mix of good and bad. i've been having some successes recently in the romantic realm, i've got some dates planned which has definitely provided some source of joy in my life. but overall, i haven't been sleeping at all the last few days and recent events have been making me so increasingly hateful and angry at the evil capitalist system that it genuinely brings me down all day. the days are blurring into one and everywhere i go i feel enraged.

absolutely love batushka. their sound is super unique within black metal and honestly i think works super well in the genre (with the orthodox style church singing and all that). just be mindful of the two batushkas, there was some conflict between some of the members and one member took over the band or something and pushed the singer out. this was after liturgiya, their first album. he does his own thing, a different batushka with an album called panihida, which i think is much better than the other batushka's stuff.

what amazing technological milestones have they hit aside from docking with the space station and putting a fucking car into orbit?

all good haha, was just confused

hippies are an annoying side effect of the american "new left" of the 60s. a revival of leftism, sure, but not one that was too effective or theory-based at all. the entire thing was kinda centered around the vietnam war, which was a fantastic mobilizer for the years that it was happening, but once the united states was defeated in vietnam and pulled out and the war ended, all the hippies stopped caring and settled down while they gave birth to one of the most wretched groups, the yuppies. the hippies were basically like the first iteration of the "calls themself a leftist but still buys some CIA propaganda" type you see all too often nowadays. america was bad, sure, but the soviet union was JUST as bad. lets just have world peace and everyone in harmony, man. there were of course active radical marxist-leninists, and not to mention the incredible black panther party, but i think they were kinda overshadowed in general by the "new left" hippies who were so high on CIA LSD that they didn't really do much in the country aside from protest the war that was already on its way out thanks to the brave soldiers of the NVA.

nowadays, you can find hippies living in million-dollar homes in cities that were once cool and radical and are now just havens for the rich (think san francisco), living out all the ideals that they "rebelled against" in the 60s and posting 5G covid conspiracy theories online.

im curious where you heard that the dead kennedy's were making music in the 60s

smaller towns. around 100-200k people. i've spent most of my life in them and like having things close by and the atmosphere.

halo: CE. my first game and one of my favorites to this day. the pillar of autumn level gives me a rush of nostalgia every time.

shit i wasn't aware, thanks for letting me know.

the super boring and uninspired gigachad “phonk” shit. genuinely terrible music for losers

some of the early 00s -core shit (metalcore/deathcore,etc) is weirdly christian. it’s not that present in the music but they’ll mention it on stage or some shit. august burns red is metalcore, but i think is an example of a christian -core band being pretty heavy

dopethrone is such an awesome album