Serious Listener

why can't I stop listening to Geess

featuring: #RacingMountPleasant, #PrettyBitter, #Teethe, #AdaLea, #NourishedbyTime, #WaterfromYourEyes, #BlearyEyed, #Geese, #RyanDavisandtheRoadhouseBand, and #Wednesday

The Best Albums of 2025: Quarter 3 In the beginning of the year when I first started these quarter lists, I didn’t really know what to expect with the results or if they’d even be something that I kept for this site goin…

Wrote about feeling like a perpetual 22 year old, DIY magic, slowcore studies, folk poetry, 2010s R&B, good and bad experimental music, shoegaze studies, hype-regret, countrified poetry, and why Wednesday is important for my third quarter list of 2025 💫

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BOMB Magazine | Kelly Reichardt Todd Haynes, the director of Safe , first met Kelly Reichardt during the making of his film Poison . They take five to compare notes upon the release of…

WENDY AND LUCY director Kelly Reichardt interviewed by filmmaker Todd Haynes at BOMB Magazine.
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Album Review: Algernon Cadwallader – Trying Not to Have a Thought Reunion albums, when they’re done right, have a tendency to rewrite history and re-contextualize great bands, even bands who’s place in music history has been well established and defin…

wrote about the most influential emo band of the last 20 years reuniting and being exactly that: the most influential emo band of the last 20 years 😭

#AlgernonCadawallader, #AlbumReview

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with Dijon, Blood Orange, and Nourished by Time all floating around a certain indie R&B fan is eating GOOD rn

I generally don't mind that theaters have switched to reserved seating but once in a while someone will snag my usual spot a day ahead of time and all I can do is respect the flex that they also reserve their seats way too early

Album Review: Greg Freeman – Burnover With the release of Bleeds just a few weeks away (and with the already crowded alt-country glut of 2025), it was tempting for me to put Greg Freeman’s newest album, Burnover, on the proverbia…

Greg Freeman is your favorite alt-country artist's favorite artist

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#GregFreeman, #AlbumReview

Film Review: Highest 2 Lowest Even though I was more mixed than most on this month’s Weapons, there’s no denying that the film is genuinely exciting, and its release really put into perspective the broader summer mo…

It was my pleasure to write about a new Spike Lee joint, a film unfortunately being buried by its limited release. Yay for streaming!

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Two of Our Greatest Filmmakers Stopped Making Movies Together. It Has Not Gone Well. The Coen brothers have been making movies separately for seven years. Only one has made anything good.

The Coen brothers changed my life. I can’t believe how bad Ethan’s movies are.

“These two films, with their fast-talking dames, cheerful vulgarity, twisty crime plots, and juicy supporting characters could’ve very well been Coen Brothers pictures… if they were just a little smarter and a little funnier,” @jasondashbailey.com writes. crookedmarquee.com/review-honey...

TFW you need a new hydroflask but all your good stickers are on your old one

"...Davis drifts from one studied and devastating observation to another, like a prophet suspicious of his own prophecy; and his songs’ longform structures, segueing from bridge to bridge and only sparingly returning to familiar melodic anchors, mirror his existential disorientation."

thx!

what movie are those stills from?

Every new Alex G album is my new favorite Alex G album

big mood

YouTube video by Black Country, New Road Black Country, New Road - 'Nancy Tries to Take the Night' (Lyric Video)

These BCNR lyric videos have done a good job at reminding me that

A. Albums dont just disappear once theyre released

and

B. There are actually still fun and creative ways to promote your music even in our current internet hellscape

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I read this as "A.I. Pacino" 😅

any idea who did the book cover?

Film Review: Eddington It’s a very rare experience in 2025 (especially with such a fractured and flooded media environment) to go into a new film expecting it to be bad, or disjointed, or have any number of flaws b…

Wrote about Cannes expectations, the blurring of the personal of the universal, right-wing extremism, left-wing capitulation, AI, performative social justice and virtually every other problem confronted in Eddington

#AriAster, #Eddington, #FilmReview

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my Blusky feed is almost the perfect balance of wrong movie takes and doom and gloom progressivism, nature is healing

yes

Darius Khondji is cinema! With Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON opening tomorrow, I profiled the Iranian-born French cinematographer for @latimes.com. He’s worked with David Fincher, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, James Gray, Iñárritu, & more in some of cinema’s most striking films: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I aint gonna lie, these type of photos have been a nice timeline cleanse 😅

love that comparison!

The Doom Generation (1995) If you follow enough fired-up cynics on Twitter, you’d think that queer youth culture is suddenly going soft after decades of consistent, unified radical politics.  There are surely some frui…

"The Doom Generation is even subtitled 'A heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki,' [because] it’s easier to get away with making...provocative, overtly queer outsider art within a heterosexual dynamic, [with] much less pressure to deliver 'the right kind of representation'"
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I feel like watching a movie today

Clueless 😍

Sisyphus and Baseball: Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!! Both Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!! explore groups of men who are devoted to their sport, but have yet to figure out the rest of their own lives.

I wrote about baseball and time and EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!