Raphael Jose Martinez

Guess I'm an art school kid now? I'm taking a filmmaking class at SAIC this spring with my employee tuition remission benefit. Last time I was in a film production class 9/11 happened so my apologies in advance

I book punk shows at a movie theater now

Dark Heathcliff

Swansea Sound @ Mississippi Studios (10/16/24) Members of: Heavenly, Pooh Sticks, The Dentists, Tender Trap, Death in Vegas, Marine Research, Thrashing Doves aka holy fucking shit

There are a lot of periods of human existence that I could imagine myself im, but I'm most happy being in the one with the music of Thin Lizzy

This is like when my friend from England came to Chicago's pride parade this summer and was like "I can't believe I haven't heard Bronski Beat once!"

I got a $50 parking ticket while being an extra in Joe Swanbergs new movie. Cinema is back baybeeeee

Do I need to see Gladiator 1 first? Is this like a rematch?

I too am natural bros with the caterpillar

I programmed this before the election because I knew exactly how it was going to go. Come watch some Verhoeven space nazi satire with me!

The most relentless, unremorsefully sadistic film ever made. Even stuff like A Serbian Film wasn't played for laffs.

I got off the green line leaving work cause kids kept pulling the emergency stop to find another kid on the train they wanted to beat up and then when I went to the nearest bus stop a dude tried to attack me with a tree branch cause I wouldn't let him use my phone for $5

I wrote about Fred Halsted's uncompromisingly perverse SEXTOOL for this weeks @cinefile. You can catch it tomorrow at midnight at @musicboxtheatre or pick it up from @AltInnocence as part of their amazing Halsted bluray set. cinefile.info/

I feel confident I spent more time reediting one sentence of my upcoming review of Fred Halsted's Sextool than was spent on this entire piece and I haven't read beyond this.

Bad Brains "Pay to Cum" in After Hours. The scene inside Club Berlin lasts exactly the length of the song.

I've got a new quarterly film program starting next year at Facets! Having bands at trivia night was such a hit that theyre giving me a dedicated Friday night punk movie + live band series starting January. Just in time to ruin Facets 50th anniversary.

Apparently I've entered my "Actually Anthrax really were the best of the Big Four" era. They're the only one where the Ramones weren't an influence but a goal.

Scene Report: The ltd ed Front 242 beer is pretty good. Its not Old Style but its not not Old Style. Very Chicago. Obvs shoula been a Belgian but it turned out thatd be too expensive to make so they did the best they could while still making it affordable. Even more Chicago.