What entirely online drama are we wasting our energy on today?

I don't know man, I've returned to using my alt on Shitter because just too many of my online pals are still mainly over there and in the week since I've done that I post the same shit on my alt there which has 108 followers as I do on here where I have nearly 800 and I get way more engagement there

Back to that old me (jazz). I listened to so much Charlie Parker this week.

Goddamn this one fucking rips, A+ finale reveal.

Goddamnit Atletico

Hope they make movies together forever

Went into watching this matchup for the goals and instead I leave having become obsessed with the two goalies, especially Donnarumma.

That Liverpool-PSG match was fucking great sportsball.

My only real complaint with the work of Patricia Highsmith is that she has the tendency to make the blandest characters the protagonist and have her perverted, alienated creeps gravitate towards them when her genius lies in her exploration of those perverted, alienated creeps.

I feel bad for Justin Fields, going from how he played last year he could've developed into a great fit on the Steelers but he needs weapons and mentorship and it's hard to not think that he's fucked at the Jets.

There is something so poetic about Sam Darnold moving from one city with a Jon Bois immortalized franchise to another city with a Jon Bois immortalized franchise. All is left is for the Seahawks to beat the Vikings in the NFC championship by 2 or 32 points.

He plays a monk who may possibly be a serial killer whose had their memory wiped and of course this ended up being one of the best episodes of TV.

Yooo Brad Dourif in BABYLON 5!!

It's really fucking dumb that to watch pretty much any MLS games you have to subscribe to a whole damn streaming service. I would like to watch MLS games and try to properly get into it but not $15 a month enough.

An hour into Chabrol's L'ENFER I was thinking it was an extremely well acted and directed take on a done to death narrative but my god the way it shifts and becomes an incredibly complex look at mental illness.

Another A+ week of listening. (I cannot fucking believe I just missed having a full 5x5 so that my morbid curiosity Tate McRae listens made the cut hahaha)

The short days bummed me out a lot this time and I am very excited for the days to be longer again. Think I'm officially getting old.

Wow

It will be crazy if this PSG-Liverpool match ends 0-0

Holy shit Arsenal remembered how to score

Bangers

Why aren't we talking all the time about how Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley made an album together full of 7+ minute songs where they jam and talk shit.

This is the face of a cat who is sick and tired of being thrown in a backpack most weeks cause some moron in our building sets off the fire alarm.

Decided to listen to almost nothing but blues and R&B this week, a great choice.

Can't overstate how invaluable Robert Christgau and his website have been for helping guide me in properly exploring artists who have so many damn albums I otherwise would stay away. Anyway, I'm finally listening to Aretha Franklin studio albums and man what I have been missing.

Literary and academic people writing about films please stop caring so much about what got nominated for Oscars, the Oscars are bullshit

Yo check out the mood lighting above one of the urinals at my office. The most sensual pee I've had in years.

A friend wants to get into post-60s Dylan so asked me for my favorite of his 70s albums. I said BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, felt basic and tried to think of another and realized that my #2 could be 3 different ones but none ahead of TRACKS. Relistening to TRACKS and it really is one of the best albums.

Oh shit, I missed one: A JUDGEMENT IN STONE by Ruth Rendell. A banger, also with an Ellroy intro. I own all of these books so not buying these editions, but damn I am dying to read the intros.

Vintage/Black Lizard has published 5 special anniversary editions all with intros by James Ellroy. Here is the list: POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, BIG SLEEP, MALTESE FALCON, A RAGE IN HARLEM, and...... OUT by Natsuo Kirino.

Same with THE OFFICE and FRIENDS only they are even more insufferable and people have been using them relentlessly since GIFs were created.

Oh my god why can't I be watching this

Anyway, I wish I was watching the Barcelona-Atletico Madrid match. Madrid scored twice in the opening 10 minutes and now Barcelona is up 3-2 and it isn't even halftime.

To each their own but I never want you to share a Twitter post with me unless it's at least 2 years old and funny. Whenever any of you share a recent post I worry for you, why would you do that to yourself?

Maybe this essay is insightful, don't care enough about Krasznahorkai to read it, but this framing is so goddamn stupid. "Brodernism"--fuck off.

Latest stage in my soccer obsession is that I got up at 8am on a SATURDAY to watch the second half of the Arsenal match where they botched opportunity after opportunity. Should've watched the Tottenham match instead, that at least would've been fun.

LastFM Friday is correct, I had a rather good music week.

I no longer read ebooks on my phone during my commute to and from work because my entire commute is now spent reading the three daily soccer newsletters I get which then lead me down Wikipedia rabbit holes.

My feed is at least 80% screaming at headlines and sorry but I'm not spending significant amount of time on a social media site where only maybe 10% of what I see is Good Culture Chat.

7/11 near me finally brought back my favorite Liquid Death flavor which also coincidentally describes my politics

Social media might be cooked for me--I don't even get a passing enjoyment out of coming on here, pals have returned to Twitter which I won't do, etc.

Mbappé is putting on a show yet I'm stuck in the office limited to ESPN push notification updates. Tragic.

I long ago decided I was going to skip L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and go to WHITE JAZZ which sounds way more interesting but just now made the unfortunate discovery that the Ed Exley/Dudley Smith saga leaks into JAZZ.

Sorry to say but I don't understand how you can work for WaPo or the LA Times at this point, they are completely corrupted by bootlickers and their staff should resign or strike

Ellroy's THE BIG NOWHERE is really fucking good. Also get why no one has even tried to make it into film, its violence and brutality makes BLACK DAHLIA seem tame.

Me and my cat love Adam's shop.

Shop update.

Every 2000s Dylan song

And let the person that slighted me win? Fuck that. I'll die at 60 if it means ruining years of their life.

I would laugh so hard and watch every game.