folks, I think I've stumbled upon the solution to the male loneliness problem

If I could make this flex I'd 100% use it on my autograph too.

finally now how do we find him a job where he can continue appearing in ceremonial garb

I love every version of this song I've heard from The Paragons' original to Massive Attack, but this one is pretty remarkable because it's Adrian Sherwood bringing together a reggae great and a few members of the original Sugarhill Band

I struggle a bit with my gripes over mass pop culture coverage and attitudes in the debates over poptimism (or what half-attentive people think is poptimism), but at this point I figure this is the angle I want to take (this scales up to bigger-ticket artists, too)

Also, as I hope plenty of Kaleb Horton writing examples have also shown throughout the day...goddamn the man was funny. His Twitter stretch showed that but when he wanted to go longform, my god. Thus:

I've geeked out in my time over various Dan covers from Ahmad Jamal to Burnt Sugar to Minutemen, but this whole tribute album by a pair of Swedish women is amazing in a less-is-more way. there's still a lot of power left in these songs even when you take away all the meticulous session-band density

me: "oh, so that's what it'd be like if Hitchcock took some cues from 'Vanishing Point'"

sure, I like emo

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

this is in the top 5% of cover versions that are both extremely faithful and also impossible to imagine being done this way by any other artist

Count me among the hundreds of people who wish they could've met @kalebhorton.bsky.social and among the hundreds who want to keep writing as vivid as his alive. This piece, for example, about George Harrison and Formula 1 racing. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Fuckin'...okay I don't know how exactly I missed this but it turns out Kaleb Horton had a podcast too that ran in the mid 2010s? How the fuck did I MISS this? Or did I just hear about it and forget? What the hell, past me. And I'm sure it's brilliant too, why wouldn't it be!

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

I never met Kaleb Horton but his writing always hit me right in the gut and we deserved to have more of it. Wish I could’ve talked to him more about music, or anything.

it'd be funny if there were indie rock stan armies, just a bunch of Geese fans talking shit on Wednesday Hive

You know the big noodly bombastic Craig Safan "Comfortably Numb" knockoff guitar solo that closes out the last act of 'Thief'? What if it was this song instead

more racing games should be unafraid to get a little self-indulgent with the poetry. this is from a title called Tokyo Xtreme Racer where you battle souped-up Toyotas on the expressway and it reads like someone describing a really eclectic DJ set

I have never felt more like a weeb in my entire life

this game(?) is bewildering in a great found-footage 1992 cable access kind of way blippo.plus

there are many, many versions of The Nineties out there. for example, have you ever considered the possibility that My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult's whole dirtbag Deee-lite phase might be every bit as definitive of a dominant subcultural aesthetic as grunge was?

cracking up imagining this person watching 'A Prince (2023)'

Once & for all, let's specify what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why many people can't stop blaming it for every cultural change of the past 20 years. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, who's often (wrongly) said to have started it! Today in @slate.com slate.com/culture/2025...

I am also pleased by the start of the essay for _This is Spinal Tap_ by Alex Pappademas, as it is simultaneously, and has been for a long time, one of my favorite Spinal Tap stories and one of my favorite Oasis stories.

just when I hoped there would finally be an excuse to make people stop using the phrase "this is the way"

OH MY GOD, THE AD HE MENTIONS AT THE STORY IS ON YOUTUBE!

My Adidas walk through corridors And roam all over Weyland-Yutani floors

I am not typically a concert photo posting type but it is my birthday and I am seeing a bunch of legends so hey

def my fave artist I share a birthday with

at the Pulp show and shouts out to whoever put “LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)” on the preshow playlist

things are going to have to settle down considerably before I can get any escapist value out of ‘Children of Men’ again

Happy Birthday, Paul Williams. youtu.be/y5jQYOcpVks?...

I'm more interested in using this map for a different thought exercise: you can only listen to one region's music

My hopeful thought is this: they can't get us all if there's too many of us. The more of us loudly advocating for trans rights, especially cis people, the more unenforceable it will be should it come to pass.

All hail the best patent drawing ever

Method Man w/ one opaque contact in “Bring the Pain.” Keith Murray on top of the Lexus in “The Most Beautifullest.” Clipse and the whole state of VA in “Grindin.” Just to name a few. An integral figure in my HS + college years. Diane Martel was a masterful architect, a visual genius and an icon. 🕊️

I'm glad I looked this up because it turned out to be a surrealist hip-hop group whose members included Eye from Boredoms and the guy who came up with all the noises for the Sony AIBO robot dog

Antifa terrorists

A few copies of I Heart Lung’s 'Interoceans,' never-before released on vinyl, have been sitting in my basement for 17 years. It’s time to let them go for a good cause: Help Chris Schlarb and his family get back on their feet. newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/the-...

this is a fever dream

picked a hell of a time to watch 'Winter Kills'

where do I get that shirt

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ummmm if you don’t enjoy stuff an old cop wrote then why did you like eddie money so much

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OK I need to know immediately if there is anywhere I can watch full on-demand episodes of The Johnny Cash Show because this is glorious

Redford was a real one. Sundance changed everything. Here he is talking with Amy Taubin about his career at the Walker Art Center. R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOsT...

if we're doing chain-posting of our favorite cover songs then sign me up