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TFW your friends get you

I haven't gotten around to blogging about Charli. I might later (I reckon she'll get some year-end coverage). For now, please read @robinjames.bsky.social and @dandipiero.bsky.social on her and The Strokes 🤘🎸 Robin: www.its-her-factory.com/2026/08/rock... Dan: dandipiero.substack.com/p/rock-music

I’ve recently learned that Apple TV brought back Ted Lasso so Jason Sudekis could pay child support to Olivia Wilde and wow streaming really broke TV residuals huh

Post-Zoomie

Charli rock record reconfirming my theory that 'The Menace' was way ahead of its time pitchfork.com/features/art...

The Connection Is Made: Elastica Goes M.I.A.

Stuart Berman details how one era-defining classic—Elastica’s Britpop-bombing 1995 debut—spawned another: M.I.A.’s Arular, which turns 10 this year.

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Some good news

Stereogum@stereogum.com · 7d ago

After being reported missing, Linda Perhacs has been located and is safe

LFG 43

I don’t think we talk enough about Josie and the Pussycats in relation to Wayne’s World

This guy really coming alive on the Barbie rewatch. Cera in his Newhart bag here

The GOAT @electronicmoon.bsky.social gifted me a YT link to a Pointer Sisters special from 1987 for my birthday and gifts are meant to be shared so here you go 🎁 m.youtube.com/watch?v=BFuN...

The Pointer Sisters - TV Special - UP ALL NIGHT - 1987

YouTube video by Paul C. - ThePointerSisters

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I’m just now getting around to watching The Studio and I kinda wish they had cast Tim Robbins to reprise his role as Griffin Mill in The Player instead of having Bryan Cranston play him as Bob Evans but I’m having fun

Since it’s Leo season and I turn 43 on Sunday, here’s that playlist I made for the zodiac’s diva sign open.spotify.com/playlist/4TK...

Leo Season

Playlist · AVZ · 17 items

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To my ear, "Take a Bow" is Madonna's attempt to rewrite "Superstar" for Warren Beatty

Alyx Vesey@alyxvesey.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m going through Madonna’s catalog backwards and I’m noticing a lot more Karen Carpenter in her lower register than I had before

The Sunday pickup soccer game by my house is THRIVING tonight ⚽️

I have fully been talking over this game yeesh 🙃

Shoutout to that part of Ariel Schrag’s Awkward where she has a crush on a boy who wears an L7 t-shirt before she figures out that she’s queer RIP Jennifer Finch

Best New Music alert, from Girls Rock Birmingham 🎸 “We’re called Happy Cash and our song is called ‘Crush the Stock Market’ because the stock market crushed our souls.” 🤘🏻

Note to self: grab a used copy of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing when it presents itself

Earlier today a barista asked me what I thought about The Odyssey and I told him “girl, I haven’t read that since ninth grade.” It’s truly wild that they gave me a doctorate.

Love when two albums in the queue look good side by side

TIL that sperm donors’ audio recordings are an important component in the selection process (i.e., hearing them think through a question is a useful metric for intelligence, empathy, and personality)

RIP

Woke up early and saw that Lindsey Graham died

I wonder what the kids on a date at our screening of The Invite are talking about rn

Trying to figure out which Björk I want to be for Halloween

Say what you will about Madonna's Universal Hinterland era, but it still works as cardio 🥵

Shoutout to the cheerleading campers belting JoJo’s “(Leave) Get Out” at the top of their lungs

I just consulted the Good Book for my Madonna dive and I’m going in feeling like Erotica is a 9, Bedtime Stories is an 8, Like a Prayer is a 7, and True Blue is an 8 (Immaculate Collection and You Can Dance are 10s, darling)

I’m going through Madonna’s catalog backwards and I’m noticing a lot more Karen Carpenter in her lower register than I had before