Just heard the "our sports team has won" neighborhood cannon going off and just slumped down in my chair in relief

#TheTwen2ie5 10. "Dangomushi" by Mei Semones (2024) but really even though I mained "euphoria" in the '24 Pop Poll, this is my *actual* favorite song of 2024. Mei Semones and her band really go off here, sounding like Joe Hisaishi writing the score for an indie romance.

#TheTwen2ie5 9. "euphoria" by Kendrick Lamar (2024) I promised myself I'd stop nominating this for song challenges/polls when I stopped finding the Toronto accent bit hilariously mean and nope, sorry, it's still great (TELL ME UR CHEESIN, FAM), you're gonna have to deal with it for another year.

#TheTwen2ie5 8. "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody" by Weyes Blood (2022) Okay maybe after two garage rock picks it's time to get a little less aggro, get a little wistful. Maybe do some dancing, we've got this nice abandoned theater here to do it in. Ignore the dead bodies, those aren't important!

#TheTwen2ie5 7. "Bogus Operandi" by The Hives (2023) If you're going to do one thing your whole career, do it very well. And better yet, take a break from doing it for like a decade so when you do it again people are like "oh right, it's actually pretty great when they do the only thing they do."

#TheTwen2ie5 5. "brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo (2021) Glad Elvis Costello was chill about this song's use of *basically* the "Pump It Up" riff both because it's the right attitude for things like this but also because honestly I think I like this song's use of it more. Perfect teenage fit riff.

On Orange Cassidy; symbols and conventions in pro wrestling, using the 10/1/25 Dynamite match with Kyle Fletcher as a quick case study to highlight what some are too stubborn to see.

#TheTwen2ie5 5. "Angry Girl" by Confidence Man (2022) Every busy season at work there's some random song I latch on to that manages to keep me sane and this was the Fall 2022 Fuck This Project Banger for sure. Expertly deployed scream-talking by Janet Planet.

#TheTwen2ie5 4. "Ladies" by Fiona Apple (2020) When I saw the Ice Spice clause the first artist I thought of that would fill one of those spots was very obvious and so she should be the first I post. This song won me over from the first word (repeated over and over to wonderful effect).

#TheTwen2ie5 3. "Electric Fish" by Ana Frango Elétrico (2023) tremendously propulsive throwback Brazilian funk, which also turns out to be a really good song to soundtrack footage of mid-20th century Japanese cinema too as someone I stumbled across on YouTube seems to have found a while back

October

when your absolute dumbest swing yet actually makes it into the pop poll:

#TheTwen2ie5 2. "The Loneliest Time" by Carly Rae Jepsen has there ever been a more triumphant declaration of acceptance that you have your fans and you're okay not chasing for more than, after not having features for multiple albums, finally bringing one in and it's a *Wainwright?* Joyous stuff.

Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”

Counterpoint: Jimmy Fallon trying to be political would be even worse

oh hey y'know what I'm gonna do #TheTwen2ie5, a song challenge about songs from the 2020s! my list is unranked because it's nowhere near finalized and what better way to start it than the quintessential sound of the '20s *checks notes* jazz day 1. "Black Classical Music" by Yussuf Dayes (2023)

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

This only happens to you once

random thought ive had for weeks: a version of “Virtua Cop” where Buffalo Springfield gently warns you when bad guys appear

Remembering Jim Henson on what today would have been his 89th birthday.

After 9/11 my 8th grade English teacher, who used to teach in Washington DC and IIRC at one point had Chelsea Clinton as a student, pretty much immediately called what the US was going to do in response and spent the whole school year trashing the Bush administration at the start of every class.

No joke, Tetris helped me get over some weird traumatic phobias this way. Purposely thought of them and played Tetris for hours. It helps process them away somehow

Lying on the kitchen floor, head resting on my laundry, with "'Til I Die" by the Beach Boys on loop. I guess I'll get up soon but on the other hand maybe I'm here forever.

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

I may never be proven wrong

I was on this episode and tried to research the show we were covering and every single new source I found only made me feel like I understood the facts of this show even less! Get on your boogie suit, do your absolute worst disco moves, and enjoy another look at end-stage variety TV.

Liked this, from Defector defector.com/the-critic-c...

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Greed is such a destructive force that it caused an invention that allows for instant access to all knowledge to somehow make everyone stupider

i think at some point we're going to look back at how we made every form of entertainment and diversion accessible through devices even more private and insulating than a household television and be like yeah that was kind of a mistake

this is just The Opps

fr stop doing this to people's names! They're not on here namesearching so you are just breaking people's mute lists!

Transphobes would have a lot less reach on here if everyone stopped arguing with them and quoting their posts to dunk on them, they don't give a rat's ass about your arguments and enjoy wasting your time.

I love that I have only just learned that Steven Lenhart is on the Sounders coaching staff now and the way I learned was him being part of that whole Miami post-match squabble. The most fitting way to learn that, really.

Okay, I did miss that the "summer's almost over" vibes of Bumbershoot, actually. Glad it was both good and relatively affordable this year!

Seattle Sounders Football Club :)

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

AEW fans right now

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended: Weird Al Yankovic Mei Semones Deltron 3030 Jonathan Richman Pixies/Kurt Vile

Very annoying of WWE to imply they're going to do something with Bayley, pretty much the only "okay I'll pay attention to this a *little*" hook left in me.

what do we want MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS when do we want it

Presently at a Weird Al show and simultaneously enjoying it a lot while also pondering how to be alive in the 2020s. How's your Friday night going?

A kid in my class said “children are dumb.” There was silence for a moment, then another kid whispered “you have no respect for your own kind”