Matt Hanson
@matthansonaf.bsky.social
Writer moviesbooksmusicpolitics. Masshole now living in the land of dreams. Cont. ed at The Arts Fuse. Byline all over the place. Opinions solely my own, whoever I am. Website: www.hansonmatthew.com
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This seems so obvious to me that it always baffles me when people push back against it. Bach's Goldberg Variations and "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies are both absolutely perfect at what they're doing. But what they're doing isn't the same thing.
What I mean is there are some books that are trying to give you a transcendent moving experience, and make you feel like you lived a different life, and some books are giving you fantastic weekend entertainment. And that's fine!
October 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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September 30th/October 1st
September 30, 2026 at 10:12 PM
September 30th/October 1st
Basked in the hazy, wizened, ruminative vibes of Time Out Of Mind the other day while working because it's one of my favorites of his. Little did I know it was released 29 years ago on that day.
Fragments, unlike many other box sets, really works on its own
artsfuse.org/271464/music...
Fragments, unlike many other box sets, really works on its own
artsfuse.org/271464/music...
Music Album Review: Bob Dylan's "Fragments" - Appreciating the Enigmatically Ruminative Vibe of "Time Out of Mind" - The Arts Fuse
I’ve always admired Bob Dylan’s resolute reluctance to repeat himself, artistically or otherwise. The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments reminds us how obsessive that aesthetic restlessness really is.
artsfuse.org
October 2, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Basked in the hazy, wizened, ruminative vibes of Time Out Of Mind the other day while working because it's one of my favorites of his. Little did I know it was released 29 years ago on that day.
Fragments, unlike many other box sets, really works on its own
artsfuse.org/271464/music...
Fragments, unlike many other box sets, really works on its own
artsfuse.org/271464/music...
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A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has
This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*
This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*
Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."
September 28, 2026 at 11:05 PM
A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has
This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*
This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*
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"This is an administration with zero policy expertise, zero patience for collecting evidence, and zero interest in getting the right solution. They care only about what talking points will get them through the next news cycle, tomorrow’s consequences be damned."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-loil...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-loil...
Trump L’Oil: A Fake Fix for High Diesel Prices
His proposal to ban exports of U.S.-made diesel is likely to backfire spectacularly.
www.thebulwark.com
September 26, 2026 at 3:20 AM
"This is an administration with zero policy expertise, zero patience for collecting evidence, and zero interest in getting the right solution. They care only about what talking points will get them through the next news cycle, tomorrow’s consequences be damned."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-loil...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-loil...
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“‘Do or Do Not, There Is No “Try”’: Negative Dialectics and the Limits of Language in Jedi Pedagogy”
What’s your fake starwars academic paper
September 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
“‘Do or Do Not, There Is No “Try”’: Negative Dialectics and the Limits of Language in Jedi Pedagogy”
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hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 22, 2026 at 5:49 PM
hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.
Primal Static - "To Live"
YouTube video by Blue Orpheus Presents
www.youtube.com
September 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Let's see, I think I have covered all my usual fixations... Star Trek, vintage Eurovision, dancing on DW Griffith's grave...
Oh yes! Conrad Veidt. We love Conrad Veidt. Rawr!
Hated Nazis. Loved good beer. Prince of a guy
Oh yes! Conrad Veidt. We love Conrad Veidt. Rawr!
Hated Nazis. Loved good beer. Prince of a guy
September 21, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Let's see, I think I have covered all my usual fixations... Star Trek, vintage Eurovision, dancing on DW Griffith's grave...
Oh yes! Conrad Veidt. We love Conrad Veidt. Rawr!
Hated Nazis. Loved good beer. Prince of a guy
Oh yes! Conrad Veidt. We love Conrad Veidt. Rawr!
Hated Nazis. Loved good beer. Prince of a guy
what a movie that is
Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung in Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, 2000
"Cheung embodies the film's lonely core: a woman trapped in loveliness and convention, her tightly repressed suffering a mocking rebuke to the putative powers of beauty."
- Rachel Abramowitz
"Cheung embodies the film's lonely core: a woman trapped in loveliness and convention, her tightly repressed suffering a mocking rebuke to the putative powers of beauty."
- Rachel Abramowitz
September 20, 2026 at 3:53 PM
what a movie that is
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THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE...had the surprise of relaxed virtuosity, as if he'd just discovered, at last, how to make movies, by a new, ironically matter-of-fact, thin-textured method—the visual equivalent of simple declarative sentences. (1977)
September 18, 2026 at 10:44 PM
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE...had the surprise of relaxed virtuosity, as if he'd just discovered, at last, how to make movies, by a new, ironically matter-of-fact, thin-textured method—the visual equivalent of simple declarative sentences. (1977)
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this is a stupid decision by Hasan if he actually cares about getting the people he supports elected
you can think this is true and you can still consider optics enough not to go on “the Axios show” and make sure AES gets to spend the whole next week being asked about it at every event
you can think this is true and you can still consider optics enough not to go on “the Axios show” and make sure AES gets to spend the whole next week being asked about it at every event
Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker tells Axios he believes America conducts more terrorism in the world than al-Qaeda.
www.axios.com/2026/09/17/h...
www.axios.com/2026/09/17/h...
