Now this is music #94: PVRIS, Chase & Status and Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls, Ainslie Wills, Akouo ft. Montaigne

  Done right, and thankfully so much of it is, music should move you deeply and completely and wholly. Mind, body and sould should be engaged; you should never hear a song and just go “Oh … that’s nice.” Upbeat songs should move you to dance or turn a dark Continue Reading

Movie review: The Big Sick

  There was time, lo many days, nay years ago, when romantic comedies burst forth upon the cinematic firmament, fully-formed, delightfully-engaging, possessed of a fairytale-esque romantic sensibility and a sense that life, for all its many banal obstacles and nasty stumbling blocks, could actually be something quite magical. The cynic Continue Reading