viewKurt Vile/Luke Roberts Classic Love (ep), Verve 2025
I am a Kurt Vile-O'phile. Classic Love is quintessential Vile. Warm. Weird. Funny.
A collaboration with Luke Roberts centers the EP. They team up on a version of Roberts's title tune, and KV takes a solo pass on another version of the song. Two versions? Both work.
They co-wrote “Hit of the High Life,” which sounds like a lost song off Neil Young's On The Beach LP. It's confessional, raw, and angsty about the world, macro and micro.
Mix in a Beach House cover, an updated catalog song, and you’ve entered the creative playground Vile calls home.
Stream/Buy it.
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viewPluribus, Episode 3: Grenade
See review of the first two episodes here
In the aftermath of almost 100% of humanity entering the singularity, our cranky protagonist, Carol, is refusing to deal. But when even a grocery run to Sprouts typifies the emptiness of having every need met, avoidance is futile.
Gilligan humanizes AI slop through Carol's keeper, Zosia. She is a hive mind Amelia Bedelia, glitches at emotion, and one sip of vodka is enough to chat out random Wikipedia entries.
By Grenade's end, Carol understands the crowd-sourced charm offensive she's experiencing and the power both she and they hold. Carol now enters a race to protect her individualism.
Keep watching it.
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viewDeath of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (2025)
In January, I wrote, “I feel bad for the rest of the books I will read this year.” As we wind down 2025, my statement holds.
No spoilers, but multiple stories power this novel. Advanced bio-prosthetics, driverless cars, and battle bots all feature in the plots. The narrative is American, African, and Galactic, expanding by the powers of ten.
Okorafor gives a soul and voice to what is artificial. Through that alchemy, she quilts together a complex, creative, and cautionary story about our collective walk into AI Evolution with intimacy and scale.
A novel for the Neo-Neolithic age.
Read it.
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