Dusty Henry

1 week ago | anotherthoughtanotherthought.substack.com | Dusty Henry

It took me years to understand it. Sometimes even the art you feel called to—often for reasons you can’t explain—takes time to reveal itself. I’ve had Aporia, the collaborative album by Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams, on my shelf for years, occasionally spinning it and always finding it pleasant. I bought the record on one of my first trips back to record stores post-pandemic. I wasn’t entirely sure why. Partly, I think it was because my wife is a huge Sufjan fan.

1 month ago | anotherthoughtanotherthought.substack.com | Dusty Henry

“Sometimes I get these feelings and I don't know what to say” - WipersAnother downpour. Par for the course. My corduroy Levi’s jacket is soggy as I step in the car, smelling like a wet dog from years of this weather. As I turn on the car, my toddler in the backseat chirps up, “turn on the wipers, daddy!” She always loves the swish-swish sound against the windshield. But, being the dad that I am, it gives me an idea.

1 month ago | anotherthoughtanotherthought.substack.com | Ken Kesey |Dusty Henry

It was a last-second call to go. That should’ve been my sign that it was a good idea. When I’m feeling a certain listlessness, a blasé feeling, forcing myself to get out and see a show I’m on the fence about going to usually does the trick. Now here I was, standing in awe in a sea of strangers, hypnotized by a performer I’d only just heard of a couple days before. Cindy Lee swiveled on their chair wearing a gold sequin dress and white knee-high boots.

2 months ago | anotherthoughtanotherthought.substack.com | Samir Chopra |Dusty Henry

There’s a thought put forth by Brian Eno that I’ve become obsessed with. In a statement he shared ahead of his 2017 album Reflection – and that I’ve heard him repeat a few other times in interviews – he talks about this idea of artists being “farmers” or “cowboys.” He states:"Perhaps you can divide artists into two categories: farmers and cowboys. The farmers settle a piece of land and cultivate it carefully, finding more and more value in it.

2 months ago | anotherthoughtanotherthought.substack.com | Dusty Henry

All day, I’m consuming. And so are you. Our lives are built around it. We’re constantly taking in “media.” Music, videos, social media, more music, more videos, music in the background while watching a video, short videos, long videos, a long video about the problem of all of us watching too many short videos, a short video about why it’s bad to watch short videos, and then short videos are banned. And then they’re not? What a time to be alive and experience it all.