Anthony Cougar Miccio
@anthonymiccio.bsky.social
Primarily writing about streamable things. Sometimes real life.
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My Favorite Albums Of 2005
Have I really internally debated the quality of LCD Soundsystem's "Movement" for twenty years?
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A post discussing 30 albums from 2005 I still like, as well as some compilations from that year I also like! Now with a main image less likely to give bluesky the vapors. Twas too indie sleazy! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-favorite-...
My favorite is either the Rian Johnson one or the Ewoks one, I haven’t seen rogue one and won’t…unless a lady insists. Or I’m on a Ben Mendelssohn kick.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My favorite is either the Rian Johnson one or the Ewoks one, I haven’t seen rogue one and won’t…unless a lady insists. Or I’m on a Ben Mendelssohn kick.
It's alright. Charlie Brown, you're alright, now. You... are Pumpkin. One of the eight kings of Hell. We have looked to the northwest and called you in. We've collected your first female body and give you now this healthy male host. We reject the trinity and pray devoutly to you, Great Pumpkin.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, Charlie Brown
You Will Live To See Man-made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It's alright. Charlie Brown, you're alright, now. You... are Pumpkin. One of the eight kings of Hell. We have looked to the northwest and called you in. We've collected your first female body and give you now this healthy male host. We reject the trinity and pray devoutly to you, Great Pumpkin.
Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw, Charlie Brown!
We’re going to need a bigger boat, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw, Charlie Brown!
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Forgot how many incredible lines are in Udo Kier’s Random Roles www.avclub.com/udo-kier-179...
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Forgot how many incredible lines are in Udo Kier’s Random Roles www.avclub.com/udo-kier-179...
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Red Rooms! The Annihilation Of Fish! Prince Of Darkness! Love Letters! Slither! Blurbs! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/what-is-she-...
What Is She Thinking?: BFTW 11/21/25
Five movies I've recently streamed: two about women flirting with self-destruction, two about world-conquering evil, and one elderly romance.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Red Rooms! The Annihilation Of Fish! Prince Of Darkness! Love Letters! Slither! Blurbs! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/what-is-she-...
Red Rooms! The Annihilation Of Fish! Prince Of Darkness! Love Letters! Slither! Blurbs! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/what-is-she-...
What Is She Thinking?: BFTW 11/21/25
Five movies I've recently streamed: two about women flirting with self-destruction, two about world-conquering evil, and one elderly romance.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Red Rooms! The Annihilation Of Fish! Prince Of Darkness! Love Letters! Slither! Blurbs! anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/what-is-she-...
Listening to my cure playlist - wouldn’t make em if I wouldn’t want to! - was reminded that seconds into “Disintegration,” a harrowing, terrified vision of failing at love, smith yelps “OHHHhhh” like he’s singing about kisses & tangerines or some shit anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/how-i-like-t...
How I Like The Cure: The Playlist
A CD-sized summation of the terrifying lows, dizzying highs and creamy middles of The Cure.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Listening to my cure playlist - wouldn’t make em if I wouldn’t want to! - was reminded that seconds into “Disintegration,” a harrowing, terrified vision of failing at love, smith yelps “OHHHhhh” like he’s singing about kisses & tangerines or some shit anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/how-i-like-t...
This is what makes this so noteworthy. It’s actually POSSIBLE he damaged Trump more than empowered him. This wasn’t “I successfully got the despot to give us a boon by kissing the ring” but “I met the despot and made clear I think he’s a despot and villainization of me became farcical.”
He had this lunatic who's dominated American society for a decade eating out of the palm of his hand without giving anything back after a single chat
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is what makes this so noteworthy. It’s actually POSSIBLE he damaged Trump more than empowered him. This wasn’t “I successfully got the despot to give us a boon by kissing the ring” but “I met the despot and made clear I think he’s a despot and villainization of me became farcical.”
I’m still sketch on any politician normalizing Trump by doing anything other than saying RESIGN NOW, but this might be the first time I’ve seen a democrat successfully make a useful idiot out of the most powerful useful idiot on earth before.
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I’m still sketch on any politician normalizing Trump by doing anything other than saying RESIGN NOW, but this might be the first time I’ve seen a democrat successfully make a useful idiot out of the most powerful useful idiot on earth before.
Pondering great 20th century bands AND articles about why it’s worth delineating between what actually made such creative work inspiring and our economic woes today, ITS ALL HAPPENING at the expense of my writing/cleaning plans.
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Pondering great 20th century bands AND articles about why it’s worth delineating between what actually made such creative work inspiring and our economic woes today, ITS ALL HAPPENING at the expense of my writing/cleaning plans.
lol i try to ignore these because i lack the discipline to not be wildly distracted by them. But as i already glommed on to promote my cure album guide I’m amused to discover my pixies one is equally apropos. Two great bands but Team Doolittle all the way. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/how-i-like-t...
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
lol i try to ignore these because i lack the discipline to not be wildly distracted by them. But as i already glommed on to promote my cure album guide I’m amused to discover my pixies one is equally apropos. Two great bands but Team Doolittle all the way. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/how-i-like-t...
