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This is a list of links to videos, albums, articles, and other stuff that I've enjoyed. It's continued from a series of Cohost posts as of May 2024, plus a few highlights from the backlog.
24.07.17
Barry Petchesky drinks every flavor of Red Bull
Article
I didn't clock the byline on this so I didn't realize until he referenced it that this is the 50 Eggs guy. Anyway, I like how this piece is more like a trip report than a review of the actual flavors.
24.07.15
Wizard of Loneliness - Draw a Crowd
Album
Really digging the earnesty and clarity of this record; it feels like a stripped-down take on WoL's album Last Words from a couple years ago but also reminds me of early TV Girl.
24.07.15
Video
Conner O'Malley is so good at shucking open the American male and exposing the dark pearl of futile violence inside. He's the only person documenting society's rapid collapse with the level of ridicule we deserve.
24.07.09
Video
Really good video of a guy getting some extremely difficult stars in a version of Super Mario Galaxy with a lot of the parts you're supposed to stand or walk on removed.
24.07.09
Jimquisition on The Mascot Horror Grift
Article
There's this weird shadow economy of shovelware horror games that I'm too old to know about but that seem to completely dominate the mindspace of 10-year-olds and Twitch streamers, and it's always seemed scummy to me. Anyway, it's cool when the first time I hear about something is in the form of a brutal takedown.
24.07.03
The Story of Pittsburgh's Fake Burger King
Article
This story is from a decade ago now but I was reminded of it recently and had forgotten a lot of the amazing details, which still shine through the patina of the 2014 Cracked Dot Com writing style.
24.07.01
Ed Zitron on Shareholder Supremacy
Article
A great read on the pre-digital-age origins of rot-fueled capitalism, and why every company is either dying or fake now.
24.07.01
Video
Plants are so cool, man. This video reminds me of Charles Darwin's work on plant motion and his conclusion that they are just "very slow animals."
24.06.30
Toadchurch - Live at Pixy's Garden
Mixtape
Really sick to hear some new Toadchurch tunes and also very cool to see him flex that same post-online, hyper-textured maximalist style (Has anyone coined "ADHDcore" yet?) on the visuals. Ande is gonna be huge in a couple years. Get in now.
24.06.28
Album
Sweet little Australian psych-y funky indie record with some wildly sticky basslines. For fans of Psymon Spine, Spilly Cave, et cetera.
24.06.27
Website
This is what the Internet is meant to be: Mesmerizing in scale, globally interactive, and ultimately a silly diversion. Feels like a relic of the Koalas To The Max era of webtoys.
24.06.27
Bart Graft - Jewel in the Crown
Album
This record sounds like the way-too-good soundtrack to a forgotten PS1 platformer. Loaded with chorus synths and insane MIDI slap-bass. I can really imagine listening to this while hopping around various themed levels as some kind of low-poly critter with excessive 'tude.
24.06.27
Article
Another dinger from Dave, on Walter De Maria's 1977 installation sculpture, stubborn spaces, and how cities live.
24.06.25
Album
Absolutely stellar French nu-disco album. Feels a lot like the sort of house-influenced cyberfunk stuff I loved in high school but remade for 2024 and mixed incredibly clean.
24.06.24
Video
Great documentary about a hyper-ambitious idea that was popping off roughly when I was its target age and yet I somehow never heard of. Worth watching for the story and for some deeply unsettling footage of children roleplaying as Amazon warehouse employees.
24.06.13
Article
Maximillian Alvarez puts up an excellent and apparently unpublishable essay on a Netflix documentary I will not be watching because this piece has made me despise it.
24.06.10
Website
Really interesting blog from an anonymous IT employee at a South Pole research station.
24.06.09
Game
My buddy Noah made this cute little puzzle game that's basically a hybrid of pool and Suika. It's a delight, and it's like $4 which is the ideal price for a video game.
24.06.09
Perihelion & Aphelion by Kaleb Horton
Article
Kaleb Horton writes like somebody you'd meet once waiting for a bus, engage in a conversation with that stays with you the rest of your life, and then never see again. The scale and the closeness of this together are wonderful.
24.06.06
Website
A collection of gorgeous embroidered mission patches commemorating different scientific experiments by Patricia Klein. Exactly the kind of thing I would love to have made.
24.06.05
PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE 14: THE HISTORY OF SLIPPING ON BANANA PEELS
Video
Jon is in peak form here, making a dinger of a video on a completely silly premise that I was utterly riveted by for the entire length. This is probably up there with the Tetris thing as the best documentary of 2024. More than worth the five-buck cover to watch it on Patreon.
