Archive - Good Everything Forever

The Best Albums of 2025 (So Far)

My ranking of the best pop, rap, and indie albums released so far this year, from Addison to Lorde, and the unexpected new friends in between: it's the…

Jul 7 •

June 2025

Pacers snatch Game 1, my breath, and the very concept of wisdom

An emergency reflection upon wisdom, the Indiana Pacers, Sufjan Stevens, and Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

Jun 6 •

I picked a WNBA team at random and now I'm a lifelong Phoenix Mercury fan

How I stumbled into WNBA fandom and found my team – and my heart – in the desert.

Jun 3 •

May 2025

The beautiful maelstrom of Spiritbox

On singer Courtney LaPlante’s holy and defiant scream, the undertow of grief, and 'Tsunami Sea,' the best metal album you're not crying to yet.

May 12 •

April 2025

The day my baseball career died

On reinvention, second chances, and facing the best pitcher in the world (at his worst).

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Tate McRae needs God

On “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, 'So Close To What,' and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical around to…

Mar 1 •

January 2025

One year of keeping a gratitude journal!

Every night I write down what I'm thankful for and looking forward to. Looking back on a year's worth of thankfulness – the key to life.

Jan 31 •

December 2024

The 20 Best Music Things of 2024

Handing out awards to the best, brightest, and brattiest of music in 2024. It's the first annual Good Everything Forevers!

Dec 30, 2024 •

November 2024

Election Day in my elementary school gym

On voting where I learned to play, to pass, to pay attention

Nov 21, 2024 •

October 2024

'The Leftovers' taught me how to grieve—and believe

The post-apocalyptic cult favorite takes us from hell to hope, from this life to the next, in a bizarre and beautiful story of belief.

Oct 15, 2024 •

September 2024

What is Britney doing with her life?

SEC football and Britney Spears, the way we talk about women, and how the internet's greatest video gave me a new vocabulary for asking life's most…

Sep 16, 2024 •

August 2024

Healing male spirit

On reclaiming feeling, bell hooks's 'The Will to Change,' and our only path to healing: community.

Aug 15, 2024 •

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