i’ve privated or unlisted or deleted a lot of the lowest quality stuff from my like two decades of posting music on the internet, but something about this video is too endearing to me to get rid of. it’s just so fully & wonderfully “a musician who was posting covers on youtube & tumblr in 2011”. the macbook photobooth video & how excited i remember being at how i could use its shitty quality to have the lighting feel super dramatic, the crackles of the built-in mic even though i’m essentially two rooms away, the dim outlines of clutter in my childhood home & clunky tuning of the piano that probably ended up in the dump when no-one wanted to pay a dollar for it at my father’s estate sale, my unrestrained voice, the simplicity of it all

march 2011