Man Without Friends
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"one foot dancing, one foot nailed to the floor" - Shawn Colvin
vaccine injured with Aspergers. If you don't like my comment, tell Bluesky to stop putting your politics on MY timeline.
vaccine injured with Aspergers. If you don't like my comment, tell Bluesky to stop putting your politics on MY timeline.
#50videos 40/50
Pffft, Celine? But this Celine video is Memento in structure. Threading her thru a school production of Romeo & Juliet, it opens at the end & ends at the beginning, which force-reinterprets every development to take on some other meaning.
I've written a story like that myself once.
Pffft, Celine? But this Celine video is Memento in structure. Threading her thru a school production of Romeo & Juliet, it opens at the end & ends at the beginning, which force-reinterprets every development to take on some other meaning.
I've written a story like that myself once.
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
#50videos 40/50
Pffft, Celine? But this Celine video is Memento in structure. Threading her thru a school production of Romeo & Juliet, it opens at the end & ends at the beginning, which force-reinterprets every development to take on some other meaning.
I've written a story like that myself once.
Pffft, Celine? But this Celine video is Memento in structure. Threading her thru a school production of Romeo & Juliet, it opens at the end & ends at the beginning, which force-reinterprets every development to take on some other meaning.
I've written a story like that myself once.
testing (again)
February 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
testing (again)
There are many great moments to this era, as a series of vignettes from Peaches' life. Even the idea of erasing - it gets deeper when you consider it's not just bad exes, it can also be erasing the grief for Malcolm.
"aaargh help me help me, I only have 24 hours! aaargh"
"aaargh help me help me, I only have 24 hours! aaargh"
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
There are many great moments to this era, as a series of vignettes from Peaches' life. Even the idea of erasing - it gets deeper when you consider it's not just bad exes, it can also be erasing the grief for Malcolm.
"aaargh help me help me, I only have 24 hours! aaargh"
"aaargh help me help me, I only have 24 hours! aaargh"
#50videos 39/50
Ariana Grande won me over this year as she became withdrawn and superficially not as good as before. You think she just pulled an old movie reference, but her writing's so intricate. She lets you dunk on WCBF, then put out BDA a year later to let the emotional recoil slap you around
Ariana Grande won me over this year as she became withdrawn and superficially not as good as before. You think she just pulled an old movie reference, but her writing's so intricate. She lets you dunk on WCBF, then put out BDA a year later to let the emotional recoil slap you around
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#50videos 39/50
Ariana Grande won me over this year as she became withdrawn and superficially not as good as before. You think she just pulled an old movie reference, but her writing's so intricate. She lets you dunk on WCBF, then put out BDA a year later to let the emotional recoil slap you around
Ariana Grande won me over this year as she became withdrawn and superficially not as good as before. You think she just pulled an old movie reference, but her writing's so intricate. She lets you dunk on WCBF, then put out BDA a year later to let the emotional recoil slap you around
I've obviously neglected the music video posts for 2 weeks, cause I truly have a sudden amnesia about what other videos I found impressive. Am still working on the last 13? of them, and also some themed weeks after that. And, since I don't actually know if anyone's waiting, this is just for me lol
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I've obviously neglected the music video posts for 2 weeks, cause I truly have a sudden amnesia about what other videos I found impressive. Am still working on the last 13? of them, and also some themed weeks after that. And, since I don't actually know if anyone's waiting, this is just for me lol
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it was back during Obama's presidency that I first heard the US wanted certain travelers to offer up their social media accounts for inspection. This is by far not a GOP or DJT thing.
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it was back during Obama's presidency that I first heard the US wanted certain travelers to offer up their social media accounts for inspection. This is by far not a GOP or DJT thing.
So I've been trying to get back into cassette. But after 3 years and hundreds of dollars lost, I can't seem to get tapes to record & play at the same speed. Songs comes out chipmunk'd.
The only solution I see is I must record + play on the same walkman only, and that's a helluva expensive walkman.
The only solution I see is I must record + play on the same walkman only, and that's a helluva expensive walkman.
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
So I've been trying to get back into cassette. But after 3 years and hundreds of dollars lost, I can't seem to get tapes to record & play at the same speed. Songs comes out chipmunk'd.
The only solution I see is I must record + play on the same walkman only, and that's a helluva expensive walkman.
The only solution I see is I must record + play on the same walkman only, and that's a helluva expensive walkman.
