Drew Daniel

Sunday evening Date night: going to see the restored print of Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS

Signal boost! Super stoked to say that after seven years this book is going to be a reality! Sorry to twist your arm, but, for real: Please pre-order it!

Incredible movie

Heads up Baltimore! Cool show tonight at the Red Room! Doors 8 music 8:30

We love to see it! Have been teaching her Sappho translations for years. Total boss.

Hooker alert! It’s an exciting mail day because my extremely thrashed (hence affordable) 1639 copy of “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” has just arrived! However you identify on spicy Reformation debates, we can all agree that Richard Hooker is a terrific prose stylist

Greatly enjoying the audiobook of this text by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social on England in the seventeenth century ; I listen to it at the gym while huffing and puffing. highly recommended!

Coming soon, ALL THE WORLD IN THEE, a new poetry anthology that offers a powerful new way to understand LGBTQ+ identities and feelings over time, edited by Stephanie Burt, Drew Daniel, and Melissa Sanchez. bit.ly/45G1ruH @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @drewdaniel.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

So excited to read this (thanks to @pedantscrusade.bsky.social for the recommendation)

HIGH ZERO dance party scene report:

Gonna go see Grouper live tonight in Washington, D.C. ! Hell yeah who’s ready to weep with me???

Delighted I had the chance to experience this firsthand and write about it for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social - and- Euro folks should know that Zhao Ziyi, the organizer of You and Me, is about to be on tour in Europe- go see him!

Thoroughly enjoyed this report from @drewdaniel.bsky.social to an experimental festival run by a 19 year old in China.

Get your tickets folks! mark your calendars: July 1-4, of 2027 you’re going to be in Canterbury attending this ridiculously stacked festival of weird music w Foetus, Test Dept, Zoviet France, Lustmord, Carl Stone, Negativland, People Like Us, Matmos, Soft Pink Truth and more!

“The show must go on!” Despite recent turbulence (see my husband’s recent posts: we are ok but somebody tried to burn our house down), I am still altogether chuffed to perform tonight with John Wiese at this ridiculously stacked bill in Richmond, VA

this summer in Beijing I had my head split open by an amazing festival called You and Me that was organized by 19 year old Zhao Ziyi. I have a feature article in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social about this festival and Yan Jun and Mattin’s performances in particular. Check it out!

It’s true! CSX fest has a very deep lineup including a full gamelan orchestra, Pharmakon, Yellow Tears, Robert Turman, Gen Ken Montgomery and more. I’m playing with John Wiese on Friday right after Crazy Doberman! Come through! Info here: csxrva.org

didn’t predict I’d be crying at the gym listening to Dolly Parton sing “Crackerjack” but it’s that kind of song and that kind of day. R.I.P. to a genius.

After two and a half months of adventures, the Matmos tourcation of Planet Earth is over! Too much to say to fit in a post. You can read my rambling thoughts here 👇

My partner did a tarot reading for me, soundtracked by “Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?” by @drewdaniel.bsky.social, and the first card drawn was Temperance (the card that Crowley renamed “Art”). Auspicious!

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

hey Bay Area people! MATMOS, DICK SLESSIG COMBO, and JEROD S RIVERA are all going to perform this coming Saturday night at @grayarea.org in the beautiful Mission district of San Francisco! You should come! bring all of your loved ones too!

Beijing scene report:

I am « in my feelings » that this poetry anthology is going to come out after years of labor with my fabulous co-editors- I have some thoughts and more context which won’t fit in one post so I’ve written it all out below: 👇

If you read only one essay this year that features the words "seafood jacuzzi", let it be this one: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Greetings from the water park inside the New Century Global Center in Chengdu aka the world’s largest building

Yesterday we put a human birthday in perspective by visiting a gingko tree that is more than a thousand years old

pstttt there’s a pretty sick deep techno party tonight in Shanghai at Heim

at Xi An Xiao Chi (« Xi An Snack ») in Shanghai there’s a bowl of raw garlic at every table and you’re supposed to peel a clove and nibble some of it between every delicious bite of oily spicy noodles

so we are in this city called Shanghai and

It’s my mother’s 82nd birthday today! Give it up for Kathleen everybody!

Posing up a storm at the Palgrave booth at the WSC conference because actual print copies of Catherine Bates and James Stone’s edited collection « Shakespeare & Psychoanalysis » (for which I wrote the afterword) have arrived. Embrace your symptoms, everyone!

when Reviewer #2 suggests deep cuts:

Verona we are in you (I’m here for a week long Shakespeare conference and M.C. Schmidt is fancy free)

On my (free) Substack, I wrote an essay about reading poetry on a train journey, and the disruption of that journey. Content warning: suicide. drewdaniel.substack.com/p/scorpion-m...

Sometimes you find a painting of the infant Jesus where he is just chilling so hard

I am 55 years old today.

[sound on] Tortelloni with Gorgonzola at Trattoria Serghei scene report:

Hey! Are you in Bologna this Friday? It will be my birthday and I will be playing a Matmos show at Rione San Nicolo as part of the BOtanique Festival! You should come! 🥂💋🇮🇹🍉🐈👍🎉🎂🥳🎈

Parma Scene Report:

In advance of my turning 55 in a few days, I have written something personal about aging, perspective, and illusion, with cameo appearances from alpine mountains, Chinese rugs, and, er, Søren Kierkegaard. You can read it on my (new, free) Substack right here: drewdaniel.substack.com/p/reciprocal...

Chateau de Chillon scene report:

For my sins, I have started a (free) Substack, which will act as a splashy tidal pool for citation fondling, essays, and the occasional rant. My inaugural post on stupefaction, "mollusk feelings" and reading through a heatwave, can be found here: drewdaniel.substack.com/p/a-strong-d...

Its 90 degrees in this restaurant and D does not hesitate to order a bowl of hot molten cheese