'Fall on Me'
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'Fall on Me'
The Timothy Dalton movies, which are also the Bond '80s action movies, have some parody/satire in them, but viewers don't always pick up on it.
'Octopus's Garden' isn't even Ringo's favorite Beatles song. Right this second, 'Baby's in Black.' I will have a different answer in five minutes.
Me, to most of the comments on this post:
"What cause is Martin Luther King Jr. best known for? Advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion"
Somebody should ask him to apologize for homophobic comments he made about Tim Dog's mom.
The first single was 'I'm Chillin,' featuring DC go-go legends Trouble Funk.
It's 1986, and Kurtis Blow's 'Kingdom Blow' album opens with an intro from Bob Dylan:
Uses the old name every chance he gets.
Did anybody tell him that you can rent bulldozers?
I'm just glad he's not still telling people he doesn't own a tv--that got old real quick.
'Spare kidneys walking around.' One of the MAGA throughlines is that they don't see other people as fully human.
Picture it, Hollywood, 1991: "Amid more dazzling stars, Isaak (decked out in his shiny brocade stage suit) got his first gold record while the waiters passed around goat cheese quesadillas and a Hawaiian band played in the background."
Not sure about pins, but he's the asshole that sent this Christmas card.
A lot of librarians like Desk Set/Party Girl/The Public.
That's fair. There's also the homophobia and materialism, very mixed messages about drugs, etc., etc. NWA would say they're rapping about reality, but a lot of their lyrics are hyper-exaggerated at best and ugly and hateful at worst.
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
once again i am recommending you sign up for the Kanopy app through your library and immediately put on the animated version of IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN just to listen to the fantastic original music in it
Annoy the FBI, express yourself, and vote 'Straight Outta Compton.'
www.gabrielegalimberti.com/the-ameriguns/
'Exactitudes' is a photographic study of social types by photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek.
I somehow don't feel inspired.
It's a little weird to think about now that he's a beloved legend and all, but this was a pretty low point in Weird Al's career. Following up mega-hits (by his standard) like 'Eat It' and 'Fat,' 'UHF'-the-movie was not considered a financial success at the time, and the album didn't sell very well.
I don't have a lot of feelings about Taylor Swift one way or the other, but she's identified as a feminist for like the last ten years or something, and this is some weird-ass gatekeeping.
Could go either way on this one. Both groups are influential within their sphere, both albums are some of their best work. But in 2025, there's one I would much rather listen to than the other.
"Can credulous legacy media cover AI in a way that isn't rose-colored industry hype?"
An article about active shooter hoaxes in universities that could also be used as an example of copaganda, where hero cops 'sprint' into buildings 'without regard to personal risk' and 'stand between life and death.'
'Comprehensive' is not a strong enough word; this is an epic.
To celebrate the launch of Circuits on Puzzmo we designed and shipped massively multiplayer live Circuits game called Circuits Royale! Play now: royale.circuitsgame.com
A good list.
Kinda worried about this thing where people say that anyone who disagrees with them is not a real person.
That 'Misdemeanor' sample in 'It's Funky Enough' 👨🍳🤌
Both 'Paul's Boutique' and 'Three Feet High and Rising' are still in it. Those two, plus 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,' are, to my mind, the peak albums of the free-sampling era.
GIANT PIZZA WARS (1993-1995): In the early 90's, the Big 3 in the chain pizza world entered an arms race, offering competing, giant pizzas in a bid for pizza supremacy. How did it shake out? Check this 🧵!
I started listing examples of infidelity from MAGA men, but then I remembered that Bluesky has a character limit.
To each their own, but nobody's making you listen to the demos. Demos, non-album tracks, remixes, false starts, live versions, the club mix that only appeared on the German pressing of the 12" single, I want absolutely all of the things.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
1994, from the LA Times archives:
Here's the audio:
Never a hint of it
The rare rap album with a full-length dub remix:
They booked Jim Jordan after Matt Gaetz, Madison Cawthorn, Dennis Hastert, and Roy Moore didn't return their calls.
"Not a Trump fan, but I think my tax rate is more important than everyone else's lives."
(Not really a frontrunner, except in my heart)
Thomas Chatterton Williams has this smug, unearned condescension and superiority that he carries with him everywhere he goes like a favorite stuffed animal.
One of the nice things about the south is that, anywhere big enough to support four or five restaurants, there's probably at least one local joint doing roughly the same thing as Cracker Barrel, but at a much, much higher level.
I would add J-Live's 'The Best Part' to the 2001 list.
The same compilation was released a year later retitled '80s Retro':
2004: Gavin Newsom issues thousands of same-sex marriage licenses in San Francisco before gay marriage was legal in CA. 2019: Newsom gives a video toast at his godchild's wedding to a trans woman. 2025: This calculating, cynical, pandering Third Way bullshit.
I'll make a deal with all you metal dudes--if you go for The D.O.C. and N.W.A, I'll go for FNM.
'Copperhead Road,' the song about a drug farmer who plans to use Viet-Cong-style tactics against DEA agents? They maybe didn't do a real close reading of the lyrics.
