Ana
@motherslug.bsky.social
Detroit writer. Books, jazz, records, eclectic music, bleak sci-fi, depressing and upsetting fiction and films, the works.
Read me in print media (Uncut Magazine & Maggot Brain), plus motherslug.substack.com and some other places when they will have me!
Read me in print media (Uncut Magazine & Maggot Brain), plus motherslug.substack.com and some other places when they will have me!
My latest review for Uncut!
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My latest review for Uncut!
#NowPlaying New experimental ambient neo-classical drone out of Detroit. Michael Malis (pipe organ, piano, melodica) & Zara Teicher (French horn, harmonium, melodica) recorded this in St. Anthony’s Cathedral, w/the space as a third ensemble member of sorts.
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
Retreat, by Michael Malis & Zara Teicher
4 track album
lowversions.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#NowPlaying New experimental ambient neo-classical drone out of Detroit. Michael Malis (pipe organ, piano, melodica) & Zara Teicher (French horn, harmonium, melodica) recorded this in St. Anthony’s Cathedral, w/the space as a third ensemble member of sorts.
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
Does the inside count?
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Does the inside count?
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Detroit pianist Kenny Cox was born on this day in 1940. Cox made two excellent late-1960s albums for Blue Note with The Contemporary Jazz Quintet including his debut “Introducing Kenny Cox” which was reissued in our Classic Vinyl Series. Listen or get the vinyl here: bluenote.lnk.to/IntroducingK...
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Detroit pianist Kenny Cox was born on this day in 1940. Cox made two excellent late-1960s albums for Blue Note with The Contemporary Jazz Quintet including his debut “Introducing Kenny Cox” which was reissued in our Classic Vinyl Series. Listen or get the vinyl here: bluenote.lnk.to/IntroducingK...
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If yoire reading Patti Smith’s new memoir, BREAD OF ANGELS, & want to learn more about her life may I recommmend WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, currently on sale (as all all UTP books!) for 40% off with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
Why Patti Smith Matters
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural rev...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If yoire reading Patti Smith’s new memoir, BREAD OF ANGELS, & want to learn more about her life may I recommmend WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, currently on sale (as all all UTP books!) for 40% off with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
Hey, the Arkestra got a GRAMMY nomination! How about that! (Apparently it's their second; I missed the first one back in 2021.)
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hey, the Arkestra got a GRAMMY nomination! How about that! (Apparently it's their second; I missed the first one back in 2021.)
This beauty arrived today!
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This beauty arrived today!
#NowPlaying Undercurrent (1962), Jim Hall and Bill Evans. One of my favorite jazz guitar joints and a great autumn album, too.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#NowPlaying Undercurrent (1962), Jim Hall and Bill Evans. One of my favorite jazz guitar joints and a great autumn album, too.
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NEW EPISODE! Detroit music writer & film buff @motherslug.bsky.social joins us on our podcast time machine to revisit the 2013 Coen Brothers' anti-biopic Inside Llewyn Davis.
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S2 Episode 2: Inside Inside Llewyn Davis with Ana Gavrilovska
Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 10/24/2025 · 55m
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW EPISODE! Detroit music writer & film buff @motherslug.bsky.social joins us on our podcast time machine to revisit the 2013 Coen Brothers' anti-biopic Inside Llewyn Davis.
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"I loved playing with Joe Henderson and them ... When you make another person feel good, that’s when it’s righteous. And not just me playing the drums, but when I can do something to make them feel good to play their instrument." – Roger Humphries
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"I loved playing with Joe Henderson and them ... When you make another person feel good, that’s when it’s righteous. And not just me playing the drums, but when I can do something to make them feel good to play their instrument." – Roger Humphries
Blue Note, one of the most important sources of American music, being founded by a couple of immigrants is yet another reminder where the value of this stupid country really comes from.
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Blue Note, one of the most important sources of American music, being founded by a couple of immigrants is yet another reminder where the value of this stupid country really comes from.
Woody Shaw looking absolutely terrific in this Francis Wolff photo.
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Woody Shaw looking absolutely terrific in this Francis Wolff photo.
#NowPlaying This album was recorded in two sessions, one of which was HALLOWEEN 1963, which I personally find completely delightful. Do we think there's even a sliver (😉) of a chance that the Van Gelder Studio was decorated with some gorgeous Beistle cats and pumpkins?!
