posted October 17, 2019 #
I am shocked, a bit humbled and extremely excited that the
Nashville Scene named
We Own This Town the
Best Podcast Network in their
Best of Nashville 2019 issue. When I moved back to Nashville from New York a few years ago I knew I wanted to make WOTT be more than just a music review site and I'm overjoyed that people are listening in to the shows and paying attention.
If you haven't yet, cruise on over to
We Own This Town and check out our
shows. I obviously couldn't be doing this without the help of all the brilliant show hosts and creators and producers, so massive Thank You to all of them.
Bandsplainer,
Fan/Fiction,
Filmography Club,
Hott Minute,
Ladyland,
Liquid Gold,
My Fantasy Funeral,
Nashville Demystified,
San Dimas Today,
Thick as Thieves,
This Is The Place,
Vidalotry and
WOTT Music are, 100% honestly, all worth listening to.
It would be easy to point out that this is a Writer's Pick (Thanks
Lance!) and that there wasn't really any competition and it's just a local award but, damnit, I'm proud and enjoying basking in the accolade.
posted October 16, 2019 #
if a centaur had a dick would it be like THIS or like THIS: https://t.co/HoXY0oAu6D
posted October 16, 2019 #
I have said it before and I swear to god I'll say it again — "The Rat" by The Walkmen is one of the only good rock songs
posted October 16, 2019 #
also, @yewknee has updated the bandsplainer website (https://t.co/NsrfyVKLol) and it’s lookin’ great! stream the new episode and check it out to find older ones and more info!!!
posted October 16, 2019 #
Bandsplainer - the podcast where host Olivia Ladd explains bands - has returned for a second season. In the first episode back, she is joined by
Olivia Jean, Third Man Records artist and previous frontwoman of The Black Belles, to discuss
The Slits; an all-female punk band before there was punk music.
I didn't know a damn thing about The Slits prior to this episode and that's exactly why I enjoy this show. Olivia Ladd does a great job of walking through the history of the act and providing context for their longstanding influence.
Give it a listen - it's on
Spotify,
Apple Podcasts,
Overcast, et al.
posted October 16, 2019 #
Phenomenal piece from
Sarah Gorr on
“Fight Club”, “Fleabag” and The Battle Against Toxicity. Within the essay Gorr examines her affinity for
Fight Club, the film's failure to stick the landing and how
Fleabag both supports and supplants the ideas within.
I've always hated how
Fight Club was co-opted by individuals that saw it as a Bible for "how men should be" but could never articulate it quite as well as Gorr has here:
At its core, Fight Club wants to be a skewering of both modern life and toxic masculinity. After all, in the end, the narrator not only rejects Tyler and his philosophy in favor of Marla and a future where he takes responsibility for his actions, he kills him. Tyler and his violent misogyny are rejected. Tyler dies. This is text. But it just can’t help but feel like a half-hearted attempt at that text. In trying to skewer toxicity, it replicates it so seductively. Part of it is inescapably in the way Brad Pitt’s magnetism radiates on screen. But Tyler also keeps offering these efficiently quotable little nuggets of violent anti-consumerist philosophy (many of which would later go on to be used by the alt-right).
...
As much as the film wants to criticize this desire, it yearns for it, too. Worse, it offers no real alternative. There’s no real empathy in the film for Norton’s growth, nor is there any real change in his character, he just keeps echoing the same vague notions that all this has gone “too far.” So, of course, his words end up ringing hollow. Especially for a film that “kills” Tyler, but then still has him with us in a meta sense as he sneaks a few frames of a penis into the final shot. And it’s all part of the reason the ending can’t help but feel like a get out of jail free card; a limp in-text defense for a movie that’s hellbent on having its cake and eating it too.
Absolutely. The film attempts to shine a light on all the things wrong with the kind of toxic masculine behavior it depicts but, in the end, just glorifies it.
It's an excellent read, particularly when she compares and contrasts the themes of Fight Club against the pain, the displacement and misbehavior of
Fleabag. There's plenty of overlap but with quite different results.
TLDR: Do read.
posted October 15, 2019 #
An absolute masterpiece, front to back. https://t.co/9gNIh8DR7Q
posted October 15, 2019 #
This record I made came out... *gulp, sigh* 10 YEARS AGO on @yewknee ‘s then fledgling label @records_yk Somebody said it sounds like Beck covering Brian Eno, which is one of the nicest musical compliments I’ve ever received. It’s on Spotify and all of those places. https://t.co/ItCMv7DSN6
posted October 15, 2019 #
Every October I dust off my (digital) copy of
Curse Walk, the one and only album from
Shaboi, and put it into heavy, heavy, rotation. The record was released Oct 13th, 2009 - ten years ago - and it's
still every bit as good as it was when it was released. Honestly, it might be better.
When the album was released, I was enamored with the kitschier songs -
Rapsylvania `88,
Dr Jekyll and Ms Hideous and
Undead Headcheck specifically - but over time I've come around to the more subtle, almost gentler, songs.
So, as I do every year, I ask you to take 20 minutes out of your day and
listen to Shaboi. You'll either feel energized by an old classic or invigorated by a new delight. Win Win either way.
posted October 14, 2019 #
I hate death and the sound of my own speaking voice, but I love a good chat and making themed playlists so here we are! RIP ? https://t.co/VZiRqAJ6wr
posted October 14, 2019 #
Also if you want to completely understand who I am as a person just listen to like the first 5 min of the new episode of @myfantasyfnrl till the part where I say "a funeral is just a wedding you can't complain about later." I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm like this. https://t.co/JB0xIv0Hvo
posted October 14, 2019 #
@chrismixel @yewknee I’m in the proverbial rabbit hole: another angle on trolley Nameneko reveals “cats make excellent watchmen” https://t.co/gGrNAdF2Aq
posted October 14, 2019 #
My Fantasy Funeral, the vaguely macabre podcast about designing your own funeral that I help produce, is reaching the end of its first season. The penultimate episode is a wonderful chat between host
Ryan Breegle and
Caitlin Rose.
Caitlin's two albums,
Own Side Now and
The Stand-In, are excellent. You could call them contemporary classic country but even that niche genrification is an oversimplification. She is a wonderful songwriter capable of writing songs soaked in melancholy and heartache. Her episode does a great job of encapsulating that heartache but also ensuring there's a martini-filled afterparty fueled by Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy."
The episode is on
Spotify,
Apple,
Overcast, et al.
posted October 14, 2019 #
I've been following the work of
Harry Underwood for some time; his large scale pieces are filled with little details that
always invite you to pore over every inch of it. However, he recently released a
series of 8x10 pieces that are every bit as compelling. I was not fortunate enough to grab one but damn I love looking at them.
posted October 13, 2019 #
Cat Realizes She Has Ears! https://t.co/iPvNsqMJF8
posted October 13, 2019 #
@yewknee https://t.co/bG2mpjVL6V
posted October 11, 2019 #
Sign me up @Airbnb! https://t.co/HQl3uhlOU7
