Music 🎸
On Rock 'n' Roll Ghosts and Other Matters
David Toop's "Two-Headed Doctor" is a spellbinding genealogy of American music tied to one of the strangest, deepest records of the 1960s. Plus a few movie things.
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Music 🎸
Weekend Playlist: Drive, He Said
In which the author searches for the fool's gold of the Platonic Ideal of a car tunes playlist.
What to Watch
What to Watch: "I Swear," "Eno," "EPiC"
A pottymouthed feel-good Scottish movie on demand, plus music docs from the King and the Brain.
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Hitch(ing) Post
In praise of one of the great rock 'n' roll eccentrics.
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Pick Up the Pieces: A High School Reunion Playlist
One for the sixty-somethings: The wonderful, mortifying soundtrack of our adolescence.
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Fred Smith: Ace of Bass
Farewell to the heartbeat of a legendary rock band.
Music 🎸
How to Prep for a Halftime Show
What to Watch
The Turkey Day List
Reasons to be thankful, part 68.
Good Movies 📽
What to Watch: "Bob Trevino Likes It," "Blow the Man Down"
Narcissists, Murderesses and The Feelies, Oh My: Two wee audience-friendly sleepers, plus a trip down the Feelies rabbit hole with Ty and a hot little pre-Code classic.
Music 🎸
Brian Wilson 1942-2025
We just weren't made for his times.
Good Movies 📽
"Sinners" and the Curse of Amnesia
Some belated thoughts on the year's most ambitious movie and what it asks of audiences.
Remembrances ⭐️
Michael Hurley 1941-2025
The original freak-folkie and one of this country's great outsider artists has passed on to the jamboree in the sky. You don't know what we've lost.