Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻

Only drinking 2 bottles of water total on the Austin day trip last weekend because hahahaha nowhere to pee for an hour in spots hahahahahaha

Person at the Spec's counter: Sorry, we don't have a public restroom. But the Chinese restaurant a few doors down does.

Host at the Chinese restaurant a few doors down: We don't have a public restroom.

I'm...I'm just going to never properly hydrate again unless I'm at home, I guess.

Yeah it works better when listened to from beginning to end as one cohesive elegy. Except for "Orange County," I can't listen to it in singles. And even then it works best as having "The Hardest Thing" segue into it.

Weaker Gorillaz is still stronger than most bands' best, but Humanz through Cracker Island didn't quite fully reach the electricity of the first three albums. I really like The Now Now, Sound Machine, and Cracker Island, but The Mountain really is the best since Plastic Beach. And by a wide margin.

New interview with me talking disability in the movies!!!

Oh god I remember that.

Within the past hour, I suffered from two significant existential crises:

1.) Explaining Chris-chan to a loved one who uses the internet like a normal person.

2.) When the vet pharmacy asked for the last name on the prescription I was picking up, I gave them my cat's instead of mine.

(The video for Aries is also gorgeous. Kinda has a "Star Guitar" thing going for it where the background syncs up with the beat, but it's sporadic instead of encompassing the entire song.

All the Song Machine videos are gorgeous, obvs, but "The Lost Chord" is the most technically accomplished.)

See Song Machine IS good chores listening since it's deliberately meant to be more of a disparate experience vs. more narrative. There's a storyline, sure, because it isn't Gorillaz without LAYERS OF LORE, but the whole concept is them trying to make music while in lockdown.

If that makes sense.

HELL YEAH OLIVIA HELL FUCKING YEAH!!!!!

I loved going to the listening party with my friends, obviously, but it's definitely one where I need to sit and marinate in it and let my emotions out alone. I didn't want to have a meltdown in the record store!

I love and appreciate when music can make me feel!

Yeah it's not a chores album at all.

Source: I tried listening to it while gardening and had to switch to the Murdoc pirate radio broadcasts instead. The Mountain hit me in too many grief spots for it to be anything other than a fully immersed and dedicated experience.

And all it took was blowing up Plastic Beach and dropping Cyborg Noodle into a trench! (RIP Plastic Beach and Cyborg Noodle)

I seriously want to relaunch my blog so I can go phase by phase through the Gorillaz videos and discuss how much the animation completely rules and why. Even the early stuff is rich with detail and fluidity, and I'm relieved that Albarn + Hewlett are against AI. Only humans can do what they do.

Also if you love funk and disco - and you should, it's also glorious - Leee John's work with Imagination was a thing of beauty.

Gorillaz - The Lost Chord ft. Leee John (Episode Nine) YouTube video by Gorillaz

As I said, The Mountain slingshot me back into a Gorillaz khole. If you loved "The Mountain, the Moon Cave and the Sad God" short film - and you should, it was glorious - The Line studio also did the video for "The Lost Chord." It's also incredible and worth your time.

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pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the fuck we are from @iandunt.bsky.social: hardly anyone in the maintsream national conversation is prepared to state the basic reality, which is that the world is run by microdick clinically sub-cognitive narcisisst madmen who are going to get us all killed. instead, they project a sense of tactical and political meaning onto what is, basically, the bloodlust of a screaming child

here, i'll give it a shot. they are in fact not people with small dicks, cognitively disabled, mentally ill, or children. they are just bigoted and evil

The wrong people have money.

This exactly. It'd be one thing if they were uncreative people who at least acknowledged they were uncreative and trusted the creatives do their jobs correctly.

Unfortunately that's not usually what we get.

Funding for creative people needs to stop being in the hands of uncreative people.

It's true!

My money is on they're recording for a motion adaptation of the comics. Or an audiobook, since they said not a podcast.

Ashlee Rinn walks towards the viewer/camera, looking over her shoulder, street weapon drawn. Superimposed text reads: "Fix your hearts or I'll end you," a play on a David Lynch quote.

Cishet white guys have had enough playing cowboy. Give trans girls revolvers. @sublightgames.com

Back in the day I was the only third grader with an email address 🤣

It was my dad's CompuServe address, but he let us use it to talk to relatives. The tech blew my tiny kid mind! Because tech is awesome! GenAI is an insult to tech!

My dad was one of the first people to realize the internet could be useful for organizing and had their entire org on compuserve when it was still DOS-based! I was on CompuServe forums as a 7 year old. Like, I was basically groomed to loooooove tech and I still hate this GenAI shit.

The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???

Side note, but I know individual actors and casting directors are doing their best. Hence why I said "studios." Bean counters don't know a damn thing about anything but counting beans and it shows.

Thanks! It's an odd one inspired by old Coast to Coast AM episodes and some horrifying 1960s Betty Crocker recipes.

Right to work states suck. Studios who don't want to bust ass to bring union opportunities to right to work states to help us get union protections suck, too.

Someone pointed out that "Anna Mardoll Lockheed Martin" could be sung to the Ninja Turtles theme and I can't stop thinking about that.