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Celery Man

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  1. I think this may have changed for gen z kids, but as a millennial the recipe for success I heard over and over and over and over again growing up was 1) get good grades 2) get into college 3) ???? 4) In retrospect it is crazy how thin my plan was. Anyways, towards the end of my college career I had a big gradual "oh fuck what am i going to do" thing going on, and I spent a lot of days somewhat paralyzed playing Fallout 3 and generally not knowing what to do. Sure as fuck didn't want to talk about it because it was terrifying and I had no idea what I was doing at all except that I was fucking up and it was maybe pretty serious. I can "feel" a lot of that in how you describe your daughter Brisket. I don't know what advice follows - for me personally, I caught a lucky break in that a friend suggested I apply at the small company where he worked and that was enough of a handhold to get me started. I think at that time and for a long time, I would have benefited from understanding how you grow in a career and how gradual things can be (but what steps you should try and take to get from "entry level" bottom of the pole to established) and even the large number of well paying jobs that exist that aren't things you get a degree in. I didn't understand any of that at all, I felt like I had already blown it. I'm a baby parent, I don't have the parenting experience to give any advice, but if what she's going through emotionally is similar to where I was, what i needed was just a little bit of help figuring out how to get up on the bike and rolling down the road. I wanted to do it, I knew I needed to, I wasn't sure how and was falling off every time i climbed on the wrong way.
  2. some men just want to eat world
  3. I think he gets the “fat people with food stamps” thing wrong as a “position” (as much as he takes one there) but it’s also weird from a… songwriting/cohesiveness of thought and message perspective to have a “cut welfare” verse in your populist/anti rich men from dc song. It’s, they’re taxing his dollar all to hell and giving it to the broke fatty down the road and now it’s about poor people buying the wrong groceries. (edit to be clear - I'm not interested in or attempting to argue about the rightness of any kind of position on how welfare should be administered, just admitting that I do disagree but that bit bothers me for a separate reason as well)
  4. It’d be cool to see people take a song like that and maybe do verses with the same sentiment from…. original artists perspective (which I think is Appalachian Virginian living somewhat off the grid), dying rust belt town perspective, “inner city” perspective, booming but unaffordable metro perspective, underemployed college grad perspective, ag perspective, rgv/border perspective, etc. Show the stupidity of the rural/urban or college/non-college divide when it should be the <not gonna go there here> divide.
  5. It’s everything shitty about being a woman with everything shitty about being black, but it is so much shittier than the sum of its parts because… I’m not excited about trying to characterize what someone with much better perspective said several years back but something like, a lot of the white woman shortcuts aren’t available, there is a dynamic of how they are treated by black men, and from childhood there is no dream to aspire to, no magic way out like hip hop, sports, or even drugs (obviously at this point we’re talking about a subset of black women) to pin their hopes on. Again, it’s been a minute and I’m not the right person to explain the frustrations of being a black woman but it was something like that helped me understand the explosion of frustration that you sometimes see.
  6. Yeah for sure, doesn’t fit clean on one “side” or the other, no surprise that lots of people are identifying with things from it.
  7. I mean the song is explicitly political. If you don’t want people to filter your song through politics don’t write political songs. I’m happy for him, even if Joe Rogan posted it.
  8. It’s possible that they are not able to recognize it because there is nobody left who can read.
  9. True, but girly af. And so is Taylor Swift. I need some young folk to tell me who the new pop star is.
  10. More recent stuff, I’ll rock some Phoebe Bridgers and keep meaning to dive into Boygenius
  11. Hash Pipe is actually a pretty good example song for the thing about Weezer - ok, so the chorus is good and rocks, if any other band on the planet did these verses, these lyrics, or just lifted this peter gunn thing, it would be complete garbage. But it's Weezer and they can do that, I'm not sure exactly why. Pork'n Beans is an extreme example of that except that song just sucks even for Weezer. I'm not taking Jimmy's position - I remember talking about Buddy Holly on the playground with my friends in 4th grade, I grew up with Weezer and have always liked them. But, Jimmy Eat World is fucking solid. I love Static Prevails although that is somewhat nostalgia driven. The four album run of Clarity, Bleed American, Futures, and Chase This Light is phenomenal. I don't think Chase This Light got a lot of play but it is just a great album. Probably my most played Jimmy Eat World song is A Praise Chorus and weirdly I could hear a version of this song if it had been written by Weezer. Anyways, penance for continuing the Weezer/Jimmy Eat World tangent I started - Paramore is good, and (now I'm just thinking of redheads) I still jam this song sometimes i think the real answer for this thread was nailed up top - Tay Tay, Katy Perry, Miley. "You Belong With Me" is my karaoke song and it hits every time.
  12. Agree that weezer is more influential and culturally significant. But they aren’t as good.
  13. Eh not gatekeeping the thread, just… you can blast that one while I’m watching and I won’t call you girly. was hoping Paul’s friend’s story ended with an eruption of applause but… homer drooling standing in for homer sobbing there
  14. Jimmy Eat World doesn’t belong in this list - they have at least 4 great albums and are one of the best bands of their kind/scene/era. I’ll offer the potentially spicy take that they are better than Weezer. Taylor Swift is great. I think Carly Rae Jepson actually has a few more songs - call me maybe is mind numbing pop but it is a jam. Billie Eilish is interesting. Just in general, good pop music is good music. The video for this good song feels like it belongs in this thread.
  15. I haven’t even read the post yet but I’ll make an effort. Deadline and prompts would definitely be useful for me to finally write something. It was a goal this year or last year to come up with a song idea a month and I fell off quick.
  16. I think my general thing is that she is not a person who is in control of her actions. Twice has a fair point in that there's some degree of mental illness involved with a lot of the horrible behavior we see from people. And kinda independently, there was some post forever ago (on the old site) where someone put things into perspective on black women losing their shit and it made me have a lot of empathy for that. But still, beyond the run of the mill mental defects that make you susceptible to idiotic and hateful beliefs, here is a woman who is literally detached from reality. It's not like making a choice to hold up a plane, it's like waking up from a bad dream and I did what? Typically you see this kind of behavior from homeless people on the street, because that is where people who have this kind of sickness end up if they don't get the help they need to fix whatever is going wrong in their brain. I don't know enough about "hard" drugs to know if what's happening there could be a result of some substance abuse but my initial guess is that it is not that. From the information here you would imagine that she'll have some help offered to her along the way but... streets is where she'll wind up if nothing takes.
  17. Oh that does sound interesting - I enjoyed (and don't think I ever finished) High Maintenance, and this sounds similar - one setting/through line that connects a bunch of small independent stories. The one that is on now.... Somebody Somewhere is also good. Very small, which I think is part of their deal. The movie based on the craiglist ad is also enjoyable for more comedy - Safety Not Guaranteed. Back to The League, though - where the fuck is Taco? He was great and seemed like someone who probably had his own kinda thing going and they just brought him in on the show, but I haven't seen him pop up anywhere else.
  18. btw the figuring/pattern on the back of your D28 is super nice AUTF
  19. Oh I had no idea Duplass went to Texas. He’s a pretty big deal/pretty big influence in film. Shoegaze or whatever, I’m not a film guy but it’s was always a little funny that he does this tv comedy and then over here is a huge indie film guy with his brother. I still haven’t wrapped up the series, every year I watch an episode or two around draft time but I just.. watched some cartoon rafi episode last fall, it’s not quite the same in the later season. I should wrap it up and start from the beginning. I remember watching this and Workaholics live and feeling like I wanted to be more of a The League guy (in real life) but was much more of a Workaholics guy. Glad things have changed since then.
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