for Screen Slate, I interviewed Claire Denis and Isaach de Bankolé about their cockfighting masterpiece 𝘕𝘰 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘕𝘰 𝘋𝘪𝘦, playing this week/end at BAM in a gorgeous restoration c/o TheFilmDesk. infinite thanks to editor Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer screenslate.com/articles/not-m…

My favorite song about the act of listening, to Berman's music or otherwise: "Songs build little rooms in time and housed within the song's design is the ghost the host has left behind to greet and sweep the guest inside, stoke the fire and sing his lines" youtube.com/watch?v=50227U…

Heaven and earth REJOICE

Gena's delivery of this line in Opening Night destroys me every time, the greatest American actor who ever lived

Promotional marketing for Prometheus, Headphones were created by Beats by Dre inspired by the film. Images are of the launch party for the Blu-Ray release of the film with The Engineer using them.

Yeah... they know ball

Roberto Bolaño, reminding writers that developing a 'voice' is really just a market-based distraction from the more difficult work of jumping into the void!

Andre 3000 describing Future’s music

Members of Thrillist Union and The Dodo Union are ON STRIKE TODAY!!! Please do not cross the digital picket line by clicking on or sharing our content.

RIP Rich Homie Quan. Peace and Love to his family… 🕊️

James Earl Jones, the absolute greatest. Photo by Carl Van Vechten.

Ian McKellen on the set of Michael Mann's THE KEEP with an animatronic version of the monster, Molasar, created by FX legend Nick Maley.

I made a beeline for one particular movie in Eric Roberts' memoir

I adore this Brian Eno quote so much.

Gumby’s Bar Mondovi, WI

Le Guin as always

I had the lovely privilege of interviewing Bill Callahan, an artist I've been listening to for more than half my life. We talked about dub reggae, abstraction vs clarity, the different books he's reading, his new live album 'Resuscitate!' (out on 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌 𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞), and more.

BODY DOUBLE hits 4K today. So I interviewed Brian De Palma about it, and more. vulture.com/article/brian-…