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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

best sport, no contest. (the league, however, is another story, lol.)

Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

crucial commentary from @humanistreport.bsky.social: "this really demonstrates how incompatible capitalism is w democracy everywhere. once you reach the later stages where democracy is commodified & oligarchs control everything, ppl become so fucking desperate that they yearn for fascist demagogues"

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Trump & AI Companies Blatantly Meddled in Brazil’s Election to Help the Fascist

YouTube video by The Humanist Report

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

new Deerhoof is possibly their most conceptually offbeat. an automatic #bandcampfriday recommendation

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Divine Schism, by DEERHOOF

9 track album

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

*not* cities on either coast, rather

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd recommend watching the anime series BOOGIEPOP PHANTOM instead, because it possesses the same eeriness and was made a year before PULSE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxpu...

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

have not been able to get into Chat Pile over the years, but I was at least intrigued by the "Same Rules" track so I'll check out the new album! "soundtrack for America" only heightened by the fact they hail from Detroit and Oklahoma City and cities on either coast

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

reiterating that HOTEL USONA is one of the few artistic statements of this miserable decade to convey exactly how it feels to be constantly flailing in this fascistic cesspool called America. a startlingly moving and inspiring record

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Protomartyr - Feed the Sewer (Official Video)

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

cleaned out a number of boxes from my teens and twenties at my mom's house last week... but the coolest thing I found, by far, is a half-binder filled with FF VIII's Triple Triad cards (and other game scenes) that Electronics Boutique sold back in 1999 / 2000

Photo of an arrangement trading card binder sleeves on a hardwood floor. The faces of the cards display FMV stills, character models, and concept art from the 1999 video game, FINAL FANTASY VIII. Several cards in the lower half of the photo are also exact replicas of playing cards from the Triple Triad card game within FF VIII itself.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

congrats to the best-dressed married couple, Eyre & Martha

Photo of a newly married couple smiling and holding hands in front of a miniature house at the Stroudsmoor in the Poconos, Pennsylvania. Eyre wears a formal all-black, non-gendered outfit with a boutonnière pinned near the heart and platform shoes. Martha wears a black-and-white floral pattern dress and white veil while holding a colorful flower bouquet in her left hand.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

maybe it's me, but gaming as we broadly knew it seems dead. artistic vision and soul... 404 not found in the triple-A space. impossible to srsly consider any "discourse," because remakes for FF VII and ZELDA: OOT shouldn't exist. Square Enix and Nintendo are corporations exploiting your nostalgia

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

watched droney cinema last night from Mark Jenkin, so I'm impelled to recommend the most transfixing drone record of 2026 for #bandcampfriday: @sarahdavachi.bsky.social's 140-minute meditation, THE WILL OF TONGUES. sonorous and steadying in a time of havoc... deeply moving "songs and dialogues" 🔊

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The Will of Tongues, by Sarah Davachi

13 track album

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

for @isthmusmadison.bsky.social, I framed select screenings among Ctek's fall 2026 calendar, which starts this evening. will always hail the inclusion of more '90s cinema, and so I'm personally thrilled about the Zeitgeist Sunday series at @chazenartuw.bsky.social (esp. the very last, BLUE 💙)

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Unreeling fall pleasures at UW Cinematheque

Cinematheque's packed fall schedule features all manner of boundary-pushing cinema and distinctive repertory series.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (dir. Jane Schoenbrun)

PARKS AND RECREATION screenshot from the season two episode "The Stakeout," where Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) attempts to explain contents found in her van at the Pawnee police station. "I brought the candy and I brought a lot of it, because I love candy."

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sunken Village and Seeping Mire areas are so Cascadian black metal. coincidence that WITTR announced a new record on the game's release day? lol

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

compulsively played the expansive @mortalshellgame.bsky.social open beta over the past two nights. reductively, an s-tier DEMON'S SOULS clone from a team of H.R. Giger buffs. incredible vibes from Cold Symmetry, Lustmord, and Mizmor... instant purchase

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"electability is fucking bullshit. vote for the policies you like or you will never get the future you want. you will get the future you deserve. that is democracy." srsly sound advice from Hasan; too bad I currently live in a state with tens of thousands of pliant, status-quo drones

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

just subscribed. really sharp photos of a city I've wanted to visit for a while! incredible arts scene, especially if you're into avant-garde black metal (well, that's my thing anyway, lol)

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

at the top-left peak is a discovery, yet one already known, chiseling away at musical nostalgia, & challenging me (a difficult person). all the intrepid improvisation surrounding, drifting towards the indescribable, the unclassifiable; simply translated, xx reasons to go on despite everything.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

for #bandcampfriday, 25 fav releases of 2026 thus far (January thru June). a surfeit of psychedelic prog from usual suspects; Tim Smith's spirit brightly lives on. outsider artists synthesizing new sonic spaces in sprawling suites of tender / tortured melodicism & magnetic electroacoustic palettes.

A 5 x 5 album art grid of favorite releases between the months of January and June 2026. From the upper-left corner to bottom-right corners, all 25 artists / projects: Stimmerman, Phillip Golub, Antropoceno, Furii, Karoline Wallace, Cheer-Accident, Portrayal of Guilt, Le Grand Sbam, By Storm, Nirosta Steel, Chafouin Orchestra, Christina Vantzou, Ana Roxanne, Chromatose, Kaatayra, Jordy/Williams/Cohen/Haug, Liam Aldous, Spratleys, Antonio Gallucci, Helllhound, Otay:Onii, Phuyu y la Fantasma, Lucy Liyou, Eivind Opsvik (The Setting), and Janel Leppin (Ensemble Volcanic Ash).

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

and the other concerns the looping six-film experimental program by local filmmaker Bill Bedford in the Video Gallery (2nd floor), which also touches upon his broader career as an artist:

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MMoCA's video gallery features experimental short films by Bill Bedford

Get acquainted with experimental films by localite Bill Bedford in his first-ever solo exhibition in MMoCA's Video Gallery, through Sept. 6.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

wrote a couple articles for @isthmusmadison.bsky.social about film-related happenings this month at MMoCA. the first is a summative series preview of Rooftop Cinema, which continues tonight w/ short documentaries by Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter (and then the next two Thursdays):

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A renewed Rooftop Cinema returns to MMoCA

Consider the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) your experimental film destination this August, especially with the unfortunate shuttering of UW Cinematheque this summer after a burst water su...

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

current "electability" arguments are fueled by corruption and racism, and that's all you need to know

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

yw! something about mirrors and me that dates back to high school with the Sylvia Plath poem, so maybe that's caught up in my experience reading VISION just a bit. but I found it so beautifully conceived and written. a page-turner in the way you singularly capture human fragility as an artist

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AMC delivered a true grab-bag of trailers before NIGHT NURSE this past week. actually a good sign for a not-so-easily-definable movie. though, ONE NIGHT ONLY looks abysmal, lol

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

randomly picked @thorazos.bsky.social's VISION off the shelf at the public library a week ago, and it's just incredible. a devastating meditation on self-image and parasocial relationships. one of the most moving graphic novels I've ever read 🪞

Cover art for Julia Gfrörer's graphic novel, VISION, released in 2020 with Fantagraphics Book. The illustration, on a puce-colored background, renders a bedroom scene; a dresser with an ovular mirror sits against the wall beside a wooden chair and behind the corner of a bed frame. A few garments lay on the floor.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

quite tired of hearing movie characters declare they "deserve more" when pondering relationships. they surely deserve more... from their own writers. please come up with better dialogue. (THE INVITE is mid as hell.)

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

definitely! kind of a slick haunted house movie masquerading as an erotic thriller. the slow burn of the story is really well-considered imo. and I think it actually predicts Lynch's style / m.o. that we'd see more in the late '90s-'00s. not a pale imitation at all

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Stewart Smith @drstewartsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Wrote about the wonderful world of microtonal jazz for @bandcamp.com from Joe Maneri to Hafez Modirzadeh, Anna Webber to Zekkereya El-Magharbel, Phillip Golub to Amir ElSaffar and more! daily.bandcamp.com/lists/microt...

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The Warped, Wondrous World of Microtonal Jazz on Bandcamp

To Western listeners, microtonal jazz can sound a little “off." That's what makes it vital.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

increased dialogue about media preservation in the last week, for good reason. not that I emphatically endorse splurging on physical items atm, but I'd still recommend starting a collection over paying for subscription services. recent additions to my own from the VS and B&N Criterion sales:

Angled photo of a collection of 13 sealed Blu-rays displayed on a royal blue armchair. From the top left to bottom right, the alphabetically arranged titles include BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, COMPENSATION (1999), THE DELTA, FRESH KILL, HIGH ART, A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966), NIGHT OWL, PLEASE BABY PLEASE, RESURRECTION (2025), The Films of Hisayasu Satō Volume Four, SPEAKING PARTS, WHEN TOMORROW DIES, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

not only is the new Phoebe Bridgers track godawful, but her team also steals the music video aesthetic from Albert Birney

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

finally finished act three of SILKSONG early this morning to the ambient sound of heavy rain outside. an overwhelming experience. 🪡 unparalleled art direction, sound, and scope undone by intermittently baffling game design decisions. let us never speak of the Old Hearts quest again. pure hell, lol

Screenshot of a cutscene in HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG, when Hornet gazes upon Haunted Bellhart for the first time.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

kind of obsessed with this scene in Mike Figgis' LIEBESTRAUM

A shot from the 1991 slow-burn erotic mystery LIEBESTRAUM shows the characters of Nick Kaminsky (Kevin Anderson) and Jane Kessler (Pamela Gidley) standing among the scaffolding outside the cast-iron Ralston Building in Elderstown, Illinois. He looks up to the right, while she holds an SLR camera to her right eye and points it towards the screen.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I've been watching a number of '90s movies lately, so it seems appropriate to recognize THE CABLE GUY's 30th theatrical anniversary today. here's a substantial piece I wrote on the formative black comedy for its 25th at the tail-end of @tonemadison.bsky.social's streaming coverage era:

