Nate Patrin

simultaneously spurring Establishment Dems discourse, historical inaccuracy discourse, and regional pizza rivalry discourse is a real three-fer for getting people agitated tho

is this happening because 'Walk Hard' failed to fully eradicate the rock biopic or something

"from the director of 'The Greasy Strangler'" OK see you later then

All's Fairlight in Love and War

YouTube video by Syllart Records Grand Kallé - Africa Boogaloo (audio)

this sounds kind of American (as in Spanish Harlem) and was recorded in Europe (namely France) but put it on anyways

amazing how he couldn't get a grasp on something that Manfred Mann's Earth Band was able to express three times

doubling as their foremost Tom Smothers tribute

been waiting for an essay like this for a while, it's worth yr time

(especially since that's the kind of perspective that best allows for the main point of the article)

it's amazing how thoroughly the "unathletic kid gets into comics/D&D as way of compensating" narrative has completely eclipsed "unathletic kid still loves sports and wants to find some way to engage with them" in popular narrative, so I really enjoyed this perspective

session great Jim Gordon

it's Elaine May directing Falk and Cassavetes in one of the most amazing buddy-gangster dramas ever made, so yeah

overjoyed to see that RZA is a member of the cult of Mikey & Nicky

I think that was more an unintended consequence; he was basically a largely-forgotten niche rapper when they profiled him

also White was perfect, he not only played it straighter than 'Airplane' Leslie Nielsen, he excelled at deliberately bad acting

the scene where he's having a romantic stroll in the park and walking as though he doesn't know what to do with his legs when they're not kicking people

I also like the deep L.A. specificity of the "Roscoe's Chili & Donuts" reference and how that somehow gives this movie a direct connection to 'Tapeheads'

I still find it amazing that this movie was the big springboard for Adrian Younge's career

wow, I feel a bit bad about the "My Sharona" backlash now that I know how long it took for The Knack to get that far

YouTube video by Beastie Boys Collection BS 2000-Wait A Minute

they also did a song about the time Fabio was hit in the face by a goose while riding a roller coaster

live from the inside of my brain

BS 2000 Hive rise up

this is called "The Entire Jadakiss Discography"

I can't relate to either generation I straddle in terms of supposed monocultural formative experiences, but at least I know who my people are when I utter the secret codephrase 'Grand Royal'

(seriously tho this pic is hilarious just because it gives off the most intense 'car-centric video game that isn't able to secure real-world licenses' feeling I've ever experienced)

apologies to Sophia but I don't think you need a prompt to get people on Bluesky to do this at the slightest provocation

I can't help it, I've been a fan of these since one won the 25 Hours of Spaa-Franconero

I'm sorry but as a car dork I must point out that this is a genuine classic 19976 BMW Capri Mk II3

Thinking abt the Built to Spill "Doug" bench in Boise from 2022.

My local video store had one but instead of a chicken it was Fred Flintstone. I did not like the biological implications of this.

Even very early on, children ascribe meaning to their scribblings; they’re never just abstract pictures. That’s partly what’s so fascinating about looking at abstract art: The forms become utterly subjective, and the colors themselves take on meaning. That means you’re making the picture. That’s my kind of drawing. That’s what I tell people, if there’s a coffee stain, and you see something in it, that’s a drawing. You didn’t necessarily draw it with your hand, but you made that. And that’s an old, old thing. In terms of evolution, it’s the immune system that allows the body to fight off a bacterial infection. I believe that the arts are like an external immune system. I believe that they have a biological function.

From a Paris Review interview with Lynda Barry. This is one of the core problems with genAI - not just that it's built out of other people's works, but it does so by doing the 'seeing' of them for you, by shaping the noise (literal or figurative) into statistical variations of the signals.