#why is my tl not blowing up why is nobody going insane about this this is monumental

[chiamew]

falls to the ground and starts crying

[the-dalseum-duet]

I’m going insane

@svwhssftr late night kohlsposting meets queer girlie music taste tag

oh God. oh god KILL ME

bags… i’m not like the biggest Clairo fan ever but i really liked her in middle school and now that bags is blowing up I’m reminded of just how baller her music is. she’s just so airy and cutesy and nostalgic and it makes me want to gut myself. i actually have insane cuteness aggression. i see something cute and i resort to extreme forms of violence. can’t have anything good around here without getting it a lil bloody

(the first time i heard this song was in a rory x paris edit and they’re my one and only comfort ship. they’re so. grrrrr I love them dearly like it physically hurts me that both are “””straight””” BITCH THEY KISSED anyway this is not about the most goated gilmore girls ship. those academic rivals are LESBIANS!!! the writers are SO WRONG)

but i keep seeing posts like “men who listen to Clairo are the most manipulative people of all time” and it’s funny in theory. but. ideas. IDEAS. GRAHHHH

so. this leads me to noeul. Naturally. Manipulative man ever. But noeul does indeed have a soul buried deep down inside him. He is naturally inclined to do things that bring him genuine joy. He is a hopeless romantic bitch HE IS I’M SO SORRY. NATURALLY. HE IS. HE WAS NOT BORN INTO A POSITION WHERE HE COULD FEASIBLY BE ONE. BUT HE IS REGARDLESS. AND HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THIS

like he obviously has a strong romantic attraction to Charlie. he stays in dirty motels to see her and blindly trusts her multiple times. he proposes to her. that’s a massive fucking deal coming from him. Living in Eden Grove gave him a sliver of life as a normal human being, and he fell head over heels as soon as he had the opportunity. Charlie made him feel safe. But like. In the way that you feel it’s wrong. It’s very queer even though he’s a man. And she is a woman. They are the gayest straight couple ever. It’s a hard phenomenon to describe but it’s so strong and it’s so conflicting but it’s so warm and hopeful and. ughhh. tl;dr Noeul has emotions he knows he should have but knows he can’t have 

but he suppresses these HARD once he returns to Dalseum. he has to be cutthroat again and maintain the image he had with the Council. this only worsens once his father dies. this is why he cheats on Charlie with Sonnet because he feels like he should be with Sonnet. Sonnet is a prominent community member who will blindly agree with him. Charlie is this nobody who opposes his authority. So he freaks out and just throws her in prison so he doesn’t have to think about what could have been. Sonnet is who he realistically should end up with. He cannot afford to do what makes him happy and, in turn, a better fucking human. 

Oh yeah. He absolutely has a breakdown once he learns about the existence of Crow. Also why he actually realizes that there is room for kindness inside of him. Crow’s existence as their child. But that’s neither here nor there rn i just love torturing this man. 

But. Here’s where we torture him more. Kai. Kai fits this into a way that makes me want to bash my head into a wall even more. 

Noeul sleeps around in a feigned attempt to crush his romantic tendencies. He’s not supposed to be sappy. He’s supposed to be cold and all exchanges with others must be neutral, if not beneficial to only him. Which is how he meets Kai. This was established previously. At one of Gale’s shows. 

And. Throwing this out there. Just to toxic-ify this yaoi even further. Noeul actually really fucking likes him. Like he gets flustered occasionally around him. Kai is a dumbass (affectionate) and doesn’t pick up on this but Sara absolutely does and picks at Noeul for this. But Noeul definitely picks up on Kai not actually caring for him so Noeul acts like he doesn’t care either. But ohh hohohoho he does!! This little whore DOES care so much!! He WANTS romantic dates out on the town and he wouldn’t trade the mornings they wake up next to each other for ANYTHING!! HE LOVES HIS STUPID BITS AND THE WAY HE SMILES AND THE WAY HE PERFECTLY FITS INSIDE HIS ARMS!!!! HE LOVES THAT DAMN SHARK BOY!! But Kai’s just oblivious. He’s just like “eh he sleeps around with Everyone. he just wants to have some fun and I’m cool with that. he’s just like that” BUT HE’S ACTUALLY NOT LIKE THAT. THAT’S WHAT HE WANTS EVERYONE TO THINK. THAT’S WHAT HE WANTS EVERYONE BUT KAI TO THINK!!

that’s it. that’s all. 

just. picturing Sara walking in on Noeul violently sobbing face planted onto his bed with Bags by Clairo playing on repeat in the background 

“…are you okay?”

“WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THIS”

“hungover?”

“worse.”

“kai?”

“NO”

“you’re in love, sang. I’ve never seen you act like that before. stay in denial all you want”

“fuck off sara”

“I’m just saying. It’s better if you figure it out yourself. I’m just pushing you in the right direction”

“there is no right direction here.”

“is that fucking pheobe bridgers?”

“NO!”

“oh-“

“it’s Clairo”

“oh my bad?”

[confused-stars]

what's the book/romance op

i'm so glad you asked

so i've been obsessed with these books since the first one came out

it's the Simon Snow trilogy by Rainbow Rowell (Carry On, Wayward Son and Any Way The Wind Blows)

it's about a British boy who was told at eleven years old that he was the Chosen One, destined to save the World of Mages, and he was sent to a magic school where he was magically assigned a roommate (oh my god, they were roommates) who came from an old family and was destined to be his nemesis (and is also a vampire). Simon also has an extremely capable best friend and a lesbian goat aunt (quoting the wiki here) and is dating the most beautiful girl in school and they're supposed to be, like, endgame, and have a bunch of perfect children together

yes, this totally sounds like a book series i will not name on this blog, except that this is all the backstory and setup, and the books themselves totally deconstruct all those tropes. it deals a lot with them all trying to find their own paths. like, why should they be enemies just because a bunch of adults and their politics tell them to? and there's a lot of Simon confronting what happens to you when you've been fighting all your childhood and were never able to catch a breath and then suddenly you can breathe freely and it feels like there's too much air-

these books also depict depression in the most accurate way i've ever seen. and the beautiful, perfect girlfriend Simon had just decides "fuck that, i don't wanna be part of this magical destiny and always get kidnapped so my boyfriend can save me" and she starts making her own way

also the magic system? you cast with words that are given power by how many people use them on a daily basis. so, like, idioms and common turns of phrase. nursery rhymes are insanely powerful. there's a moment where they're in America and they try to cast "Bugger Off!" but it doesn't work because Americans don't say that. "Fuck Off!" however, works wonders. there's spells like "Have a Break, Have a Kit-Kat" (breaks objects) and "Out, Out, damned spot" (cleans things) i could legit talk about this magic system for days it's so cool (a student once brought a whole classroom wall down by casting "Yeet!" and when i read that i had to take a whole five minutes)

there's also a magical creature called a lllama and that's very important to me

but anyway. the romance though. because the thing is. Simon and Baz lived together and were supposed to be enemies for seven years. Baz played mean pranks and Simon was convinced Baz was pure evil. except that (tiny spoiler) Baz is actually a Soft Boy and he doesn't really care about this whole war between the old families and the new magic regime or whatever.

so they obviously end up getting together, but then it's all about their respective trauma (mostly Simon's) and how they try to figure out who they are as their own people and how they fit together. it's so much about trying, and how hard it can be, and holding onto each other. they love each other so much and the struggles they go to are so real, and all the magic stuff around them is really just a framework for that.

everything always feels kind of melancholic, like they're always searching for purpose in their own narratives, but that's what makes the emotional scenes cathartic as hell

and because this wasn't long and rambly enough, have some quotes because i haven't even mentioned how well written and funny this is:

- Even some of our cookbooks are banned. (Though it’s been centuries, at least, since the Pitches ate fairies.) (You can’t even find fairies anymore.) (And it’s not because we ate them all.)

- "If you can't be gay at IKEA," Snow reasoned, "where can you?"

- At the moment, Simon was sitting across from me, eating toast. There was melted butter running down his wrist. I held out a napkin. "He can still have a drink," I said. Simon took the napkin, then licked the butter off his arm.

- I would eat butter with a spoon if it were socially acceptable.

- “Nobody’s seducing a vampire,” I say. Baz frowns at me.

- "Imagine the humiliation of dying at The Cheesecake Factory."

- He's not a monster. He's just a villain. He's not a villain. He's just a boy. I'm kissing a boy. I'm kissing Baz.

tl;dr: please do yourself a favor and read these books i promise you won't regret a second of it

[athena1138]

So, I’m a bus driver. As such, I see a lot of shit.