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Retreading the information superhighway: "The Cable Guy" at 25 – Tone Madison

Ben Stiller's densely divisive cult film is a satirical commentary on Gen-X media culture, but it has now become a memorable cultural moment in itself. ️

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

in the game, BlueMountain paints Christian (note the name) as "a shopping mall of evil." the same could be said of America itself. great piece from @iantothemax.bsky.social, who knows that Suda and company don't miss

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

BUB, ITHACA, and PROVE YOU'RE HUMAN looked incredible in this evening's @dayofthedevs.org showcase. also loved Mike Boxleiter's ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT reference during the LAZY RIVER preview. all wishlisted

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Day Of The Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition 2026

YouTube video by Day of the Devs

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

official event flyer by Pelstring 🌈

Colorful event flyer for "Our Psychedelic Nature: short films by Emily Pelstring." On the medium blue-colored background, information about the where and when is printed in white text—at Arts + Literature Laboratory on Wednesday, June 10, at 7:00p. Several stills—four in a more vertical orientation and two in landscape orientation—are arranged in a square-like pattern from the filmmaker's trippy animated body of work (A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR x2, HEAD CLEANER, SOMNIUM LAPIDUM, PETAL TO THE METAL, INSECT EXPRESS). A $5 donation is suggested.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

have a nice time! I hope the weather is a little more consistent than what I experienced in mid-May

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

also, shouldn't it be "min(t)-maxxed mojito"? 🙃

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

check out the sidewalk-chalked alligator on Rutledge St between Rogers and S Thornton 🐊

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this game's escalating pitfall design is kind of ingenious. one of the funniest I've ever seen tykenn.itch.io/trees-hate-you

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What did I even do to them bro | Trees Hate You (demo)

YouTube video by LilAggy VODs

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

screening program features a unique selection of her work, including a U.S. Girls music video and new pieces like A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR, which is inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, as well as PSYCHOTERRA, a collaboration with Naomi Okabe about "ecological grief"

Psychedelic still (thumbnail) from A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR, the animated short by Emily Pelstring, shows fluid superimpositions of fiery colors.

A thumbnail still from the collaborative short film, PSYCHOTERRA, shows a close-up of nitrile-gloved hands holding various seeds—"a stable archive of feelings."

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

recently finalized this Mills Folly Microcinema program at @artlitlab.bsky.social on Wed, June 10. v excited to have Canadian animator, filmmaker, installation artist, sound designer, professor (et al.) Emily Pelstring here in person! pls join us for a psychedelically profound evening. ✨

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Our Psychedelic Nature: Short Films by Emily Pelstring

Mills Folly Microcinema welcomes filmmaker Emily Pelstring for an in-person presentation of Our Psychedelic Nature, a program of her short films, on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 7:00pm. Suggested donat...

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

you should've been here to watch the regional premiere of CHRONOVISOR with Silas and me last night (thanks, JMK and Tone Glow: toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...)

Photo of the entryway at Chicago Filmmakers on West Hollywood Avenue in Chicago. Daylight streams in through the windows at the back wall. A medium-size display table with promotional materials sits in front.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

50s-weather hiking with the fam last Thursday at Wizard Ranch Nature Preserve in Hallam, PA (today it's 86 and tomorrow it'll be 93)

Springtime photo at a long shot of a rocky steam cutting through a woodland in Central Pennsylvania. Two figures in the middle ground stop after crossing the water; one smiles and waves back towards the camera and the other looks down and away towards the ground.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

unbelievable piece of music: phillipgolub.bandcamp.com/track/loyalt...

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Phillip Golub was kind to ship out an early copy of his record, PARTISAN SHIP, which isn't out until next Friday. the continuous 3/4-hour composition is intense microtonal bliss—restlessly innovative avant-nu-jazz with a rotating cast of peerless NYC players. riyl Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince

Close-up photo of a CD copy of Phillip Golub's 2026 composition / album PARTISAN SHIP sitting upright on a violet-blue chair. The CD cover art features an abstract painting by Mario Layne Fabrizio.

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

so many terrific March-April releases in 2026, but Stimmerman stands as my recommendation this #bandcampfriday. I think "Bent" is one of the best songs of the decade! pick up the new LP (and the rest of Eva's digital discog, too). 🎧 stimmerman.bandcamp.com/track/bent

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Grant @nothingunfinished.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

also, this week for @isthmusmadison.bsky.social, I previewed @giantjonesbrewing.bsky.social's special screening of Eisenstein's STRIKE with live score by Wonderporium tonight (April 30) at 8:00p. an event that anticipates International Workers Day activities tomorrow ✊

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Experimental ensemble Wonderporium will play an original score for ‘Strike’ at Giant Jones as a lead-in to May Day

Giant Jones Brewing aims to inspire community connection with its pro-worker 'Strike' screening.

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