…and that's okay

I can't wait!

Actually, it turns out that Kesha is talented, but the label and producers decided it would be better to play the part of an ever-wasted, vacuous party animal and promote her as such. She's been trying to get out from that manufactured image for a while, but they have an image they want to sell and she signed a shitty…

Stickles seems to really like Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ judging on his first round choices.

I hate it when that happens.

Finally read Trainspotting. (I took a while to get around to it because, for some reason, I associated it with those guys in my creative writing class who read Bukowski and write shitty semi-autobiographical stories about taking drugs.) It was absolutely brilliant. far more insightful than I'd expected and the dialect…

I was thinking about reading The Establishment but I was worried if it seemed dated after the shit-show of the last general election

On Beauty grew on me. I put it down about 1/3 of the way in because I wasn't really engaging with it, but I picked it up recently and tore through the rest. It perhaps benefits from having read Howard's End by E. M. Forster, from which it takes a lot of basic plot and structure, but updates the reference points and…

I need to reread Gravity's Rainbow - the first read through I barely knew what was going on, but I think the second will be a lot more rewarding.

This better not awaken anything in me

I swear I'm going to throw a copy of Searching For The Young Soul Rebels at the next person who calls Dexys a one hit wonder or who thinks 'Eileen' is their only song

Lindsay Ellis is by far the best thing to come out of that whole thing, and she's even better now she's free of them.

I like using mid-late Tom Waits voice to sing pop songs. It's very fun.

Bonus points for having two current incarnations, one for each original vocalist.

Read Pet Semetary after someone here recommended it as the next step after Carrie, my first King novel. It was good - I don't read horror so I don't know what I was expecting, but it was a lot more down to earth than I was expecting (it's basically a story about family and grief, that happens to have supernatural…

Not only that, but Piper was practically the villain in much of series 3…

CHUNG CHUNG

Yeah, I love WTNV, but I feel like Fink started Alice Isn't Dead as a way to write something that isn't beholden to 3+ years of lore.

That was really annoying in the movie. Giving Bard a big heroic backstory where he is fated to kill Smaug and blah blah blah ruins the power of the event. It was another of Tolkein's 'a little person in the right place makes all the difference' touches (which becomes a main theme in TLotR) - turning Bard into Aragorn…

Springsteen is a social justice bard…