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Spencer Tweedy's Blog
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My friend Miles has cancer. In a few weeks, he’ll fly to...

My friend Miles has cancer. In a few weeks, he’ll fly to LA to undergo an operation that requires total isolation. 2,000 miles away from home, he won’t be able to see his family, or his friends, or a...

24 apr 12

My friend Miles has cancer. In a few weeks, he’ll fly to...

My friend Miles has cancer. In a few weeks, he’ll fly to LA to undergo an operation that requires total isolation. 2,000 miles away from home, he won’t be able to see his family, or his friends, or a...

24 apr 12

Imagining infinity

Perceptually, beyond some low threshold, data becomes boundless to us. Cloud storage compounds this: we don’t even worry about HDs filling up anymore! Even when digital streams have clear begin...

15 apr 12

An invisible ink

The ‘best’ art comes from adults not because they can play a guitar with finer motor skills, write with greater vocabulary or draw more dexterously, but because their walk from ‘chunk of feeling’ to ...

04 apr 12

I took some pictures of my baby cousin Charlie during our trip...

I took some pictures of my baby cousin Charlie during our trip to Los Angeles in January.

17 mar 12

What hath God wrought

All the time. All of it. That is when we have been saying this. Painting it, writing it, singing it, thinking it. Every generation, we say, “What hath God wrought.” Life stinks! We are doomed. Things...

12 mar 12

“Rushmore” — Spencer TweedyRecorded a new demo...

“Rushmore” — Spencer Tweedy Recorded a new demo this weekend.

05 mar 12

Lana Del Rey & The Fake Game

I wrote this for Unrequired Listening I just read this well-written fact-check-of-an-article by Rookie contributor Jessica Hopper about America’s favorite (or least favorite) quasi-guerrilla pop star...

02 mar 12

The garageband champions beat Wilco again

Back from the Grammys. It was a nice getaway. Short, and not very relaxing, but a vacation nonetheless. Seeing my uncle, Danny, aunt, Kendall, and cousins, Leah and Charlie, is always refreshing. (I ...

14 feb 12

The garageband champions beat Wilco again

Back from the Grammys. It was a nice getaway. Short, and not very relaxing, but a vacation nonetheless. Seeing my uncle, Danny, aunt, Kendall, and cousins, Leah and Charlie, is always refreshing. (I ...

14 feb 12

Grammys!

Headed to LA for the Grammys! This is the fifth year Wilco’s been nominated but it’s my brother Sammy’s and my first time coming along. They’re making us sit in the back away from all the important p...

10 feb 12

Elizabeth Cotten & Good Ole Music

Watch “Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten on YouTube This is Elizabeth Cotten. When she was a teenager, she bought herself a guitar. It was a right-handed guitar, but she was left-handed, so she taug...

03 feb 12

Unrequired Listening

Unrequired Listening: My friend Joey Pfeifer and I have started a weblog about music called Unrequired Listening. We don’t aim to be the next Pitchfork, Stereogum or whatever. It’s more just a person...

02 feb 12

"Im proud of you, Spencer"

At the start of this school year—my sophomore year—I began receiving dozens of emails a week from colleges that seem pretty, pretty torqued at the notion of my attendance, despite their having no clu...

09 jan 12

A video I made for The Whole Love last summer that slipped...

A video I made for The Whole Love last summer that slipped through the cracks. Featuring my little brother, Sammy, his best friend, Joey, and my friend, Tavi.

06 jan 12

“Oh Baby (I Love You)” by A.C. Jones & The...

“Oh Baby (I Love You)” by A.C. Jones & The Atomic Aces From the Numero Group compilation of songs produced at historic Boddie Recording Company in Cleveland. Get it here.

06 jan 12

I wrote a post about growing up, depression, and an emo...

I wrote a post about growing up, depression, and an emo pterodactyl for my dear pal Tavi’s magazine, Rookie. Read it here.

22 dec 11

“One Day” — {Formerly The Blisters}My band recorded...

“One Day” — {Formerly The Blisters} My band recorded a song! Henry, our frontman, wrote/sings it. I play drums (and a dollop of mellotron strings and a tad of background vocals). We just “hired” a ne...

11 dec 11

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09 dec 11 1 person likes this

Went to see Kanye West and Jay Z at the United Center last...

Went to see Kanye West and Jay Z at the United Center last night. The tickets were a Chanukah present for my inspiringly hip little brother, Sammy. He’s gotten super into rap this past year and had b...

03 dec 11

Goodbye, Cutty.

Goodbye, Cutty.

21 nov 11

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a ce...

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach u...

20 nov 11

Might as well post this one, too. No vocals.

Might as well post this one, too. No vocals.

05 nov 11

Yet another demo. Bad vocals.

Yet another demo. Bad vocals.

05 nov 11

A demo from my avant-garde, turtleneck-wearin g, mumbling...

A demo from my avant-garde, turtleneck-wearing, mumbling bohemian side.

23 oct 11

The Fear of Missing Out

I am uncomfortable very often. It’s something that I’ve talked about a lot before. It’s that notorious “creative itch,” that infamous, insatiate hunger that drives people to make beautiful things and...

19 oct 11

I love my fake family.

I love my fake family.

13 oct 11

Great weekend.

Great weekend.

11 oct 11

Pretty sure I made this last spring during the end of the school...

Pretty sure I made this last spring during the end of the school year. A little bit “you’re going to look at that in a significant number of years and make such a powerfully disgusted facial expressi...

04 oct 11

I took this picture of a big wood slab we use as a coffee...

I took this picture of a big wood slab we use as a coffee table the other day and thought it would make a good iPhone wallpaper. Enjoy. Download

04 oct 11

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