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Do not like: Bad Religion, Operation Ivy, The Mountain Goats

Still not entirely sure how to grasp the last year enough to write about it.

[Leonard Cohen]

25. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
24. ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
23. Andy Shauf – The Party
22. Marissa Nadler – Strangers
21. Ka – Honor Killed the Samurai
20. Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop – Love Letter for Fire
19. Claire M Singer – Solas
18. Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty
17. Charles Bradley – Changes
16. Big Thief – Masterpiece
15. David Bowie – Blackstar
14. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q; Headquarters
13. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
12. Josephine Foster – No More Lamps in the Morning
11. Tim Hecker – Love Streams
10. Run the Jewels – RTJ3
9. Emma Ruth Rundle – Marked for Death
8. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears
7. Frank Ocean – Blonde
6. Dreamboat – Dreamboat
5. Vince Staples – Prima Donna EP
4. Goat – Requiem
3. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
1. Isaiah Rashad – The Sun's Tirade

I honestly don't understand why people are still in "wait and see, maybe he won't be the same person he always is!"philosophy at this point.  His cabinet appointments/considerations are straight up fucking frightening, there are no checks and balances now that every single aspect of the government is Republican, including the Supreme Court soon enough, and presidents don't become less themselves once elected, they become more their true selves. And we've seen time and time again who Donald Trump is.

We don't really have the choice of a "wait and see" approach. If anything, the election has shown we need to be more proactive.

You should focus that effort toward the 2018 midterms. I doubt Trump's old ass will run for a second term.

His old ass loves this shit.  He probably just sits and jerks off to his reflection in the fucking oval office

That's not really the point I was going for.

You should focus that effort toward the 2018 midterms. I doubt Trump's old ass will run for a second term.

#shook

Brett, what would you list as your top ten bad-in-a-good-way horror films?  Or fifty, or whatever.  I'm not your dad.

Off the top of my head...

Rock n' Roll Nightmare
Maximum Overdrive
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
Death Spa
Birdemic
Ebola Syndrome (warning: problematic movie)
Shredder Orpheus

That's all I got for now.

I'm gonna throw in For Y'ur Height Only even though it's not a horror film.

And The Crippled Masters.

[Masochistic Horror Movie Madness, Complete List]

Masochistic Horror Movie Madness, Complete List
*rewatch

September 16th:
Hostel: Part II (Eli Roth 2007) 3.5/5*
September 17th:
The Houses October Built (Bobby Roe 2014) 2/5
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay 2011) 4.5/5*
September 18th:
Exhibit A (Dom Rotheroe 2007) 4/5
The Midnight Meat Train (Ryuhei Kitamura 2008) 1.5/5*
The Witch (Robert Eggers 2015) 4/5
September 19th:
The Fog (John Carpenter 1980) 3/5
The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra 2016) 3/5
September 20th:
Frozen (Adam Green 2010) 0.5/5
September 21st:
Tales from the Hood (Rusty Cundieff 1995) 3.5/5*
September 22nd:
Bug (William Friedkin 2006) 4/5*
September 23rd:
The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez 1998) 3/5*
I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie 1997) 3/5*
September 24th:
Splinter (Toby Wilkins 2008) 3/5*
[REC] (Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza) 4.5/5*
September 25th:
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Danny Cannon 1998) 1/5*
September 26th:
Home Movie (Christopher Denham 2008) 0/5
September 27th:
Prom Night (Paul Lynch 1980) 3/5
September 28th:
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Brian Gibson 1986) 2/5*
September 29th:
Estranged (Adam Levins 2015) 3/5
September 30th:
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (Rob Hedden 1989) 4/5*
October 1st:
Train To Busan (Yeon Sang-Ho 2016) 4.5/5
October 2nd:
Nightmare City (Umberto Lenzi 1980) 3/5
October 3rd:
The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven 1977) 2/5
October 4th:
Angel Heart (Alan Parker 1987) 4/5*
October 5th:
Sphere (Barry Levinson 1998) 1.5/5*
October 6th:
Suspiria (Dario Argento 1977) 4.5/5*
October 7th:
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson 1996): 3.5/5*
October 8th:
Firestarter (Mark L. Lester 1984) 2.5/5*
October 9th:
Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon 1985) 4/5*
Vinyan (Fabrice Du Welz 2008) 4.5/5*
The Omen (Richard Donner 1976) 3/5
October 10th:
Candyman (Bernard Rose 1992) 3.5/5*
October 11th:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper 1974) 5/5*
October 12th:
Vampires (John Carpenter 1998) 1/5
October 13th:
Three... Extremes (Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park 2004) 3/5*
October 14th:
Eden Lake (James Watkins 2008) 3.5/5*
Piranha 3D (Alejandre Aja 2010) 3.5/5*
October 15th:
Don't Breathe (Fede Alvarez 2016) 3.5/5
October 16th:
Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari 2016) 3.5/5
October 17th:
Blade II (Guillermo del Toro 2002) 3.5/5
October 18th:
German Angst (Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall, Michal Kosakowski 2015) 2/5
October 19th:
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier 2016;) 5/5*
October 20th:
Death Spa (Michael Fischa 1988) 3.5/5
October 21st:
Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz) 4.5/5*
October 22nd:
The Devils (Ken Russell 1971) 5/5
October 23rd:
Silver Bullet (Daniel Attias 1985) 2/5
October 24th:
Blade (Stephen Norrington 1998) 2.5/5
October 25th:
Thinner (Tom Holland 1996) 2/5*
October 26th:
Child's Play 2 (John Lafia 1990) 4/5*
October 27th:
Don't Breathe (Fede Alvarez 2016) 3.5/5*
October 28th:
Child's Play 3 (Jack Bender 1991) 3/5*
October 29th:
Maniac Cop (William Lustig 1988) 3.5/5
Maniac Cop 2 (William Lustig 1990) 3/5
Bride of Chucky (Ronny Yu 1998) 2.5/5*
The Descent (Neil Marshall 2005) 4/5*
October 30th:
Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra 2009) 3.5/5*
October 31st:
The Purge: Anarchy (James DeMonaco 2014) 1.5/5
Let's Scare Jessica To Death (John D. Hancock 1971) 4/5*

