Thirty-one years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

AI is the deadly whisper of capital interests that betrays the working class in order to destroy it from within, and it couldn't be more simple than that.

Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)

Timothee Chalamet looks like he's about to demonstrate how to fall down the stairs without getting hurt

(speaks bravely) I liked both Sinners and One Battle After Another a lot

shoutout to all the dog owners enjoying the warmer weather by picking up a thousand freshly thawed turds from the yard

It’s 5 degrees in Toronto today and I just spotted my first pair of shorts on the subway. Spring has sprung

due to lack of posting I have previously neglected to share that I've started doing some writing for Premier Guitar, awakening the long-dormant gear nerd inside of me. It started with this big feature on the DIY guitar marketplace:

I’m trying to read this but the bloated horseshit that’s infected every news site is making it impossible. Ads covering the screen, subscription pleas, the page just refreshing for no reason. Unusable. The internet fucking sucks so much now.

skipped the Olympic closing ceremonies partly out of mourning for the Canadian hockey teams and partly out of fear that Måneskin would be involved somehow

Losing to the US sucks ass but losing to the US when they are openly Nazi Germany 2 is sooooo much worse

A few years ago I wrote a chorus for a friend’s bad in Belgium 🇧🇪 and now it’s finally out! Very cool that I have a songwriting credit in Europe??? youtu.be/bEOOSaBS7dI?...

I love American Football but I don’t like how every American Football album is called American Football

Songs I don’t want to hear for a while after these Olympics are over: • The Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends • Benson Boone - Beautiful Things • Shawn Mendes - There’s Nothing Holding Me Back

“Is butterbean okay?” is a top 5 line delivery in the history of cinema

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

There are two distinct types of mid-2000s CanCon rock fan and both of them are enjoying themselves today

Turnstile win their first Grammys, taking home Best Rock Album for 'Never Enough' and Best Metal Performance for "Birds"

What I was listening to in January 2026 ✌️

By yelling “hypocrite!” or “inconsistent!” we whitewash the repugnant underlying consistency. It makes it seems like these conservatives are breaking from universal values THAT THEY NEVER HAD. Instead, make it clear the drive to oppress has ALWAYS BEEN AT THE HEART OF THINGS.

No one drives in the winter. #biketo

Currently listening to “Grace General” by John K. Samson in the middle of January

Example 517394 that being in a band is the best way to have a steady stream of awesome photos of yourself and your friends (@survivalclubtheband.com)

Certainly don't blame people for being wary that the person approaching them in the street with a mic or camera isn't doing the grimmest prank show in history or is about to ask "what's your j/o style?" or "rank the intelligence of the races."

Finally quit Twitter and came here full time. Within two weeks a prominent poster was harassed and forced to deactivate for questioning whether it might be kinda weird to make an Animal Crossing character more busty. The spirit of Twitter lives on

enter to win tickets to the show we're playing on Friday!!

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Stranger Things Season 5 "Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up". Directed by The Duffer Brothers

my December in music. happy new year!

the streak continues

merry Christmas Eve. Family member unknowingly put electronically heated mug in the microwave and it promptly caught on fire and then the battery exploded in a big fireball. Everybody safe, house did not burn down 👍

family Christmas shenanigans have begun

Two things in one... I wrote about the 2025 Blue Jays after their excruciating World Series loss ruheedewji.com/2025/11/06/f... And I played a pretty decent sax solo among other things survivalclub.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-...

For all of my fellow music enjoyers out there… here is a list of my favourite albums released in 2025. I do this every year to stay hip and “with it.” happy to discuss! no worries if not!

I already had no interest in seeing Song Sung Blue but I've just learned that it's not even a Neil Diamond biopic... it's about a moderately successful Neil Diamond tribute act

AND MY FRIENDS BRICKIE

“slop” is such a good and useful word in media discourse. AI slop, corporate slop, influencer slop, etc. Unfortunately we probably only have about 3-6 months before it gets misused to the point that it loses all meaning, but until then, enjoy it

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Shut up everybody. There’s new @survivalclubtheband.com to listen to youtu.be/bLrVf88vcS8?...

my 5x5 for November

the trick-or-treaters probably think I’m unc :(

my October in music

Today on GET LIT Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel talk about music and writing as we discuss their book In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over The World. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or: tinyurl.com/9vtk2ar8 @adamfeibel.com @bobkin.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social