Something Like #43: The Indoor Coil w/ Bitsy Knox
If home is a state of mind, then maybe your apartment is an extension of your mind, 13 April, 2022

It turns out, an indoor coil is the component of an air conditioner that sucks the heat out of the room. This episode of Something Like wants to reverse that process. If home is a state of mind, then maybe your apartment is an extension of your mind, maybe you’re in a relationship with your apartment, maybe you’re in a ritual with your apartment. These are declarations of inside love.

  • As ever, Something Like’s jingle comes from Roger 3000
  • I read from Part 2 of Midwinter Day, by Bernadette Mayer. You can listen to more about the process of writing this book on the excellent podcast, Commonplace, with Rachel Zucker.

Tracklist

Takashi Kokubo (小久保隆) – Corridor Music (回廊の音楽), Digital Soundology #1, Volk Von Bauhaus (20th anniversary reissue), late 1980s

Eartha Kitt, Chez Moi, EP, 1965

Roger 3000, Entrée, Reste En Vie, 2022 (futura resistenza)

Howie Lee, Door of Aspiration, Birdy Island, 2021

Toshio Tanioka and Tom & Jerry’s, Kamakura, 人間であること (Human Being), 1973

Alice Notley, A Woman Comes into the Room, 1979

Jeff Majors, Room 400, Yoka Boka (For Us All), 2018 (originally a 1986 private-press)

Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day (Part Two excerpt), 1982

Entourage Music & Theater Ensemble, Days/ Percussion Solo/King’s Birdcage, The Mermaid’s Purse: Live at Chatham College, 1976 (Smithsonian Folkways reissue 2022)

Tara Clerkin Trio, In the Room, Tara Clerkin Trio, 2019

Trilby’s Couch, AC Marias, One of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing), 1989

Panxing, Small Worlds, Slowmusic, 2021

Interior, River, Design, 1987

冥丁 Meitei, 骨董 (Antiques), Kwaidan 怪談, 2018

Tiziana La Melia/Ellis Sam, Marseille Cat, Kletic Kink, 2020,

Nikki Giovanni, My House, The Way I Feel, 1975

Nala Sinephro, Space 8, Space 1.8, 2021

Bea1991, Don’t Touch My Freedom, Brand New Adult, 2019

Annabel Lamb, Take Me In Your Arms, Once Bitten, 1983

Anadol, Gizli Duygular, Felicita, 2022

Ichiko Hashimoto, Ballet, Sounds From The Music Interior (The Music Interior Sampler), 1985 (originally Ichiko, 1984)

Jane, I Slap My Belly, Edward Not Edward (Compilation), 1989

Elan Noon, Th-That’s All Folks, Caricature, 2022

Karma Moffett, Sitting Still Within, Sitting Still Without, 1982