Lance Conzett
@lanceco.bsky.social
CX Lead at Found by day. Freelance writer/photographer by night. As seen in Nashville Scene, SPIN, and at a show near you.
“Libra” by Don DeLillo — I didn’t love DeLillo’s clipped stream-of-conscious prose in White Noise but it really worked for me in Libra. Every page feels seedy and conspiratorial, with brilliant flashes of insightful convergence before they drift away into the darkness. (18/80)
August 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Libra” by Don DeLillo — I didn’t love DeLillo’s clipped stream-of-conscious prose in White Noise but it really worked for me in Libra. Every page feels seedy and conspiratorial, with brilliant flashes of insightful convergence before they drift away into the darkness. (18/80)
“Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe — Surprisingly readable for being written in the 1700s. Occasionally thrilling but clearly written before active voice was invented. (17/80)
July 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe — Surprisingly readable for being written in the 1700s. Occasionally thrilling but clearly written before active voice was invented. (17/80)
“The BFG” by Roald Dahl — This was Katie’s childhood copy, which I fished out of a box from the attic when we moved. Obviously delightful. (16/80)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“The BFG” by Roald Dahl — This was Katie’s childhood copy, which I fished out of a box from the attic when we moved. Obviously delightful. (16/80)
“Generation A” by Douglas Coupland — I don’t think I’m cynical enough anymore to dig Coupland, but I do think he stuck the landing well enough that I might like this more on a re-read. (15/80)
July 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Generation A” by Douglas Coupland — I don’t think I’m cynical enough anymore to dig Coupland, but I do think he stuck the landing well enough that I might like this more on a re-read. (15/80)
“Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records” by John Cook — Fun little oral history about a specific moment in indie rock history (including a great Lambchop chapter). I couldn’t help but laugh at the “Superchunk retires” chapter when they’ve put out five more records since. (14/80)
July 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records” by John Cook — Fun little oral history about a specific moment in indie rock history (including a great Lambchop chapter). I couldn’t help but laugh at the “Superchunk retires” chapter when they’ve put out five more records since. (14/80)
“The Trees The Trees” by Heather Christle — A lovely volume of poetry that I bought because @themountaingoats.bsky.social posted about it once and that guy’s got taste. Effective and evocative, down how Christle physically compresses her thoughts against each other. (13/80)
June 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“The Trees The Trees” by Heather Christle — A lovely volume of poetry that I bought because @themountaingoats.bsky.social posted about it once and that guy’s got taste. Effective and evocative, down how Christle physically compresses her thoughts against each other. (13/80)
“Congo” by Michael Crichton — Jurassic Park made me such a Crichton kid that I clearly remember reading Timeline at Boy Scout camp, but I somehow never got around to Congo. Congo reads like a David Grann adventure, until it reads like a pulp thriller. Loved it. (12/80)
June 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Congo” by Michael Crichton — Jurassic Park made me such a Crichton kid that I clearly remember reading Timeline at Boy Scout camp, but I somehow never got around to Congo. Congo reads like a David Grann adventure, until it reads like a pulp thriller. Loved it. (12/80)
“An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible” by Lara Penin — I’m convinced that business books can be condensed into a single 1200 word blog post and this, while lovingly designed and occasionally insightful, does not beat those charges. (11/80)
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible” by Lara Penin — I’m convinced that business books can be condensed into a single 1200 word blog post and this, while lovingly designed and occasionally insightful, does not beat those charges. (11/80)
“Greatest Plays” by Anton Chekhov — From my “I’ll buy any leather-bound book if it’s cheap enough” phase. Surprisingly relevant plays about bourgeois complacency, artistic jealousy, and suffering for a better future. (10/80)
May 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“Greatest Plays” by Anton Chekhov — From my “I’ll buy any leather-bound book if it’s cheap enough” phase. Surprisingly relevant plays about bourgeois complacency, artistic jealousy, and suffering for a better future. (10/80)
“Dilla Time” by Dan Charnas — A truly phenomenal biography of J Dilla. Charnas doesn’t just tell Dilla’s life story, he explains music theory in a way that dummies like me can grasp and effectively shows how Dilla changed the very concept of musical time forever. (9/80)
May 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Dilla Time” by Dan Charnas — A truly phenomenal biography of J Dilla. Charnas doesn’t just tell Dilla’s life story, he explains music theory in a way that dummies like me can grasp and effectively shows how Dilla changed the very concept of musical time forever. (9/80)
A few shots from @recordstoreday.bsky.social last weekend at Vinyl Tap:
- Nashville mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social (DJ Public Transit?)
- The legendary @robynhitchcock.bsky.social
- Instrumental soul band Mount Worcester
- Delightfully snotty pop punks Winona Fighter
- Nashville mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social (DJ Public Transit?)
- The legendary @robynhitchcock.bsky.social
- Instrumental soul band Mount Worcester
- Delightfully snotty pop punks Winona Fighter
April 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A few shots from @recordstoreday.bsky.social last weekend at Vinyl Tap:
- Nashville mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social (DJ Public Transit?)
