“Lovecraft in Brooklyn”

“Lovecraft lived by himself in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn and came to intensely dislike New York life.” - Wikipedia

“…not ready yet - never! never ready for that! - to just link to the artists or songs in question without saying something, anything, about why I think they’re worth your attention. Because: your attention is more valuable than the present age would have you believe. It’s the one thing you brought to this world that it didn’t have before, and it’s the only thing of consequence that you’ll permanently remove from this world when you leave. You know? So when somebody sort of cavalierly directs your attention someplace without so much as a tossed-off phrase indicating why you should bother, then you ought, in my opinion, to regard such people/sources/tweets as emissaries of the dark Lord.” - John Darnielle (of The Mountain Goats), on his blog, to which I cavalierly direct your attention