I voted for Jill Stein in 2012 and Gloria la Riva (PSL) in 2016/2020 so assuming PSL is still on the ballot in my state I’ll vote for Claudia De la Cruz

Wet Hot American Summer is probably my favorite comedy movie. no plot, just bits and they all land. you can tell everyone in the cast really gelled and had a blast making that movie, which is essential to good comedy

oh you should definitely check it out, it’s one of the best sketch comedy shows off all time

there was a lot of great alt comedy in the 90s with stuff like The State and Mr. Show. I’d argue that shows like that really paved the way for Tim & Eric (in fact, T&E got their big break thanks to Bob Odenkirk who produced Tom Goes to the Mayor)

Tim & Eric definitely brought that type of comedy more into the mainstream until it was no longer “alt” anymore. because yeah, at the time Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia were the biggest names in comedy

Return of the Fall of the Revenge of the Attack of the Rise of the Dawn

season 3 of The Bear

Both Hackers and Mortal Kombat feature Orbital’s “Halcyon And On And On” so therefore they are perfect movies.

But yeah 1995 was cooking. Strange Days and The Doom Generation are also incredible time capsules (both very dark movies tho)

Sbtrkt’s self-titled album still holds up

Rustie - Glass Swords never gets old

I only listen to electronic music from 2011 apparently. what can I say, it was a good year

yeah it was really amazing, those shows were DJ sets and I’m very sad I never saw her during the OOEPUI tour which was more of a full performance but I’m still very grateful that I had the chance to see her at all

the first time was a show with A. G. Cook and QT. SOPHIE played L.O.V.E. which was unreleased so I had no idea what was happening. that song is cool on headphones but hearing, or rather feeling it on big club speakers was a transformative experience, having those vibrations wash over your entire body is indescribable, I’ll always treasure that memory

the second show was probably even better because it was in a smaller room but everyone there was going absolutely crazy and it’s where I heard some of the Charli XCX collabs for the first time

actually I just realized it was 3 times that I saw SOPHIE but now I’m just bragging

I feel so incredibly privileged to have seen SOPHIE live twice back in 2015-2016, her music was a major catalyst for helping me realize I’m not cis, even before she came out as trans. Nobody was pushing the boundaries of music like SOPHIE was and I think her death is the most profound loss to music and art of the 21st century, so it’s great to hear that her previously unreleased music will live on and continue to reach more people.

PS I hope it’s okay to use she/her pronouns for SOPHIE, I know there was some confusion about this after her death because she kept her personal life private but SOPHIE’s family is using she/her so that’s why I am too

can’t believe I talked this much about leftist punk bands without mentioning the OGs, The Clash

do you like punk rock? because there are a lot of punk bands who would align with your values, probably more than most genres. folk punk bands are usually leftist

Against Me! is one of the best IMO, especially their first couple albums, Reinventing Axl Rose and As the Eternal Cowboy are absolute classics, their EPs released around the same time are great too. Their politics have become a bit more lib over time but were left-anarchists at first. Definitely pro-feminist and the singer is a trans woman.

if you like folk punk also check out AJJ (Andrew Jackson Jihad), Defiance, Ohio and projects from Pat the Bunny (Johnny Hobo & the Freight Trains, Wingnut Dishwashers Union) - a lot of his music deals with substance abuse but not in a glamorizing way

There’s some good lefty ska-punk bands like Streetlight Manifesto and Bomb the Music Industry!

other more conventional punk bands you might like : Bad Religion and Propagandhi

as for rap I’d check out Dead Prez

we need to convince these people that it’s woke to not consume high concentrations of arsenic

you need to assert dominance by kissing the guys in front of your wife, that’ll show her

I don’t think someone needs to be the result of a loving relationship to matter or have value. None of us really needed to exist but we do so fuck it, let’s try to make the most of it (I need to take my own advice here)

As for caring about the future, I think we all should want a better reality for the children even if they aren’t “our” children. Immediate family isn’t necessarily the most important thing, we’re all related. Personally it brings me comfort to think of all life in the universe as part of a connected consciousness, and it’s worth fighting for.

at a certain point it just becomes a dick-measuring contest. a lot of insecure guys feel the need to prove how tough they are, but is anyone really impressed?

I haven’t talked to anyone in person in years

a site/forum that specifically caters to male loneliness issues

yeah so about that…

wonder how Kurt Cobain would feel about an artist calling themselves “Cash Cobain” and releasing this deeply misogynistic and homophobic song lol