All My Friends

Sorry, Baby (2025) 2025 changed my relationship to film culture, hopefully for good.

This is kind of a sprawling piece, reacting to about a month’s worth of popular music and film.

Three of the most perfect albums ever recorded.

The Candidate (1972) I’m nowhere near a Robert Redford completionist.

THE TREE OF LIFE Dir.

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Dir.

BLUE PRINCE 2025 Dogubomb PC, XSX, PS5 Based on seeking and giving hints to navigate the twisting halls of Mount Holly, I believe I am roughly halfway through Blue Prince, this year’s most resonant independent game.

good kid, m.A.A.d.

World of Horror Panstasz, LLC 2023 PC, Switch, PS4 Dark gods unleash eldritch horrors on Shiokawa, a small Japanese coastal town, and your survivor is one of several young people who feel responsible in some way to stop the horror before it’s too late.

THE BLACK PARADE My Chemical Romance 2006 Maybe the second “new” album I actually listened to by my own choice (after Green Day’s American Idiot a couple years prior,) The Black Parade appealed directly to my classic rock-ist sensibilities, to my nerdy te…