COZY ZONE with Ben Weber

Lisa Locascio is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in English at Wesleyan University.

One time, she made me a woo woo with Blue Curacao at her dad’s basement bar in River Forest, IL and I puked up Ethiopian food all night.

She holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Southern California.

I read Stuart Dybek’s Pet Milk at her wedding and felt shy about the saying the sexy part at the end out loud in front of all those well-dressed people.

Lisa’s work appears in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House Flash Fridays, Bookforum, Sou’wester, Santa Monica Review, American Short Fiction, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, and many other journals.

We lived together in the East Village during undergrad where I would often find her in a mud mask and barely-fastened silk robe, demanding pizza, while we shrieked with intoxicant-fueled laughter.

She is editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: The Best Fiction and Nonfiction from California, which will be published by Outpost19 Books in 2017, co-publisher of Joyland,  and editor at the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7.

Lisa invited me to her home in Los Angeles where she showed me her altar room, filled with crystals, talismans, and other objects that channel and magnify her formidable power.

Please enjoy SIDE D of my beloved friend Lisa’s cozy zone.

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Knowledge Activated by the Personal

TRACK 5: Artist vs. Academe

TRACK 6: Reckoning with the Occult

TRACK 7: Anne Rice

TRACK 8: An Ecstatic Girlhood

TRACK 9: Lisa is a Witch

TRACK 10: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 11: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Lisa Locascio is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in English at Wesleyan University.

One time, she made me a woo woo with Blue Curacao at her dad’s basement bar in River Forest, IL and I puked up Ethiopian food all night.

She holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Southern California.

I read Stuart Dybek’s Pet Milk at her wedding and felt shy about the saying the sexy part at the end out loud in front of all those well-dressed people.

Lisa’s work appears in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House Flash Fridays, Bookforum, Sou’wester, Santa Monica Review, American Short Fiction, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, and many other journals.

We lived together in the East Village during undergrad where I would often find her in a mud mask and barely-fastened silk robe, demanding pizza, while we shrieked with intoxicant-fueled laughter.

She is editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: The Best Fiction and Nonfiction from California, which will be published by Outpost19 Books in 2017, co-publisher of Joyland,  and editor at the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7.

Lisa invited me to her home in Los Angeles where she showed me her altar room, filled with crystals, talismans, and other objects that channel and magnify her formidable power.

Please enjoy SIDE C  of my beloved friend Lisa’s cozy zone.

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Obsession as a Path of Inquiry

TRACK 5: Sixty-Seven East Second Street

TRACK 6: Axel

TRACK 7: New York Shitty

TRACK 8: A Singular Education

TRACK 9: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 10: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

On Saturday June 6, 2015 I spent the day in one of my coziest zones: FIGMENT NYC on Governors Island.

On SIDE F I meet musicians Dan Gitlin and Joan Hacker who are hard at work on their project Garbage Barge.

Photo by Daniel Rose

 

Lisa Locascio is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in English at Wesleyan University.

One time, she made me a woo woo with Blue Curacao at her dad’s basement bar in River Forest, IL and I puked up Ethiopian food all night.

She holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Southern California.

I read Stuart Dybek’s Pet Milk at her wedding and felt shy about the saying the sexy part at the end out loud in front of all those well-dressed people.

Lisa’s work appears in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House Flash Fridays, Bookforum, Sou’wester, Santa Monica Review, American Short Fiction, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, and many other journals.

We lived together in the East Village during undergrad where I would often find her in a mud mask and barely-fastened silk robe, demanding pizza, while we shrieked with intoxicant-fueled laughter.

She is editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: The Best Fiction and Nonfiction from California, which will be published by Outpost19 Books in 2017, co-publisher of Joyland,  and editor at the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7.

Lisa invited me to her home in Los Angeles where she showed me her altar room, filled with crystals, talismans, and other objects that channel and magnify her formidable power.

Please enjoy SIDE B of my beloved friend Lisa’s cozy zone.

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Gallatin Orientation 2003

TRACK 5: Thumb Up The Ass

TRACK 6: O! Palladium!

TRACK 7: I Had It Bad – David Lynch

TRACK 8: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 9: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Lisa Locascio is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in English at Wesleyan University.

One time, she made me a woo woo with Blue Curacao at her dad’s basement bar in River Forest, IL and I puked up Ethiopian food all night.

She holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Southern California.

I read Stuart Dybek’s Pet Milk at her wedding and felt shy about the saying the sexy part at the end out loud in front of all those well-dressed people.

