Luke Metzler

I write songs for humans.

[Luke Metzler @LukeMetzler]

Tell Me True https://t.co/6viBiyIC6f

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

We hereby offer Mr. Wembanyama tickets to our Sunday, June 7 screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning five-and-a-half hour epic 1900 when he is in the city later this week on a work-related trip...

[dylan @dylangonzalez21]

“55 points 55 rebounds 55 blocks 55 assists 55 steals”

[Moonstruck❤️‍🔥 @godspeed_aflame]

Christ’s gospel was so radical, so contrary to the wisdom of the world, that people are still coping 2000 years later, insisting that he didn’t actually mean what he said.

[Mark Go with your move Caesar @pissyopants1]

We’re never going to see a player like this again

[Gipopotam @gipopotam88]

@pmamtraveller

[Gipopotam @gipopotam88]

@pmamtraveller

[gibby from icarly @monolilium]

+ a reminder from Quincy Jones

[parker @blinkbizkit]

@MatthewFerrari

[audrey @phlegmme]

Coastal liberal atheist shocks Mormon cashier by ordering dirty soda in perfect Utahn

[Pepé Silvia ⚜️ @SlayYoung23]

Lebron stepped out of his prime and not a single player has been able to replicate his dominance. Your 3x MVP is about to be a 1st round exit. I don’t know how so many ppl were gaslit into thinking 10 straight Final appearance was a hit on his legacy

[moose #protanking @roadto80pct]

look at this hunger savannah you just gotta let him play those extra 3 years dont be greedy

[Nature Is Nonpartisan @NINP_org]

The National Park Service ran on a $3 billion budget and generated $56 billion in economic output in 2024. That’s over $17 back for every $1 invested.

With a record of 332 million visitors last year, Americans clearly care about their parks and expect them to be funded.

[Kalle📸 @KalleSorbo]

@jverburn Watching the Sun rise through a crimson sky over endless rows of corn on an open highway will bring you to tears with pride at the beauty of our nation

[Kalle📸 @KalleSorbo]

The secret of America is there really isn’t an ugly state. Even North Dakota & Iowa have breathtaking beauty in their own right.

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

It’s crazy how Mad Men really is the greatest show of all time

[Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy]

"San Luis Obispo," by American artist and Disney animator, Eyvind Earle, 1990.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

What Jeremy Strong did in "Succession" must have been incredibly difficult.

The whole conceit of "Succession" is that the show pretends to be a Shakespearian drama when it's actually a cringe comedy and Kendall Roy is a ridiculous idiot who thinks he is Michael Corleone when he's really Michael Scott.

Strong had to set up every joke that was on his character while never betraying a single moment of self-awareness. Because if his character was ever in on the joke, the whole show would stop being fun.

And Jeremy Strong's reward for pulling off the amazing trick of playing the perfect pompous clown was that everybody treated him like he was actually his character and diversity hires at garbage media outlets projected all the hate they were feeling for white men at the peak of woke onto him.

And that's how you get the 2023 New Yorker profile of Strong -- an artifact from an era people are now trying to pretend didn't happen -- which rips into Strong for taking his job too seriously and being too passionate about his art form and working too hard to make something great.

Brian Cox, of course, had a lot of thoughts to share with the writer of that article. Cox didn't have to do much work to play a blowhard prick on "Succession" because he's a blowhard prick in real life, and despite being an actor for more than half a century, Cox lacked the wherewithal to appreciate or even understand one of the greatest performances ever committed to film happening right next to him. He was perfectly happy to tell the press he didn't see what was so hard about what Strong was doing.

He didn't see why Strong was always talking with the writers and directors and making things take longer. It was so annoying! Acting is easy for Brian Cox. All you have to do is stand on your mark, yell your lines, and then you can go to the bar.

And now Cox has revealed that the great Daniel Day-Lewis actually called him to ask him to shut up, and he refused to take the call.

Great guy. Prince of a fellow.

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

I don’t think there’s any better writing on any of their singles than the writing on When You Were Young.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Ben McCollum shares what it feels like to be around first-place people and a first-place culture.

"I went to Northwest Missouri State, and my first practice with Steve Tapmeyer - best coach I've ever been around - I sat there and I'm like, 'This is what first place feels like. This is what a first-place culture feels like. This is what first-place people feel like.'"

That was the wake-up call. He realized what first-place people have:
"They've got an extreme work ethic. They've got an edge to 'em that other people don't - a competitive spirit."

Then he quoted John Thompson:
"You can tame a fool a lot quicker than you can resurrect a corpse...We want guys with a little edge to 'em."

You can coach skills, but you can't coach competitive spirit. You don't want to consistently coach their effort and attitude.

The last thing they look for: Energy givers.
"Over the years, we found that guys that are moody don't make it in our program."

"If you're moody, if you have low energy, if you suck the life out of the building - you don't make it."

Talent isn't enough. Your energy matters. Your attitude matters.

Successful people have a competitive edge, they bring energy, and they look to consistently get better.

They raise the standard through what they do.
(🎥 Watts Happening Podcast)

[brayan bello defender🙂‍↕️ @tessiesbestie]

how. can you not. be romantic. about baseball.