Kathy 📼 Fennessy

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Music and film writer. @seattlecritics trustee. Past/present contributor to Amazon, City Pages, KUOW, Rock & Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
Our president is a monomanaic and dangerously unfit. Each day he's in power we slide closer to the event horizon.
“The Collective demonstrated that Gordon could make terse, industrial-strength, hip-hop influenced music 100% at odds with Sonic Youth’s output. PLAY ME shows that she can still do that and add some squall.” My Kim Gordon review just went up at @aquariumdrunkard.com https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/13/kim-gordon-play-me/ #music #kimgordon
Kim Gordon :: PLAY ME - Aquarium Drunkard

Shuddering beats disintegrate, dragging pieces of themselves over rough surfaces, all noise and rhythm and confrontation. Kim Gordon, now on her third album as a solo artist, works again with Justin Raisen, churning up a particularly dirty, distorted variety of hip-hop crossed with indie rock, blitzed by amp buzz and ruptured occasionally by guitar. Over this seething, volatile bed, Gordon chants ominous verses that glance on, but do not explicate, the day’s big questions: AI, climate change, alienation, colonial overreach.

Aquarium Drunkard - Los Angeles Based Music Journal

3 things about Sarah Friedland’s FAMILIAR TOUCH

Familiar Touch 1. "Steve! Steve. He's my son. I won't remember." 2. All the diners being served her special breakfast. 3. Her head gently supported in the water by a pool noodle.

http://randomcha.net/2026/03/13/3-things-about-sarah-friedlands-familiar-touch/

3 things about Sarah Friedland’s FAMILIAR TOUCH

Familiar Touch [2024] 1. “Steve! Steve. He’s my son. I won’t remember.” 2. All the diners being served her special breakfast. 3. Her head gently supported in the water by a …

RandomCha

On Jenny Agutter's first, rather extraordinary leading role in David Greene's fourth feature, I Start Counting, a film I had been meaning to see for years. Happy to say it lived up to my expectations; less happy that it's now out of print in the States.

More: tinyurl.com/ydp6s9mj

Zohran Mamdani had +38 approval upon his election. In under 2 months he’s:
•Secured universal childcare
•Paid New Yorkers $30/hour & survived a blizzard without disruption
•Remained wholly honest about the massive budget crisis NYC faces
•Demanded Hochul tax billionaires instead of working people
•Got Trump to commit $12B to NYC for affordable housing, and
•Did it ALL without corporate money

His approval is now +48.

Almost like working people love public servants who fight for working people.🤯

Sun Ra's old place on E. 3rd St. in NYC. I don't have many rituals in life, but one of the most persistent is whenever I'm in the city I pick up a couple of vege samosas from the Pakistani deli a couple doors down at 2nd Ave., have a short meal, and pay my respects.

Anyway, this is my way of recommending the Sun Ra documentary that just aired on PBS. You can stream it here:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/sun-ra-do-the-impossible-documentary/37455/
(it works with a VPN too if you're geofenced)

Correction: People are becoming aware of Sam Altman’s long-standing non-grip on humanity
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/sam-altman-train-a-human/686120/
Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity

You don’t “train a human.”

The Atlantic

Somersault is playing NYC's Metrograph through Feb 28.

"Actors and directors sometimes meet at just the right time, and that was the case with Shortland, who was making her first feature after several shorts, and Cornish, who was playing her first lead after several supporting roles."

More: https://tinyurl.com/5brxh2f5

See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen

https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/see-albert-camus-historic-lecture-the-human-crisis-performed-by-actor-viggo-mortensen.html