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It's only natural to call him wont.

There's a lot more depth to it than just guns/violence/drugs, at least with the stuff I posted.

Vince Staples is a former Crip whose father was also a gang member, grew up in Long Beach, has a pretty specific point of view, an incredible flow, and is incredibly honest with regards to his childhood and what drew him into gang life. Also that music video is just cool.

Ka is an FDNY captain who has an incredible sense of storytelling and has a pretty dense focus on people/families dealing with hardships in Brooklyn, and may get fired from firefighting because the New York post wrote a lynchmob article about his "secret" double life as a firefighter.

ScHoolboy Q is definitely on the glorification side of things. Was also a Crip and tends to veer towards straight up gangster rap. His sense of timing and wordplay is what makes him interesting. Kendrick Lamar has learned a lot from him.

If we're gonna talk about new hip hop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zGVJaFwOyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVyGxlgeAjc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do2xXV2xrr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJksTRgY8-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuq9XK6tojs

It's 2016, how often are you actually in an area that doesn't have a mobile signal

Literally 90% of the time I'm listening to music. The Red Line is underground and doesn't get signal.

Fuck that, mp3s 4 lyfe, bruh.

I think the likelihood is he ran to try and garner attention for another book/TV show (a la Carson) without actually expecting to get nominated, but he didn't realize how dumb Republicans are, and also he's a completely self-absorbed asshole who's now letting it get to his head.

Really enjoying the Flamingo Shadow EP from last year. Basically Madeline doing Jefferson Airplane, hell yeah.

Other than that, I've mostly just been listening to Marilyn Manson, Black Eyes, Fiona Apple, and Paul Simon lately.

In all honesty I"m glad the vile racism and bigotry from all these people has been put out in the open so they can no longer hide it.

It's too bad most of these people are too stubborn to change.

Do you think that Hillary actually cares about minorities or inequality in this country? I don't think that she cares about anything but gaining prestige, power, and money.

If you think this, you're ignoring her extensive history with equal rights.

I definitely have problems with Hillary (particularly how she handles foreign policy) but painting it as though she only cares about the 1% is manufactured by news outlets like Fox. Would Bernie have been better? Sure, but that doesn't cancel out her accomplishments.

I will offer one dollar more.

and everybody should watch the movie Mustang.

Update: this is now up on Netflix!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABNB3zw5BAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpfhuYby2E

I got promoted to an assistant producer position a few months ago and have been really enjoying actually being involved in something creative in this dumb industry after nine years of living here. It's reality TV but it's still cool being able to put together segments for the highest watched show on NatGeo. If you ever catch Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks while flipping channels (season premieres July 25th I think), I produced the segments for the boat with a one-armed captain. Woo!

Other than that, next month my family and I are taking a vacation up the coast to Monterey Bay and I'm going to FYF at the end of August. I have awesome friends, my cat meows all the goddamn time, and everybody should watch the movie Mustang. I basically only listen to Fiona Apple, Nick Cave, and Grouper these days and I haven't listened to any PIX bands in years aside from I listened to some Madeline last night while waiting for a movie to download. Madeline is still awesome.

Goddammit, Jerome.

Maron's episodes mostly depend on who he interviews. A lot of recent ones have been pretty terrible but the Louie Anderson one is pretty great. The William Friedkin  one from a few months ago is good too. Steve-O, Todd Haynes, and John Lurie as well, except for Maron continually calling John Lurie "dude."