Optimist version: sip a latte, listen to the Fleet Foxes while I stroll to work from train station. Pessimist version: grind teeth, power walk from train station while listening to Black Flag.
My commute was absolutely dreamy this morning. Everything is shut down for the funeral, so it was a total ghost town. Parked at the very front of the lot and the trains were practically empty.
Netflix: We noticed you enjoyed several Indonesian horror films this week. Here are a few more you might enjoy, as well as an Indonesian action film from one of the directors you like.
Amazon Prime: We noticed you like $GENRE.FOREIGN.FILMS. Here are six unrelated films in six different languages in six different genres.
On a related topic. Why did Netflix pay $100M to extend Friends for another year. Is there that much demand?! Or does Netflix have literally all the monies at this point?!
When I have seen Friends on tv lately, all I can think of is, Holy shit, diversity initiatives have really changed our expectations for tv. That was a tv show about NYC that was on the air for like a decade with almost zero non-white people in it, and no one even thought that was weird.
Not that anyone asked, but these are my favorite 100-ish songs from 2018. After a few years of being more into alt.country and retro soul, I've been listening to a lot of indie rock/pop this year.
These are things a person can tap their toe along with. If that's not your jam, no hard feelings.
I used theirs as a starting point for my own 2018 only list.
My Spotify-selected thing had "Common People," and "No Surprises" in my top 10. That list was weird to listen to though, because I was still mostly all Americana through January, when I started listening to the indie station on XM again. So there was a bunch of like Angaleena Presley and Whitney Rose and stuff that didn't play nice on a list with GBV and whatnot.
I could make a pretty good backup playlist called "Music that Isn't from 2018, But That Is When I Found It." That list would have "Gronlandic Edit" by Of Montreal as every other track.
The thing I like about streaming services is that I don't have to let the feeling that I invested money in something make me stick with it. If a record is bad, I just cut bait. I don't spend seven days playing it anyway, hoping it will get better.
I can also go down style/genre rabbit holes much faster. (Like my aforementioned decision last winter that I was done with alt.country and needed newer indie stuff in my earholes.)
Works for movies, too. I don't watch shitty movies just cause I paid to buy or rent them. I just cut bait and watch something better.
I'm saddened by Pete Shelley's death. The Buzzcocks are one of my favourite British punk bands: they were funnier, poppier and smarter than most of the other punk bands, and, when I was a teen, Pete Shelley's lyrics seemed to be far more in-tune with my experience of the world than those of other similar bands.
In other words, songs about boredom and jerking off were more my thing back then than songs about social decay and politics.
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Optimist version: sip a latte, listen to the Fleet Foxes while I stroll to work from train station.
Pessimist version: grind teeth, power walk from train station while listening to Black Flag.
thanks GHWB!!!!
Eh, well.
Amazon Prime: We noticed you like $GENRE.FOREIGN.FILMS. Here are six unrelated films in six different languages in six different genres.
Not sure which answer I'd prefer.
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These are things a person can tap their toe along with. If that's not your jam, no hard feelings.
https://open.spotify.com/user/sourbob/playlist/4KVWPSkkvr8d354BUPvwq6?si=dJe-cptlQfiz0UyGOdRwAA
I could always relate to Pete Shelley. He was a homosapien like me.
My Spotify-selected thing had "Common People," and "No Surprises" in my top 10. That list was weird to listen to though, because I was still mostly all Americana through January, when I started listening to the indie station on XM again. So there was a bunch of like Angaleena Presley and Whitney Rose and stuff that didn't play nice on a list with GBV and whatnot.
I can also go down style/genre rabbit holes much faster. (Like my aforementioned decision last winter that I was done with alt.country and needed newer indie stuff in my earholes.)
Works for movies, too. I don't watch shitty movies just cause I paid to buy or rent them. I just cut bait and watch something better.
In other words, songs about boredom and jerking off were more my thing back then than songs about social decay and politics.