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    March 13th

    Three days prior, I post the colored version of my radio show logo. [IG]

    The cartooniness of the red fox brings Stefan back to this illustration I’d drawn this in 2010 representing Stefan and I, with the seam of the book between us. I’d reposted it to my art instagram in 2020.



    This brings Stefan to my art instagram and my Inktober drawings from the previous year.

    Stefan combines them to draw a demon smiling hello. [IG]

    Andrea Vanzo • Spring

    March 15th

    I’d been playing a lot of content on my radio show the previous month, juxtaposing WWII era broadcasts and the modern slaughter in Gaza. [WFMU]

    Stefan draws Anne Frank. [IG]


    This same day, I repost a reel of photos I’d originally posted the day after Genesis P. Orridge died. [fb]

    Genesis’s filled lips

    brings Stefan back to his squished face; one of our tweaked shots from this series in 2008.

    Everything green. Trinity knot easily seen. [IG]

    Little Shop of Horrors

    Remembering. Recreating.


    One day prior, I posted two images that I’d drawn on cardboard boxes. [IG]


    Which brings Stefan back to cardboard boxes on our last Halloween.

    Again using the lines of shadow to replicate his bloodied face in his photograph. [IG]

    Little Shop of Horrors

    Remembering. Recreating.

    March 16th

    February 27th, I post a review of the Veselka movie. [IG]

    The colors and pose leads him to this selfie from 2004 when living in Queens

    and then to other photos of my living in Queens in 2004.

    His drawing takes the green color from nature, the pig lighter and wooden items makes a wooden pig creature, drooling like the pond. [IG]

    The Jesus Lizard • Monkey Trick

    (We saw The Jesus Lizard play in Chicago.)


    This photo again.

    with these details

    Lead him to this similarly angled portrait from 2009

    and this full finished painting of mine.

    So he digitally edits his older painting of me, gives me long hair instead of pigtails, and dots of light for eyes. [IG]

    The Jesus Lizard • Monkey Trick

    March 19th

    Looking through my [flickr] folder of paintings from the previous post, he is brought to this painting from 2004 with a bloodied hand

    which brings Stefan back to this Sticky Friends photo with bloody hands and an upside-down handprint on the bed.

    He combines the poses. [IG]

    Peter Gundry • Salem’s Secret


    March 17th, two days prior. A crazed dawn selfie at WFMU, a Dracula pinball machine behind me. [IG]

    The gradient of my friend’s Hawaiian shirt brings Stefan to July 2009 with a blue and amber sunset. [flickr]

    His portrait matches my sunset face, and he picks an appropriate song. [IG]

    Bram Stoker’s Dracula • Love Remembered


    The above sunset photo from July of 2009 brings him to our Chicago trip one week later. [flickr] Right before it all went wrong.


    The blue from the fencing in the background, “PAUL MITCHELL” inspiring the ERROR text. [IG]

    March 21st

    Repost.

    I post this rambling video with a mohawk and makeup. [IG]

    Three days later, he reposts this mohawk fish. [IG]

    insensible, énouement • vertigo *



    * “Enouement” is a French word, meaning the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turned out, but being unable to tell your past self.



    I post a series of album covers as prizes to give away during my radio show for the annual fundraiser. [IG]

    This album cover with tan horizontal lines…

    …and this BIG|BRAVE album cover with flowers


    brings him back to flowers in a parking garage.

    He photographs himself in the same pose, tinted to match the pale lavender flowers. [IG]


    Broken Heart Sad Violin • Depressing Agony

    Remembering. Recreating.

    March 22nd

    Again, the Dracula pinball machine

    which leads Stefan back to this image [IG] to promote my [WFMU] show.

    Mina’s pose and Dracula’s hands


    brings it back to the cupcakes again.


    His gripping hand. Demonic glyphs to match the icing. [IG]



    insensible, énouement • vertigo

    Remembering. Recreating.

