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scottythered.bsky.social
my name is Scotty and I've spent 20 years in love with the Power Pop genre. I'm going to post a #dailyFavoritePowerPopSong just to see how long i can go without running out.

Day 1: seems appropriate to start with the Paley Bros, since we lost Andy Paley this week.
The Paley Brothers - Come Out And Play
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scottythered.bsky.social
Republican strategist: our media coaching team is the best in the business. They've suggested you're going to have to give up some of your...proclivities. If it was JUST going around with dried blood around your mouth or JUST sleeping in a coffin, we could work around it...

Dracula: disappointing
scottythered.bsky.social
October Watch-A-Thon stats so far:

The Toxic Avenger (2025) (rewatch): ★★★★

Bring Her Back: ★★★½

Killer Klowns From Outer Space (rewatch): ★★★★

Night of the Living Dead (1990, Director's Cut): ★★★★★

Friday the 13th Part III (rewatch): ★★
scottythered.bsky.social
Shoulda been there for the Steve Bartman incident. I could hear the booing in our dorm room
scottythered.bsky.social
i could make a convincing argument that "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" is about being in love with being famous, and "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants" is the breakup
jmritchey.bsky.social
It's a given in the music industry that "I've fallen in love!" albums are usually regrettable, and "I've gotten a divorce!" ones often have some of the artist's best work. So question for the group, what are the best "I've fallen in love!" albums?
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mtsw.bsky.social
it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown
scottythered.bsky.social
when you definitely have been getting screamed at by rando New Yorkers and you piss at your pants in front of the journalists suggesting you talk to some more of them
But Schiffman was far less eager for real-life engagement. We asked him to meet us at the West Fourth Street station, where 53 of the more than 11,000 ads Friend has purchased around the city are plastered. As New Yorkers passed by, several paused to puzzle at the ads or take pictures. Gothamist took note and asked Schiffman if he’d like to join us as we spoke to passers-by about the posters and his product.

But he repeatedly declined and asked that we not identify him to the onlookers. Schiffman even turned down the chance to watch us talk to them.

“I’m just tired of talking to New Yorkers,” Schiffman said. “It’s just such a ordeal, I just don’t want to do it.”

Schiffman said he’d been talking to New Yorkers about the ads for days, which was “great” and “very entertaining,” but also said he couldn’t recount specifics from any of those conversations.

“I like [Friend] so much that I don’t need to keep yapping about it, and I just don’t want to keep convincing everyone here,” Schiffman said.
scottythered.bsky.social
I can hear Joey in my ears: "HEY! We're the Ramones, this one's called Rockawaaay Beach!"
scottythered.bsky.social
- there's a groundswell of support against a massively unpopular admin across the political spectrum, which should be leveraged

- any attempts to "reach across the aisle" with talks of amnesty or forgiveness when he finally gets deposed are ludicrous and should be dismissed out of hand
scottythered.bsky.social
multiple things can be true

-the trump admin is flailing b/c they know that it's never going to be better for them than it was (maybe) a few months ago

- people are still going to be killed & trafficked by this admin
scottythered.bsky.social
what a pleasantly surprising one-two punch this was:

that Troma produced a movie that's thoroughly enjoyable without a trace of irony, and that said movie would wipe out $15 million in medical debt
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scottythered.bsky.social
oh man, this brings me right back to getting really into the flaming lips two albums before they flew completely off the rails down a mountain of cocaine
jasonkpargin.bsky.social
It is SUCH a formative experience the first time your favorite artist releases a bad album. I envy all the kids going through it this week, you’re about to learn so much about the world! You’re learning how to let go!
scottythered.bsky.social
oh man, this brings me right back to getting really into the flaming lips two albums before they flew completely off the rails down a mountain of cocaine
jasonkpargin.bsky.social
It is SUCH a formative experience the first time your favorite artist releases a bad album. I envy all the kids going through it this week, you’re about to learn so much about the world! You’re learning how to let go!
scottythered.bsky.social
shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
scottythered.bsky.social
"like, i could only afford the 180-degree drum kit, eh"
Bob and Doug McKenzie on their show Kanadian Korner, aka The Great White North
scottythered.bsky.social
blasphemy! i was told Doug McKenzie played the drums, did nobody think to ask him?!

(kidding, sounds like these two will be in good hands with a pro like Anika Nilles)
scottythered.bsky.social
This generation finding out what it was like to buy a whole album for only one song you like, but now there's streaming too
scottythered.bsky.social
the entire physical media landscape is being turned into little more than a speculative market ala Funko Pops. I'm glad they're finally realizing this, but they have no one to blame but themselves
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cole1114.bsky.social
this website is run by a racist, transphobic CEO that openly believes in shit as stupid as Roko's basilisk. So what's next?
scottythered.bsky.social
honestly, it seems more and more like Jay & co. thought they could speed speedrun this app to a.circa 2016 Twitter user base at best, or a circa 2022 Twitter base at worst, without really interrogating whether that would be possible in a post-X/Truthsocial world
cdrom.ca
Honestly I can imagine that a team that a) didn’t plan around getting 40 million users and b) doesn’t have a comms team(!) is feeling stressed, attacked, and is randomly lashing out under stress. Which I can empathize with but that’s not healthy or acceptable behaviour either!
scottythered.bsky.social
Yeah, timeline is a bit messy but Zander was in Bun E. Carlo’s Air Force but it failed. Bun E. headed to Philadelphia to join Rick and Tom in Sick Man of Europe. Zander headed up to the Wisconsin Dells for a 3-summer residency at a club there; Sick Man went back to Rockford and became Cheap Trick
scottythered.bsky.social
Here's a quick AI remix I did of a pre-Robin Zander Cheap Trick playing Badfinger's "No Matter What" at the Jewish Community Center of Rockford, IL on December 27, 1973. At this point, their vocalist was Randy Hogan, who performed under the name Xeno: