Spectrum Culture (@spectrumculture.bsky.social)

@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:34 PM

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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:24 PM

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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:53 PM

Scene Report:Jane Remover moves the room in PDX.
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@musicboxonline.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:23 PMReposted by @spectrumculture.bsky.social

John Prine would have turned 80 this week. He survived cancer, twice, only to be taken from us too soon anyway, due to complications from all things…COVID-19. Remember COVID? Fuck this shitty timeline, and fuck the people who made it worse. Prine was born in Maywood, Illinois, not too...

View of the stage at the Chicago Theatre

@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:47 PM

Scene Report: The psych rock cup is already overfilled in PDX
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@alanzilberman.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:13 PMReposted by @spectrumculture.bsky.social

The Social Reckoning is smarmy and obnoxious, as is Sorkin's wont, but its depiction of J6 is offensive to boot. I kind of hated it.

My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.

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The Social Reckoning frames all this with Mark watching the insurrection on multiple monitors as he struggles to decide whether to deactivate Trump’s Facebook account. The suggestion here is that Facebook had a causal relationship to January 6th, not a correlative one, an offensive idea because it diminishes the agency of the domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol grounds that day. The film cheapens what happened by suggesting Mark helped stop it, and no amount of footage of first responders in triage erases that.

All the hallmarks of a Sorkin screenplay are in The Social Reckoning. He cannot help but indulge his favorite trope – condescension toward women – in a scene where Jeff mansplains Broadway musicals, and later when Jeff declares that any accusation of mansplaining just means the man is winning the argument. Rather than develop subtext through visual storytelling, he has his characters explain the subtext it in excruciating detail. The strangest instance is in a scene where Frances, in a thankless monologue, looks at a basketball player on TV and cannot fathom the happiness he must feel. This utter lack of empathy is bizarre – anyone, even a data scientist at Facebook, can understand the thrill of athletic victory – so it is mostly an awkward setup for the final scene, where Frances raises her fist in triumph like Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club. The more traditional score by Alexandre Desplat, a stark contrast to Reznor/Ross, cloyingly embellishes this tone-deaf moment along with several others.

@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:29 AM

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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:07 PM

Three-disc collection of everyone's favorite Welsh proto-metal power trio puts a bird on it.
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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:32 PM

Scene Report: There's a Greep in the cellar!
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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:14 PM

This motherfucking movie is 20 years old.

@hopebillhelps.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:33 PMReposted by @spectrumculture.bsky.social

All must bow before our experimental music overlords!

I saw Horse Lords live and wrote about the experience on @spectrumculture.bsky.social:
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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:13 AM

Isn't Crisco bad for you?

@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:57 PM

she was one of the people that Rolling Stone was mad at for claiming never to have heard it

@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:40 PM

Our Sonic Youth series continues with RATHER RIPPED.

@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 4:29 PM

What movie character do you have an unexplainable hatred for? We'll go first:

@keviniskevin.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:01 PMReposted by @spectrumculture.bsky.social

This was a true joy to listen to and write about. And yes, one can feel joy when listening to Joy Division.

@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:24 AM

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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 9:50 PM

Scene Report: Beth Orton laments lost time while making up for it in PDX.
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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 7:54 PM

It's not a shame about Ray(mond Roussel)
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@spectrumculture.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:42 PM

Sweet Hassell
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