    March 23rd

    Back to Dracula…

    Marilyn in red, as he goes in for a kiss. [IG]


    Bram Stoker’s Dracula • Love Remembered

    On my radio show of January 2022, I’d narrated the circumstances of my first kiss, which took place while listening to a track from the soundtrack to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Stefan repeatedly plays a different romantic track from the film, one titled “Love Remembered”.


    The [IG] post with this Dracula picture

    also includes this [IG] George Carlin album cover.

    The city skyline here…


    paired with my crazed sleepless expression here…

    leads Stefan to one of the first things I ever drew for him. It was based on a weird dream he described on Myspace about his transforming into a beautiful transwoman with sharp-tipped wings who would soar above the smokestacks of the polluted city below.

    And so, he photographs himself with wings. The wings matching the red of Dracula and the pale blue of the New York City skyline. The song is again Love Remembered.




    Bram Stoker’s Dracula • Love Remembered



    The same [WFMU] playlist of January 2022 with Dracula also contains this gif from the film Alice Sweet Alice

    The arm pulled back in motion and the knife leads Stefan back to this yellow-skinned Ocean Grove shot with an arm in blur and a knife in the sink.

    He combines them, uses the red exercise bands for blood, tints himself yellow like the murderer’s raincoat. [IG]


    Martin Czerny • Endless Road of Grief

    Eyes closed.
    Remembering. Reenacting.


    Bloody days in Ocean Grove and yellow leads him back here.

    He combines the images, a dot of red for the mug. [IG]


    Mindlight Relaxing Music•Mild Feeling

    Eyes closed. Remembering.


    That same [WFMU] playlist of January 2022 includes these two gifs stacked above each other.

    Carlin’s textured walls and the Rocky Horror scene of sitting shirtless with arms outstretched

    leads Stefan back to the 2009 basement photos, to this outtake of his sitting with knees up and hands outstretched.

    He recreates his basement pose, but with the fist and color/texture of Carlin’s background. [IG]

    Peter Gundry • A Beautiful Delusion


    That same [WFMU] playlist of January 2022 also contains this gif from Batman: The Animated Series.

    The orange color and face half in shadow brings him to this self portrait from 2005, before we met.

    He copies the tones of my portrait, but photographs himself upright, and adds a hardly perceptible edit to his upper lip, raising it on the shadowed half, like Harvey Dent. [IG]




    Bram Stoker’s Dracula • Love Remembered


    March 31st

    Repost. [IG IG]

    Desperately wishing to be seen and heard and befriended

    by me.


    Posted the same day. My all Jesus Christ Superstar show [WFMU] playlist pictured this album cover

    which brings him back to my drawing of us again.

    His face wearing the demon’s frown, the curve of the tail behind him. [IG]


    Enya • Boadicea

    He is his own demon. Hand in hand.
    (Boadicea again.)


    The reaching arm brings him to

    this photo I took of him at IHOP.

    He positions himself with the same triangle of lines above his head. He has blurred out his photo – except he’s kept the neck glyph and his hair point in focus. I suspect this is thinking about H and needles. (Boadicea again.) [IG]


    Enya • Boadicea

    Eyes closed.
    Remembering. Recreating.


    Back to my playlist with Jesus Christ Superstar. The geometric shapes and design elements

    lead him to this photo of me about to get a spinal tap November 2008, my hair in a diagonal straight line, with lines of molding beside me at the same angle as the album cover.

    He adds a hardly perceptible straight line of black for the proper angle creating a halo of white from his hood. He duplicates the gritty texture of my photo, mouth the same. [IG]


    More Jesus Christ Super Star.

    Brings him to our trip to Chicago. Orange and yellow stripes, bright blue, and Stefan showing his midriff.

    (Stefan trying to stay deadpan. This picture always makes me laugh)


    This brings Stefan to an old sketchbook drawing I’d done of Mutual Friend scarfing a tub of pretzel sticks.

    And to my shots from the driving around Chicago.

    He combines these shots into one, his gripping hand, the red and white tub in the back seat representing Mutual Friend. [IG]

    Egad, he’s so adorable.

