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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #65 to #63

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This Week’s Model — Drugdealer, “Lip Service”

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Medium Rotation — The Waeve; New York City

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Everything Everywhere All the Oscars

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #68 to #66

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Outside Reading — The Balcony Is Closed edition

March 18, 2023 Dan Seeger

Critic, Critique Thyself by A.O. Scott I think A.O. Scott is a good film critic. I also think he’s great at writing about being a film critic. Upon the announcement that he’s stepping down from the co-lead position assessing the … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Balcony Is Closed edition

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Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Superman”

March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 Dan Seeger

These posts are about the songs that fell just short of crossing the key line of chart success, entering the Billboard Top 40. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 41. After being raised in Brooklyn, New York, … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Near Misses — “Superman”

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The Art of the Sell — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels teaser trailer

March 14, 2023 Dan Seeger

These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. I’m sometimes nostalgic for the era when I could be surprised by a trailer the first time … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels teaser trailer

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Outside Reading — Cognitive Dissonance edition

March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Dan Seeger

It’s Not About Hypocrisy by Laura Wagner Reminding me of my favorite McSweeney’s article, Laura Wagner writes about the the proud left-wing elation in response to Jon Stewart’s recent interview with a Republican lawmaker from Oklahoma. A clip made the … Continue reading Outside Reading — Cognitive Dissonance edition

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This Week’s Model — Ratboys, “Black Earth, WI”

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Dan Seeger

Back Earth, Wisconsin is a village located in the western portion of Dane County, around twenty-five miles from the state capital. The 2010 census tallied the population at just a few dozen residents over thirteen hundred. It is the home … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Ratboys, “Black Earth, WI”

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Twenty Performances, or Gach rud i ngach áit go léir ag an am céanna

March 9, 2023 Dan Seeger

Having completed the process of sharing my own humble views on the top ten movies of the most recent cinematic year, there’s one more bit of business that Coffee for Two tradition dictates before Hollywood hands out shiny prizes on … Continue reading Twenty Performances, or Gach rud i ngach áit go léir ag an am céanna

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Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number One

March 8, 2023 Dan Seeger

Calum (Paul Mescal) is on holiday with his tween daughter, Sophie (Frankie Corio). It’s clear that the relationship between Sophie’s parents is over in a way that is somewhere between fraught and sensitive, and this trip to Turkey has a … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number One

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Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number Two

March 7, 2023 Dan Seeger

There is so much happening in Everything Everywhere All at Once that the premise that partnered filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert might ever make another feature together almost defies belief. What ideas, themes, gags, and sparks of narrative invention … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number Two

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The Unwatchables — Blonde

March 6, 2023March 7, 2023 Dan Seeger

Perhaps the blame starts with Joyce Carol Oates. The prolific author of soullessly precise prose wrote the engine block–sized novel that writer director Andrew Dominik adapted into the film Blonde. Oates’s book of the same name is a fictionalized telling … Continue reading The Unwatchables — Blonde

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College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #71 to #69

March 5, 2023 Dan Seeger

71. Eurythmics, Be Yourself Tonight (1985) After achieving international pop chart success in the first half of the nineteen-eighties, Eurythmics experienced their first real career stumble with the album 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother). The duo, comprised of … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #71 to #69

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