it’s important to keep faith in culture alive and you can’t do that by pointing at things that are stupid and vacuous. at some point you have to model the kind of attention and discipline you think has been lost or destroyed
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it’s important to keep faith in culture alive and you can’t do that by pointing at things that are stupid and vacuous. at some point you have to model the kind of attention and discipline you think has been lost or destroyed
The Crypta show ended at 10 so I got home before 11 and just now discovered Shudder added Tales From the Hood this week. A perfect evening!
China: (building high speed rails and massive cities that look like something from science fiction novels at a rapid pace) Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: fuckin uhhh.. Trump was undercover when he was doing pedophilia. He was helping the FBI actually
Noooooooo!
Nobody else is allowed to follow me now.
Eric Adams sucks as a mayor and should never be allowed to have any amount of political ever again, but if he had a podcast where he just chopped it up with guests and said weird things I would listen to every episode.
Lmao yes!
I love being governed by the stupidest assholes this country has ever produced.
Fourth show in a row tonight and my knees are already screaming at me.
Yes...hahaha...YES!
i feel like you could convince rfk jr that midichlorians are real
I’m going to catch Nate Silver with a net and lock him in a room with no internet access.
There are people who wield power when they have it and people who don’t and the Democratic Party is the latter which is why this disaster is happening.
I hate this meme because the “hard times” we’re entering into wouldn’t be happening if Democrats hadn’t spent decades allowing or even participating in Republicans’ flagrant lawlessness and corruption.
I can’t imagine paying money to see this haha
I mean, they could have forced a vote already since the tariffs are flagrantly illegal.
We all know about Bay Area thrash and true Norwegian black metal but when do goofy Midwestern guys who’re obsessed with horror movies get their moment in the sun?
I’m studying the classics.
It’s to the point in NYC that I get excited if a venue has $6 PBRs. Pretty much every show at a venue larger than a bar is at least $25 now too. It sucks.
It’s nuts to me that the 300 cap venue Ghoul is playing tonight charges the same price for a Modelo tall boy as the sports arena where I saw Nine Inch Nails last night. I just want to get a little buzz on and listen to some Creepsylvanian riffs.
Heavy metal is stupid as hell and I love it.
“WOOOOOO PANTERAAAAAA REST IN PEACE DIME!!!”
I really dialed back my show attendance in August and the shows I did go to were in larger venues, so it’s nice to get back to seeing some nasty death metal in a shithole on a weeknight.
Liam & Noel Gallagher, 1993
I’m at a show and I’m already starting to sweat but I don’t want to take my hoodie off because there’s another guy here wearing the same Undergang shirt as me. It’s like showing up to prom wearing the same dress as that snooty bitch Becky Vandenberg.
I think you could do it on desktop for a while but it just got rolled out for the mobile app.
sometimes i fear that posting will not bring about communism
A lot of these nü gaze bands are super derivative and get boring fast but Slow Crush has the juice. youtu.be/1ZyKKQRzrGw?...
Slow Crush's new album Thirst is awesome if you're into that heavy shoegaze/1990score sound the kids like. And there's sexy saxophone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tie...
We could get a couple hundred million dollars a year to fund social programs like this if we started taking NYPD misconduct settlements out of their pension fund instead of using taxpayer money.
You're not a REAL GBV head unless you recognize all the references to Southwestern Ohio Bob Pollard makes. Also, I'm pretty sure I bought my first GBV album (Bee Thousand) at Looney T. Birds in Oxford.
I only got to see them live once but they absolutely destroyed. It would have been awesome if they stuck around.
I'm listening to Ramming Speed who used to get mentioned in the same breath as Power Trip as one of the best bands to come out of the 2000s thrash revival. But then they broke up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvM...
Getting excited that Bluesky finally lets me upload GIFs from my phone after 2 years. It’s like 2014 up in here!
New way to die unlocked: Vaporized in a nuclear explosion because the government built a fusion reactor designed by ChatGPT.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
NONE INCH NAILS PLAYED BURN TONIGHT!
I’m getting ready for night 2 of Nine Inch Nails by listening to dollar store Nine Inch Nails.
Every time I see him I think of Principal McVicker from Beavis & Butthead.
Michael Tracey looks like a homunculus a wizard made from dirty laundry and farts.
“Ok hear me out: Every room in the haunted house is based on a different short story from August Derleth’s 1941 book Someone in the Dark.”
Hell yeah, Gavin Newsom is trolling the hell out of Trump! First he burned Deplorable Donald by going on conservative podcasts and agreeing that trans people shouldn't have the same rights as everyone else and now he's doing his own crypto scam! www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Void is so sick. Old school technical thrash with songs about warlocks and haunted mansions and what not. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8e...
The insane financial cost of playing in the U.S. is a much bigger hurdle for bands than criminal charges and ideology now. The application fee for performance visas went from $450 per member to $1600 last year and there’s a 5-6 month turnaround time on processing the applications.
Loudness rules but they’ve had to cancel North American tours before because they were denied entry into the country.
