I wrote about one of my favorite movies of all time for hilobrow.com, as part of a series of 25 pieces on “the topic of ‘offbeat’ movies from the Eighties” (the decade loosely defined). H...
https://disquiet.com/2024/04/16/day-groundhog-day-groundhog-2/
I’m excited to have a short piece on Groundhog Day, one of my favorite movies (and, perhaps just as key, one of my favorite stories), in this series alongside some friends and writers I admire....
https://disquiet.com/2024/03/26/day-groundhog-day-groundhog/
I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. S...
These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the March 5, 2024, issue of the Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. This Week in Sound is the best way I�...
https://disquiet.com/2024/03/06/this-week-in-sound-pythagoras-flaw-whale-chatter-awol-fog-horn/
82,000,000: Number of people in the U.S. who listen to AM radio monthly 20: Number of microphones used to capture sounds in a house in the film Zone of Interest 266: Percent increase in sperm...
These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the February 16, 2024, issue of the Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. I’ve been a bit busy — shifti...
https://disquiet.com/2024/02/17/this-week-in-sound-reverberation-mapping-singing-bacteria/
I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I’ll later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at...
https://disquiet.com/2024/01/21/on-repeat-muller-he-can-jog-meredith/
The Criterion Collection and its streaming service, the Criterion Channel, are synonymous with excellent taste in film, and so it’s all the more confusing that the company’s year-end “Room...
I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening — things I’ll later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ To Die Fo...
https://disquiet.com/2023/11/15/on-repeat-killer-glitch-hum/
There has been less discussion of the animated series Scavengers Reign on my social media feeds than there should be. In fact, there’s been close to none. The show is absolutely beautiful, ri...
https://disquiet.com/2023/11/12/the-sonic-ecosystem-of-scavengers-reign/