The Best Album of 2001 Round 1 Match #43 #26 Jimmy Eat World, BLEED AMERICAN VS. #103 Janet Jackson, ALL FOR YOU Go here to vote: forms.gle/7fVCHUhT3PTb...

today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 2001 match features Jimmy Eat World and Janet Jackson! who is the target audience for Jimmy Eat World, and how did they leave me speechless? why does a song on Janet’s album remind me of a thing that happened 13 years ago? it’s unhinged, just how you like it!

SOUND-DUST defeats NEW FAVORITE, 106-75-2.

The Best Album of 2001 Round 1 Match #42 #58 Stereolab, SOUND-DUST VS. #71 Alison Krauss + Union Station, NEW FAVORITE Go here to vote: forms.gle/X4GTXgTGjSfs...

Or Gen-AI prose is fairy food. It looks the part on the plate, and you can sometimes even get your fork into it, but put it in your mouth and it's gone in an instant, leaving behind no taste, no texture, certainly no nutrients, only the faintest memory of the 'mouthfeel’ of someone else's meal.

Got my two free books from Thriftbooks, Rough Guides to Jazz and Heavy Metal Opened them up and discovered the type is almost too small for my 54 year old eyes

Tuesday’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match is between Stereolab and Alison Krauss & Union Station! there’s also gardening, amateur choreography, archival research, and HOMETOWN PRIDE! (go Alison!)

GORILLAZ defeats LIDO, 135-56-2.

A Letterboxd list of the 119 movies that got more than two mentions by the people who responded to this prompt.

“How could my shitty, phoned-in work become so popular?”

Start thinking of songs (and back-up songs, if you don't want to double). Costumes and 2001-era fashion encouraged! If you want to duet, please make sure that the person will be in the room with you, because lag messes these things up. Want to play your own instruments? DO IT Watch this space...

Since Kent mentioned it in the newsletter, it's official: Best Album of 2001 karaoke is coming! @nanette.bsky.social and I will be emceeing on Sunday, June 14th (time TBD, depends on a lot of factors), but the real heroes are @tlachtga.bsky.social and @zizpa.bsky.social for providing the venue. 1/2

Kept meaning to repost this! In today’s newsletter, I announced that @lanna.bsky.social and @nanette.bsky.social are hosting a Best Album of 2001 Karaoke over Zoom! It’s gonna be June 14, more details as they become available. buttondown.com/kentmbeeson/...

I've always wanted to do the cover art for a horror movie novelization. And since they never actually made novelizations for the original Evil Dead trilogy, I thought this would be a fun project.

*extremely kraftwerk voice* grogu cafe

I forgot it was Cannes and a reminder only the best and brightest go

Good morning, friends. The bracket is back today, and I hope you’re ready. Round One of the Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs Bracket begins right now with a song so iconic it’s the company’s logo theme against a cult favorite: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

week 9 of @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 2001 begins with a match between Gorillaz and Clearlake! also I have given up on trying to guess what Jon may or may not like, and I engage in some minor Blur-related sacrilege

Next, for LIDO, it’s @megabrow12.bsky.social. Take it away, Shamp! (Stay tuned for the following post which includes the footnotes)

We have dueling Designated Cheerleaders today! First up, for GORILLAZ, it’s @kezme.bsky.social! Take it away, kezme!

The Best Album of 2001 Round 1 Match #41 #7 Gorillaz, GORILLAZ VS. #122 Clearlake, LIDO Go here to vote: forms.gle/FtKpJoLzhc44...

Lucio Fulci on incoherence. From Fulci Talks (2021, Antonietta De Lillo)

This month I got to act in a super-indie film in a way I’ve never had the opportunity to do before and it was thrilling and humbling. The film just wrapped and now money is needed for post-production! There’s so much crazy shit going on right now but if you can, throw in a buck? gofund.me/0eb5c84a2

University President: Good afternoon Class of 2026! Please put your hands together for this year’s graduation speaker, MOLOCH!!

Young men There's no need to feel down, I said Young men When you drink Royal Crown, because That's when Turn that frown upside down It's as good as Co Ca Cola

The difference between how techgarchs talk about AI (godlike singularity bringing post-scarcity utopia or science-fiction apocalypse) and what it turned out to be (annoying, mediocre, inescapable, making life steadily worse) exactly parallels how they think of themselves and how they actually are.

Inspired by Sean’s memory of the 1987 MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, what was the movie you saw as a kid that made you realize it was possible for movies to be bad? For me I think it was THE ICE PIRATES (1984).

Dane, WI: At 1137 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over northeastern Madison, moving east at 25 mph..

Ok now more worried about Madison than Verona.

We live pretty close to the town’s siren so when that goes off shit is real. That said, a map of the storm shows it just slightly north of us, hopefully it’s just skirting us.

Dane, WI: At 1115 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Verona, moving northeast at 25 mph.. NWS: TORNADO WARNING in this area til 12:00 PM CDT. Take shelter now. Check media.

AH HOLY FUCKING SHIT ACTUAL TORNADO WARNING SIRENS AND ALARMS

New at The Overdue Diligence Project: a consideration of H.B. Halicki's third and final "feature" DEADLINE AUTO THEFT. I banged this one out pretty quickly, yet I suspect I put more effort into this than Halicki did into the film. Anyway... join up today! www.patreon.com/posts/116-de...

Earth people New York and California Earth people There’s a new Lonergan

THE PHOTO ALBUM defeats PRETTY TOGETHER, 102-83-2.

I only have a Designated Cheerleader for They Might Be Giants, so if you’d like to write one, send it to kentmbeeson AT hey dot com. Thanks!

right up there's the Fripp + Roches parts on "Hammond Song" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX4y...

i will not vote for any democrat that encourages throwing the trans community under the bus, i dont care who the opponent is i will not participate in an election where the choice is between two candidates that will attack marginalized communities to reach their personal political aspirations

A little less than 1 hour 45 minutes left to vote!

The Best Album of 2001 Round 1 Match #40 #47 Death Cab for Cutie, THE PHOTO ALBUM VS. #82 Sloan, PRETTY TOGETHER Go here to vote: forms.gle/zmP79TA3N4cr...

Y'know the thing about a Teddy Ruxpin, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a shark's eyes.

fuck everything, we’re doing 5 leches

hmmm. ok, intriguing

Oaters of the East: The first entry in what I hope is a new feature on the intersection of East Asian and American genre cinema as seen through the lens of the Western, focusing on Sukiyaki Western Django, The Magnificent Seven, and The Good, The Bad, The Weird.

Nah, just accept mistakes as a part of life. Don’t facilitate perfectionism, I think. Polls would be a good idea though!

Times like this make all the trans intracommunity infighting seem so painfully inconsequential. I'm so sorry this world failed you, Juniper. You should have gotten to grow old.

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

This will be the first search for a new James Bond that won't involve the film's long-standing producers, the Broccoli family. Which is a shame, because they had an interesting way of screentesting all potential new Bonds with a really odd scene, for a really clever reason. Mini 🧵