when it comes to mastery of different styles, there has never been a non-american brewery on the level of Hill Farmstead or Holy Mountain or Anchorage Brewing for example
the European/American food discourse is tired at this point but I haven't seen the real truth nuke posted yet: American brewers over the last 30 years have elevated beer far beyond what the entire euro continent have been making for hundreds of years (except maybe the belgians)
obviously the germans/czechs are the masters of lager and the Belgians continue to create some of the best beer in the world, but innovation and experimentation don't happen nearly as much compared American breweries
the whole hipster discussion going on right now is exemplary of the vibes based revisionist history that happens to everything now. i was called a hipster by friends/schoolmates constantly and it had nothing to do with "stomp-clap", it was purely based on "obscurity"
@WASJAPPIN the inauthenticity was a key aspect of the hipster. the whole "oh this band? You've probably never heard of them" bit was so common it was hack by 2010. i never understood stomp-clap being so heavily associated with this period. that shit was popular! It wasn't cool at all
i remember a friend asking if he could hear what i'm listening to on my earbuds (it was frank zappa), he gave me a weird look and said you're such a hipster dude. i'm sure it was different in cultural centers but in suburbia, flannel+obscure music+PBR+american spirits = hipster
@brynnposting it's pretty much just wow, ff14, and runescape left standing in the west. live service games have mostly taken over all genres so the novelty of a persistent online world has little draw nowadays.
@corpseinorbit that's definitely a OG mellotron in the back, and that small white keyboard behind him is actually the digital remake of the mellotron which I'm sure you would find sacrilegious lol. Keeping an original mellotron in working condition is probably a nightmare though so I get it
@alicealeph0 i can't fully articulate how exciting the period of time from the money store to jenny death finally dropping was. every release was a stop everything and immediately listen to it event. and it paid off! by far the most important band of the 10s
Pears are soft and refined. They don’t have manic supercharged flavors that pop the senses. Pears resist commercialization via soft drinks and candies through their complex regality.