Steel Sponge

i'm 'bout to book a show at the dimmsdale dimmadome

i want to be a mod

Honesty time: that best of animation 2018 list is very much not going to be completed before 2019 list season comes around, nor before 2020, so I will only be able to post the imminent list in my general reviewing thread. This time, it's not because I can't afford to see whatever it is I still need to see, but it's because I want to keep my focus towards continuing and finishing my spin-off writing career quicker and balancing it with my intent to get the 2018 animation review out sooner before this year's list season is a little too much of a workload for me.

Also, by the time 2019 list season does come, I will be spending time writing music reviews that will extend to a couple decade-end lists.

can someone please tell me why chris brown is still relevant even after he says disgusting things like this (after CHVRCHES expressed their disgust in Marshmello collaborating with him)? this only piles up on brown's long laundry list of wrongdoings but still.

Advertising this right now since I've just made an update for it.

And because clubs in general aren't so active and because I'm going to be posting something new in that topic sporadically, I strongly suggest following said topic for those who really want to see more from it.

Week 70! Give it up for week 70 that "broken" by lovelytheband has been on the alternative chart!

I would put 800+ thousand people in doors.

hi, I'm the guy in the sweater who asks all of the obvious questions.

To give you all a briefing on my planned entertainment lists, I will be publishing my next two music countdown lists in January of next year and I will publish my long overdue animation list before the end of this year (reminder: the latter will be on my blog).

If anything I could say about this one particular year in animation that I've held over, it was so great that I had to make quite a few yet very painful cuts. So trust me when I say that you'll enjoy this next list once it arrives.

cousin mel's attorney i.m. slime.

you said, it not me.

New avatar/display name for the season. This time around, Cousin Mel's going to be spending Christmas with the superstars.

daily reminder to all that Alpha and Omega had spawned seven sequels.

used to hang my head low, now i hear it loud, every stranger from twitter is gonna burn this down

eating food is what they do and they don't do it for you

We now live in a day and age where people are writing articles all about one single detail from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. That detail involves Franklin sitting alone at the right side of the table on a lawn chair and how it can only be established as segregation or isolation and/or Schulz being racist and I can 100% understand why some are mad about this now, and I just noticed this so I don't know if people addressed this as an issue years ago, but it feels iffy to make these accusations without doing prior research on the animators or illustrators who designed that one particular detail, or on Schulz himself.

when you open your christmas presents early:

list season hasn't even come yet and we already got a video like this. i'm not even surprised. also the year-end list hasn't even been published yet while billboard currently has one week left of the 2018 tracking period and by the time december comes up, expect every other music critic that isn't Spectrum Pulse, Todd in the Shadows, and Anthony Fantano to do the same early stunt.

HOT TAKE: Rocket Power was a great cartoon and it brings me to shame that we now live in a time where it's now popular to hate it.

but just like the Battle of Troy, there nothing's subtle here. 

the diamonds MY GOD i've forgotten them completely.

Look who decided to sign up late for this year's Octerror Fest SWYAD. Who does he think he is? Steel Sponge? Oh wait...

As a random hot take from me, I'd never image that I would turn a complete 180 towards my feelings on a particular song, but "Riptide" by Vance Joy has become a definite example of a song that I used to really like but I now can't really stand.

It's not close to my bottom 10 in terms of the year-end hot 100 list for 2015, but the more I delve into the song, I've since felt that it's pretty much "I'm Yours" except on a ukulele and if it tried to be thought-provoking. The one major pitfall that I've had with "Riptide" is that its lyrics mean and suggest absolutely nothing, as well as the mere fact that the song is practically a mish-mash of half-baked songwriting ideas.

I was easily captivated by the melody, the creative input for its lyrics, and the build-up towards the bridge, but nowadays, I can't feel that same way.

Also, I wouldn't call it a complete 180, but I'm also willing to admit that my thoughts on "Want U Back" by Cher Lloyd has grown on me since when I've disliked it for quite a long time. i'm sorry

5 days until Alex Jones launches Operation 666. Mark your calendars.

Alright. I got my top 10 list for 2017 in animated TV and film completely set up. I guarantee that my review will be out by this Thursday or Friday.

tfw when Foster the People barely missed having their second top 40 hit with "Sit Next to Me" but "broken" by lovelytheband is making its way onto the top 40 very soon.

Just a reminder to all that Kenan and Kel are both in their 40s as of recent.