@fivegrand1

fivegrand1 has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in August 2021. Besides social media accounts, fivegrand1 has populated their site with An as-always untimely list of the best albums of 2025, Andor season 2 and the problem of prequelitis, Andor season 2 is revolutionary TV, A painfully sincere tribute to the genius of Jenny Nicholson, 30 years of hating Oasis, The spectacular rise and depressing demise of Charli XCX’s Brat Summer, The 15 best Hey Duggee badges, A reasonably timely list of the best albums of 2024, The only 5 Christmas albums I can stand, On the 30th anniversary of my marginal DJ career, Joker and the problem of identity, Rewatching Andor as a meditation on Palestine, Revisiting All Over the Place, the Bangles’ criminally underrated 1984 debut LP, The many delights — and the disappointment — of the epic Bluey episode “The Sign”, A belated (as usual) list of the best albums of 2023, A compilation of my short-form film reviews of 2023, Elia Suleiman’s Palestine trilogy: The tragic absurdity of occupation, Notes on the politics of Barbie, “Remember what I told you”: Sinéad O’Connor’s incomparable life of rebellion, The greatness of Everything, the Bangles’ melancholy, masterful breakup album, On the 30th anniversary of my marginal DJ career, Andor is a refreshing change for Star Wars, and a thrilling and inspiring depiction of revolution, Meg White’s greatness is not up for debate, Let’s talk about Tina Turner’s pivotal contributions to the Mad Max saga, Buy me a coffee, With a new covers LP and a delightful debut novel out at the same time, Susanna Hoffs is thriving, Wednesday’s Rat Saw God: Southern Gothic country shoegaze played with exhilarating intensity, Sydney Film Festival preview: A deliriously good Amitabh Bachchan retro, plus other highlights, Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children: Cinematic psychedelia, dope beats and audio therapy, A tribute to my grandpa on what would have been his 101st birthday, Jim Poe - Pathways (new techno mix), A (somewhat less) belated list of the best albums of 2022, Wet Leg’s debut LP is a raunchy, joyous treat and an instant rock & roll classic, Peter Jackson’s Return of the King is a supreme classic, but here are some things that bug me about it, Ride live in Sydney: A transcendent Nowhere retrospective rides a new wave of shoegaze, Khruangbin live at Sydney Opera House: Sublime space-funk in the grandest of settings, Prey: Groundbreaking Indigenous action-horror that kicks ass, Tame Impala live in Sydney: Uncompromising, euphoric psych-pop for the masses, Bore, thud and blunder: The MCU jumps the shark, Wet Leg’s debut LP is a raunchy, joyous treat and an instant rock & roll classic, New York’s postpunk revival deserves a better documentary than Meet Me in the Bathroom, The exquisite films of Satyajit Ray, cinema’s great humanist, Atlanta season 3 is meandering, implosive and weird — and we need more TV like it, A Bangles page that's not about their looks, LA 92 triggered all my memories of witnessing a historic uprising, The catharsis and redemption of Courtney Barnett live, A belated list of the best albums of 2021, Firenadoes, koala denialism and hanging loose: Australia’s apocalyptic bushfires prove Don’t Look Up isn’t exaggerating, The power of Don’t Look Up is in the details, Revolution on the Big Screen (talk on Reds for Denver Communists), Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s Wajib is a charming and politically sharp family drama, Tame Impala’s Currents: A contemporary classic of epic, obsessive psychedelic pop, Forty Years Later, Reds Is Still One of the Best Films Ever Made About Revolutionary Politics, Ken Burns’ new Muhammad Ali docu-series is an immersive look at the Greatest of All Time, Bright Lights by Susanna Hoffs: A collection of warm, intimate, impeccably chosen covers, Marvel’s What If…?: Disposable by design, intermittently powerful, ultimately frustrating, Hats off to the legend that is Emma Watkins, as she leaves the Wiggles, Powerful ‘Incarceration Nation’ puts the justice system on trial, Octonauts: Above & Beyond is teaching young kids about the climate emergency, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: an unsurpassed masterpiece of romance, swordplay and feminism, On the 30th anniversary of my first rave, Not forgotten: the ongoing fight to solve the Bowraville murders, Dry Cleaning’s New Long Leg: Uniquely thrilling surrealist postpunk, Please, stop calling Aliens ‘xenomorphs’, Gillian Welch’s Time (The Revelator) at 20: A timeless masterpiece of apocalyptic country, Black Widow review: Finally, Natasha Romanoff gets to be a whole person, Recreational Therapy Podcast, The Hunger Games Prequel, Songbirds, Is a Satire on the Ruling Class, Today, We’re All Living in Mad Max’s World.