I’m not big into matching band music, but I went to a MarchFourth concert on a whim and had a fun time. Lots of juggling, hula hooping, dancing. They even had a guy doing yo-yo tricks to a saxophone solo.

https://youtu.be/8x9Cv-dLw9E?si=1Zh8kC_Q8X0SSI6W

It’s the author’s actual book, linked on her site. https://www.exocomics.com/book/

Same. It’s not a bad film. It is a fairly logical progression from the first movie. I was actually surprised it wasn’t more fantastical. There were several points where they could have escalated to a city wide musical caper, but they kept it grounded.

The point is Joker escaping into familiar songs to cope with reality.

I played D&D for 10 years before I seriously tried DMing. I’m now a year and a half into a 5e game with 4 other players and it’s been great. It helped that YouTube kept sending me Matt Colville videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-YZvLUXcR8

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin has a similar vibe to Our Flag Means Death, maybe a little goofier. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19516036/?ref_=ext_shr

I’ve seen the Charlton Heston one, and the 2001 Mark Wahlberg one. The original was obviously better. I hadn’t seen any of the current cycle until I saw Kingdom last weekend. It was fine.

I listened to a recap of the previous 3 films and it didn’t matter. Kingdom takes place “many generations” after the third movie so all the other characters are dead. Kingdom’s story works fine as a standalone film. It’s not amazing, but there’s nothing particularly awful about it. Now I’ll probably see the next couple, but they’re not high on my list.

From the paper.

Ultrasounds accelerate extraction processes due to acoustic cavitation [8], [9]. When acoustic bubbles, also called inertial bubbles, collapse near solid materials, such as coffee grounds, they generate micro-jets with the force to fracture the cell walls of plant tissues, intensifying the extraction of the intracellular content [10].

Seems more involved than just aggressive stirring.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350417724001330

I store mine in a plastic container with an air tight seal. I prefer to use fresh grounds, but my grinder seems more consistent with higher volume. I usually grind 2-3 brews worth at time.

A medium roast from Costa Rica. I’m using my small Chemex and I’m still dialing in the grind size. It’s brewing faster than a few weeks ago so I went finer. It’s at about a 3 minute brew, but still has a light mix of sour and bitterness.

I’m behind on using my subscription coffee so I started a batch of cold brew last night with the last 75 grams. Hopefully it turns out well.

Because even John Cena is reluctant to dress like John Cena. The only real answer is “because that is the expected formal wear in our society”.

Everything Is Alright - Motion City Soundtrack

A.D.D. - Ten Foot Pole

I loved the first two, but I had a hard time getting through the third. It has interesting concepts but it takes a long time to make its point. Plot structure spoilers:

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The Children of Time books by Adrian Tchaikovsky have a lot of those themes. Half of the first book is about an ark ship sent out to find a habitable planet because earth is dying. It spans hundreds of years as key crew members go in and out of hyper sleep. Relationships and political factions form and dissolve as the ageing ship continues its mission to find a new home.

The second book focuses on a terraforming crew that was sent to another star system to prepare a planet for humans. However, the planet’s ecology is so alien it proves very difficult to gain a foothold.

Depends on the day. I grew up on 90s and 2000s country. There was some bluegrass in there but I moved on to alt/indie pop rock in highschool. Now I enjoy folk music, mostly the punk variety. AJJ is one of my favorite bands. I’ve never been into bluegrass to know the bands, except maybe Trampled by Turtles.

As others have said, genres are fluid and bands rarely stay in one category. Country music has had huge style shifts in the past 50 years. The same could be said of the various folk, anti-folk, and protest song movements.

I’ve discovered I enjoy the stripped down production of folk and acoustic country music. It makes the song seem more authentic to me. I also like the desperation and anti-establishment themes of punk music. So for me, folk punk hits the sweet spot of rebellion, sorrow, and simplicity.

I’ve got a playlist, “Everything sucks but that’s ok”. This Year by The Mountain Goats is usually a solid pick. It’s wistful and defiant without being too sweet.

Misanthropic Drunken Loner by Days N Daze is bleak with a wry smile.

Nausea by Jeff Rosenstock.

I got so tired of discussing my future I started avoiding the people I love Evenings of silence and mornings of nausea Shake and sweat and I can’t throw up

And if things are starting to get a little better Good As It Gets by Little Hurt is great. It is incredibly catchy.

I get mine from Cortez. They’re local but they moved their cafe further from me. So now I have them mail it across town. I’ve met the owner. He’s really nice and obviously cares a lot about coffee.

Shitshow by Peter McPoland.