I'm not a musk or white musk person, and yet CK Be is a comfort to me. It's never really left me since its 1996 launch, and I'm wrapping up my scenthead journey with my 200ml bottle.
Thank you for nothing, colognes, so much money wasted on so much artless art.
Thank you for nothing, colognes, so much money wasted on so much artless art.
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'm not a musk or white musk person, and yet CK Be is a comfort to me. It's never really left me since its 1996 launch, and I'm wrapping up my scenthead journey with my 200ml bottle.
Thank you for nothing, colognes, so much money wasted on so much artless art.
Thank you for nothing, colognes, so much money wasted on so much artless art.
#50videos 38/50
The friendless has feelings too, and I can rarely hear this song without tears welling up, because Luke sings a very expressive "between you and I." Like Toto itself, the video is very all-American in ways good and bad, reasonably fun to experience on a 29" Trinitron upon release.
The friendless has feelings too, and I can rarely hear this song without tears welling up, because Luke sings a very expressive "between you and I." Like Toto itself, the video is very all-American in ways good and bad, reasonably fun to experience on a 29" Trinitron upon release.
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
#50videos 38/50
The friendless has feelings too, and I can rarely hear this song without tears welling up, because Luke sings a very expressive "between you and I." Like Toto itself, the video is very all-American in ways good and bad, reasonably fun to experience on a 29" Trinitron upon release.
The friendless has feelings too, and I can rarely hear this song without tears welling up, because Luke sings a very expressive "between you and I." Like Toto itself, the video is very all-American in ways good and bad, reasonably fun to experience on a 29" Trinitron upon release.
When the car's inspiration is Japanese, it's all one can do to pitch the "Frenchies are more elegant" angle 😜 Granted, Japan is a country where magazines went and photographed random people on Paris streets for their OOTD, so it works.
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
When the car's inspiration is Japanese, it's all one can do to pitch the "Frenchies are more elegant" angle 😜 Granted, Japan is a country where magazines went and photographed random people on Paris streets for their OOTD, so it works.
Funnily enough, Meja herself would wreck all this for a hippie/spiritual awakening that wrecked her commercially, and the video for the single, Hippies in the 60s, definitely counts as a bad video making her out to be uglier than she is. Even Billy Steinberg couldn't help her.
youtu.be/YNrTErBZuAI
youtu.be/YNrTErBZuAI
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Funnily enough, Meja herself would wreck all this for a hippie/spiritual awakening that wrecked her commercially, and the video for the single, Hippies in the 60s, definitely counts as a bad video making her out to be uglier than she is. Even Billy Steinberg couldn't help her.
youtu.be/YNrTErBZuAI
youtu.be/YNrTErBZuAI
#50videos 37/50
At the peak of her solo career, Meja was presented as decidedly a very cerebral, incisive woman of cosmopolis, an urbanista. In this context it's a fitting and brilliant stroke to present this song through a boxing match, choke full of delightful commentary on punch-drunk love.
At the peak of her solo career, Meja was presented as decidedly a very cerebral, incisive woman of cosmopolis, an urbanista. In this context it's a fitting and brilliant stroke to present this song through a boxing match, choke full of delightful commentary on punch-drunk love.
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#50videos 37/50
At the peak of her solo career, Meja was presented as decidedly a very cerebral, incisive woman of cosmopolis, an urbanista. In this context it's a fitting and brilliant stroke to present this song through a boxing match, choke full of delightful commentary on punch-drunk love.
At the peak of her solo career, Meja was presented as decidedly a very cerebral, incisive woman of cosmopolis, an urbanista. In this context it's a fitting and brilliant stroke to present this song through a boxing match, choke full of delightful commentary on punch-drunk love.
you're right, it doesn't feel good because you have to soak up all your cognitive dissonance and act like there's no headwind when you can barely move. But that's true for all of life. Optimism has to come from within, ditto your motivation to be a good person w/your own takes.
You smile first.
You smile first.
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
you're right, it doesn't feel good because you have to soak up all your cognitive dissonance and act like there's no headwind when you can barely move. But that's true for all of life. Optimism has to come from within, ditto your motivation to be a good person w/your own takes.
You smile first.
You smile first.
All the best ideas and the best people from whom they poured out, are usually if not always way ahead of their times and environment. Businesses have always thrived in spite of intense regulatory and legal headwind.
