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This is very much pop punk (in the most derogatory way, I might add) but "indie punk" is basically a thing — lo-fi stuff like Wavves/Titus Andronicus/Fucked Up/early Dum Dum Girls/etc, although it all sounds way different. This isn't that, though.

The Warped Tour was worthwhile for those blessed years when Guttermouth (before they got kicked off for acting like punks) and the Vandals were regulars.

How the fuck do you listen to this circa-2003 Simple Plan song and think "Titus Andronicus"?

oh what a great band they are

very good and cogent points, all of them. here let me write them down so i can refer back to them

Also interesting that they switched up his and Earl's verses in the live version, which is actually much better

The silence at the end is (kisses fingertips) beautiful

I like this album. The production is all-around fantastic (definite points for setting the album apart from other OFWGKTA releases in that department) and the songs take on a somewhat frighteningly personal tone — Rytlewski (reppin Milwaukee what what) doesn't mention "Answer," which more than any of the…

Or Minnesota accents, or much else

And that none of them do

Oh, you're right. I was thinking of The Amityville Horror, although the trope is much older than that

And on drugs. Very sweaty.

The best shot in the Shining, maybe any film ever made:

I think it's a long, stupid Youtube video essay. Because you're absolutely right: as a documentary, it is worthless. It might be interesting if it was mocking its menagerie of weirdos, but it never does. It asks you to seriously ponder garbage, which is only fun if you're that gallery owner from Me And You And…

The Shining is a satire of many things — domestic dramas, for instance — and the tropes of horror films are often wielded subversively, for laughs. The "indian burial ground" thing is possibly a potshot at Pet Sematary, although considering the historical/temporal vortex that is the Overlook within the film (and all…

Except that when "geeking out" gets presented objectively despite being irrational nonsense, it does a disservice to actual critics. (Let alone scholars; perhaps the greatest reaction to this film was from Chuck Klosterman, who expressed bafflement and excitement that there are actually people who watch films over and…

Wire, Metz, Pissed Jeans, Trash Talk, White Lung, the Breeders, Swans, Trail of Dead, and Merchandise are all very loud rock bands.

she's got her tweets already up on Hootsuite scheduled to be published at specific intervals months from now