Lisa’s work appears in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House Flash Fridays, Bookforum, Sou’wester, Santa Monica Review, American Short Fiction, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, and many other journals.

We lived together in the East Village during undergrad where I would often find her in a mud mask and barely-fastened silk robe, demanding pizza, while we shrieked with intoxicant-fueled laughter.

She is editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: The Best Fiction and Nonfiction from California, which will be published by Outpost19 Books in 2017, co-publisher of Joyland,  and editor at the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7.

Lisa invited me to her home in Los Angeles where she showed me her altar room, filled with crystals, talismans, and other objects that channel and magnify her formidable power.

Please enjoy SIDE A of my beloved friend Lisa’s cozy zone.

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Inland Empire

TRACK 5: Dreamy Moments

TRACK 6: The Template of Your Host

TRACK 7: The Unwritten Map of a New Place

TRACK 8: Middleton, CT

TRACK 9: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 10: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Valoir is an opera singer, a painter, a jazz drummer and an aficionado of Downton Abbey. She is also my beloved colleague, former office neighbor, and dear, sweet friend. In April, Valoir invited me for an evening of cozy wonder atop The High Line. We dined to-go style at Chelsea Market and snuggled into the lounge chairs of the “Diller – von Furstenberg Sundeck & Water Feature” to chat about gifts, music, home, family, art, love, and insomnia. Enjoy our zone! This is SIDE E!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Diptych by Valoir and Ben Weber, A Project of The Cozy Zone Foundation

TRACK 5: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 6: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Pictured: Val’s Singapore Home via Google Maps

Here are some of Val’s paintings:

Valoir is an opera singer, a painter, a jazz drummer and an aficionado of Downton Abbey. She is also my beloved colleague, former office neighbor, and dear, sweet friend. In April, Valoir invited me for an evening of cozy wonder atop The High Line. We dined to-go style at Chelsea Market and snuggled into the lounge chairs of the “Diller – von Furstenberg Sundeck & Water Feature” to chat about gifts, music, home, family, art, love, and insomnia. Enjoy our zone! This is SIDE D!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber and Skyler Sullivan

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: First Love – Saxophone

TRACK 5: Downton Abbey

TRACK 6: Insomnia

TRACK 7: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 8: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Valoir is an opera singer, a painter, a jazz drummer and an aficionado of Downton Abbey. She is also my beloved colleague, former office neighbor, and dear, sweet friend. In April, Valoir invited me for an evening of cozy wonder atop The High Line. We dined to-go style at Chelsea Market and snuggled into the lounge chairs of the “Diller – von Furstenberg Sundeck & Water Feature” to chat about gifts, music, home, family, art, love, and insomnia. Enjoy our zone! This is SIDE C!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Opera, Art Song, and the Expansiveness of Art

TRACK 5: Grad School

TRACK 6: Painting

TRACK 7: Jazz Drums

TRACK 8: Heart Blunders

TRACK 9: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 10: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Valoir is an opera singer, a painter, a jazz drummer and an aficionado of Downton Abbey. She is also my beloved colleague, former office neighbor, and dear, sweet friend. In April, Valoir invited me for an evening of cozy wonder atop The High Line. We dined to-go style at Chelsea Market and snuggled into the lounge chairs of the “Diller – von Furstenberg Sundeck & Water Feature” to chat about gifts, music, home, family, art, love, and insomnia. Enjoy our zone! This is SIDE B!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: More Singapore

TRACK 5: Music

TRACK 6: Idyllwild Academy

TRACK 7: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 8: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Valoir is an opera singer, a painter, a jazz drummer and an aficionado of Downton Abbey. She is also my beloved colleague, former office neighbor, and dear, sweet friend. In April, she invited me for an evening of cozy wonder atop The High Line. We dined to-go style at Chelsea Market and snuggled into the lounge chairs of the “Diller – von Furstenberg Sundeck & Water Feature” to chat about gifts, music, home, family, art, love, and insomnia. Enjoy our zone! This is SIDE A!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber and Stuart Covi

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: We’re watching the sunset

TRACK 5: Late Night Call-in Radio Show

TRACK 6: Scoot Swoop Love Bench

TRACK 7: I Thought This Was Unique

TRACK 8: Singapore

TRACK 9: Etiquette

TRACK 10: What are good house gifts?

TRACK 11: The Best Gift

TRACK 12: The Snowflake

TRACK 13: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 14: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend