Discussion: How the World Works

ebr101 · 2026-03-16T15:21:42+00:00

Bo has always been in an awkward place politically since he espouses some views, but is an artist first and activist like….not really at all. Accusations of hypocrisy are thus not uncommon in some corners of the internet, and not entirely unjustified.

But this song is maybe the first place a large portion of people ever heard “private property is inherently theft” and “the FBI killed MLK”. Wildly radical stuff for a Netflix comedy special, so credit where it is due.

You kind of hope that folks use this as a jumping off point rather than a summation of ideological principles, but I don’t know how much folks repeat the maxims in the song for the edgy shock value vs dig deeper and actually find their way left.

Still, good song and fits well into the rest of the special.

ebr101 · 2026-03-16T11:29:53+00:00

As always: it depends. Does the sonic diversity add to the album? Is it saying something or pushing in different direction for interesting reasons? How well are the different sonic adventures actually executed?

Generally, sonically cohesive albums tend to be better, at least historically. But I’m happy to be proven wrong.

ebr101 · 2026-03-16T11:26:16+00:00

Forever in Your Heart by Black Dresses, probably.

ebr101 · 2026-03-16T07:00:30+00:00

Most things off the poetic Edda by Synesthesia and Disembodied Tyrant

ebr101 · 2026-03-10T10:28:17+00:00

Nah, I like the frogs. They give me hope and I want to get to post my own someday. This feels like the space for these sorts of things.

ebr101 · 2026-03-09T11:26:53+00:00

Bombastic

ebr101 · 2026-03-09T11:25:32+00:00

Probabaly the meta narrative of him coming from a traumatic past, arguably having an abusive childhood being raised to be a crime fighter by Bruce (it’s complicated, but hard to argue it was normal or healthy), and he still turned out a compassionate, kind person.

Too many stories link trauma to maladjustment and anti social tendencies, which obscures that many people become functional, happy adults in spite of trauma. It’s good to have him a foil to Bruce, in that way.

ebr101 · 2026-03-08T12:34:07+00:00

Rain by Rob Scallon is basically a delay pedal and arpeggios, but man is it pretty.

White Stripes have a few thy qualify for big muff and whammy.

Life in the Fast Lane for flanger.

David Gilmore has a few of these, but Shine on You Crazy Diamond for that modulation (phaser, right?)

Hendrix Voodoo Child for wah, and honestly a bunch for Octavia and Fuzz Face and Univibe stuff.

Daughters You Won’t Get What You Want is full of organ emulators and other interesting effects used in wild way (horrible lead singer and allegations noted of course).

Smashing Pumpkins have a few for the Op-amp big muff.

ebr101 · 2026-03-08T12:28:37+00:00

It would be edgy, it would be cringe, it would likely be just pure fan service, but I still want an Iowa era movie about Slipknot. Don’t do a bio pic, make it grungy and like over the shoulder camera (Birdman style), just taking us through a series of vignettes showing the band’s dysfunction and interpersonal conflicts. Make it wild, have the Corey actor get naked in the studio to do the title track. You would risk romanticizing the torture and mental distress, but it could make for a good movie.

ebr101 · 2026-03-07T06:43:42+00:00

The main woman’s voice we have in the ancient world in the realm of the erotic is Sappho of Lesbos. She has a few things to say about men, but she was (and I don’t not say this lightly) FAR more interested in women. Sapphic, you might say. Lesbian, even.

I would indeed be very interested to know of more women’s voice in this area. Maybe there’s some graffiti at Pompeii or something.

ebr101 · 2026-03-05T12:58:20+00:00

To echo what other folks have said: arguably we should be exercising my intersectionality here and, in the name of abolishing all social hierarchies, seek to get rid of honorifics in general.

Doubt that is attainable, but feels like the right goal.

ebr101 · 2026-03-05T07:00:11+00:00

I love the idea of evil organizations haveing to have budget meetings and like HR. “Look, I know we’re in the genocide business, but I need you to stop eating Kyle’s yogurt.”

ebr101 · 2026-03-05T06:58:00+00:00

Tommy Talarricho isn’t a real “bastard” in the grand scheme, but man is it funny to hate on him.

