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  • Hang Down Your Head

    Hang Down Your Head

    Tom waits for nobody. This song has been in my brain for a few days, so I figured the best way to purge it is to share it. I’ve always been a Tom Waits fan–and I do mean since my pre-teen years, when a colleague of my father (father’s? Whatever, carry on) gave him the…

  • The horrendous, un-mockable “Anora.” It’s just so, so awful.

    The horrendous, un-mockable “Anora.” It’s just so, so awful.

    Gurl, you didn’t earn it…or maybe you did. I don’t even know anymore. I’m several months behind on addressing last year’s “Anora,” but who cares?  It isn’t like it is, or ever was, a movie of the times.  It’s not like this confounding cinematic release is a contemporary, popular, cool, hip, with-it, groovy, bitchin’, of-the-moment…