@kcfennessy.bsky.social
Music and film writer. Seattle Film Critics Society president and Northwest Film Forum board member. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW Local 46. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock & Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
Finally watched The Order and Justin Kurzel is so good at “a bunch of guys get together to do crimes” movies. Will never not think of the scene in True History where Nicholas Hoult is stroking his hog and Essie Davis suddenly jumps on him and bites his fucking face. Cinema!
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Weird not to put it in the headline, huh? It's Jeremy Adler.
From his LinkedIn profile:
Groupthink headlines.
LCD Soundsystem. pretty early on - I was like, "oh, they are a serious band". At that point I think they had only done "Losing My Edge" so I thought they were a meta-meta novelty type outfit. Live, at I think Bowery Ballroom, they projected the kind of intent and ferocity akin to the Stooges.
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
...to be adapted and directed by Sarah Polley. I read the book several years ago as part of a women's lit book club, and it wasn't quite what I'd been led to believe. No one told me about the (bleak) humor; not the whole book, of course, but more than I expected, which is to say I expected none.
Mixed feelings about this, though she's terrific in 2023's Swarm.
Please keep Howard Schultz and his 328-foot, $300 million yacht in your thoughts as he moves across the country to avoid paying a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1M
was not expecting Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs doc to go quite so hard on the X-Girl ‘90s nostalgia but I’m not mad about it
Actor/director Ivan Dixon passed away in 2008 and author Samuel Greenlee in 2014. The good news, however, is that their daughters, Nomathandé Dixon and Natiki Pressley, spurred the restoration and have been appearing at screenings. Not Seattle, though.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvvXatVZRg
Easter Bunny with St. Patrick's Day vibes. ☘️
Constitutional amendment to launch billionaires into the sun.
I found him really engaging, but he also loved Camus. I believe he had studied with someone who knew Camus well, which also probably helped. I didn't get the best grade in Dr. Soper's political philosophy class, but I aced Camus, maybe because I approached his work more as lit than philosophy.
Re-reading in advance of François Ozon's adaptation. I majored in studio art, but my favorite college class was a seminar on Camus (Dr. Cosper, Whitman). The Cure's "Killing an Arab" pre-dated the course; a controversial song that marks the first adaptation I encountered. Fave Camus: The Fall.
would not make me sad if the united states just put animals on money. eagles, bison, what have you. mayhaps a moose here and there. bears, things of that, uh, nature.
1993 Nate absolutely psyched to hear 2026 AOTY talk about Kim Gordon
Starbucks spent $240 million on union busting last year. If they'd chosen not to fight unionization, every worker could have gotten $630 instead. If their CEO made less than $96 million a year (the avg worker makes $15k), the company could give workers all of what they've asked for.
every day the AI grifters and enthusiasts insist that AI is inevitable and that tech is inherently neutral, the Venn diagram with the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" crowd gets closer to a circle
New trailer for the limited edition @arrowvideo.bsky.social release Wandering Ginza Butterfly Collection with Meiko Kaji, who will be in NYC 3/27-4/4 (worth it just for that hi-octane score). Sonny Chiba costars in the sequel, Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler. 4/7/26 release date.
CHARLES BURNETT x BOOTS RILEY
on the cover of A RABBIT’S FOOT.
cover story by me! on newsstands 3/14.
Who in Seattle remembers the S.L.U.T.? South Lake Union Trolley missed an opportunity when it rebranded as the South Lake Union Streetcar. Now @metrolosangeles is cashing in on their double entendre attire opportunity with "Ride The D" t-shirts!
This and more on this week's Savage.Love/Lovecast!
it's the air we all breathe now, the cruelly ironic rebound effect of "everybody's a critic"
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
some people see books as entertainment and other people see books as wily enemies to be humiliated, outfoxed, and defeated
Someone has looked at their polling numbers.
(This won't help.)
A cat *and* a dog. Perfect, thanks!
He is super-freaky in this film.
