shocked no one has said Ray. Ethan Hawke is very good in his Chet Baker biopic Born to be Blue, but I think in the same way Austin Powers killed Bond movies, Walk Hard kinda killed the biopic

raos recently got bought by private equity and is much worse now lol

I just heard a line that I think broke the "unfortunately a bar" meter

"We're having sex and the wettest thing is my eyeballs"

Equal parts disgusting as evocative, painfully descriptive and utterly repulsive

It me

Maybe the coolest picture of me ever taken

PC: @danozzi.bsky.social

We may have identified a glaring gap in the literature

Not including a pic of him with his goggles on is a shame!!!

@pch9857.bsky.social would be your best bet!

Honestly, even taking one scrappy game 3 would make me ecstatic, even if the rest of the series is blood shed

Oh no worries at all! Super excited for everything that should stem from it!

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Didn't do much EmoCon posting here but goddamn what a weekend!!!

Glad to help! These ones can also be tricky since the diminished chord is not resolving up a half-step

For these ones you can also think of it as a long suspensions to the Emin7 where the voice leading looks like this

F to E
Ab/G# to G
B to B
D to D
E to E

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Dim(maj7) is a pretty common harmony in jazz since the maj7th is in the diminished scale... can think of it (F Ab B D E) as a G13b9 (G B D F Ab E). It works well resolving down to the Emin because you can treat the E like a pedal tone

Amazing! and I didn't know you were formerly STL based (and poor one out for the dead homie)! I'm sure there's an old Foxing feature that I should probably check out!

eeek!!!

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Thanks so much for the kind words about the conference!!! We would have loved to have you out! Hope to see you on the zoom!!!

Oh hey, thats me

Oh it was nothing too interesting! just navigating the ways @annakornbluh.bsky.social is both heavily inspired by and diverges from Jameson/asking if that does constitute a shift from late/neoliberal to too late/neofuedal capitalism!

Heartbreaking! This scholar prepared a whole lecture on Jameson's Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism only to not even get to it in class

But I think it did a good job of framing a discussion and allowing the students to say "millennials are cringe" which set up a discussion about what does cringe mean and its relationship to coolness, so it succeed it that sense, but I'm not sure that was because of the argument/rhetoric of the book

And this leads him to make some bizarre claims (e.g., Obama isn't cool).

Some of this may stem from the fact that the class was centered around discussions of coolness so the students were already familiar with many parts of his argument.

We did Ted Gioia's The Birth and Death of the Cool, which I'm not sure I would recommend. It does a decent job of historicizing a shift from coolness back to what he terms a "cult of sincerity" but he seems to be a bit out of touch with the actual aesthetics of millennials

We talked about these shows in my class called "Music and the Politics of Cool" yesterday, arguing they represented the millenial move away from coolness and towards cringe!

God he looks like such a Lil baby in this pic

Thanks for the kind words!

My video with 12tone

Huge thanks to @12tone.nebula.tv for working with me on the video "The Surprising Rhythms of Emo" in support of EmoCon! This video maps the meaning of shifts between half-time, normal-time, and double-time in emo/pop-punk music as they relate to the general suburban discontent of the genres!

It was really fun working with Varun, and seriously, if you have any interest in emo and/or music theory, you should check out EmoCon: emocon2026.com

Why Does Emo Sound Like That? YouTube video by 12tone

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