1 last addendum: I could've already had the draft version of this on the spreadsheet I sent to @beatskelton.bsky.social, but also that thread got me to sort out another couple tracks, such that its a pretty complete little LP now. I present, Imitate 2, a compilation LP of my covers since 2014ish:

I like how Groverhaus could just as easily be a comedy as a horror film. Like it could be a Tim Allen vehicle after the style of Home Improvement as much as it could be Poltergeist thing, but you hope the house gets sucked into another dimension at the end. Plus there's already a sequel in bathdoom.

Any time a Spanish speaking government does right by its poorest the New York Times summons the ghost of United Fruit

Bari Weiss somehow manages to be one of the most repellent people in an age dense with such filth

HEY YOUTUBE WHY THE FUCK IS THIS THE SUGGESTED VIDEO TO AUTO PLAY AFTER A GUY WHO LIKES CUSSING PLAYING FINAL FANTASY 1 BADLY?

Him just going "Yes, I might not have the tools to explain your own art back to you in a way that shows my perfect deep appreciation for your work, but I can still tell you about how this effected me as a person"

LRP is so nice it's like such a great encapsulation of why it's great to engage with the people who make the stuff you like and the difference it can make in their life, especially when they're relatively small. Wild to see BEAT drop his all caps to just be genuine but the message is important --

It’s sad, but I don’t think I’m the only one who’s in no mood to celebrate America’s 250th birthday while so many of our brothers and sisters are losing rights. Especially when we know Trump is making such a big deal out of the America250 celebration to celebrate himself.

Rupar's the only one in that graphic who generally has anything useful to share, and he's here on Bluesky. Deactivate/delete your X.

This is the film

WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CORTISOL I JUST ASSUME THEY'RE MAKING SHIT UP.

We're not doing D-Day aplogia. The good guys did the right thing. If you think otherwise, go fuck yourself then go fuck yourself. Having had an uncle--not great uncle, dipshits, an uncle--who fought there, you don't get to denigrate that for your cosplay political beliefs. Go fuck yourself

These sick bastards are the ideological heirs of the Nazis and they know it. They go to D-Day events and implicitly position themselves *with the defending force*. Cannot wait to see them all driven from power.

i made this post years ago in 2019 and it continues to haunt me as the only true thing i have ever actually said

this discourse may have reached its narrative peak

Google is only implying that they're going to buy that capacity off of SpaceX to ensure that their early investments in SpaceX & Anthropic don't crater the second they IPO. They're padding the books & embellishing the narrative just long enough that someone else will end up holding the bag:

I disagree with the itch framing here if only because like. everyone here is getting bullied by paypros. you're only noticing it with itch because Epic and Steam were never hosting the queer adult games to begin with.

I caught this and that for AFI, but having this song added to Rock Band 2 had me locked in on this and later Blaqk Audio. What FOLLOOOOOOOOWS!!! 🎶

Yeah, picking apart another English rule, adjective order of size vs. color, is something I got a song hook from. Of course there can be "Red, big" dogs and so on - it just means something different & that malleability makes it a fun language to play around in once you have the basics down.

Final Fantasy VII Revelation will launch simultaneously on all platforms can't wait to buy it on Ouya

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU PUT IT THIS WAY IT SUDDENLY MAKES PERFECT SENSE WHY IKE PERLMUTTER WAS ALL IN ON THIS.

The X-men make Wolverine put on a blazer and teach kids about Gettysburg, The Inhumans would open an AI private school in Florida that costs every tax payer 1,800 dollars in vouchers

Hello welcome, yes we all dress like if Star Trek was a porno, that’s normal on THE MOON

There was a span of time Marvel was trying to end the X-men because of film rights and it was wild they went with the Inhumans because while the X-men are a parable about tolerance with fun superpowers, the Inhumans were about a group of racists living on the moon with powers that were dumb as fuck

I was just gonna do the response in VSCode to go aesthetic for aesthetic, but instead, what was re-enkindled in me by this past month spent talking about the full history of my single longest creative pursuit was worth a blog post. Tl;dr: BEAT's thread was welcome exposure therapy in a rough time.

I want a Mohawk, Mom won't let me get one

fun story: my old youth pastor went to highschool with them. he would sometimes play bass as a backup for them. I thought it was total bullshit, but the next time I saw him, he brought his highschool yearbook and showed me pictures of davy havoc playing at a show in his parents backyard lmao

These images posted by the Claude Code team are so amusing to me not because the perfect architecture is just Claude talking to Claude talking to Claude but instead that you have layers of Claudes whose job is to fix the errors and hallucinations of the other Claudes.

biblically accurate llm

No. That's not true. They called for a pause because they're running out of money and know this isn't going to take off like they hoped it would and now they want some sort of protection for when the investors come knocking

the right didn't build its power by being unapologetically virile and masculine. they poured 50 years of lawyer billable hours into making it the law that you have to pretend they are

Oh. thehill.com/policy/defen...

I REMEMBER OWNING SEVERAL AFI ALBUMS, BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU I HAVE AN *OPINION* ON THEM. ALSO I'M POSTING THE ARTWORK FOR ALL FOUR OF THIER PRE-ALBUM EPS AT ONCE BECAUSE IF YOU PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER THEY'RE BASICALLY LP LENGTH.

The public needs to fully understand the repercussions of giving RFK Jr. access to identifiable medical records from 90% of the U.S. population. He is a eugenicist who wants to “reparent” Black childen, send people with mental illness to “wellness camps”, and to take away anti-depressants.

Electricity arcs don't even look like that underwater lmao This is just a startle display like a million others.

do fish understand what electricity looks like

Fun fact: that whole “a dingo ate my baby” joke people make about Australians? Its origin is a very real story that features a couple’s life being ruined because cops made up a tonne of bullshit about them when, in fact, her baby had literally been killed by a dingo. ACAB forever.

S&P 500 ----> yeah, nah. (sanity prevails) "To ​be included in the S&P 500, a company must be profitable under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in its most recent quarter as ​well as for the sum of its most recent four quarters .... SpaceX posted a net loss of $4.94 billion in 2025" lmao

I can’t get over all these free speech warriors who spent years screaming at me about censorship now being too afraid to even say “ass” in a YouTube video. They capitulated without so much as a *performative* protest, unquestioningly abandoning their supposed values for ad revenue peanuts.

The Flyer. 1/4

Like, there's no way around the fact that the 2010's Toronto sound is one of the fingerprints on my work with tracks like this, just as much there's Neptunes overtones:

Drake's heavily reliance on ghostwriters can make a cover feel more like jail breaking a phone: you're liberating someone else's work. 40 & Boi1da are good composers & producers; some of his writers had good pens at points. Also, "Headlines" just reminds me of PAX2011 somehow. Can't elaborate.

I always felt those songs had were more related than was obvious, and I do my best Dylan Thomas to "not go gentle into that good night," very interpretive covers like this are a safe place to play around. Why not make Childish Gambino sound like the Postal Service? There's no stakes, so get weird.

RIP to my cat Hagu, short for Hagumi as in the character from Honey and Clover. 19 years old. She hung in there as long as she could. So, yeah she got an album cover. Song titles on this one are all lyrics.

People are dying after release from ICE custody. So they’re going to stop reporting the deaths.

I will almost certainly put this on an album properly when/if I feel up to putting together another vocal record. It's good enough I don't just want to compile it on a record of loose tracks/EPs, but I'm also hedging my bets & started drafting options:

Plus Nursehella getting bratty!