    Bill Withers • Lean on Me
    Please swallow your pride
    If I have things you need to borrow
    For no one can fill
    Those of your needs
    That you won’t let show

    His song of choice, about swallowing, and about leaning, as the backseat passenger and Stefan’s car seat lean against each other.

    April 4th

    One month prior, I was tagged in this instagram photo while co-hosting at WFMU fundraising [IG]

    which brings Stefan back to this autoupload from March 2018 during WFMU fundraising.

    His black fingerless glove making the speech bubble shape, green and yellow in the background, and a stripe of blue matching the window’s glow behind me, like an eyepatch. [IG]


    théos, Antent • mirage

    He has no words.
    He’s struck silent.

    April 6th

    My face in profile in the yellow bathroom of WFMU four days prior [IG]



    brings Stefan back to this Ocean Grove photo. (This is what happens when you try photographing boots for eBay with Stefan around.)

    Courten • Delusional

    Remembering. Reenacting.

    April 13th

    Text to Stefan’s brother

    April 14th

    Back to this photo, posted one month prior. [fb] Now thinking of Chicago drives,


    Stefan is brought back to this shot, where I’m mostly cut out of frame. (This happened often in Chicago.)

    He is me in the passenger seat, his hoodie string like my tendrils of hair. [IG]

    Antent • this world is sick

    Remembering. Reenacting.


    March 18th, one month prior, I post this accidental shot with the caption: “I did it! I sang on stage and I kinda don’t remember it.” [IG]

    The upward angle of my face and the blue lines of light leads him back to this insomnia photo…


    …right next to these damp bus seats in the flickr feed from September 2013 .

    They are combined, but I am given an open singing mouth. [IG]


    I post the colored graphic (drawn by Evan Dorkin) available as a sticker for my radio show to those that donate to the station [IG]

    which brings Stefan to this autoupload of me with a fox ring, the dark red matching the border of the fox drawing.

    Combined, it inspires a fox wrapped around a tree, the eyes large and circular like the fox’s eyepatch, drawn on newspaper article about community support alluding to the non-profit nature of WFMU, and with thick block lettering, like that on my logo, the page tinted blue grey like the background of my logo. [IG]

    April 15th

    My radio show logo with it’s orange-pink dots and brown retro radio with it’s curves and lines.

    brings him to these photos from Queens 2004. Pink polkadots and a brown antique radiator with curves and lines

    and next to it, pink polkadot pajamas and stripey socks. [flickr]


    The stripes on my socks lead him to this little girl from Fox Fest 2010 [flickr]

    and then this photo from Fox Fest 2010. [flickr]

    The polkadots duplicated, the tablecloth becomes mountainous terrain, the hand reaching. [IG]

    insensible, énouement • vertigo

    April 17th

    He revisits the span of time when I was scanning in items from when Colin died.

    The pool hall ceiling lamps make the mountains, half naked me makes the babe (as it has before). The devil sticker makes the centaur theme, the accidental elf ears from his hair, the color of the TV glow, buck teeth from the Bugs Bunny shirt, the silly school-girl costume pose provides the hands. [IG]

    théos, Antent • mirage


    Five days prior, I post photos with Vermont Friend who I’d gone to visit to witness the solar eclipse. She was the friend whose wedding I’d attended in September 2010. [IG]

    He paints a new background for his old cartoon; one that he originally posted in 2010 days after I’d attended her bachelorette party, and days before her wedding. He makes a new background with a full moon wearing my expression, tilted like the R2D2 on my friend’s shirt, and matching the color. The gravestones and clouds inspired by blurry background objects. [IG]

    He’s still in terror of me.


    This insomnia photo from September 2013 that Stefan recently used

    brings him to another shot taken that same sleepless morning

    The hoodie and the green tea jug to replicate the shapes of shadow and light. [IG]

    Antent • this world is sick

    April 19th

    Our first autumn.

    Hand and mouth. [IG]

    I don’t know why this one makes me cry so much.


    Hands and mouths brings him back here.

    My doubled reflection makes for the heavy facial lines. [IG]

    théos, Antent • mirage

    April 21st

    Hands and faces.

