playlists

Hellbender – this came out in 2021 but I became obsessed with it this year and I’ve watched it over and over and over again and I love…just thinking about it. Poor Things – a late-breaking obsession, the last movie I saw and such a marvel. When I left the theater my entire body was […]

For reasons that I can neither justify nor articulate, I am embarrassingly fond of late 1970s to mid-1980s-era Bruce Springsteen.* Despite this I really hate Bruce’s original version of “I’m On Fire.” It’s gross. It’s icky and skeevy and the way he mutters about Little Girls and Daddies is upsetting and weird. It’s the muttering

I’ve been powerlifting. It’s the first and only sport where I have ever, in my whole life, felt like I have any kind of skill and like my body is an asset rather than a hindrance. Mass moves mass; often, a body that is larger is a body that is stronger; and as I’ve been

My favorite musical genre is not really a genre, in the strict sense. It’s an attitude and a point of view that I can hear across songs by punks and soul divas and songwriters and pop stars alike; it’s the sound of women who are just completely over it. Not in an angry way, more