My Bloody Valentine m b v (2013)

living with this, giving it spin after spin to win love, after Loveless had earned it so effortlessly....  I'll never forget cresting Oregon highway 8, Canyon Road, at sunset, headed home, loving that album and its four-chambered, heart-transplant logic. They can't and don't with this, it's a muteness, a fuck-you surrender to time itself, Waterloo in all its mud and cannonfodder.

Sarah Louise DEEPER WOODS (2018)

if this was made in the sixties you would bleed yourself dry to get a clean vinyl, your plasma would lubricate half the bay area, your marrow would feed the rich in service of a sound

Sarah Louise NIGHTTIME BIRDS AND MORNING STARS (2019)

give the allfather a close shave and sweep up the beard as he goes to enjoy the world anew

THE POLKA KING dir. Maya Forbes (2018)

i wish more true crime was in this vein-- so tired of the new american gothic serial killer crap, it is a tremendously callow and crass fad.  give me Jack Black playing well out of his depth, every variety of grifter, white collar crime by blue collar perps.  and give me schwartzman as sidekick all day long.



Do you know any truly honest charismatic people?  does the nature of charisma itself involve airbrushing the details enough, a lack of allegiance to inconvenient facts?  or am i just trying to make lack of charisma commendable?  probably more the latter, but still, anytime someone is trying with gusto to charm a room, my ears are up for slips, fallacies, uncitables.  Nuance is so loathed in America, and that creates opportunities for the all-american con man, the archetypal harvester of the seeds of greed.

THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD dir. Morgan Neville (2018)

as fun as a documentary can be, now that the film is made and beautiful, a triumph buried then exhumed, stitched and whole