My writing week with Spectrum Culture started with a look backward. Our Revisit series cycles through all the music writers, and my turn came up. I always have an extremely difficult time figuring out what to write on for this feature, usually defaulting to an album I know inside out. This time, that meant a few words on my favorite Billy Bragg album.

For the film reviews, I wrote on new horror movie, directed by Katie Asleton and written by her husband, Mark Duplass. I thought it was solid, though I should note that the person in our household with far more expertise on such material extends it a rave. Given the involvement of one-half of the filmmaking Duplass brothers, I’ll admit I was a little disappointed that it didn’t have the deconstructionist verve of their earlier Baghead, but I’m quick to concede that it’s important to primarily consider films in the context of what they are rather than what I might want them to be.