The anthem of the pro-am culture commentator on social media
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The anthem of the pro-am culture commentator on social media
I’m the kind of middle aged guy who says he doesn’t believe in guilty pleasures, but I’m not sure I’d call watching Winona Ryder groaning & writhing her way through a set of hot wings an INNOCENT pleasure. Though it does take me back…
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I’m the kind of middle aged guy who says he doesn’t believe in guilty pleasures, but I’m not sure I’d call watching Winona Ryder groaning & writhing her way through a set of hot wings an INNOCENT pleasure. Though it does take me back…
Shamelessly glomming onto this to repost something I’m pretty proud of - an album guide that (imooo) helps make sense of how the cure is goth but not, pop but not, arena snooze but not, and wildly original while shamelessly derivative throughout. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/how-i-like-t...
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Shamelessly glomming onto this to repost something I’m pretty proud of - an album guide that (imooo) helps make sense of how the cure is goth but not, pop but not, arena snooze but not, and wildly original while shamelessly derivative throughout. anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/how-i-like-t...
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Punk bands were like “we reject all notions of what bands ‘HAVE’ to be in favor of raw emotion and direct expression that challenges authority and SHOCKS the status quo. Also we literally all covered Surfin Bird”
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Punk bands were like “we reject all notions of what bands ‘HAVE’ to be in favor of raw emotion and direct expression that challenges authority and SHOCKS the status quo. Also we literally all covered Surfin Bird”
The Fugee who did time for tax evasion was the LEAST involved in white collar crime of the three. That we know of. Maybe the only trio in MUSIC history that merits a documentary with at least four parts. One for each, one for all - maybe two for all?
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Fugee who did time for tax evasion was the LEAST involved in white collar crime of the three. That we know of. Maybe the only trio in MUSIC history that merits a documentary with at least four parts. One for each, one for all - maybe two for all?
I’d love if someday my kid watches some A24 horror classic and he’s like “this music isn’t scary, it’s just that weird crap my dad listens to after everyone’s gone to bed. baritone sax violin shrieks and musique concrete just means he’s on the couch doing a sudoku on his phone.”
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’d love if someday my kid watches some A24 horror classic and he’s like “this music isn’t scary, it’s just that weird crap my dad listens to after everyone’s gone to bed. baritone sax violin shrieks and musique concrete just means he’s on the couch doing a sudoku on his phone.”
Primal Scream and Stone Roses are bands I wish I liked as much as people slightly older than me, but my favorite Primal Scream album by a mile is the first one where Mani got writing credits. Playing XTRMNTR loud today. RIP. youtu.be/Ljjl7aDQs8E
PRIMAL SCREAM - Accelerator (Live)
YouTube video by PAST & PRESENT
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November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Primal Scream and Stone Roses are bands I wish I liked as much as people slightly older than me, but my favorite Primal Scream album by a mile is the first one where Mani got writing credits. Playing XTRMNTR loud today. RIP. youtu.be/Ljjl7aDQs8E
One of the more on-the-nose moments in Wolf Of Wall Street is when Young Jordan suggests to mcconaughey’s exec the value of an “everyone wins” scenario & Mateo is like “f that.” But it’s really crucial to understanding the indifference-to-contempt for others capitalism not just enables but rewards.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
One of the more on-the-nose moments in Wolf Of Wall Street is when Young Jordan suggests to mcconaughey’s exec the value of an “everyone wins” scenario & Mateo is like “f that.” But it’s really crucial to understanding the indifference-to-contempt for others capitalism not just enables but rewards.
Yoooooooo
64 Quartets, 9: Wire: BASIC DESIGN to BEHIND THE CURTAIN. A hopefully entertaining minor entry---it's the one with the Beatles. 64quartets.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/9...
9. Wire. Harvest Lexicon: BASIC—BEHIND
BASIC DESIGN. Artistic educational method (UK), ca. 1940s-1970s (aka Basic Form, Basic Course, Basic Grammar). Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, and Bruce Gilbert, at their respective art colleges, lived…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Yoooooooo
I’m getting really suspicious about every politician who doesn’t use words like impeachment, resignation, etc. maybe they’re strategizing, maybe they think it’s unhelpful, but any implication from a legislator that our only remaining power check is elections is inherently normalizing this behavior.
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m getting really suspicious about every politician who doesn’t use words like impeachment, resignation, etc. maybe they’re strategizing, maybe they think it’s unhelpful, but any implication from a legislator that our only remaining power check is elections is inherently normalizing this behavior.
I’d pull out a can of cheese whiz, and spray that stuff on the beet, and if the table expresses disdain, say “nobody whizzes the beet?”
TIL the Times once recommended you serve vegetarians 1 giant beet for Thanksgiving.
Seriously, look at this: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016...
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’d pull out a can of cheese whiz, and spray that stuff on the beet, and if the table expresses disdain, say “nobody whizzes the beet?”
Coincidentally re alpha flight, I’ve been watching the x-men from actual 97 cartoon series. S1 did a solid job of setting up the basic conceits, and I’m enjoying s2 but it’s like “I TOO am dressed funny and want to enslave mutants!” “I TOO am dressed funny and have old beef with Logan!”
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Coincidentally re alpha flight, I’ve been watching the x-men from actual 97 cartoon series. S1 did a solid job of setting up the basic conceits, and I’m enjoying s2 but it’s like “I TOO am dressed funny and want to enslave mutants!” “I TOO am dressed funny and have old beef with Logan!”
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It is possible for journalism to still have a tangible and relatively immediate impact for good and if larger outlets aren’t doing that, it’s a choice.
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It is possible for journalism to still have a tangible and relatively immediate impact for good and if larger outlets aren’t doing that, it’s a choice.