Chicago is best when it's being aggressively Chicago

Mary Morello was a semi-regular customer at my high school job (Dogear Records and Video, RIP). She was always incredibly sweet & would check in to see if we had copies of any music magazine her Tommy or RATM made the cover of. An absolute class act. She totally deserves this.

Some days the junk store gods look down on you with mercy and favor

Shoutout to the Pick Me Up Cafe for consistently giving me quality hummus while blasting Bikini Kill since the Clinton administration

In CIVIL WAR journalists run into white nationalists making a mass grave and the perpetrators commit extremely explicit hatecrime murder to try and cover it up. If you want to see a trump analogue tarred & feathered in a movie just say that. 'It has no politics' is unserious

I was really impressive by Civil War. Looking at all the Letterboxd reviews calling it empty, apolitical, or somehow morally cowardly has me saying the film Twitter cliche, for the first time, 'Did we watch the same movie??'

There was a woman a row behind me giving Max Cady levels of laughter during the screening of Street Trash tonight. I kept turning and looking at her, not to passive aggressively imply she should quiet down but to make sure she didn't stab me in the neck with a cosplay bone knife

Yes it's absolutely, completely a coincidence that we screened the Fugazi documentary in January and now we're only charging $5 for this DIY short film program

Check out this week's CINE-FILE!

I got to talk about two wildly different movies that I love: the melty exploitation masterpiece STREET TRASH (screening at FACETS) and Kurosawa's magnificent historical drama KAGEMUSHA (at Doc Films).

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Busting out some vintage/original Pasolini, Scream, Fellini, and Jackass promo items for FACETS Film Trivia prizes this month. Behold, the duality of cinema!

Trivia is free, @ 7pm, Thurs 4/25

Swung by St. Louis on the way to see the eclipse for some Chuck, Dick, Waffle House and rare soul 45s

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