very nice roundtable of individuals speaking about "alt" Nashville

1936 photos of Brünnhilde; a "cat wearing a winged helmet and breastplate armor in the role of the valkyrie." Thank you Library of Congress.

Vimeo laid off 11% of its workforce today. So many of my teammates were let go. It's not a good scene! But if you're looking for some quality Product Managers or Engineers - please get in touch.

I’ve seen this before but the answer is just timeless to me.

Every year I start a new playlist to keep tabs on random tracks that I enjoy. I don't think this is a particularly novel behavior - I hope everyone does it and if you don't, you should! It's a nice to way to remember times and places you heard certain things or just pleasant surprises that the almighty algorithm fed to you. It's also an easy go-to if you're ever at a loss for what to listen to.

Anyway, here's my 2023 Enjoyables playlist. Follow if ya like.. maybe you'll hear something you also enjoy.

Six years old and still a delight

Short, sweet, insightful film critiques. Makes for a nice To Watch list if you haven’t seen them already.

Throughout a calendar year, I constantly compile new releases from the Nashville music scene and share them on my podcast - We Own This Town: Music. It's a passion project that results in hundreds of songs for a given year. It's not everything released but it's a healthy amount.

At the end of every year I pick through all those tracks and make my own "Highly Enjoyed" playlist. It's subjective, of course, but it's a great compilation of songs. Every year the playlist is incredibly long but I just randomly pick 20 tracks and turn that into a "selective retrospective" episode for the show. But not this year...

This year I decided, why not put the entire playlist into one episode? Who says you can't have an eight hour podcast episode? Sure, the likelihood of anyone actually listening to the entire thing is slim to say the least but the end result will be a pretty robust document of the year's music. So, that's what I did.

The Eight Hour 2022 Celebration is exactly that. Eight hours of local Nashville music all compiled into one episode of a podcast. I chunked it out into hour segments and sequenced everything thematically. It's a good listen if I do say so myself.

It's not holistic as I can't physically hear everything released in a calendar year but it's a solid offering. I'm proud of it... even if I do recognize that eight hours is absolutely absurd.

pretty wild to see photoshop and AI playing together like this.. as a plugin no less! It's on github if ya want it.

the article is a blur of microgenres and references beyond my comprehension. the important part is the band names that are referenced and the bandcamp embeds shared.. great place to start with some wonderful sounds.

A very long take on the impending explosion of AI and the collaboration that will come with it. It's maybe a bit TOO long but still a worthwhile read as AI is really at the cusp of mainstream. As the article says "We're at the foot of the mountain, looking up at an exponential curve."

A deeper dive than you thought possible on this strange appetizer. Via @dontstaylong

Written by Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade; this BBC musical is delightfully weird. If you don’t have it in you to watch the whole thing, please at least watch the perfect Julian Barratt scene 7m and 30s in.

It’s exactly what you hope for

Sometimes you encounter an image and just need to save it somewhere forever. This is that.

this is a perfect example of Old Internet. A massive repository of screenshots from TV and film where a computer was the star. It spans from the 1960s to the 2020s. Totally insane this exists.

Great entertainment

178 episodes in the tiniest of bites. Captivating tho

Don't wanna sway your vote but I'm an Option 3 kinda guy

Over at We Own This Town, I premiered this new short film by director Josh Whiteman. On the surface, it's a fun compilation of anecdotes about Whiteman's childhood and his suave obsessions with women, as told by his mother. It's inherently entertaining to watch a kid be fascinated with Victoria's Secret models or the female Power Ranger. Whiteman's filmmaking prowess manages to keep things light and fun throughout - weaving in tons of actual footage from his youth - but he also hits on some rather poignant reflections about his adult life as a bachelor.

It's just 7-minutes long and it's 100% worth a watch. Our attention spans have dropped to Tik Tok length clips but take some time to watch "Horny Kid," it's time well spent.