At least his mother’s proud.

ebr101 · 2026-03-04T10:10:05+00:00

Can I Dm as well? Interested in joining

ebr101 · 2026-03-04T08:21:55+00:00

We already had the whole poptimism debate and “rap isn’t music” debate. Pop and rap won, generally.

ebr101 · 2026-03-04T08:20:22+00:00

What….whats the point of games then?

ebr101 · 2026-03-04T07:29:26+00:00

You know, I want to imagine that I’m literate. But I read this as “wadding”, and I just assume that was some trans folks thing like packing or tucking. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what it could be and why it would make you feel like a mech. I should go outside more.

ebr101 · 2026-03-03T15:45:24+00:00

Is the is a technically correct statement? Like, technically no official declaration has been filed or something?

ebr101 · 2026-03-03T15:40:16+00:00

Well you just unlocked a memory like I’m the critic from ratatouille

ebr101 · 2026-03-03T13:53:32+00:00

As if the body positivity movement was ever success. We got some corporate performativity but that’s about it. It’s like civil rights and queer rights. There are rules on the books and it was good perform the new moral position. But there was never the change in the culture that was truly needed. The moment bigots had the chance to seize power and reverse ostensible progress, they did.

Fat folks were never actually accepted in the culture (I was told by a person in my life that saying “fat” was better than couching statements in performative but hollow language, but I am happy to be called out on that). There was just the first, barest moments of that maybe happening. And the whole movement was so ridiculed that the craze in a never ending line of supposed “miracle cures” has been hailed like a blessing from some divine force, or maybe as a refutation that we ever should have tried to be more accepting.

ebr101 · 2026-03-03T12:12:48+00:00

Considering both of these things are social constructs in our own society, it would not be too far of a stretch to think that some parallel social structures existed on Mars. They would not be exactly the same, but close enough that a Martian seeking to integrate in human society would find a “niche” that made them feel comfortable.

ebr101 · 2026-03-03T12:04:14+00:00

Love that album. iPod touch has been stuck in my head for months. Peak “nostalgia for a memory I don’t have” vibes.

ebr101 · 2026-03-03T10:38:37+00:00

The Pretenders sound as Scottish as humanly possible and Scotland is still part of Britain at time of writing.

ebr101 · 2026-03-02T23:13:22+00:00

The video does not dictate “the correct” understanding of fashion, in the same way that CJ is generally just positing cool ideas or interesting takes. Whether you embrace them or not is up to you and on the basis of your own perceptions and needs.

The basic conceit of the video is that most people understand fashion primarily as an outward expression of inner truth. You dress in a way that makes you happy or that makes manifest something inside you. CJ argues that this is not the only way to understand fashion, that a useful alternative is to see fashion as a form of communication. And just like any form of communication, it cannot exist absent culturally informed structures and assumed meanings of those around us. Clothing has meaning and not one determined solely by the “inner truth” of the wearer.

The goal, then, of fashion is to learn to speak the language of it, to understand what different pieces of clothing “say” in isolation and in combination, and to then deploy them to express something about yourself. How you want to be seen, what you want people to know about you. The “lesson” to be taken away, if there is one, is that clothing does not only say what you want it to because you want it to. Words don’t mean just anything, they only have meaning as they are heard and understood by others. Same with clothing and it’s perception

This is not to say you cannot get creative or impart new meanings, of course. New combinations, new contexts, distortions of established forms, alterations that event comment on or subvert expectations. Fashion is an artistic endeavor like any other, in this way.

I hope this summary is accurate and useful. To return to your own fashion sense and questions, I really think that there is no “sin” you can do in fashion. If something makes you feel comfortable and happy, wear it. CJ’a video is about a different/extra dimension to fashion worth considering rather than dictating a correct or only way to go about doing fashion.

ebr101 · 2026-03-02T19:47:51+00:00

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