It's kind of annoying how I can't seed certain weirder or more distinctive groups without them absolutely overpowering everything else I have seeded on a station.
I was under the impression that road trip music should be fun, light, and peppy, not droning, whiny indie rock.
Even good indie rock isn't really good for road trips; I like Modest Mouse as much as the next guy but it's kind of a downer; which isn't really conducive to a long drive.
I was under the impression that road trip music should be fun, light, and peppy, not droning, whiny indie rock.
Even good indie rock isn't really good for road trips; I like Modest Mouse as much as the next guy but it's kind of a downer; which isn't really conducive to a long drive.
All this talk of road trips reminded me of the first page of some awful Fox News commentator's book, particularly the last paragraph.
Like, why would you have a twelve hour trip with no bathroom breaks, except as an utterly pointless display of endurance? Well, they ARE conservatives, so pointless displays of strength are pretty common, but still.
"Back in my day this technically meaningless symbolic vocalization represented a different thing from what the technically meaningless symbolic vocalization's popular usage means now."
Also the guy was born in 1967. It's not like it's an eighty year old man waxing nostalgic here; the guy's basically putting his childhood at least ten years earlier than it actually was.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I was thinking about it yesterday...modern American conservatism basically amounts to "I got mine, screw everyone else"
I have "Bouken Desho Desho?" stuck in my head. Yay for J-pop that sounds like it could have come directly out of a late-60s/early-70s sunshine pop band...
I was thinking about it yesterday...modern American conservatism basically amounts to "I got mine, screw everyone else"
The most perverse thing about modern American conservatism is that a lot of the people who believe in it don't even "got theirs". Generally, they were raised to believe that "getting theirs" was just a matter of keeping your nose to the grindstone and being stronger than everybody else.
Naturally, when you get older, you realize that this isn't always the case. Once you realize that, you often get jealous of people who "got theirs" when you don't. Modern American conservatism is what happens when you start to assume that, since getting what you do have was such a struggle, that these people somehow had it easier than you did.
Sometimes, this is indeed the case. Many of the figureheads of modern American conservatism are people who had social advantages towards "getting theirs" that you don't have. They realize that, if people realized this en masse, they'd be in for a giant backlash that could lead to those advantages being taken away from them.
This is why they work to deflect the feelings of jealousy away from them, and towards people who had it just as hard as you did, but in a way that can be rationalized as being somehow easier. Being a member of a labour union or having a different skin colour are examples of what is claimed by these people as leading to a easier path towards "getting yours", when in fact it's often the opposite.
In a nutshell, this is why modern American conservatism is so hopelessly perverse.
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Stores like that never play anything but Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.
I was thinking of a clothing store, because those only ever play Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.
I don't remember what music they played, but it was an incredibly unsexy place
I regret nothing
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You guys, ugh.
Anyways, somebody murder me before I get all ragemonster about real life.