Noone ever says "I can only be this tall 'cos the ceilings are so low out there."
Noone ever says "I can only be this tall 'cos the ceilings are so low out there."
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
All the best ideas and the best people from whom they poured out, are usually if not always way ahead of their times and environment. Businesses have always thrived in spite of intense regulatory and legal headwind.
Noone ever says "I can only be this tall 'cos the ceilings are so low out there."
Noone ever says "I can only be this tall 'cos the ceilings are so low out there."
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For reference, this is Donna from the I Love You Always Forever video.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
For reference, this is Donna from the I Love You Always Forever video.
Let's sidebar and talk about crap music videos.
What happens when your artist may not look 100%? For their sake you should abandon ship, rebook and make a different video. Don't be cruel like Atlantic was to Donna Lewis and just made her seem badly aged, contrived and infantile like this video.
What happens when your artist may not look 100%? For their sake you should abandon ship, rebook and make a different video. Don't be cruel like Atlantic was to Donna Lewis and just made her seem badly aged, contrived and infantile like this video.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Let's sidebar and talk about crap music videos.
What happens when your artist may not look 100%? For their sake you should abandon ship, rebook and make a different video. Don't be cruel like Atlantic was to Donna Lewis and just made her seem badly aged, contrived and infantile like this video.
What happens when your artist may not look 100%? For their sake you should abandon ship, rebook and make a different video. Don't be cruel like Atlantic was to Donna Lewis and just made her seem badly aged, contrived and infantile like this video.
Well, they think they are the chosen people. They think they can come to your country and do whatever they want.
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Well, they think they are the chosen people. They think they can come to your country and do whatever they want.
Had the pleasure of crate-digging for 2+ hours today. It's better than sex. All the records I'd seen online for 20 years all materialized in my hands.
I let out an audible yelp holding Yumi Matsutoya's Reincarnation in my hand - more than the Hipgnosis-designed and shot "Let's Meet at Last Night"
I let out an audible yelp holding Yumi Matsutoya's Reincarnation in my hand - more than the Hipgnosis-designed and shot "Let's Meet at Last Night"
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Had the pleasure of crate-digging for 2+ hours today. It's better than sex. All the records I'd seen online for 20 years all materialized in my hands.
I let out an audible yelp holding Yumi Matsutoya's Reincarnation in my hand - more than the Hipgnosis-designed and shot "Let's Meet at Last Night"
I let out an audible yelp holding Yumi Matsutoya's Reincarnation in my hand - more than the Hipgnosis-designed and shot "Let's Meet at Last Night"
I don't do Halloween but I contemplate the costume. 2003 was Carly "I'm a medieval history major" Fiorina; This year I would've worn a fish tail to be the #Capricorn sign, wear a Fauci mask, wear boxing gloves (his fists were photoshopped for a book cover), and just go around saying "I resent that."
November 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I don't do Halloween but I contemplate the costume. 2003 was Carly "I'm a medieval history major" Fiorina; This year I would've worn a fish tail to be the #Capricorn sign, wear a Fauci mask, wear boxing gloves (his fists were photoshopped for a book cover), and just go around saying "I resent that."
This was my introduction to New Order, I had no idea of their provenance or pedigree. But this is my favorite Sum(mo)ner's tale that came out of summer '93, not those other ten.
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This was my introduction to New Order, I had no idea of their provenance or pedigree. But this is my favorite Sum(mo)ner's tale that came out of summer '93, not those other ten.
#50videos 36/50
I'm traveling for a month. Today, failing to find a local stock cube at the 4th grocery store, this song flashed through my head. It looks deceptively of its time, but it's really a lot like any person's Insta account documenting the randomness of their travels. Ahead of its time.
I'm traveling for a month. Today, failing to find a local stock cube at the 4th grocery store, this song flashed through my head. It looks deceptively of its time, but it's really a lot like any person's Insta account documenting the randomness of their travels. Ahead of its time.
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#50videos 36/50
I'm traveling for a month. Today, failing to find a local stock cube at the 4th grocery store, this song flashed through my head. It looks deceptively of its time, but it's really a lot like any person's Insta account documenting the randomness of their travels. Ahead of its time.
I'm traveling for a month. Today, failing to find a local stock cube at the 4th grocery store, this song flashed through my head. It looks deceptively of its time, but it's really a lot like any person's Insta account documenting the randomness of their travels. Ahead of its time.
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
