Jeff Giles

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/9/24

If you're anything like me, you regularly lose track of artists whose work you've actively enjoyed. Hooked up to this great informational firehose we're all attached to, I'm not sure there are enough "follow" buttons, push notifications, or newsletter blasts

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/8/24

Today's musical roulette wheel landed on Del Water Gap's 2023 release I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet. Prior to diving into the record in question, I didn't know anything about this act, but I'd enjoyed a couple other

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New Music Friday: 1/5/24

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/4/24

Some days are more conducive than others when it comes to listening to stuff and then writing about it, and today definitely landed on the "less conducive" end of the spectrum. This is a bummer, but on the other hand, I had less time for listening because I

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/3/24

The discovery algorithms used by Spotify and Apple, etc. have never done a lot for me in terms of putting new stuff I'll love in my ears, so I'm kind of ambivalent about that stuff at best — but I'm also an outlier in a

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/2/24

Today's soundtrack comes to us courtesy of my brother Brian, who sent me a Bandcamp gift copy of Kyle Craft's Full Circle Nightmare for Christmas. It was released in 2018, but it's all new to me — and besides, from the production to the arrangements,

Music

Cultural Consumption: 1/1/24

Unsure of what to listen to next and let down by whichever bits of code are supposed to help Spotify and Apple Music point me toward stuff I'll like, I decided to try Gnoosic, a discovery engine that works by asking you to give it the names of

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Some Guy Cinema: The Kid Detective

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Some Guy Cinema: Paris, Texas

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Some Guy Cinema: Teachers

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Some Guy Cinema: The Hand

Cultural Consumption: 9/20/21

Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 9/13-9/18/2021. Music: I’ve spent a lot of time recently going back over songs I enjoyed during the ’90s in order to put together a huge playlist of my favorite stuff from the decade. It’s

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Some Guy Cinema: Last Embrace

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Some Guy Cinema: The Big Fix

Cultural Consumption: 9/6/21

Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 8/30-9/5/2021. Music: I spent a fair amount of time with a fairly eclectic array of new releases over the last week. I’m pretty sure an entire day was taken up with Chvrches’ Screen Violence album,

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Some Guy Cinema: The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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Some Guy Cinema: Blue Collar

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Some Guy Cinema: Klute

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Some Guy Cinema: Heroes

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Some Guy Cinema: Lifeguard

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Some Guy Cinema: Scorpio

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Some Guy Cinema: Hopscotch

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Some Guy Cinema: Harry & Son

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Some Guy Cinema: Running on Empty

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Some Guy Cinema: The Mean Season