I saw this meme, and it made me realize I had an email from 2007 with wildly funny URLs made back when the internet was a silly, fun, innocent, and weird place rapidly onboarding people that had only existed (more…)
Alan Watts’ Trust the Universe, Baudrillard’s Simulacrum, Eckhart Tolle’s Joy Ease & Light, BBC’s Adam Curtis & Hypernormalisation, and stepping back into the really real world
WHAT YOU STARE AT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. It’s part of my decoupling from the manufactured world they want us to live in, vs just staring at beautiful things like water and rolling hills. =) I think that’s (more…)
I hate the F*ckin Eagles, man.
I refer to this too much and need a non paywalled link to share with people who’d never subscribe. The Eagles’ ego ruined the young LA music scene, why Big Lebowski made fun of them, and T (more…)
Physical Media, AI art in front of human royalties, and knowing nothing in the backrooms of the digital realm.
Some fun, and then serious thoughts “Physical Media Collector Pumped for the Downfall of Humanity” https://theonion.com/physical-media-collector-pumped-for-downfall-of-humanity/ MUSIC (more…)
My Birthday Month Movie Marathon of July 2025 is probably a world record: 66 films in one month.
This was for the record books. I am really proud, and it was really fun, but it was ultimately challenging and exhausting. And totally worth it. I watched as many films as I could possibly watch in (more…)
AI Slop is ruining music like AI is ruining minds. Spotify publishing new songs from dead artists
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission (no paywall here: https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley) https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/ According (more…)
Being subversive, Comedy, Art, Timing, and what % you are operating at, with Norm Macdonald!
The below article is a fascinating read into Norm’s mind. I remember reading it when it came out, and MAN was he ahead of his time, in so many ways. But I think about it in context of the last 7 years, (more…)
A rundown of some of the lesser known musical talent that is missed by the algorithm, here and there: Ladies edition.
TL;DR – Who do you love, who have you seen? Upshot, a buddy said he didn’t listen to many women artists because there weren’t that many good ones and my head almost exploded. I corrected him, and mentioned (more…)
Epstein isn’t about law and order holding a cretinous scumbag accountable. It’s a political coup.
This is my most conspiratorial post ever, but it’s not a conspiracy if it comes to pass, right? TL:DR – The GOP handlers who installed Trump have had the Epstein thing as the cure-all kill-switch to (more…)
A 1997 poem by Cesar A. Cruz, a brutal reminder that the march towards equality is realizing the entire planet is simply filled with immigrants looking for something better than where they came from.
To Comfort The Disturbed, and to Disturb the Comfortable: Onward children of the sun By Cesar A. Cruz, 1997 Daddy, why is Mommy hangin’ from a tree? the torture chambers of our minds collide hide disguise the (more…)