Listen: Up & Down by Crumb
If you’re wondering why this song sounds so distorted, Crumb is ready to share their technique: “We’d take a microphone, put a condom on it, put that in a bucket filled with water, and then play a sound source at the water, so you would get a slight underwater effect that you could merge with the original sound source.” Ice Melt, their condom-suffused album, is a meditation on the sort of mental fluidity that might lead a group of recentish Tufts grads to innovate in this particular way. It’s a little trippy and real moody, just right for these premature summer doldrums (your….. “ups and downs”?). Listen here.
Ethan or Ethereum
I don’t know how closely you’re following the boom and bust of Dogecoin etc. but evidently Ethan Allen has the same stock exchange listing as Ethereum (ETH) and a bunch of unthorough crypto investors have been buying up furniture stock by mistake. Naturally, that has sent the OG ETH through the roof, making it actually maybe an ok investment for about two seconds? Amazing what a bunch of LZBs can accomplish together.
…….not so lazy
Ugh ok also did you hear about the Hometown Deli stock? This little cheesesteak-and-chicken-parm place in rural New Jersey went public for seemingly no reason in 2019 and then this April, its stock price went bananas, giving a place that makes $13,976 in annual revenue an overall valuation of $113 million. Everyone assumed it was a Gamestop situation until this reporter looked into it, and it turns out there’s some hedge-fund shell-company action going on behind the scenes. The details are pretty confusing and I will let the expert explain it to you, but evidently this is all legal?
We have got to fix money. Until then, I hope you have some NFTs stashed under your mattress.
🤑 💳 💲
Or you could start trading crypto on Venmo. Per the company release, “Venmo customers can start their crypto journey with as little as $1,” which, cool, but what I need to know is if Venmo is like the Google+ of crypto (like, why aren’t you just on Coinbase) or if my scroll of acquaintances splitting rent and sandwiches about to be sprinkled with bros buying the fucking dip.