by Daniel Stalter | Jan 19, 2022 | Essays
“Even if your love was unconditional, it still wouldn’t be enough to save me.” –Against Me! I have spent a lot of time this past year reflecting on shame, validation, and vulnerability. It started when I watched Brene Brown’s Netflix special A Call to Courage,...
by Daniel Stalter | Sep 19, 2021 | Essays
This post is a direct sequel to my September 2018 post The Apollo Mixes, which is a direct sequel to my 2014 post What Started as Whisper Slowly Turned Into a Scream. Meet Me in Outer Space was the title I gave the second mix I ever made for Blair. It comes...
by Daniel Stalter | Aug 10, 2021 | Essays
Nine and a half years ago, I made a rash decision to adopt my friend’s dog. I had just moved to New York City and was struggling with the post-traumatic stress of my partner’s death only a month earlier. I was living paycheck to paycheck and was not financially ready...
by Daniel Stalter | Jun 10, 2021 | Essays
I switched majors during my freshman year at SUNY Oneonta. I was thinking of transferring to film school, so I began to study Mass Communication. One of the first courses I took with my new major was Intro to Mass Communications. My professor, Jon Arakaki, opened his...
by Daniel Stalter | Jan 13, 2021 | Essays
It’s the start of another new year. The clusterfuck of 2020 is over. And while the pandemic is still raging, there is an end (hopefully) in sight. This is the time of year when we typically see people signing on gym memberships, starting diets, and buying fashionable...
by Daniel Stalter | Dec 8, 2020 | Essays
Or: Get me drunk at a party and I will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about plane crashes. I’ve run out of plane crash documentaries to watch on all of the streaming apps I have. That includes all 13 seasons of Air Disasters, which I burned through...
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