My grandmother passed away. Her funerals were today, but here I'd like to talk about the most important thing I couldn't spend too much time on in her eulogy: her love for Dungeons & Dragons. #DnD
@Goodnight_Texas oops it's 6am and I'm on a music research tangent. Wondering if I'm Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm Forever is a reference (if not a sort of almost tonal inversion) to Maggie's Farm by Bob Dylan w/ the harmonica solo tone/symbolism
Drum Corps fans 4 years ago: IF BD WINS WE RIOT. Drum Corps fans now: IF BD WINS WE UNDERSTAND THEY HAVE A VERY WELL PUT TOGETHER SHOW AND ALTHOUGH MY PREFERENCE IS ANOTHER GROUP, I CANNOT DENY THEIR EXCELLENCE AND MASTERY.
@Goodnight_Texas also its the hours where I'm real damn tempted to go onto the Genius page for The Railroad bc the person who annotated it is unsure that its specifically coded to represent the importance of the railroad to black history and Im just 😕⁉️wait isnt that the point?
@Goodnight_Texas also in The Railroad the melody/call and response moaning sounds like a reference to a specific blues song and I can't pin point what it reminds me of. (Johnny Lee Hooker? Blind Willie Johnson? Mississippi John Hurt?) or is it more a general pastiche?
Holy shit it's 4:30am and I'm watching Us a second time bc the first watch didn't feel like enough and just....every shot and line is so deliberate and full of meaning @JordanPeele you are brilliant. this is so goddamn layered in references and themes and yet still subtle.
@neilhimself I'm just starting Good Omens (I want to read before I watch) and you can hear the Douglas Adams influenced tone (and understanding of myth) in your writing and it makes me goddamn happy.
If you read this...is Aziraphale's name a reference to Azrael?
@stephenfry I would very much so like to listen to your audiobooks on myth, but they aren't available on Audible or any other audiobook sites in the USA. What is the best way to get a copy?
It’s time once again for NINJA BRIAN’S OSCAR PICKS!!! Here’s what he has in all the major categories:
Best Actor: fuck you
Best Actress: fuck you
Best Supporting Actor: fuck you
Best Supporting Actress: fuck you
Best Picture: fuck you
Best Animated Feature: Coco