Broadcast, "Michael a Grammar" (2005)
There’s nothing written on your fingernails. Today would have been the birthday of Broadcast singer/songwriter/visionary/Omnichordist extraordinaire Trish Keenan, so I’m…
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Sonic Youth, "Murray St." (2002)
She puts a sign out: out of order. A lot of people have annual 9/11 rituals. My own is the…
September 2023: 25 Songs That Spark Joy
The Life-Changing Magic of Doing Your Friends’ Music Challenges Because I too long for in-group acceptance, I figured I’d participate…
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine: JBL 2023 Abasement Tapes
A playlist for summertime sadness and side-eyeing the rude mechanicals of shifting cosmic currents. I am still on Spotify, primarily…
Iconicity in Flux: Initial Thoughts on Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" (2023)
Spoilers! I am processing the new Barbie movie by Greta Gerwig and I’m sure I’ll be processing it for a…
Godard's "Contempt" (1963, 60th Anniversary 4K Restoration)
danger on the rocks, marriage on the rocks Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris) is back in theaters, an often oppressive…
Young Guns: "Wham!" and "Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy" (2023)
Two very different documentaries that find common ground in similar themes, to varying ends. What did the late film director…
Cheers & Jeers, June 2023
spitting code in a serene brown 1970s office high above West Berlin Cheers Jeers
Pablo Picasso, Constantly Called an Asshole
On this Hannah Gadsby Brooklyn Museum jawn. I haven’t seen “It’s Pablo-matic,” so I can’t review it with any authority….
Tina Turner (1939–2023)
Eighty-three is a full life. Even if it’s gobsmacking to know Kenneth Anger lived to 96 and Marshall Allen celebrates…
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