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That thing on Bandcamp where a record says £18 GBP and you think "hey that sounds like a reasonable number" and then click and it tells you that's $27 plus $23 shipping.

"Evolve" thoughts: Phish finally found their studio voice with the last two albums (plus GOTF), and unsurprisingly it's closer to Genesis and Yes than anything Dead/jam related. As with the live show it now weirdly feels like guitar is the band's weakest link...but I think Trey likes it that way?

I like some of their new songs but I really hate this one. They always had the children's music criticism but only because they sang about dogs, kings, etc. This song sounds like the worst kind of kitschy children's music & the "just knew the scope" line is so pandering and grating.

3. Evolve — I feel like this is what people that haven’t heard Phish but hate on them anyway imagine what Phish sounds like when they’re making fun of them. Gotta say I don’t love the strings on this. Not that Don Hart ain’t great, but it doesn’t need strings IMO. Saw this debuted in Nashville 2021.

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In memory of Shelley Duvall, I'm making my essay on Altman's abrasive, despairing, transporting masterpiece 3 WOMEN free and open to the public. A challenge of a film. www.patreon.com/posts/46391545

I Would Like to See It: 3 Women | Gretchen Felker-Martinwww.patreon.com Get more from Gretchen Felker-Martin on Patreon

Popeye was as canonical to my childhood as Star Wars or ET, and Shelley was a big part of it. And I moved on to Faerie Tale Theatre and then in adulthood her more grown-up stuff, but her presence was formative and now representative of a bygone time and place.

ah, what a loss. Just for her Altman films alone, she was one of the best

Flaming Lips ass song title. youtu.be/QDrcQCYAy5g?...

Life Saving Gunyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupLife Saving Gun · PhishLife Saving Gun℗ 2024 Phish IncReleased on: 2024-07-09Producer, Studio Personnel, Recordi...

Two friends have backed out of Phish with me week. I guess it’s not that attractive to pay $100+ for mid-level seats at a venue where they haven’t played an S-tier show in 25 years, for the tour opening shows after an album release?

If you're in your 40s and want a good summer playlist I made one using songs played on my local pop radio station in my tween and teen years. open.spotify.com/playlist/0MT...

CaseyCore: 92Moose 86-94open.spotify.com CaseyCore: 92Moose 86-94 · Playlist · 523 songs · 1 likes

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

I’m tempted to go see Umphree McGee tonight because I’m bored, the kids are gone, and it’s a fine summer evening out with a beer. But I don’t know…I feel like I’d have seen them many times by now if they had a different name.

I love when songs switch from flowery language to a direct emotional statement. Example:in “Daniel” when Elton breaks the “clouds in my eyes” type of imagery to simply say “I miss Daniel, Lord I miss him so much.”

Just saw a Cybertruck drive past a Passive House. Surely this means I win.

Need one more Criterion order to make free shipping. Trying to decide between Malcolm X, Deep Cover, Persona, or ?? Any thoughts?

I reviewed last night's Goose concert for the Portland Press Herald if interested. www.pressherald.com/2024/06/27/j...

Jam band Goose kicks off Thompson’s Point season with bright lights, good vibeswww.pressherald.com The concerts Monday and Tuesday night at the outdoor venue also revealed the upgrades the venue has gotten since last summer.

He's not wrong about Elfquest though.

No headline could possibly top this for the rest of the week variety.com/2024/scene/c...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach Didn’t Read ‘Fantastic Four’ Comics, but ‘Some of My Earliest Sexual Visions Were ‘Elfquest’variety.com Ebon Moss-Bachrach talks about being cast in 'The Fantastic Four' reboot and what he remembers about reading 'Elfquest' comics when he was younger.

I don't agree with Trey on many things Phish related but we both agree that Split Open and Melt is the song we'd most like to see at a Phish show.

They say don't meet your heroes, but luckily I didn't listen. I spoke with Trey Anastasio (the guy from Phish!) for nearly two hours about his archive of songs for @vulture's ongoing Superlatives series. This was a dream come true. www.vulture.com/article/trey...

The Best and Weirdest of Phish, According to Trey Anastasiowww.vulture.com “We’re adding ingredients to an enormous bowl of soup.”

Tonight I will be seeing the band Goose for the 5th(!) time. Even though I was comped for 3 of those shows that still seems weird to me. (I also couldn't hum a single one of their songs off the top of my head)

Top ten TV: Deadwood Eastbound and Down Lost Mad Men Office (UK) Simpsons Sopranos Station 11 Twilight Zone Young/New Pope

Top 10 TV Twilight Zone The Prisoner Columbo Mary Hartman Mary Hartman Sapphire and Steel Cheers Kids in the Hall Deadwood The Wire Severance

A stack of CDs I bought for $20. (Including some Keb Mo ones I bought for my mom)

Me when Trey sings the “make love to you/ You can make me scream” lines in a 20 minute Boogie On Reggae Woman next month.

I'm ordering some Celtics championship gear because I can't help it, and do I pull the trigger on this one too? I'd rather something a bit more Dead tilted but idk. store.nba.com/boston-celti...

Men's Boston Celtics Bill Walton Fanatics Black T-Shirtstore.nba.com In celebration of Bill Walton's incredible life, the NBA family is excited to collaborate with UC San Diego Hillcrest Outpatient Pavilion Fund and Fanatics on this exclusive t-shirt. The NBA will dona...

They're asking the tough questions over on the other app.

I've got to be in Hampton NH tomorrow evening...do I down to Boston in the morning for the Celtics parade?

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

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When singer Alexander Morris visited a Michigan hospital with chest pain, he said staff thought he was mentally ill after he told them he was a member of The Four Tops A white security guard told him to “sit his Black ass down” and he was put in a straitjacket, a lawsuit says

Four Tops singer’s lawsuit says he visited ER for chest pain, ended up in straitjacketwww.statnews.com A member of the Motown group The Four Tops is suing a Detroit-area hospital over claims that he was treated poorly when he arrived at the ER experiencing a heart attack.

I walked by my teenagers room and he was singing along to some Future song. The next time I walked by he was singing along to Ringo Starr’s “You’re Sixteen.”

Spectacular headline.

I named my kid Freddy. 🤷‍♂️

“Ironically, it was the mainstreaming and whitening of disco that made it more “tropey,” and yet that tropey-ness came to signify Blackness (and brownness and gayness) for the alienated and the bigoted.” Great piece. slate.com/culture/2024...

The Song of the Summer Is Actually the Song of 1982slate.com Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is one of several recent hits bringing back the genre that never got a name.

Is it too basic if your favorite Born in the USA cut is “Dancing in the Dark”?