March Sadness 90s Edition
@marchxness.bsky.social
The premiere yearly tournament of music and memory. 2026's tournament is Sad Songs of the 90s. Lottery for tourney spots in July 25.
Selection committee: @meganc.bsky.social & @angermonsoon.bsky.social
Selection committee: @meganc.bsky.social & @angermonsoon.bsky.social
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"I don't know what she was to me. A friend? Yeah. But a bad one. A girlfriend? That'd be a helpful way to think about it, were it true. But it wasn't." Ok let's go! It's @brianasalmons.bsky.social on Red House Painters's "All Mixed Up" & more: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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Learn more than you wanted, in my new extracurricular essay at @marchxness.bsky.social
"I don't know what she was to me. A friend? Yeah. But a bad one. A girlfriend? That'd be a helpful way to think about it, were it true. But it wasn't." Ok let's go! It's @brianasalmons.bsky.social on Red House Painters's "All Mixed Up" & more: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
December 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Learn more than you wanted, in my new extracurricular essay at @marchxness.bsky.social
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Here’s my annual ritual. Love to talk about any of them.
December 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Here’s my annual ritual. Love to talk about any of them.
"I don't know what she was to me. A friend? Yeah. But a bad one. A girlfriend? That'd be a helpful way to think about it, were it true. But it wasn't." Ok let's go! It's @brianasalmons.bsky.social on Red House Painters's "All Mixed Up" & more: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"I don't know what she was to me. A friend? Yeah. But a bad one. A girlfriend? That'd be a helpful way to think about it, were it true. But it wasn't." Ok let's go! It's @brianasalmons.bsky.social on Red House Painters's "All Mixed Up" & more: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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I wrote about my 2025: professional achievements, favorite albums and reissues, and memorable concert moments! See below. (Hint: Yes, Kylie made the list!) anniezaleski.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I wrote about my 2025: professional achievements, favorite albums and reissues, and memorable concert moments! See below. (Hint: Yes, Kylie made the list!) anniezaleski.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
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Hey if you accidentally read that thing about Olivia Nuzzi and would like a mental cleanse, why not read about Journey’s Separate Ways and the need to scream sometimes when you’re sad?
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
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November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hey if you accidentally read that thing about Olivia Nuzzi and would like a mental cleanse, why not read about Journey’s Separate Ways and the need to scream sometimes when you’re sad?
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And if that doesn’t quite do it then you could read my thing about Tomorrow Wendy and the importance of not knowing
bsky.app/profile/marc...
bsky.app/profile/marc...
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
And if that doesn’t quite do it then you could read my thing about Tomorrow Wendy and the importance of not knowing
bsky.app/profile/marc...
bsky.app/profile/marc...
yeah let's do it
For my @marchxness.bsky.social song I'm doing a 100 listen log 🤠 Will surely be voming out lyrics in my sleep by the end of it
December 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
yeah let's do it
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I fell down this particular rabbit hole writing about Alice and "Heads Will Roll" for @marchxness.bsky.social in 2024 (March Danceness), but the movie ended up not really finding a place in that essay. Now I can think of them as companions of a sort. marchxness.com/elite8-yeahs...
3/22, ELITE 8: (10) LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, 211, (8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs 125 — March Sadness 90s Edition
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December 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I fell down this particular rabbit hole writing about Alice and "Heads Will Roll" for @marchxness.bsky.social in 2024 (March Danceness), but the movie ended up not really finding a place in that essay. Now I can think of them as companions of a sort. marchxness.com/elite8-yeahs...
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"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
December 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
(Context) bsky.app/profile/marc...
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new extracurricular live on @marchxness.bsky.social
It’s kinda a bummer, but Merry Christmas!
fa la la la la da dee la dee da
It’s kinda a bummer, but Merry Christmas!
fa la la la la da dee la dee da
New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters!
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
Katrina Prow on Crystal Waters & End of Year
La da dee la dee da
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
new extracurricular live on @marchxness.bsky.social
It’s kinda a bummer, but Merry Christmas!
fa la la la la da dee la dee da
It’s kinda a bummer, but Merry Christmas!
fa la la la la da dee la dee da
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"... fear of heights has nothing to do with the distance from the ground or tall buildings,... it’s about our own human urge to fall when we get that far up, the knowledge that we could plummet, we could go, if we wanted. When I think about Spencer, I wonder why I didn’t choose to fall with him,..."
New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters!
