Snowden November 2, 2016I have to admit that I knew fuck-all about Edward Snowden before heading into this movie. I mean,...
Pixies: Head Carrier October 17, 2016Pixies are a pretty large touchstone for me in my musical evolution. It honestly started back in 1989...
The Night Of September 29, 2016The thing that sets The Night Of apart is pacing. It starts with a night of drugs and...
Hockey Dad: Boronia September 14, 2016There is nothing more exuberant on this planet than young Australian dudes. Hockey Dad, indeed a couple of...
Love: Season 1 September 6, 2016I was admittedly digging deep in my Netflix queue in watching this one. Love is not only ungoogleable,...
Stranger Things: Season 1 August 17, 2016I kept mistakingly calling this show Needful Things. That, of course, is a Stephen King novel from 1991 and...
A Doubter’s Almanac August 9, 2016This feels like a book that in 2001 would have been as popular as The Corrections. But given...
Camp Cope: Camp Cope July 21, 2016Jesus, I just want this album on repeat in my head all day long. No, Camp Cope isn’t...
Vinyl July 15, 2016This is a show whose tagline is “He didn’t see the future. He heard it.” Thing is, after...
LUH (Lost Under Heaven): Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing June 28, 2016WU LYF was short-lived, but influential in my everyday life. Not because of their terrific (and only) 2011...
Togetherness: Seasons 1 & 2 June 23, 2016Togetherness sounds like some hippie cult or self-help book, but it’s actually an HBO dramedy by the Duplass...
Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial June 3, 2016I know we don’t really do desert island albums since the advent of the iPod, but let’s just...
Yoni & Geti: Testarossa May 19, 2016Testarossa is a very specific reference for males of a certain age. So is Countach. I had posters...
Kanye West: The Life of Pablo April 4, 2016Oh Kanye. You silly, silly, self-important man. Kanye is one of the few musicians I had the opportunity...
Flaked: Season 1 March 30, 2016I’m not sure how Netflix’s marketing algorithm works. And I use algorithm as a kind of snarky and/or...
The X-Files: Season 10 March 21, 2016Why, god, do we go out of our way to ruin a good thing? We take nostalgia and...
The Dirty Nil: Higher Power March 9, 2016I’ve been listening to this Dirty Nil album on repeat for weeks now. And in this day and...
Pinegrove: Cardinal March 1, 2016Dateline Montclair, NJ. Home to Stephen Colbert, media types and hippies of all stripes. An ethnically and economically...