Anthony Cougar Miccio
@anthonymiccio.bsky.social
Primarily writing about streamable things. Sometimes real life.
Yeah I now belatedly understand the hate and zings like this. There’s the patina of shoegaze initially, shifting to alt then 80s homage, but if you know your rock the weedly-weedly-wee is untenable. Plus his concept of art song is adding y’a and e’s to titles.
![Pup Tent [Elektra, 1997]
Within the cushy parameters of the smoothness that is Dean Wareham's spiritual discipline, this sonic construction is all stakes and clothesline, relishing the jerrybuilt almost as much as Penthouse did the luxurious. It's still hooky pop as well-savored guilty pleasure, still undercut by Wareham's pleasantly alienated lyrics. But voice and guitars sound more, well, tentative (get it?). Having given his all to the marketplace and stood there bemused as they gave him Smashing Pumpkins back, he isn't throwing in the towel yet. But damned if he's going to hire a cleaning service just to have people over for drinks. A-
Christgau!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zm5cs2amet3jzbure2fmqrqo/bafkreig6nslwb4zmuvmr7urrjoochpd3zg5etsc3pkwrsyrfxyazs3ed4i@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yeah I now belatedly understand the hate and zings like this. There’s the patina of shoegaze initially, shifting to alt then 80s homage, but if you know your rock the weedly-weedly-wee is untenable. Plus his concept of art song is adding y’a and e’s to titles.
Hailing something as “the soundtrack of a thousand afternoon naps”…
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hailing something as “the soundtrack of a thousand afternoon naps”…
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Yeah
U2, "DESIRE"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zm5cs2amet3jzbure2fmqrqo/bafkreie5aqvtrtgwbh372lacmdnvlpoerhwnxewsbkce4h4cxoj27ffuim@jpeg)
1. Masterfully directed, surreal tales of chaos & damnation.
2. surreal & chaotic jump-scares & damned idiots who won’t put their cameras down.
3. Masterfully directed, human tales of chaos & dysfunction.
4. chaotic humans saying funny shit in dysfunctional set-ups
5.
2. surreal & chaotic jump-scares & damned idiots who won’t put their cameras down.
3. Masterfully directed, human tales of chaos & dysfunction.
4. chaotic humans saying funny shit in dysfunctional set-ups
5.
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
1. Masterfully directed, surreal tales of chaos & damnation.
2. surreal & chaotic jump-scares & damned idiots who won’t put their cameras down.
3. Masterfully directed, human tales of chaos & dysfunction.
4. chaotic humans saying funny shit in dysfunctional set-ups
5.
2. surreal & chaotic jump-scares & damned idiots who won’t put their cameras down.
3. Masterfully directed, human tales of chaos & dysfunction.
4. chaotic humans saying funny shit in dysfunctional set-ups
5.
I hope he just slaps people.
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I hope he just slaps people.
If I ran a music weekly, the cover would be Sting & Darnielle facing each other down like 50 & Kanye, the headline WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT! I might also try to get Sting to say “I consider him my young apprentice.”
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If I ran a music weekly, the cover would be Sting & Darnielle facing each other down like 50 & Kanye, the headline WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT! I might also try to get Sting to say “I consider him my young apprentice.”
