We should probably consider how owning physical copies of movies was really a thing just for like, 20 years or so. My mom as a teen didn't have VHS tapes or DVDs, and my son will (presumably) have every movie available in some form. But owning HEATHERS in 1990 meant I watched it A LOT.
My spicy hot take is that the dismissal of Taylor Swift as an artist is akin to the sneering at Pumpkin Spice Lattes and comes from the same misogynistic assumption that the desires and concerns of girls and young women are trivial, banal, and not substantive enough to merit serious consideration.
I rewatched MAD MAX: FURY ROAD today, after watching FURIOSA last night. Then MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME this morning. And the latter gets waaaaaaaaay too much hate. It's really good!
Gen X is so much smaller than the 2 surrounding generations that people don’t even recognize the 2 subgroups. Pyromania and Hysteria. One of those records got played at your high school dances.
Can't decide if this is a terrible pitch or an okay pitch for my favorite single podcast episode ever:
Would you be willing to listen to a three-hour podcast about one Grateful Dead song if it explained the 1000 true fans thing, the Dead’s popularity, and why Silicon Valley has gone so far right?
🙄 Oh, so Kendrick can play Not Like Us six times in one concert to applause, but when I go up to the jukebox and queue up Tom Jones' hit What's New Pussycat,
Today in feeling ancient: I had a Nirvana song stuck in my head so I played it on YouTube. The ads included AARP and prescriptions for arthritis medication.
My deep insight into the UK election is that the limeys use red to denote their major left of center party and blue to denote their major right of center party while we do it the other way around, and that they are in fact right and we are in fact wrong.
Shipwreck Boat tour on Lake Superior on the 4th of July.
Did the captain play "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" over the loudspeaker?
Folks, you know he did.
Now THAT'S pure Michigan
I swear to Tommy Lee if you Limeys pull the rug from under me and give me even more bad news this week I'll... I'll...
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'LL DO JUST PLEASE AXE THE FASCISTS
I'm not wading into the larger conversation here - I've learned my lesson on that - except to say that there's been a rekindling of my dream for a Harris / O'Malley ticket.
(this is not a political statement of fact, it is a joke about a friend of mine. leave me alone)
Was working on a text and laboriously typed "Siouxsie and the Banshees" only to watch helplessly as autocorrect changed "Siouxsie" to "Susie" and all of a sudden I want to burn all of Silicon Valley to the ground. That's not an overreaction is it?
