Scott Creney

Writer. Critic. The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town, out last year on Palgrave Macmillan. Currently shopping a novel called Thick Red Lines.

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@RealRBHJr My local paper (Newsday out here on LI) ran a different strip today

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Wow. What a stupid asshole.

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Best USA bands that haven't been in my feed

Minutemen
Shaggs
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Love
The B-52s
Harry Pussy
Mission of Burma
Camper Van Beethoven
X
Sleater-Kinney

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@IneluctableQuak How about the excessive alliteration/repetition of Stein?

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@GrahamSig bands with 'girls' in the name but it's full of guys

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@RepJackKimble Don't sell yourself short. There is no idiot in congress more realer than you.

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@ddillingworth In the heart of the heart of the county has prose so evocative I could never trust poetry again

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@FranziaMom Either Our Band Could Be Your Life or Paul Morley's Words and Music depending on my mood

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@Antonharmony @paranoiacs Great observation. Shows the sense of urgency he started out with and how quickly he lost it. There's 15-20 songs scattered throughout the rest that are (imho) equal to those but it takes digging.

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@steelydante You might enjoy this extreme deep dive I did on that album a while back

https://t.co/R2fQfvwhYk

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Great deep dive into what is absolutely one of the greatest US films ever made. Sometimes I think about how it avoids the darkest parts of US society (racism, domestic violence, etc.), but I'm not sure the film would be better if that stuff was in there.

[James Kenney @jfkenney]

I promise, I deliver: as deep a dive as you're going to get on Peter Yates' brilliant BREAKING AWAY, w photos, script excerpts and making-of info.

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Evol is my fave but Sister is their best except for when Daydream is their best.

[Claire Penis @ZeroSuitCamus]

They should ask what everyone’s favorite Sonic Youth album is in the census

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To be fair, he has dedicated his life to moral bankruptcy.

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

I found this article by a former Harvard Crimson President very disturbing. The moral bankruptcy that led the Crimson to endorse BDS some time ago, without subsequent withdrawal, appears to have spread to the news pages. 

(I have shared Stoll's article to several at the Crimson without substantive response and this tracks with the things I have observed.) 

Many of the students I have engaged with at the Crimson have high integrity and smarts but I do hope alumni trustees will investigate and take any necessary steps lest a problematic situation deteriorate further.  

https://t.co/lhwG2GKoeD

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@spiccarella All my favorite rock stars positioned themselves as adversaries of the form.

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Lester Bangs

[Stephen Piccarella @spiccarella]

There has never been a “literary rock star,” the temperaments are fundamentally at odds, any proposed example is easily disqualified, sorry to rain on anyone’s parade but it’s the way it is

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Want to "THE DESIGNATED MOURNER!!!" all the reply guys screaming at her about The Princess Bride

[ella devi @ellad3vi]

canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!

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@AlanSiegelLA True. And Curtin was a master of the exasperated slow burn.

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Says the team is 1-6 when they're actually 2-3. What the fuck is this site even doing.

https://t.co/ld7WnR4alU

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@IChotiner I think if you had mentioned Iran-Contra he would have dissolved into a puddle of goo. A charitable act of mercy on your part.