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Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist

I’m Zach Barocas. I’m a drummer (I play Ludwig Drums), sometime poet (though not lately — see below for links), a publisher, a somewhat cranky cinephile, an amateur photographer, and a stationery shop owner in Brooklyn, New York City.

Measure Twice

Kimberley’s and my
stationery shop.

Poetry

The Cultural Society (2001-present)

Among Other Things (2005)

Looking Up (2010)

drumming

  • Press
  • New Freedom Sound
  • Jawbox
  • BELLS≥
  • Camorra
  • The Up On In
  • E. Fowlkes Sextet
  • Bright Christ
  • Drew O’Doherty
  • Imaginary Johnny

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Mostly Mornings

A tumblr blog of photographs spanning several years, taken mostly and eventually only in the morning, and eventually mostly from the same position of the same tree. I abandoned the project in 2018.

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  • time machine
  • writing

Category: micropost

Format StatusPosted on September 27, 2023Categories micropost

Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-Ins | The New York Review

A newly reissued recording proves that the late saxophonist Pharoah Sanders could get the grandest of effects from the humblest of riffs.

Format StatusPosted on September 19, 2023September 19, 2023Categories micropost

The Invention of a Neighborhood | Jonathan Lethem on Boerum Hill, Brooklyn for The New Yorker

Format StatusPosted on August 31, 2023August 31, 2023Categories micropost

Jaimie Branch Adds to a Brilliant Legacy With Fly or Die’s Final LP | The New York Times

Format StatusPosted on August 24, 2023Categories micropost

Fassbinder’s World: A Refuge for Outcasts:
Rethinking the German filmmaker’s vast body of work while reading a new book about him. | The New York Times

Format StatusPosted on August 13, 2023August 13, 2023Categories micropost

Format StatusPosted on August 1, 2023Categories micropost

A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other | The New Yorker

Put simply, Hickey has selected five hundred songs that he thinks delineate the history of what came to be called rock and roll, and he is devoting an episode to each.

Format StatusPosted on July 28, 2023Categories micropost

The Unapologetic Brilliance of Sinéad O’Connor | The New Yorker

This, I think, is what O’Connor always wanted: anguish, laid bare. And then a gorgeous moment of communion, a weight lifted, a reminder that we do not have to be alone in our despair.

Format StatusPosted on July 27, 2023Categories micropost

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An Ensemble of One | The New York Review

Abdul Wadud’s intelligence and stylistic flexibility, displayed to such great effect on By Myself, are the qualities that made him a treasured accompanist to so many leading creative musicians.

Format StatusPosted on July 27, 2023Categories micropost

Opinion: At ‘ground zero’ for slavery, a new museum helps rewrite history | The Washington Post

Format StatusPosted on July 20, 2023Categories micropost

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