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Mickey Mouse has entered my pubic domain.

every night i tell myself i am the cosmos/ i'm full of shit

kinda weird that half of the indie rock music put out in the past decade sounds exactly like Suzanne Vega but no one seems to talk about her as a direct influence

André Braugher in Homicide is still one of the most impressive pieces of acting I’ve seen on TV. His arc in that show was incredible. RIP.

17th best EP of 2023 for "Translucent Eyes" by Shredded Sun!

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1) Here it is! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2023, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. This was the hardest year yet in terms of the t...

Thanks to @rosyoverdrive.bsky.social for dubbing "Each Dot and Each Line" by Shredded Sun the no. 25 best album of 2023! We appreciate the support, they seem to be one of the few music blogs left that listens to all submissions and supports bands without label/publicist support.

I listened to plenty of obnoxious music but the only track that made me my dad run into my room and yell WHAT IS THIS CRAP was Ventolin by Aphex Twin

how come cocktails are virgin but beers are nonalcoholic? give me one virgin beer please

up at the bar trying to buy a cup full of just lime slices and maraschino cherries (I’m keto and vegan)

this is an excellent piece

"We are all hurtling, inevitably, toward that one last transition, across the one true binary, the one between life and death. And that binary is the true source of all our regrets, and our joy, too. Regret exists because we all get just one life."

the "Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college" prompt is making me sad because Mama Mia's in Williamsburg, Virginia, moved and I can't find a picture of the old location next to campus

I have complicated feelings about the idea of being a "professional" artist. I would love to just make art and not have to have another job, but there's also something to be said for being a committed amateur/hobbyist and keeping your art separate from how you pay your bills.

thinking about changing my name to Nick Cave just so there can be a third cool guy named Nick Cave

Lol at everyone comparing The Killer to Le Samourai when it's a lot closer to Grosse Pointe Blank.

I probably wouldn't have watched it for the same reason but we were out to dinner near the Music Box and it was starting around when we were done and I had heard good things - glad we ended up going

I was shocked how much I liked The Holdovers. I'm generally allergic to heartwarming but it did a great job of balancing out the warmth with genuine sadness and acidity and not overstating the impact that positive changes in a short amount of time can have. Nothing earth-shaking but a charming watch

I saw them at EB back in the day opening for Black Dice, who they blew off the stage, they were a great live band back then

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we used to make vivrant things in this country

I was firmly against the “movies should never be three hours long” rhetoric until we rewatched the Sound of Music this weekend. That thing must have been edited by a three-toed sloth.

Su Tissue also has a small role in the great Jonathan Demme movie Something Wild

lol OK I clearly forgot about the 2010s reunion and new album. But still...

Was it the Travistan controversy that killed them? Or are they just not interested in doing anything now?

Does the Dismemberment Plan have any kind of rep any more? No reissues or reunions, never see them mentioned. But as someone who was going to indie rock shows and doing college radio in the DC area in the mid-late-'90s, they were massive and ubiquitous, and "Emergency & I" was a very important album

look, I am a political dummy, but it seems like the problem with polling (other than the obvious problem of who is answering phone surveys in 2023) is that it doesn't account for what motivates people to actually go out and vote, as opposed to just preferring one guy over another

Fake Fictions perform "Enough Isn't Enough" Fake Fictions on Chic-A-Go-Go

One of the coolest things my old band ever did was appear on beloved cable-access dance/music show Chic-a-Go-Go. Whatever happened to it, it was so cool?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTbC...

The new Traveling Wilburys are Sufjan Stevens, Phil Elverum, Adrianna Lenker, and Grouper. All their songs are 45 minutes long, barely audible, and make you want to shrivel like a raisin. Jeff Lynne is still producing and adding terrible synth parts.

The new Traveling Wilburys are Sufjan Stevens, Phil Elverum, Adrianna Lenker, and Grouper. All their songs are 45 minutes long, barely audible, and make you want to shrivel like a raisin. Jeff Lynne is still producing and adding terrible synth parts.

There's no convenient apocalypse
Won't be no vaporizing cloud
Now we're gonna have to soak in what we created, too bad!

"No Convenient Apocalypse" by Pissed Jeans

pretty basic but:

You know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"

"Hello in There" by John Prine