Brangien Davis

Arts & culture editor @crosscut. Music maker @argumentband. Writer and cat scratcher at large.

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@Ali_Davis My fave part!

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Need an election escape? Gaze upon riverfront activity in Bordeaux, high-rise window washers in Seoul or the sunset over Moscow. Anywhere but here! https://t.co/Trm1zZxCIg

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We had big storyboard dreams for this episode, including a complicated street scene, but in the end @danielspils and I never left the bathroom. This is covid culture.

[The Argument @argumentband]

EP 9 of our COVID Covers: “Steppin’ Out” by @joejacksonmusic. Thrilling to decode these iconic piano chords. I used live drums, but in '82 Joe used a Korg KR-55 + live snare (he played all instruments). For our recently departed cat, Pete: “into the night, into the light.”

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@Weinbergrrrrr @Crosscut @garthstein I love our goat-heavy lineup this week! The rumination on @fantagraphics' b-a-a-a-dass new title The Cloven was written by esteemed comics expert and @Crosscut contributor @paulconstant.

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I realllly miss going to the movies — even the annoying parts. Luckily there's terrific cinematic sustenance online this wknd, including the Seattle Black Film Festival @BlkFilmSeattle and the Seattle Deaf Film Festival @nwfilmforum. BYO 'corn. https://t.co/WXilGrXFMf

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Re the everlasting cool of Chrissie Hynde and shuttlecocks

[The Argument @argumentband]

EP 8 of our COVID Covers: “Message Of Love” by The Pretenders. Headed into “COVID 2: The Remaskening,” so we went with this crazy cool beat and a shuttlecock. Note @danielspils 's joyously flailing limbs (this drum part is a blast to play). Vox @brangien. Song @ThePretendersHQ.

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The latest in our COVID cover series... sending out an SOS and bringing out the kaftan.

[The Argument @argumentband]

Ep7 of our COVID Covers: “Message In A Bottle” by The Police. Simplified the drums b/c couldn’t get @copelandmusic to play for us (pandemic and all). Transcribed @asummersmusic killer guitar part to my trusty piano and away we went! @brangien sings in kaftan; @danielspils mimes.

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Missing this gentle giant of Seattle filmmaking. So lucky I got to bask in her light even a little. https://t.co/AfKiMVBx7l

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What do we lose when we lose our public fishing piers? A beautifully told story of a community at risk of losing much more than fish, by @mariaidolan on @Crosscut. https://t.co/gbGyxonkcp

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Remember the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? I revisit it, amid other perspective-shifts, in my latest arts and culture newsletter for @Crosscut.

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There's something to be learned from the secret geometry of orcas during a pandemic, @brangien writes. Art can shift our thinking, even when making it isn't our forte. https://t.co/bfEOj7T3ii

[Katie Kurtz @MsKatieKurtz]

Ohhhhhh yay! So nice to hear @brangien's thoughts on art right now - she touches on a lot of things I've been thinking about and articulates some other things I haven't been able to put my finger on.

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@rosemaryjones Absolutely, Rosemary! The scrappy individual artists are already accustomed to shoestring budgets, but for the bigger arts/culture orgs that enliven the city (and often employ those artists), it's just not possible.

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For this installment, @danielspils and I did a cover of a cover (and added a cat).

[The Argument @argumentband]

Ep 6 of our COVID Covers: “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell (covering Gloria Jones). What is a soft cell? This video offers no answers.

We pulled out the horns, piano bench, and a cat hair roller to hit what are arguably the two most iconic quarter notes of early ‘80s synth-pop.

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@zwickelicious Edison looks right at home!

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Crosscut arts and culture editor @brangien has had spring rites and rituals on her mind this week. We're likely to forget some new ones the pandemic has made necessary, but that's why we should all be keeping coronavirus journals. https://t.co/cuGU5VDK1u

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Yes this drives me nuts too. Art is not about "taking a break" from the real world. It's about making the human connections that are so crucial to keeping us going.

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Pandemic comics — my latest for @Crosscut profiles Seattle illustrator Julia Wald, who interviews people about how COVID has affected their work, then translates their stories into bold black and white. https://t.co/LDyuTFxghm

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Our latest episode is all rock and crackers

[The Argument @argumentband]

Episode 5 of our COVID Covers: “Man in the Box” by Alice In Chains.

This week, the box is coming from inside the house. We’re cooped up, souped-up, and ready for ‘90s rock! @danielspils made a guitar “talk box” from headphones and tape and discovered how to fast zoom. @brangien

[Cascade PBS Newsroom @CascadePBSNews]

This isolation
consumes me, as I consume
boxes of Triscuits

In celebration of International Haiku Poetry Day, we want to see your pandemic haiku. That's 3 lines, in syllables of 5-7-5.

Leave yours in the replies below and we may feature it a story👇