Jack Hamilton

“Nothing but Trouble” (1991)
“Mother!” (2017)

I think my favorite critique of the BB halftime show booking was "the players don't even listen to him!" which a) is almost certainly untrue and b) presumes that a whole bunch of dudes on, say, the 2009 saints were huge fans of the who

Imagine if Bad Bunny came out and just did a whole set of CCR covers in a flawless Fogerty fake-Cajun accent

yeah it's usually just a way of complaining that something (usually new) reminds you of other things that you like more, which is really just a symptom of getting old

I think what i've come around to w/ cole is that if you always felt like his stuff was boring and derivative (as I did) then you also weren't really the intended audience for it (too old, too jaded). it reminds me some of the way older people used to complain about the strokes when I was younger

weirdly comforting that we're doing j cole discourse once more... you can always go home again

the people who are outraged over bad bunny are not worth engaging, they don't know anything about him and don't want to learn anything about him, they just need to be mad at whatever right-wing media tells them to be mad at because they've forgotten any other way to live their lives

oooh that looks cool

never really thought about it much before but gnr's and nirvana's career trajectories aren't totally dissimilar either. although obviously the sunset strip scene was already a national powerhouse before gnr broke out of it

"the spaghetti incident?"-- truly one of the weirdest and most quixotic projects a band that huge has ever undertaken-- still went platinum in 1993!

i often wonder if ppl would tell the story of grunge's ascendance differently if gnr hadn't just stopped releasing new/original music after 1991. the idea that nirvana et al rendered them obsolete has never struck me as true at all, they were still at the top of their game when they began imploding

funniest thing about the kid rock clip is that it doesn't even seem like his mic is on

I believe Mike D has called it the best record ever made and i'm not sure he's wrong

YouTube video by Funky 4 + 1 - Topic That's the Joint

I teach this song in various contexts almost every semester and every time i'm reminded that it's one of the very best pieces of american art ever made www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKbP...

I’m not mad, don’t put it in the paper that I’m mad

David Adelman looks like a Garbage Pail Kid version of Pete Buttigieg

okay who let iñárritu make another movie

the dano thing was weird and stupid but suggesting that Tarantino doesn't watch non-Anglophone movies is one of the more insane things i've ever read

a gin blossoms documentary on the other hand... that there is a story

as a former 90s teen I am unconvinced of the necessity of a counting crows documentary

also shouts to @paranoiacs.bsky.social for the wonderful liner notes. was particularly thrilled at the nod to westerberg's own essay from the faces box set, which is one of my favorite pieces of music writing ever

The Rock Masterpiece That’s One of the Great Quantum Leaps Forward by Any Band One of the best albums of the 1980s is also one of the great albums about coming of age.

wrote about the new deluxe reissue of the best album that's called LET IT BE slate.com/culture/2025...

We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.

i'm in the middle of listening to this and it's unsurprisingly really great. check it out!

America’s Greatest Living Filmmaker Does His Best Work in a Much-Criticized Genre The director of Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street shows the secret to saving the biopic.

slate's doing a pop-up series on biopics so of course I wrote about the GOAT slate.com/culture/2025...

The Nanny Who Moved in and Wouldn’t Move Out A couple thought they’d found Mary Poppins. Until she refused to leave.

awesome story, truly takes some unexpected twists and turns www.thecut.com/article/nann....

oh okay i'm just supposed to trust the guy who got fired from g'n'r

the show is so bad and it feels like every note they got from warners was "can you make this even more like stranger things?"

HBO’s Big New Show Accomplishes One Thing: Ruining Stephen King’s Masterpiece It: Welcome to Derry accomplishes one thing: Ruining Stephen King’s masterpiece.

from over the weekend: I reviewed HBO's new IT spinoff series, which is mostly just terrible slate.com/culture/2025...

The Man Behind Two of the Greatest Albums of the Century Is Gone D’Angelo fused hip-hop with R&B like no one had before—then kept on exploring.

deleted social media from my phone a while back so haven't been around much lately but dropping in here to share something I wrote about d'angelo, whose music meant the world to me slate.com/culture/2025...