For the past three years, I've been writing and reporting a book about Nicolas Cage's early career and rise to fame. I'm very excited to announce that my new book will be published by Oxford University Press on October 31. You can preorder it now:

Abbott: What are you listening to? .Costello: They Are Gutting a Body of Water .Abbott: Well, tell them to stop!.

RT @EmmaSzewczak: She loathes ai but plays poker with ai pacino? hypocrite.

Anyway, please enjoy these photos of Winona Ryder wearing a Wilco shirt while smoking a cigarette with Brittany Murphy in 2002

RT @garbo__talks: She’s always been cool

Winona also reveals in this interview that her parents conceived her in the City Lights Bookstore after closing time.

Winona Ryder "loathes AI," likes to read novels in a sunlit room that looks out over David Lynch’s house, and plays poker with Al Pacino. How is she still so cool

Still find Alex G pretty boring, but if anyone is getting that major label money, I'm glad it's a guy who got namechecked in a Cymbals Eat Guitars song in 2016.

RT @VrindaJagota: Reviewed this rly excellent album from Cleo Reed, one of my favorites on the year. It’s all about finding ways to survive….

In 1999, all rock bands were required to have a guy whose whole job was just making record-scratch noises. You would showcase this guy's talent on an interlude track called, like, "Battlestar Scralatchtica.".

RT @MBSchonze: Thank you @jawnita for your words! . @cleoforshort's "Cuntry" in @hearingthingsco's Five Must Hear Albums . Read: https://t.….

One of the best albums of the year came out today. It's called "Kiss from the Balcony" and it's the new album from the Oakland, California-based musician Madeline Kenney.

I asked you to go to the Coldplay concert.You said you never heard of them.How cool is that??.

The Jane's Addiction situation is depressing and bleak. On the bright side, it probably reduces the chances of another terrible Jane's Addiction reunion album.

RT @maddiewhittle: Superman but his alter ego is László Tóth and nobody can tell whether he’s pro or anti Zionist.

Anyway, I wrote a book about Nicolas Cage. DM me if you want a signed/personalized copy ($21 + shipping).

Unfortunately, nothing Oasis has released in the last 25 years is as powerful as Noel Gallagher telling an interviewer that he liked his mother "until she gave birth to Liam".

Good afternoon. Over at @Pitchfork, I reviewed the new album by Smut, an excellent Chicago band that dares to ask, "What if a shoegaze band got really into early-2000s pop-punk?".

May have impulse-purchased some used DVDs while reporting this story

RT @whatimafter_: not vinyl-style but thats a good thing.

Hello. Over at @Inc, I profiled the founders of Brooklyn's new video store, two movie-loving millennials who believe that DVDs and Blu-rays are headed for a vinyl-style resurgence and are betting big with a brick-and-mortar store in Williamsburg.