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Personal failing: I've never quite overcome my conditioned aversion to the Roland TR-series drum machine pattern praxis enough to seriously consider voting for Soul II Soul here. If I'm randomly putting on a Cure record...oops not enough space left to justify vote for Disintegration.
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Although it's kinda clumpy and undifferentiated, the Mekons catalog is remarkably consistent from Fear and Whiskey (1985) through I Love Mekons (1993), a period during which they plowed through a whole bunch of material. There's a lot there that should be nominated in its respective year.
Human Fly #18 (February 1979) cover by Lee Elias and Rudy Nebres
One must have the mind of Gotham to behold the Batman that is not there and the Batman that is.
...And, of course, almost immediately the "rebel without a clue" line from "I'll Be You" turns up as a key line in Petty's "Into the Great Wide Open"🤔
I was tempted to stick with the long-standing critical consensus here and vote Mekons, but ultimately didn't...although Chris Lord-Alge's mix on the original release does it no favors, DTaS has 3 of Paul Westerberg's--one of the best songwriters of his generation--best actual songs on it.
So, the new Knives Out--is it Wake Up, Dead Man? Wake Up Dead, Man? 🤔
Sad to hear of Graham Greene's passing... Such a wonderful actor and a very nice man I got to meet him on a few occasions as we both lived here in Stratford and even got to sing for him once at his "Walk Of Fame" ceremony. Huge loss RS
Like both, and I suspect the Vaselines will benefit from scarcity in this vote. However...as much as Jeff Lynne's production hasn't aged well for me, FMF has a few of Petty's best songs (in a very deep catalog). The V's best songs had already come & gone on the two EPs that preceded Dum-Dum.
Some awkwardly rendered anatomy here:
I ❤️ The Prometheus Design.
Dr. Live backwards is...Evil Rd. 🤔
Uncanny X-Men # 136 (August 1980) cover by John Byrne, Terry Austin, & Jim Novak
This cat is a hell of an actor.
The ol' Kirby wingspan.
Excellent selections. Now we want to know about the croissant! 🥐
Just got out of the theater. Loved it.
My inorganic daughter is made entirely of hydrochloric acid and would dissolve that guy and his daughter into a commingled puddle of goo before he had a chance to "intervene."
Every new photo you see of RFK Jr looks like his face is that much closer to sliding right off his skull and falling onto the ground in front of him.
Mind's mostly made up on these. Full Moon Fever is a Petty solo 💿 that should have been a Heartbreakers 💿. Don't Tell a Soul is a Replacements record that should have been a Westerberg solo record. The XTC vs the Cult matchup is maybe the two most mannered bands in the tournament head-to-head😝.
This is the title Prince should have used.
Incredible Hulk #189 (July 1975) cover by Herb Trimpe
Batman is fine work-for-hire (completely with plenty of Jack Nicholson product placement). "Batdance" and "The Future" sound good, if inconsequential. Most of the rest of the album somehow manages to sound both impersonal AND uncommercial.
Voted Heart Shaped World. Mostly because I dig James Calvin Wilsey (going all the way back to his time in the influential early San Francisco punk band the Avengers) enough to (mostly) overlook the arch sulkiness of Isaak. So much for no second acts.
Have been re-listening to a @ronsexsmith.bsky.social album per day in anticipation of the new record, Hangover Terrace, tomorrow.
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#198 is one of the oldest surviving comics in my collection that I bought new. Vividly remember the day I picked it out from the spinner. I was 7.
Thought this vote would be closer. Huh.
What if the new Taylor Swift record is like Double Fantasy with Taylor singing half the songs and Travis Kelce singing the other half
Beneath the waterfall.
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #128 (December 1972) (cover by Bob Oksner?)
Sub-Mariner #13 (May 1969) cover by Marie Severin & Joe Sinnott
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My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Thor #127 (April 1966) cover by Jack Kirby and Vince Coletta
Batman #156 (June 1963) cover by Sheldon Moldoff & Charles Paris
Space Adventure #24 (July 1958) cover by Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia
The Pietà homage in comic covers, a thread: Catman Comics #31 (June 1946) cover by L.B. Cole
He's a really fascinating guy. Roomed with David Lynch for awhile while they were both students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. share.google/DGLPZVXAoPk4...
So much of the rest of the media has gotten so loud and dumb and boorish and cult-like that music crit no longer needs to fill that particular cultural niche.
Yeah, it's always going to be risky...I just hope this is going to be somewhat less an issue once Gravenberch & Mac Allister eventually end up (🤞hopefully) together in the pivot.
