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I did my rewatch in January last year and it was so much better than I remembered and I loved it when it came out. I was 18-26 when it came out and there were so many elements I appreciate better at the age I'm at now. What has been even more enjoyable is that the panopticon saw me do my rewatch and fed me YouTube videos/Reddit threads where everyone is keeping the meme aspects of the show alive. Seeing "he never had the makings of a varsity athlete" or "oooh Madonn" with thousands of likes just makes it that much more fun. Somebody said "Tony's breathing should have been given credit as an additional character from season 3 forward". It was sad/hilarious/artistic to watch his precipitous weight gain happen straight through. I noticed it much less in real time back in the day. There are more one liners and clever bits in one episode than most shows ever manage across their lifespan. David Chase is a genius and that cast is a once-in-a-lifetime combo.

Found Dad's Multistability stash at the top of the closet!

On a Bill Burr/Joe Rogan episode, they were joking about Justin Bieber's pastor having his "dick root" out and how it's a surefire way not to trust a man's intentions. The pastor recently got tangled in a sex scandal. I feel like we're on a countdown until we get similar events on Burning Man patriot. He's not as flagrant as that pastor but it's enough root showing to be in the danger zone.

BCM truly one of WATMM's first Instagram-famous models.

Is this the best 0pn album? I can't seem to listen to anything else over the past couple of weeks. Everytime I press play, I can't wait for everything to unfold as a single 47 minute journey. I was the same way with R+7 and forever more probably but this one is hitting as a sort of apotheosis currently. The "Grammy winner" as it were.

0pn always hits in the feels for me personally but this new crop of music/imagery is like maximum emotion. The album makes me feel sad in the most enjoyable way, which is a strange effect. The "Lost" video is so good but it almost makes me cry. When the dad smashes that smartphone after seeing the gore video on it...I wish somebody had done the same for me but I was already a young adult when I was stupid enough to watch all the beheadings, suicides and other shock garbage from early internet days hahaha. Special dude this Danny--best musical discovery of my life.

This was quite a listen. If I didn't know it was Kanye, I wouldn't have realized it was him in a lot of parts. I've only heard him in pressured soundbites (YOU DON'T GOT THE ANSWERS, SWAY). It was obviously a little meandering and Joe showed some misunderstanding of bipolar disorder ("I woulda told you to exercise bro!") but I enjoyed it. A Bernie/Kanye ticket would be brilliant honestly.

It has earworm'd the hell out of me but I'm avoiding caning it until the 30th. I have so many fave 0pn moments but this video/track combo is way way up there.

"Metaz form8" is a melodic first degree relative of "Bronchusevnmx24". I don't have my tools with me but, depending on the key, the two could be crossfaded into an epic celebration of mechanical gloom. I searched the thread to see if anyone else had picked up on that but I didn't see anything.

Magnificent. I grinned all 3:48. Danny boi is king.

The absolute lol of the hammer and sickle sun driving away a cloud of....fascism? It's possible to put other things in the cloud I guess but man. You gotta bend way backwards to pick fascism as something Communism has the antidote for.

Good as thread as any to admit that I watch this video at least monthly and sometimes more since finding it on YouTube 5 or so years ago. I know the video is heavily engineered but you can see her really working and developing a small sheen of sweat. Her singing is affected by the effort as well. That slutty, nearly Egyptian eye makeup just fuckin works. Can you imagine being a high enough value male for 1984 Madonna to say that her pussy is what's missing from your wardrobe? You can't, don't try.

I've been exclusively bandcamp for awhile now. You can beat other outlets' pricing in most cases, 24 bit wavs are default rather than a Bleep upcharge and if the propaganda is to be believed, it's a good home for artists. This streaming utopia is a nice dream and all but it doesn't square with reality. America has pretty shite cellular/internet infrastructure as a whole but holy shit--try taking a drive through anything that's not a city >200K people. When I visit my parents in the country, my phone's signal indicator will actually say shit like 2G or just give a swirling, I-don't-know-where-the-fuck-I-am indicator. Imagine you're about to hit minute 13 of violvoic and the stream cuts out. In a life riddled by guilt and existential anxiety, my SD card of fair trade digital vinyl is one of the few hedges against dread.

An African field recording cassette being played with the old hack of pressing the fast forward and play button at the same time so far. It sounds like I'm shit talking but there may be something here.

Quite the Machinedrum apologist but these 2 preview tracks are a little anemic to me on first blush. There's a 100% chance of at least one banger in there somewhere though.

Richard is the ultimate Don Draper meme. I'm on my phone so I can't meme but the Ginsburg panel is WATMM saying "I think about new Aphex all the time!" and Richard is the "I don't think about you at all" panel.

Damn. This is some dark shit really. It's certainly nothing new I guess but my reaction comes from basically falling for it in this thread. I saw those tweets and thought 'that's gonna be a ridiculously generous thing' and then lo. Gotta get out of the stars and back onto some ugly ground.

Did anyone opt for the download? I did it and there is a .pdf and a glitched .jpeg of Steve Harvey's mouth and moustache. The .pdf claims the release date is October 2020. We're all sure this isn't a troll? I'm listening to the file and it sounds Actress'y but I lost track of him after 2012 or so.

It's honestly a topic you probably don't want to explore. It's a vivid reminder of how we are ticking time bombs that can detonate any minute. Maybe you'll get "lucky" and vision loss/headache/weird visible pulsating thing in your neck or belly (no joke) will tip you off for surgical correction. The belly one is an ascending aortic aneurysm and I have dumped piles of blood products into those cases. Very stressful and dodgy outcomes usually. If you don't get tipped, you go the way of your bicycle tube. A bulge and a yelp and the afterlife is ours!

Any Bald and Bankrupt fans here? He can be a little too on the nose but he also gets some of the most bonkers footage from places that no other travel YouTuber is going to. Last I saw of him, he was tooling around a deserted Belarus with no mask and getting strange looks. He was very cavalier about everything. Lo, it came to pass and he def looks and sounds fuckin knackered. Not the same guy from the previous videos

This is why I love the exclusively digital vynal life. I stuck the Vortrack fracture remix into the Be Up proper, I scooped up all of Machinedrum's scrap tracks and remixes from '16-'18 into an album and called it "Human Energy Companion", I slotted 0pn's Station EP into Age Of according to best flow. What.cd is a fuck, 2,211,078 dead tags. May as well make the albums you want. God is dead and all that.

Are e-mail addresses still worth anything? I can't remember the specifics but it seems like I've gotten full albums from certain artists before with just an address. Always felt like it was a data harvesting thing probably but who knows. Chucked mine in anyway because I'm a sucker and somebody really did win Aaron's 303 all those years ago

"Community reputation: good" Damn man, 7 year old account too. Sleeper cell pulling a cock-based 9/11

The only real standout for me on first blush is "Phase". It takes me back to '06 or so when Vex'd and Tipper were getting dirty with the bass. Anyway, I think pumping that one through a juiced Function One would cut you up like tuna at the sushi bar