Album-cover illustration: a serene blue-haired figure glowing orange-red meditates over a synthwave grid while a child with a vinyl-record halo sits below a starry forest

I commissioned this piece from my good friend Casey Landerkin, who also happens to be my favorite artist. If you like this, you'll love the rest of her work too. Go buy something!

Jesse.ID

Hi 👋 I'm Jesse, a chronically online software engineer. I automate things and build cool stuff professionally. My hobbies are full-stack web development, writing, making music, and studying screencraft. I'm a movie nerd and I've logged 1,600+ films to my Letterboxd profile. I love to create stuff whenever I can, and I support art and artists of all kinds. Read more about me if you'd like.

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Music Jul 24, 2026 2 min read

New Music Friday: Sylvan Esso, In Color, Boy Harsher, Saint Clair, Ash Leone

I’ve been going with three artists on the Fridays I remember to post new music so far, but there are five fresh tracks that I was into this week. One of my favorite groups, Sylvan Esso, powered by one of my favorite music producers — Nick Sanborn — dropped a new track this week. Sounds […]

Tech Jul 14, 2026 5 min read

How I Use AI and How I Don’t Use AI

How I don’t use AI I don’t use generative AI to write prose or lyrics. I don’t use it to write blog posts. I don’t use it to write e-mails for me, outside of the occasional auto-complete of what I was going to say anyway. I don’t use it to create music. I don’t use […]

Music Jul 10, 2026 2 min read

New Music Friday: Wishy, Slow Joy, Dev Lemons

This week, I have three tracks from YouTube. One a track by a brand new band to me named Wishy, a 5 piece band from Indianapolis — a good rec from friend Christian. The other two are from Slow Joy and Dev Lemons. I’ve been listening to them for awhile so I’m always happy to […]

Weird Jun 28, 2026 6 min read

Defining My Own Reality

I’ve been having deep discussions with friends of late, and in one of them, I said that I am slowly coming to the realization that anyone, at any time, can just create their own version of reality and their version of it can spread to envelop the world depending on how many people believe them. […]

Film Reviews

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Jackass: Best and Last (2026)

I was a huge fan of CKY when I was a teenager, watched all of those, watched all of Jackass, and all of the movies. There is a sophomoric part of my soul that I keep expecting to leave with age, but it hasn't yet. This was mostly a clip show with some of the best bits they've done, which is great, but it's not worthy of a feature in the age of YouTube where I've seen these clips in nearly these exact arrangements already. The new stuff is mostly funny but there are some real clunkers. I am glad that everybody got one last payday and nobody died.

Creep 2 (2017)

This is such a good sequel that builds off of the original concept without it ever becoming stale. Masterful writing keeps the tension strong throughout. I loved Creep, but I may enjoy watching this more because Sara is a much more dynamic and fun character than Aaron was in the original. Desiree Akhavan killed it.

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

No written review.

About Last Night... (1986)

Typical 80's rom-com stuff. Rob Lowe's character didn't make sense coming out of Rob Lowe. Jim Belushi played a generational piece of shit to perfection. Elizabeth Perkins was the best part of the movie.

Dean Spanley (2008)

My friend Felicia said that Sam Neill wanted more people to watch this movie that he was in, so we did, and it was very good. Incredibly weird, funny, and SUPER British. One of the most British movies that I've ever seen.