West Coast Bride

It's scary and impoverished out there for trans folks and I'm going to have to upend my life pretty soon. My wonderful friends and bandmates put this together to help out — if you can help in anyway, with a few bucks or a share, it would make this tgirl's life a lot easier gofund.me/55321f9d3

i'll be honest with y'all there's a lot of bands that ain't good but sparkling urbana? they're one of those GOOD bands.

at this point seeing a real fan-translation from real people feels like a cool glass of water in a terrible desert. god bless the human beings who keep doing this (hard, tedious, long) work in spite of everything

Happy #FeatureFriday, folks! This is the day of the week, where we turn over every stone we see in order to find an album by a Bluesky artist we can present to you. Today, we have a (possibly literal) bedroom-recording: "Postcards from Cuervo" by @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social! Here are our reviews:

"The art of shitty demos kind of disappeared. Except for some projects then, just like this one..." ...is what I had to say about @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social's 'Postcards From Cuervo' on this week's #featurefriday

just got out of you can see everything. more disturbing than salo. i cannot remember the last time I left a theater feeling so shaken.

one of the coolest people i know needs help recovering from top surgery and you probably want to give money to trans people, right? gofund.me/191bf2813

he doesn't seem to understand that that is her appeal

Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want

the way branson makes an intricate nest of interconnected jokes feel like a casual conversation between weirdos is like a magic trick i swear to god

a really good video that gets at the core of something special and, perhaps appropriately, forever dead, and I'm not just saying it because a song I wrote keeps coming up in it.

the indian drum sketch has stuck with me forever for its sheer inexplicability but i'm gonna have to go with the one where they all wanna be women. Bruce saying lesbians are great because "they get so much done in a day" plays in my head 24/7

if you ain't on the sparkling urbana train then you ain't goin' nowhere.

Isn't Anything (1988)

Current* conditions near Port Washington, WI:

hello friends i made a little acoustic album I hope you like it DM me if you want a tape of it noise-land.bandcamp.com/album/postca...

I feel it’s crazy that nobody outside of trans people and REALLY invested allies seems to know that the internal trans refugee crisis is one of the biggest internal refugee migrations the United States has ever experienced.

what's crazy to me about this is that there are Indian and Asian students at every flagship university in Texas because that's who lives here and gets into our top colleges. It was like this a decade ago!!!

while i think the "grunge's Kid A moment" thing is a bit much, No Code is definitely an underrated and compelling album in a lot of ways if you've never heard it. me and @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social did a podcast episode about it a few years back btw kitschfork.podbean.com/e/15-better-...

a lot of great tim curry clips out there but to me he's always gonna be the hip lesbian delinquent-encouraging new york radio DJ Johnny LaGuardia www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg3Y...

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

truly? honestly? i love bubsy 3d. i liked bubsy 2 as a child so the character doesn't bug me too much and i just really love exploring those surreal, textureless, abstract worlds. if i was trying to beat it, maybe i'd hate it, but i love just going around it.

i feel like i'm not cool enough for this exercise but here's what i got

the reigning queen of generating weird little guys

in my top five live shows of all time deerhoof is on there twice and the only reason they aren't on there three times is because i haven't seen them enough.

i don't post about it much but i've part of a podcast on my favorite game series everyone hates and we finally got to my favorite game in my favorite series that everyone hates

i mean i love her but this is extremely unsurprising

genuinely one of the most important books on music ever made, i remember first going through it and being stunned at how dense with treasure it is

there is something to this. when i had to wake up at like 5AM and sit through the farm report just to watch the occasional ep of dragonball or sailor moon, that was the sweetest plum right there.

1988: meta cold brew unibrow platformer queer theory honorable mention: heteroglossia himbo

the world is sick with tragedy

i'm always gonna be stuck on "No, I don't really wanna die, I only wanted to die in your eyes"

every so often i'm reminded that Courtney Love wrote an actual manga that existed but it's not usually because someone is actually trying to revive it.

If you listen really closely you can hear Eddie Vedder yell like Waluigi at the beginning of Evenflow. But it'll really get you to thinking when you realize that Evenflow predates Waluigi by many years. So it's probably more appropriate to say that Waluigi sounds like Eddie Vedder.

I mean it wasn't all sunshine and roses — trans women were still a major joke, there were murders, etc — but it really says something about where we're at now that the 90's would seem idyllic.

probably custer's revenge if we're being honest