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Monthly Archives: July 2018
‘Eighth Grade’ reminds us we’ve all been there
To be middle school is to live in fear, or, worse, to live in anticipation of fear. Many adults will look at Kayla Day and remember how, like her, they walked on the balls of their feet.
Worst Songs Ever: XTC’s ‘The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead’
Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance. I don’t want to hate songs; to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. I promise my readers that my list will when … Continue reading
Singles 7/27
A diverse top five below, crowned by Tamia, known by white audiences for 2002’s “Stranger in My House.” This lite disco wonder sounds like it could’ve been released a decade before that one; I’ve been singing “fire, fire, fire” to … Continue reading
The best double albums
By necessity a short list, cuz few albums deserve to go over fifty minutes: not in the CD era, even less in the streaming era.
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Korean master returns with ‘The Day After’
Perhaps a film grad student has written a paper for journal publication called Three Times: Soju and Repetition in the Films of Hong Sang-soo. Like a composer recapitulating a theme, the Korea director loves returning to charged moments, sometimes screwing … Continue reading
Worst Songs Ever – Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’
Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance. I don’t want to hate songs; to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. I promise my readers that my list will when … Continue reading
Screenings #37
Here’s this month’s haul in reverse chronological order, with a few blurbs. I hyperlinked to reviews. * denotes a repeat viewing Eighth Grade (Burnham, 2018) 7/10 The Day After (Hoo, 2018) 7/10 On the Seventh Day (McKay, 2018) 7/10 The … Continue reading
Worst Songs Ever: Duncan Sheik’s ‘Barely Breathing’ and Sister Hazel’s ‘All for You’
Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance. I don’t want to hate songs; to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. I promise my readers that my list will when … Continue reading
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Worst Songs Ever: Glenn Frey’s ‘Sexy Girl’
Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance. I don’t want to hate songs; to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. I promise my readers that my list will when … Continue reading
Swingin’ low
Pundits confuse or conflate swing voters and centrists. They’re not the same. Swing voters can believe we need stronger environmental policies that protect us from sea level rise, endorse robust protections for reproductive liberties, yet believe the national debt is … Continue reading
