This is one of my cranky old man schticks that I am right about. Eeeeeeeeverybody thinks they can spot the narc. No you can’t. They are actually good at their jobs and the idea that you can spot one a mile away is 1) hubris and 2) propaganda that works in their favor
Gorgeous new music from the Bajas, burbling streams channeling out into Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Rother/Dinger and a soupçon of circa-’79 Iasos and occasionally even early OMD.
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
I’ve been listening to the new “Blueberry Boat” reissue this week, and having also just started Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” I am ensconced in the warm embrace of Midwest Depression-gangster literary affectations.
feat Larry David doing an introductory bit with a guy who looks like Ron Jeremy
swell performance too of a song I’ve always loved, in part for the funny Dylan turn on “you’re so TREH-che-RUHHSS” and the same sort of “Heroes” gtr nod LC + Commotions ended “Forest Fire” with
The film sets the terminally online audience up. There’s 1 marginalized/relatively powerless person (Perfidia) w a humiliation kink, and there’s the far bigger h-kink of the whole law enforcement/militia/white supremacist structure, and guess which part of the contrast ppl Have A Problem With.
I'm obviously not the person to diagnose this, but it feels like the root of the 'One Battle After Another fetishizes black women' argument is that some viewers appear to to reject, point-blank, 1) the copulation of a black revolutionary woman and a racist white man
The Janovitz Cars book really raises the bar on music bios. This is how you do a meat & potatoes, context-rich, loving but nonhagiographic deep dive into a band’s history. Funny, idiosyncratic, w a strong sense that it was written/researched by a *musician* while also accessible to a gen audience.