(My shifts range from 3-6 hours, and my campus is relatively small so I get bored so I start counting stuff and I write down things that I notice or things that make me smile. This is a small compilation of the last 3 weeks-ish of my job. (Please note: I work 19 1/2 hours per week. That’s it.) 

*In two weeks, I have counted 124 broken headlights. Obviously, some of these are repeats, but I’m pretty confident in saying my margin of error is 40 max. So, 80 cars with broken headlights. 

*I have seen roughly 194 dogs in the past month. A good number. Very pleasing. Yes. 

*1 cat, and I was surprised because it was in a pretty busy area of campus. 

*I’ve had 19 individual potheads on my bus, a group of 3 which gets on at the same time every night and I’ve just started opening my window as I pull into the stop. It’s not even worth it. They reek. 

*The other night, there was this very nice guy who got on. When I pulled to the stop, I thought he was just wearing a blanket, which given that it’s been 30 degrees or lower, it’s not unusual. He wasn’t. It was a full blown serape, and he was also wearing a black cowboy hat. He was a larger guy, so it’s hard to miss him, but as he got off my bus he turned towards me, tipped his hat, and said, “You have yourself a good night, Ma’am.” It was adorable. I love him. 

*Last Friday there was a 3-car accident on my town’s highway and a popular side road, which just so happened to be on my route. It was pretty interesting to watch them go about cleaning up as I was stuck in the traffic for 10 minutes. 

*The Friday before that, there was a high speed chase at the end of my incredibly shitty 6 hour shift. Included in the chase was the suspect vehicle, 4 campus police cars, and 6 city police cars. One of the other drivers called the chase in on the radio as an alert to all of us, and then he called back and told the dispatcher that the suspect vehicle had thrown a bag out of their window at his intersection. The bag turned out to be a stolen handgun. The chase continued until at least I got home. It was pretty cool. 

*Apparentfuckingly headphones do not exist, as literally everybody gets on my bus and plays music/videos/phone calls on full volume all the fucking time and fam. It’s annoying as shit. Like, I’m trying to listen to my fucking music. It’s not playing for you. It’s playing so my ass doesn’t fall asleep or get distracted or anything like that. BUY SOME FUCKING HEADPHONES. 

*Food is 10x more aromatic on buses and all it does is make me hungry no matter how long ago I ate. 

*We have about 28 geese living in our duck pond. I’ve named the alpha Delorian. There are also 6 ducks. 

*40% of the conversations I hear are about sex. The other 60 is probably just complaining about someone else. 

*Apparently nobody knows that buses have wide turn radii so people will literally be sitting in the middle of the already tiny road trying to turn left while I’m trying to turn right and sit and stare at me. And then when I tell them to go, the like 4 people that have accumulated behind them think I’m talking to them, too. Make room for fucking buses. 

*Also, nobody seems to understand that those thick white lines near stop signs actually have a purpose. Here it is: If you are over the line, it is much more difficult for me and semis not to hit you. If you are behind the line, it is much easier for us to avoid it. BACK THE FUCK UP BEHIND THE LINE. 

*You would be amazed how many cars drive around at night with their lights off. Just absolutely fucking astounded. I sure as shit am. Just tonight, I counted 15 cars without their lights on. I even flashed a few, which I’m not supposed to do, and they just kept on going, lights still off. Like, people, it’s 10pm. I don’t care if you can see on our well lit campus or not. Your headlights are there for a reason. 

*I’ve also recently made the discovery that every single building on our campus has the same color paint inside. Every single building. I’ve been here 3 goddamn years and I just realized. 

*Also, if I listen to the oldies station, I can’t tell you how many vine-based songs I hear. The “Every step you take I’ll be watching you” song comes on at least once a night. It’s insane. 

And now for some more political/controversial/racial observations. (tl;dr: white people fucking suck.)

I should mention, I’ve thought white people suck for a long ass time, but my job is only confirming it. I also may be more inclined to find fault in white people because generally we suck. (((I am white as Wonder Bread.))) Also, please note, I say Asian because my school has a mixture of students from all over Asia. Most of them are Chinese, but I’m uncomfortable generalizing it by just saying Chinese. We also do not have a wealth of Hispanic/Latinx students at my school, so mostly they’ll go unmentioned.

*In the past 3 weeks, 47 white people have entered the road without looking. Only 4 black people have done it, and 2 Asian people have done it. I’ve not noticed any other ethnic/racial groups. 

