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Couldn't help but spoil the setlist for myself; very few songs I'm unfamiliar with and several if not most are absolute bucket-list must-sees in my book. The 3D solo tour was my first time seeing Neil live and while it was a great experience I cherish, I'll admit I didn't know many of the tunes.

File this one under hell yeah: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139307/fcc-vote-net-neutrality-rules-rosenworcel-telecom

I don't read "software backdoor" from that article; the idea that the software is susceptible to cyberattacks and the idea that it comes from China are two different things imo. I've said it before: the TikTok ban reeks of "China bad" jingoism and a desire to control the flow of information...

I’m not proposing a line-item veto; it’s not unheard of for the president to veto a bill because extra, unrelated/corrupt items were shoehorned in. Also, I’ve seen no actual proof tiktok specifically is a security risk. The hearings regarding this matter were a total farce.

Welp, Biden signed it. Personally, I wouldn't have. Also...it's not enforceable....right? You can take it off the marketplace but you can't take it off my phone. Just seems like it's ripe for escalating a whole lot before TikTok is sold or the ban is repealed.

The whole situation lives in a middle place for me; I think he's absolutely right in the sense that capitalism has made it appealing to exploit the lower and (what's left of the) middle class, and the regulations in some areas and lack of regulations in others have made it such that a small...

New dates added for OR, WA, ID, and UT: https://consequence.net/2024/04/neil-young-crazy-horse-2024-tour-dates/amp/ Member presale is this morning.

I just watched a newscast interrupted by the self-immolation. The reporter used the word "emblazoned" repeatedly. 😶

Last year we had 3 or 4 people reading Song of Solomon; I thought you were the second person to say they were reading 50 years of Wrestlemania. Until I searched the thread and realized you were the one to bring it up previously. Joke failed.

Is 30 Years of Wrestlemania to 2024 what Song of Solomon was to 2023??

Book 7: Ripley Under Ground, by Patricia Highsmith Picked this up during a weekend trip in the middle of my Don Quixote read; this def went down better on a plane ride than Cervantes. I read Talented Mr. Ripley a few years back and loved it, so I’m trying to crawl through the series. Under...

Absolutely an opening weekend experience for me. Loving the Hartnett resurgence.

Sorry to butt in where uninvited but FJM is in back of mind when I think of this topic. I think he remains relatively unchanged as a persona (haircut for the most recent album nonwithstanding), and the reinventions are more apparent in the music (apocalypse album, divorce album, jazzy crooner...

I'm loving this discussion, and as is typical any time I lob a hot take bomb into a room I find myself immediately amending, hemming and hawing, and otherwise realizing all the grey areas on the margins of surety. I think there's always some inherent artifice in being a performer. Even a...

And those are all treated as separate projects; whether you declare King Geedorah is "DOOM as King Geedorah" or "Daniel Dumille as King Geedorah," we can all agree Take Me to Your Leader is a King Geedorah project.

You got me with Prince switching to a symbol (though that was a much-malgined move) and the Beatles becoming Sgt. Peppers' LHCB, but wouldn't Madonna and Dylan fall more under the category of a constantly shifting image? The artist is the character in that case. See also: The Ramones, Chris Gaines.

Maybe I'm letting specific examples stick in my craw (Bono and St. Vincent, for two), but I think the whole "I'm putting on a costume and adding a layer of abstraction onto my extant, inherent persona" schtick is in conversation with "authenticity;" instead of chasing it, you're running in the...

Here's one: beyond Bowie, any time a musician has developed a "character" for an album cycle, you're in for a bad time.

Sorta! Based on the tight margins in the results, the kinda folks who would respond are pretty split, politically speaking. But based on the energy/grievance of trump’s base, that I imagine there are fewer people who “will vote for Trump, I guess” than “will vote for Biden, I guess;” I’d imagine...

imo, based on the few conversations I've had which loop in Trump voters (past or present), Jan 6 did alienate quite a few people. From what I can tell, those who are sticking around are mainly in the camp of aggrieved voters who want to stick a monkey wrench in the works, whether they think...