@thomasrbritt.bsky.social
Professor of Screen Ethics and Screenwriting, writer, and listener. Commissioning Editor of Cinegraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media. Music critic at PopMatters. Add some music to your day.
Pinback’s ‘Loro’ does it for me, every time.
09.03.2026 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dire.
08.03.2026 23:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Second-person burn. I like it.
08.03.2026 23:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TLJ/Rian Johnson was pilloried for bringing some reflexive criticism/ideas into the picture. I don't even agree with all the notions he brought to it, but it's inarguable that he expanded what the franchise could be about, and he did it with several wholly memorable visuals.
08.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
'Black Wooden Ceiling Opening' is easily a top-5 Mount Eerie release, but so many seem to have forgotten about it (or worse, never heard it!). He really tested/realized a perfect new sound here that reached its apex on the following year's 'Wind's Poem'.
pwelverumandsun.bandcamp.com/album/black-...
Great poster design.
07.03.2026 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stanley Kubrick editing Barry Lyndon in the garage of his home in England. Photos by Vivian Kubrick.
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cinephiliabeyond.org/barry-lyndon/
You won. The game has ended.
07.03.2026 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0INDEED. Exquisite filmmaking.
07.03.2026 05:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I still don't think the world has sufficiently encountered and acknowledged the wonder of Richard Dawson's 'The Hermit.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXfD...
Happy Lebowski Day, indeed. Here’s an article I wrote last year about this film and sleep/dreams in the Coen Bros.‘ works, also examining Jeff Bridges as a sleep guide.
cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/ar...
We had this movie on every weekend in my college house.
06.03.2026 06:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Most potent Ween B-side earworm, and that's saying something.
06.03.2026 03:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another great Modern Folk release. Among many other things that could be highlighted, this is one for those who like that OLD Beachwood Sparks-type sound that just doesn't seem to be around anymore. Highly recommended.
06.03.2026 03:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'A ring of haze encircles the unshrouded truth within...'
06.03.2026 03:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘A Mighty Wind’ > ‘A Complete Unknown’.
03.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next up: Bruce Willis on Gangs.
03.03.2026 07:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How DaRe you!
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Fiery Furnaces released 'Bitter Tea' nearly 20 years ago. Let's all celebrate by listening to 'Nevers,' which features some of the coolest backmasked vocals ever and an addictive melody. For two decades, I've hyperfixated on the section that begins at 3:42.
thefieryfurnaces.bandcamp.com/track/nevers
Dire.
02.03.2026 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'House Show' version of a Sophtware Slump classic.
grandaddy.bandcamp.com/track/so-you...
It really was the AOTY last year. Now, they’re playing live, selling merch, and doing the band thing. I haven‘t seen potential like this since early Ovid’s Withering, and I’m hoping these guys are around much longer.
01.03.2026 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Imagine including ‘striking’ as an adjective in a story about a literal war.
01.03.2026 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I missed this release in January. Jurado's (earliest?) demos. Significant historical document, for real.
damienjurado.bandcamp.com/track/the-ne...
Not mad at that, though. Poison avoidance is all upside.
01.03.2026 04:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The mashup I ABSOLUTELY KNEW I needed.
01.03.2026 02:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some snare sounds that shaped my taste:
Helmet ('Betty')
Snapcase ('Lookinglasself')
Queens of the Stone Age ('Songs for the Deaf')
Earth Crisis ('Gomorrah's Season Ends')
Grandaddy (Live at Glastonbury 2003)
Daft Punk ('Random Access Memories')
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (self-titled)
