and five years later, I finished it

Thrilled to get to help kick off the local launch event for this great (and very upsetting lol) book, Minneapolis crew, turn out on May 19 😤🕯

was so fun putting this together—hope to see everyone turn out for some cinema amidst the ruins!

Poster for Saturday night's screening of PINK FLAMINGOS that I'm hosting at the Heights Theater Come be my kind of people (and not the other kind 😉) ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/640...

hi folks! a year of successful freelancing has left me with a bit of a tax burden, so here's a general plug for my substack. 5/month or 30/year gets you a new article from me every week, plus access to nearly a full year of archives. subscribe here! capybaroness.substack.com/welcome

For @thequietus.com, had an utterly fantastic time chatting with xenofeminist noise rock duo Guttersnipe about their brilliant new album—their first in 8 years—and its ties to embodied cognition, crisis energy, and the joys of looking at and squirming around with the worms

It's always a blast to see Waters in an animated theater, and I'm especially thrilled to host Pink Flamingos, one of the wildest and most outrageous films ever made Preroll/intro from me, PLUS I'll have some copies of Waters' screenplays (including the unmade sequel Flamingos Forever) for sale 👀

THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!!! Have you gotten your tickets yet?? If filth is your politics and filth is your life, come out to the Twin Cities' filthiest film screening of 2026!

just one guy! just one dog star man. or woman! we don't really know . . . for sure.

Finally wrote about a critical film reading I've been stewing on for years: HEAT (1995) is the closest thing we've ever gotten to an original work of filmmaking that understands the structure and thematic tensions of Elizabethan drama My latest for the @trylon.org blog (HEAT plays there next week):

A film that feels almost impossible to comprehensively talk about in the span of two hours, but the Trylove guys always find a way! Noise music, being a woman in an industry built on misogyny, Internet-era decontextualized dehumanization, Gina Gershon's "I ❤️ Gossip" shirt... we talk about it all!

This just in, Natalie has speared her white whale??

Natalie Marlin offers a brief history of experimental film and video aesthetics leading up to Olivier Assayas’s Demonlover, which plays this coming weekend on 35mm. www.perisphere.org/2026/03/20/t...

Supremely honored to get to write up the reissue of Dearborn noise rock band Prostitute's debut Attempted Martyr for @thequietus.com—already an incisive maelstrom back in October 2024, now arriving again bearing all the anger and passion of a time defined by violent xenophobia and imperial slaughter

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There are times when I wish I hadn't gone on Trylove. There are times when I feel . . . compelled to do it.

one new year's resolution i've actually been sticking to is memorizing a poem a week, which has been really really lovely. the list so far

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT So excited to host and intro this screening for this film I love, excited to see you there!

i always end up wildly discontent with my choices for this kind of thing, but nevertheless!

Some news: I'm hosting a screening of Gregg Araki's THE DOOM GENERATION at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights, MN! This Saturday night (3/7) at 9:30 pm! Come by, say hi, support an indie theater showing cool queer films! ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/629...

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Now on the Heights website: program notes from me on THE DOOM GENERATION

"it's me! your cousin,

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The first video review of our movie!

I just found it!!! support.google.com/mail/thread/... Tried it and it works!

If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.

They’ve stolen our money, rights, and entire futures, and the only thing they offer in exchange is indentured servitude and cops. The only beneficiaries of this are a few hundred billionaires, rapists, and the sizable Venn diagram overlap of the two. Not even Hitler was this stupid and libidinal

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.

i think renee good being an evidently leftist queer woman, in a relationship with another woman who was with her in the car, with both of them taking care of a child, is not at all coincidental to her being assassinated by the state

wish i had the energy to write up all of them, but nevertheless! favorite new-to-me art of 2025, starting with films: The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997) Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994) Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) Where Is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)

generally speaking i have felt very stagnant this year, but in terms of things i've gotten done:

[adrianne lenker voice] swallow poison in a funk swallow poison from some uncs

Last pieces of list blurbing for me this year: wrote about two of the most upsetting films of the year (Vulcanizadora and Bugonia) for FLOOD

wait a minute.

Very last 2025 year-end music blurb from me here, got to write about how fun and majestic and all-encompassing Sudan Archives' "DEAD" is

In some important ways I am already in my thirties (finally downloading vinyl rips for Dylan's MODERN TIMES, TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE, and TEMPEST because they aren't brickwalled like the CDs)

Last set of year-end lists I've been contributing started dropping over at FLOOD, and I wrote about how much I loved the ways the latest from Model/Actriz plays with both noisy flamboyance and disarming vulnerability

Wrote about the 20th anniversary reissues of two of my favorite records (Animal Collective's Feels and Boris's Pink) for this wonderful list capturing what's been an especially strong year for reissues/compilations/etc.

Surprise, more year-end stuff over at Stereogum 😤 Wrote about my favorite, extremely atypical track from the latest Deafheaven album and the one-off feeble little horse single that I kept on repeat all year

Thrilled to get invited to contribute to the Quietus's year-end lists for the first time, even moreso to write blurbs on @lucyliyou.bsky.social and Mei Semones, both of whom made extremely vital records for me this year

John! John, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Milton! You know that justification of the ways of God to Man you're looking for? Well, listen to this! *begins reciting the entirety of the Bible*

A Queer Ritual is such an exciting local music development in Minneapolis right now: heavy, communal, and wholly unapologetic, as only queer-centric shows can be For @racketmn.com, I wrote about the first-ever AQR festival and spoke to @ruingazer.bsky.social about the evolution of the series

this is the current official spotify artwork for the attack of the clones soundtrack