#146. Metallica - Reload (Remastered) I’m a sucker for the box sets… even though I have no space for more and I just rely on the digital box sets on Apple Music. Still a lot of great archive stuff to be found. Also, the album itself? It’s aged phenomenally, like a very good wine.

#145. Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love Pop artists live or die by the third album’s reception. This one was a home run from start to finish. Post-millennial emo is a great vibe.

#144. Skrillex - Soma EDM with Brazilian flare. It’s… *fine*, it’s good background music, but that’s all it really is. Alas.

#143. Muse - The WOW! Signal This is the best Muse album in 15 years. This is also only half of a good album. The other half is way too lacking compared to the heavier stuff. Stop trying to be Freddie Mercury, Matt. Please.

#142. Butthole Surfers - After the Astronaut Yeaaaaaaaaah… I get why record companies balked at this back in the day.

#141. Evanescence - Sanctuary AKA “Confessions on a Goth Club Floor”, 20 years later. The return to form that everyone’s been wanting for a LONG time. It’s very good.

#140. Boards of Canada - Inferno The life we lead deserves more focus than the weight of our past and the stress of our present. We all deserve something better and an escape out of dystopia. This is the music for that escape.

#139. JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL RAP Peggy has made some great albums in the last few years. This… is just a *good* album. And that kinda under-delivers here.

#138. Primus - A Handful of Nugs EP It’s more Primus and more Primus is always welcomed because Primus sucks (complimentary).

#137. Fire-Toolz - Lavender Networks Techno-trance death metal with saxophones. Nobody does it like Angel does it.

…you know what, I’ll take this consolation prize as a sign of good things to come. Summer League champs, babes. Everything’s coming up Milhouse.

Someone at North Wilkesboro has got some strong aim. Also, please don’t throw drinks onto the track, regardless of who wins the race. Even if it’s Joey Logano.

I love this show. Press Your Luck is my ultimate comfort food show, regular folks winning big in a game of chance gives me hope for the world. Don’t you EVER interrupt this show ever again, ABC.

OH HEY IT’S BACK. “Thanks” for wasting 15 goddamn minutes of our time on the newsspeak “this is all bullshit” analysis.

EXCUSE ME ABC? Make this quick.

Side note: I do own a Laserdisc player (a Pioneer DVL-V888) but… well, it doesn’t work. Dead power supply. The risk you take at Goodwill.

Not to wax philosophical about the greatness of physical media or anything but you know what doesn’t happen when you have discs? Or even tapes? Companies can’t take it away.

NOTE: This is not me condoning piracy. This *is*, however, me saying that you can make your own discs with a bit of know-how and you can have more on your shelf than what Crunchyroll offers - which, for some cases, is nothing.

I hope all that promo money was worth it for a gigantic crash and burn. See you again in 5 years.

This Giants season is an unmitigated disaster. Fire the base coaches. Fire the hitting coaches. Fire the bullpen. And fire Tony. Blow everything up. We are in distress.

#136. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever Turns out, you can really enjoy a whole album over a couple of days by listening to it to and from work. It makes the freeway drive (for survival) go a bit easier. Peak 2001 prog rock right here. And it’s only 4 songs.

In the 90th minute. NOW HOLD.

The damn Komodo 3000 wasn’t even this bombastic.

And there are the fireworks on the other side of my street. Goody. Mental state:

#134. AEW Forbidden Door 2026 Look, it’s 12:55am and I’m running on 5 hours of sleep. This show was incredible, from start to finish, and this show usurped Revolution 2025 for the best 3-match stretch on any of their PPVs. Back to back all-timer shows. Frick yeah.

Huh. Neat.

So if the Xbox prices keep appreciating (as in, going up), here’s an honest question: $350 for this useless white box? Maybe $375?

If you see this, post an Archer

#132. The Amazing Digital Circus 24 hours ago, I didn’t know thing one about this. Now I’m kicking myself for why I didn’t hop on board sooner. This is a special kind of post-modern art for a post-modern world and it did the one thing most new projects fail at: it made me CARE.

Miami trading the kitchen sink for Giannis… and Bobby Portis too, I guess. That is a BIG haul. Miami better hope this works.