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Love it when people are talking about how awful and gross someone's age gap relationship is, and they interrupt themselves and say to me "Oh not YOURS though." like, how gullible do you think I am?

Truly, embarrassingly, reflects my taste in music so far.

List so far:
"The Devil Went Down to Newport" covered by Mono Puff
"The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" The Mountain Goats
"Be Gay, Do Drugs, Hail Satan" Super Cassette
"Satan Called" Slutmagic
"Let's Have a Satanic Orgy" Twin Temple
"N. I. B." Black Sabbath
"Devil" Full Flower Moon Band

Coming up with a playlist of "Satan rules" songs that either openly celebrate or are ambivalent about Satan but still the music is cool af.

Recommendations gladly accepted.

The "You're beautiful" scene in Princess Mononoke

Also a real "me and who?" moment here

San sucking poison out of a wolf's battle wound, as seen by Ashitaka.

Talking about Princess Mononoke with a friend, and I remembered it has one of the greatest meet cutes of all time. Thank you, Hayao Miyazaki.

Rad AF cover, tbh

The Atomic Bomb Dome, which are remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.

Thich Nhat Hanh said it better than I can: "If you have one minute, please use that minute to breathe in and out calmly and plant the seeds of peace and understanding in yourself. If you have ten years, please use the ten years to prevent the next war."

This eucalyptus tree survived the A-bomb blast in Hiroshima. The machinery of endless war continues to mangle bodies and the planet.

May I know that my peace and the world’s peace are intertwined, resulting from work for justice.

I missed Halloween in Osaka because it was bucketing rain. By the time it cleared up later at night I was already in bed 😭😅

dont understand all the hype around The Brothers Karamazov. there's no progression system at all. who am i supposed to identify with if none of the characters is improving their stats and acquiring better equipment

Shibuya is fed up with Halloween

Lmao this looks like something spies would say to each other on a park bench to get secret documents.

The beret is alive and well in Tokyo.

First page of Charles Simic's poem "Factory."

Second page of Charles Simic's poem "Factory."

Charles Simic's "The Book of Gods and Devils" is disappointingly the poetry equivalent of "She breasted boobily down the stairs," but, this poem was interesting at least

They opened with "Young Liars" (!!)

FINALLY got to see TV on the Radio. They played the Fox Theater in Oakland. Their energy was blazing, so glad I went.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

That too!

I'm a dhamapilled sati-maxxing nirvanacore samma kammanta-cel PRINCEX

YouTube video by S P A R K S Sparks - Dick Around (Official Visualiser)

The 21st century's "Bohemian Rhapsody" lmao

Album cover for “NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL [INSTEAD OF MUSIC] LITTLE SONGS I SING TO MY DOG! 87”

I was lucky I got to see it in a theater and we all cheered when Eddie Palmieri and the Salsa Orchestra appeared on screen though

So many of the needle drops were great, but what was going on with the score in Highest 2 Lowest. Let Denzel Washington cook, the audience doesn't need a swelling sad orchestra to tell us the moment is dramatic.

I've also heard, correct me if I'm wrong here, that Lenny Bruce is not afraid?

Michael Stipe reacting a few days ago on Bluesky to a Simpsons joke that no one can sing all the lyrics to "Its the End of the World"

Relevant post from the man himself

Digby: "We've known each other for fifteen years. How has 'Psycho Chicken' never come up?"

You never really know the ones you love.

YouTube video by rrraaagggeeee The Fools - Psycho Chicken (1980)

Instead of doing regular "Psycho Killer" at karaoke, I should've done this masterpiece, which has just been introduced to me this afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBl...

Oh jeez I hadn't considered the smudge factor!

Very scribbled up first draft of a poem

Eventually I will learn to do first drafts in pencil and not pen.