Erin Vanderhoof

lmao it worked so well and now it's wearing off two weeks before my next appointment! if you see me out on the town hobbling, you know why

This is unironically a perfect description of the rationalist subculture

87. Somehow in the 1990s popular music started delivering certain tropes and emotions and we haven’t been able to escape them

86. I’m only good at music and movies and books because I am so porous to the people around me, and I think other people should be like that too

85. I can’t make any serious critical assessment of Taking Back Sunday because any hint of them fills me with a grasping teenage yowl

84. The clean version of “Get Low” is way more disgusting that the dirty one. “Crawl skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet crawl skeet skeet skeet skeet” is so gross

ME: *reading the bad news website all day* we're doomed. there's no way to come back from this

ME: *11:10 pm two beers three tacos deep watching a 65 year old Black woman in a Sunday dress absolutely rock out to a dad band covering Queen Bitch* america is an idea. and a feeling in the heart.

Haha, I think it’s a bit more serious than him simply being an asshole. Either way, top quality music but the promotion wasn’t able to happen, and I get why younger people are a little wary of getting really into them. I’m a huge fan of the music tho

83. I don’t really believe in most form of cultural essentialism about the regions of America but I do believe that the South has produced so much great fiction historically because lying was such a foundational part of its social mores for centuries

82. Milan Kundera and Margaret Atwood are shelved next to each other in my book shelves because I feel like they are both either the dumbest smart or the smartest dumb writers of all time

I’m Ozzy in a caftan

It is also my style inspo for the fall, so can it really be that bad????

81. XTC would have been one of the most successful bands of the 80s and be having a serious revival now if certain members weren’t so interpersonally unpleasant

Absolutely!!!! My mother was very happy every time she could turn an “I like this” to a “we like this” haha

80. Most helicopter parenting is incredibly stupid (especially sports) but it is a good idea to enthusiastically introduce your kids to the culture you like, even if they seem uninterested. It really will rub off on them in important ways

79. You really do need a good sound system or else you’re not really going to appreciate music

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

The sense that women have excessive moral obligations to men—to care for their feelings, to defer to their interests—but can legitimately make only minor claims in such care from others is central to how misogyny actually perpetrates itself as an ideology.

78. Eric Church's influence is EVERYWHERE in music now, yet I don't think anyone talks about it

77. I flip-flop my opinion on Jack Antonoff at least once a year. I think right now I'm anti

76. My current favorite YouTuber is this Homebrewed Christianity, a philosophy professor in North Carolina who also somehow has gotten me way more into theology than I ever thought was possible

75. Smoking cigars is really fun

74. I first got into Morgan Wallen because I did love the frisson of listening to something nearly everyone I knew found to be distasteful but I eventually started to genuinely believe in him as a generational artist and fascinating person

73. If you want to be a professional critic, you have to seriously try doing the art form itself. It's easier for music writers because most people learn to play instruments at school, but the secret of Vanity Fair is that most film writers have made and participated in the making of them too

a lot of this discourse ends up playing out as "how much empathy do we need to have for these men?" but the more pertinent question is about how we combat right-wing messaging

72. Death Cab For Cutie is a good band and I still occasionally enjoy the music, but I am SO embarrassed by it and I can't really explain it. I don't feel the same way about, say, Belle & Sebastian who are similarly twee

lol it's so true! i feel like it is important that people know i am a Brooklyn Resident

71. Brooklyn and Manhattan really are different, and Brooklyn is just a much better place to live and spend time

70. Influencers will continue to take over public discourse so long as employers refuse to make jobs better. It's rational to look around at modern media and say "it is better to be spokesmodel than to actually make real things"

69. I do think that there is wayyyy too much prudery around sex in media today and do yearn for a return to the 1970s in terms of a glut of art that treat smuttiness as a central goal