Jesse Hawken

I used to have a tweet that said something like

Everybody* remembers their first time.**

(* who's a music critic)
(** hearing Prefab Sprout)

King of Rock and Roll on VH1 Classic for me!

I didn’t even know this song! It’s truly maddening! I thought I was COOL Sean

They never toured North America! Not even one show.

YouTube video by Prefab Sprout - Topic If You Don't Love Me (Remastered)

I am surprised even this song didn’t grab me in 1992 considering my love of the Pet Shop Boys, what was the matter with me

youtu.be/uCV6CiMcaqQ

before I got Sproutpilled I only remembered two of their songs from the eighties - "Appetite" and "All The World Loves Lovers", nothing else got through to me. MY MISTAKE, obviously

YouTube video by Just Jammin' FIRST TIME HEARING Prefab Sprout - All The World Loves Lovers REACTION

Getting ready for the "Jordan: The Comeback" episode of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social and here's video of a guy getting Sproutpilled in real time; he knew nothing going in and seems skeptical at first, and then you can see the moment it hits him, 'This crew is good" style

youtu.be/V89QdIO5iKM?...

You should have seen it with me

The right is in its death spiral and they’ve invented to hallucination computer to soothe them as they attempt to bring the world with them into the grave, the hallucination computer they can dream forever with even dead

Yoda would never say this

Also it doesn’t matter if God forgives you. Has her family forgiven you? Heaven and hell are right here on Earth dude

Scott Adams finding God at the last second as he was terminally ill was another good one. First of all, no you didn’t

“I’ve asked God to forgive me, which he has” is such a depraved thing to say! Zero contrition, zero remorse, zero spirituality

Same with heavy metal getting teens to commit suicide or join Satan

Oh wow we don’t have this one here in Canada (yet)

Cronenberg would say this plot is “too dark”

tired of winning

YouTube video by TVOR - The Voice of Reason SCTV - SUNBRIGHT DETERGENTS - Free Towel in Every Box!

SCTV won an Emmy for a great episode that was based on the pressure the show was getting from network (via advertisers) on their content, represented here by the evil "Sunbright" company. Catherine O'Hara is so funny in this bit, which I bet she had a hand in writing

youtu.be/hctNTFMkOPQ?...

Cherry Coke Zero on the rocks hits different

“i decided to help out and deescalate the situation”, posted on twitter with a video, just bought this man’s lawyer a new boat

The thing is also about this is he is admitting to war crimes. This is meant for right now directly for one person, Trump. That's his audience.

What needs to happen comes later. Where this becomes evidence in a war crimes and atrocities tribunal.

Another captive dreamer caught by his own dream

This is for later in the year as we get closer to July 4

Boss probably won’t ever face a civil trial but Sheehy will

Matt Yglesias posting a picture of himself with his blogs hat in the trampoline park

Is it gauche to wear your own blog's hat to the trampoline park?

I will watch that one first and then mayhaps the theatrical

Which cut, both?

To commemorate the upcoming 250th birthday of the United States I will finally watch SOUTHLAND TALES for the podcast

politics aside for a second: he probably could've used a few more hours of metronome practice on this one. you can hear the drummer's silent internal screams

YouTube video by parker Who Intrigues You Now? - Prefab Sprout

The planned 20th song for “Jordan: The Comeback” that didn’t make the album sadly

youtu.be/ToUA_VymXpI

Yikes