Grant

@nothingunfinished

former @tonemadison.bsky.social writer / editor / misc, occasional film programmer, gamer, vegan. in limbo, on the spectrum.

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Grant@nothingunfinished· 8d

for #bandcampfriday, 25 fav releases of 2026 thus far (January thru June). a surfeit of psychedelic prog from usual suspects; Tim Smith's spirit brightly lives on. outsider artists synthesizing new sonic spaces in sprawling suites of tender / tortured melodicism & magnetic electroacoustic palettes.

A 5 x 5 album art grid of favorite releases between the months of January and June 2026. From the upper-left corner to bottom-right corners, all 25 artists / projects: Stimmerman, Phillip Golub, Antropoceno, Furii, Karoline Wallace, Cheer-Accident, Portrayal of Guilt, Le Grand Sbam, By Storm, Nirosta Steel, Chafouin Orchestra, Christina Vantzou, Ana Roxanne, Chromatose, Kaatayra, Jordy/Williams/Cohen/Haug, Liam Aldous, Spratleys, Antonio Gallucci, Helllhound, Otay:Onii, Phuyu y la Fantasma, Lucy Liyou, Eivind Opsvik (The Setting), and Janel Leppin (Ensemble Volcanic Ash).

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jul 16

randomly picked @thorazos.bsky.social's VISION off the shelf at the public library a week ago, and it's just incredible. a devastating meditation on self-image and parasocial relationships. one of the most moving graphic novels I've ever read 🪞

Cover art for Julia Gfrörer's graphic novel, VISION, released in 2020 with Fantagraphics Book. The illustration, on a puce-colored background, renders a bedroom scene; a dresser with an ovular mirror sits against the wall beside a wooden chair and behind the corner of a bed frame. A few garments lay on the floor.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jul 6

increased dialogue about media preservation in the last week, for good reason. not that I emphatically endorse splurging on physical items atm, but I'd still recommend starting a collection over paying for subscription services. recent additions to my own from the VS and B&N Criterion sales:

Angled photo of a collection of 13 sealed Blu-rays displayed on a royal blue armchair. From the top left to bottom right, the alphabetically arranged titles include BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, COMPENSATION (1999), THE DELTA, FRESH KILL, HIGH ART, A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966), NIGHT OWL, PLEASE BABY PLEASE, RESURRECTION (2025), The Films of Hisayasu Satō Volume Four, SPEAKING PARTS, WHEN TOMORROW DIES, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jun 24

finally finished act three of SILKSONG early this morning to the ambient sound of heavy rain outside. an overwhelming experience. 🪡 unparalleled art direction, sound, and scope undone by intermittently baffling game design decisions. let us never speak of the Old Hearts quest again. pure hell, lol

Screenshot of a cutscene in HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG, when Hornet gazes upon Haunted Bellhart for the first time.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jun 15

kind of obsessed with this scene in Mike Figgis' LIEBESTRAUM

A shot from the 1991 slow-burn erotic mystery LIEBESTRAUM shows the characters of Nick Kaminsky (Kevin Anderson) and Jane Kessler (Pamela Gidley) standing among the scaffolding outside the cast-iron Ralston Building in Elderstown, Illinois. He looks up to the right, while she holds an SLR camera to her right eye and points it towards the screen.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jun 2

official event flyer by Pelstring 🌈

Colorful event flyer for "Our Psychedelic Nature: short films by Emily Pelstring." On the medium blue-colored background, information about the where and when is printed in white text—at Arts + Literature Laboratory on Wednesday, June 10, at 7:00p. Several stills—four in a more vertical orientation and two in landscape orientation—are arranged in a square-like pattern from the filmmaker's trippy animated body of work (A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR x2, HEAD CLEANER, SOMNIUM LAPIDUM, PETAL TO THE METAL, INSECT EXPRESS). A $5 donation is suggested.

