Have ninety final projects to do...and yet runescape is starting to call my name

Finally got around to listening to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. It's kind of great? If there was ever a nightmare opera, this is it

Been reading a lot of the Parker novels--there's something to be said about how they get progressively meaner and darker and about how that reflects rising American insecurities as the 60s became the 70s

A crucial part of growing up is realizing that you have to meet art at its own level and that it's okay to like things like Shadow the Hedgehog as long as that feeling is deep and genuine

A lot about Trump, and the MAGA movement on the whole, begins to make a lot more sense once you realize that Trump is spiritually maoist

Was Tito the world's first Bloons TD6 player???

Finally got around to reading a Bright Shining Lie and it's pretty incredible how the problems which plagued the U.S in Vietnam also plagued Mao during the Great Leap Forward

Every so often YouTube recommends me another "documentary" about Boogie2988 and a deep and abiding sadness washes over me

Goodreads should have a little heart button like Letterboxd does so you can differentiate between "I give this book 4 stars because it's really fun" and "I'm giving this book 4 stars out of grudging respect"

System Shock 2 (1999)

Richard II a banger...up there for most underrated Shakespeare play methinks

Marxists born after 1993 can't establish a dictatorship of the proletariat...all they know how to do is play disco elysium, eat hot chip and falsify

The face of a man who's lost it all

Movies should bring back overtures. Imagine going to go see Red One and it begins with ten minutes of classical music

Is Falstaff the perfect opera? It's just so full of life, so full of musical invention, so full of joy.
Rigoletto is right up there too--brilliantly complex in its simplicity. I used to have large parts of the Pavarotti-Sutherland-Milnes recording memorized

Recently fell out of love with the band Sparks--which is a shame, because they're kinda great! A lot of their albums are really good! A lot of their songs are really fun! But I also feel like their emotional palette is really limited, and I think that's made me hate their particular brand of humor.

RETVRN posting but only for old school science fiction/fantasy art...I always loved how colorful these old Battletech paintings are

The Merchant of Venice is so bizarre because it's incredibly vile and antisemitic but at the same time Shylock is the only likeable character in the thing