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This morning I put the new Tmbg song “wu-tang” on the school commute playlist, and this evening I’m putting on that version of “triumph” with the bee sounds over the swears, I AM THE COOLEST.

Spoiler: working on pt 2 of my Aerosmith post, just thinking about yungblud has me more sympathetic to Casey Kasem going “these guys are from England and who gives a shit?” than ever.

“All Star” >> “You Get What You Give”

In “Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott came out as gay 50 years ago, on February 10, 1976. (At the time, it was a revolutionary move.) Here’s that strip and the ensuing dailies:

FB reels informed me that Kat Dennings & Seann William Scott are doing a will-they-won’t-they on the latest “Tim Allen smirks contemptuously at life” sitcom. Sorry, millennials. Apparently the former needs the latter to justify being televised!

The function of consumer-facing "A.i." is to enrich billionaires by deploying faux sci fi woo woo bullshit to normalize crappy, dangerous products that worsen and sometimes even end people's lives. Institute the corporate death sentence for all companies that injure and kill people with this trash.

I think people forget that Fincher is more than anything a stylist, one who learned to do right by a good script but won’t hesitate to glossy up a bad one. He’ll *err* on the side of late 80s MTV, and isnt the reason his best films overcome that.

I called this “digital candlelight” circa social network, and it looks even goofier in the context of Cali pop fantasy rather than wintry Harvard techie reflections.

the only thing more bud light powerful than hate is love

I think maybe I can’t deal with serious Americana guys cuz I think of the chore of mellencamp trying to be woody Guthrie, and younger guys didn’t even wiggle their butts talking about chili dogs and walls crumblin for a half decade before naming an album America’s Better Angels or something.

A fantastic piece about a singer I can’t stand (or maybe just an archetype I can’t care about, self-serious Americana guys). A terrific mix of subjective experience and objective detail, critical observation about a body of work in and outside this moment, from the thick of it.

I scared my college girlfriend by getting up close and going “Judy! Judy! Judy!” Turned out it was her mom’s name. There’s a hundred others im sure, but that sticks out as a time where a truly high level of confusion was inspired by it.

And in his late forties, Anthony discovered Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

I did not have CARLOS opening with the same Feelies song that starts SMITHEREENS on my belated Criterion watch bingo card!!!

My favorite pitch person is either the “holy shit this could end tomorrow, say yes to everything” type like Walton goggins, or the one you realize hasn’t done a big money gig in a minute and might actually have overhead to cover, like Alison Brie for Macy’s.

This makes sense! I remember watching clips on the old Japander site, but YouTube definitely made it hard to keep up a vanity only on half the planet.

I dont know exactly when and why the worm turned on this, but I think it was this Brad Pitt Heineken ad where I was first like “oh wow, they’re letting us see this in America?” Apparently it was directed by David fincher AND it’s now 21 years old! youtu.be/wAXZba_OLHE?...

the premise of Lost In Translation is very dated now because no movie star is embarrassed enough about doing corny commercials to only do them overseas

Do let me know if Elaine May has a favorite crypto. Okay, feed?

I thought about putting something Spanish language on peacock for the benefit of their metrics but the first options on their Uplifting Voices Latin-American section were George Lopez sitcoms so I took my classy ass to criterion and I’m gonna finally start CARLOS.

it’s objectively hilarious if anyone expresses rapture at the half-time show and then continues to watch football and see if any other geriatric tv stars are gonna ride a Pepsi, instead of finding more Latin-american art to consume.

I’ll admit Shakira and J Lo was more *my* kinda “let’s have a lot of fun while telling Trump and any other xenophobe to get bent” party. But that was indeed a solid reminder capitalism doesn’t HAVE to tolerate hate, and might be wise to fight it.

Lolll I just put on the bunny to support good things and went “oh! Christina Aguilera is there!” Realized my mistake a second later but lol.

TIRED: asking people if they were watching the sportsball WIRED: asking people if they were watching the adcapitalism

The top ten LEAST cliche song titles off the last 5 kid rock albums: Ala-Fuckin-Bama, She’s Your Baby (Now Rock Her), Po-Dunk, Grandpa’s Jam, Good Time Lookin For Me, Drinking With Dad, 3 CATT Boogie, Cucci Galore, Chickens In The Pen, Fifty. LEAST cliche.

