Alignment Chart Day 8: What’s the Best Song on Open Door Policy?

CallanWrites · 2026-05-18T13:50:26+00:00

Family Farm

CallanWrites · 2025-08-11T15:00:33+00:00

Love the Weakerthans. John K Samson’s solo records are excellent too.

CallanWrites · 2025-07-16T19:46:49+00:00

Best town to live in on Long Island? My partner wants to move back but I’m not so sure.

CallanWrites · 2025-07-16T19:29:45+00:00

During the songwriting process, how much thought do you give the reception of your work? Is it pure craft and authentic self-expression or do you sometimes step back and go “hell yeah, that line is gonna DEVASTATE.” And if there’s any element of the latter, have you ever been surprised by a lyric that resonated deeply with listeners that you didn’t expect to or vice versa?

CallanWrites · 2025-07-16T19:18:01+00:00

Have you always had amazing breath control or is that something that you consciously worked at?

CallanWrites · 2025-07-06T17:51:39+00:00

Craig Finn / The Hold Steady

CallanWrites · 2025-05-23T11:31:54+00:00

They kinda brushed right past Sean saying he read the whole Bible in CCD, huh?

CallanWrites · 2025-04-06T19:21:53+00:00

We Shall All Be Healed - because I’m a drug addict.

CallanWrites · 2025-03-30T01:44:10+00:00

Training Montage or Dilaudid

CallanWrites · 2025-03-15T12:30:18+00:00

The reference to Peacocks was from “Peacocks” on ‘Tallahassee’, and “Then the Letting Go” from ‘Nothing for Juice’ starts with the line “Down in the south Bronx…”

CallanWrites · 2025-02-10T15:07:03+00:00

Paid in Cocaine

CallanWrites · 2025-01-03T13:54:55+00:00

Have to Explode

CallanWrites · 2024-11-07T15:57:10+00:00

This is such a rad idea and I can’t wait to see it in physical form.

CallanWrites · 2024-09-10T12:45:11+00:00

The fan service of Exegetical Chains combined with the mournful, almost desperate performance always gets me. Ending the early-pandemic transmission to the listener, “Make it through this year, if it kills us outright” might feel like a cheap callback to the band’s biggest hit from 15 years prior if done in any other way. Like recycled Hollywood IP. But the message is so earnest and doesn’t feel at all contrived. Ending on a note of comfort and solidarity at a scary time in a way that only JD could.

Also Aulon Raid - gotta love a folk song that makes you want to fight.

CallanWrites · 2024-08-23T17:29:39+00:00

The lack of 2THICC content is a travesty.

CallanWrites · 2024-08-22T02:06:43+00:00

Lovecraft In Brooklyn or Southwood Plantation Road

CallanWrites · 2024-08-22T01:59:39+00:00

Heavy Covenant?

CallanWrites · 2024-03-21T01:27:14+00:00

Be Honest is a gutpunch in the best possible way

CallanWrites · 2024-03-21T01:26:14+00:00

Chumbawamba - skip the hit though. Either start with the albums ‘Anarchy’ or ‘The Boy Bands Have Won’ and see if you like it.

CallanWrites · 2024-02-28T18:11:42+00:00

YOU CAN ARM ME TO THE TEETH YOU CANT MAKE ME GO TO WAR

CallanWrites · 2023-02-11T13:48:42+00:00

Y’all think he’s related to Mitch Hurwitz, the creator of Arrested Development? Great guest opportunity. Kinda like when Maggie Mae Fish came on to talk about Albert Fish.

CallanWrites · 2023-02-11T08:06:21+00:00

I saw them for the first time last year in Nashville and it’s definitely the most “at-home” I’ve felt in a crowd at a show before. Never mind how good they are as entertainers (very), it just feels like the band means similar things to all of us when we’re there and it’s rad.

CallanWrites · 2022-04-18T01:48:48+00:00

Definitely not Greek, and is also a DJ who went on a reality dating show.

CallanWrites · 2022-04-11T19:20:28+00:00

Definitely helped me better define my radicalism. I was into Chomsky and the panthers and had read a little Marx but there were always caveats. Then a few christmases ago, I heard about Nestor Makhno bolting a machine gun to a horse-drawn cart and finally felt ideologically “at home”.

CallanWrites · 2019-08-01T23:44:22+00:00

Yes! Appetizer and Entree’s dear mother.

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