It’s not uncommon to feel a sense of gloom in today’s America. Beyond the wider environmental decay that’s happening the world over — and increasingly in our own backyard, if last month’s weather in NYC was any indicator — there are social and economic realities that loom ever-present in the background of day to day life.

Yet amid all of doom, we manage in our own small ways to create ephemeral moments of joy — and that Sisiphysian effort is the central theme of Matthew Danger Lippman’s latest effort, Touchdown USA, a five track effort about “finding tiny moments of ecstasy, compassion, and erotic confusion amid the massive wave of history.”

I sat down with Mr. Danger Lippman recently to talk about this effort, our mutual experiences of finding romance in the end times, his evolving relationship with the concept of intimacy, as well as his Kafka-esque desire to become a tarantula.

TRACKS FEATURED:

I Could Have Told You (Cover)

And

Tarantula

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