I was just reminded that there was a period in the mid-2010s, where seemingly every indie movie was using Brian Eno’s The Big Ship for their sweeping emotional climax. I can’t imagine that was a cheap needle drop, so what was up with that?

For St. Louis Magazine, I highlighted the big rep screenings happening around STL in May, including A.I. Artificial Intelligence on 35mm at Hi-Pointe Theatre, I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK at Arkadin Cinema & Bar, Mysterious Skin at Webster Film Series, and more! Read the full roundup here: stlmag.com/culture/film/f…

Everybody’s Live really keeps bringing in cool and exciting music acts. Mulaney and company are putting up mid-aughts Letterman levels of heat in that department!

Delighted that we’ve reached a point where Happy End’s music is available enough to hear it playing ahead of today’s rep screening of Ran at Hi-Pointe!

Excited to share this new one for St. Louis Magazine! Ahead of Pavements’ STL premiere at the Hi-Pointe next week, I had a chance to chat with Robert Greene about working on the film and how it captures the essence of Pavement! Read it here: stlmag.com/culture/film/p…

Between Ballerina and The Phoenician Scheme, it is a *huge* weekend for hand grenades at the cinema!

Really didn’t realize that “King Gizzard with an Orchestra” meant they would be making big ol Springsteen-y jams. Real King Gizzard and the G-Street Band vibes on this record

New season of the Bear got me listening to Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy while watching wuxia movies on mute on Criterion Channel

Happy Mid-year List Season! Here’s a bunch of movies and music (new and old) I’ve enjoyed in 2025, so far!

It is objectively hilarious that there are going to be Fortnite skins from a movie adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel

Just saw Carrie for the first time and while I know the crazy Jesus/martyr statue is supposed to look like Piper Laurie, I just kept thinking about how much it looked like Weird Al Yankovic

Here’s my latest Rep Roundup for St. Louis Magazine! We’ve got Kurosawa and Ôbayashi retrospectives at Hi-Pointe Theatre & Arkadin Cinema & Bar, a King Hu classic at Webster Film Series, the Way of the Samurai series at Alamo, and so much more. Check out my full roundup here: stlmag.com/culture/film-s…

Really really dug this deep dive into Goose, following their surprise second release of the year! As a recent-ish jam convert, Goose continues to surprise and excite with every new release and show I catch!

One of the great joys of seeing Wilco play in St. Louis is knowing they’ll always close with Casino Queen!

I spent part of my Sunday morning trying to see if I could make Geese's Trinidad sync up to the opening tracking sequence from Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, and it worked out better than I expected:

Trying to manifest seeing Steven Hyden at the Stereolab First Ave gig tonight by wearing my Tempest tour shirt