Is music criticism dead? We asked 23 versions of the same kind of guy and one screenshot of a woman’s tweet to find out out

4-8 coach in fourth season saying shit like “the real fans know we’re building something here”

Winning a Lambda special prize is probably as good a time as any for this, so: Hi! I’m Natalie Marlin. I’m a queer trans freelance arts/media critic, always looking for cool writing opportunities. DM me to commission: Features Interviews Reviews Profiles Essays Scene reports Album bios …and more!

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In which we discuss tiny nuts, why athletes are Normal, and the Vice articles written by Jose Canseco. Let’s bash ⚾️⚾️

Probably 80% of posters madness is downstream of thinking that posting on a niche microblogging platform is, in some way, important, rather than being a way to waste time on your phone

inside me there are two cinephiles

Reflecting on the fact that my sister graduated law school yesterday and meanwhile i spent two large chunks of time today - reading a longform piece about the LA clown scene - podcasting about the Lonely Island

I’ve taken to calling it “the fun kind” when their faces briefly drop

I read that Vulture article on the LA clown scene and my biggest takeaway besides “I’ve been right to steer clear of this” is that it has way more of a pseudo-spiritual cult vibe than i was prepared for. It would have made more sense for it to *just* be a fetish / annoying performance art thing

Sebastian Stan in the role of a lifetime as Northernlion

Birth rate discourse and Nolan Odyssey discourse both suffer from the same problem, and it’s the same problem that we’ve wrestled with for a decade - the loudest, dumbest, and most reactionary voices get out ahead of something in discourse and we spend all our time responding to them

I have just learned that the curses thing is (supposedly) because he’s super religious now. lol. Lmao

More like Under the Silver Givemeafuckinbreak

she's giving me that facehugger its about to make my john hurt

It has already become impossible to communicate how much stock in Car Seat Headrest people had 10 years ago. Like how do you explain to younger people that we thought the furry who won’t stop re-making his own music was gonna be the next big thing in Indie Rock

Saw this movie in a theater for the first time last night with a packed house of other freaks and hot people. Happy Mother's Day 🫡

Not even 1 game in and i already want to fire every non Alex Caruso player on the Thunder into the sun

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Anthropic warns that Charlie Brown could have hoes by Q3 of this year

At a certain point, it stops being “people are insane on *website*” or “people are insane on The Internet” and starts being “people are fuckin crazy”

every trans person has been effectively drummed out of the mainstream media but you can be a pulitzer finalist if you look around the situation that your fucking newspaper helped create and go “wow so this is pretty interesting huh”

It’s really funny to me that the guy who has been through making a collab album with Kanye while he’s going insane and also almost got blown up by P Diddy has seemingly yet to learn his lesson about mentally unstable musicians 😭😭 stop touching the stove dude

"the tunes are kicking, you're kicking" blo-om.bandcamp.com/track/hesita...

Joel Embiid would be the greatest basketball player of all time if you just took away everyone else’s knee ligaments to even the playing field

It always gets me when the sports music supervisor takes the low hanging fruit. Like yes, please do play the “Pony” instrumental as the commercial bumper music for the Kentucky Derby. That rocks

Bring back the ancient knowledge

This track feels like a DJ edit designed to obviate the DJ pop edit as a concept. A DJ edit katamari, if you will. Obviously, i cackled the entire way through. I think it also healed some of my residual trauma DJing bar nights and sorority formals schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/track/name-t...

I’m not the biggest M83 girlie but he blacked the fuck out on the Resurrection score youtu.be/ga4T8iw4h0A?...

Jamal Mosely, you must call a play to stop the run and advance to the second round. Jamal:

I will say, I had no idea or maybe just forgot that Scaring the Hoes has a track on it just called “Run the Jewels”. That’s pretty funny. Gotta hand it to him on that one

This whole Jpegmafia/ Earl spat and the rollout of the new Jpegmafia album is a very helpful lesson in why “experimental” is perhaps the most mis-used term in all of music. And it’s even more goofy if you try to bestow it upon yourself

Does anyone know of any other universes that i can live this one precious life within? Cause this one precious life is stuck in a universe I resoundingly hate

Happy Octa Octa day, new reason to live just dropped octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/sigils...

It’s so annoying that i spent most of my life not wanting to be alive and now that i have a reason to live and a sense of self, that sense of self is in direct opposition to literally everything about The Way Things Are right now. Like i want to be alive but is have to do it in **THIS** reality??

A line i think about all the time

EVERYONE I KNOW: i would like to use my expertise to make work that i already know people like to read, for a living wage :) IDIOT IN 400 DOLLAR JEANS: No <3

Genuinely, truly, if there is another day of geese discourse on here i will jump off a bridge

It’s so crazy how much of the year i spend being depressed and i forget that im just Allowed to listen to Discovery in full if i feel like it

Out now wherever you find podcasts, we're joined by @boocanan.bsky.social on this episode of The Lonely Island Discog Breakdown to talk the group's soundtrack to their film, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Listen now!

i love to fry someone's circuits by existing. for all the time i didn't used to.

Do not tell me that I need to “let my walls down” and “open up”. The walls will get higher until morale improves (morale will not improve)

There’s only one movie about an inspiring popstar you should be watching this weekend and it’s the one where Ringo says “doink de doink”

Replace the comedy / tragedy masks with these two images

The democrat pundits have finally done the unforgivable (trying to get me to care about a streamer in either direction)

I love being Irritated. It’s my favorite thing these days

surely an ohio state team with this much talent won the big ten, if not the national championship

Russini in 2020: