Animal Collective is known for their wild and unconventional use of sound with their instrumentation feeling almost like the sonic equivalent of blobby amorphous mitochondria bumping into each other,...

The concept of identity can be defined in numerous ways. A common definition describes it as a person’s sense of who they are, both as an individual and as a member of social groups. While this offers...

MJ Lenderman’s most recent albums, Boat Songs from 2022 and Manning Fireworks from September of last year, have propelled him into mainstream currents and garnered much deserved attention. Lenderman,...

Last night I wrote you a love letter. I was wine-drunk, but not in a sweet way; I was losing my vision by the time I was finished but there were no mistakes. I was thinking about you, and trying to describe...

Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad - Jan Heller Levi I think you are most yourself when you are swimming; slicing the water with each stroke,  the funny way you breathe, your mouth cocked as though...

His fingers– a deep red, mistaken for the seeds of the pomegranates.  To the tourist, the man was simply a vendor; to himself, a man who quenched the thirst of all but his own.  His voice croaked...

I was delighted to see that Alfonso Cuarón’s coming of age film Y tu mamá también, which had been waiting eagerly in my Letterboxd watchlist for months, is finally on Netflix! The film follows best...

On a Tuesday (discount day at Cinemark theatres!) my friend and I went to see Halina Reijn’s ‘erotic thriller,’ Babygirl. The film stars Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas, who need no introduction,...

When it comes to analyzing a documentary, I always feel that I have a necessity to give the filmmakers some amount of grace due to how low most documentary budgets are, and how passionate the filmmakers...

My flag was at half-mast today The port was closed The tides were gray   My eyes were shot My tongue was dry I heard the wail Of children cry   The roaring almost drowned...

  And what do you do when it all goes right? How am I meant to cope! When every part of the journey isn't a fight, And I don't have to lose all hope.   What if it all works...

I want to write of The things my mother told me Of beautiful things She said when she'd hold me I long to say "My mother told me" about this life we live But instead my mother taught...