Outside Reading — After the Boys of Summer Have Gone edition
MLB Is Crumbling. Blame the Owners by Stephanie Apstein I’ve a fan of baseball since I was a kid, when WGN’s afternoon airings of Chicago Cubs games hooked me. But I’ve also been highly aware for many years that the … Continue reading Outside Reading — After the Boys of Summer Have Gone edition
This Week’s Model — Public Enemy, “State of the Union (STFU)”
I cede the floor to some individuals who’ve been explaining the real deal for thirty-five years. Continue reading This Week’s Model — Public Enemy, “State of the Union (STFU)”
Now Playing — Da 5 Bloods
If there’s one thing that’s absolutely certain about a project that was developed by Oliver Stone and then given to Spike Lee to rework, it’s that the resulting film is not going to lack for ideas or ambition. Da 5 … Continue reading Now Playing — Da 5 Bloods
Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Thirty
#30 — The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019) The best movies sit and resonate with a viewer, as if taking up permanent residence in the soul. Even as I write that, I understand the sentimental is almost unbearably syrupy, instilling in … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Thirty
Then Playing — The Innocents; Marshall; Things to Come
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961). A horror movie that favors spooky atmosphere over jolting shocks, The Innocents is adapted from the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw. Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) takes a position as a governess at … Continue reading Then Playing — The Innocents; Marshall; Things to Come
My Misspent Youth: Iron Man by Denny O’Neil and Luke McDonnell
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. When I first started obsessively hunting down comic books with the … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Iron Man by Denny O’Neil and Luke McDonnell
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #497 to #495
497. Rain Parade, Explosions in the Glass Palace (1984) Following their well-regarded debut album, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, Rain Parade began to splinter. Most notably, band cofounder David Roback formally departed, evidently weary of jostling with the group’s other … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #497 to #495
Outside Reading — The Fire This Time edition
America, This is Your Chance by Michelle Alexander Well, this is the article I’ve been waiting for. There are few people more qualified to comment on this particular moment in U.S. history than Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Fire This Time edition
This Week’s Model — Leon Bridges, “Sweeter”
It’s probably unnecessarily reductive and comparative to note that “Sweeter” represents a sign that Leon Bridges is about to move into the What’s Going On phase of his career. But that’s what I finding myself thinking as I listen to … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Leon Bridges, “Sweeter”
Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Thirty-One
#31 — Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) A common failing of first-time feature directors is a tendency to put every last notion they have into a film that can’t possibly hold them all. The opportunity to make a full-length movie … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Thirty-One
Coffee for Two 