It's end of year music list season. Well, it's EOY list season everywhere, but music's where the lists are the most fun, IMO, and not just because I wrote a bunch of them in a past life. I'd take a few days
Hello! It’s been slow going on this Twilight thing I’m writing, so here’s some mid-year (late August still counts) music writing instead. Despite the pivot to poetry, if you’ve known me long enough and known me for writing, it’s probably about music. I ran a
We’re back! Today’s newsletter gets deep into Marvel nonsense if that is/was your bag; it’s a skip otherwise. Next entry should be a little more general interest. I wish I could quit the Marvel movies. The phenomenon of being an out and out MCU stan insisting
Good morning! No real pop culture angle today, just felt like getting trans with it. Might happen occasionally since I want to document some of this. It’s the least surprising thing on earth that every bit of small talk I’ve been part of recently has drifted toward a
Two movie ones in a row–I know! I’d wanted to change it up, but the other thing I’m currently working on keeps jumping tracks smidge by smidge, and the Oscars are in like 6 hours or something, so here we are. A sidenote on running a newsletter:
A friend of mine watched Damien Chazelle's Babylon last week, and it's been on my brain since. This is a best case scenario, since I have Babylon in the camp of movies that don't fully hang together as a watch, but remain full of
Gotta give it up for an album whose entire tone is set with its announcement. When Taylor Swift announced her newest album’s release date in her acceptance speech for her last newest album’s Grammy win for Pop Album of the Year last year, the overall vibe both allegedly
Everyone should have a Dumb Hobby. Let me explain. In 2025, it’s never been easier to follow the minutia of your chosen industries/scenes/spheres/etc. and find the details of what’s being released and when, who was rude to someone online, or what microtrend is happening, and
Is it counterintuitive to launch a site, plop down [redacted] dollars for it for a year, and then not touch it for a few weeks? Maybe, but that's showbiz. The truth is that I'm trying to be better at cultivating and following my creative impulses. My
Hi, This is Audrey. This is a new...site? Newsletter? I don't know. I ran a music blog from like 2010 or 2011 to let's just call it 2021 for an even decade, and now I want a different writing model. My vision for Starkissed and
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This is Starkissed and Unburned, a brand new site by Audrey Gibson that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is