Ari Aster is the demonic successor to David O. Russell?

couldn't finish my pulled pork mac and cheese

For the latest Cover Me, I talked to Greg Mendez about studying art at Drexel, Twink from Paper Mario, and his lovely new album, Beauty Land www.pastemagazine.com/music/greg-m...

just ruined my day by realizing my Last.FM hasnt been tracking my listening for a while now

Here it is: No Expectations' midyear list. I wrote about 40 of my favorite albums of 2026 so far. www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-40-bes...

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Wrote about Boots Riley and how Im learning to love his cartoonish chaos despite me wanting so much more from him seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/f... #ILoveBoosters, #FilmReview

thinking about the nuns at the Spurs game last night

wrote about Friko being the young saviors of bombastic indie rock and the endless possibilities of youthful earnestness seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/a... #AlbumReview, #Friko

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all I wanna do is watch basketball man

talking to my TV like a real 32 year old NBA fan

imagining an alternate universe where America becomes a country 10 years sooner and Philly chooses 67ers as their name unaware of the meme to come

every day im faced with the time crunched decision of whether I should read or watch a movie and most the time the answer is YouTube

*Stan Van Gundy voice*: to be Giannis

wrote about always underrating Ratboys, trascending bad album art, bedroom pop perfection, splattershot genius, Mitski, perpetual recovery, deathcrash crashing beautifully, Ovven, David Berman's influence, and why your number 10 pick is always important seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t...

whenever im trying to do something with one hand my first thought is always "they should make things easier to do with one hand"

Without further ado, here is the third annual Series Awards (and only a week and a half late!). seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/t... #OneBattleAfterAnother, #TrainDreams, #TheTestamentofAnnLee, #MartySupreme, #BlueMoon,#Eddington, #ItWasJustanAccident, #Bugonia,#28YearsLater, #TheShrouds

Everything All the Time? More like… Everything (that’s on this album is music I could listen to) All the Time! I wrote about the 20th anniversary of one of my favorite records ever made. For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

is there anything more annoying than a button up shirt without a front pocket

ever since the NBA decided to get greedy with the length of their highlight videos Ive felt more unconnected to the league than ever before

Im always proud myself when I abandon writing a 10 minute reponse on Reddit

my all time favorite critics are the contrarian metalheads on Encyclopedia Metallum

i can feel my death metal days coming back

wrote about how hot Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie are seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/f... #WutheringHeights, #EmeraldFennell, #FilmReview

is Camper Van Beethoven the original Vampire Weekend

measuring time with 2 hour movies and 30 minute Joyce Manor albums

Writing ranked lists can feel like a hot-dog-eating contest at times, so please respect @bilgeebiri.bsky.social for a 32 (!!!)-film WUTHERING HEIGHTS list that includes a contemporary high-school take from the producers of SHARKNADO. You're required to subscribe IMO: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

Went ahead and wrote 2500 words on 19 minute album 😎 seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/a... #JoyceManor, #AlbumReview

lol the grammys were this weekend??

the NBA All-Star game should just be all the the Jalens--Brown, Brunson, Duren, Johnson, Williams, etc--vs everyone else

*rubs hands together menancingly*

Wrote about how Dry Cleaning seem more vulnerable than ever on their new album and how that vulnerability doesn't sacrifice the wit or traditionalism thats always made them great #DryCleaning seriouslistener.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...

all passion no street smarts

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