Riviera, PhD

This month on Break Stuff we talked about the specter haunting nu metal, the specter of the white rapper. Vanilla Ice, ICP, and Eminem with @numetalmoment.bsky.social Listen here:

The Oral History of "Eminem Buys a Used Car"

You Can See Everything is a brilliant film about the dangers of prolonged eye contact to people with autism

Does he know?

Another lie from Netanyahu. My wife has never liked my posts.

Can't believe I have to send work emails when they're about to admit that Mitch McConnell has been dead all summer

Slipknot Travels To India To Begin Psychedelic, Free-Love Phase Of Career https://theonion.com/slipknot-travels-to-india-to-begin-psychedelic-free-love-phase-of-career/

Two days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks Serj Tankian of System of a Down posts the essay Understanding Oil to the band's website. Sony removes the essay amid claims Tankian was justifying the attacks and the band was monitored by the CIA for subversive activities (2001)

And produced by me, go watch it!

Fred Durst writes, records demo for Britney Spears, "When It Rains" (2003)

David Draiman, sex magician

Are people LSAT posting here too? Is it crazier to take it in October or November if I haven't started studying yet but can get 168-170 on the practice tests but I'm not 100% I'd want to go

The guys behind Psychostick weren't always having trouble counting to four. Once upon a time, they were navigating early adulthood as Evacuate Chicago. Take a look back at their lone studio album 'Veracity': numetalagenda.com/a-spring-wit...

In 1994, before the release of their debut album, one of Korn's first shows was a Rock for Choice abortion rights benefit. I recreated the poster as a batik.

I really do not have the rhythm of posting on here, I need to lock in

This month on Break Stuff we went back to the Ozzfest era to talk about industrial nu metal. A chaotic look at Fear Factory's Obsolete, Orgy's Candyass, and Static-X's Wisconsin Death Trip:

starting a mail club where I promise you one bizarre essay about whatever I feel like per month, but sometimes the initial idea is half baked or I run out of time so you just get photocopies of my handwritten draft/notes and maybe those months cost extra

need everyone else to get out of the olympics ticket queue, thanks!

Last time I started seriously looking at a path to law school 3 members of my family had health crises and derailed the idea, but it suddenly occurred to me that entertainment law exists and now I'm looking again

Wild to see music journalism going the way of local newspapers, except instead of a Bezos or Alden Capital being the one strangling it, it's Good Charlotte

Watching Troy (2004) and wow, everything is D-Day

This month on Break Stuff we check in on the old men, talking about Gen-Z's embrace of Korn, Deftones becoming mainstream, Limp Bizkit's triumphant Lollapalooza, and the beginning of @numetalmoment.bsky.social

The Odyssey is about how you spend the first ten years trying to get with the plan and the next ten years trying to be with your friends again

She wants to be me so bad! Get out of my lane!

Been re-reading the iliad and I really understand how you could dedicate your whole life to the text

Call me Taylor Lorenz the way it's 87° in my apartment

Coming out to my family as a podcaster.

i forgot this app existed.

In March I produced this music video with my friends and now it's a real, physical thing you can hold in your own two hands

going to grad school to become the female Stalin of YDSA

look, whether you root for team USA or not, i think we can all agree the important thing is that you should feel like a sorry piece of shit 24 hours a day for deciding to be alive

Wow he really did abolish bedtime

My freshman year roommate and I used to brew mead in our dorm room, sad to see traditions fading.

They've got a navy guy on NPR saying America knows how to blockade the strait of hormuz because we blockaded the south during the civil war, gas is going to hit $20 a gallon

I've got a little piece in this thats part of the cover story, and what an incredible feeling to make a music video with your friends and then bam, it's on the cover of a magazine