Thought I was gonna watch the game to support the bunny & my Seattle fam. I made it through two ads before pressing mute. I had to turn it off after the first hit. Injury issues aside, I like the game. I just can’t watch such bombastic digitally enhanced pageantry alone. Maybe when the bunny starts.

I’m now compelled to contrast and compare & plenty I haven’t seen, but this suggests serious validity. My top 10 of the year-of-release Top 100 includes two Part 5s, a great superhero movie with a climax-neutering epilogue, a cutesy romcom that quite likely aged poorly. Then there’s what I passed!

X-Men TAS s1: metaphorical sci-fi around civil rights & tolerance X-Men TAS s2: lots of goofy sci-fi opera about nothing in particular with remarkably shrill guest characters Four episodes into s3: hmmm the dark phoenix saga…and Banshee!

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Watching Maps To The Stars, keep picturing David Cronenberg like this when I remember it’s supposed to be a comedy. The movie could make Todd Solondz go “yikes,” though i bet John Waters gave it five stars.

Oh nooooow I get why film nerds are weirdly cool with Tony Scott and Michael Bay. It’s the sweat.

Do they at least get to hoot and howl and chew on their caps like they’re at a Bob Hope USO show? Yell “Look at those gams! Hachi machi!” in a shrill New York accent?

I said this in a reply couple days ago, but MICHAEL C HALL. People forget Dexter leads a glam band and played lead in Bowie’s Lazarus. We need this dude doing a dead straight “Starman” with the Pigs In Space. Stage actors can COMMIT to singing ballads at felt lobsters.

RIP Fred Smith of Television — one of the coolest bassists of all time.

Someday, someone at a party or bar, will ask if I’ve heard Neil Young’s Trans. They will not be prepared for how fervently I’ll suggest that is BASIC now and the hot shit is LANDING ON WATER. www.dailymotion.com/video/xnlp1

I am not going to QT the thread about the STARK reality of AI but I assume, like the Mike Scott thing, it’s mountains of rationalization from people who love to write but can’t draw, mad they’re told it’s uncool to use what they see as the latest innovation in clip art.

I dunno, if I should have been stripped of status & power by gremlins 2, and instead became a two-term president while committing a variety pack of unthinkable crimes, dismantling the American myth in unprecedented ways, I’d want Chuck Schumer to kiss my ass and name shit after me too.

And outside, two million furious Minnesotans Are getting ready to sing "killing in the name" out of tune I stand there in my stupid gear Looking at the clouds, orange with celebration And I wonder if you're out there

She was even into BRISCOE a decade before any of y’all!!!

LA's politicians need to stop listening to NIMBYs and start saving people's lives.

“Ma’am, get out of the house immediately…the Vanilla Fudge is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!”

All the bait that fits!

Miles Davis, In A Silent Way Eno/Budd, The Pearl Talk Talk, Spirit Of Eden Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace Neil Young, Comes A Time Feel free to read into someone having a “top five” for this

Know that I’ve been wrestling with how to make a black eyed peas joke re McArdle, Dreyfuss, Barro and Douthat on the same track all day. Picture those four, play “boom boom pow” in your head, and feel free to join in.

I’m too much of a fan of ensemble comedy and character work/journey to go all the way, but if your taste in movies goes more euro-madness seen on college campuses, if you think Cemetary Man is underrated, the Blade movies really are unparalleled. And worth seeing either way.

Tfw I see people wrestle with the fact that anyone can abuse the power they’re given, that we have to focus on listening to victims & acknowledging actions because fixating on the intent of others is an easily manipulated distraction inspired by the fear our own sense of self may not be redemptive.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

“I’ve made clear I’m only licking the boot when TRULY necessary - yknow, like if someone evil and NOT white shows up - and that I want promises that the boot will very much probably not be used to stomp on me, the most committed of pinky swears…”

I’ll never get over the poetry that the Clintons, one using vain whataboutism to avoid resigning over abusing power, the other feeling entitled to a position of power she lost 8 years earlier for being outdated, ATTENDED TRUMP’S WEDDING, cuz it sounded like harmless-to-them pageantry.