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I may have been dreaming, but I’m fairly sure I saw a meme or satire headline like a month ago about the love between gay men and obscure Y2K-era chartpop hits.

Anyone?

the energy I’m bringing into this weekend

Does he have gambling debts?

Walmart greeters be like:

A v small bullshit win I’m lowkey celebrating: I finally went through my box of half-used B-tier and C-tier skincare/haircare products and wished most of it well on its journey to the landfill.

Phil Ramone vs. Trevor Rabin vs. Manfred Mann (white Jews born in South Africa)

This movie is so upsetting hahahaha

I know I’m an elitist snootypants but I always hate this kind of headline. I saw “Night of the Juggler” like 20 years ago!

This seems like a particularly strong Bandcamp Friday. I have to make some CHOICES, yo.

This Voice Console Is a Must: Kate Bush Birthday Cake Mix by Jody Lafosse on Apple Music Playlist · 27 Songs

Made this shawty a birthday playlist with some slightly left-field choices, as is my wont.

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oh hai chappell roan

👏👏👏

In 1980, Billy Joel released his album Glass Houses, which topped the Billboard Pop chart for a full six weeks and won a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Voca... Billy Joel - All for Leyna (Official HD Video)

My favorite trip to the Billy Joel mind palace is the song/video for "All For Leyna". It's about getting a crumb of pussy and being driven insane by it. BJ spends the video making crazy eyes at the camera and sweating. You gotta see how he chooses to enter the video.
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Did the young Billy Joel really “work on an oyster boat”?

Fascinated by the old guy “motorin’” through this mall parking lot in his red Datsun convertible as “Sister Christian” booms from his stereo.

Real discussion:
CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan

Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me?

CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

awww hi @mintcaketime.bsky.social

One of my indelible core memories as a young rock fan in the eighties was renting Decline II the second my local video store got the VHS in — with Ozzy cooking eggs in his bathrobe and mumbling in his Midlands accent. What a genius move from Penelope Spheeris.

Forjoury

now Gina Birch should put out a postpunk shoe with arch support

the black blazer and the cunty bob 😂

this woman and her bisexual villain friends are so going to hack into your mainframe

There's an entire thesis about Boomer suburbanization, the Reagan/AIDS-era backlash to the sexual revolution and the definitive splitting of 'sensitive' and 'louche' masculine sensibilities here

Flashflood by Romeo Void on Apple Music Song · 1981 · Duration 4:57

I like to play this one on nights like tonight.

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Saw a documentary yesterday about this v cool 1966 Brazilian record (two cosmopolitan cats using post-bossa jazz/sixties pop frameworks to explore the candomblé ceremonial “Afro-samba” rhythms of Bahia, to pretty breezy and non-academic ends).

One on hand: Donald Fagen COULD have written the “Gaucho” piano vamp but didn’t (he stole it from Keith Jarrett).

On the other: Lou Reed COULD have written “No, he can’t sleep on the floor / Whaddya think I’m yelling for?” but Don got there first.

“Your druggie friend can’t stay here” death match: “Gaucho” (song) vs “Street Hassle” (song)

(Comparing Pavement to the VU? Groundbreaking! But sometimes it’s fun to think about the hows and wheres.)

Ocean (Session Outtake) [2015 Remastered] by The Velvet Underground on Apple Music Song · 1970 · Duration 5:44

2:41–3:06 of this “Ocean” take is the li’l stoner zygote fren that grew up into Pavement’s “Wowee Zowee” era.

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My “Pretty in Pink” hot take is I *like* that her dress came out ugly. It’s realistic! She’s a teenager, and TikTok videos about upcycling thrift don’t exist yet. I’d be more shocked if she made a dress that was good.