Mickey Mouse has entered my pubic domain.

every night i tell myself i am the cosmos/ i'm full of shit

kinda weird that half of the indie rock music put out in the past decade sounds exactly like Suzanne Vega but no one seems to talk about her as a direct influence

André Braugher in Homicide is still one of the most impressive pieces of acting I’ve seen on TV. His arc in that show was incredible. RIP.

17th best EP of 2023 for "Translucent Eyes" by Shredded Sun!

Thanks to @rosyoverdrive.bsky.social for dubbing "Each Dot and Each Line" by Shredded Sun the no. 25 best album of 2023! We appreciate the support, they seem to be one of the few music blogs left that listens to all submissions and supports bands without label/publicist support.

how come cocktails are virgin but beers are nonalcoholic? give me one virgin beer please

up at the bar trying to buy a cup full of just lime slices and maraschino cherries (I’m keto and vegan)

this is an excellent piece "We are all hurtling, inevitably, toward that one last transition, across the one true binary, the one between life and death. And that binary is the true source of all our regrets, and our joy, too. Regret exists because we all get just one life."

the "Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college" prompt is making me sad because Mama Mia's in Williamsburg, Virginia, moved and I can't find a picture of the old location next to campus

I have complicated feelings about the idea of being a "professional" artist. I would love to just make art and not have to have another job, but there's also something to be said for being a committed amateur/hobbyist and keeping your art separate from how you pay your bills.

thinking about changing my name to Nick Cave just so there can be a third cool guy named Nick Cave

Lol at everyone comparing The Killer to Le Samourai when it's a lot closer to Grosse Pointe Blank.

I was shocked how much I liked The Holdovers. I'm generally allergic to heartwarming but it did a great job of balancing out the warmth with genuine sadness and acidity and not overstating the impact that positive changes in a short amount of time can have. Nothing earth-shaking but a charming watch

My sister is working on launching a platform that will allow health communicators across the country to share resources with each other, thus improving community health services. If this seems like something you might want to help support financially, you can read more about it here.

we used to make vivrant things in this country

I was firmly against the “movies should never be three hours long” rhetoric until we rewatched the Sound of Music this weekend. That thing must have been edited by a three-toed sloth.

Does the Dismemberment Plan have any kind of rep any more? No reissues or reunions, never see them mentioned. But as someone who was going to indie rock shows and doing college radio in the DC area in the mid-late-'90s, they were massive and ubiquitous, and "Emergency & I" was a very important album

look, I am a political dummy, but it seems like the problem with polling (other than the obvious problem of who is answering phone surveys in 2023) is that it doesn't account for what motivates people to actually go out and vote, as opposed to just preferring one guy over another

One of the coolest things my old band ever did was appear on beloved cable-access dance/music show Chic-a-Go-Go. Whatever happened to it, it was so cool? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTbC...

The new Traveling Wilburys are Sufjan Stevens, Phil Elverum, Adrianna Lenker, and Grouper. All their songs are 45 minutes long, barely audible, and make you want to shrivel like a raisin. Jeff Lynne is still producing and adding terrible synth parts.

The new Traveling Wilburys are Sufjan Stevens, Phil Elverum, Adrianna Lenker, and Grouper. All their songs are 45 minutes long, barely audible, and make you want to shrivel like a raisin. Jeff Lynne is still producing and adding terrible synth parts.

There's no convenient apocalypse Won't be no vaporizing cloud Now we're gonna have to soak in what we created, too bad! "No Convenient Apocalypse" by Pissed Jeans

pretty basic but: You know that old trees just grow stronger And old rivers grow wilder every day Old people just grow lonesome Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello" "Hello in There" by John Prine

you gotta love how "sports website" The Ringer published no articles about the World Series once it started almost a week ago, as well as how you have to go the "more" section of their nav bar to access articles about MLB and the resulting page is still mostly NBA and NFL content

rolling up all my kids' Halloween candy into a giant ball and swallowing it whole like an anaconda eating a warthog

happy Halloween

Killers of the Flower Moon is very good but anyone who doesn’t think at least half an hour could’ve been trimmed from the back half is kidding themselves. None of it is bad but a lot of it is redundant.

I’m rooting for the Diamondbacks but I will always love seeing Kyle Schwarber hit huge fuckin bombs.

I don't understand how people talk shit about Chicago when every other place in Illinois is suburbs with all of Chicago's traffic but none of its amenities, small towns/cities that feel completely desolate and decaying, or fields

RIP Piper Laurie. Nominated for an Oscar for The Hustler and literally didn’t get another movie role for 15 years, when she was cast as Sissy Spacek’s mother in Carrie and was promptly nominated for an Oscar again.

Why do insurance commercials have lore now

Developing a theory that there are more good rock songs with accordion than good rock songs with piano. The crux of this theory is that "I Wanna Be Your Dog" is the only good rock song with piano.

listening to a playlist of "120 Minutes Classics." I associate 120 Minutes with the '90s but most of the songs on here, even those that came out in the '90s, sound incredibly '80s. So many chorus pedals and gated snares.

They Might Be Giants sold out when they stopped writing songs about weep day for urine man

Why is Drake tagging signs in my neighborhood?

rewatching Duel, it fuckin rules and it’s too bad this “Steven Spielberg” kid never made anything else

they should do it again on the 10th anniversary, for a laugh

the two Fangraphs articles about how the playoff teams celebrate onfield are so fun and hilarious. I was not even aware of the Rays' "name initial" celebrations.

What the fuck.

When was the last time cowboy hats were cool? Maybe the late ‘60s (bc of spaghetti Westerns)?

Apparently this instruction manual was written by Brad Pitt’s character from Seven.

they should flood Caracas and market it as Venicezuela

a little cartoon I drew during songwriting class

there's nothing funnier than comparing what the doll looks like in the Annabelle movies to what the "real" Annabelle doll looked like

My unpopular opinion about the gender meme trends ("girls eat dinner like THIS," "boys think constantly about THAT") is that there's a direct connection between a joking reinforcement of these binaries & a larger, serious cultural pushback against queerness & gender ambiguity

first episode of the new series of Taskmaster is promising: tasks that torture/frustrate the contestants (tin can tower task is so simple but satisfying to watch), at least a couple of contestants who seem like genuine weirdos, and no one who is immediately irritating (a la Jenny Eclair last series)

re: my earlier post about watching trash on Criterion, this movie fucking rips. Watch it without reading the description, which has a major spoiler.

I love subscribing to the Criterion Channel and using it only to watch the trashiest shit possible

I've seen videos comparing Olivia Rodrigo's speak-rap verses in "Get Him Back!" to the Dean's rap in Community but to me it just sounds like "Pepper" by Butthole Surfers