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Author’s 2023 note: The Fastbacks are probably the single most-beloved Seattle band of the modern era, but they sadly never found the kind of success of many of their peers. But if you talk to any of the superstars in Seattle music, from Eddie Vedder to Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses (who was their drummer early on), the city’s love of the Fastbacks will most certainly come up. Just last month I saw a show at Seattle’s Easy Street Records with Kurt Bloch’s new band “Bad Scene” where both Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament and Duff got up onstage.

In almost a month, I will be forty. Forty!  In some ways, I’ve accomplished more than I thought I would have accomplished by this age. I started a life in a new city.  I became a writer. I wrote a book. On the other hand, there are goals and milestones I thought I would have reached by now but still haven’t. I’d like to write a more creative book. I thought I’d have more money saved.

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This past May, I wrote about the the 10-month period I spent reviewing films under the handle @Cinema_Che_ on Instagram. From February 13, 2020 (American Hustle), to just after last Christmas (Love Actually), I wrote 65 reviews, all of films from my DVD collection. Cinema Che didn’t accrue much of a following. But the discipline that came with knowing I … ncG1vNJzZmiaop6ur6%2FAp5yvnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXZu2rbmMnqqsmamoerCyjKWgpJ1dqMGwvsieqmanlg%3D%3D

The poet of flyover country, director Alexander Payne has only made seven films since debuting with Citizen Ruth in 1996, but each of them has felt like a small event, graced by the consistency of his character-based humor and his devotion to the way ordinary people, Nebraskans especially, manage lives of nagging banality and heartbreak. As the years have passed, Payne has seemed more and more like a man out of time, turning out comedies of immense appeal at a time when such low-key fare is relegated to the arthouse.

“Stop for a second and think what it’s like for me! That’s all I want.” — Amelia (Catherine Keener) in Walking and Talking, 1996 Though the acerbic wit of Nicole Holofcener’s films might not always make this apparent, her seven films are acts of deep empathy. But whether it comes as an act of selfless generosity or selfish emotional ransom is an entirely different question. Her latest film, Sundance smash You Hurt My Feelings (now playing in theaters), continues to add depth and dimension to the questions that have fascinated the writer-director since her debut feature over a quarter-century ago.

Eight years ago today, the Allman Brothers Band played their final show at the Beacon Theatre. You can order a CD of the final show right here. I covered the final shows every which way, posting on Facebook, covering immediately for Billboard, with a story I had to get up and write with about two hours sleep,  and writing the following story for Guitar World, when I had a little bit of time to digest and talk to Jaimoe, Warren and Derek.

After the novel proper has ended, McCarthy appends a short, one-paragraph epilogue to Blood Meridian. Here it is: Presumably, the year is 1878 and the bone-pickers that the Kid encounters in the final chapter are still at work, gathering bison bones to sell to the eastern markets: these will be ground up and used as fertilizer. A man is walking among them, moving over this north Texas plain, making holes in the ground with an implement.