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

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...