“I’m a a freak, I like my milfs unmarried. I once sang ‘hardcore’ in a school library!” - Jarvis Cocker, “The Jarvis Dance”
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“I’m a a freak, I like my milfs unmarried. I once sang ‘hardcore’ in a school library!” - Jarvis Cocker, “The Jarvis Dance”
lol uh ohhhhh, iovine gave us henley’s best single
![Mike Campbell, the guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, wrote a demo for "The Boys of Summer" while experimenting with a
LinnDrum drum machine and Oberheim
Xpander synthesizer. He showed it to Tom Petty, but Petty felt it did not fit with the record they were working on, Southern Accents
(1985). At the suggestion of its record producer Jimmy lovine, Campbell played it for Don Henley, the vocalist and drummer for the Eagles, who wrote the lyrics and recorded the vocals. They re-recorded the song after Henley decided to change the key. [2][3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zm5cs2amet3jzbure2fmqrqo/bafkreiesw2teiacm7ua756dlbilioary5y2x5pzml3rwwodki6agfcm5t4@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
lol uh ohhhhh, iovine gave us henley’s best single
I had my order & coffee before “Jeremy” was over, leaving an elderly lady in a TEAM JESUS baseball cap the only non-employee there to hear Wooooooaaahhhhhhohhhohhohoh oh oh oh oh WOOOAHHH
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I had my order & coffee before “Jeremy” was over, leaving an elderly lady in a TEAM JESUS baseball cap the only non-employee there to hear Wooooooaaahhhhhhohhhohhohoh oh oh oh oh WOOOAHHH
Jody, no!!!
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Jody, no!!!
I think of this when I think about him being so mad about Reagan he decides sting is telling the gipper to watch his ass on “every breath you take,” totally missing the bridge.
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I think of this when I think about him being so mad about Reagan he decides sting is telling the gipper to watch his ass on “every breath you take,” totally missing the bridge.
NOTHING says “remember me” like showing up at a rock hall ceremony when you’re eligible but not in
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
NOTHING says “remember me” like showing up at a rock hall ceremony when you’re eligible but not in
Watching the rock hall thing and I swear for a sec I thought Beck might be Michael Cera. Tangentially, i wish u could send this pic of Beck (who soooo wants in the hall, apparently) playing with Flea in Stevie & The Family Stone back to him thirty years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Watching the rock hall thing and I swear for a sec I thought Beck might be Michael Cera. Tangentially, i wish u could send this pic of Beck (who soooo wants in the hall, apparently) playing with Flea in Stevie & The Family Stone back to him thirty years ago.
Who am I to resist?
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Who am I to resist?
An actor in the new hell house movie is edited starting a line up high…looking around while saying the second part lower…then turning to face his scene partner before saying last part low…twice. High…mid…low…high…mid…low. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen this before. An uncanny valley of inflection.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
An actor in the new hell house movie is edited starting a line up high…looking around while saying the second part lower…then turning to face his scene partner before saying last part low…twice. High…mid…low…high…mid…low. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen this before. An uncanny valley of inflection.
Pundits & politicians from now til the midterms:
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Pundits & politicians from now til the midterms:
Mojo’s Major Domo has just endorsed Cuomo.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Mojo’s Major Domo has just endorsed Cuomo.
Tfw an obscure band suddenly disappears from Spotify.
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Tfw an obscure band suddenly disappears from Spotify.
Cheese, cheese and burgers!!
tomatoes!!!
Onion rings and mustard!!
And lettuce!!! (ketchup!)
tomatoes!!!
Onion rings and mustard!!
And lettuce!!! (ketchup!)
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Cheese, cheese and burgers!!
tomatoes!!!
Onion rings and mustard!!
And lettuce!!! (ketchup!)
tomatoes!!!
Onion rings and mustard!!
And lettuce!!! (ketchup!)
The photo on Wikipedia is of Bored & Hungry’s earlier LA pop-up. The Long Beach storefront looked like this two years ago. Then this a year ago. Now this. (Verde just moved, is still open. B&H…not.)
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The photo on Wikipedia is of Bored & Hungry’s earlier LA pop-up. The Long Beach storefront looked like this two years ago. Then this a year ago. Now this. (Verde just moved, is still open. B&H…not.)
Not a movie, but Karen Black’s unforgettable visage here reminded me of the atypically shattering Ray Bradbury Theater episode where William Shatner’s childhood bullying trauma leads him to think his kid is being mauled by playground gremlins.
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not a movie, but Karen Black’s unforgettable visage here reminded me of the atypically shattering Ray Bradbury Theater episode where William Shatner’s childhood bullying trauma leads him to think his kid is being mauled by playground gremlins.
Tommy, Richman?
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Tommy, Richman?