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Imaginal Disk, hiatus, solipsism written mostly on my notes app in the quiet hours of a plane ride

on ending things lcdseansystem.substack.com/p/imaginal-d...

no one would be surprised if we peered into the future & learned this album persisted in collective consciousness through to 3025

meditatively listened to OK Computer in full for the first time in, like, years during a long haul bus ride on a densely foggy morning and it felt perfect. seems like I'm removed enough from the intense personality I had in 2019 to finally begin anew with [some] radiohead records

seeing magbay live fully converted me

YouTube video by David Tan Chat Pile - Outbreak Fest 2024

watched all of 10 minutes of Chat Pile live footage and I think that's enough for me to get it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ8A...

not even really a case of "oh I could get this but not right now", pretty bluntly "this ain't for me"

the Mount Eerie self-titled washed over me this morning just as much as it did 3 years ago when I blasted it through pinhole headphones whilst biking. far preferential to middle-age philosophist Phil over early-adult spiritualist Phil it seems

first-listening to Odelay today during the first 75° day of the year gave me deja vu of endlessly spinning Crooked Rain in summer 2023. straddles that same line between slacker rock trolling and actual songs. takes a fat piss on the line and smudges all the driveway chalk drawings

despite everything, it's still water

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, and appropriate levels of hate On Harry Browne's "The Frontman", and finding the worst in things (for a good reason)

hopefully this is the last time I have to subject people to writing about U2
lcdseansystem.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...

YouTube video by Letterman Oasis - "Live Forever" (1995) | Live On Letterman

glad to not really be an oasis fan while still enjoying some of their tracks cuz it means I can watch this without crying myself to sleep about how I failed the quicktime event for oasis 2025 tickets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CK4...

bookington

the cure seems primed to be my band of 2025, after years of just not getting their music at all

the last touchpoint I ever expected from the cure's Wish is that Madchester sound (Stone Roses), but it sure as hell bleeds through - to phenomenal effect. that baggy shuffle beat and half-psychedelic altrock tone makes it a perfect response to Disintegration. somehow more fun while just as dour

if youve ever wanted to marinate in your thoughts so hard you naturally forget about your work, definitely read the 33 1/3 on REM's Murmur, which is one of the most esoteric books I think I've ever read about a multi-platinum band

if my writing gets sloppier and shorter but becomes more enjoyable because of it, sorry, but also maybe it's for the best

blog for the month should be out in a couple days. writing ab U2 again OOPS.
anyways been feeling like I'm putting too much effort into posts that were, at the very start, literally like a sentence or 2. it's starting to feel like work, and not the fun motivating kind but more like school essay toil

worcestershire sauce

after the 2021 nu-design culture shift I think anything with predominant crystal assets left the common consciousness.
and in regards to his own discog it's probably like 3rd or 4th - swirling fire definitely took on a life of its own

this will be the thing that gets me to buy industrial-grade earplugs

tickets for swans during the fall have been purchased. this is their final* tour making loud noises ever so it felt like a necessity to experience it before I never can again. looking forward to ego death

eating isnt real dating

eating all those eggs and for what

profile hyperbolus.net/user/6392

didn't expect reviewing GD levels to legitimately be fun, especially now. made a hyperbolus account on a whim & have been nonstop plugging away at reviews that have probably been simmering in my brain for upwards of a decade. fun to use the part of my psyche intellectually interested in GD again

finished the new Bon Iver with positive thoughts, checked on my ratings across his discog, and like... yeah

fell off after George Creep left

anyways this comment in the Forever Howlong rym comment box made me laugh

BC,NR's Besties is such a ridiculously good song I have no idea why it was panned as the first single. my guess is (as everything with this band) insurmountable expectations but georgia ellery is a queen
looking forward to the next Jockstrap LP for similar reasons

rsd not really

fascinating compilation, classic, impulse grab with a beautiful cover, respectively