It used to bother me a lot more when I was younger, but honestly the older I’ve gotten the more I just look at myself and how much I’ve changed from top to bottom including in a lot of cases things like my tastes in music, and I realize that you can’t just expect somebody to stay stationary in life. We’re all moving, we’re all changing, and you can’t expect a musician to only want to do the one thing for their entire career.

So ultimately, yeah it can bum me out when a band changes their sound in a way that I don’t enjoy, but I’m just thankful that for the moments it did we had a special connection and leave open the door that maybe down the road I will appreciate the new stuff more than I initially did.

My stepfather, who I adored, was an instant huge fan of Death to Smoochy after it came out on home video and would often sing the line “Stepdad’s Not Mean He’s Just Adjusting”

I’m of real mixed emotions here. I totally understand why latino/a folks want this film to succeed, there has never really been a film to this scale to feature as predominantly a latin-american cast as this one, and that’s certainly a big moment. I have a latino friend who is going purely for how big a moment it is for representation of his culture and I get it.

However, so much of the complaints about how iffy the film’s likely performance I’ve seen really border damn close to just complaining about the strike “ruining” things for people (like we didn’t all know this film had ‘potential bust’ written all over it for a long time now) and studios’ plans. And frankly, while I certainly hope for more latin-american representation all across film, I also think that trying to save Warner Bros Discovery from their own disasterous decision is counterproductive to wishes of future good quality and original programming

Yeah, nothing about his “clarifications” really do anything other than making him look even more a dim light struggling to form an opinion.

As killer a track as ever

I really tried on the Ms. Marvel series but it was not for me and I knew it by the second episode, and Captain Marvel was one of the most formulaic, underbaked films of that Phase. Maybe it is just because Guardians being done means whatever strong investments I once had in the MCU are fading away because it’s all just too much of the same, but really nothing that screams out to me that this will be enjoyable though I will ultimately see it (a couple friends and I see every MCU movie despite most of us being super burnt out)

Love this song as a diehard fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, listen to it all the time.

I’ve never listened to any (I’ve meant to, just haven’t gotten around to it) but I know that Jacobin hosts some podcasts with various socialist focuses.

Really solid, thanks for sharing!

Really enjoyed this, definitely gonna check out more, thanks for sharing.

Watched because this band was randomly in my recommendations the other day and it felt like fate to pop up in another place days later, I am not upset that I did, some serious protopunk/early punk vibes I’m super into. Will listen to more, thanks for the post!

Absolutely adore Breakfast in America it is a pity various disputes have kept a lot of the album from being available on various streamers, so I rely quite heavily on the cassette copy I picked up on a whim.

I’m still in season 3, but absolutely loving it, in my watch of Babylon 5 but it is exciting to know once I finish the series not only are there movies to follow but they are still making entries to this day.

Not gonna lie, feel like a big part of the problem is the fact that Bud Light is swill, so naturally it attracts a lot of lowest-common denominator customers who can actually make a boycott like this sting a little.

There’s obviously a lot that plays into stuff like this, but don’t think such a boycott would at all be effective with like a decent mid-shelf beer though.

For whatever reason, I just never really listened to Swervedriver or if I did it just didn’t light up my radar, but I really enjoyed this song, might do a deeper dig in the future.

These are wonderful, great way to show off the vibrant colors of the community.

There has never been a time in my life in which I have turned down the chance to watch David Byrne do weird little dances.

I’m a huge fan of the like microbudget (like 50k) psychological sci-fi film Coherence. They make the most out of their cast who semi-improvise much of the dialog and go the lo-fi approach to wonderful effect. It is easily found on several different streaming services, and is truly an underseen gem.