Steve Wynn's Here Come the Miracles
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The thing I ❤️ most about Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman design is that it creates such potential for meaningful & specific abstraction & stylization, all the while remaining very Batman. Doesn't matter if it's Jae Lee, Miller, Daniel Warren Johnson, Sienkiewicz, Jeffrey Alan Love, or Nick himself.
She ended up here via a complete lack of substance, just like everyone else in orbit of MAGA & MAHA.
I'm already sold on Gorham's art thanks to Exquisite Corpses, and these Hulk pages are beautiful.
No One Can Do It Better is a sprinter that doesn't leave enough for the 2nd half of the race. As 1989 Jack Endino productions go, Buzz Factory is no Bleach, but it's no Journey to the Center of Cat Butt either.
Is it possible to get/have you already shown Satoshi Kon's adaptation of Tsutsui's PAPRIKA?
Ben's attraction to Sue (and the resentment that she's chosen Reed) is actually there as implication even in issue #1:
Post a comic book that you love--a top 5er for you. Amazing Spider-Man #72 (cover date May 1969). Maybe my favorite of all of John Romita's covers, and, as a kid born in 1970, this was the Silver Age back issue I ever bought.
If this is you, this is a "you" problem. Not a "the movies" problem.
Made me think: there is a label-rejected album that did get a physical release in 2001 which should be on the 2001 list--Blue Boy by Ron Sexsmith.
Here's Marvel's August 1948 output. I was mistaken about how many girl books launched -- the only other first issue is LANA -- but it's astounding how much of line here either has female leads or is otherwise showcasing girl characters. The rest of the industry isn't doing anywhere near this much.
The idea behind Orwell's Newspeak was that a totalitarian government was able to systematically force the implementation of a controlled language with a grossly simplified grammar and limited vocabulary. The end result of which was to limit the public's ability to think critically.
Just started digging into this:
Have been thinking about how simpatico Matt Shakman's Fantastic Four: First Steps ended up being with Michael Chabon's 1995 Fantastic Four pitch: www.cbr.com/michael-chab...
Yeah, I think that's correct. I just thought it was funny that there was a disagreement between Spotify's artist-level info and their album-level info (and that neither was, in fact, accurate).
Double, double toil and trouble.
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If Democrats agree to abandon all of the words on this list there will just be another list, and then another...
Such a great movie.
Their Spotify band bio says it was released in 2000 😆
I'm sure she "never saw" all kinds of things.
The New Problem We All Live With.
Somebody just tell him this is the Nobel Peace Prize and maybe he'll go away.
Voted Black Candy. (...looks at voting totals...)
"Pandora's Box ain't got no locks"
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
This isn't incorrect ("classic rock" was an early '80s invention of radio programmers). But, strictly applied, it forces one to take awkward positions--like AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" (1979) is classic rock, but AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" isn't--that are tough to do anything useful with.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Local legends.
Never thought Calvinball would be cited by the SC (even in dissent) but here we are in the years
"...I would've been a good man if it were Uncle Herschel there to shoot me every minute of my life."
Sometimes the best way to help yourself is to help someone else.
Yes, we went to see the new Smurfs movie.
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Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how: Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up. Rigged stats = stolen benefits.
Voted for Cloudland. I think these two records are pretty equal and it comes down to aesthetic preferences tipping one way or the other.
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Recently finished the entirety of Don McGregor's Black Panther (so far)--Jungle Action #6–22 & 24, Marvel Comics Presents #13–37, Black Panther: Panther's Prey #1–4, + his story in the 2018 Black Panther Annual #1.
AT 5PM-7:30PM there is a big speakout planned in DC against Trump's federal occupation at 14th and U St NW. ****The flyers say 6pm but due to the fascist madness engulfing us, that would have put those under 18 at risk over the imposed federal curfew.*** Please RT cuz your city is next.
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Reading Craig Thompson's Ginseng Roots.
Experimental DeepListening® music vs the best-but- LEAST-experimental thing Young released in the '80s. After Ragged Glory, which followed hard upon, Young has only intermittently been this good again. Deep is a little too new-agey & professorial for me to get much excited about.
The art here makes him look like a grown-up version of Bobby Hill. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
At least it wasn't "Do the Donald."
Maybe then, I'll fade away And not have to face the facts It's not easy facing up When your whole world is black
...the horns and string arrangements on Peace and Love are themselves a sort of sixth finger of the record. Not really anatomical.
That is the actual Subway where the sandwich was bought on 14th and U NW.. It’s becoming a tourist attraction.
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These are both fine. Expecting to enjoy the comments on this matchup even more than I did the relistens.
