I'm doing my best to get into the Halloween mood. It's the 18th and I'm not quite feeling it yet but I suspect spending some time with the Disney Nightmare Mix will get me there. It usually does.
These videos aren't exactly Halloween themed but they will provide a moment for your brain to escape reality and just be stupid for a few minutes.
HyVee Halloween - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Each individual element here is strange but, together, it's an amazingly bizarre dichotomy.
Thirstbusters! - this Ray Parker Jr commercial is enjoyable-y cringe but the very end contains the absolute worst surprise.
Would I Lie to You? with Bob Mortimer's "Egg in the Bath" - the UK loves a panel show. Admittedly, they're somehow more clever and entertaining than the US counterparts. This clip is a "lengthy" 6 and a half minutes but enjoyable throughout.
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The Vintage Obscura 2019 Halloween Mix is out. If you're looking for something a bit non-traditional in terms of your spooky soundtrack, this is the place to go. It's 72 minutes of songs spanning the 40's to the early 90's and sometimes it gets delightfully weird.
crying happy tears bc I’m so happy to be enveloped in a community of creatives with kind intentions and incredible work ethics! nashville is magical! I’m so lucky!
Wow!! Enormous thanks to everyone who voted for me in the @NashvilleScene Best of Nashville awards this year! Huge surprise and I'm very grateful. I promise to keep watching TV, for you, the fans ? https://t.co/lBSrMXZFRa
This means so much to me, honestly. More than I expected it to. I just got here in February. Finding community here has meant the world and this podcast has been the biggest part of that. https://t.co/g6mhX1ubn0
Dudes! We’re stoked and proud to be a part of the @weownthistown podcast family! Many thanks to @yewknee for helping us deliver our love and nostalgia for all things Bill and Ted! There are so many great podcasts by very talented folks that work even harder than us, check em out! https://t.co/TQHKOi7ntp
Not bragging (I am), but @hottminute was the first non-WOTT pod & we’re eternally grateful to @yewknee for giving 2 crass women a platform to bring much-needed levity to the topic of hotness. THANK YOU @NashvilleScene - I’d be humble, but we all deserve this & we all rule. https://t.co/3p3MOMFRU7
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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).
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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.
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
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.
