Should’ve gone with this meme in the first place

It would admittedly go down a lot more smoothly had the band put the album title on the cover:

Cease to Begin

Real test of how big the baseball/2000s indie rock Venn diagram is on this post.

I mean, look, for a big mega-tour or something, sure, I get it. But the long lead time for these two shows in particular is kind of breaking my brain a bit.

I'm also a sucker for a band formula that includes: "Secondary vocalist that no one prefers but is still integral to the vibes."

This is the only strategy I have ever found that is at least modestly successful in helping me emotionally manage my Costco outings... but even then, it's of limited help in the four weeks before Xmas.

This feels like it could have been either — but @memles.bsky.social would surely have had the same reaction (and, if him, he’s MUCH more likely to remember it with his steel-trap brain)

I have zero recollection of this, but I both love this AND love that I previously enjoyed this.

As much as I loved the way the book hid and then unfurled its conceit, I feel like without showing its hand a bit more the promo for Project Hail Mary would basically look just like "The Martian 2." You can pull off that trick in book marketing to an extent, but film marketing demands more novelty.

Also did not know that Dichen Lachman (Gemma from Severance) is in this! (...Impa, perhaps? Or some kind of sage character?)