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
Katrina Prow on Crystal Waters & End of Year
La da dee la dee da
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"... fear of heights has nothing to do with the distance from the ground or tall buildings,... it’s about our own human urge to fall when we get that far up, the knowledge that we could plummet, we could go, if we wanted. When I think about Spencer, I wonder why I didn’t choose to fall with him,..."
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Christ, the Crystal Waters piece, and its parallels to the story of someone I used to know, absolutely broke me.
Addiction’s a hell of an affliction, and it ran very different courses in our respective lives.
I’m fucking grateful for where i landed and the people who held me through it.
Addiction’s a hell of an affliction, and it ran very different courses in our respective lives.
I’m fucking grateful for where i landed and the people who held me through it.
New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters!
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
Katrina Prow on Crystal Waters & End of Year
La da dee la dee da
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Christ, the Crystal Waters piece, and its parallels to the story of someone I used to know, absolutely broke me.
Addiction’s a hell of an affliction, and it ran very different courses in our respective lives.
I’m fucking grateful for where i landed and the people who held me through it.
Addiction’s a hell of an affliction, and it ran very different courses in our respective lives.
I’m fucking grateful for where i landed and the people who held me through it.
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"Since 2020, pandemic-induced mental health crises resulted in exacerbated abuse of substances..." @katprow.bsky.social does everything I love for a @marchxness.bsky.social essay to do!
We learn about Crystal Waters & "Gypsy Woman," but also about Kat, & life itself! marchxness.com/justlikeyou/
We learn about Crystal Waters & "Gypsy Woman," but also about Kat, & life itself! marchxness.com/justlikeyou/
Just Like You and Me: Katrina Prow on Crystal Waters — March Sadness 90s Edition
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December 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Since 2020, pandemic-induced mental health crises resulted in exacerbated abuse of substances..." @katprow.bsky.social does everything I love for a @marchxness.bsky.social essay to do!
We learn about Crystal Waters & "Gypsy Woman," but also about Kat, & life itself! marchxness.com/justlikeyou/
We learn about Crystal Waters & "Gypsy Woman," but also about Kat, & life itself! marchxness.com/justlikeyou/
New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters!
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
Katrina Prow on Crystal Waters & End of Year
La da dee la dee da
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
New substack with news on the hardcopies of the anthology, @meganc.bsky.social's Best Movies of 2025 list, and a new extracurricular by @katprow.bsky.social on Crystal Waters!
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
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"When Facebook came along, offering Gen X a 24-hour class reunion, we intersected again; by then, he had styled himself with a Buddhist title, looking for meaning there. It still seemed ill defined, uncertain, like he continued to be searching for words and just not being able to find them."
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"When Facebook came along, offering Gen X a 24-hour class reunion, we intersected again; by then, he had styled himself with a Buddhist title, looking for meaning there. It still seemed ill defined, uncertain, like he continued to be searching for words and just not being able to find them."
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Beachwood Sparks - Gentle Samurai 2024 USA
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Beachwood Sparks - Gentle Samurai 2024 USA
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
Holy Byrds fans with hints of their zombies namesake—it feels like they made this for me! Thank you @countryuniverse.net for the custom recommendation.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 NK&IS ✅
oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
Reminder that the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is available for preorder...right now...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
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"The crush on that person who sucks, the breakup that came out of nowhere, the feeling that love will never find you, no matter how hard you try—we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law."
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"The crush on that person who sucks, the breakup that came out of nowhere, the feeling that love will never find you, no matter how hard you try—we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law."
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
Hell yes to this essay; also love the "yelling is how you release sadness"
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"...we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law. But they keep our nights sleepless anyway, because at the root of those feelings, there is a sadness so intense that it defies reason..."
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"...we've all had those feelings that would never hold up in a court of law. But they keep our nights sleepless anyway, because at the root of those feelings, there is a sadness so intense that it defies reason..."
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
Beautiful phrasing of the axiom that emotions don't have to make sense to be valid.
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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"Then suddenly you sit up straight in the middle of a random mid-August Wednesday night."
"The love you had for these bands was so tender and so loyal."
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Whoa here we go into to the first of our extracurriculars for March Sadness: @lydiapaar.bsky.social on Modest Mouse, STRFKR, and marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
October 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"Then suddenly you sit up straight in the middle of a random mid-August Wednesday night."
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Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
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September 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
YES LORD IT IS NOW
IT'S THE @marchxness.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY! In print at last!!!
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
YES LORD IT IS NOW
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I love @splitlippress.com! I love @marchxness.bsky.social! I really, really love them smushed together!! 🎶👩🎤
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
September 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I love @splitlippress.com! I love @marchxness.bsky.social! I really, really love them smushed together!! 🎶👩🎤