Hasan Piker on "The Axios Show": America worse than al-Qaeda "pound for pound"
The Twitch streamer is central to GOP attacks on Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race.
www.axios.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:46 PM
this is a stupid decision by Hasan if he actually cares about getting the people he supports elected
you can think this is true and you can still consider optics enough not to go on “the Axios show” and make sure AES gets to spend the whole next week being asked about it at every event
you can think this is true and you can still consider optics enough not to go on “the Axios show” and make sure AES gets to spend the whole next week being asked about it at every event
uncanny how these two skeets followed one another on my feed
September 17, 2026 at 3:15 AM
uncanny how these two skeets followed one another on my feed
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The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
September 17, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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John Coltrane's Centennial comes on September 23. I'll be listening to at least one Coltrane track each day of the month. #Trane100
Let's begin with "A Love Supreme, Pt. 1", released in 1965. McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMCH...
Let's begin with "A Love Supreme, Pt. 1", released in 1965. McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMCH...
A Love Supreme, Pt. I – Acknowledgement
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
John Coltrane's Centennial comes on September 23. I'll be listening to at least one Coltrane track each day of the month. #Trane100
Let's begin with "A Love Supreme, Pt. 1", released in 1965. McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMCH...
Let's begin with "A Love Supreme, Pt. 1", released in 1965. McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMCH...
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Dead horse alert: the fact that the average US voter doesn't understand this decades-long fact is Exhibit A of how broken the US media environment is & a lack of Dem comms. It is considered a matter of fact that Repubs are better for the economy. Will never change until info environment changes.
“going all the way back to Franklin D. Roosevelt, monthly job growth has averaged 176,000 under Democratic presidents, and 59,000 under Republican ones”
At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About
the GOP
A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie.
newrepublic.com
August 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Dead horse alert: the fact that the average US voter doesn't understand this decades-long fact is Exhibit A of how broken the US media environment is & a lack of Dem comms. It is considered a matter of fact that Repubs are better for the economy. Will never change until info environment changes.
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Of course they built a highway to the Danger Zone, as if public transit to the Danger Zone was never an option. They had the funding. They could’ve done it.
September 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Of course they built a highway to the Danger Zone, as if public transit to the Danger Zone was never an option. They had the funding. They could’ve done it.
Ever wondered what the old school Lord of the Flies movie might have sounded like with Neutral Milk Hotel, Pink Floyd, Rage and Radiohead, among others, as the soundtrack? #MovieSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FS...
Lord of the Flies [1963] with Vinyl soundtrack, a Sinclair/Milaszewski production.
YouTube video by doinelraisehell1
www.youtube.com
September 9, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Ever wondered what the old school Lord of the Flies movie might have sounded like with Neutral Milk Hotel, Pink Floyd, Rage and Radiohead, among others, as the soundtrack? #MovieSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FS...
Obsessed with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance #JohnFord #MovieSky
Here's something I wrote about it: www.thesmartset.com/print-the-le...
Here's something I wrote about it: www.thesmartset.com/print-the-le...
September 7, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Obsessed with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance #JohnFord #MovieSky
Here's something I wrote about it: www.thesmartset.com/print-the-le...
Here's something I wrote about it: www.thesmartset.com/print-the-le...
Ever wanted to see a silent film from a legendary German director with a specially curated soundtrack including music from Belafonte, Glass, Stones, Massive Attack, Tame Impala, et al
Now's Your Chance! #MusicSky #MovieSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRW-...
Now's Your Chance! #MusicSky #MovieSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRW-...
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas [1931] with Vinyl soundtrack, a Sinclair production.
YouTube video by doinelraisehell1
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Ever wanted to see a silent film from a legendary German director with a specially curated soundtrack including music from Belafonte, Glass, Stones, Massive Attack, Tame Impala, et al
Now's Your Chance! #MusicSky #MovieSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRW-...
Now's Your Chance! #MusicSky #MovieSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRW-...
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“As someone who read ‘Entertainment Weekly’ in my high school and college years, ‘Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System’s Last Hurrah’ is a nostalgic trip down memory lane,” @unclecrizzle.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/barbarians-a...
Barbarians at the (Film) Gate: Power Surge and the Golden Age of "Conglomerate Hollywood" — Crooked Marquee
Thomas Schatz's new book takes you back to the deals, triumphs, and disasters that went down during the golden age of “Conglomerate Hollywood.”
crookedmarquee.com
August 31, 2026 at 11:15 PM
“As someone who read ‘Entertainment Weekly’ in my high school and college years, ‘Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System’s Last Hurrah’ is a nostalgic trip down memory lane,” @unclecrizzle.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/barbarians-a...
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Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care."
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...
What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
newrepublic.com
August 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care."
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...