My Top 5s and Top 10s of 2025.

Best Films of 2025

1. One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Sinners by Ryan Coogler
3. In die Sonne schauen (Sound of Falling) by Mascha Schilinski
4. Weapons by Zach Cregger
5. Mad Bills to Pay by Joel Alfonso Vargas
6. Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos
7. Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (Punching the World) by Constanze Klaue
8. The Ballad of Wallis Island by James Griffiths
9. Warfare by Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
10. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You by Mary Bronstein

Full Top 20 on Letterboxd

Best Albums of 2025

1. Let God Sort Em Out by Clipse
2. Stardust by Danny Brown
3. I Heard That Noise by quickly, quickly
4. Magic, Alive! by McKinley Dixon
5. Getting Killed by Geese
6. GOLLIWOG by billy woods
7. Songs for Other People’s Weddings by Jens Lekman
8. Sinister Grift by Panda Bear
9. Cowards by Squid
10. LOWER by Benjamin Booker

Full Top 20 on Record Club

Most-played Albums of 2025

1. NEVER ENOUGH by Turnstile
2. Let God Sort Em Out by Clipse
3. Racing Mount Pleasant by Racing Mount Pleasant
4. Losin’ by Colin Miller
5. Burnover by Greg Freeman
6. I Heard That Noise by quickly, quickly
7. SABLE, fABLE by Bon Iver
8. Sinister Grift by Panda Bear
9. Raspberry Moon by Hotline TNT
10. Cowards by Squid

Best TV Shows of 2025

1. Task (Miniseries)
2. Severance (Season 2)
3. The Pitt (Season 1)
4. Andor (Season 2)
5. Pluribus (Season 1)

Full Top 20 on Serializd

Top 5 Concerts of 2025

1. Radiohead at Uber Arena, Berlin
2. LCD Soundsystem at O2 Academy Brixton, London
3. MJ Lenderman at Columbia Theater, Berlin
4. Bruce Springsteen at Olympiastadion, Berlin
5. Shout Out Louds at Immergut Festival, Neustrelitz

Honorable mentions:
Dendemann, Greg Freeman, The Wedding Present, Kylie Minogue, Father John Misty

On my /concerts page, I list every concert I’ve been to. Instead of manually updating that page, I store all the show details in a single data file by making use of Jekyll’s Data Files feature.

Everything lives in _data/concerts.json, with each entry containing the artist, date, venue, city, setlist URL (and. when relevant, a festival name). The page template pulls directly from that file using site.data.concerts and renders the list from there.

When the page builds, the template sorts the shows by date, groups them by year, and generates jump links for quick navigation between years. If a festival field is present, the festival name is shown instead of the venue automatically.

This setup is intentionally low-maintenance. I update one JSON file, rebuild the site, and the concerts page is regenerated automatically, with no extra tooling or hand-editing required.

My Top 5s and Top 10s of 2024.

Best Films of 2024

1. I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun
2. Anora by Sean Baker
3. The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
4. Challengers by Luca Guadagnino
5. Didi by Sean Wang
6. Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve
7. Love Lies Bleeding by Rose Glass
8. The Outrun by Nora Fingscheidt
9. A Different Man by Aaron Schimberg
10. Crossing by Levan Akin

Full Top 20 on Letterboxd

Best Albums of 2024

1. Diamond Jubilee by Cindy Lee
2. NO TITLE… by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. plastic death by glass beach
4. Here in the Pitch by Jessica Pratt
5. Songs of a Lost World by The Cure
6. Manning Fireworks by MJ Lenderman
7. Mahashmashana by Father John Misty
8. Bright Future by Adrienne Lenker
9. Wall of Eyes by The Smile
10. Night Palace by Mount Eerie

Full Top 20 on Record Club

Top 5 Concerts of 2024

1. Jessica Pratt at Columbia Theater, Berlin
2. Jeff Rosenstock at Cassiopeia, Berlin
3. AIR at Theater des Westens, Berlin
4. DIIV at Astra, Berlin
5. Slowdive at Columbiahalle, Berlin

Honorable mentions:
Mitski, Bob Vylan, Hotline TNT, Bess Atwell, Tapir!