
Songs of the Week 06/02/2023
So, nobody was going to tell me the titles have been off center for two months shy of a year?
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Read MoreThis week: mostly excuses for prancing in the rain.
Read MoreAnother week of two Dark songs and a Kate Bush in change. You know the drill.
Read MoreThey say Tuesday is the new last Friday, right?
Read MoreDon’t Change the Channel! Next up: a surprise wedding is revealed, an unlikely friendship is formed, and someone whose name rhymes with Geter Pabriel loses his fucking mind.
Read MoreSo many spoilers, so little time. Spoilers galore. But seriously… spoilers for Annihilation and spoilers for Dark ahead. Even spoilers for Arrested Development ahead…the Mrs. Featherbottom hole goes deep. This post is a minefield. Don’t even look at it. Yea, I bet you won’t click. Is this working?
Read MoreYea, so, screw conciseness, right? I thought last week’s one-sentence style would be a fun little break from the absolute cinderblocks of song reviews that I usually collapse everyone’s roofs with, but apparently, I must have just bottled up all of my words, because I’m serving up the cinderblock of cinderblocks this week. Get comfy.
Read MoreSince I’m fourteen pages deep into midterm essays with a flash fiction unit on the horizon, I figured it might be fun to try to distill my love for this week’s songs into one sentence each, which is something that should be easy-breezy, especially considering how deliberate, curt, economical, un-repetitive, and un-repetitive my writing tends to be—the “B” in Max B. Todd stands for Brevity, after all, and as a believer in nominative determinism, which I don’t actually think I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I strive to try and embody this in my every sentence, and that’s the Max Todd Dot Com (Max! Todd! Dot! Com!) guarantee, free of extraneous “bombastic”s and “driven”s and “punchy”s and “swelling”s and “earworm”s and any words I’d never, ever use more than once, because… sorry, hold on, I think I was going somewhere with this.
Read MoreHowdy doody, dark and broody. Check out Fire of Love if you please, leaving Hulu today! It’s a race against time! Go, go, go!
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