what would Darvin Ham do JJ

young and full of beans

I keep thinking about how my 3 favorite films from last year--Anora, Dune: Part Two, and Nickel Boys--all kind of feel like the best films of the decade so far and its not even really close?

Armond White might be the worst critic I've ever read

Maxey such a bucket

Wrote about underrating Wednesday, being a Crutchfield disciple, the risk of blowing up, bleep blop music, Kentucky poetry, Vermont poetry, using emo energy to fight capitalism, a new emo genre, accepting sadness, and the return of rock star saviours seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t...

"None of these things are the least bit ahistorical, and all of them have been made incalculably worse by a world that seeks to seal its crimes in a bubble — to disguise its worst sins behind a supposed lack of precedent." www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

thinking about getting back into funeral doom

lowkey Avatar is sick af

Long Island rapper-producer Theravada is a healthy skeptic. On his standout album 'The Years We Have', The collapse of empire isn’t enough to scare him—he’ll be here, Maharishi sweatpants on, ready to shoot basketballs through your complacency.

why the fuck do I care so much about the Na'vi how does James Cameron do it

"...thanks to his fondness for oblique storytelling, poetic voice-over, and overt spiritual themes, Malick’s oeuvre has become one of the more contentious in cinema. Each new release inspires debate over whether the film at hand is a deep, philosophical masterpiece or boring, pretentious drivel."

wrote about Brooksian magic, boomer optimism, and why some artist's messes are better than others #EllaMcCay, #JamesL.Brooks, #FilmReview seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/f...

I dont think anyone's been as perfectly cast as Naomi Watts is in King Kong

Gary Trent Jr and Kevin Porter Jr might as well be the same players to me

look I get (but disagree with) the view that ranking things can get pedantic and therefore lists should be alphabetized, but having a list of 100 albums with no ranking and no blurbs is just straight up crazy town

Up to 13 lists on the Album of the Year spreadsheet, please use it to inform your Bandcamp Friday purchases:

On the occasion of Jeff Bridges's birthday, I'm reposting my Hollywood Reporter interview with him and Karen Allen, all about John Carpenter's STARMAN: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The best documentaries of the year included a sprawling odyssey of the Black experience, independent journalists fighting back in Russia, the life of a bullfighter, a deep dive into the video-store era, meta dissections of true crime, and much more.

Hamlet is kinda hammy but its also kinda secretly about artistic death giving way to artistic growth seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/f...

ah yes, list season, where I frantically try to listen to 15 new R&B albums before the year ends

Lakers defense making Collin Gillespie look like Devin Booker rn

I totally thought Sword II and Full Body 2 were the same band

Just got hustled by some mariachis

the new Jay Som sounds like oklou

Netflix deciding to only put Wake Up Dead Man and Jay Kelly in random theaters seems...bad

you can tell I'm single because I spent the whole morning debating whether to buy Magic cards or a Wishy shirt

even though it still has one of the ugliest album covers of the year, I think I'm finally coming around to the new Big Thief album. I feel it man!

50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻

"...there is a strange beauty to... the movie’s imagery: a lymphatic system splayed on a wooden board...like the veins of a leaf; an early test subject crumpled across a table, in a gentle posture of submission; and the pallid, muscly power of the Creature himself..." larsenonfilm.com/frankenstein-2

you gotta find the right banana bunch

Uncut Gems-like bet on Wemby NOT getting the tip off

seeing Kelly Oubre become such a better Sixer is genuinely heartening

Andy Milonakis meets ILoveMakonnen

rewind and refine

why can't I stop listening to Geess

Wrote about feeling like a perpetual 22 year old, DIY magic, slowcore studies, folk poetry, 2010s R&B, good and bad experimental music, shoegaze studies, hype-regret, countrified poetry, and why Wednesday is important for my third quarter list of 2025 💫 seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a...

WENDY AND LUCY director Kelly Reichardt interviewed by filmmaker Todd Haynes at BOMB Magazine. bombmagazine.org/articles/199...

wrote about the most influential emo band of the last 20 years reuniting and being exactly that: the most influential emo band of the last 20 years 😭 #AlgernonCadawallader, #AlbumReview seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/a...

with Dijon, Blood Orange, and Nourished by Time all floating around a certain indie R&B fan is eating GOOD rn

I generally don't mind that theaters have switched to reserved seating but once in a while someone will snag my usual spot a day ahead of time and all I can do is respect the flex that they also reserve their seats way too early

Greg Freeman is your favorite alt-country artist's favorite artist seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/a... #GregFreeman, #AlbumReview

It was my pleasure to write about a new Spike Lee joint, a film unfortunately being buried by its limited release. Yay for streaming! seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/f...

The Coen brothers changed my life. I can’t believe how bad Ethan’s movies are.

“These two films, with their fast-talking dames, cheerful vulgarity, twisty crime plots, and juicy supporting characters could’ve very well been Coen Brothers pictures… if they were just a little smarter and a little funnier,” @jasondashbailey.com writes. crookedmarquee.com/review-honey...

TFW you need a new hydroflask but all your good stickers are on your old one

"...Davis drifts from one studied and devastating observation to another, like a prophet suspicious of his own prophecy; and his songs’ longform structures, segueing from bridge to bridge and only sparingly returning to familiar melodic anchors, mirror his existential disorientation."

Every new Alex G album is my new favorite Alex G album

These BCNR lyric videos have done a good job at reminding me that A. Albums dont just disappear once theyre released and B. There are actually still fun and creative ways to promote your music even in our current internet hellscape youtu.be/3JxCnXFCW_U?...

Wrote about Cannes expectations, the blurring of the personal of the universal, right-wing extremism, left-wing capitulation, AI, performative social justice and virtually every other problem confronted in Eddington #AriAster, #Eddington, #FilmReview seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/f...