Grant@nothingunfinished· May 26

screening program features a unique selection of her work, including a U.S. Girls music video and new pieces like A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR, which is inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, as well as PSYCHOTERRA, a collaboration with Naomi Okabe about "ecological grief"

Psychedelic still (thumbnail) from A FLAME THE COLOUR OF AIR, the animated short by Emily Pelstring, shows fluid superimpositions of fiery colors.

A thumbnail still from the collaborative short film, PSYCHOTERRA, shows a close-up of nitrile-gloved hands holding various seeds—"a stable archive of feelings."

Grant@nothingunfinished· May 25

you should've been here to watch the regional premiere of CHRONOVISOR with Silas and me last night (thanks, JMK and Tone Glow: toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...)

Photo of the entryway at Chicago Filmmakers on West Hollywood Avenue in Chicago. Daylight streams in through the windows at the back wall. A medium-size display table with promotional materials sits in front.

Grant@nothingunfinished· May 17

50s-weather hiking with the fam last Thursday at Wizard Ranch Nature Preserve in Hallam, PA (today it's 86 and tomorrow it'll be 93)

Springtime photo at a long shot of a rocky steam cutting through a woodland in Central Pennsylvania. Two figures in the middle ground stop after crossing the water; one smiles and waves back towards the camera and the other looks down and away towards the ground.

Grant@nothingunfinished· May 7

Phillip Golub was kind to ship out an early copy of his record, PARTISAN SHIP, which isn't out until next Friday. the continuous 3/4-hour composition is intense microtonal bliss—restlessly innovative avant-nu-jazz with a rotating cast of peerless NYC players. riyl Anna Webber's Shimmer Wince

Close-up photo of a CD copy of Phillip Golub's 2026 composition / album PARTISAN SHIP sitting upright on a violet-blue chair. The CD cover art features an abstract painting by Mario Layne Fabrizio.

Grant@nothingunfinished· May 1

great show

Photo of a sizable audience at Giant Jones Brewing Company sitting and watching a projection of Sergei Eisenstein's STRIKE (1925) centered on a white gallery wall at the center right. Some fluorescent light from the street spills in through the garage door in the background.

Photo of improvisatory ensemble Wonderporium (Noah Gilfillan, Jason Kutz, and Tom Curry), who are sitting with / at their instruments and mixers in front of fermentation vessels at Giant Jones Brewing Company. The players are partly bathed in red light as they perform a score for Sergei Eisenstein's STRIKE (1925).

Grant@nothingunfinished· Apr 23

Sarah Clausen performing a mesmerizing, multifaceted, multiphonic set at Communication last night

Photo at a medium shot shows a lone musician in a red shirt and black pants sitting on a stage playing an alto saxophone. She loops and manipulates melody and timbre using a pedalboard on the stage floor.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Mar 28

PERSONA (1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman) | PAVEMENTS (2024, dir. Alex Ross Perry)

A famous still from the psychological art-house drama PERSONA shows a shirtless boy reaching out to touch a woman's face projected on a large screen in front of him.

In his postmodernist documentary on the band Pavement, director Alex Ross Perry seemingly pays tribute to one of the opening scenes in Bergman's PERSONA. Actor Joe Keery reaches out to touch musician Stephen Malkmus' face projected on a large screen in front of him.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Mar 6

finally finished arranging my fav 2025 releases from July thru Dec for #bandcampfriday. an inspired medley of transportive discoveries and formative artists, which kept me grounded amid personal and professional (and universal) tumult... once more. grateful to engage with these sounds and textures

Grant@nothingunfinished· Feb 22

Dave Schoepke in the zone at Common Sage last night

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jan 7

new Luc Besson and Brett Ratner films coming soon to your local AMC ?????? wtf are we doing here

Light box at the AMC in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, contains a poster for a new telling of DRACULA by Luc Besson

Light box at the AMC in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, contains a poster for the documentary MELANIA by Brett Ratner

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jan 6

runner-up

Grant@nothingunfinished· Dec 31

fav live-streamer clip of 2025

Grant@nothingunfinished· Dec 24

happy holidays. here's an unreleased pocket recording of Lovely Socialite's cover of Weidorje's zeuhl epic "Elohim's Voyage" live at La Fête de Marquette on 13 July 2024. it was an amazing moment in Madison music fest history. and now you, too, can experience it www.transfernow.net/dl/20251224p...

