Music took me through several life changing experiences. This article goes through the arch that culminated with one of the most exciting periods of my life 1 . The Sound of Lisbon First contact My…

I'm working on some meatier projects, but while those are still cooking, I wanted to get out some shorter posts. I've been seeing a lot of stuff lately that seems like it might make its way into my…

Top 10 weirdest subgenres in world cinema.

Over the past week, I have been watching some films at the Nantucket Film Festival. The best I saw was The Invite , a dramedy about a couple (played by Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde) in a dysfunctional…

For a jam band, Goose makes great studio albums. With each release, their studio craftsmanship gets better. It may be recency bias, but I think BIG MODERN! is their best studio album. It has an 80s…

The Field “Another Day” “Another Day” is an anomaly in The Field’s catalog: A track with a fully intelligible vocal part; the closest thing to a proper pop song in Axel…

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it’s such a crime that the remaster cut their hands together (why would they hide something this cute)

An 18-minute punk song.

The series is now in development

In 2014, Otto Penzler published Bibliomysteries: An Annotated Bibliography of First Editions of Mystery Fiction Set in the World of Books, 1849-2000 . It's a useful book when one is hungry to read a…

A few years ago I really found an appreciation for The Smashing Pumpkins. I'd been tentatively checking them out around that time, but once I started talking to my friend Sarah about the band, her…

There was a holiday disaster: Book: Flesh by David Szalay Here’s what happened: In 2025, only 2% of the books I finished were physical books. The rest were e-books on my Kindle or from Everand. And…

Hey, look, I'm really happy for the gig.We had a great time, didn't we? Thanks to everyone who joined us for the inaugural voyage of Sloppy Discs Presents. As a little treat, I'm…

Every week the team individually pick tracks that make up the listening post but there are always “ones that got away”. These are the alternative picks and some words by our moderators on each one.…

[1975] Cult glammy power pop tune from forgotten or perhaps never remembered 70s Long Island group. The twerps from Milk'n'Cookies recorded some of the most astonishingly poxy vocals ever committed…

I saw this while doomscrolling Instagram the other day Pretty sure the tradwife folks are targeting something more like the 1950's than the 19th century, but it could be funny -- though not at funny…

Danmei Review: Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zixu Authors sometimes break the worlds they’ve painstakingly created. It’s often accidental. They’re too close to the story to notice the mistakes or their…

Rollie in front of the legendary Bar Exxxotica sign Writer Rollie Pemberton, who is also the musician Cadence Weapon, has appeared in these pages before, where, in the early days of Something Good we…

Fantasy Sports 1 by Sam Bosma Nobrow 2015 Fantasy Sports is a fun little graphic novel by Sam Bosma about a pair of adventurers who must defeat the mummy and win his treasure by ... beating him at…

NOTE: This week’s update is a transcription of a live interview done as part of the... The post INTERVIEW WITH MIA V. MOSS ABOUT “THE HERESY OF THIEVES” first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

i really vibed with his music. have not watched any of his interviews before a couple of days ago, but now that i have, i feel even sadder. i don't like many people or many musicians, and it's sad…

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 1979, Douglas Adams My rating: Decent I remember loving this book when I was a pre-teen so perhaps this rating is a bit unfair. I was looking for some light…

John McAlinden is one of the most imaginative, creative, energetic, kind and hardest working people I have had the pleasure of meeting thanks to my love of music. AKA John McMustard and leader of…

Hot summer soundtrack

It’s crazy how much Fullmetal Alchemist mimics how AI is playing out. We pour human souls into a philosopher’s stone that we think will solve all our problems and cure death. It doesn’t exactly do…

You have looked at the world and felt the weight of it settle somewhere in your chest. The damage. The carelessness. The wish that you could just make it stop. Most people carry that feeling alone.…

An album about a place that won't stay still. Nine country and Americana tracks plus a quiet outro, recorded for the cove, the green dock, Konocti Harbor, and the blue house that held it all…

We're really excited to announce that CADENCEFEST will have a fully produced livestream, so you can join in the fun from anywhere!

In the third chapter of EL AND MAX HIT THE ROAD, the pair are closing in on the missing child's location...but are they prepared for what they'll have to do once they get there? And did you know that…

I love what Jason Calhoun has to say about this first song from his upcoming album revelations of divine love: I enjoy working with abstracted, gestural melody that isn’t necessarily connected to a…

Ghost train is best train.

Story of a guerilla fighter

Crescendo (2010) 427 pages by Becca Fitzpatrick Hush Hush #2 Nora has fuzzy warm feelings for Patch, says she loves him and he doesn't respond. Paving the way for her to hate and distrust him. Mom…

A couple of weeks ago there was a conversation at my book club that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. We had just read 'Yellowface' by R. F. Kuang, which follows the story of a middling…

Six wheels on my wagon – this 1936 Leyland Tiger with the special designation TS7T had an extra axle, which meant it was longer, hence more passengers.

My interview with Dr. Claudio Vellutini on The Blue Hour is now available as a podcast. In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Claudio Vellutini, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔-…

It was such a good way to reconnect with an old Seattle-era friend in New York: watching Crazy Thunder Road with a few "strangers," in a setting where I probably would never have watched this film…

One Album for each Year of my Life I saw a bloke I follow on Mastodon, Jake, do this and decided it was far too good an idea to leave unstolen. In fairness, he also nicked the idea off someone else.…

Interestingly, Lloyd's of London made waves in 2002 when it officially dropped the "she" convention, switching to gender-neutral language in all shipping documents. The Royal Navy followed not long…

Evoking versus infringing, and a helluva case for originality clearance. I caught this one in Aaron Moss’s Copyright Lately newsletter, (link to sign up), where he flagged it among four suits…

Enough has been said about Tolkien's works that I won't much discuss the work here. Safe to say I now understand why the Hobbit holds the place it does in the canon of fantasy literature. Despite…

Can Carrie White simultaneously be the hero and the monster? The clues lie in what has been jettisoned in an otherwise faithful adaptation from page to screen. By removing the conventional…

finished reading 'raising hare'. really liked it, with some interesting caveats

Rambling about music day and stealing from the late Doc Watson.

Aside from apps, music, and tech, one of my longest running hobbies is filmmaking. I’ve been building visual essays for the better part of this year, and it’s likely that you’re here because of that.…