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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I am your host, Daniel M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Sasha Geffen,

a writer based in Colorado and the author of the book, Glitter of the Dark, How Pop Music Broke the Binary.

Sasha, welcome to the show.

What's up, Danny? Thanks so much for having me.

It's so cool to have you here.

I always love talking to someone who's based in somewhere. That just always sounds very chic,

very like jet set, like you might be jetting off to Cannes or Montecarlo in another minute. I appreciate that.

I'm not. I'm based and rooted for the time being. I suppose sometimes I'm not in Colorado.

Well, I was going to ask then. So like, when I think, when I hear that somebody is based in a particular city, my assumption is either they have a piettaire somewhere or they want to think they have a piettaire somewhere.

But the idea is like, I'm based in this city, but i won't say i live here because i spend so much of my time traveling

abroad i'm so often abroad with my interests yeah i didn't think of that kind of that context at all

when i wrote down my bio to send to you it's just i don I don't know, I've been, I've been using,

using that phrase for some time, but I do spend most of my time in Colorado. Do you feel like

it maybe then is just like a slightly more professional way of saying lives? Like, you're,

you're talking about being based there because this is a professional bio rather than like a

personal one where you might talk about like your home and where you live more?

Yeah, maybe. Maybe I guess one does not professionally live somewhere.

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