Kept all my VHS tapes, CD’s & DVD’s for a reason…

Starting a rumor that the smoke is Odyssey viral marketing, turning everything sepia and invoking burning cities in ancient war

It is very surreal that I can now say I've written a booklet essay for a Criterion Collection release. It was an absolute joy to work with everyone at the company. You can read the essay now on their website: www.criterion.com/current/post...

For what it's worth, here's Sam Neill's list of his 20 favorite songs: www.twopaddocks.com/top-10-tunes.... (He made a separate one for the Beach Boys.)

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

This "Radio Not Radio" show features Ibeyi, Hanbee, Bia Soull/d. silvestre, Faye Wong, Vi, Cold Riot, Pomelo, Madonna, F/i, Sleep, Trad Gras och Stenar, Odyssey Cult, Selda, Vince Staples, Matt Proxy, mary sue, Maiya The Don, Parallel Thought, Paris, Patricia Brennan/Sylvie Courvoisier, etc.

Go swimming with the orcas on my latest episode of "Radio Not Radio": www.mixcloud.com/callinamagic.... Take off to art pop, psych and hip-hop!

For Gay City News, I wrote about Lino Brocka's 1988 MACHO DANCER, currently being re-released in the U.S. : gaycitynews.com/macho-dancer...

In @screenslate.bsky.social , I wrote about the Japanese cult kid's film REX: A DINOSAUR STORY, playing "Japan Cuts": www.screenslate.com/articles/rex...

For @slantmagazine.com , I reviewed Kelela's excellent NEW AVATAR, which came out today: www.slantmagazine.com/music/kelela...

“Long before liminal spaces became a buzzword, ‘The Hole’ transformed Taiwan into one,” @callinamagician.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/raindrops-ke...

RIP Bonnie Tyler. This is one of the best songs of the '80s, and one of the most batshit videos of the period. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOx...

Insomnia and anxiety are kicking my ass this morning.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

In my July music roundup for Gay City News, I reviewed the deluxe edition of Wet Leg's MOISTURIZER and Lido Pimienta's CARIBENYA: gaycitynews.com/july-lgbtq-m...

Seems like a slow month for new films.

For @theartsfuse.bsky.social 's July "Short Fuses" column, I reviewed new albums by Sha Ray X DJ Haram and Cinder Well: artsfuse.org/330859/july-.... (Scroll halfway down the page to "Popular Music.")

BEST FIRST-TIME WATCHES IN JUNE PT. 2: THE SPOOKY BUNCH (Ann Hui) TURTLE VISION (Hisayasu Sato) THE WORLD CUP IN RECIFE (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

BEST FIRST-TIME WATCHES IN JUNE PT. 1: CULLODEN (Peter Watkins) THE LAST DAYS OF GOMORRAH (Helma Sanders-Brahms) OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO (Terry Chiu) THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H.B. (Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto) THE PRESENT (Joe Hsieh) REMAKE (Ross McElwee)

Today's Supreme Court decision was enabled by liberals and media pundits who've spent the last few years claiming trans girls and women athletes are a serious threat to cis women. The editors of the NY Times and the Atlantic must be celebrating this morning.

MY FAVORITE JUNE SINGLES PT. 2: K-Rosif featuring Bigda & LNG-“Les Chabines” Ravyn Lenae-“Saturday Night” Malcolm featuring Krys-“Chalé” Bruk Rogers featuring Roberta Silva & Onj-“Lua” Sleep-“Have Spacesuit Will Travel” Wet Leg-“CPR (horsegiiRL remix)”

MY FAVORITE JUNE SINGLES PT. 1: Alewya-“Maktoub” Baba Zula-“Kutsal Zeytin Halayi” Ana Luia Caiano-“Um Vida E Menos” Cortis-“Redred” Jesse Draxler featuring Lord Spikeheart and Hybrid Intuition-“Traap Number 9” Earthsignchels-“Daddy Died”

MY FAVORITE JUNE ALBUMS PT. 3: Sha Ray X DJ Haram-CRITICAL THOT Bia Soull-PORNOGRAFIA AUDITIVA Vince Staples-CRY BABY mary sue-RAPIHALER Warning-RITUALS OF SHAME Tierra Whack-WHACK’S MUSEUM

MY FAVORITE JUNE ALBUMS PT. 2: Mary Halvorson & Ambrose Akinmusire-SLO-MO NEON LUMINATE HOVERRINGS Horse Lords-DEMAND TO BE TAKEN TO HEAVEN ALIVE Ibeyi-OFFERING KOGG-MECHANISTA Various Artists-MZANSI BASS Miles Okazaki-BOOMTOWN Olivia Rodrigo-YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL IN LOVE