*Today, there was a white girl standing on the sidewalk with 6 bags spread out all over, blocking the entire sidewalk. People had to step into the road or the very wet grass to avoid her shit and all she cared about was her phone. 

*Out of the potheads, it’s pretty much half black and half white, so whatever stereotype there is about black people doing more drugs than white people, it’s bullshit. At least in my very small study.

*Also today, there were these two white girls on my bus. No prob. My route takes me from campus to a vacant elementary school where I turn around and come back to campus. The other main loop goes from campus to our stadium and apartments near the stadium back to campus. Each bus is very clearly marked as either Red (Mine) or Green (Stadium.) I had picked the girls up on the ass end of campus, and took them all the way to the elementary. They didn’t get off. I figured, “Ok, maybe they’re just wasting time or waiting for a friend to get on or something.” I started to go back to campus. AS I WAS TURNING ONTO CAMPUS, one girl very snottily goes, “UHHMMMMMMMM aren’t you going to the stadium??????” I, being in a pretty cranky mood, went, “No.” She just scoffed and goes, “AND WHY NOT?” I don’t know how, but I managed not to cuss. I said, “Because that’s green loop. This is red loop. Red loop only goes to that school and back to campus.” She didn’t say anything else but I could see her and her friend were about to fucking blow their heads because they wasted MAYBE 5 minutes of their lives. They jumped off at the next stop, walked across the street, and was immediately picked up by the Green loop. If anything, I saved them from standing in the cold for another 10 minutes. 

*White people, especially guys, tend to be the people who pretend to jump or push each other in front of buses. Obviously, this isn’t FUCKING FUNNY. If I hit a pedestrian, not only will I lose my job and my license and could maybe even go to jail, IT SCARES THE FUCKING SHIT OUT OF ME WHEN THEY DO IT BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW IF THEY’RE SERIOUS OR NOT. But they think it’s a fucking joke. I have never had an Asian/Hispanic/Black person joke about doing this. But I’ve only been a bus driver since January, so my input is basically meaningless. 

*Maybe 1/3 of white people will thank me or wish me a good evening or something along those lines (One guy is particularly enthusiastic about it. He’s fun.) More than half the black passengers thank me, and nearly all the Asian students thank me. Just saying. 

*Manspreading is 100% a thing. Some of the buses we have have rows of 3 fold-able seats which are technically reserved for handicapped people, but they never get on because we have a designated disabilities bus. It doesn’t matter what time of day it is, how many people are on my bus, it doesn’t matter. There is always at least one guy sitting on one and a half of those seats. Today I got on a bus (as a passenger, but it still counts) and this dude was literally taking up the entire row, and the bus was pretty full. He wasn’t even trying to hide it. He had his legs spread between two seats and his backpack was sitting on the third. Guys, I may not have balls, but I do have breasts that get in the way, and trust me when I say, they CAN BE ADJUSTED. If your balls are so sensitive and large that they need their own entire seat, 1) you should consult a physician, and 2) you need some supportive underwear. Maybe tuck a sock under them to give them some lift. I don’t care. Just shut your damn legs to at least your own seat. 

[hermitologist]

My 17 Favorite Records of 2017

Hello, Internet. Yet another year has passed, and because I’ve made a habit of making year-end lists, this old man has gone and done it again.

I listened to a veritable buttload of music this year on my morning runs, which I decided to post about on Instagram most days in a concerted effort to keep myself accountable bore every last one of my followers to death. I think it’s working.

What follows, is my list of favorites. Not “best”. “Favorite”. *My* favorite. So, spare me the “Your list sucks. WTF. I can’t believe “A Vest For Jerome” by Turd Circus isn’t on there!��� comments. I’m sorry we don’t have the exact same taste in music. :)

As usual, I feel like the top 5 or 6 here are pretty carved in stone, but the last 12 and some of the honorable mentions could totally be flip-flopped depending on which side of the bed I woke up on. I actually fiddled with a few spots five minutes before posting this, which is either a testament to that or Exhibit 4,923 in my undiagnosed OCD case.

Anyways ... TL;DR. Here’s what I was into this year. I hope you find something you enjoy.

IMPORTANT: Please let me know what I might missed out on (as I’m sure there’s a ton of it), and share some of your favorites in the comments below. Thanks!

17) Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life

This didn’t quite grab me the way Celebration Rock did, but it’s got a good number of super infectious earworms that got stuck in my brain at the top of the year. 

Listen here.

16) Sorority Noise - You’re Not As ____ You Think

Excellent “emo”with that feels like it could very easily fit into Brand New’s discography (and I mean that in a very complimentary way). Highly recommended if you’re looking for something to fill that void. 

Listen here. 

15) Queens of the Stone Age - Villains

This took a little while for this record to sink its teeth into me, but once it did, it didn’t let go. The arrangements are so nuanced that I’ve found little bits of ear candy each time I’ve listened to it, and while the mix is not my favorite, the songs are so brilliantly catchy and drumming so monstrous, I’m hooked. And Jon Theodore is the best drummer on Earth. That’s not debatable either. It’s fact.

Listen here.

14) David Bazan - Care

It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for anything and everything Bazan. His lyrics and the timbre of his voice cut to my core, and the songs on Care are no exception -- even when they’re delivered over minimalist electronica (which is not my favorite vehicle by any stretch). Another Bazan masterpiece.

Listen here.

13) Glassjaw - Material Control

This record is perfect in that it is exactly what it needs to be. It’s Glassjaw doing what they do best -- intense, vibey, groovy, heavy post-hardcore that is a logical follow-up to Worship & Tribute, while flexing and pushing enough to make it feel fresh. A tremendous return to form, and a record that was well worth the wait.

Listen here.

12) Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights 

Sprained Ankle blew me away and knocked me on my ass, and somehow, some way, Baker has leveled up and topped that. The stripped-down “artist + guitar” intimacy is still there, but the heavy moments hit even harder because of the additional orchestration on this record. Such a promising future for her.

Listen here.

11) The Life & Times - S/T

Another excellent record from some of one of Kansas City’s best bands. There are few who do airy, melancholic, spacey, dynamic rock better than these guys. And Chris Metcalf is one of the best drummers on the planet right now -- so pockety, tasteful, and effortless. Highly recommended if you dig Failure, Shiner, Hum, Antenna-era Cave In, et al. 

Listen here.

10) METZ - Strange Peace

This beast is 36 minutes of noisy, nasty, heavy post-punk with stellar guitar and bass tones, and badass drumming that sounds like the best parts of Nirvana and Young Widows had a perfect lovechild. I dare you to listen to this record and not have an overwhelming urge to play it as loud as you possibly can and headbang until your eyes fall out of your skull.

Listen here.

9) CHON - Homey

I really enjoyed this when it came out, but it wasn’t until we spent five weeks on tour with them and got to see them shred a handful of these songs on a nightly basis that it really grabbed ahold of me. This record is stellar. Sure there are a ton of notes, but they’re all tasteful, never bogged down in painfully long prog opuses, and there’s so much feel here ... which is so rare in the new world of insanely chopped, gridded and sampled prog. The splashes of hip-hop and glitchy Prefuse 73 style electronica are a killer addition to the mix as well. This is the feel good record of the year for me.

Listen here.

8) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

There really isn’t another rapper who holds a candle to Kendrick at the moment, and this might be the best work of his career. I haven’t had a hip-hop record hit me like this in at least a decade. I was hooked from the second the beat dropped in DNA., got roped in even more by the slow jam LOVE., and HUMBLE. sealed the deal. What a beast.

Listen here.

7) Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound

This record rules, but I’m not sure I can put my finger on exactly why I like it so much. It’s got tiny elements of so many bands I love or used to love without being overly referential. It’s got a melancholic vibe but never lacks energy. And it is packed with really, really well written and catchy songs without full-blown pop circus. You know you’re listening to a great record when you’re playing a deep cut and uncontrollably blurt, “Fuck, this song is good.” 

Listen here.

6) Converge - The Dusk In Us

Nobody does it better than these dudes, and it’s been that way for the better part of two decades. The Dusk In Us is yet another record a discography full of bar-setting hardcore/metal/noise records that elevate the ceiling of the genre and make everyone else sound/look bland in comparison. This one slides right into the #3 or #4 spot in that storied discography. So great.

Listen here.

5) Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface

This is one of those rare records that blows you away on first listen, and gets better with each subsequent listen. The former happens when the songs --stripped to their bones -- are stellar, and the latter happens when the arrangements and mix are somehow even more stellar. ABMTTS checks the shit outta both of those boxes and then some. Aaaand it was made with multiple producers, but doesn’t sound disjointed in the slightest, which seems damn near impossible. It’s the perfect Manchester Orchestra record ... “The Gold” was stuck pleasantly in my head for a majority of the year.  

Listen here.

4) Pile - A Hairshirt Of Purpose

Disclaimer: I am a late adopter of the majesty of Pile, but I am happy to announce that I am hopelessly hooked on their soulful, noisy, schizophrenic, (occasionally) dreamy, fusion of post-punk, blues, and all sorts of other good things. My entry point was Dripping, but A Hairshirt ... cemented my love for this band. It’s weird, it’s beautiful, it’s energetic, it’s heavy, it’s ethereal, and the musicianship is frustratingly good. If you know, you know ... if you don’t, just trust me. Spin it with an open mind and meet one of your new favorite bands.

Listen here.

3) Propagandhi - Victory Lap

I grew up on Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chords punk rock in the 90s, and these guys (and gal) are legitimately the only band of that era that continue to excite and inspire me. I look forward to every release, and they manage to deliver every. single. time. It’s not a nostalgia thing with Propagandhi. Chris Hannah’s lyrics, melodies, and guitar playing continue to push the boundaries of what can be done in that genre. You might expect a group of 40-year-old punks to decline or at least plateau, but they’re still on an upward trajectory and it’s  inspiring as hell. Bonus points if you’re a parent and can listen to “Adventures In Zoochosis” without tearing up. Victory Lap is outstanding -- one of their three best records without question. 

Listen here.

2) Cloakroom - Time Well

If you’ve been following me here, on Twitter, or Instagram, it’s no secret that I’ve got a massive soft spot in my heart for bummer jams -- especially bummer jams of the heavy variety. Time Well is a damn near perfect in those regards. It’s shoegazey without being tired or overly jangly, mildly doomy without being mind-numbingly boring, and fuzzy without sounding like it was recorded inside a sleeping bag. I’m pretty sure I listened to this record more than anything else this year, and after probably a hundred spins, it hasn’t lost any of its luster. It’s outstanding (and it’s got some damn tasty drumming on it too).

Listen here.  

1) Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World

My buddy Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City vocalist/guitarist, Antisleep recording engineer/producer, multi-talented human, generally outstanding dude, recommender of many amazing bands) turned me on to these guys earlier this year by sharing 2015′s Lore with me. That record f-ing floored me. Riffs for days. Heaviness. Prog vibes. Stoner rock goodness. Dynamics. Space. Sabbath-y vocals. It checked all of the boxes. Needless to say, I couldn’t wait to hear Reflections Of A Floating World. 

ROAFW dropped in June, and it’s even better than I could have imagined. I’d wager that there are more sick riffs on this record than your favorite band has in their entire discography. I dare you to listen to this and not get a twitch to start a play air guitar. Also: How the shit do you write 15-minute songs that don’t bore people into catatonia? This is how. Just like this. Parts never drag, parts never feel like they’re just filler, and there isn’t a wasted moment in 64 minutes of music. That’s a remarkable feat in and of itself. This is a goddamn timeless record, and there’s no doubt I’ll have it in heavy rotation for the rest of my life.

Listen here.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

The Effects - Eyes To The Light

Brutus - Burst

Nate Smith - KINFOLK: Postcards From The Edge

Employed To Serve - Warmth of A Dying Sun

God Mother - Vilseledd

Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill

Hundredth - RARE

Mutoid Man - War Moans

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

Quicksand - Interiors

Death From Above - Outrage! Is Now

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

Health - DISCO3

Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War

Code Orange - Forever

Blis - No One Likes You

Bjork - Utopia

Less Art - Strangled Light ;)

MY FAVORITE RECORD OF 2015 THAT I DIDN’T HEAR UNTIL 2017

Town Portal - The Occident

MY FAVORITE RECORD OF 2004 THAT I DIDN’T HEAR UNTIL 2017

The Stella Link - Mystic Jaguar... Attack!!!

CURRENT PODCAST QUEUE

Chapo Trap House (Grey Wolf Feed)

The Trap Set

Song Exploder

Slate’s The Gist

Slate’s Hang Up & Listen

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The FilmDrunk Frotcast

Deadcast

How I Built This

Freakonomics Radio

Radiolab

This American Life