Your literary mixtape. EIC @KeersteeMack
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Why do we want what we want? Is it important that what we want be good for us? And why does what we want turn out in the end to be Bobby McGee? Danielle McMahon explores these questions in conversation with “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin.
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When grief walks our way, it feels a lot like the incisive imagery in this short poem from @justin_karcher, paired with "I'll Believe in Anything" by Wolf Parade. 🖤
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Dan Sylvan Paige brings us complexity and humor in "12 Blown Tires", a moving portrait of the absurdity and tenderness that accompanies caring for someone in cognitive decline.
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"We Are One (Ole Ola)" by @JohannahWrites imagines a suburban housewife being BFFs with Pitbull, enjoying Arnold Palmers and gossiping about the press and IBS. (We never thought that Pitbull would end up on the M7 master playlist, but we. were. wrong.)
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Shea Socrates takes us into a funeral with a mariachi mass in the middle of Michigan in "Amor Eterno," where disconnection muddles with passion and the digital, physical, and mental trappings of grief. ❤️🔥
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Federica Silvi's "Polyester Bride" is a powerful snapshot of couch-surfing to rock bottom, and one lost soul coming to righteous defense of another. 🖤
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Christie Chapman's "Do It Again" takes us to a lurid striptease in a hotel room, a private moment between an older man and a young woman who takes control of possibility, pulling desire across the gap of a generation.
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Daniel Miller's beautiful piece on his daughter singing "Pink Pony Club" in the backseat of the car manages to achieve what he's scared he can't: being present enough to capture the moment without needing to filter it through a phone recording. 💿
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volume 28 is live, folks. happy sunday ♥️
next volume is our last, get in my inbox! major7mag@gmail.com
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thank you Daniel Miller, Christie Chapman, Federica Silvi, Shea Socrates, @JohannahWrites, Daniel Sylvan Paige, @justin_karcher, and Danielle McMahon for your excellent work
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A portrait of so many things–neighborhood quirks, neighborhood dogs, people and animals who misunderstand one another but still try anyway–Josh Shepard screams out "Runnin' Down a Dream" • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from the garage.
In Volume 27!
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Inhale deep to "Smoke on the Water" • Deep Purple by Kathryn Kysar and feel the wild desperation between girlhood and what we believe we should become when we leave it. 💜
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Are you painfully uncool? Have you developed a delayed angsty streak? Colin Brightwell proves you (we) are not alone in his piece "Undone - The Sweater Song" • Weezer
Listen in Volume 27.
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Lizzy Turner takes us stomping and clomping across hardwood floors, square dancing in perfect time with our protagonists, finding flow state under the fluorescent beer signs and jukebox turns. 👢
Read "Black Velvet" • Alannah Myles in Volume 27.
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Jeremy Mauser’s poem "Pumped Up Kicks" • Foster the People confronts the impact and legacy of gun violence in America, manifested bodily, personally, and open-eyed.
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Certain things about music and friendship are hyper-ephemeral. Yet, somehow, also forever. How does that work? ✈️🎧
Read "By the Way" • Red Hot Chili Peppers by Chris Scott in Volume 27.
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Let’s get into Volume 27! First track is Innocent When You Dream • Tom Waits by @Henrick_AK. This piece takes us into the deep subconscious, and the shadows we find there—ones that haunt us with what could be. 🎪
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I’ve seen all kinds of wild stuff in my job over the years, but one of my favorite stories is the one I share today in @Major7Mag Short and sweet, hope you’ll give it a read!
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New mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter
Now playing: Volume 27
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Thank you to @Henrick_AK, Chris Scott, @ca5eyj0, Jeremy Mauser, Lizzy Turner, Colin Brightwell, Kathryn Kysar, and @JoshShepard for your lovely work
Their songs are added to the master playlist, give it a follow: open.spotify.com/playlist/3k…
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