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/29/l...
Lauren Auder, Wendy & Lisa // I Would Die 4 U - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I have sometimes written here about the place I grew up: a very small town in a very rural corner of a very beautiful part of Washington State. Like many very rural places, the town w...
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May 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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TUNES // King Hannah - Crème Brûlée

A little King Hannah for your day + some words about my favorite kind of guitar solos.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/06/02/k...
King Hannah // Crème Brûlée - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha There are certain guitar solos that make me go weak at the knees. And not only the knees, but all the seams of my body. They make me aware of the porousness of the skin, and the hollowne...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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TUNES // Lauren Auder, Wendy & Lisa - I Would Die 4 U

A track from the wonderful TRANSA compilation from @redhotorg.bsky.social , plus some words about local libraries and the importance of protecting them at all costs.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/29/l...
Lauren Auder, Wendy & Lisa // I Would Die 4 U - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I have sometimes written here about the place I grew up: a very small town in a very rural corner of a very beautiful part of Washington State. Like many very rural places, the town w...
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May 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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ALBUMS // Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light

+some words on the anatomy of a storm.

@thebookofeliw.bsky.social // Out via @3lobed.bsky.social

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/08/e...
Eli Winter // A Trick of the Light - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // This record is like a little box containing all the pieces of a summer storm. The kind we’re always waiting for in bored moments, without really knowing what we’re waiting for. And th...
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May 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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TUNES // Wednesday - Elderberry Wine

A perfect little tune from Wednesday and a little healthy railing against the 12 hour workday.

Out via @deadoceans.bsky.social

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/26/w...
Wednesday // Elderberry Wine - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I just finished a week of 12 hour work days. Not the kind of 12 hours where you clock in and sit around waiting to be told what to do, but 12 hours of the breakneck, acute awareness t...
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May 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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ALBUMS // Kali Uchis - Sincerely,

On Kali Uchis and gratitude.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/13/k...
Kali Uchis // Sincerely, - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I’ve listened to this album every morning for the past few days. It’s especially good in the morning, as a way to begin. I used to do the same thing with Kali Uchis’ last album, Orquí...
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May 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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TUNES // Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror

One of my favorites of the year so far and some words about memories and mirrors (sort of).

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/30/p...
Perfume Genius // It's A Mirror - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // When I was a kid I took swimming lessons at the pool in the winter. I don’t really remember what we learned in the lessons (I’m an unrepentant doggy-paddler to this day), but I rememb...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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ALBUMS // Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light

+some words on the anatomy of a storm.

@thebookofeliw.bsky.social // Out via @3lobed.bsky.social

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/08/e...
Eli Winter // A Trick of the Light - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // This record is like a little box containing all the pieces of a summer storm. The kind we’re always waiting for in bored moments, without really knowing what we’re waiting for. And th...
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May 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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TUNES // Lily Seabird - Trash Mountain (1pm) (via @lameorecords.bsky.social)

+ some words about strangeness in the midst of the familiar.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/06/l...
Lily Seabird // Trash Mountain (1pm) - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // There’s a breathless off-kilter-ness to this song that puts you on notice, even in the midst of what seems like familiar – even comforting – territory. It still finds a way to unseat ...
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May 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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TUNES // Smerz - Feisty

Just in time for the weekend, a tone poem for every best / worst night out.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/05/03/s...
Smerz // Feisty - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // This thing lives right up on the line between fun and scary. You think a bunch of times that it’s going to drop down into either one or the other (are we having a Good Time or are we ...
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May 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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TUNES // Squirrel Flower - When A Plant Is Dying

One of my favorite songs from when we were on hiatus, plus some thoughts about keeping plants alive.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/24/s...
Squirrel Flower // When A Plant Is Dying - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // There is something oddly meditative about picking slugs off the lawn in the dark. I know this because it’s what I’ve been doing at least twice a week for the last two months. I’ve rea...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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TUNES // Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror

One of my favorites of the year so far and some words about memories and mirrors (sort of).

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/30/p...
Perfume Genius // It's A Mirror - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // When I was a kid I took swimming lessons at the pool in the winter. I don’t really remember what we learned in the lessons (I’m an unrepentant doggy-paddler to this day), but I rememb...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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TUNES // CMAT (@cmatbaby.bsky.social) - Running/Planning

First single from an album that I'm very excited about, and a little essay about the intolerability of waiting.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/18/c...
CMAT // Running/Planning - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I’m currently waiting on some big news, and I don’t know if it will come tomorrow or next week or in three months (or never!). Like most news, it could either be good or not so good. ...
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April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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TUNES // Kacey Musgraves - Sounds from the Heart of the Woods

Do you long to be outside? Do you instead find yourself in front of a computer? This one is for you.

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Kacey Musgraves // Sounds from the Heart of the Woods - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // Frankly, I don’t have good enough health insurance to get into mushroom foraging. That’s what I realized after finding what I’m almost positive were perfectly edible wild oyster mushr...
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April 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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TUNES // Common Holly - Aegean blue (out via @keeledscales.bsky.social)

Stunningly lovely track from Common Holly + a few words about rivers.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/14/c...
Common Holly // Aegean Blue - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I think I like rivers best because they are the only form of water which suggests transportation in such an immediate way. Always undulating, eddying, moving forward. Impossible not t...
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April 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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TUNES // Squirrel Flower - When A Plant Is Dying

One of my favorite songs from when we were on hiatus, plus some thoughts about keeping plants alive.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/24/s...
Squirrel Flower // When A Plant Is Dying - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // There is something oddly meditative about picking slugs off the lawn in the dark. I know this because it’s what I’ve been doing at least twice a week for the last two months. I’ve rea...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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TUNES // Angie McMahon - Beginner

One of my faves from Angie McMahon's 2024 EP, Light Sides + some words on the wisdom of Miranda July's "every day is Tuesday."

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/22/a...
Angie McMahon // Beginner - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // There’s this philosophy in Miranda July’s novel All Fours which is described as “every day is Tuesday.” It’s said by one of the characters (a very famous fictional pop star, possibly ...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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TUNES // Leif Vollebekk & Angie McMahon - Take It to the Limit

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Leif Vollebekk & Angie McMahon - Take It to the Limit - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha Everyone told me that I wasn’t going to like the weather in Seattle. I told them I liked the rain and they said you say that now. And I guess technically it hasn’t been a full year yet, ...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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TUNES // CMAT (@cmatbaby.bsky.social) - Running/Planning

First single from an album that I'm very excited about, and a little essay about the intolerability of waiting.

www.hullabalootunes.com/2025/04/18/c...
CMAT // Running/Planning - Hullabaloo
Post by Misha // I’m currently waiting on some big news, and I don’t know if it will come tomorrow or next week or in three months (or never!). Like most news, it could either be good or not so good. ...
www.hullabalootunes.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM