The burger did not always used to be a timed thing and the last time we went our waiter did make me feel a bit like a doofus for asking! Which is a shame bc it IS good
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The burger did not always used to be a timed thing and the last time we went our waiter did make me feel a bit like a doofus for asking! Which is a shame bc it IS good
I remember going to a work screening of Blinded by the Light and That Song played over the end credits. “Is that…?” I asked my coworker next to me. “The Harry Potter song? Yep,” he replied.
Go fart on an old tree stump
Please forgive any and all slowness in reportage on @theseconddisc.bsky.social! We are but two people writing for free, and one of us is adjusting to the new normal of kids in daycare.
Taylor Lorenz is gonna shoot Frankie Focus with a gun :(
Petition to make “my Dan” slang for any of those things!
I had a whole blast talking to @jasonklamm.com and @standuprecords.bsky.social about their new LP exploring the obscure, fascinating ‘60s comedian Dick Davy for @theseconddisc.bsky.social
EMOTIONALLY BALANCED GARY Temporarily Out of Stock
Realized this yesterday
Sorry if this makes me sound old, but the “here’s one more track 1-2 weeks later” thing certainly does not incentivize me to get these albums right when they drop. (The pre-Napster $18 asking price I saw in a brick-and-mortar yesterday doesn’t help, either.)
“Cinemax Classics,” is that like Criterion level restorations of softcore flicks
Scooter Braun now has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time
Doooooooo hoo hoo
It does coarsen in a way I don’t like
The big human science problem we’re not speaking about isn’t trans people—it’s nine-year-old boys growing to adult sizes overnight. We have to find and destroy Zoltar
Streets are saying Jaya’s gonna be in Globby sequel??
No idea who Mike Darrow is but he’s the kind of person who fascinates me by waiting a beat to say the insane things. “Whoa not great! You gotta get the polio vaccine! My kids have it, but not COVID, because that’s fake!”
If you’re a once-popular artist with, say, little digital footprint and material worth compiling (or releasing, if it’s in the vault), it’d be cooler for a label to just say “OK it’s yours” rather than keep it and do little to nothing
I was very lucky to be at a company where I was working on projects by Prince/MJ/Elvis/Billy Joel/Whitney/Mariah etc. I would *love* to see what change and creativity could come to catalogue with more investiture in an elevated DIY approach
Assuming I wouldn’t use it on myself: a legal Robin Hood for music recording rights
I mean, they're not even primarily airing on MTV! We've been inundated with ads for their *CBS broadcast*
I try not to poison my ears listening to RFK Jr speak, but last time I did I thought he just sounded like he was smoking too much. I did not realize until a moment ago that he NoW tAlKs LiKe ThIs WhEnEvEr HiS mOuTh OpEnS
This is not helping my long-held, long-weathered belief that these two are excellent songwriters and their haters are Dense
Almost did a yell before I remembered how the Third Eye Blind guy spells it
Weird Al’s “Lame Claim to Fame” but make it leftist
I don’t like to get nostalgic about *tweets* but a great one read like “when someone asks you if you want a hoot off the bong” and it was a clip of Larry Blackmon in the video going “YES I DO.” I put it on my wedding playlist for that reason
Remember on like I Love the 80s they showed a PSA of Bob Barker saying you can’t get AIDS from a cat? I remember being like “damn, people made a lot of conjectures back then.” Well,
My 'not showing up to a press conference because i might be deceased' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Anti-discourse discourse And It’s Not Even 2 PM. S M H
A Washington insiders has exclusively confirmed to me that the president’s 2 pm press conference will solely consist of him saying “the seed is the need” to the press corps
Now THIS is news you can use
(walks into room) Hey honey, a new power is rising!
I, personally, don’t need to see what these weirdos are posting about anything on other apps, ESPECIALLY this app. It’s giving “wow, my ex just can’t let me go”
I had always thought, historically, that repertory/catalog screenings, even in big theaters, had fewer trailers. Saturday night I thought transit delays would cause me to miss the beginning of SIGN O’ THE TIMES. Walked in maybe 10 minutes after posted showtime—not even close
I bet he was pseudonymous because of his vocation (graffiti)
This month I met a guy named Leaf
Money was a mistake
Oh, you know that already.
Now there’s a hundred-dollar idear: post notifications for Letterboxd. Keep up to date with all your favorite cinephiles
The “media” doesn’t want you to know but the reason his hands are Photoshopped is because one of them fell into a machine that makes spaghetti and now his hand is spaghetti. I had some of it and it was bad :(
I would like to hear your eventual thoughts on Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed period drama (60s), Bridge of Spies (2015). Please deliver them to the listed number at your convenience
Scream laughing right now. Curt get your FINE ass to New York and meet my girls!!!
Every political cartoonist Googling “Stan Chera” to offer a welcoming face to the gates. Of where? Oh, you know ;-)
Maybe for you but I’m different
It is KNOWN that I’m Spielberg hive since young times but one thing I don’t think he gets a lot of credit for: his theatrical/home reissues largely look IMPECCABLE. You’ll never see an AI up-res of JAWS! (Sorry to Jimmy C)
Lots of young folks out for JAWS at the AMC at Lincoln Square. A kid excitedly pointed out my shirt to his mom. One teen cracking up at the other: “Ben Gardner’s head GOT you!” The power of movies, baby!!
I had a VERY wild conversation the other night with someone who was supposed to be in the movie, one of the top five most unreal things I’ve ever heard
At the bar talking about Godzilla as if he’s a) real and b) someone who I’m kinda annoyed with at the moment
You’re literally the only person I’ve seen around this post saying so
Love to see the late Cat Glover dance up on mfs so hard that they fall down from being horny
I gotta coordinate these things better!!!!
WHYYYYYYYYYYYY IS SHE LIKE THIS
The midtown crowd at the IMAX screening of Sign O’ the Times tonight was far less fams and more curious folk who just got a tremendous glimpse of Prince that wasn’t hammered into a Purple Rain gruel. Imagining what viewers like this could discover in his catalogue next and feeling positive 💜
Used to be you would just lie about things like dunking a basketball, how fast you could beat Mario, penis size
I can
It happened to me: my youngest daughter has joined Oasis
the boy wrangling in the background >>>>>>
Did she say there were rats??
The luck of this busted ass nation means he’ll outlive the other Beatles and your favorite pet. All those McDonald’s preservatives keeping him gacked up better than that weird blood guy
What the shit!!
It’s been…Caged?
oh well in that case he can't talk out of both sides of his mouth about what a bad idea a reboot would be. My man made the same movie twice
The first one is more fittingly absurd as this very Hughesian slice of life story about a kid with little to worry about learning about his resolve when he’s got to make it happen for himself. THEN guys get hit in the nuts. The second one is just waiting to do that, so the rest can clatter hollowly
Chris Columbus is absolutely smoking rocks with this take
I feel like one of the last good runs on Twitter was people describing anime in Foghorn Leghorn cadence, and this reminds me of that happy time
Santa Hooked Me Up has no peer, title-wise
JAIL
Tiny little gratitude post: interviewed a really cool musician who’ll be playing another really cool musician’s great songs next month, and the packaging featuring my latest liner notes is off to the printers. It ain’t easy, but it is nice sometimes
Live look at Mark rn
Even a nice thing like “an unreleased live track from Prince’s best movie” gets smudged by the insistence of putting bootleg Purple Rain font on everything. They used to have a 60-page style guide and not one page used this!
I want everyone who’s ever besmirched Kathy Kennedy’s name to think about how she’s never put herself in a Star Wars, let alone one that was made before she was involved with the company???
These men will not see the gates of heaven
This budget SHOULD go to a doc that’s just making-of footage and Stallone discussing each of the films honestly
This post unintentionally reads like they’re doing a full cast reset
I’ve seen Bruce Springsteen three times, none of which were at Bruce Springsteen shows or events he was announced at (2014 Rock Hall ceremony, Billy Joel’s 100th career show at MSG, McCartney at MetLife Stadium)
In that halcyon post-SoundScan pre-digital era, Garth was a juggernaut. Every Q4 a Barbenheimer on steroids
What you’re saying is my mother-in-law would call it Yakuz
They’ll never recover
When I worked at Target, we once got some typo-ridden shelf labels for DVDs of “Sex IN the City,” which is a totally different type of show.
If you saw two people calling themselves “Wild Billy” and “Crazy Janey” and one of them wore a coonskin cap, you’d make sure you were out of their sight lines at the bar. Only one man could’ve made them seem interesting.
Me: Music criticism discourse…Taylor Swift discourse…can’t pop culture give it a rest? Penguin Press: you THOUGHT
sooooooore winners
Shouldn’t have ruined so many sets with his clumsy waitering skills
I had it in my mind that it was in Q, since Vic Garbarini, a writer there at one time who Sting favored, conducted this interview
My vivid memory and a surprisingly robust interview archive from Sting’s site reminded me of this Revolver interview from 2000 that the trio sat for www.sting.com/news/title/I...
It almost certainly did—Andy was doing a lot of press for an unrelated project around the same time and his frustration was palpable even in text
Are we supposed to assume these people are serious
Ironic that a revelatory box set—part of a planned long term reissue campaign—is going to scuttle said campaign in ways no one expected
As a car passenger once every 1-2 weeks with my family, it’s pretty dire now!!
I’d say the last one that did was “Cruel Summer,” which was two years after its parent album dropped
You have been visited by the teeth men. Repost to send someone teeth
Not even! Immense hater, seemingly for a) not speaking about Palestine and b) not pushing back hard enough over conservative weirdos calling her an “Aryan Princess.” Also the engagement photos are somehow propaganda for American Eagle
Do I care about the story? Not really Do I care if others care? Also nope Do I think attention paid to it is “normalizing the ever encroaching fascism in this country”? I don’t think I would go that far, no
Watching a high school classmate crashing out on Facebook over the big celebrity engagement 😐
Looks like this is relevant again
Would that poptimism-curious critics had the kind of power purported by some instead of tap dancing between newsletter sends for checks
