This Week’s Model — Petey and Miya Folick, “Haircut”
“Just scroll through my feed to see a history of emotional haircuts,” Miya Folick offers as explanation for why she immediately connected to the song started and offered to her by her musical collaborator Petey. Including an invocation of “a … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Petey and Miya Folick, “Haircut”
Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number Ten
Spike Lee had a template to work from when he agreed to direct a film version of David Byrne’s Broadway sensation, American Utopia. Even if there’s arguably too much theatrical staging to the more recent work to call a screen … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number Ten
Top Ten Movies of 2020 — An Introduction
As I type this, it’s been over a year since I set foot in a movie theater. That’s a strange, discombobulating fact for me to set straight in my noggin. Although I’ve hardly kept up the pace of my college … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2020 — An Introduction
The New Releases Shelf — Ignorance
Ignorance, the fifth and latest album from the Weather Station, is luxuriant and enveloping. Chiefly the handiwork of Tamara Lindeman, the album melds together tried-and-true folk rock with oblique pop trappings and splinters of jazz to create songs that sound … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Ignorance
Now Playing — Nomadland
When journalist Jessica Bruder toiled away on her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, I doubt a big-screen adaptation felt like a probably outcome. Bruder’s reportage was on a modern brand of itinerant living, practiced especially by older … Continue reading Now Playing — Nomadland
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #389 to #387
389. New Order, Substance (1987) The moment for the titans of college radio to break on through to the mainstream was at hand, or so it seemed. During the spring of 1987, U2 elbowed their way past the likes of … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #389 to #387
Outside Reading — Lone Star State of Disaster edition
Texas Could Have Kept the Lights On by Richard Parker Texas Republicans like to obsessively point out problems at the border, but I have a feeling they’ll remain silent about the state line–related emergency pictures above. The middle of the … Continue reading Outside Reading — Lone Star State of Disaster edition
This Week’s Model — Esther Rose, “Good Time”
I don’t it’s accurate to say that my immediate affection for Esther Rose’s new track, “Good Time,” can be chalked up to the fact that the song was reportedly inspired by a long, misfortune-laden road trip that originated in my … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Esther Rose, “Good Time”
Laughing Matters — Yo La Tengo, “Sugarcube”
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. To the degree that … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Yo La Tengo, “Sugarcube”
My Misspent Youth — What If? #35 by Frank Miller
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. There have been several previous instances when I enthused about What … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — What If? #35 by Frank Miller
Coffee for Two 