Thoughts and things

These are songs that appear inside the script — records playing in rooms, music heard in passing, fragments that belong to the world of the story.

Marca Tatem (Instagram) Touché(e) is a Spotify playlist I curated as a love letter to French electronic music—from French Touch and nu-disco to synthwave and 80s electro-pop. 100% French.

Originally published on The Sound Won’t Stop (Nov 17, 2025).

Marca Tatem (Instagram | Spotify) — San Francisco, August 7th, 2025 Somewhere on a long road to New Orleans, my girl—whose taste in music is nothing if not eclectic—queued up a track by the Canadian indie-rock band Mother Mother.

Marca Tatem (Instagram | Spotify) — San Francisco, April 3rd, 2025 Update: This post made the front page of Hacker News with over 298 points and has already gathered 7,000+ listens.