So much of it is the title and the album art. In April 2008, Yellow Swans announced they would break up, in June 2008 they played their final show and in March 2010 they released their final album. Some conclusions become consequential with time, when it becomes clear that thing
The season one cast photo for Boy Meets World has all of our favorite characters. There's the five members of the Matthews family, the Hunter boy young Cory is so fond of, what's his first name? Shawn? and local hard-ass teacher Mr. Feeny. But who'
Sometimes you're with an artist for life. Whatever else he does, whatever missteps he may make along the way, I will take the time to watch what David Bruckner directs. His last two features were 2020's The Night House, which I liked well enough and the
The first time I read Why Did Pete Duel Kill Himself?, I didn't know Duel was a real person until the book's end. I can't fully explain why that elevated a great comic to one I end up reading every time I'm
I'm thinking, today, about BARR. Has anybody been able to discover BARR in the past decade-and-a-half? Beatrix Fowler's website is down, her record label, the great 5 Rue Christine, hasn't been active since 2007, around when she released her incredible album Summary. That record
Last week, I saw Godspeed You! Black Emperor live on Tuesday, for what was the sixth or seventh time, watched the new movie 28 Years Later on Thursday, for what was the first of what will probably be many times and watched 85% of Grizzly Man on Saturday, for the
content warning: there's going to be talk of murder, assault and dismemberment, unfortunately I'm going to touch on a case I've thought about for a decade but haven't written about in a substantial way because the research is pretty hard to come
5. "This Dust Makes That Mud" by Liars, which closes their album They Threw Us All In A Trench And Put A Monument On Top This is a weird one with a few asterisks. "This Dust Makes That Mud," the last track on Liars' debut
"It sorta starts off real slow and then fizzles out altogether." Neil Young said that on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young live album 4 Way Street, introducing the song “Don’t Let It Bring You Down.” The version of that song on that record is three minutes
In 2005, for reasons that justify my use of the passive voice here, I found myself in Arlington National Cemetery, watching the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, surrounded by 40-50 other high school kids. We stood in long, tight lines, watching a soldier march
For the past few years, I've "worked with" (read: "sat back and watched") two of my favorite directors, Brett Whitcomb and Bradford Thomason, as they made a documentary. In the planning stages, it was one thing and then it was another thing and then
The list of new movies I wanted to see in 2024 is, as usual, three or four times as long as the list of new movies I actually watched last year. If you've already seen every movie you've ever wanted to, you probably don't