But none of these ideas sound as immediately important as the all-consuming feeling she captures on “I Want You to Love Me.” Released during the earliest days of the pandemic, the Fetch the Bolt Cutters opener addresses nothing less than the meaning of life. Its weepy piano melody swells...
Naysayers and scene puritans are too late to tear down Turnstile; the Baltimore band heard it all before its third album even dropped anyway. They’re one step ahead when admitting they’re here to entertain (“If it makes you feel alive/Well, then I’m happy to provide”), their ...
blasting rap music and practicing rapper hands. In the wake ofFlockaveli, this tradition reached new levels of personal importance; I’m not sure if there is a more therapeutic end to a hectic work week than shouting “Live by the gun, die by the gun,” but I do know my neighbors ...
Dalek, where I not only had to remotely direct some guest stars (meaning I had to write down a shot list for them to film as opposed to making it all up on the day) but had to make a miniature set, figure out how to animate a bubblebath dalek and pushed my green screen (non)ta...
In October, things started getting MUCH HARDER THAN ANYTHING ELSE I'VE SAID SO FAR (I'm serious), but about someone close to me who has asked me not to share about it in any kind of identifying or detailed way. Seriously I was sobbing myself to sleep at night, I walked around ...
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Well, most of them are, anyway. A mysterious Woodsman (voiced by Christopher Lloyd) provides Wirt and Greg with shelter, while a talking bluebird named Beatrice (voiced by Melanie Lynskey) offers to take them to a wise woman named Adelaide who could bring them home. Among the rest of the...
Is he testing democracy’s singular weakness — its susceptibility to the demagogue — by blasting through the firewalls we once had in place to prevent such a person from seizing power? Or am I overreacting? Perhaps. The nausea comes and goes, and there have been days when the news algori...
And anyway, it was at least two-dimensional all along: When Cosentino howls that "I hate sleeping alone," she lays bare the loneliness that makes the rest of the track's joy so much sweeter. When it's playing, which isn't often enough considering this single isn't eve...
But none of these ideas sound as immediately important as the all-consuming feeling she captures on “I Want You to Love Me.” Released during the earliest days of the pandemic, the Fetch the Bolt Cutters opener addresses nothing less than the meaning of life. Its weepy piano melody swells...