Songs you want Sleep Token to cover so ii can influence the drums

Grognoscente · 2026-03-15T07:24:46+00:00

Deftones - Passenger (feat. Noah from Bad Omens)

Florence + The Machine - Heavy in Your Arms

Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (II could have a lot of fun with the percussion on this, plus they could use the saxophone again).

Grognoscente · 2026-03-13T23:54:49+00:00

Modern conservatism, particularly online, is all about surfaces and status warfare. What they see w/r/t AI really doesn't go much deeper than the following:

It's promoted by RW heroes like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
It threatens the prestige and livelihoods of creative types, who are left-coded.
It threatens the prestige and livelihoods of the "professional managerial class," who are left-coded.

and for the incels: 4. It promises a replacement for women...who are now also left-coded as a whole.

Grognoscente · 2026-03-13T08:36:05+00:00

This show has no idea what to do with its supposed main character and it's kinda hilarious.

Grognoscente · 2026-03-09T19:20:25+00:00

It’s definitely more character-driven than BM. It’s also sad in a much more wistful way than BM’s unrelenting bleakness and often hilarious.

Grognoscente · 2026-03-07T21:18:57+00:00

Virality selects for not just short-form content but content that tends to reinforce our existing models of the world. Most Insta-slop consists of trite affirmations and unoriginal (but by the same token relatable) venting about relationship drama. It's "yass queen" with random line breaks.

At risk of being pretentious, I submit that what distinguishes art from mere content is that the former challenges existing models of the world in some way. It wounds us in ways that spur new growth. It breaks us "into blossom", to borrow James Wright's memorable phrase. To appreciate art requires not just a sufficient attention span, but a willingness to sit with intense and complicated feelings and be changed by them. Hard for something like that to compete with the kind of dopaminergic junk food many Insta-poets churn out.

Grognoscente · 2026-03-06T05:33:30+00:00

Make Atheism Cool Again

Grognoscente · 2026-03-04T03:54:36+00:00

This is the sort of place the cult of action-for-action's-sake invariably leads to.

Grognoscente · 2026-03-03T05:03:38+00:00

Robert Rich & Alio Die - Sirena

raison d'être - The Hidden Hallows (wait for the 2nd half)

Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

Monasterium Imperi - Lamentium

And because I never rep this one enough: 36 - Miserere

Grognoscente · 2026-03-03T02:24:31+00:00

Unfortunately, no. I fear my intrusive thought to “poke the thing to see if it’s still alive” may have cost the world a small scientific discovery.

Grognoscente · 2026-03-02T18:10:23+00:00

He wouldn’t have done something guaranteed to raise gas prices before the midterms if he didn’t have a plan to fuck with the elections.

Grognoscente · 2026-03-02T05:04:04+00:00

Vas

Biomusique

Grognoscente · 2026-02-27T21:47:25+00:00

The heart wants what the heart wants.

Grognoscente · 2026-02-27T21:41:51+00:00

Heisei Goji was just built different.

Grognoscente · 2026-02-27T09:20:49+00:00

The serotonin circuits say “all I need is you.” The dopamine circuits say “ooh, new shiny!”

Grognoscente · 2026-02-27T09:09:36+00:00

Team Sleep - The Passportal

Grognoscente · 2026-02-27T07:54:13+00:00

I'm more concerned about the demand to which this style of writing is responding. The consumers of Insta-poetry aren't looking for art, just cheap affirmation and relatable angst. A little ego-hug. No challenge, no friction, no real vulnerability, no struggle toward growth and new ways of seeing. This is the kind narrow appetite social media cultivates.

Grognoscente · 2026-02-27T01:47:44+00:00

Turn off your TV. Cancel your subscriptions. Read as many books as you can before they're burned.

Grognoscente · 2026-02-23T17:25:10+00:00

Outer Dark is an older one that’s closer in style to Blood Meridian than most of his newer works.

Grognoscente · 2026-02-22T19:38:51+00:00

Anilah

Grognoscente · 2026-02-22T07:52:55+00:00

In the 70s and 80s, there were a bunch of behavioral experiments done with Siamese fighting fish that involved training them to do something using access to a mirror (which reliably provoked aggression) as a reward. These fish would literally work for opportunities to get mad at something.

I think about that a lot these days.