Do you enjoy karaoke? How about gnome rebellions? Do you ever look back on a chance encounter and wonder what might have been?

If you answered yes to any of these, enroll at your nearest bard college, or listen to this episode of the By Recommendation podcast!

This week's recommendation: "Taylor Swift" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, winner of the 2015 Barthelme Prize - https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/28.2/2015-barthelme-prize-winner-taylor-swift/

Do you enjoy color-coding your notebooks? How about crabs with guns? Do you ever count for 64 measures of rests only to miss your cue?

If you answered yes to any of these, play that old mixtape from high school, or listen to this episode of the By Recommendation podcast!

This week's recommendation(s): Read the poem "Maud Muller" by John Greenleaf Whittier and/or listen to the album "King" by Gnome!

Maud Muller: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/109/selected-american-and-british-poems/5398/maud-muller/

King: https://open.spotify.com/album/7bvHsB3ja70qC9hZ4mrJnt?si=vaVDs9OwROKQAkIdmi8gvw

Do you enjoy *borrowing* hand towels from megacorporations? How about stabbing yourself in the hand? Do you ever reference your past alcoholism with a euphemism?

If you answered yes to any of these, join a thieves' guild, or listen to this episode of the By Recommendation podcast!

Next week's recommendation: Listen to Capricorn by Vampire Weekend (or the entire album, if you're so inclined)

https://open.spotify.com/track/4oAGV7IADPWfkpk6aGQqZt?si=1e9edaa4d5f34433

Do you enjoy rock and roll? How about alien zombie invasions? Do you ever fall in love with someone unexpected because love has no borders, nationality, or gender?

If you answered yes to any of these, start a future-punk-rock-fusion group, or listen to this episode of the By Recommendation podcast!

This week's recommendation: Drink some hot sake! No, really. That's it. Any kind, it doesn't matter. We'd post a link to it, but we can't.

Do you enjoy mental breakdowns? How about pink socks? Do you ever hide your new eldritch, semi-humanoid love interest from your husband and child?

If you answered yes to any of these, consider marriage counseling, or listen to this episode of the By Recommendation podcast!

Next week's recommendation: Wild Zero (1999)

(The version with English subtitles got taken down so all we have is one with French subtitles. Terribly sorry, do your best I guess.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvvAa2JmZ4&ab_channel=SimpleEtfunky

Do you enjoy Magic the Gathering? How about moving apartments when your ceiling collapses? Have you ever been stuck in an unheated cabin in -30 degree weather?

If you answered yes to any of these, seek professional help, or listen to the By Recommendation podcast!

Next week's recommendation: Possession (1981) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082933/