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#NowPlaying This album was recorded in two sessions, one of which was HALLOWEEN 1963, which I personally find completely delightful. Do we think there's even a sliver (😉) of a chance that the Van Gelder Studio was decorated with some gorgeous Beistle cats and pumpkins?!
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Listening to @johnsemley3000.bsky.social's excellent Vineland podcast as I read the book and a lovely surprise to hear @motherslug.bsky.social sharing her thoughts
October 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Listening to @johnsemley3000.bsky.social's excellent Vineland podcast as I read the book and a lovely surprise to hear @motherslug.bsky.social sharing her thoughts
#NowPlaying Out in a few days, this terrific previously unreleased recording of Horace Silver & his quintet (incl. Woody Shaw & Joe Henderson) live at The Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, 1965. There's an almost 20-minute version of "Sayonara Blues" that absolutely fuckin' rips.
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
#NowPlaying Out in a few days, this terrific previously unreleased recording of Horace Silver & his quintet (incl. Woody Shaw & Joe Henderson) live at The Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, 1965. There's an almost 20-minute version of "Sayonara Blues" that absolutely fuckin' rips.
Saturday morning tunes.
October 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Saturday morning tunes.
A date with Shadow Ticket and this wonderful little bourbon drink. 🥃
October 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A date with Shadow Ticket and this wonderful little bourbon drink. 🥃
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Very pleased to join the fellas of the excellent Pynchon podcast Slow Learners to discuss the women of Vineland and its connections to Against the Day, among other things. ⛏️💣 DIG!
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VINELAND EP 4: Keeping it DL (w/Ana Gavrilovska)
Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/16/2025 · 1h 3m
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October 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Very pleased to join the fellas of the excellent Pynchon podcast Slow Learners to discuss the women of Vineland and its connections to Against the Day, among other things. ⛏️💣 DIG!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
VINELAND EP 4: Keeping it DL (w/Ana Gavrilovska)
Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/16/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Very pleased to join the fellas of the excellent Pynchon podcast Slow Learners to discuss the women of Vineland and its connections to Against the Day, among other things. ⛏️💣 DIG!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Tim Robinson's new show The Chair Company gets a resounding HELL YEAH from me. If you find his anxious yelling extremely funny, as I do, you'll like it. But it also has excellent music (score & needle drops), sharp writing about the mundane ways we use the Internet, and sublime paranoia.
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Tim Robinson's new show The Chair Company gets a resounding HELL YEAH from me. If you find his anxious yelling extremely funny, as I do, you'll like it. But it also has excellent music (score & needle drops), sharp writing about the mundane ways we use the Internet, and sublime paranoia.
#NowPlaying Perfect autumn jazz and a great soundtrack to Shadow Ticket.
October 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
#NowPlaying Perfect autumn jazz and a great soundtrack to Shadow Ticket.
Moving thru Shadow Ticket slowly (this is only pg. 9) but here's one of my favorite bits so far, Pynchon beautifully rendering light (shades of Against the Day) with "penumbras of lampposts" & then almost a Last Picture Show vibe with Skeet Wheeler (relative of Zoyd?!) & his Milwaukee bildungsroman.
October 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moving thru Shadow Ticket slowly (this is only pg. 9) but here's one of my favorite bits so far, Pynchon beautifully rendering light (shades of Against the Day) with "penumbras of lampposts" & then almost a Last Picture Show vibe with Skeet Wheeler (relative of Zoyd?!) & his Milwaukee bildungsroman.
It ain’t sfinciuni bagherese, but it’ll do.
October 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
It ain’t sfinciuni bagherese, but it’ll do.
The most arcane anti-patriarchy adventure story ever written! I listened to dungeon synth while reading and it was perfect. Obviously Carrington wrote well before Lynch made movies, but her ultra-surreal recountings of dreams are hauntingly proto-Lynchian. So fascinating and so strange.
Thank you @kjboldon.bsky.social @christina500.bsky.social @radzpandit.bsky.social @sparrowpost.bsky.social @motherslug.bsky.social @guslegend.bsky.social @caitluce.bsky.social @nichollsm86.bsky.social for braving Leonora’s surrealist world with me! What did you all think?
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The most arcane anti-patriarchy adventure story ever written! I listened to dungeon synth while reading and it was perfect. Obviously Carrington wrote well before Lynch made movies, but her ultra-surreal recountings of dreams are hauntingly proto-Lynchian. So fascinating and so strange.