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Zach Schonfeld

@zachschonfeld.bsky.social

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Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, etc. Author of new book "How Coppola Became Cage." Still sitting in a room. Email: [email protected].

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · Nov 17

My book is finally out now. I spent three years researching Nicolas Cage's early years, studying his formative performances, and interviewing more than 120 people who worked with him and shared untold stories with me. I hope you find it interesting.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1h

no no, that's the Connecticut-based jam band Juice

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1h

Confusing and upsetting everyone at the party by insisting that her name is pronounced "Lucy Da-COOS"

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2h

to be fair, I don't know if he was a right-winger back then but he definitely is now.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3h

Skill issue. PJ Harvey fell in love with a right-wing freak and then made Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Is Taylor Swift Too Happy to Make Good Music? by Tyler Foggatt

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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News has been renamed Passion of the Weiss

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 21h

Some of us have been meaning to read Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" since 2007

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 22h

A man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination lived until 1956 and could have theoretically listened to the first album by Harry Belafonte, who in turn lived long enough to hear "WAP"

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

My "Kaputt-core" essay has migrated to a new link. Here's the working link for perpetuity:

Kaputt-core

Zach Schonfeld on the Toronto indie scene that's making smooth-jazz sound radical.

www.magazine.dirt.fyi

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

Try this link: www.magazine.dirt.fyi/p/kaputt-core

Kaputt-core

Zach Schonfeld on the Toronto indie scene that's making smooth-jazz sound radical.

www.magazine.dirt.fyi

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

You're telling me Josh Safdie made a movie about a ping-pong champion and somehow failed to call it "One Paddle After Another"?

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda disagree! There was never doubt that she'd make another album, but there used to be longer pauses between albums and more room for silence and anticipation

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

Are teenagers the target audience? Taylor is 35.

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

Would love her to make something as weird and polarizing as Zooropa

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

Look, Prince was insanely prolific too, but he also did stuff like withdraw an album at the last minute because he had a "spiritual epiphany" that it was satanic to keep everybody guessing.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

Sort of? She disappeared for a while in between 1989 and Reputation and I remember a lot of uncertainty about what she was up to and whether/how she would mount a comeback.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about Taylor Swift is: there's no mystery left. She tells us everything. She releases every outtake and every alternate take. She floods the market with behind-the-scenes content. She self-mythologizes herself so much, there's no myth left for the rest of us.

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · Jul 22

Every woman in a 70s Italian film looks like a goddess sent from heaven and every man looks like they've had a year long hangover and at any moment could cough their lungs out.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

"Weiss [is] someone blissfully captured by the richest people alive, and invested in smashing the last vestiges of liberal power in this country: universities, civil servants, and the media. She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain."

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. I saw Oppenheimer in the same format and it was pretty special.

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

Saw the film again today, this time in IMAX 70mm, and felt like I was levitating during the whole car chase sequence. Cinema!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

better to embrace it in your mid 30's so you can get to donald fagen's solo work before your hearing really starts to go

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

Scorsese is about to do a press run for the Apple documentary, which means we're one week away from him being asked about One Battle After Another and saying something like, "Now that's a terrific picture! Just terrific! It reminded me of when I saw 'A Fistful of Dollars' back in 1967."

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, Seconds is incredible!

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Ice Cream for Crow by Captain Beefheart

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 4d

In defense of Taylor Swift...what's the best 12th album anyone has ever made?