"Rite of Spring," Swamp Thing #32 (Moore/Bissette/Totleben/Wood)

Hang on a minute, I’ve now had time to process a Neurosis comeback but SubRosa?!?!?!

Almost everyone includes a carve-out that AI is useful in highly controlled, monitored areas like medical research but otherwise, this is an industry whose input costs are so colossal it can only be profitable with universal mandatory adoption AND subsidized utilities. Radioactive forever, sorry

It’s about time one of these clowns literally got their teeth kicked in

Black Sabbath couldn’t get arrested after Dio left but I maintain they have no truly bad albums (at least since the Forbidden remix) and this is one of their very best

opposition leaders yapping about "affordability" & troop respect etc like this potus is not running a completely illegitimate, criminal ethnic cleansing regime

Orienting the party towards the edge cases in red areas would be great for the party, now a quick sip of water before checking Labours recent election results

I don’t care how successful it was from day one, i can still remember the feeling of utter bafflement hearing Hey Ya for the first time in the context of 2003 radio.

We all make end of history jokes but a genuine prerequisite for being in the Democratic Party outside a depressingly small minority really is believing that politics ended with Bill Clinton’s 1992 platform

your grandparents voting for reagan

In its own way Parade is as fascinating a whittling down of an avalanche of creative energy AND a personal crisis as SOTT. He obv broke up the Revolution for a lot of petty reasons but he also really pushed that band as far as it could go conceptually at warp speed.

I’ve owned the Blu-ray of the 2014 Paris production of Einstein on the Beach for a good while but it’s hard to carve out five hours. Finally watched it while allowing myself the same freedom to roam and zone out the show gives a live crowd and emerged somehow even more awed by the work.

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Every 2028 Dem hopeful: we have to adopt a moderate position in response to this

<sitting around a campfire passing down knowledge of the Before to the village younglings> “And there was music, music that sounded like the Sun wrapping you gently in its arms.” “What was this music for, elder?” “It was for a gorilla riding a swordfish”

This feels like the right comparison: the vibe is very much "tidal wave is gathering offshore and rushing in, but our feet aren't wet *yet* so it's probably fine"

I saw a post in one of those IG roundups that said “Dr Robby that’s not very fancam behavior of you” and it was very funny but also snapped into crystalline focus like 90% of the complaining I’ve seen about this season of The Pitt.

This is so stupid for so many reasons not least that all of the military conflicts in classic Trek are specifically over irreconcilable political divides with cultures that cannot cooperate with others.

Imagine getting one of those Dem fundraising messages that’s like “LEGAL NOTICE! <vastly smaller print> Donald Cheeto Trump is doing crimes” but for Paul promoting a gig

“It’s Whiskey Friday somewhere” Tony Dokoupil rn

Depending on your library (as always), Kanopy may currently offer Mark Rappaport’s remarkable, unclassifiable FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG, starring Hurt as Seberg…sort of. One of the best films I saw in 1996, highly recommended.

This run has been a bug zapper for the worst, dumbest, often most bigoted members of wrestling fandom, meanwhile to anyone with a brain it’s one of the best and likely most resonant long-term works of the last 20 years

I realize this verges on “piano music of a similar tempo sounds the same to me” but it’s been entirely too long since I put on Spirited Away and I don’t think I ever registered how much the opening theme sounds like Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence youtu.be/ptwcZ574blo?...

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

Blackest Night on paper is so much that I hate (linewide crossover, zombies, glorified excuse to bring back what dead characters hadn’t already been resurrected) but it was done so well across the board. At the opposite end: Final Crisis is a masterpiece and all the tie ins were BAFFLED

"I'm a cop, I don't understand the law" is literally one of the most on-brand things I have ever heard in my life

Getting back to my Rimbaud collection after getting caught up in other things and it’s no wonder all the punks obsessed over him. This troll job on poets dressing up the fetid stench of reality in literal flowery language is damn near Lou Reed allpoetry.com/To-The-Poet-...

Beatles’ Rubber Soul/Revolver Chris Claremont’s X-Men The Rite of Spring Beethoven’s Eroica

Been waiting for more than two years for a physical video of Killers of the Flower Moon to rewatch and yep, it remains the most unsettling film in Scorsese’s filmography of debased, destructive humanity. De Niro has never been more evil and he once played the literal Devil.

Pope Leo pivoting to YouTube thumbnail faces to appeal to Gen Z

Sending ChatGPT rewrites of Mussolini speeches to reservists to tell them to get ready for a war that hasn’t started yet but also that we’ve already won, are winning, or need allies for. We may be entering a new age of fragging.

Me seeing films these days get an R rating for having cigarettes bc it “promotes smoking”: that is so stupid, nanny state nonsense at its worst Me, hospitalized multiple times as a child for asthmas, seeing literally any movie shot on film with smoking: I mean…

they like trump and want to help him rule over us. so you set the narrative to dismiss the impact of protests (contrast to promotion of much-smaller anti-lockdown or "truckers convoy" protests)

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

I think I’m decently familiar with most of the major imperial declines/collapses, at least on a tidy Wiki summary level, and at this point the only remote point of comparison I can think of for a self-destruction this major AND unforced is Muhammad II of Khwarazm killing Genghis Khan’s emissaries

Not now, Moby Dick

Langdon finally catching hell from Al-Hashimi but then he sees some revolutionary war re-enactors and gets hype, what a fascinating man. #ThePitt

The correlation between being a Jan 6er and being a pedophile is incredible, it must be like several standard deviations outside what you’d expect just based on chance

A weaponized TMZ could break politics

“Where quality and scale take precedence over speed” is such a funny thing to say about a network whose two most expensive shows completely and throughly alienated their audience from taking forever and getting habitually worse

There's a specific guy in charge of the Epic Clapback strategy the NYT now employs.

I did not and still do not care about any team but Ken Griffey Jr had the kind of aura that, for me, even Jordan didn’t. At his peak he just looked like he was having fun out there while also crushing it.

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

Trump 1.0: the dog caught the car Trump 2.0: an entire pack of dogs caught the car and now they’re snapping at each other over not knowing what to do with it

It’s really beyond moving that even now, 40 years later, Hurley and especially Watt care so deeply about preserving D Boon’s work and life.

Dork F150: "I require a tactical vest, emergency rations, and a gun to navigate the highway to Home Depot." Chinese Grandma in San Francisco: "I will cross the busiest part of town to get groceries and I will do it while pushing the world's oldest portable shopping cart onto a bus. I am 4'5''."

SONG OF THE MIRACULOUS HIND, available soon on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile, is one of Marcell Jankovics’s most phantasmagoric works. Read @jakecole.bsky.social on the film. tinyurl.com/3s834bh8

wow, arrow coming through again

Alice Cooper is so important for all the accoutrements that I think it’s easy to overlook how good the actual music was. Love It to Death thru Welcome to My Nightmare isn’t all just monster mash stuff, a lot of it is a side of glam rock that’s engaged with how dejected post-Nam kids are vs escapist