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March 2025

Month archive / 21 posts

Let There Be Dark album cover

Let There Be Dark

I saw Tower open for my buddy’s band Mutant Scum at Saint Vitus (RIP) 10 years ago, and frontwoman Sarabeth Linden’s powerful pipes and electric stage presence have been burned into my brain ever since. In the years that followed, the band’s first few EPs and LPs were enjoyable, but didn’t measure up to what I remember of that show, and on record, at least, Tower seemed destined to be one of those bands whose … See more →

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Black Bag film poster

Black Bag

Kinda wild to take in this tasty morsel of espionage competence porn on the same day it’s revealed that a cabal of U.S. cabinet secretaries accidentally invited the editor of a major magazine along for the ride when they planned a bombing using something they downloaded from the App Store.

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Throw Momma from the Train film poster

Throw Momma from the Train

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Shockproof film poster

Shockproof

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Fanatico… When the Godess Calls film poster

Fanatico… When the Goddess Calls

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Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes album cover

Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes

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Smile 2 film poster

Smile 2

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Albularyo album cover

Albularyo

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All We Imagine As Light film poster

All We Imagine As Light

My 2,000th film diary entry. 🙂

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Meet Me in the Bathroom film poster

Meet Me in the Bathroom

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City of Clowns album cover

City of Clowns

I wouldn’t have expected to really get into this one! Electronic music’s presence in my listening habits has definitely increased over the last several years, but it’s tended to be more in the avantgarde realm than the dance music realm, and I’ve never been all that interested in electroclash, so Marie Davidson’s persona and deadpan vocals on this record don’t do that much for me. But the production is another story, and if I’m being… See more →

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It All Has to Do With It album cover

It All Has to Do With It

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A Chaos of Flowers album cover

A Chaos of Flowers

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Starlet film poster

Starlet

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Lisztomania film poster

Lisztomania

Gonna tell my kids this is A Complete Unknown

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High Fidelity film poster

High Fidelity

Cusack is a pro who knows how to gracefully navigate insipid interview questions, and I’m sure he wouldn’t do it if it weren’t a decent payday, but it was still kinda hard to watch him endure a post-screening Q&A with a local corporate rock radio DJ and a theater full of middle-aged nostalgia freaks.

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