We Want the List 🧐

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Neighbors,

We’re back to hosting gatherings in the studio. This week? Show Your Work!

It’s a night of feedback and camaraderie with a dozen other artists, filmmakers, and creatives. It’s free to attend, and if you or someone you know would like to come to a future one, stay tuned for a future newsletter where we’ll send out the RSVP form. It’s good to be creative again with everyone back in the studio.

On to this week’s slate of Neighborhood Watch reviews. Hope you enjoyed today’s title.

— NGL

P.S. Last blog, we explored the meaning of authenticity in an era of clipping. You can read it here.

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Video: ‘Scav’ (2025)

Creator: Adam Chase

Episodes: 6

Review by: Nathan Graber-Lipperman

There’s a saying tossed around the college football-crazed, Culver’s butterburger-clutching Midwest like a dainty leaf in the Windy City breeze: UChicago is where fun goes to die.

The university, found in our city’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood, doesn’t always beat the allegations. Its strengths lie in fields such as economics and law; on an anecdotal level, I’ve met plenty of quirky characters who once graced the school’s halls.¹

A springtime tradition, however, serves to rebut the narrative: “Scav,” the world’s largest annual scavenger hunt. As legend has it, four students started the game in 1987 after finding their classes “really hard.” “They wanted to make it more fun,” a university alum states two minutes into Scav, a new docuseries directed by Adam Chase (one of the co-creators of travel adventure show Jet Lag: The Game).

Running with the tagline “A scavenger hunt list of 348 items, tasks, and various absurdities plunges the University of Chicago into chaos,” the series opens with teams gearing up for the first official event: The List Release. Adam and Co. place us in the middle of the fray, as excitable undergrads race to chip their list out of a collection of frozen t-shirts.

Once the Scav list is retrieved, teams hurriedly split pages of the booklet and form a plan of attack / Nebula

From there, the producers bounce between one-on-one student testimonials (including a healthy dose of lore-dumping and shit-talking) and teams actively scrambling to check boxes off The List (including tasks like “Blow up a car” and items like “The Moon,” worth five hundred points and fifty quadrillion points, respectively).

Scav is fun, it’s fast-paced, and you can tell that the docuseries’ creators went all out in studying—and properly capturing—its subject’s delightful quirkiness. But don’t be mistaken: Like the organizers of the annual competition itself, it’s the students’ pure passion that carries the show.

One student describes the four-day ritual as “makerspace meets scavenger hunt meets exercise in absurdity” / Nebula

Standout quotes from the pilot:

• “My favorite item in the history of Scav was ‘Your Mom’...we got a lot of moms.”

• “How much I want to win a Nobel Prize is probably here [motions low]. And how much I wanna win [Scav] is probably here [motions high].

• “Page 10 of The List is only the Letter H.”

• “Will they let me go on a Helipad because I say I’m an EMT and I have a hi-vis vest on? Maybe.”

• “If just providing a cool environment to hang out and eat food and build weird things works to get people [together], then that would be great.”

One student (right) hands out legally binding contracts for participant’s “souls,” which they can sell to them for Scav points / Nebula

Following this introduction to the world of Scav—and the opening hours of the hunt—the pilot episode ends on an explosive cliffhanger. And having followed the work of Adam and his collaborators, Sam Denby and Ben Doyle, for a while now—even spending time on the Las Vegas-based set of their 2024 reality competition show, The Getaway—I can confidently say that Scav feels like their most engaging, tightly-wound production yet.

The story of Scav was sitting in plain sight. All it needed was an eclectic group of storytellers to join the hunt.

Nate’s Score: 4.5 / 5

Dedicated to the books, music, movies, and physical media that played a meaningful role in stopping our scroll.

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Album: Baby (2025)

Artist: Dijon

Runtime: 37m 45s

Yes, as you might’ve assumed, I was that guy bumping BROCKHAMPTON throughout college. But as the boy band grew in notoriety, there was one R&B singer slowly honing his craft, providing background vocals for the group while co-writing and co-producting songs for artists including Charli XCX, Mk.gee, and Justin Bieber.

That singer was Dijon Duenas, known mononymously as Dijon. And while I fell for past standout singles like “Nico’s Red Truck” and “Talk Down,” Dijon’s sophomore album, Baby (released this September) feels like an inflection point in the artist’s career, announcing himself as one of alternative’s most noteworthy voices.

Boundless soundscapes collide—tickling the imagination as to what’s sonically possible—as Dijon steers us through distorted lyrics on love, sex, raising children, and leaving insecurities behind. “Yamaha” stands out for its sunny disposition: “Baby I’m in love with this particular emotion / And it’s sweet” the chorus belts.

The project is odd, it’s off-beat, and it’s beautiful. The only thing Dijon dropped in 2025 that just might be better than Baby? That magnificent One Battle After Another cameo, playing an aged revolutionary addicted to, ahem, a certain type of woman.

Nate’s Score: 🌭 / 5

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Invention: Window Seats (1914)

Nate’s view from above / 📸 Nathan Graber-Lipperman

Creator: ?

I’ll admit it: I’m a recent convert. Not to out myself further, but at six-foot-three, I used to be an absolute aisle-seat-or-bust kinda guy.

But as of late, I’ve become content with sacrificing any modicum of leg room with the awe-inspiring sights of the friendly skies.

This review is subject to change, however. I fly United most often (they’re based in Chicago, after all) and they often offer the best international flights for visiting Vicky. It appears the airline is currently facing a lawsuit “claiming it unfairly charged passengers extra money to sit in ‘window seats’ that, to their surprise, lacked windows,” according to Reuters.

I think I’d still take a window seat without a window over the middle seat? For now, though, let’s hope United’s dystopian vision does not become a reality.

Nate’s Score: 4.3 / 5

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1. Fun fact: Former President Obama was once a law professor at the university.