He was young at some point, like he was in his 30s when he wrote Junky and Queer, but I struggle to imagine William Burroughs as a young dude.

#122. Ride the High Country

Formally a traditional Western, but thematically it anticipates the grime and fatalism of revisionist Westerns.

#121. Scattered Poems - Jack Kerouac

Includes some of the more playful stuff Kerouac wrote prior to On the Road’s publication, but the real gems are the later poems. Some of the most withering and self-loathing poetry you’ll read for a while.

#120. Bayou Country - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Underrated aspect of CCR is how spooky they can get. I mean their cover of “I Put a Spell on You” was one of their first hits, but “Graveyard Train” off this album is no joke. It’s also a jam.

Sometimes I remember Julian Casablancas used to be a very attractive woman.

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William H. Gass kept a baby face and a full head of hair into his 90s. What was bro eating?

#119. Bad Day at Black Rock (rewatch)

Spencer Tracy just beat the shit out of Mermaid Man!

Some albums that have a nocturnal vibe. Just off the top of my head, I know I'm missing some big ones.

#118. Sweat and Soap - Kintetsu Yamada (Volume 1)

I’m gonna be honest with you, this is kinda hot.

#117. Contra - Vampire Weekend

This album feels very of its time, abd I do mean that in a good way. It feels like a reaction to the War on Terror and how the American voting populace basically stuck their heads in the sand for years about the horror of the thing.

The more Marxist a movie is the better it is. Therefore the best movies of all time are Soy Cuba and Michael Mann’s Thief.

I support Sally Rooney as a person but not as an author. Weird, usually it's the other way around.

#116. The Searchers - Alan Le May (reread)

Pretty bleak for being a “traditional” Western, but there’s just enough hope left. Just enough to keep going.

#115. Ride Lonesome

They should teach this movie in screenwriting courses, I’m not kidding.

#114. Devil In a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley

Not bad at all, but I was kinda underwhelmed. This has the strong whiff of being a debut novel, if you get what I mean.

I am cursed with thinking Is This It? and Room On Fire are two of the best rock albums to come out of the 2000s.

Short Story Review: “Dumb Martian” by John Wyndham (Cover by Jack Coggins. Galaxy, July 1952.) Who Goes There? In the 1950s, an exceedingly small number of SF authors got lucky and gained some mainstream traction. These were people who gained book …

The girl is good for company, but not much else. Or is she? Is there more to her than this ignorant Earthling realizes? It's "Dumb Martian" by John Wyndham, from the July 1952 issue of Galaxy!

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Couldn't have made you smile THAT much.

#113. Singin' in the Rain

Yeah, this is kinda what the movies are about.

Did not know Lena Dunham still had shooters in the big 2026.

Serial Review: The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby (Part 1/3) (Cover by Frank R. Paul. Amazing Stories, August 1928.) Who Goes There? Edward Elmer Smith was born in 1890 in Wisconsin, and until he was about 25 he didn’t seem to have even a thought as to…

A spaceship? What’s that? Never heard of such a thing. It’s the first installment of The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, from the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories!

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Is there an indie band who had a more dramatic fall-off than Modest Mouse?

#112. American II: Unchained - Johnny Cash

Admittedly the full backing band treatment means the more somber Christian-themed tracks don't hit as hard as on American Recordings, but it's shocking to see Cash go this hard this late into his career.

We have white supremacists who are not white. We have divorced weekend dads who are very concerned about “the nuclear family.” We have adult Catholic converts who hate the Pope.

#111. High Plains Drifter

He rode in on a pale horse, and Hell followed him.

#110. Phone Booth

Larry Cohen had originally brought this idea to Alfred Hitchcock, and you can tell (sort of complimentary).

#109. Today! - Mississippi John Hurt

This album may well put you to sleep, and I do mean that as a high point of praise. Hurt's hushed speak-singing, his effortless finger-picking style on guitar, the extremely relaxed vibe of the whole thing, it's so good.

Can’t believe Better Man (2024) died for our sins.

#108. Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

Might sound weird, but this movie gives Resident Evil 5.