Justin Cornell

I'm here mostly for music, trivia, theater. He/him

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@MetsBooth Let’s go to Luckenback, Texas
Baty and Taylor and Lindor

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@naturalog Billy Joel at his peak had the best vocal phrasing in popular music. He could really sell a rhyme.

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

I'm going to try deleting twitter from my phone, see how that feels for a few weeks, and then maybe deactivate.
You can find me on Threads and Bluesky at this same handle, JustinWCornell.

[Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyrics]

Do forgive me if me head's a little vague.

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@TheAVClub More My World of Flops!

[Nathan Rabin @nathanrabin]

I recently published the first My World of Flops piece in SEVEN long years at @TheAVClub on the gloriously nutty Madame Web. The column's future is largely dependent on how this piece does, so if you want more My World of Flops, please let them know! https://t.co/kLBMxCpm1R

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@RainicornMax Even better, the years don't even have to be correct. As long as you think they're correct, the memory trick works.

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@RainicornMax Battle of Guadalcanal + the Beatles release that awful album with dismembered baby dolls on the cover + Guadalcanal again + Alger Hiss was convicted + Italy surrendered in WW2.
(I randomly selected this number and the years all happened to land in mid-century, but that's unusual)

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

This is a late-era-Twitter classic. I've been thinking about this tweet for months.

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

we really do rewrite history, like why am i nostalgic for that apartment where i was too depressed to get out of bed

[New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx]

Total snowfall forecast over the next week (in inches)

[Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco]

Happy Father’s Day to everyone except one guy

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@RainicornMax In Paradise Lost, Adam’s fall happens in Book 9, line 999

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

I write, erase,
rewrite erase again,
then a flower blooms

Hokusai

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

I'm really enjoying Sabrina Carpenter's follow-up single, "Doppio"

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@kmstx78 Will the sequel be called Godzilla?

[mark lafaro is on bluesky @MarkLaFaro]

Great years in Brazilian music part VI: 1969

1969 was the last breath of the Tropicália movement before Caetano and Gilberto Gil's exiles but also featured some incredible solo debut albums. We'll explore both, as well as some deep cuts, as always.

25 Brazilian albums from 1969

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@RainicornMax

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@ReichlinMelnick @Matteo8519 I also think it's significant that the least assimilated group of migrants at that time were the Chinese, who were also the only group excluded from the relatively open immigration policies of the prior era.

[Justin Cornell @JustinWCornell]

@ReichlinMelnick @Matteo8519 We know that by 1924, older groups of immigrants had pretty well assimilated-- the examples that come to mind are Irish and Central European Jewish migrants, but I'm sure there are others.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

My grandfather turns 100 today. A child of immigrants, he was born just 5 days after the 1924 national origins quota system—which would have blocked his parents—became law.

They ran a deli; he became a world-renowned doctor. Think how many stories like his the 1924 law blocked.