MY FAVORITE JUNE ALBUMS PT. 1: Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier-TALAMANTI Cinder Well-A BLOOMING BODY Cocanha-FLAME FOLCLORE Alison Cotton-THE GODS LAUGH Converge-HUM OF HURT Earthball-ACTUAL EARTH MUSIC VOLUMES 3 & 4 Feeble Little Horse-BITKNOT

This one features Gilberto Gil, Space Afrika, KOGG, Cinder Well, Gaika, Mohamed Bouroissa, Shannen SP/HENNYBELIT, MXKA, Mary Halvorson/Ambrose Akinmusire, Sun Ra, EarthBall, Jake Muir, Alison Cotton, Phil Niblock/William Hooker/David Soldier/David First, Chris Watson, Lénok, Warning and Forsman.

Take off to tropicalia, doom folk, field recordings of humpback whales and a pachinko parlor, free improv-psych-jazz and more with my latest episode of "Radio Not Radio": www.mixcloud.com/callinamagic...

@slantmagazine.com has just published its list of the best albums released so far in 2026. I wrote blurbs on Raye, Kacey Musgraves, My New Band Believe, Bill Orcutt & Mabe Frattti and Genesis Owusu: www.slantmagazine.com/music/the-be...

It always baffles me how many people presume some kind of inherent sanity/virtuousness in proximity to an imagined median political opinion. First of all, we're dealing with a complex matrix, not a single spectrum. But more importantly (and obviously I think) positions have moral value in themselves

@callinamagician.bsky.social on "Two Prosecutors": The power of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film stems from its deep repugnance at an acceptance of the aesthetic and moral poverty of dictatorship. Steaming on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social artsfuse.org/326475/film-...

Ugh. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Second, my review of LEVITICUS: gaycitynews.com/leviticus-ga...

Gay City News just published two of my film reviews. First up, my take on MADDIE'S SECRET: gaycitynews.com/maddies-secr...

The Criterion Channel's July lineup features Jonathan Demme, Mexican cabaret, Harry Dean Stanton, and—the best addition they've made this year?—all 17 episodes of The Prisoner:

In my latest music roundup for Gay City News, I reviewed upcoming albums by Downtown Boys and Andrew Sa: gaycitynews.com/june-music-l... @bloodshotrecords.bsky.social @subpop.bsky.social

Need to take a break for a couple days as my migraines returned last night, but more scans are coming! 😉 Until then, please help me by spreading the word about rarefilmm, over 3700 films available to stream for free! rarefilmm.com

If Armie Hammer wants a second chance, he can return to selling timeshares or work another ordinary job. (His podcast flopped.) Did his publicist write the Hollywood Reporter article?

@callinamagician.bsky.social on "Rose of Nevada" --in Mark Jenkin's Cornish folk-horror reverie, sound and image eclipse story, evoking the erosion of community and the fragility of working-class life. artsfuse.org/330243/film-...

This one features music by DNA, Cocanha, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Ornette Coleman, Sha Ray X DJ Haram, Tierra Whack, Ian Dury, Suicidas, the Flesh Eaters, Genesis Owusu, Abstract Tribe Unique, Man, White Heaven, Horse Lords, Rump State, Louise Huebner, Myaap, Mark Jenkin, Trim, DJ Screw, Ydrus, etc.

Let the latest episode of "Radio Not Radio," also airing on Red Berry Radio, put you under a spell, with punk, hip-hop and psych: www.mixcloud.com/callinamagic...

Top 3 concepts marketing has ruined: Queer joy Vulnerability Empowerment (Boy, do I get a lot of Pride-related press releases!)

surreal to see all the clerics with their phones out

In Gay City News, I wrote about Silas Howard and Harry Dodge's BY HOOK OR BY CROOK: gaycitynews.com/by-hook-or-b.... Its re-release opens Friday @anthologyfilm.bsky.social .

In "Disclosure Day," writes @callinamagician.bsky.social, director #StevenSpielberg revisits extraterrestrial wonder with technical virtuosity, but his media-age fable drifts into sentimentality and soft-focus optimism. artsfuse.org/330001/film-...

Soemthing like 15 years ago my friend Josh asked me, "Do you want to join Mr. Bungle?" and I said, "... what?" and he said, "I'm reforming Mr. Bungle with no original members. No one has ever stolen a band before." This rules.

I had a rather mixed reaction to DISCLOSURE DAY, whose real subject is nostalgia for the monoculture, not the existence of aliens. My review's now up at artsfuse.org/330001/film-...