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Current interest in The Arts update: 📈Books 📈Movies 📉Music 📉Games* *I tend to agree with Ebert that games aren't really "art"

I never really rated him as a standout amongst his peers despite his stature in genre fiction, but finding out Ray Bradbury is a pretty bog-standard Republican doesn't exactly do him any favors in my estimation of him.

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New age and the smoother end of jazz are often considered genres where the line between still good and too cheesy can be razor-thin, but I think math rock often treads that line as well. All too easy for it to veer into the territory of complex muzak for guys who work at Guitar Center or its ilk.

Flipping through a bin of records in a vintage store I stopped on this Ramsey Lewis album because I recognized the graffiti; Bought a Lonnie Liston Smith album out of a car trunk at a flea market an hour and a half away a few years back that was owned by the same guy

having to download an app to do something that should not require an app

It was foolish to think people would take advantage of a fresh start devoid many of the figures that made Twitter insufferable more often than not to quit wielding their precious turd highlighters to ramble endlessly about whoever the idiot du jour happens to be, but it's still disappointing to see

I don't look at Metafilter all that often, but nearly every time I do there's someone recommending a webcomic with some of the ugliest art I've ever seen

Really hard in your 40s to loop back to punk and hardcore you missed the first time around without the benefit of the youth and angst required to fully ingest those genres of music

Deftones are the only nu-metal/nu-metal adjacent band I can think of that are interesting enough that if someone were to tell me that's their favorite band I wouldn't immediately think "you probably need to hear a lot more music before coming to that conclusion"

Nerd culture was infinitely more respectable when it didn't largely consist of pointing and clapping when you recognize a character you know from one thing in another thing

One of my long-held beliefs is that the guy from the Inglehoffer brand of horseradishes and mustards and the Peter Pan Records mascot are related somehow

I'm taking a Monday to Friday plane to fight a stranger in the Alps

In related news, consumers find ~$15 a more attractive price point than ~$35

Good night to finish a book on the screened porch while it’s raining

I feel like a lot of the bad consumer products and trends we've seen over the past two decades are a direct result of the widespread adoption of the Keurig. I can't help but think a little less of you if I see one in your home.

I view people who post or repost AI art with the same level of disdain as someone observed eating a booger or walking out of a bathroom without washing their hands after taking a shit

Occasionally I'll get an ad on Instagram from Universal advertising digital rentals of "movies that aren't streaming anywhere" and that's kind of your fault for not at least putting them on your own paid streaming service ain't it, fuckers?