    Stefan took this photo of me.

    [IG]

    Joelmusicbox • Melody of Memories

    April 26th

    Text to Stefan

    no response.

    April 27th

    A mashup of the life in 2004.

    [IG]

    pandora., chillwithme, cødy • interstellar.

    April 28th

    Ocean Grove.
    February 2009.
    Stefan took these.

    Peter Gundry • The Witching Hour

    [IG]

    May 1st

    Lyrical reference to that time we were at his house, outside smoking at dawn, and I had fainted and had a seizure and he caught me in his arms and brought me inside. [IG]


    Eva Cassidy • Fields of Gold

    “In his arms she fell as her hair came down
    Among the fields of gold”


    Marilyn is me.

    Remembering. Recreating.


    Being in his arms brings him back here.
    Haunted hayride. Our last Halloween season together.

    Trinity knot and Marilyn. This is painful to look at. [IG]

    Remembering. Recreating.


    My position on his back for the hayride leads him to my splayed childhood pose on New Years Eve.

    The hose makes the antennae, the styrofoam the pattern on it’s back, the (coke?) mirror becomes the snail eyes with a line of white, the hearts match the color on my cheeks. [IG]

    Xori • warm nights


    My sleeping childhood face

    brings him back to this painting of mine from 2004 [flickr]

    and then in turn to this old self portrait from 2005. [flickr]


    Directly below it in the chronological flickr feed, this lefthanded drawing from 2005, a sad man with a hole through his chest. [flickr]

    He combines them, using the color of my drawing. [IG]

    Kapa Boy • Not Allowed

    All by yourself, sittin’ alone
    I hope we’re still friends, yeah, I hope you don’t mind

    we would have been so glorious

    May 7th

    Repost. the wedding approaches.


    Ocean Grove. Smoking at dawn.

    [IG]

    Antent, vowl. • drowning

    Remembering. Recreating.

    May 8th

    I am tagged in this photo from Chiller one week prior. [fb]

    Which leads Stefan back to this photo of us from June 2008.

    He combines my faces, with the metallic sheen of the jacket and wallpaper of the Chiller hotel. [IG]

    Sublab, Azaleh • Maera*

    My Chiller shoulders, faces combined, my ear, his ear.



    *Maera: The faithful dog of Icarius and his daughter Erigone. Ever loyal, Maera threw herself off a cliff rather than live without her master and mistress.



    He continues looking through my tagged facebook photos. He is brought back to this again from December 2019, with me in profile and eye makeup.

    Which brings him back to these photos from March 2006 / September 2007

    The green of the bar walls, the shape of the mirror (paired with the T-shirt of the man in the center) inspires the cartoon mouse head, the curtains for eyes, the blackened discoloration for the face border and smile, with mattress pattern for the hair and ears. The mirror discoloration also inspires the blood spit. [IG]

    analog_mannequin • milk cassette x.mp3

    May 9th

    Another tagged facebook picture: this tagged photo from Chiller October 2022. [fb]

    He combines me with a Gremlin, angled eyes, textured skin, portuding jaw. [IG]

    May 13/14

    Another old tagged facebook photo, this one from December 2019. [fb]

    My wearing a fox mask makes him emulate cats. He’s going to the very beginning of my flickr at this point, modeling after all three of my old kitten photos from 2003. [flickr]

    Shadows of blinds, one eye lit, with a bar of shadow down the middle. [IG]

    théos, Antent • mirage

    Another kitten. He is in half shadow. [IG]

    Peter Gundry • Nature’s Altar

    These two photos atop each other in the flickr gallery. The pointy tail, even. [IG]

    Antent, vowl. • drowning

    May 14th

    Then to this facebook tagged photo from May 2017. My blonde wig and sexy dress [fb]

    …leads him back to my Marilyn-like shots.

