2024 In Review: Movies

** Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
* Nosferatu

(Ripley was the best filmed fiction I saw this year.)

2024 In Review: Music

**** Asteroid No. 4, The - Several Shapes of Solar Flares
**** Linda Lindas, The - No Obligation
**** Mary Timony - Untame The Tiger
**** Nada Surf - Moon Mirror

*** Astral Bakers - The Whole Story
*** Elephant Stone - Back Into the Dream
*** Gift - Illuminator
*** Hinds - Viva Hinds
*** IDestroy - IDestroy
*** Katy J Pearson - Someday, Now
*** Keeley - Beautiful Mysterious
*** Laughing Chimes, The - Tomorrow's 87
*** Lemon Twigs, The - A Dream Is All We Know
*** Mediavolo - Away Within
*** Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1
*** Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets - Indoor Safari
*** Real Estate - Daniel
*** Richard Thompson - Ship To Shore
*** Ride - Interplay
*** Sixpence None The Richer - Rosemary Hill
*** Still Corners - Dream Talk
*** Umbrellas, The - Fairweather Friend
*** Waeve, The - City Lights
*** Wilco - Hot Sun Cool Shroud
*** X - Smoke & Fiction

** Bad Bad Hats - Bad Bad Hats
** Blue Oyster Cult - Ghost Stories
** Crumbs - You're Just Jealous
** Everything Everything - Mountainhead
** Finom - Not God
** Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
** La Luz - News of the Universe
** Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs - Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits
** Modern English - 1 2 3 4
** Omni - Souvenir
** Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe
** Torres - What An Enormous Room
** Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
** Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
** Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns
** Wishy - Triple Seven

Nosferatu (2024) *

Possibly the worst lit movie I have ever seen. And what is with the porn 'stache? Don't waste your time, try Herzog's far, far superior version.

'A Complete Unknown' Director James Mangold on Making Bob Dylan Biopic

But the biggest kind of truth test for me is just that you’re trying to kind of carve out how much all of these people are wonderful. I love them all. I hope the movie conveys that I adore this world — not just Bob — and that the fracture that happens isn’t because I picked a side, but that it’s just like a Tennessee Williams play or anything else. It’s just a fracture that happens among people who love each other when they all are growing in different directions. And it happens to be on a public stage, because that’s where they live. But it’s analogous to all our lives.