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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 3d

Mixed trios main eventing a landmark show is such a cool marker for AEW to lay down. Broken up by ICE, grillbot, and testosterone supplement ads; so we didn't get TOO much escape from the decline, but pretty unthinkable as a new fan back in 2019. 🤼‍♂️

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 4d

“Baseball” is called that because the semantic geometry of kinetic nouns demanded it. See, the bases are metaphorical spheres of ambition. When the batter strikes the existential chord of cork and cowhide, the bases become “balls” in a metaphysical sense, orbiting his potential energy.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 4d

Kid Rock attempts to fight Frog Bloc and they all just surround him at such a density that he helplessly punches air and tires himself out so bad he pukes.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 4d

"10-10-97, Rock Springs, Wyoming Hotel/as far as I can tell/I just don't miss you anymore" is the all time emo bar that blesses the day.

braid.bandcamp.com/track/i-keep...

I Keep A Diary (Remastered 2023), by Braid

from the album Frame & Canvas (25th Anniversary Edition)

braid.bandcamp.com

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 6d

Its implied that hes basically done it for 15 straight years!

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 6d

Don't watch "fight club" or "american psycho" for ideological closure either! You have Bong Joon Ho for that!

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 6d

I think he just gets high while watching "Battle of Algiers" but I don't think he ever does the (apropos?) meme point.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 6d

The most disappointing thing about "One Battle After Another" is that theres never a moment where Leo turns to the camera and tells us the exact right kind of Internet Communist to be.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 6d

BBQ loving Texas Guardsman disappears into the jungle of Chicago a la Kurtz in apocalypse now and they find him a year later looking almost exactly the same but surrounded by hot dogs and polish sausages instead of BBQ.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 6d

One Battle feels like it captures the Pynchon thing better than Inherent Vice did, which is kind of unexpected, but like, the sadness and the esoteric crackle are much more present here. Long, but largely cause it had to be. Its a generational epic of late America after all.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, Ive started buying shirts from live bands again.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 7d

It really doesnt feel great as a player, but it lets me just give someone $ for their record instead of like, a fraction of a cent.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 7d

Bandcamp

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Prof. HELLousy @uncleicon.bsky.social · 8d

Babe, are you okay?
You've barely touched your Coprophagia Haagen-Dazs

A package of dog supplements meant to deter stool-eating. It has "Coprohagia" in large font and, overall, looks like a pint of ice cream.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 8d

Lol, i didn't know "shadow ticket" was coming out either.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 8d

Can't believe wally wolrd's got a vinyl section and the country's STILL going fash.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 9d

I know you think you look cool in that American flag shirt but can u name the top 5 rights we lost this year or are you a poser?

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

A friend said dc was good but i havent taken the plunge.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

This is from the book they based "one battle after another" on; i cant wait to see what PTA's done with both the eloquence and the ongoing consolidation of authoritarianism afoot now.

Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · Feb 14

“…the perennial question of whether the United States still lingered in a pre-fascist twilight or whether that darkness had fallen long stupefied years ago and the light they thought they saw was coming only from millions of tubes; all showing the same bright colored shadows.”
—Pynchon’s “Vineland”

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

I did "Vineland" when i first got audible and its a really good middleweight Pynchhon imo, some beautiful passages and unexpected emotional punch.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

I'm so checked out of movies that I didn't even realize "One Battle After Another" was based on "Vineland" which means I need to see it yesterday.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

This is tuned exactly to my what my brain enjoys now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehG...

How does this machine deliver force 3X its weight? (Music Video)

YouTube video by Learning with Lyrics

www.youtube.com

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

I've only been sick for that long a handful of times; hope it lets up soon!

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

You could also just have it be a little sd card case with keys to a single trumpcoin in it.

Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

Challenge coin that spends like a Sacajawea Dollar.

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Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

The pedestrian outcome is Vance going Dubya mode and beating Newsome 52-48.

Zen Music Jasper @surrealentropy.bsky.social · 10d

Defacto managed democracy where one side just loses fair and square for a generation because they suck.

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