just in shock and in tears over the passing of one of our masters of film and comedy. he made our hearts stronger. all of us. I don’t know how much more of this timeline I can take. thank you Rob Reiner. what a year.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

got me a 35mm trailer of Waiting for Guffman at a white elephant tonight

Just Ducky. been a hell of a year since I last raided the dole whip machine. I also discovered that Disney serves Jolly Time popcorn from my home town at their Xmas party.

gonna spin an all-Ohio vinyl set on Sat. Jan 3rd Times New Viking 84 Nash Scrawl V3 Roué GBV Psychedelic Horseshit El Jesus TJSA Day Creeper Monster Truck 5 Breeders Sowashes Cheater Slicks Moviola Them Wranch The Devo and other buckeye bangers join me for a rare night of rock & roll regression

Gift idea for music fans: my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion. It's about how indie rock changed the mainstream and the mainstream changed indie rock in the 21st century. In short: how indie rock went pop!

Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough

took flowers to the princess today

Her Listening Age was 16 you sick fuck

why is Kumail still jacked? is he going to fight Joe Rogan on podcast mountain?

Rest in Power Steve Cropper. I used to spin soul and funk music for a decade, and Melting Pot was in my crate every time. If you sit down to look at everything he wrote and the impact that it made, your head will start to spin. His sound is a deep thread in the tapestry of modern music.

Little Village let me write about my favorite Batman artist, Norm Breyfogle. He created a bunch of solid characters and his work holds up to this day. Breyfogle was born in Iowa City so this is part of LV’s Peak Iowa issue that hits stands tomorrow 🌽 littlevillagemag.com/lv-december-...

Friendsgiving ‘25: met another Lee who can only see out of one eye

thankful for Amoeba for having a weird Cheater Slicks b side comp in the cheapie bin and Cutter’s Way and stinkin Naked Lunch on Laserdisc 🦃 #thanksgiving #cronenberg #burroughs

ONLY GRAVY CAN SAVE US NOW

For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...

I once saw a screening of My Own Private Idaho with a Q & A w/ Udo Kier and Gus Van Sant about 8 yrs ago. Udo completely eclipsed GVS w/ his acerbic wit and charming stories. My man was in the OG Suspiria. Goodbye to a legend 👑

Fall: the world turns to a swath of reds and browns, comfy jackets come back to us and grownass men regress into listening to Wilco again

late birthday appreciation post all hail the music yeti for 80 yrs on earth

another reason to love the Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein is that it’s a perfect companion to Coppola’s Dracula. both are licorice operas, all flowy and showy

at 2am the internet should play the national anthem and shut off for the night

watched this two nights in a row *dude is so tall I demand the sequel be called Slam Dunkenstein

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

An Air Canada flight right now

nobody can stop you from writing yr hit screenplay for Mississippi Monkey

randomly came across the grand opening of a gallery by @tylerthrasherart.bsky.social luminescent goodness

me and my arrow

thanks for the well wishes, amigos. chopped a spare pair of glasses into a monocle bc the normal glasses don’t work w/ the bandage. some mad max lookin shit but it’ll do for now.

10 yrs ago today. I hosted and produced an all-Iowa showcase as part of a Green Gravel thing and I’m still proud that we did it. thanks Robbe Rees for taking the best pic of me ever. this is my favorite.

saw some @chrisdeville.bsky.social in the wild at @skylightbooks.bsky.social 🎉

caught stealing: the NYC cat guy version of a guy ritchie movie

sure I make low pay as a teacher, but you'll all be sorry when I open my museum devoted to Color Me Badd

I wrote a tribute to Terence Stamp, who hung out in some of the strangest corners of cinema in his time. This is going to be part of a book of pop culture essays and interviews that I've been putting together: medium.com/@leekeeler/t...

Alien Earth: you had me at Dio Sabbath

re-watching Sinners. not only my favorite film of this year but a stone cold classic. ppl are gonna be watching this 100 yrs from now alongside John Carpenter films

@leekeeler.bsky.social wanted to interview Dan Aykroyd about music and I said only if he asks about Dananananaykroyd 🙏 www.stereogum.com/2317743/dan-...

Stereogum let me interview Dan Aykroyd. Just the sweetest guy.

😃 Think the #Nuggets are having the best summer of any team in the #NBA? So does Charles Barkley. 🏀 And The Chuckster tells me exactly why, up now via @nuggetsnews: 👇 www.denverpost.com/2025/07/27/c... #MileHighBasketball #NBA #Denver #nbasummer #NikolaJokic #basketball #sports #news

speaking truth to power

SDCC ‘25: thanked Matt Stone for the South Park episode the other night. Good to see Satan in the sack again.

SDCC ‘25: as you wish

1/3: Sugarland Express is still on Netflix for about 10 more days. Some quick words on this: Growing up, all I ever heard about was how great Duel is when it comes to early Spielberg. And Duel is fine.

Boing Boing let me interview Beastie Boys producer Mario C about remixes & B-sides. He also recorded a track on Beck’s classic Odelay on accident, kinda sorta. we talked about Björk, Ween, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and other nuggets of Grand Royal lore.

came back from a trip & my favorite taco truck was gone. thought they got ICEd. today I saw they’re okay

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

spotted by my pal @clinters.bsky.social in rural WA today appropriately vintage

superdrag @ the troubadour

found a Clue knockoff that is played on Laserdisc excited to try this garbage

Go on then, here's the Jaws/Life Aquatic mashup where Brody is replaced by Steve Zissou. Enjoy. #Jaws50

LA Pals: Steve Martin is gonna appear at the Hollywood Bowl tomorrow and tickets are $1 I mean, it's nosebleed seats, but a dollar to say you saw Steve Martin under the stars is pretty great. Promo Code: HBDOLLARPARKS hollywoodbowl.com/event…