Grammy nominations for Best Rock Album: • Turnstile - What If Hardcore But Boring • Eric Clapton - The Vaccine Stole M'Trousers, Innit? • Bon Iver - SM∞K∑D S@LM◊N 4 SₐL∑∑∑∑∑ • Haim - Millennial Music Your Dad Will Like • Bono's audiobook • Black Pumas - Album That Definitely Exists

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of support. I need to pay rent, and I launched a GoFundMe spot.fund/LahutRentFund

Vice (2018) isn't a good movie, exactly, but it is a movie that dares to ask: What if the dead person whose heart became Dick Cheney's heart knew that their heart was inside Dick Cheney?

my ex and i played a game called Ratfinder when we lived in New York. if we were out and about and one person spotted a rat before the other, they got a point, and whoever had the most points when one of us died would be the winner. she was a good 60 rats ahead when we split up

Some fellow Jews feel "unsafe" (a near-meaningless word at this point) because the city elected a Muslim mayor who believes that Palestinians deserve human rights and I don't know what reality these people live in.

Andrew Cuomo is an average nobody. He gets to live the rest of his life like a schnook.

Keeping Andrew Cuomo's passionate base* in my thoughts *NYC landlords who weren't eligible to vote in the election because they live in New Jersey

Sliwa just gave the kind of concession speech you would expect to hear from a revolutionary leader facing a firing squad

In Gracie Mansion, Eric Adams is cheering himself up by watching a VHS tape of the concert where Curtis Mayfield got paralyzed by falling lighting equipment.

A millennial male mayor of New York? He's supposed to be standing up to the real estate lobby, not out here having opinions about Real Estate albums.

When Trump refers to NYC as "my beloved first home," I recall the time the entire city erupted in cheers and literal dancing in the streets the moment the 2020 election was called for Biden, a spontaneous explosion of citywide joy reminiscent of the end of World War II.

some news: i'm affected by this round of layoffs at paste so my last day will be nov. 14. it really sucks to have this happen right before the holidays. now looking for full-time and part-time work opportunities so please reach out if you have any leads

Young Sheldon fame aside, Wallace Shawn is the only 81-year-old Jewish man I know of who's spent the last two years rallying against the genocide in Gaza and canvassing for Zohran alongside fired-up Zoomers. A true generational traitor.

i did not say i "fear" the reaper dude, i just said i think it's annoying that there's a reaper

As a kid, I only knew Dustin Hoffman as "the bad guy in Hook"

this story just keeps getting better

I'm making a movie about the recording of a folk album called Nebraska. It's set in a near-future utopian society where Sufjan Stevens finally completes the 50 States Project.

Only twelve people saw Pixies live in 1989, but all twelve of them later became adjunct professors of media studies who wrote a 33 1/3 book.

Today at The Reveal, I rank the nine films of Kelly Reichardt, which range from very very good to outstanding, because she's just that consistent. The list is really just an excuse to take stock of a brilliant career that almost wasn't. thereveal.film/worst-to-bes...

Back in 2020, I profiled a random Long Island dad named Bill DeBlasio, who constantly received vicious hate mail intended for Bill de Blasio. This is the same guy who just pranked The Times of London into publishing anti-Zohran quotes from Mayor de Blasio. God, I miss MEL Magazine.

Wasn't David Dinkins also a democratic socialist?

I've noticed this too—zoomers and boomers are hooked on ChatGPT and trust it completely, while thirty- and forty-somethings are the most skeptical cohort. Granted, I know a lot of writers, which is a skewed sample.

I wrote a feature on musicians with OCD for Uproxx. Give it a read if you’ve time

Wow!! The worm that lives in RFK Jr.'s brain has just been hired as deputy editor of CBS News.

Thank you, Genius, very helpful

Good morning. Over at @pitchfork.com, I reviewed the new Antlers record, a concept album about environmental collapse that lacks the urgency and anger such a subject demands. I wish I liked this album more.

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning

Honestly can't believe I'm seeing Fiery Furnaces tonight. I've waited 20 years. Here's something I wrote about "EP" earlier this year.

If I was a famous rock star, I would introduce every cover song by declaring, "This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We’re stealing it back!" Doesn't matter what song it is—Weezer cover, Duran Duran cover, whatever. Same introduction.

The reunion of the Gallagher Brothers exhausted so much cosmic sibling energy that it ricocheted through spacetime and broke up the Wachowski Sisters, the Safdie Brothers, and the Coen Brothers

Zohran's closing message is like "I want to make the city more affordable" and Cuomo's closing message is like "9/11 was what we call a Disgraziata! If it happened again, Zohran would be smoking weed in his RENT-CONTROLLED APARTMENT which is TOO AFFORDABLE by the way."

Woke president destroys mansion built by slaves.

Divers came out 10 years ago. A whole-ass decade of waiting in vain for a new Joanna Newsom album. Now I know what it was like to be a Vashti Bunyan fan in the '80s.

A horror movie about all the ghosts that live in the White House being awakened by the demolition of the East Wing and coming after Trump for revenge. OK, maybe this isn't horror—

David Bowie was right, I do wonder sometimes about sound and vision

Frantically commenting "First!" on Pitchfork's 0.0 review of Liz Phair's self-titled album

I miss when millennials had normal, nonproblematic tattoos, like the Kanye bear or their favorite Hogwarts House. 📢 📢 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄. 📢 📢

You can either have a Nazi tattoo or you can dance shirtless at your brother's wedding, you really gotta pick one or the other here.

I reviewed the wonderful new album from Léna Bartels.

"Angsty Gen X movie" used to mean, like, Reality Bites. Now "Angsty Gen X movie" seems to mean "Overwrought drama about a middle-aged academic who's mad about trigger warnings and coddled youth and doesn't know how to use they/them pronouns." Anyway, I saw After the Hunt.

I've been laughing at musician quotes in press releases for at least a decade now, but I don't think anything will ever beat my favorite one of all time: Pete Wentz saying "I am stoked to collaborate with Nordstrom"

Daniel Day-Lewis came out of retirement to star in his son's movie, which gives me an incredible idea. Does anyone have Jack Nicholson's son's number

Ace Frehley was 43 years old when Weezer namechecked him on The Blue Album, the same age that St. Vincent is now.

When people talk about AI video generators being a tool of fascism, this is what they mean. We live in an era of videos that have no artistic or aesthetic value whatsoever, just pure vulgar propagandistic value.

Saw Ava Luna last night for the first time since 2019. What a magnificent band; so glad they're back.

billy corgan hearing pavement's "range life": they shall pay for their insolence!! stone temple pilots hearing pavement's "range life": hell yeah we're elegant bachelors, pass me my smoking jacket

Scenes from midtown Manhattan earlier today

A protest sign that says "No kings except King PU$$Y Eater"

For History.com, I wrote about the most memorable film depictions of Frankenstein, going all the way back to 1910. (Did you know Thomas Edison produced a silent-film Frankenstein movie in 1910? I did not.)