At Steve Albini's funeral, the Pixies should go up and recite all the studio banter from Surfer Rosa.

Across The Margin: The Podcast celebrates one of the most enigmatic actors in the history of cinema with the author of How Coppola Became Cage, Zach Schonfeld! Zach Schonfeld Osiris Media
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One fact that's been lost in all the Steve Albini remembrances is that the first Shellac album goes unbelievably hard

Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a right-wing plan.

I wrote about the broader autocratic project exploiting fears for “Jewish safety” in ⁦⁦The Guardian⁩. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Jerry Seinfeld is a terrible choice for commencement speaker. Why can't colleges get non-problematic Seinfeld cast members like Michael Richards instead?

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰.

For Mother's Day, I got my mom (not pictured) a book about the Białystok Pogrom of 1906
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Here’s a portion of my unpublished interview with Steve Albini, for which he literally let me interview his mom. freakpalace.substack.com/p/my-unpublish…

Just to add on to this list, John Sayles wrote his first screenplays for Corman and used that money (and what he learned) to make Return of the Secaucus Seven.

Jesus Christ, Paul

He figured out how to make the system work for him, then worked out his own system. The dream of minimal oversight — you have a budget, a title, a deadline, and can do whatever beyond that — he invented that. The first true independent cinema started with him. Godhead.

I will treasure this email forever
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I asked you to go to the Cheekface concert
You said you never heard of them