This is the worst headliner line-up they’ve ever had but the down-bill bands are insane.
This is just Five Finger Death Punch youtube.com/shorts/jvfvI...
The politicians who actually need to leave the Democratic Party are guys like Tom Suozzi and Gavin Newsom.
This is the tent centrist Dems mean when they talk about big tent politics.
When centrist Dems talk about big tent politics this is what their tent looks like.
“What’s the problem here? This is ATMOSPHERIC black metal. It’s relaxing!”
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
“I wouldn’t be caught dead at an arena rock show. It’s so dead and emotionless.” Shut da fuk up
I know you’re supposed to think arena shows are lame if you’re into underground music but c’mon
Nine Inch Nails was so fucking good I don’t care if they play the exact same set tomorrow night.
NIN PLAYED HERESY TONIGHT!
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary The Good, the Bad, and the Gary
I found a cheap side stage ticket with an unobstructed view for tonight's show so it's on!
The consensus from everyone I know who's already seen this tour is that it's amazing!
I am now going to 5 shows in 6 days this week and it might be 6 shows in 6 days depending on if I feel up to seeing Have A Nice Life on Saturday.
I've been missing their tours since they opened for David Bowie in the mid-90s so I'm super stoked to finally see them!
Yeah, I've been watching videos of those Boys Noize collabs and they're sick.
They're playing Sin, Heresy, and Burn on some of the dates and I cannot express how badly I need to hear Heresy live.
I'm seeing Nine Inch Nails for the first time tomorrow night after being a fan for uhhh 30+ years, and the setlist they're playing is so good I'm thinking about getting a cheap nosebleed ticket for their show tonight, too.
After nearly a decade we're finally getting a new Helstar album this year! These guys are one of the most slept-on bands in speed/power metal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn0n...
Thanks! It's crazy you have to jump through these hoops to disable it but a fix is a fix.
It's cool how Google's AI summary feature sucks and is egregiously wrong constantly but you can't turn it off and it doesn't seem to be improving.
Blueskyism is all the people on this site who think this is Trump resigning and not going on TV to say “many nasty haters are wishing for my death but I am stronger than I’ve ever been. Many are saying I’m the strongest in the world!”
Spending years working my way to the top of the music journalist mountain just so I can get an interview with Kylie Minogue and only ask her questions about what it was like shooting Bio-Dome.
This is why Isaac Chotiner gets treated like Socrates for asking basic follow-up questions
New episode of I Hope You Suffer is out! This week, we cover a movie that I think rules but @hiddenkitstory.bsky.social and @werewolfface.bsky.social hated: 1995's Baby Ghost. The most boring banger ever made. Available anywhere you listen to podcasts!
The guy who directed this also did Hell Comes To Frogtown and like half a dozen post apocalyptic roller skating movies
Donald Trump is for sure going to give the presidential medal of freedom to the old guy on the Cracker Barrel logo.
It rules that Trump is defiling every American institution and honor with stupidity. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/p...
I feel like my first job at 16 being one where drunk rednecks threatened to beat my ass every other day prepared me for the workforce better than many of my peers.
After 2 weeks in states with 100+ degree temps I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to come back to this.
From now on, cute animals singing Rob Zombie songs is the only content I want to see. www.instagram.com/reel/DNtAVi4...
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
My first job was in 1994 and I ran carny games at Americana Amusement Park in Monroe Ohio for $4.25 an hour.
If Zohran Mamdani wasn’t running for NYC mayor and you had a gun to my head forcing me to vote, I would vote for cat dad Curtis Sliwa over Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo. nypost.com/2025/08/31/u...
Sunday night at 11:00 pm is Toxie Time!
Delta Airlines has S-tier in flight entertainment options.
I’m in Florida a few times a year and every time I’m down here it’s like stepping into 2018. Like, there are still OG Qanon people here.
Waffle Houses everywhere is one of the very few things I miss about living in Ohio.
“…Braaaaaiiiiiinnnssss…”
It’s funny to joke about Trump having a stroke on the toilet and then falling off and shitting all over himself as he dies, but also I legitimately believe Trump is dying.
It would rule if Trump dies around Thanksgiving or Christmas so you can make jokes about it to your conservative relatives.
I know transcendental meditation doesn’t work because if it did Trump would be the deadest person in history.
I know he didn’t die but I’m hoping if we send enough “Trump’s dead” vibes into the universe we can will it into reality.
They don’t really tour outside New Zealand which limits their exposure but they’re so good. “Damn The Sky” from their 2011 debut album would end up in a playlist of favorite 2010s metal songs. youtu.be/DSAHUNjBtF8?...
There’s a new BEASTWARS album coming and I am so stoked. They genuinely deserve so much more attention than they get. FFO: High On Fire, Crowbar and Mastodon. beastwars.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
I feel like he was into Green Day and Linkin Park
I’m watching one of the greatest comedies of the 21st century.
This fucking pud pretended to be a country bumpkin to sell books and now he’s pretending to be Gen X. You graduated high school in 2003, bitch! Talk about Blink-182 and leave Mazzy Star alone.
