I wrote about seeing BTS play a whole set of mid-tempo songs from their mid-00s records that did nothing for me, and someone got mad because they love all that stuff. Different strokes!
I’ve seen them a couple of other times (once doing PFNO, once with the newest lineup) and they were better.
Important to note that Joey Lawrence’s brother Andrew directed it, and all three Lawrence brothers appear.
The scenes with Denise Richards are as bad as movies get
It’s still mostly the same guy but he has a legit band now. I’ve never been a huge fan of “let’s replicate the album exactly” and this version of M83 gets way past that.
I was unprepared for how good Rocket from the Crypt would be live. I’d only seen a few videos on 120 Minutes and dismissed them as ska-adjacent.
I appreciated Stars of the Lid before seeing them for the first time in 2008 but that set was incredible (and somehow topped the next time I saw them).
I saw M83 a year or so after that and thought they relied way too much on pre-recorded backing tracks. I’ve come and gone with their albums since then, with Fantasy being a surprising renaissance, and was stunned by how good their live set from KEXP on YouTube comes across.
The new Rafael Anton Irisarri LP Points of Inaccessibility is my favorite thing he's done since 2019's Solastalgia (which was my go-to brain reset during the pandemic), and I don't think it's very inaccessible! Nudges his tidal drones more towards Stars of the Lid's levitational ambient classical.
Irisarri, Rafael Anton - Points of Inaccessibility Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong Wye Oak - My Neighbor / My Creator Metallica - And Justice for All Blanck Mass - World Eater Shipping News - Very Soon, and in Pleasant
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An inappropriately somber Mark E. Smith biopic called How He Wrote “How I Wrote Elastic Man”
I’d found this live recording before Arab Strap did an official posting of it on Bandcamp, and it ranks among my favorite things from them. “Turbulence,” “Screaming in the Trees,” and “Blackness” in particular all kill.
Pine, Isabel - Fables Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches Men at Work - Cargo Pinback - Some Offcell Voices
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The initial pass in to Osimhen was off
Girls Against Boys - Cruise Yourself Sewerheads - Diary of a Priest Mojave 3 - Any Day Will Be Fine Mekons - Fear & Whiskey Four Tet - Pause
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Protomartyr - Pin Eyes Under the Alder Rundle, Emma Ruth & Thou - May Our Gang of Four - Another Day / Another Dollar Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast
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Wear it to the Pancakes House
Coverdale, Kara-Lis - Changes in Air Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind Exek - Prove the Mountains Move Callahan, Bill - My Days of 58 Stereolab - Cloud Land Feelies - Fa Ce La Gregor Samsa - 40:13.5 Black Sabbath - Paranoid Bush, Kate - Hounds of Love
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A Pitchfork headline reading "Who Will Remember 1 Umbrella?"
Me when there's a good chance of rain later
He should be covered in a viscous film
Him costing less than Foegele is a mystery to me
I had it on CD originally, took me a while to get the 10" at a reasonable price. Definitely don't see it in bins.
At least when that pad’s a plane you can just roll down a window and chuck all of that garbage out mid-flight
It genuinely baffles me that all of the AOL LPs have gotten reissued on vinyl but the best thing they did hasn't.
Archers of Loaf - Vs. The Greatest of All Time Hall, Erik - Solo Three Port-Royal - Where Are You Now Replacements - Let It Be
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I'd initially forgotten Melancholia, which was one of the harder ones to rate. I loved certain aspects (cinematography, intro, second half) while the first chapter left me a bit flat.
Noir/melodrama mix Mildred Pierce was the big surprise. Superb performance from Joan Crawford.
I watched 15 films from this list in February and would rank them roughly:
Aparajito
The Banshees of Inisherin
Mildred Pierce
Naked
The Verdict
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
Three Colours: White
The Color of Money
Akira
Sabrina (1954)
Melancholia
The Big Short
I Confess
The Seven Year Itch
Airpood
I’ve also seen The Cars That Eat Paris (a very Australian horror comedy) and The Plumber (a pitch black, uncomfortable comedy), which are good but haven’t stuck with me like Picnic and The Last Wave.
Great movie, I'm also very big on Weir's The Last Wave (which has ominous digeridoo on the soundtrack)
Eno, Brian - Discreet Music Schneider, Luke - Altar of Harmony Grouper - Way Their Crept Stereolab - Cloud Land Molina, Jason / MJ Lenderman Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost 1
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[Pulling the blankets up to your chin] "Priiiiime tiiiime"
