Sam Amidon

Asteroid City is both Wes Anderson’s most self- consciously intelligent film and his most passionate. It’s also his most political work. When an artist does everything he wants to do to the utmost he is painting his masterpiece. Taking it to the limit.

@jaleelshaw this is messed up @TuneCore

I didn’t win. You guys removed my entire catalog at the end of the 2025 and I’ve been unable to get it back up or even get in touch with you. So much for customer service. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@DCGranville @letterboxd wow can't wait to see this

My ★★★★★ review of Magellan on @letterboxd: boxd.it/dBamiX

On March 24 I'm playing at Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio see you all there daytondailynews.com/entertainment/…

In 1 MONTH Jake Xerxes Fussell is back in Boston at @ArtsattheArmory with @samamidon! Make sure you get your tickets: hive.co/l/jakexerxesfu…

100 percent disagree. One of the great film making achievements. Warren Beatty is one of the best directors of the last 50 years. This is a beautifully made film on every level with one of the great Diane Keaton performances. Any person wanting to make a love story that is both small and epic should watch this. In this era of shorter attention spans REDS stands out as what long form storytelling used to be. This used to be what a big screen movie was with our IMAX or special effects - and it is breathtaking. The witnesses alone - real people from the era telling the story interspersed with the films scenes give of a depth and authenticity we never see anymore in studio movies. See REDS!!

インディー界の名人大集合でした。 中でもサムアミドンのアパラチアンフォークなムードが最高でした。 BonniePrinceBilly Summer in the Southeast Sam Amidon ALL is Well LOW Things We Lost in The Fire PARQUET COURTS WIDE AWAKE!

Hard to classify and deliberately so, Willows brings together Pekka Kuusisto, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and folk singer Sam Amidon in a programme that moves freely between classical repertoire, contemporary music and American folk songs. Read at moto-perpetuo.com/top-releases-w…

@brianpmoats This was such a solid recommendation a couple weeks ago. Those last few tracks with Sam Amidon singing are stunning.

@larryagross no way !

Fun fact: Most of the words in this deservedly legendary sequence come from the final page of Jean Paul Sartre's single greatest work, Saint Genet, his 'existential biography' of Jean Genet. I saw Godard's film for the first time in 1974, I didn't read the book till 2017.

my teenage kids could tell which answer was AI in all but one case here... the kids know its habits!

Catchy opening! But the comma splice is unwieldy. Why dont you try "It was not just the best of times. It was also the worst of times."

It's funny we spend so much time in "standard tuning" when the following players were rarely in it: Curtis Mayfield (F#A#C#F#A#F#), Keith Richards / Ry Cooder (DGDGBD), Joni Mitchell (DAEF#AD), Skip James (DADFAD), Nick Drake etc -and even Jimi was a half step down from standard

@vurnt22 I love Kelley's book, it's incredible. Beautiful writing and deeply researched. My only small complaint is that Kelley says that the Columbia albums are too similar to each other and less creative than the Riverside albums, which many musicians would disagree with.

Haven’t read/heard it. How did it hit you?

You either get it. Or you don’t . Or you can’t. If you don’t? There’s still hope. 👁️🖤This. Emoticons are brilliant in this context for me, because paragraphs of words would never convey how essential and gorgeous this is to me. Not just Monk, but the interaction of every element. The dance between the bass & drums. The swing of it. How they intertwine. This is the sound of America 🇺🇸 being Great.

I have Stephen Bissette to thank for all the films I saw as a teenager. He ran the local video rental store in Brattleboro VT and they had a deal: 7 videos for 7 days for 7 dollars. They had all the art films and weird shit and we devoured it. Thank you Stephen!

update: The Seventh Seal is still great

NOW! stuff released (around) February 20, 2026 (1/4) Baby Keem Hen Ogledd The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Hilary Duff Nathan Fake Larry June x Curren$y x The Alchemist skaiwater Peaches Moby Pekka Kuusisto, Sam Amidon & Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (a 2026 fave)

Yes Robert Duval. Every breath he took while the camera was rolling was honest &pure.Being in a scene with him was so easy. He elevated it twitter.com/cane303/status…

@TheEsteemedFox @smalldiscourse i think about lost illusions all the time. love sentimental education as well

@smalldiscourse I've read several of his books but not that one

Flaubert's Sentimental Education is one of the best socio-political satires I've ever read, what with its hilarious irony, social-climbing, delusions of grandeur, fruitless pining after love, ludicrously opulent consumption, mountains of debt, and it just gets funnier when the Revolution of 1848 and its idiot politicking erupts in the middle of it all. Flaubert's "opulent world of salon intrigue" was informed by his experience hobnobbing in the court of Napoleon III in the 1860s, a place of "absolute egotism [and] unscrupulous hostility of each towards his neighbour", and yet it truly feels so contemporary to me. Plus ça change, eh. Importantly also one of Kafka's favourite novels too btw