most days this is my favorite punk album of all time. some days it's my favorite album, period. still have fond memories of screaming along and punching the back of the passenger seat on car rides with friends in high school.
i liked the reunion album. it's nowhere near ROC of course, but it has some gems and isn't a total embarrassment like Refused.
you do realize there have been entire libraries' worth of scholarly analysis written about Star Wars, right?
"overthinking it" is the media/culture writer's raison d'etre.
Tom, I think you would enjoy Phalanx. great mix of blood gargling DM and tough guy hardcore.
Ulcerate is still "the one" DM album to beat this year for me, but this Necrot is some nice mucky evil shit
pretty sure it's "follow you home like you Sonic, got Tails on you" which makes far more sense than "leave you hung like you Sonic" (DO NOT Google "hung Sonic")
lol i don't consider Zack Snyder a director, more like a charlatan. maybe i should have said "auteur" instead. of all the auteur directors, i think Nolan's visual style is the most boring.
spot on about the dull color palette. of all the big "blockbuster" directors, his films are the butt-ugliest to look at and this one looks no different. the time travel concept might be interesting if it wasn't so boring to look at, but it's just grey, grey, grey everywhere. i do love The Prestige though. perfect amount of twists and turns imo. it's far and away his best film.
i'm pretty sure Tom dove into it during the first solo MJ single (i think it was "Ben"?). it would be redundant to repeat it in every single MJ article, no? i don't think anyone is unaware of Michael's crimes at this point.
i think on a certain level the modern left does need to admit that we are no longer interested in debate with the right and our new project is to make conservatism socially unacceptable and shameful. personally i think that's a worthwhile project but i do think it's a little disingenuous when leftists pretend that we're not doing it.
without any context or specificity, this is the same basic-ass take as that recent Harper's letter that everyone freaked out about. weren't we all celebrating the demise of Burger Records like two weeks ago? some shit deserves to be cancelled.
loved the intro, one of the ways i explain the difference between death metal and black metal to people who ask, is that death metal bands tend to have aggro names like Carcass, Bloodbath, and Autopsy whereas black metal bands tend to have atmospheric names like Immortal, Sigh, and Woe. and the music itself generally follows along with that pattern. and people sort of instinctively understand what that means, without me needing to explain stuff like tremolo picking and blast beats and shit.
i do love a good curveball like Weekend Nachos, though
i dunno, even when i was doing poetry workshops in college i was too embarrassed to bring in angsty poems about LA (which i totally wrote, so i get it, but there's a reason i never shared those with anyone)
as someone who really likes poetry and doesn't think it is inherently pretentious to write and release poetry, no, this is bad. just completely self-absorbed and full of boring cliches, and i heard nothing that i haven't heard many times before. this poem is supposedly a love letter to LA, yet it has nothing unique or interesting to say about the city itself at all, just a whole bunch of navel gazing about how i love the city but it doesn't love me back but that's okay because i'm from nowhere but the city is like the sun, no wait it's like a lover, no wait it's like the ocean. nah, this is some boring ass Instagram poetry bullshit.
i think "Mouthful of Cavities" is my favorite on Soup. when the drums and sludgy riffs come in on the back half and the song flips from tender to menacing on a dime. and "Car Seat" is creepy as fuck.
how is "Recite Remorse" not on anyone's list so far? especially that demo version! my picks:
10. Swan Dive
09. Summer of Love
08. Never Been Wrong
07. Grey Hair
06. Witches
05. Hell
04. Lilacs
03. Can't Do Much
02. Recite Remorse (Demo)
01. La Loose
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