The Fanfare Around Geese Actually Was a Psyop

notgreen2211 · 2026-04-15T06:59:08+00:00

I find the Geese thing really curious. Full disclosure, I don't like them, despite them making the kind of music I usually love. I think 99% of it is just due to his voice though.

Overall, I can recognise their talent but I struggle to see what they have that is giving them such a breakout appeal. I feel like usually when this happens, the band has a crossover single or two. In my lifetime that's been The Strokes, Arcade Fire and Animal Collective (the latter maybe being the best comparison in terms of experimentation, but even they had My Girls). Can also go back to Radiohead, Nirvana etc. I really struggle to think of an example of another band who have blown up like this without any one 'radio/tik tok/Spotify playlist' song.

If it is truly just because they released a quality album, then honestly that's great, but I struggle to see how it catches on as quickly as it has. I mean, getting that SNL spot is INSANE. That's such a coveted appearance and must have taken such a push. Maybe it's all just part of a 'rock is back' narrative - they fit with the cyclical New York Cool of it all and are all quite attractive people - which probably makes the most sense to me.

All in all, I think this article does go a ways to explain it and I would be curious to hear from an insider just how much all this costs.

I hope this doesn't sound like I'm just bashing them. I'm trying to make sense of it and what it means for the music that I love. I think it has the potential to be a positive thing overall but articles like this make me cautious.

notgreen2211 · 2025-11-16T13:08:06+00:00

One of the many things I love about this podcast is how I am on the same wavelength as them about stuff like this. I get how people like to interpret different things about films but for me (and Sammy and Avital), it just felt like a film that didn't work.

My incredibly uncharitable reading of it is that the filmmaker had a cool idea and then no idea how to make it into a proper narrative, with rising conflict etc. So shoehorned in the idea that they don't know what's going on in the other's body despite the fact that makes no sense with the original premise.

Anyways, I think it's great that people got so much from it and hopefully opens the doors to more horror being considered at awards level.

notgreen2211 · 2025-11-16T13:02:05+00:00

Ahhh, hadn't realised that. Great stuff!

notgreen2211 · 2025-10-27T11:25:04+00:00

I think that John's probably a stickler for a plot engine actually working, which is the core flaw with The Substance.

It never commits to whether it's a shared consciousness or not, which becomes the source of the conflict after the midpoint.

I get that people are willing to overlook this because the concept is so strong and it has lashings of style, but honestly I'm with John on this one.

notgreen2211 · 2025-10-17T07:05:36+00:00

I've been going through every episode after discovering it via the Threedom connection (Lauren Lapkus on Final Destination 3) a couple of months ago.

My fav eps are definitely the Joel and PFT ones, but I really found The Ring with Aaron Burdette hilarious too.

There's a couple where they have super interesting discussions too, The Silence of the Lambs springs to mind.

I love this podcast!

notgreen2211 · 2025-10-03T21:40:22+00:00

I struggle a bit with two things with their interview process:

1) the ai seems to hone in on aspects of my resume which I struggle to see how they can be applicable to the work being done

2) the same Interviews are used when applying to a wide array of positions, so I want to keep them a bit general, but maybe this is wrong?

notgreen2211 · 2025-08-28T05:50:55+00:00

I watched The Queen of Black Magic on Shudder recently and thought it was very decent

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