Cosmic cover art from Weidorje's 1978 self-titled album.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Dec 5

Luke Leavitt was kind to mail me a cassette copy of his new ambient-jazz release earlier this week. please consider picking it up this #bandcampfriday! lukeleavitt.bandcamp.com/album/concer...

A hand-drawn landscape by Andrew Swiatkowski on a greeting card is placed upright on a hardwood floor. It rests behind a cassette-case copy of Luke Leavitt's CONCERT IN THE SHELL album, which is oriented vertically.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Nov 22

the guys (Matt Blair, Brian Courage, Devin Drobka, Will Greene) killing it at Audio for the Arts last night

Grant@nothingunfinished· Nov 10

from the desk of a physical media advocate: take advantage of @4starvideo.bsky.social's 40th anniversary celebration, which continues for two more days this week. over the weekend, I finally signed up for a rental subscription plan (at 40% off!) and took home a few titles I'd been eyeing for a while

Three Four Star Video Rental DVD cases are displayed face up on a chair with their Blu-ray catalog cards: OTHER SIDE OF THE UNDERNEATH (1972, dir. Jane Arden), HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986, dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi), and GIVE ME PITY (2022, dir. Amanda Kramer).

Grant@nothingunfinished· Oct 31

maybe next year, for the 30th anniversary of Devil Doll's DIES IRAE, I'll finally put together that Mr. Doctor (Mario Panciera) costume. a rare excuse to theatrically slink around like a silent-movie villain. a befitting soundtrack for your Halloween: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hech...

B/W photo of Mr. Doctor posing in Victorian attire and gothic makeup, circa mid-1990s. He extends his left arm out towards the camera and tilts his head down with a sinister expression.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Oct 16

✊💛

"Respect, Portland, Chicago and everywhere," writes Rafael Toral in the Bandcamp listening party for TRAVELING LIGHT.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Oct 15

another beautiful record from Rafael Toral, and companion to last year's transcendent SPECTRAL EVOLUTION. 50 minutes of extended "jazz covers" that ascend into mesmeric abstraction. modulated guitar symphonies of interiority. Toral's rendition of the Gene de Paul tune is sublime

An opened CD edition of Rafael Toral's "jazz covers" album, TRAVELING LIGHT, sitting atop a turntable's dust cover.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Sep 29

we need editors, because ineffectual sentences like this can be pull-quoted: "ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER isn't really a political film, but neither is it not a political film." that shouldn't be the first thing anyone reads about the new PTA

Cropped screenshot of the Metacritic page for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER shows an excerpt from the film's first glowing "100" review, written Ty Burr at The Washington Post.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Sep 6

watch this movie, and you'll never forget that August has 31 days. promise ya

American light box movie poster for Joachim Trier's OSLO, 31 AUGUST (2011)

Grant@nothingunfinished· Sep 6

before the day is done... a recap of the bizarre first half of 2025. yet, it forced me into musical territories and niches that would have otherwise gone unexplored. I suppose this list of 25 reflects a convoluted push-pull between the formerly unknown and those most familiar to me.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Aug 7

always nice to receive a record a full seven weeks early

Physical CD copy of the upcoming Webber/Morris Big Band record, UNSEPARATE, with the street date of September 26, 2025. The cardboard gatefold package sits upright on a royal-blue colored chair.

Grant@nothingunfinished· Jul 17

another added bonus for the Saturday screening: the first 29 people can pick up a free DEUCE baseball card