I Wish I Was In New Orleans
A warm welcome back to Paradox Puzzles
Hello everyone, and happy September! Welcome back to Paradox Puzzles, where I will officially be bringing you new puzzles, art recs, and the occasional original poem (stay tuned for Sept 22 and Oct 20…) every Sunday. I am giddy to finally be back, and as we creep slowly toward autumn and winter, I hope these puzzles bring you some joy and peace alongside your Sunday morning coffee. I know for me, it has been endlessly rewarding to dive back into the ethereal mindless mathematics of making puzzles.
Today’s puzzle features five male musicians: Barry, Ben, David, Dre, and Michael. To solve, either print out this PDF or use this online solving service. If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, please leave that here. This puzzle’s answers will be included next week, and please find last puzzle’s answers and some art I’ve been loving recently at the bottom of this newsletter. (NOTE: For clue 2, the rooms are successive, in the order listed in the clue.)
Enjoy!
Things I’ve been loving lately:
Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay. My favorite album of the year so far, by a fairly wide margin. The digitized future in dreamscapes, psychedelic and soupy and lively and angelic. Mag Bay is 2/2 with perfect albums, as far as I’m concerned.
“Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back” by Natalie Dunn. This was back when we belonged to no one, / when your hand found my rib in the dark. I played dumb / so as not to lose you.
Ghost World (dir. Terry Zwigoff). I’m in a bit of a film rut; I only watched 7 films in August, and only one of those was at home, by myself, not with a friend or my roommates. This is that film, and it’s a damn good one. This is a wonderfully acted, painfully awkward, and brutally honest film about growing up and learning the hard way how much of yourself you can, or should, bring into adulthood. I see a lot of young me in these young girls, and I’m glad I finally got around to watching this.
“Von dutch” by Charli XCX. I’ve been listening to Charli since I heard Pop 2 in 2018, so I knew I wouldn’t be immune to brat summer, but I didn’t realize just how good this album would be. Windows down, scream on your commute type of shit. The whole album worked for me, but this song struck me the most.