    My hands become his. The blue for the sky. [IG]

    o.i • inner shadows

    May 15th

    I rant about my trip home from Vermont. [IG]

    My sunglasses becomes cartoon eyes. He finds hearts in my hair again. My belt buckle becomes a robot head. A background of trees and nature because of Vermont. [IG]

    théos, Antent • mirage

    May 16th

    Thinking about the impending wedding, Stefan turns to photos I took April/May 2009.

    Stefan feeling the fool with his brother. [IG]

    insensible • ominous

    May 17th

    And then, a few months earlier, that time we hung out with his brother and friend on Christmas Eve 2008.

    The jaw shortening of the scarf and the rare photographic evidence of a smiling Stefan. [IG]

    Absolute Music • Ominous


    One month prior to those 2008 Christmas photos, I took this photo of Stefan on the boardwalk at dawn. [flickr]

    Which leads Stefan to this Sticky Friends photo.

    The blue from my photo, the texture from Stefan’s sweater, the long curved fingers from the shadows of Stefan’s elbow wrinkles. [IG]

    Cedric Vermue • We Came And Left


    (I don’t have a digital copy of this Sticky Friends cupcake photo and forgot it existed. It was lost to the hard-drive theft of 2009, but evidently Stefan had a print out of it, which I received after his death, kept in perfect condition in his lock box since 2008.)


    May 18th

    Ocean Grove / Asbury Park canal. April 2009. [flickr]

    The clouds part and make a path towards the bottom left of his photo. He has all my photos in his head, ever-ready to capture a reminder. [IG]

    Your mind amazes me.

    May 22nd

    Three days prior, I am tagged in a photo by Jeff Moore. [fb]

    Which leads Stefan back to our photobooth photos.

    which then leads him to this photo about to get our photobooth photos taken, October 2008.

    He photographs the blur of the money-holding hands at nearly out of frame. The line of booth hitting his brow. Black and white and in profile like his own photobooth image. [IG]




    .diedlonely • in the bleak midwinter

    Remembering. Recreating.

    May 24th

    Five days prior, I am tagged in this photo by Jeff Moore. [fb]

    My hand position brings Stefan back to this Sticky photo.

    When we took this photo in Ocean Grove, it was because there were renters in the main house and so we had only access to a bathtub in the back apartment. He called me into the bathroom because the water looked like milk and he thought it would photograph well.

    His new photo uses the blue of my coat to now represent water. [IG]

    analog_mannequin • milk cassette x.mp3

    Remembering. Recreating.


    Two days prior, I am tagged in this photo by Jeff Moore. I am seen in the window reflection. [fb]

    This leads Stefan back to this photo from 2007.

    He recreates the scene, the coffee cup nearly out of frame, the wooden chair, Marilyn to the right. [IG]

    insensible, énouement • vertigo

    Remembering. Recreating.


    April 7th. A month and a half prior. I post myself taking a train to Vermont for the solar eclipse. [IG]

    He matches the many colors of my outfit to a plant, which suits my song from Little Shop of Horrors. [IG]


    While feeding my cats I rant about the political psychopathy of nations, bathed in red light with venetian blinds behind me. [IG]

    He posts himself with red tones in an American flag, the light from blinds hitting him. Hindi words blurred out. [IG]

    TOOL • Ænema
    Some say the end is near
    Some say we’ll see Armageddon soon
    I certainly hope we will

    May 27th

    And this tagged facebook photo by Jeff Moore from January 2013 [fb]


    Brings Stefan back to this Sticky Friends photo

    The wall in the background of his photo is the same color as the sticky one. He frames the square in the background where the box is behind the man in the facebook photo. Marilyn partially highlighted and in focus in the foreground, like my face. [IG]

    Remembering. Recreating.

    May 31st

    Still here.

    The bloodstains, the angled shot of the ceiling, wallpaper, ornate mirrror frame, and diagonal heads

    brings him here. A stained ceiling, ornate bookshelf frame, wallpaper, diagonal heads.


    I’d posted this illustration July 2017 to showcase one of my all-time favorite comic book panels. It’s the long awaited first kiss between two characters, a writer and an artist, in the graphic novel Berlin by Jason Lutes. I love that it gives them modest privacy. It makes the moment truly intimate.

