All posts of Mia Pohlman

Mike Savino and the Banjo Psychedelique

What is Solo Banjo Psychedelique, you ask? Let Tall Tall Trees’ Mike Savino tell you Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees says people have a predisposition to the banjo: It has a stigma, and they expect one thing. As a pioneer of solo banjo psychedelique music, though, he believes the banjo is still relatively unexplored […]
3 weeks ago

Supper. It’s what’s for dinner.

Which words that you have collected throughout your life are words that matter to you? Dialect delights me. I love hearing people with a distinct way of talking speak, love listening to their vocabulary, feeling the cadence of the rhythms of their words and understanding the patterns with which they use them. I am fascinated […]
4 years ago

What I learned from Portland.

No, it wasn’t to put a bird on it. What impressed me most about Portland while I was visiting was not its weirdness; I didn’t see a single unicyclist the whole 96 hours I was there. (I was sorely disappointed; my college alma mater was stranger than Portland.) Nope. What impressed me most about Portland […]
6 years ago

What I Learned from a Piece of Cake in a Foreign Country

It happened at a cake bar, across the bridge in Regensburg, Germany: it was already dark outside, and there were only a few pieces of cake left as my sister, mom, dad and I wandered inside. We spoke a little German, but not much, and the worker switched to speaking his effortful English for us. […]
6 years ago