by Shawn Robare | Nov 26, 2023 | Read
I could smell the ammonia leaking from a box on the wobbly pallet from two aisles away, and I knew it would be one of those nights. Four months into my first real job, I worked the graveyard shift on the stock crew of my local Kroger supermarket in Duluth, Georgia. I...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 20, 2023 | Read
Have you ever watched a movie, had a very visceral reaction (be it love or hate), and then found yourself coming around so hard that you completely flipped your opinion on the film? I’ve had this happen a few times over the years and these movies tend to be the...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 20, 2023 | Read
The other day I got to thinking about the small collection of VHS tapes that I have sitting on my shelves and I wondered, if I had to chose a single tape to display, what would it be. If you know me at all, I’m fairly certain that you’d know the film I...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 15, 2023 | Read
In Hua Hsu’s poignant memoir Stay True, he brings up this idea of the harmony of experience as it pertains to loving a song, in his specific case, the Beach Boys God Only Knows from their masterwork Pet Sounds. Hsu describes the idea that as we’re introduced to a...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 12, 2023 | Read
“So basically, we’re at the part of the tour where we’re going to weed out the men from the boys…” There was no question in my mind, even on the cusp of turning fourteen, I was still a boy. I knew that before I begged my mother to let me join the Science Club at the...
