Hi, My name is Francis. I write poems and turn them into lofi soundscapes. I base a lot (all) of my work on love, hope, and heart break. Aspects is an EP i wrote and produced from my home in Lewisville, TX. The project peaks into my introspective process of information in love, existential panic, and the hope to find someone that will ease the pressure of being alone in a world obsessed with the idea of finding a niche. It is my first cohesive project released on the first of January, 2020. It has now been well over a month since the original release, I am eager to sharpen my skill- better my craft, and leave my art in the world before we have all gone from it.
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
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