dylan?

I keep thinking of these four shows that aired before the 2016 election and how combined they presaged so much that happened:

1) Scandal
2) Mr Robot
3) UnREAL
4) The Americans

Bug. All-time shit from Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd.

Gaspar Noé's Vortex

I spent most of yesterday offline and so much was reported and then retracted that by the time I got back online everything had canceled itself out and there was no news

last thing i'll say is take your immediate reaction to the news and log off. right now social media is a frenzy of "political violence is good actually" vs "political violence is bad actually" and approximately zero valuable insight will emerge from the tussle.

I still remember the stunned silence of my first times with the first* Lingua Ignota record. My bar for fearless, ruthless, sobering, harrowing music rests on the shoulders of Kristin Hayter. If the burden of trauma can become something resembling demonic, her work wielded the power of exorcism

Getting to Ire Works, my third TDEP album, crystallized the neural pathways opened up by LD50 many years earlier: music with fluidity to be anything and everything from one moment to the next. Conventions: useful vehicles for creativity, but with the right conviction they can be dismissed entirely

It also ends with one of the most troubling songs I know) and one of my favorites), Threads; this led me to the most troubling movie I know (and one of my favorites), by the same name

Third was the last Portishead I got to, I was 25, and I didn't get it at first. When I went back later, everything changed. The dissonant, bizarre production will inspire me forever, and Beth Gibbons articulated the despair of depression in way I'd never related to before, and haven't since

El-P, I found at 23, after hearing RTJ and hearing that Trent Reznor featured on it. The psychedelic, progressive version of hip hop production; the explicitly leftist perspective of western dystopia, and the honest expression of how staring too deep into it can tead you apart; all were revelations

At ~16 years old, hearing the worlds inside of The Downward Spiral changed the way I engaged with music, in ways that are still true today. Any record I fixated on before this (there were many) are funny nostalgic stories to me now, their impact erased by the crater this band would leave in my life

Five records that had the biggest influence on my life

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Portishead - Third
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die

masturbatory special interest posting is my favorite kind

Important article! I study how wildlife is depicted on social media, BUT we shouldn't ignore how domestic animals are treated. Please don't like, or give full view, to social media posts of animals that may be distressing the animal.
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@cassiefreund.bsky.social

Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society.

That's it. That's the post.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

New Report Shows Cops Were Told to Escalate Violence in LA By Picturing Protesters as Their Wives and Children LOS ANGELES — A leaked memo from high-ranking law enforcement officials encouraged officers on the street tasked with confronting protesters to “Picture them as your…

New Report Shows Cops Were Told to Escalate Violence in LA By Picturing Protesters as Their Wives and Children

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So many decades of casually branding and dehumanizing "criminals" led us here--you can be as enthusiastic about inhumane sadism as you want as long as you qualify that the recipient is a "horrible criminal", and a *lot* of people will agree with you.

I honestly can't tell now but I swore while I was watching it that the camera was zooming in a tiny bit each time the ceiling fan breaks up the shot, and it was like an amplifier for the already palpable heebiejeebies in the scene

Tonight from Scarecrow: BUG (2006)

This shot hit a spot so intensely that I rewinded the movie so I could take a video of it

The classic cover art for NIN’s “The Downward Spiral”

Happy 31st anniversary to Nine Inch Nails’ classic album, “The Downward Spiral,” released on this day in 1994

Also, what's the fuckin deal with bands appearing out of order on tickets/posters? Am I crazy or is this a new thing that's everywhere now?

My forever struggle: leaving in a hurry to catch the first band's set, then having to stand around for an hour because that was actually doors

Guess I will open that tab!

This week from Scarecrow: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

If you're a seasoned third wheel and want to see some positive representation, this is NOT your movie

but what a movie it is!

Letterboxd list titled "Director leverages clout to light millions of dollars on fire" Movies: Beau is Afraid, mother!, Under the Silver Lake, Synecdoche New York, Inland Empire, Suspiria (2018), Babylon

Watched David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake last night and it inspired me to make this list--send recs please

The good parts of social media (sharing experiences, art, information about local happenings, keeping up with relocated friends/family, organizing events) are still dominated by Meta, who dangle those tools as a lure so they can hook you on toxic rage bait and harvest your data, and it fuckin sucks

The "broadcast to the world whatever dumb thought is on your mind" is the *bad* part of social media, and this format kinda zeroes in on that as its main thing over the useful parts. 'Discourse' is much better suited to smaller groups of people who actually know each other (in my experience)

I've been pretty inactive here I realize, and here's the thing: Twitter was a hellhole of brain poison waaaaaaay before it got formally adopted by fascists. A global, semi-anonymous town square is a terrible idea! Town squares should be town-sized, at most!

Fox News in the airport is headlining that “trans radical attacks tesla dealership” and I think they mean this as a pejorative but all I can think is “hell yeah”, which is the correct take.

De-Arresting: Important Legal Information for Street Actions | De-Arresting: Important Legal Information for Street Actions Since the George Floyd Uprisings that began in May 2020, the tactic of “de-arresting” (attempting to return arrestee(s) from police custody...

For folks who are watching the video of the woman in Kootenai County, Idaho being dragged out of the townhall by (literal) brownshirts, and are (understandably) distressed and wondering, “What can we do if we see this happening?”:

May I introduce you to the tactic of de-arresting?

Thelonious, a felid of the domestic variety, resting on piano keys in blue lighting

Thelonious, a felid of the domestic variety, standing on piano keys in blue lighting His eyes are glowing.

Thelonious, a felid of the domestic variety, sitting upright on piano keys in blue lighting

Thelonious, a felid of the domestic variety, sitting on piano keys in blue lighting, looking up.

Let's see if I can write this alt text in a way that won't attract randoms searching for certain words