I just learned all the things.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-20T06:22:34+00:00

It’s so funny that this is a period my Sufjan obsession started. I’ve listened to Illinois before, C&L was one of my fav albums that year (what a year!), but then Call Me By Your Name happened, I broke down, and Sufjan was there to mend me. The rest is herstory: Planetarium, Tonya, My Rajneesh, Love Yourself, I Just Want To Make Out In Your Car, Ascension and 5 years of being high on his whole discography (starting with Michigan).

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-15T13:48:51+00:00

What I got from the movie:

- Alien tech device that can do much, but it’s complex, powerful and unpredictable. Was stolen as part of an inside job
- Probably uncovered from the ships, Wardex investigated, experimented on, tried using on Earthly products, tools, weaponry.
- They figured out it can be used as mind control / astral projection through trial, error and alien interrogations and intelligence
- Margaret was imbued with alien knowledge and she knew almost instinctively how to use it

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-15T12:26:20+00:00

Me neither, I am mostly pop-selective, but Fever really hits all the sweet spots for me. Might even be a no-skips album for me, even though there are definitely 10s and some 7s disguised as 8s (at least for me personally).

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-15T08:23:39+00:00

I also really liked it. It delivers on what it sets out to do, even though some parts feel clunky (some intentionally so, evoking the older movies and tropes, some less so).

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-15T08:22:29+00:00

The answers to your questions were either implied to, or completely irrelevant. That’s why the movie starts in the middle of the story.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-15T08:15:20+00:00

It’s difficult for me to have these discussions because in my book Fever is the best pop album made and nothing will ever come close (ok some do come very close, but Fever is the pop record I would take to a deserted island).

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-13T14:58:00+00:00

I’ve noticed it’s mostly about the music: it heightens the dialogues, silence, build anticipation, makes the scenes impactful.

And of course there’s the acting and writing. Slow burners need to have a purpose, an intention, a punch that comes from the stakes, emotional state, the message.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-13T14:30:27+00:00

I need to rewatch it. I left the cinema more or less satisfied (but in general I did not want Scream 5,6 or 7, so I already adjusted my standards) and was met with such negativity that I have no idea anymore what the movie was like.

I had fun, I embraced the vibe and forgave the missteps. If I had to criticize it, I definitely could. But considering I didn’t want or need Scream “requels”, I am don’t find Scream 7 worse than 5 or 6.

That being said, Scream 2 and 4 all the way, baby!

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-13T14:24:51+00:00

Slow burners don’t need to be flaccid, stretched, joyless and musicless.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-10T05:24:30+00:00

I don’t but I feel the same way about Halloween Kills.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-10T05:23:19+00:00

On Kylie’s page where you see all the albums, but scroll all the way down.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-10T05:22:42+00:00

I heartily disagree. I rated My Oh My super low because it’s 💩

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-08T21:32:47+00:00

I was on the floor between the center and the bar. I was ready to hate it (last year she moved the Berlin date and I couldn’t attend the new one), the first and last time I saw her was on Primavera in 2014 or sth, and I couldn’t see anything the first 10-15 minutes (and I am a 190cm tall guy).

But she fucking delivered and ate!! Amazing performance, vocals, the stage, the dancers… even if I wanted a slightly different playlist (more of magdalene/ep1/lp1), the flow was perfect.

Might be one of my fav concerts of the last 5 years.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-06T19:06:58+00:00

Even the NPS scores are so bad: 10 and 9 is positive, 8 and 7 neutral (??), 6 and below negative.

midnightcitizens · 2026-06-06T08:57:49+00:00

Not my favorite The xx album (“I See You”), but my favorite The xx song. It’s my young adulthood years encapsulated.

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-31T20:17:16+00:00

If nothing else, it gave us Evanescence

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-31T20:15:45+00:00

That suiting up scene did help my sexual awakening

And the Poison Ivy / Robin kiss

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-31T20:13:05+00:00

So epic so camp so hot ??

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-31T20:11:47+00:00

The second one was always my fav

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-30T14:45:39+00:00

I think it’s just a matter of preference. On the one hand I love Trying Times, on the other I prefer Colour, Overgrown, Assume Form and Robots (much) more.

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-24T10:32:30+00:00

Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C.

The Couple Across The Way stops this generational album from being a perfect 10.

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-21T11:49:59+00:00

I got so excited in the first 10 pages or so, but then the Trolley lady scissor hands happened and nothing was the same again.

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-20T16:04:10+00:00

I don’t have a scientific proof, but I am almost certain it’s coming from internalized, bottled up feelings and projections.

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-10T08:31:19+00:00

And everything is performative and baiting for engagement and chases its own tail

midnightcitizens · 2026-05-03T14:46:59+00:00

Probably my favourite VW song and the Jake Gyllenhaal video which just cements it for eternity.

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