24.06.05
Video
A completely weirdo idea (recording a comedy special at your old high school for an audience of 15-year-olds) executed in a way that somehow works. This one took a little bit to warm up but is great by the end.
24.06.04
Album
My buddy found this in a dollar bin and put it on during a hangout and I kept holding up the conversation to make crazy faces at how hard this slams. Pure new-age MIDI-core gold.
24.06.04
Comic
A great little comic about video games. The point is worth considering, but the first page is gonna stick with me from this one.
24.06.04
Video
I really love Trevor Roberts' Mystery Flesh Pit National Park project, which is equal parts alternative-history, ecological allegory, and massive-scale body horror. Check it all out if you haven't, but this video on a specific expedition is wonderfully crafted.
24.06.04
Website
A blog of strange and beautiful scenes found on Google Street View. This is an all-time classic that I was revisiting today.
24.06.03
Album
The clerk at a record store (shoutout Plan 9) recommended this to me because some Fattburger was playing in the shop and I brought up my weather-channel playlist. It absolutely rips.
24.05.31
Band
Wandered into a show these guys were playing in Richmond and I was going nuts at how good they are. My buddy described it as "Casiopea off a joint," which is pretty accurate.
24.05.25
The NTS Guide to Early Vaporwave
Mixtape
Two great hours of vibes from back in the good ol' days, when vaporwave meant something. Which I guess makes this a second layer of refined nostalgia.
24.05.23
Website
A crowdsourced site ranking all the types of apple. Honeycrisp (my #1) is the globally-ranked #4.
24.05.21
Video
Bob is the absolute man. It's so sick to release a record like One that gets sampled a million times and then decide to collab with the guys sampling you. Also, the guy drumming on this is going absolutely bonkers.
24.05.13
The History of Tetris World Records
Video
You've probably seen this by now but it's genuinely one of the best documentaries I've watched in years. I want to bring special attention to the incredible spreadsheet-panning homage to the long jump record reveal in The Bob Emergency, which made me pause because I was laughing so hard.
24.05.12
Book
I don't remember who recommended this to me but I am really digging it. Plant-based science fiction with some cool ideas and a great sense of scale.
24.05.08
Album
Random algorithm discovery that I found myself fully charmed by after a couple of tracks. Wet Leg for boys.
24.05.01
Video
The thing I liked the most about the Secret Base Minnesota Vikings documentary was that a lot of it was just a parade of the weirdest guys you've ever heard of. Jon's new solo project about the late '90s third-party and its various insane characters is even more of that.
24.04.09
Psymon Spine on Audiotree Live
Video
I love when a band with a really studio-built, synthetic sound does a live set and approaches their songs from a new angle! The GUM Audiotree set from a couple months ago has been on heavy rotation for me and this one is now on equally heavy rotation for me.
24.04.07
Website
Lovely blog of great photos of run-down and boring locations. This is exactly the way I take photos except that mine aren't this good.
24.04.05
Website
Having a lot of fun clicking around this real-time model of the solar system, including all the little probes and satellites and stuff.
24.04.05
Conservative Comedy Ruined my Life
Video
This is a really good video essay (getting increasingly rare!) that examines conservative comedy, its inability to work outside its target audience ever, and imo does a great job being entertaining without the presentation getting weighed down by doing jokes all the time.
24.04.02
A Visual Guide to Alien Beings by David Chace
Book
I uploaded the best copy of this I could find to arena but if anybody knows where I can get a high-res version please let me know. There's so many great little guys in here.
24.03.23
Mixtape
A two-hour compilation of all of Datassette's Businessfunk mixtapes of extremely tight vintage library music.
24.03.23
Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
Website
Good website! Good websites might be coming back? This one is a ton of really well-researched trivia items.
24.02.14
What If "Face to Face" by Daft Punk Used Newer Samples?
Video
Insane how much I was smiling listening to this. A completely crazy idea executed perfectly.
24.02.13
Website
This is wonderful. So many of these are, like, heartfelt love notes accidentally left in a thrifted cookbook and then some of them are like a sticky note that says "Emma is a bitch" blowing around a parking lot. The world is so big and full of stories.
24.02.09
Video
A hallmark in the "descent into madness" genre of video. Amazing moments throughout.
24.01.17
Video
This is the best GDQ run of the year: an already very impressive 16-star speedrun of Mario 64 played with a drumset instead of a controller. I was absolutely hooting when he pulls off the first Bowser spin.
24.01.11
Website
Perfect, beautiful Tumblr of pics abandoned on Flickr from past decades. It's not often that I am truly mesmerized by a blog.