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YouTube video by Letterman The Strokes - "Take It Or Leave It" (2002) | David Letterman

I peaced out on The Strokes about halfway through the first track of their third album, and I feel like I saw too many gigs/live clips where they just seemed bored. But this electrifycing clip recalls how viscerally exciting they were, at least at first. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wK1...

Not hyperbole

after he dies they’ll all pretend they were never on board

RRH1, by Organs Obsolete 8 track album

On a similar note

decimus.bandcamp.com/album/rrh1

I hope these people burn in hell forever

You love to see it (or, you know, HE loves to see it)

Department of Heraldry, by Mark Charles Morgan 6 track album

Been a minute

markcharlesmorgan.bandcamp.com/album/depart...

Imagine having to sit next to this excuse for a human being and pretend like what he’s saying is profound

If this had been a scene from a dystopian prequel to Wall-E or something the studio or director would’ve had to cut it out, like, “yo, that‘s just too brain dead”

this is almost heroically stupid

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Like they never knew him, right?

Expect a lot of that once he actually dies

Nicely done!

A page from “Mick Jagger”, by Philip Norman.

From “Mick Jagger”, by Philip Norman.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

Early last year, Seattle signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space for homeless people. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there. @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org

@kmfdrumm.bsky.social

Neither Here Nor There, by Kevin Drumm 6 track album

This has been holding pretty steady, for months and months, as my album of the year. It’s at the peak of its powers when heard out in nature or otherwise with the minimum amount of noise or distraction - so you can savor all that sonic space.

vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/neithe...

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. It’s no joke.

This is another reminder of why I had to stop listening to NPR a decade or so ago. (Which was no small change; I’d grown up on NPR.)

Also apologies - I realize I’m veering away from the main thrust of this thread

“I should not have to dig or explore. It should be all right there!”

I don’t mean to insult or mock, but this is the sense I get sometimes at the reaction to things these days. Maybe it’s a generational difference (and the younger generation isn’t necessarily at fault)

Like “if I’m gonna read a 300 page novel about [whatever], it had better look exactly like real life and lionize its subjects, or else you’re lying and this work for fiction is lying.” This protest album should be THE PROTEST ALBUM

I wonder sometimes if - for folks of a certain mindset and/or generation - the act of reading a book or watching a movie/show just seems like a big lift and if they’re gonna do it, then damn it, the thing better Have It All, from concentrate

Decrease, by Kevin Drumm 1 track album

New week, fresh Kevin Drumm

Unrelated: Ask yourself how can you make a difference from where you are/live and if you’ve got good answers share ‘em with the rest of us

kevindrumm.bandcamp.com/album/decrease

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YouTube video by TPCrisis Burn After Reading ending

Both one of the best ever endings to a movie and also just how modern life feels somehow

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SlA9...

a lot of HBO shows I (finally) saw after the fact, via store rentals or buying episodes through Apple

in a different era I would probably watch Succession but yeah, with you on that

And, anyway, there are a billion things to watch and no one has time to watch everything.

Thankfully people have quit asking me if I’ve seen “Game of Thrones” (I’ll never watch it)

I think it’s a fantastic show, but it’s very heavy - and this maybe isn’t the moment to be watching things this heavy.