The '80s, a time when people bought 16-foot satellite dishes so they could get more tv channels.
Elected Democrats are held accountable for the language choices of anarchist bookstore collectives and lesbian separatist compounds. When people on the right call for extrajudicial violence, unconstitutional civil rights abuses, or genocide, nobody asks Mike Johnson and John Thune to disavow it.
Here's a little something from the 'Here Comes Your Man' 12":
And here's a song from 'Dreamy':
Twee low-fi vs quiet-loud-quiet, both of these bands were pretty influential. I like Beat Happening better ('Jamboree' and 'Dreamy' are better as albums than 'Black Candy'), but 'Doolittle' is a better record. Here's a video from a different Beat Happening album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaw-...
"Language: A Key Mechanism of Control."
And, in 2024, Stephen Miller's America First Legal called for a federal investigation into Cracker Barrel for discriminating against--of course--white people. No wonder people say the restaurant business is hard.
Back in 1991, Cracker Barrel faced boycotts for firing at least 11 staff members because they were gay. In the early 2000s, Cracker Barrel settled a DOJ lawsuit alleging systemic racial discrimination against Black employees and customers.
When you’re getting ready to say something about trans people, maybe first ask yourself ‘Would I say this about women, or Muslims, or Black people, or literally any other minority group?’
He also wants cities to force people to move their camps every three days, an idea that’s even worse.
Here’s a picture of Gavin Newsom personally busting up a homeless camp in Los Angeles. As strategies to help long-term unsheltered people go, this is bad. As cynical photo ops to make Newsom look tough to cruel people go, it’s.. still pretty bad.
Vulture capitalists exploit moral panics and made-up crises to loot public resources--reminds me of 'The Shock Doctrine,' which is probably no longer available in King William's Library.
This is stupid, but in a 'wasteful, inefficient, will probably never happen' kind of way instead of a 'thousands of people will definitely die' kind of way.
There are some rap songs--Eric B & Rakim's 'Casualties of War,' Geto Boys' 'Fuck a War,' Paris' 'Bush Killa'...
'How far we've come' is the narrative of almost every museum that remotely touches on history. I get the feeling she doesn't visit a lot of museums.
"The nutria’s assiduous gnawing may seem a relatively mild insult; in the state’s coastal-threat index, the nutria would come in sixth place. But a citizen is not permitted, in the current legal climate, to explode federal levees and dams, or to hunt oil and gas executives. So the nutria must pay."
Trump stays in a bubble where he will never know how much how many people hate him. JD, though, he knows.
What is it with Republicans and following women into public bathrooms?
"Ronald Reagan's cheers helped tear down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War. Bush and Eisenhower were RINOs all along."
These all seem like things that ActBlue should have been doing from day one, but I'll take any good news I can get.
There's something about a homeland security advisor that clearly despises the majority of the people in the country.
the two biggest information polluters on the planet right now -- short-form video and chatbots -- work on exactly the same underlying architecture: delivering highly personalized garbage that has been sweetened by a host of psychological engagement tricks all while concealing the delivery process.
This is such an important thing to hold onto. As the media and politicians try to go OH THESE TRANS PEOPLE ARE A PLAGUE AND/OR THERE ARE SO FEW OF THEM THEY DON'T MATTER There are nearly 3 million of us in the US alone. 3 *million*. That's almost the population of the entire state of Nevada.
'Rockin' in the Free World' is great, 'Crime in the City' is great, the stuff in between is a little hit or miss. This one's lovely, though:
Pauline Oliveros was a towering, pioneering figure in early experimental and electronic music, and I'm really enjoying seeing her get more attention in recent years. Freedom's a great comeback, especially after an awful CSNY album in 1988, but it's not even in my top ten Neil Young albums.
The subrising. Iconic. “Sandwich imagery has made it into signs at protests (“These condiments don’t run!”), & social media…(“Don’t Bread on Me” atop the traditional yellow Gadsden flag long used by conservatives who oppose big gov).“ 51st.news/the-subrisin... @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news
(While also managing to highlight a Ron Paul tattoo.)
Some of Newsom's buzz seems inauthentic, like he's being propped up by rich donor types because he's perceived as more supportive of their interests. Like it or not, we've been in the permanent campaign era for decades now--2028 Dems that haven't already started running are already falling behind.
The Bangor Daily News went for the Glamour Shots treatment with this photo.
"In a closet under the stairs, there’s a twin bed jammed into the space with three sets of ear defenders suspended above. That’s where they put Octavian sometimes, Malcolm says, because he has meltdowns."
What do you mean by that?
Can't help but feel like if politicians made a habit of responding to crackpot letters by telling people they were crackpots, we might be in a little better place.
Here's Nomeansno a few years later, covering the Dead Kennedys' 'Forward to Death' for an Alternative Tentacles compilation:
Men who call women 'females' are shitty. I don't know why it's true, but it is.
MHz - World Premier
This observation is the Maggie Haberman version of when that dude threw his shoe at George W. Bush.
It’s always seemed strange to me that Amina Claudine Myers, one of our great musical artists, isn’t better known. I hope this piece helps to spread the word. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
I want to be in the meeting where they decided on World over Weather.