    The bloodiness of the bathroom also brings Stefan back to this shot while filming March of the Pumpkins.

    His hand and outfit match my bloody knife pose, but he is looking upwards while I am looking down. His image matches my pale lavender hat in color. [IG]



    .diedlonely • in the bleak midwinter


    If you straighten the comic panel and slide it to where his head is obscured, it lines up. It’s the exact same angle.

    But again, he’s the one looking upwards. The trinity knot apparent.



    Stefan and I, we were very physically shy with each other. It sounds ridiculous, being that he and I were so often in front of a camera, so often scantily clad, so often sexual in our art. And yet, we had never before kissed without already having gotten in our pajamas and in bed, like shy gay teenagers at a sleepover. Only when we’d tired of watching nature documentaries or Columbo or Inland Empire or whathaveyou and finally lay with limbs entwined, hiding from the dawn and pretending to wait for sleep to descend, only then did we cautiously approach each other intimately. Every instance with the tentativeness of a first time. But living with my Aunt, and times turbulent between us, we’d not spent a night together in many months.


    And so, about to walk out the front door of my Aunt’s house one night:


    Wait, c’mere...” I call.


    I lead him to the hallway stairs, stand up on one step (because I’m eight inches shorter than he), reach for his shoulders and pull him near.


    “Here.”


    With a subtle hint of panic he asks, “What are you doing?”


    My shoulders square with determination. “I’m going to kiss you. Standing up.”


    He is visibly frightened. So am I.


    It is sweet. It is significant.

    It is our only kiss without our masks.


    And this tagged facebook photo taken by Jeff Moore in January of 2013. [fb] My black and white almost profile with a flip of hair curling upwards from the back of my hat, the background of shelving with a slight diagonal composition…

    brings Stefan to this photo of me, house siding lining the background behind me and the doorway at a slight diagonal. Stefan took this in Ocean Grove with my camera, tweaked it to hard contrast, and digitally added an extra hair swirl.

    So, hard contrast and digital hair curl is what he did to himself, mimicking the man’s downward gaze and pensive hands. [IG]


    .diedlonely • in the bleak midwinter

    Eyes closed.
    Recreating. Remembering.

    June 5th

    One month prior, trying to get a hotel room at Chiller. [IG] My tan and spotted outfit

    leads Stefan to 2009 photos I took in my Aunt’s backyard of baby fawns. [flickr]

    So Stefan takes a video of a baby fawn with Marilyn. [IG]

    June 7th

    Three weeks before the wedding.

    Repost from 2016. [IG]

    Now partially inked, colored, captioned.


    A hospital visit in January of this year after being hit by a car [IG]

    brings Stefan to my hospital visit December 2023. [IG]

    He combines them, the blue from my headphones, the shape of my hood and face mask. [IG]

    Occultus • Cosmos


    Repost.

    Trinity knot partially transparent, all tattoos concealed except for the H. Captioned “Mood“. [IG]

    daniel.mp3 • green to blue


    Months earlier, I post a film screening. [IG]

    The red socks, pink background and hand positions, looking almost like it’s holding a cigarette

    lead Stefan back to this photo I took at his 2008 Halloween party. The prime roommate.

    He draws a similarly toned pig, the hard shadows of the hand against the body, even adding some small blood splatter next to the pig’s foot. [IG]

    .diedlonely • in the bleak midwinter


    Back to the facebook tagged photos. This shot by Jeff Moore [fb]

    brings Stefan back to 2007. Our early Ocean Grove days with my elderly cat.

    So Stefan combines them. But why the pink? [IG]

    Ødyzon, Inan • unfaithful

    June 8th

    April 15th (?) I ramble through migraine with crazy hair, in blue light with orange backlight

    Stefan posts plants that match my hair and colors. [IG]


    Tagged facebook photo. Chiller 2019. [fb]


    The bright green and hand now brings Stefan back to 2007. First times hanging out, when we pretended to raid the black truffles.

