Pearl Approved!

Dammit. I was rocking out to their criminally underrated album Desperate Ground this past weekend. Sad to see them go, but The Thermals leave a solid legacy.

GOD. YES.

This week has been about the new Vaccines and Monster Magnet albums, along with Turnstile, Ho99o9, and some M.I.A.

Winner! Take your star.

Yeah, but authentic dim sum!

I, for one, welcome our Rush-blasting overlords...

I have powers. Freaky-deaky powers.... *Oooooooweeeeeeooooo*

Agreed. And there’s a Simpsons Meme for that too!

Seriously. My reaction to this is as follows:

Apparently she’s mastered the gentle art of making enemies.

Agree on both counts.

We can count her firing as a small victory.

Good deep cut. Have a Star.

No disagreement on that.

As a rude boy through and through, this warms my checkered heart.

“White men— “we’ve got to listen to them and understand their rage, they’re feeling attacked and left out, it’s a natural reaction, so they can burn down and upset anyone they want”, followed by 50 long-form Cletus Safari thinkpieces.”

So glad to hear The Vaccines are back to rocking. In the early part of the decade they were my favorite new band. Their first two albums were fantastic and damn near sustained me through an era when pickings were pretty slim for alt-rock minded people like myself. But man did English Graffiti knock them off the perch…

YES YES YES. Note how groups like the Oath Keepers and 3%ers mirror the freikorps in Weimar Germany. The relationship between these “patriot” group and some members of the political establishment is too cozy as it is, but bring them even more legitimacy and fold them into the state apparatus in some way (such as a…

It’s farcical (but telling) how the hard right has gone after Hogg, but I especially get a kick out of the article beating him up for not getting accepted to four colleges. You’re bound to get rejected if you apply to a number of schools. I applied to ten and got rejected by four of them.