I think it's been an incredible year for music, one of the best in a little while. Lots of albums I love couldn't make my top 15 list, but more importantly, there are a ton of albums this year I know I will be revisiting for a long time. Here are my favorites:

"this would've done numbers on Vine" - Van Gogh failing as an artist in his lifetime and going unrecognized

THESE MOD KIDS WILL DANCE TO ANYTHING

Here we go with another timely and relevant piece in our 91st edition. “American Hopeless”by @charliedw.bsky.social‬ feels like the sum total of 2025. What a shit show, right? Read it! Commiserate! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/america...

it's been a minute since I focused on a short story, and it took most of the year to find a home for this one but I am proud to have this picked up by the cool folks at @rfpress.bsky.social Read my upsetting little story if you have the chance! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/america...

As always, RF would like to thank their super talented roster of contributors to this issue - Sacha Bissonnette @sugarpigblog.bsky.social Marc Meierkort, Amy DeBellis, Jess Grant-Domond @charliedw.bsky.social‬ Charlotte Cosgrove @rideforever.bsky.social…

Tryna get it so my IG algorithm is just videos of giant container ships deep out in the ocean. Show me huge waves

My body is unsure how to handle anything that is not earth shatteringly bad news.

When I like a piece of art (like a movie, book, or album), I want people to know how important that is because my tastes and opinions are actually REALLY good. So if I say something is good, I know what I'm talking about

The 6-7 meme is burning too fast and too bright it's unsustainable

Joni Mitchell must've been so stoked when she realized she could rhyme "see 'em" with "museum"

I wrote about what One Battle After Another did to me as a leftist dad feedcharlie.substack.com/p/continuing...

Art literally keeps me alive.

I'm gonna stream on twitch tonight bb

You simply would not believe how many movies I have given 3 stars on letterboxd.

I would like to have totinos pizza rolls soon.

Wow, huge release day for new music today! What are you listening to?

We only have one more can of seltzer left in the fridge things aren't looking great for the rest of the week here

I don't like doing VR because R is already hard enough for me

Wow what a drag

What animals have the highest levels of both cute and scary simultaneously? Bats? Raccoons? Bears? Baby snakes?

It would've been so funny if this was the needle drop during the fight scene in Captain Marvel instead of No Doubt www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru6E...

I don't need a million dollars but I do want like an extra $50 or so to buy records from that weird little place in Brockport

I wish I'd been skateboarding this whole time. I could've been a guy who skateboards but I just didn't

We're so lucky we get to listen to Little Simz' music

I heard Galactus is on the sea world diet where he see world and he eat it

I also love price is right

I love the New York Knicks.

Wild day for weirdos like me. A two hour album from Swans and also new Miley Cyrus?? (Plus Ty Segall, Aesop Rock, illuminati hotties, etc....)

I just typed "silhouette" correctly on the first try for the first time in my life I think

Cut my life into pieces, this is

Blue wizard needs food badly

Going to get a tattoo of Brasso, working class revolutionary hero

I have not been a TV guy the last few years, but now Andor, Righteous Gemstones and the Rehearsal all have new seasons going on. I am currently a TV guy

I feel like it has never been more Thursday than it is right now

made the switch to Tidal a few months ago, and I was so happy this morning to find that Relatively Clean Rivers is available there! This lovely little album has been missing from Spotify for years, another reason to make the jump 😈

I haven't had time to watch Oppenheimer yet but it is possible I will watch the Switch 2 direct three times today.

I kinda like how this app never shows me posts from today. Sort of quaint. It's like checking the newspaper in the morning or getting a telegram.

I've now listened to 10 albums from 2025 that I liked enough to put on my "best of the year so far list." Am I too granular here in making a distinction between experimental hip hop and abstract hip hop? Maybe! We're freewheelin it Good year for music already I think!

I watched THIEF (1981) the other day and I truly cannot get over the fact that it's Michael Mann's first feature! If most movies looked even a quarter as good as that we would be sitting pretty.

getting so close to the end of a first draft it's getting kinda nerve-wracking.

today I listened to two albums that I think will be on my top 10 for the year (Monde UFO and the new one from Cheekface, they are the best) and I also published an essay on substack about how funny Barry Lyndon is.

It's staggering to think about how much time I have spent grocery shopping in my life

Tell you what: I'm overwhelmed!

Wake up babe,

Tonight I shed a tear watching Hungrybox win the smash bros melee tournament

Less than a minute into the new Horsegirl album and I'm calling it: this is album of the year

is the indie lit scene on here yet? I used to follow so many lit mags on (the other website). Gotta find em again. read my dumb sci fi book about what if the apocalypse was boring and we all still had jobs.

Friday night I am going to crack open a beer, play the new No Man's Sky update, and just have a very good time.

Well, let's go Philly I guess