Adrian Shirk is the author of HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH (Counterpoint, 2022), a personal odyssey of American utopian experiments, and AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY (Counterpoint, 2017), a hybrid-memoir exploring American women prophets and mystics, named an NPR ‘Best Book’ of 2017. Shirk was raised in Portland, Oregon, and has since lived in New York and Wyoming. She’s a frequent contributor to Catapult, and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Lit Hub, and Atlas Obscura, among others.  She teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA Creative Writing Program, and lives at The Mutual Aid Society in the Catskill mountains.

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TRACKLISTING:
1. Tabo’s Project - Feel
2. Imitation - Narcisa
3. Jimmy Murakawa - Down? Down, Down! / Stay Outta My World
4. Zabadak - 蝶
5. Akiko Yano - Ashkenazy Who?
6. Junko Ohashi - I Love You So
7. Junko Yagami - Zyohanasubargu
8. Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Talkin’ (Honey It’s You)
9. Yukihiro Takahashi - Konchu-Ki
10. Sandii & The Sunsetz - The Serious Game
11. Pizzicato V - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
12. Pecqre - Kylyn
13. Joe Hisaishi - The Winter Requiem
14. dip in the pool - Rabo Del Sol
15. Masami Tsuchiya - Never Mind
16. Mami Koyama - Love Song
17. Toshifumi Hinata - サラズ・クライム
18. Ayuo Takahashi ft. Koharu Kisagari - 流れる
19. Hiroko Yakushimaru - 透明なチューリップ (Transparent Tulip)

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Dave's Jacket

Sam has the little dick blues. Kris fucks up the Squirt taste test.

Squirt Taste Test

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Type-B Parenting

The friends talk about beef jerky, wine, taco bell, moving to Japan and Sam and Dave's new girlfriends.

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Tim Is Tall

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Twenty Grind Teen

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Blue Whale Of Dogs

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