What I like about the opening of ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’ is how he starts with “guess who just got back today?”, implying that you’ll probably exuberantly respond with “the boys???”
Afterwards someone in the smoking area said “were you just video calling a child?” And I said “yes” and they said “oh. Oh I guess that’s okay then”
My three year old nephew video called me while I was at a party in a bar yesterday, wound up in a smoking area with headphones in going “that’s amazing man, that’s such a cool power ranger. And he has a bike too, that’s an amazing bike. What’s the power ranger’s name?”
I once played drums for a jazz band and it was nothing like Whiplash, but also I once worked at a bookstore that was exactly like Whiplash
It could be worse, you could have developed a fetish for shooting multiple arrows into people
Millennials are so old that The Kooks are now protected by Unesco World Heritage
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As ever, material conditions are very, very, very relevant here. Geoff Dyer describes getting out of uni and having a flat in Brixton where he could buy food, books, alcohol and weed on the dole. Last time I was on it it was about £70 a month. Barely covers your phone bill.
feel like we’ve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way, feel like we lost something important with him too
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Catch anything particularly good there lately?
Her boredom rose so strong in her sometimes that it felt like terror: it took her by the throat. Not long ago she had been driven to speak of it. She had to talk, she thought, or she would go mad.
Hello pals, where would be good places to pitch reviews for upcoming novels if I haven’t much of a CV doing such a thing?
Seeing videos of AI-generated fascist propaganda gives me the strong feeling that I’m in some sort of “bad timeline” and that there must be a “good timeline” somewhere where AI doesn’t exist and I’m making a decent wage
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
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…you basically never encounter a new band and think ‘ahh, they’re doing a Sonic Youth thing’. And they were so spectacularly inventive as guitarists that you’d think it’d be more of an endless direct mine of influence for others.
It’s sort of strange how there’s not more overt Sonic Youth influence in guitar music since they’ve been around. Like, they left their mark in different ways on Nirvana (abrasive noise) and Pavement (a sort of open-ended approach to guitar, messy clean tones etc.), but…
It sounds like a Crystal Castles song that has been transformed through several layers of filtering into a Taylor Swift song, or vaguely and thinly vice versa
Really into the bit in Audrey Hobert’s Sue Me where it sounds like a Crystal Castles song
They can fuck off with their camaraderie
I have a deep hatred of that idea that The Lord of the Flies has been ‘disproven’ by that story of those kids on that island
Hm. Fucking hell
St. Albans! I went to school there! I think it’s the most cursed place on earth.
I have a Uniqlo voucher but I have all I need from Uniqlo…what should I get from Uniqlo?
Men’s Mental Health is v bad atm
People are uniquely strange online about the band Geese
W/ Artemis Fowl and Garth Nix on the side
I was never a Harry Potter kid in the first place, I had a sort of oppositional defiance against the whole fad…I was instead a Series of Unfortunate Events child, a child who precociously already had Depression
Community and Taskmaster and a general theory of comedy having some sort of pure relation to play, to simply playing games
The Free Solo guy just reminds me of when I was on Hinge for a while and I went on 3 dates in a row with women who climb, purely coincidentally. I don’t know why. I’m not that tall.
