Vote COSMIC THING! Unless you have high hopes for Neneh Cherry beating De La Soul, this is the last chance to send any more women to the Elite 8 to join Kim Deal. (And I'm not just pointing that out because I picked the B-52's in my bracket, I also much prefer their album here.)

"Yeah, I'm a fan of MCA. Maria Conchita Alonso."

The 10th of November, the year's almost over If I had your number, I'd call you tomorrow If my eyes were open, I'd be kicking the doors in But all that I have is this old dream I've always had

I wanna make this shirt, but I'm pretty sure I'll get cease and desisted

we only have Vampire Weekend thanks to vampire unions

Oh hey, this year Halloween fell on the weekend.

It's spooky season, boils and ghouls! #LetterboxFriday #LastFourWatched

Hard to think of a father and son who had more divergent careers than Richard and Mojo Nixon

I've got half a mind to just pay for the lobotomy and tell 'em, "Get rid of the bad times. And get rid of the good times, too. I've got no more thinkin' to do."

They've lost the 9yos

must-read from @rjritzel.bsky.social on some very bitchy antics by the Kennedy Center's day-to-day boss www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

Every. Fucking. Time. I hear the opening of Garbage's "Stupid Girl" and get excited for about three seconds that I'm about to hear "Train in Vain."

For this month's Criterion column, I wrote about the radical punk electricity of Born In Flames and its understanding of "constant struggle and change" in the face of a complacent/corrupt establishment www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

Starting a band called Neil Tongue. We play Neil Young songs in the style of Kiss.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

I don't think this is my favorite song of 2025, but every time I hear it, I have to consider the possibility that it just might be.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

One of the challenges of this age is these guys are basically moral chimpanzees and the rest of us have to both deal with the America they create while also protecting universal truths for ourselves to draw from AND for these people to rediscover someday.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

saw this in the thomas pynchon subreddit lol

my favorite thing about going to the doctor is when they spend 5 seconds with you and shrug and then you get to spend a month playing "do I owe a million dollars" roulette every time you get mail

Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:

I watched a different movie at the theater tonight, but overheard in the lobby: "I saw the trailer for Naked Gun, and it looked really funny. I think it's a remake of another movie."

Not me hearing the White Stripes and the Killers on the classic rock radio station and immediately turning to dust.

I don't care if you don't think 13 SONGS is a real "album," it's still the best thing in the whole tournament.

not a lot of kids named Humphrey these days . . .

Sometimes you go to a bar w/ a friend hoping to just sit & chat over a couple beers, but you get there & there's a band unexpectedly setting up, & you think, 'I didn't really want to see a band, but maybe they'll be good,' & then 2 songs later, you say to your friend, 'Let's go to a different bar.'

This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.

Good year for movies. CACHE, OLDBOY, and GRIZZLY MAN are not just my favorites of the year, they're among my favorites of the century so far. (Not sure why CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT gets called out as mediocre in the intro, though. It's great!)

A lot of talk on the TL today about the importance of arts coverage and criticism, so I made a concerted effort to click on more of those links -- and to read some of the articles I already had open in my many, many tabs. Here's a thread of what I read today . . .

My Duolingo lessons are teaching how to say “We are still trapped in the dream.” I’m learning useful phrases like “We only dreamt we woke up” and “The Dream Master won’t let us leave”

Hard to believe, but for the 57th year in a row, the song of the summer is Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne"!

Haven't done one of these in a while, so . . . I got this sweet 3-disc Wax Trax set at a library bookstore today for $1.50!

I'm crying.

I added about 20 albums to the list, including my personal favorite of '01: The Kiss Offs' ROCK BOTTOM. For the first time since I started following these tourneys, I don't expect my favorite album of the year to even make it in. UNLESS everyone just agrees right now to listen to and nominate it!

It's punk-inflected rock with dueling male/female vocals, singing about the power of rock n roll. I've said that the Kiss Offs could've been as big as the Strokes if they'd been from NYC instead of Austin, but the writer of this review that I came across recently makes an even loftier comparison:

I added about 20 albums to the list, including my personal favorite of '01: The Kiss Offs' ROCK BOTTOM. For the first time since I started following these tourneys, I don't expect my favorite album of the year to even make it in. UNLESS everyone just agrees right now to listen to and nominate it!

Pretty sure BEET is my most-listened-to album since I first heard it in February. A couple songs sound like X, the drumming frequently reminds me of the Feelies, and the whole album has kind of a Gun Club vibe. So if that's your thing, vote for BEET! And if it's not your thing, it should be!

I had to place limits on myself to narrow my list down. So: only movies I saw at the theater and have seen at least twice.

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

I reserve the right to swap my ratings for Mickey 17 and The Phoenician Scheme. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

Another personal best. Can I break 1,000? #wridges