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As a Gen X-model human, I love watching old garbage movies from the haziest corners of the pop-cult periphery: ‘70s grindhouse slashers, apocalyptic ‘80s sci-fi, politically incorrect legal thrillers from the ‘90s and ‘00s where Michael Douglas is a bougie, cutthroat executive (and also somehow the victim). Tubi has them all, free (with commercials obv), for your low-stakes, ambient viewing pleasure. Beyond its immense cheeseball catalog, the UX is sturdier and more functional than most of the top-tier, paid-streaming apps. It has never been so easy to just throw something on.
Mar 19, 2024
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Forget everything you’ve heard about Tubi. I need you to be open minded right now - trust me! Pretend I’m holding your hand delicately across a table and looking into your eyes with a silent plea or something like that. Is Tubi a good streaming platform? Well, an argument could surely be made that it is not. Does it have frequent ads? It sure does (it’s free). Is it the ideal streaming experience? It is not, but, dear reader (I’ve always wanted to say that but I’ve never had a dear reader for it!) it is the best LIFE experience. There is a world of possibilities on Tubi. There are SEVERAL horror movies surrounding leprechauns. There is a sci-fi collection called Bimbo Movie Bash. There is a comedy special called A Conservative Unleashed. Other movies include Christmas Twister, Horrors of Spider Island, Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies, and I Married a Centerfold. I KNOW!!! Run, don’t walk! Explore the dark twisted bowels of Tubi! Maybe take an edible first if that’s your sort of thing.
Jan 18, 2022
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I relinquished all my subscriptions so lately i have only been watching movies on Tubi. Recently i have loved the evangelical teen comedy Saved!, meth odyssey Spun, and the GG Allin documentary. Today i could watch a C-tier Fassbinder, or something Québecois, or Dirty Work dir. Bob Saget. You can have both structure and spontaneity you can have it all in this life
Jan 12, 2024
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While movie wise it truly is the thinking man's streaming service, TV wise they've been goin bonkers lately with some of the true mindless 70s/80s joints like Chico and the Man, It's A Living, and Silver Spoons.
Jun 3, 2024
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It’s no secret that the triangular parcel of land known as The Lot Radio is Brooklyn’s best warm-weather hang and a key hub of New York dance culture. Opened in 2013 and run by Francois Vaxelaire and Pauline La Mell, the site features a DJ booth/shipping container known to host thee most legendary producers in dance music. On any given day, you can relax in the sunshine with friends and a bottle or coffee while listening to artists, critics, record shop owners, or producers mix live on air— or, if you’re lucky, stumble onto a set from Octo Octa, Nick León, or Honey Dijon.
Mar 19, 2024
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I adore music zines. Always loved them. I don’t mean full-on glossy magazines, though I love those, too. I mean the handmade, typewritten, toner-smeared kind made out of printer paper and staples and a burning desire to participate in a tradition of creative writing, interviewing, art-making, and whatever other form of creativity one feels like stuffing into its pages. At the moment, I’m obsessed with a few: Hallogallo, which is run out of Chicago by Kai Slater (of the bands Lifeguard and Sharp Pins) which just published its 10th issue featuring an interview with Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier; Love Injection, a long-running club culture zine by NYC’s Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele; and Shadow Wolf, the handiwork of Holland-based electronic artist Legowelt.
Mar 19, 2024
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If you’ve got an old iPod, CDs, CD-Rs, or other dead-format music libraries stuffed in a closet or storage somewhere, I have to recommend doing whatever is necessary to give them a new lease on life. Seriously: Order that old Dock Connector cable, buy that used Discman, or lumber around in the attic or basement for those buried boxes. I promise it’s worth every bit of the cost and struggle.I recently took a stack of old hard drives to data recovery, hoping to restore decades of lost photos and writings, but instead spent more time combing the MP3 collection I thought I’d lost in a 2015 crash. All the forgotten albums, remixes, bootlegs, DJ edits, and Soundcloud rips were like accessing an alternate mode of music discovery from an earlier version of myself: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Eccojams and early Games cassettes, DJ Sprinkles’ Midtown 120 Blues, Blawan’s “Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage,” Death Grips’ Exmilitary, and innumerable reggae singles, bloghouse remixes, and techno twelves are back from the grave (and loving it!), co-existing alongside years of Bandcamp purchases.
Mar 19, 2024