Dr. Owen Brazas

@owenbrazas.bsky.social

I'm me? Realism be damned, this is fucking poetry. ACAB. Free Palestine. Playing Loud Music in Weaklung. Chicago. Listening to Loud Music or Quiet Music Loudly. Non-Annoying Film Person.

In the 90s, the Chicago scene was "mean" to The Smashing Pumpkins because dude was insufferable and no one wanted to work or hang out with him. Just rank vibes. Then he decides to turn "heel" and lean into it, but a good heel doesn't cry about it for 30 years. Dude just deeply sucks.

does your brain accidentally order the exact opposite of what you were planning on getting when you get coffee? Me the whole way walking to the coffee place: boy cant wait to get a latte with some maple syrup in it, love all that steamed milk. Them: What do you want? Me: One macchiato please!

Friends I am sad to report our pals IFIHADAHIFI won't be able to join us on Sunday. Since Hifi is irreplaceable, we aren't going to try. It's Sunday so 3 bands will bang it out and get you home at a reasonable hour.

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"I toured with them as 50 Foot Wave a couple of years ago and they have their sound and they’re the only people who can make it which is so unusual. They get up on stage for a soundcheck and boom!" Kristin Hersh on Mission of Burma - Vs #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/a7IIqNL

Mission of Burma - Vs album cover. Illustration of blue morning glory flowers growing on a wire mesh fence with titles in black lettering in the middle.

I got extremely nerdy with Michael Chaiken, producer of Criterion's amazing new Complete Kubrick set! We talked about restoring Kubrick's shorts, the one shot in Eyes Wide Shut that still drove its DP crazy, and much more: www.avclub.com/the-complete...

The Complete Kubrick producer explains how hard it was to actually make it "complete"

From putting Stanley Kubrick's first film into 4K to restoring Eyes Wide Shut, Michael Chaiken goes deep on The Complete Kubrick.

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Just thinking about some of my favorite rock drummers: Janet Weiss - SK and Quasi Sara Lund - Unwound Kat Bornefeld - The Ex Cheshire Agusta - Stinking Lizaveta Bill Ward - Black Sabbath Peter Prescott - Mission of Burma