    He combines the images, wears a shirt with text like mine, but about plants (like truffles), with his gripping hand. [IG]

    Eyes closed.
    Remembering. Recreating.

    June 19th

    One week prior, I post this video

    The pink portrait in a tank top brings him back to this pink haired selfie



    which in turn leads him to these WFMU photos with a pair of pink glowsticks arching out from either side of the DJs head.

    My silly pink hair, the dark of the radio studio, the circular jewelry. [IG]

    Enya • Boadicea

    (Boadicea again.)


    We were so afraid of each other. [IG]

    insensible, énouement•vertigo

    June 19th

    Nine days before the wedding.

    My video of Miss Kitka from the previous December, swaddled like a baby. [IG] He replicates the phone shape and color. [IG]

    Again, finding a heart in my hair loops, and then copying my facial expression at that specific frame.

    He literally sees hearts around my head when he looks at me.


    My ridiculous video on 4/20 in stripey clothing [fb]

    Leads Stefan back to one of our earliest of Sticky Friends photos.

    Wearing a brown shirt, the hint of frame around the edges of his photograph like the yellow border he put around this early Sticky Friends photo, his skin a bit more orange like the walls behind me. [IG]

    Enya • Boadicea

    (Boadicea again.)

    June 25th

    Four days before the wedding.

    Five days prior, me on my roof explaining how I want to escape the city. [IG]

    The bear is made out of cartoon cloud shapes. [IG]

    Antent • Are We Dreaming?


    The city skyline cartoon gif on my previous post leads Stefan back to November, as I walk to the water’s edge to show off the clouds and city skyline. [IG]

    The Y shape of the helmet strap replicated in the zombie face, a hat for my bike helmet, and an anchor on it because I’m showing the Hudson River. [IG]

    Antent • Are We Dreaming?


    Repost, but now with white highlights. [IG]


    WFMU post marathon show. He combines them. [IG]


    Three days prior, I post a video from my roof, talking about the ear/jaw shingles I’m battling. [IG]

    He posts himself in profile, the angle of the line on his collar matching the line of lights on the bridge in the distance,

    stars like the other lights near the bridge, the grey gradient on the sides matching the shingles in my video. [IG]

    June 27th

    Two days before the wedding.

    Remembering. Reenacting.

    IHOP 2007. Bright, blownout, blurry.
    He’s watching me move, as the lyrics suggest, and is silenced. [IG]

    PJ Harvey • Beautiful Feeling

    Sometimes I can see for miles
    Through water and fire
    From England to America
    I feel life meet my eyes
    And it's the best thing
    It's the best thing
    The best thing
    Such a beautiful feeling
    A smile from San Diego
    He's still a boy
    Two ends to every rainbow
    And a train from Mexico
    And he's the best thing
    He is the best thing
    The best thing
    Such a beautiful feeling
    Like when I watch you move
    And I can't think straight
    And I am silenced
    And I can't think straight

    And it's the best thing
    It's the best thing
    The best thing
    Such a beautiful feeling

    June 28th

    After midnight the night before the wedding.

    October 2008.

    A track he uses often on his reels, but now it’s faster. Momentum. Trinity knot. [IG]

    Holding up in Brooklyn tonight



    .diedlonely • in the bleak midwinter (sped up)

    I didn’t know he was already here. I’d have invited him over.


    During the wedding:


    A polaroid of Ocean Grove/Asbury Park was one of my first gifts to him. I took a whole series of them with my grandfather’s antique camera.

    He’s making New York City match our early beginnings.

    He was waiting for me. [IG]


    Text to Mutual Friend


    I thought they were all about to leave. I’d have gone to the restaurant had I known they’d still be there for two more hours.

    July 2nd

    The unhinged part of me carries the broken parts.
    When the unhinged part is the Captain of the ship,
    …you know you have a healthy crew
    ” [IG]

    Xori • warm nights slowed + reverb

    July 6th

    I go see a matinee.




    Text from the brother



    part Three:

    RADIO SHOW

    [ a compilation of the music Stefan posted to his instagram reels ]

    PART FOUR:

    EPILOGUE