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Pffffft

Hey I do my best, what can I say.

I do think The Happy Dictator is the most "Old school Gorillaz" track though.

Like, I can show someone Melancholy Hill or Clint Eastwood and you instantly get caught by it, but Orange Country is not something you can just drop on someone. It works better in its own space, to its own detriment.

When I stopped trying to treat it like one of their more political albums and closer to their Self Titled, It starts to take on a life of its own. It's really something you can't try to cut apart into a catchy single, which is its biggest weakness.

I've enjoyed the album more by taking it as an inverse of demon days. I think the trance like music helps create a soundscape you're meant to wander in, each song on the track feeling like you're either walking the path up the mountain or stopping at a foothill to take some rest.

Its more focused on moving you from emotional moments and conversations on grief and death than the more "narrative heavy" tracklists of demon days and plastic beach.

I think for me it's very much an album about the journey rather than the destination.

It's not really surprising that we're here, but, yeah, still so fucking awful.

You can't undo this with voting in a new guy, you undo this by expanding education and making it intolerable to act this way. Systemically. Look at post ww2 efforts to denazify Germany.

Fascist thought wants you to just act first, think later, and decide the words fed to you are the only words that matter. MAGA has been dolling out thought terminating phrases like "drain the swamp" for ages, which is both the start and end of their political belief.

Conlang designed to crush communication into short, intuitive stubby sentences that rid you of the ability to express complex thoughts was very useful to authoritarians.

I know we all joke about 1984, but this way of speaking is literally what things like "doubleplusgood" is supposed to be about.

FUCK

And it won't be on any television network. : )

Calling it now, we'll be hearing from Zach Hadel's and Michael Cusack's new show *very* soon.

Persepolis is still a wonderful book.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

And then they'll go and say Skinamarink is boring. 🤮

No, man, it's the AESTHETIC, not any of the thematic implications and time capsuling narratives that every one of its inspirations benefitted from. Aren't TV PSAs SCAAAAAAAAAARY?????

Breakfast

You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East

YOU ALWAYS WANNA BOMB THE MIDDLE EAST
open.spotify.com/track/69bEOn...

Big believer in “Make Your Own Shit, Don’t Just Make A Fanwork”

Yeah, it’s cool that you’re inspired by and emotionally attached to a property, but like… use that as fertile soil to grown your OWN ideas. Wear your inspiration on your sleeve, but the fulfilling part is making something your own.

I may be scared of loss, but I'm not scared of endings.

HEHEHEHEHE

Who doesn't like snacking on some cedar sometimes.

Breakfast can be anything I can imagine

It's really good, notes tomorrow

Hirohiko Araki in one of his mangas has a character obsessed with the movie Paul, which was a smash hit in Japan.

I'm surprised I haven't seen the pivotal WHAT???? used as a meme yet.