HeyJaredBring Me Giants
An incomplete encyclopedia of my thoughts about music, the media and the 20th century. Mostly in alphabetical order - except when it's not. Enjoy!
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Almost Cut My Hair (opens the original)
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In the year of our lord 2016, I was hired by the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington to teach a course called American Crime and Punishment. Sweet Olympia, birthplace of SubPop, Option, riot grrrl and Nirvana; home to the cauldron that calcified grunge! In Olympia there is a freeway exit on highway 5 for Sleater-Kinney Road, and when I told my daughter I was going to see that band this week and added, ‘You know, like that freeway exit they named themselves for,” she said, “Oh wow - I
The Hill We Climb (opens the original)
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Recently, my neighborhood has been overrun with wild coyotes. It’s a new thing and climate change-related: they come up from the creek behind my house and trot around looking like butter wouldn’t melt in their mouth, but we are told they eat our pets, so we’ve been struggling to keep our cats inside all summer. I don’t like coyotes, they seem mean, but it didn’t stop me from going to see the new film Coyote Vs. Acme and now that I have seen it, I would like to urge you to go see it too. I think
The time of your life (opens the original)
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One day last January I took a bus to the Cape of Good Hope, on a mini-safari through Table Mountain National Park. We saw eland, baboons and penguins, climbed to the top of lighthouse point, and stood at the southernmost point of Africa, and every second of it was incredibly amazing, it’s burned on my brain as one of the most objectively beautiful days of my life. It was a long drive there though and when we got back to Cape Town we got in a big traffic jam because, the guide told us, a band cal
Now, Voyager (opens the original)
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If I had to describe my childhood in a nutshell, I’d say that it was the kind where your dad would take you and your siblings to the airport on Saturdays just to watch the planes takeoff, and boy does that date me. Looking back, I suppose it was a way to get us out of the house so my mom could have some peace and quiet – or maybe my father was still close enough to a time when watching airplanes was a little bit exotic. Either way, my siblings and I used to love going to the airport just to hang
Children of the Summer's End (opens the original)
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It may just be a me thing, but I can’t look at Robert Pattinson without thinking of Cedric Diggory; I can’t look at Anne Hathaway without thinking of Mia in The Princess Diaries, and I can’t look at Tom Holland without thinking of his fantastic striptease to the song “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle. Also, I can’t look at Travis Scott without automatically thinking of his involvement in Astroworld, the Houston Area Festival at which, in 2021, 8 people died, crushed to death in a 30-plus minute mele
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