Mine is loving dumb pop-culture shit.
MCU specifically, I LOVE that shit, LOVE it.
Every lefty on my TL is making fun of those movies and labeling people who enjoy them as mindless consumers or whatever, while I'm like "FUCK YEAH THREE INCARNATIONS OF SPIDER-MAN & DAREDEVIL ARE IN THE NEXT SPIDER-MAN MOVIE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
Like, I know it's dumb, but it really brings me that immense childish joy that I get nowhere else.
Anyone else? Or do you have some other dumb shit you love?
Other leftists.
i like anime, but i dont make excuses for it. I just really like that fans would create and publish their own takes on existing works, even it's just porn in the end. Some made comics, some even make their own animations that eventually land them jobs. BUT MY GOD ARE THERE PARTS ABOUT IT THAT MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO TALK ABOUT!! :( Doesn't help that anime fans have become so reactionary over the years, part of that i blame by not having much presence from the left, for some obvious reasons :(
Also punk music. Something about it seems to be wrapped in the failures of the left from 70's on. Listening to Against Me! again for the first time in a while, i recognized the melancholy in LJG's voice on Crimes EP as that helplessness in leftism around the 00's. Like we were already dead, and we were just waiting for things to end. that stench of death is still on us.
Jesus, don't listen to crust,that's the fucking point there
That ep still goes so fuckin' hard.
Do you have any recommendations? I burnt myself out on my old music and need some more punk and shit
i speak super generally when i say punk, so i'll say bands like Against Me!, Thursday, Off Minor, Converge, Against All Authority, Rye Coalition, Kid Crash, Dead Kennedys, I Robot, Orchid, Nine Eleven, Melt-Banana, On The Might of Princes, Moss Icon, Ostraca, Senza, The Blood Brothers, The Locust etc. A lot of these are hardcore, screamo, and emo bands, jsyk.
For Blood and Empire - Anti-Flag
The Body, the Blood, the Machine - The Thermals
I really like these albums. They do a good job of capturing the "idk what's going on, but war and evangicals suck" vibe of the mid-00's.
I'll copy and paste my post from favorite albums. Most of this stuff is far from entry level. It's punk for gross smelly people.
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
Antisect- In Darkness there is no Choice
Deviated Instinct - Terminal Filth Stenchcore (hence username)
Plutocracy - Snipin Pigs
Chumbawamba - Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
Skaven/Dystopia split
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Crass - Penis Envy
The Endless Blockade - Primitive
Discharge - Why?