MattThoughts 2

  • Aesop Rock has just been the most accomplished painter of pictures, the other version of Eminem’s, “Y’all ain’t even impressed no more.” And while it can be easy to forget just how incredible Eminem is because we are, indeed, “Used to it,” with Aesop Rock it felt like he never got thin and rarely even…

  • Aesop Rock. It became trendy for a couple of years there to focus on Aesop Rock, or perhaps it was just the one Lupe Fiasco video about appreciating him, but this guy deserves all the recognition he can. What a career, full of at first very abstract, almost zoomed-back rap like diagrams and postmodern poetry,…

  • Amon Amarth Album Ranking.

    Okay, so we’re finally here. I have finally listened to all of the Amon Amarth albums. (The ones that aren’t B-sides or covers or other things, but just main, studio ones.) As the band that I have pictured on my work profile, which is pretty good, I guess, meaning a large percentage of my profile…

  • It may sound funny, but I think it is time to get everyone on a really positive wavelength, or, at least, if not everyone, then most people. How do we do that? I’m not sure, exactly, but it is sort of a personal thing, each person. I realized indeed, as I have realized many times…

  • It’s Really never Been Easier.

    I have a post somewhat near the end of MattThoughts, one of the many times I was thinking of sort of restarting it but . . . like, sort of doing a new blog on the old website. And it was saying how easy things are because of how sort of disadvantaged or in a…

  • Better Call Saul is about one thing: Implacability. One realizes how sage Jordan Peterson’s advice about gaining frameworks for how to act and live from fiction, watching this show. Every character that we follow, whether on the outreaches of society and gathering farther, or on the inside of a great, moneyed law firm and dealing…

  • Well, I didn’t expect to be blown away by Elden Ring. On the PS4. But consider me blown away. The beginnings to Dark Souls and Dark Souls II, as well as Bloodborne, which are the ones I’ve played at least a little of, were stunning, but this . . . this is just showing off,…

  • Better Call Saul might be the best show ever. I know I was talking about Twin Peaks, back there, but this multicolored rollercoaster down the depths of human emotion is so on par with Breaking Bad, it’s stumbling and pushing that show off the stage. In one episode, Jimmy McGill, the title character but not…

  • Playing the Lesser Elden Ring.

    I was going to potentially get a PS5 or a Switch, after my probation. However, I realized that there were enough games I wanted to play on my PS4, and that I just had enough stuff that I wanted to spend money on, anyway, that I just didn’t get the new video game system, at…

  • Twin Peaks: The Return of Darkness and Evil.

    Twin Peaks: The Return I’m probably going to start watching again. I remember watching it when it came out, and it was one of the most exciting weekly events of my entire life. Imagine David Lynch releasing half a movie every weekend for like . . . oh, man, it must have been pretty much…

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