uma groupwatch fell behind over the holidays. catching up on the news of the century

I’m NOT saying “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is a better diss track than “Not Like Us.” I’m just saying if the Whos had invented the concept of anger, or football…

extremely excited for you to find out the canonical rationale for this one

top 50 albums of 2025 list is like 95% of the way done with a few weeks of grace period still on my hands, so I'm gonna use it wisely and check out a slew of last-minute recommendations. if you have any to add, now's your chance! final list w/ blurbs will go up in the mid-to-late teens of December

happy birthday pancake

I am not above groveling for people to check out my new songs

new songs theheistrevenge.bandcamp.com/album/after-...

for all its (very worthwhile) perks, it's kind of annoying bandcamp still doesn't have a "schedule release" function. fortunately, today is thanksgiving, all but ensuring I will be up at midnight with indigestion and able to smash that "publish" button at 12 AM on the dot anyway. my biggest brain

locked and loaded

printers everywhere be like 🤩

the plan is still on schedule, albeit barely vocals tomorrow mix through the holiday release tail end of the month? a guy can dream

ELO dropped by nearly 300 points in a week so I've decided I'm going to stop trying to learn chess and embrace my god-given talent of Quitting Things Once They're No Longer Fun. so long, suckers

This time on Gatekeep's monthly "what we missed" list, I covered the blistering and austere new record from NJ screamo heavyweights Massa Nera. Check it and the rest of my fellow writers' under-the-radar favorites from October here: www.gatekeepmusic.com/p/quick-fire...

can’t help but feel it’s a tad on the nose that You Know Who’s app rolls out forced, encrypted, and history-wiping DMs the week that You Also Know Who’s ties to You Still Know Who really start bearing down from all sides. awfully convenient anyhow.

binged fujimoto 17-26 tonight. gut ranking, best to worst: Sisters > Shikaku > Love is Blind > Clucking Chickens > Mermaid Rhapsody > Woke-Up-As-A-Girl Syndrome > Nayuta of the Prophecy > Sasaki Stopped a Bullet top three are really good. bottom two did almost nothing for me. the rest are fine.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVdf... can't jump to this day

Do you have 1 hour to spare? Do you want to experience something great? Just start this video, and let the remaining episodes play. Please, watch Milky Highway.

ever hear a song so intimate and universal and resiliently human you think it's gotta be a centuries-old traditional or at least a cover from some golden heyday of songwriting only to find out it's the recent work of some cabinet maker in boise? cause uh, mood here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=za_x...

My Top 10 Anime EDs of 2025 piece is up now over on For Great Justice. Great pop tunes, cool animations, some playful ribbing—it's a celebration of the best of the best (of the ones I watched this year. You know the drill). READ ➡️ tinyurl.com/FGJedsof25

testing testing one two three uhhhh this seems sus

haha maybe I should post the Top 10 Anime EDs of 2025 list this weekend. just kidding! UNLESS... 👀

Mamdani: Like Yachiyo at Gingarou Hotel, I promise to make New York welcoming, safe and affordable Cuomo: Ponko is a menace. As mayor I will destroy her Silwa: For years Environment Checker Robot tortured my uncle by giving false climate reports. He can't watch the Weather Channel without crying

also beginning to write blurbs for my Top 50 Albums of 2025 list now, which will be significantly easier than usual on account of 1) this month-ish head start, 2) the fact that I already blogged about 20% of them upon discovery, and 3) how I stayed on top of new releases this year better than ever

thinking about this ticker graphic from the Nationwide Series days and chuckling to myself for entirely innocent, nonpartisan reasons

2025 ani-film thread? got a couple months to catch up, I guess

on the bright side, between the much needed rest, laying around in bed all weekend gave me time to get the 2025 OP and ED lists sorted. still too braindead to write rn but the selections have been made, barring some late-season arrival

They say bsky doesn’t have the sports juice, but all I see is baseball purgatory pain skeets so

White Guy Name Generator gave us one last gem for the season moments before statistical injustice

oh yep here it is, time to play everyone's favorite: So Your Throat Is Hella Sore? Is it Viral or Bacterial? Wait and Suffer!

hope the jays nail this tonight and/or tomorrow night but my sports heart is far more invested in the potential heim-zilisch-hamlin trifecta that ought to await all things sane and fair in motorsport this weekend. and now that I've said that,

we at Gatekeep have put together a Spooky Season playlist just in time for the holiday. "Stuff that reminds you of Halloween" was the prompt - we all took it in slightly different directions. Check out the tunes and our blurbs for them here: READ ➡️ www.gatekeepmusic.com/p/select-fre...

thought I should rewatch crash course world history so I could feel something again and the first minute of the first episode of the first series is one of the most poignant things ever posted to the internet and not to be the adult in the room but the kids really oughta listen yeah

increasingly wrapping my head around this game. been into career mode lately. decided all my paint schemes from here on out will be Kahne tributes, as 10-year-old me would’ve wanted

SANDA and BEASTARS are aesthetically and tonally dissimilar stories. but thematically they're both about people finding a massive difference between the comfort their environments want them to have vs what they personally desire. blows me away how good paru itagaki is at that particular dynamic.

"weatherbox return to the studio" was not on my 2025 bingo card but this slaps. never k*ll yourself www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8o3...

got the new nascar game. intermediates and superspeedways are fair and fun. short tracks and road courses are nearly undriveable. fussed with every combination of settings but can't get the car to drive like it has power steering (it does!) and like the track isn't an ice hockey table (it isn't!) eh

at last, my fall 2025 anime premiere guide is over! real slim pickings this season, partially of my own accord (time management is vital rn) and partially because the industry went on a roll over the summer and this is a natural subsequent lull. I'll take it! show-by-show takes in the thread below

tracking ceasefire metal

us writers at gatekeep! music dot com have published our "what we missed" post for good september albums that fell through the cracks. I've got blurbs for La Dispute and kurayamisaka's new records. check em out! www.gatekeepmusic.com/p/quick-fire...

"yata, don't you have another premiere to drop?" can't, too busy enjoying peak. get back to me on monday www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEo8...

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thinking about how much some people whine these days when anime adaptations cut anything, meanwhile back in 2012 you had Kishi and Uezu adapting Humanity Has Declined at a rate of two episodes per book while telling the story backwards for no fucking reason and it's better than most shit made today

for the whole car? what a steal!

My all-time favorite band dropped a new record last week. It's pretty good! But how good is pretty good? Their blessing is a critic's curse, etc. Measured commentary (if I do say so myself) in my review, up now. READ ➡️ www.gatekeepmusic.com/p/review-thr...

My all-time favorite band dropped a new record last week. It's pretty good! But how good is pretty good? Their blessing is a critic's curse, etc. Measured commentary (if I do say so myself) in my review, up now. READ ➡️ www.gatekeepmusic.com/p/review-thr...

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

It's so fascinating watching CR fall to pieces in real time this season. Weird nonsense put up, videos coming out late, pages not being updated when they should... Probably shouldn't have done all those layoffs

oh hi song of the year, fancy seeing you here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lznp...