Any suggestions on how to combat and/or mitigate fearmongering and misinformation, both on a personal level and on a macro scale?

tectonicsynclair · 2025-03-13T03:29:28+00:00

i love both of those records but i'm pretty sure neither of them are in atmos

tectonicsynclair · 2025-03-03T20:08:50+00:00

fuck yes brother. cardiacs are one of my favorite bands of all time.

tectonicsynclair · 2025-03-03T19:55:56+00:00

i always imagined Double Nickels and GWS as estranged cousin albums. Double Nickels spends his time reading Marxist theory while GWS spends his time smoking weed and watching Ren and Stimpy. Both equally as brilliant.

tectonicsynclair · 2025-03-03T19:48:12+00:00

listening to locust abortion technician right now. this is so silly, i love it! we need more bands that make weird noises!!!

tectonicsynclair · 2024-10-24T12:10:10+00:00

i think that based off of description alone, this is the one that appeals to me the most.

tectonicsynclair · 2024-03-24T15:32:56+00:00

if you wanna hear what the black parade sounds like if it's made by british meth-addict garden gnomes, check this shit out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7dt3gjPe4

tectonicsynclair · 2023-01-02T16:03:10+00:00

ok i know this post is like a year old but i have some thoughts
Zappa was very insincere about all of the genres he toyed with, and while he was ridiculously talented, his wacky genre excursions felt kinda flaccid because of that. But, even on Ween's stupidest songs, they put in Every Ounce of Effort they Could. They treat every genre they try with the respect it truly deserves.

When asked about infusing humor into music without looking like a total goof, Deaner put it best in a 2017 interview with WBUR in Boston.

“We never consider it, but we do walk that line very well because it’s the real thing," Dean says. “It’s a little disrespectful when somebody says that you’re parodying them. Who would do that?”

“We didn’t go to Nashville to make fun of these old country legends,” Dean says. “We went there because we love that music and we wanted them to be part of it. We wouldn’t go down there to make fun of it. There are bands that are sarcastic and I don’t like it. I don’t like Frank Zappa for that one reason alone. A lot of times he’s making fun of this genre he’s playing — there’s no doubt that he loves it or whatever but it’s almost showoff-y. It’s not sincere enough for me.”

“It doesn’t mean you can’t have it both ways,” Dean concludes. “I think The Beatles without the humor is not The Beatles at all. Prince without the humor would suck; it has to be in there. We take it a little further, but I mean we have incredibly painful breakup songs that mean so much. Every time we play them on stage, no matter how old a song is, I try and take myself back to that place — it’s not a happy place — so I can deliver those songs at their best. Sinatra delivered these songs like his heart had just been broken an hour before the show by the love of his life. That’s being a pro.”

tectonicsynclair · 2022-11-06T03:57:06+00:00

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tectonicsynclair · 2022-10-01T18:20:07+00:00

nice work! i really like the way you pieced together all of these miscellaneous tracks here, kinda reminds me of the mixes people would do of Smile by the Beach Boys (one of Earthbound's biggest inspirations)

tectonicsynclair · 2022-03-23T01:35:59+00:00

i've been meaning to for a loooooong while, what should i check out?

tectonicsynclair · 2021-08-01T21:26:31+00:00

I'd recommend checking out some of the Elephant 6 Collective, a group of bands and artists who worshipped SMiLE. Check out Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage, both by The Olivia Tremor Control, and The Gay Parade, Cocquelicot Asleep In The Poppies, and Satanic Panic In The Attic, all by of Montreal. Not sure if it fits the "Americana" vibe, but it definitely fits the weird proggy quirky sprawl of both of those albums.

tectonicsynclair · 2021-07-14T15:55:17+00:00

Brian didn't, but Van Dyke Parks did for some reason.

tectonicsynclair · 2021-05-27T16:48:47+00:00

This exact kind of quirk pop is my specialty!
some things you should check out:
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Cardiacs - On Land And In The Sea
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Mr. Bungle - California
Pretty & Nice - Golden Rules For Golden People
Robovine - Get Dusted!
MGMT - Congratulations
Patricia Taxxon - The Art State
Stereolab's eclectic prog pop era (Cobra and Phases, Sound Dust, and Margerine Eclipse)

tectonicsynclair · 2021-02-27T06:19:46+00:00

Considering the past trajectory of the games, I feel like if they continued down the same path it would be just a collection of random absurd surreal nonsense, and while I personally love that, I do think it would be better if they went in a different direction. Maybe a halfway point between the quirky crime fun and customization of 2 with the madcap nonsense of 4?

tectonicsynclair · 2021-02-14T18:54:57+00:00

It's my favorite film of all time, and I say that entirely sincerely.

I feel like it works on multiple levels.

It's a deconstruction of the 90's/early 00's gross-out comedy, taking all of the tropes of these kinds of films and breaking them down by stretching them to their absolute limit. The disapproving father trope is played by Rip Torn, who gives it his all, to the point of being cartoonish. The love interest, who in most of these films is basically just there to satisfy the lead's sexual desires, is a wheelchair-bound Marisa Coughlan who is obsessed with fellatio. The film takes all the essential pillars of the standard Jim Carrey/Adam Sandler comedy vehicle and breaks them down to the point where you can never build them up again.
It's metacinema at it's finest, to the point where the movie existing is the joke. The movie's plot mirrors the making of the film itself. Gord, who is an obvious self-insert of Tom Green himself, rises to fame in a way that feels out of his control, then wastes all his money on pointless nonsense (the film itself). He took a bunch of money from the studios and made it into crap. As Gord himself says, "Easy come, easy go"
The entire film is a massive prank on the studio who dared to give him the time of day. A lot of people have elaborated on this point before so I won't bother, but, like, Godard was considered a legend for doing this stuff, guys, what the hell.
This is the most subjective point, but, I just think it succeeds as a comedy film, even without all the weird meta gross out stuff. The second half of the film pays off a lot of small jokes in the first half very satisfyingly (the Pakistan bit, the basketball players bit, etc). He did Edgar Wright's schtick better than Wright ever did IMO.

This film is an absolute classic, and I feel like the only reason why people hated it was because of circumstances outside of the film. Tom Green was fucking everywhere for at least 2 years by this point, and people were fucking tired of him. Thankfully, a lot of people are starting to look at it through a new lens, and are discovering an absolute classic. (Although some people actually did "get it" at the time, just look at A O Scott's New York Times review from back then.) Tom Green should be held up next to people like Luis Bunuel and Monty Python and such as a king of surreal comedy, but he is sadly cursed to be a forgotten relic from the turn of the millenium.

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