- The legendary @robynhitchcock.bsky.social
- Instrumental soul band Mount Worcester
- Delightfully snotty pop punks Winona Fighter
- Nashville mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social (DJ Public Transit?)
- The legendary @robynhitchcock.bsky.social
- Instrumental soul band Mount Worcester
- Delightfully snotty pop punks Winona Fighter
“Total Chaos: The Art & Aesthetics of Hip-Hop” edited by Jeff Chang — An Olympic swimming pool of ideas about the contradictory and confrontational nature of hip-hop, some of which hit like lightning bolts. But man, heads really did hate 50 Cent in 2005, didn’t they? (8/80)
April 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“Total Chaos: The Art & Aesthetics of Hip-Hop” edited by Jeff Chang — An Olympic swimming pool of ideas about the contradictory and confrontational nature of hip-hop, some of which hit like lightning bolts. But man, heads really did hate 50 Cent in 2005, didn’t they? (8/80)
Is there anything better than the serendipity of going out of town and discovering that a really sick show is happening down the road from where you’re staying?
April 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Is there anything better than the serendipity of going out of town and discovering that a really sick show is happening down the road from where you’re staying?
“Wonder Boys” by Michael Chabon — My second Chabon of the year, loved it. Has the silly madcap vibe of some of Telegraph Avenue, but with a clearer focus on how we (and especially creative people) get in our own way. Maybe the worst book cover I’ve ever laid eyes on tho. (7/80)
March 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“Wonder Boys” by Michael Chabon — My second Chabon of the year, loved it. Has the silly madcap vibe of some of Telegraph Avenue, but with a clearer focus on how we (and especially creative people) get in our own way. Maybe the worst book cover I’ve ever laid eyes on tho. (7/80)
Life’s too short to watch bad movies. (I’m looking at you The Electric State.)
March 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Life’s too short to watch bad movies. (I’m looking at you The Electric State.)
Anyway, if you somehow managed to beat the trickster god that runs the Ryman's ticketing system to get Yeah Yeah Yeahs tickets
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Anyway, if you somehow managed to beat the trickster god that runs the Ryman's ticketing system to get Yeah Yeah Yeahs tickets
We all hate Ticketmaster but AXS has some of the clumsiest implementation of anti-bot measures I've ever seen. If you don't disable every security measure to protect yourself (including easily identifiable things like Private Relay), you get met with this fun message.
March 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We all hate Ticketmaster but AXS has some of the clumsiest implementation of anti-bot measures I've ever seen. If you don't disable every security measure to protect yourself (including easily identifiable things like Private Relay), you get met with this fun message.
The Altjacent crew have had me out to shoot a couple of their shows at The 5 Spot and I really admire what they’re doing—trying to cobble together disparate rock scenes into one free monthly party. Next one’s April 4th!
March 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Altjacent crew have had me out to shoot a couple of their shows at The 5 Spot and I really admire what they’re doing—trying to cobble together disparate rock scenes into one free monthly party. Next one’s April 4th!
“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card — Surprisingly bad! I’m not convinced Card had ever met a child before writing this. Every character is 11 but written like they’re 28. The last 40 pages get somewhere interesting but everything before is complete nonsense. (6/80)
March 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card — Surprisingly bad! I’m not convinced Card had ever met a child before writing this. Every character is 11 but written like they’re 28. The last 40 pages get somewhere interesting but everything before is complete nonsense. (6/80)
“War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1985” by Charles Bukowski — Poems about a specific kind of sportstrack betting sleaze that felt as foreign to me as Bradbury writing about Mars. (5/80)
February 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1985” by Charles Bukowski — Poems about a specific kind of sportstrack betting sleaze that felt as foreign to me as Bradbury writing about Mars. (5/80)
Three collections of short stories by Ray Bradbury — Martian Chronicles is obviously a sci-fi classic, but I was surprised at how much I liked some of the more literary stories in Golden Apples of the Sun. A breezy 885 pages. (4/80)
February 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Three collections of short stories by Ray Bradbury — Martian Chronicles is obviously a sci-fi classic, but I was surprised at how much I liked some of the more literary stories in Golden Apples of the Sun. A breezy 885 pages. (4/80)
I spent yesterday driving all over Nashville to catch as many 615 Indie Live shows as possible. I managed 14 artists across eight venues—all for $15. Here’s a few faves.
February 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I spent yesterday driving all over Nashville to catch as many 615 Indie Live shows as possible. I managed 14 artists across eight venues—all for $15. Here’s a few faves.
This is my zodiac. Welcome to the year of mom’s spaghetti
January 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is my zodiac. Welcome to the year of mom’s spaghetti
“Ficciones” by Jorge Luis Borges — You know when a book starts with a fictional encyclopedia entry of a fictional country that slowly becomes real, questioning metaphysics and reality as we know it, you’re in for a doozy. I need to (and want to!) take another go at some of these stories. (3/80)
January 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Ficciones” by Jorge Luis Borges — You know when a book starts with a fictional encyclopedia entry of a fictional country that slowly becomes real, questioning metaphysics and reality as we know it, you’re in for a doozy. I need to (and want to!) take another go at some of these stories. (3/80)