Tim Willcutts

One of my students made this animation video responding to Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, setting it to Billie Eilish's song "Ocean Eyes." I love it! So proud of her and I think it should make her famous :) Fan Animation: The Bluest Eye youtu.be/PAkUMvXxh8Y?si… via @YouTube

@EsotericCD You don't like Neutral Milk Hotel?

THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER is the IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA for 19th century German romantics and worth about as little, prove me wrong.

@realsashastone Just finished watching all 4 episodes, very impressed by the writing, acting, and camera work. Can't speak much to the accuracy, but there appear to have been at least some similar cases. A kid named Gilbertson or something?

The problem with Adolescence (Netflix) is that it is not rooted in truth and thus it serves only as yet another fever dream of the Left, "look at those evil incels." But that is what caused the stabbings.

@benny_nero @thirstytrapped @politicalmath Where can I see it?

@thirstytrapped @politicalmath You mean "I love you, daddy"? You can see it, he released it himself. It's pretty bad sadly.

I'm re-watching Louie (Louie CK's show) and it's just one of the greatest shows ever made I understand cancelling it in the wake of his scandal, but it's insane how this work of art has been disappeared entirely. What a tragedy

@Nope87009636 @politicalmath His best work. I love Horace and Pete

@politicalmath Now watch his show Horace and Pete and ask yourself why it’s never mentioned AT ALL

Artemis 2 Launch from Aeroplane. Best perspective yet of a historical moment

@tylerhmead It's the split-consciousness plot that makes it stand out. I can't think of another show with a comparable premise. But more than that, it's the style and imagination with which they execute it. And the end-of-season cliff hangers are thrilling.

I am giving Severance another try, but it is extremely difficult to watch this show considering the hype. Like this just does not seem as smart as you all say it is.

@rpdunn8 @roberthilburn Ok thanks, I'll check it out

@TimWillcutts @roberthilburn This time, these songs are undeniable. Easter Lilly EP is U2 in great form with ridiculously timeless melodies. Edge sounds fantastic Larry is strong especially on Resurrection Song. Bono sounds fantastic The band overall wrote some really high quality songs for this one.

U2 has given us in the just-out Easter Lily ep a digital collection of songs that reflect the boldness, deeply personal tone, spirituality and, ultimately, joy and hope of the band's finest work. What a wonderful gift in these troubled, confusing times. A blessing for us all.

@TheExtremeMusi1 If they'd broken up in 1986 or even 1993, I wonder how they'd be remembered - probably as something very inspired and real that flashed by for a time. But if you let something like that continue too long, it's no good

What's the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't walk around Dublin pretending to be Bono.

@EPoe187 Is it possible he doesn't know what the word "civilization" means? Did he mean to say "regime"?

Ok this is legitimately a threat to annihilate an entire people, an obvious and grotesque war crime. There is absolutely no defense of this and it should lead to immediate impeachment and removal.

I'm that guy from A-Ha's "Take on Me" video

@SchrodingrsBrat I don't see how alcoholism helps

Unfortunately nothing is better for a budding writer than bourgeois stability, slight sexual perversion, and a proclivity for alcoholism

@pitchfork Their most underrated

U2’s daring 1993 album is a staggeringly weird and strangely intimate political pop experience pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

@U2 Resisting algorithms with music that could easily have been made by AI. I say this with all respect --- what you're up against is steeper than anything you faced in the 1980s

A note to U2’s audience from Bono: "We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, 'unreasonably colour xerox’ album to play LIVE… which is where U2 lives. We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world. It’s a time that has our band digging deeper into our lives to find a wellspring of songs to try to meet the moment… With Easter Lily we ended up asking very personal questions like: Are our own relationships up to these challenging times? How hard do you fight for friendship? Can our faith survive the mangling of meaning that those algorithms love to reward? Is all religion rubbish and still ripping us apart…? Or are there answers to find in its crevices? Are there ceremonies, rituals, dances that we might be missing in our lives? From the rite of Spring to Easter and its promise of rebirth and renewal… Patti Smith’s album Easter gave me so much hope when it was released in 1978. I wasn’t yet 18. The title is a nod to her. We will attempt hoopla and fanfare at a later date to remind the rest of the world we exist but in the meantime… this is between you and us." Easter Lily EP available now. u2.komi.io

@KITKAT hey @grok draw a picture of this heist

Regarding recent press coverage

Tried to boil down "Notes from Underground" into a single question for my students today: Is love possible?

@TheExtremeMusi1 Rated just about right

Mick Jagger: OVERRATED or UNDERATED???

@haydendevs The light bulb too

there are people who will go their entire life using a microwave and never stop to wonder how it works. they dont even care. its just a magic box to them.

Watching the film "A Time to Kill" and finding it hard to believe there's actually a character named Judge Noose

The Making of VIOLENT FEMMES (Self-Titled) - feat. Gordon Gano, Brian Ri... youtu.be/MIu-QeO5Y3I?si… via @YouTube . . Really great overview of the making of an album that meant so much to me. Highly recommended