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

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