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big joys in little communities

i'm new!! hi!! stumbled on here after seeing someone on twitter mention this in passing!! this is a very lovely place. everything has been so cruel and hateful and mean lately. you'd think given how hard life already is, warm and kind spaces like this would be more common. oh well. it does make things feel more special :) i'm very shy, and honestly, nothing cool goes on in my life so i doubt i'd be able to rec interesting things. after struggling with my younger years, i feel like i'm only now starting to find the things i like and catching up with everyone else :o especially in terms of art and books and film and games and... everything!! this is kind of embarrassing to admit (it's okay though because anonymity is awesome), but i am only now forming a personality!! it's nice to be here though. very good vibes. lurking here is just as great because it doesn't feel like "doomscrolling" nice to meet you all!! hello!!

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Jan 16, 2025

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But I think it’s kinda like twitter meets tumblr meets a little myspace…. I don’t know but it’s cool af

@zorybreaux

Feb 24, 2025

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HOLD ON A SEC....IS THIS MYSPACE 4 GEn Z?!?!

Just navigating for a moment my home/feed/timeline and I realized.... everything smeels like MySpace. Exciting fresh summer fruit air. Was too young to even comprehend what was going on during the beginning of early 2000s (like most of u) and the only time I felt 'k00l' enough was when a random day on 2008 I signed up for Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. None of them were interesting enough to do much, except for posting pics/videos and write nonsense status about what was up in your baby-head. At that point Myspace was long gone, buried in the silent internet black hole where you would just find all your """deleted""" embarassing moments and some uncrypted FBI cold cases files. Now, in this post- T u m b l r and edulcorated saturation of Instagram & TikTok and commersalisation of 'being visually communicative', where can we find... our tribe, our forum, our sense of community 4real 4real > > > > this seems 2 b the place, or at leat A place to start. Just reading through all the recs I can see how everything reaches like-minded art-makers and tasters, without being too 'scene-keepers'. This sounds like a homage, another type of ode, but it is coming from the depth of my heart, still seeking meaning between those digital coded lines, you know?! Hopefully I am not wrong and I can meet up with many of you somewhere - NYC, LDN, anywhere our brainy music-geeks soul will bring us <3333
Feels like this is the beginning of a new chapter of my online presence, a post-adolescence virtual rebirth.

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Cold Glitter

Hi, self promo time! "Cold Glitter" is my new book from Feral House. It has lots of wild stories and fabulousness on a dime so no, you definitely do not have to be Canadian or a Glam head to enjoy it. Over 400 pages of PIZZAZZAMATAZZ and ten years in the making. Get it from Feral House or ask for it at your favourite shop or library. "Dayton's deep plunge into the crystalline depths of Canadian Glam is a strange swim indeed, something only an author this obsessive could provide -- a mirror ball's worth of wild reflections on an ice-cracked world long gone. No need to know anything beforehand about Canada or its music to be thoroughly dazzled by this scintillant dip! C'mon, shoot the boots!" Guy Maddin, director of Rumours (2024), My Winnipeg (2007), and The Saddest Music in the World (2003) among many. “The always-entertaining Robert Dayton details a mysterious, undocumented scene that was hiding in plain sight up North. Written with the enthusiasm of a renegade entomologist who just uncovered a rare, precious, and peculiar bee, the book is loaded with colorful characters and alternate-universe tales.” Gregg Turkington, actor, writer, and comedian best known for his character, Neil Hamburger. "Cold Glitter is a province-by-province walking tour of the soft sequined underbelly I never knew I had, as a so-called Canadian. It is enlightening and hilarious and in the end inspiring. Cold Glitter creates a home for the perverse and the ecstatic, in a nation vehemently down on both.” Dan Bejar, musician (DestroyerCold Glitter is a province-by-province walking tour of the soft sequined underbelly I never knew I had, as a so-called Canadian. It is enlightening and hilarious and in the end inspiring. Cold Glitter creates a home for the perverse and the ecstatic, in a nation vehemently down on both.” Dan Bejar, musician (Destroyer

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LAVISH FRENCH CANADIAN GUTTER GLAM BAND AUT'CHOSE LIVE 1975

Be sure to enjoy their hairy, sexy version of Good Vibrations in the middle somewhere...

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Jul 8, 2025

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Louise Lasser's infamous snl hosting

I'm not an SNL fan finding it hacky from the get-go (John Belushi? not funny) and not as fresh and edgy as it positioned itself to be (nor inventive...shows like SCTV blew them out of the water). Lorne Michaels just poached the cast from the right places to make something that wasn't far off from the broad yuks of Laugh-In or Rich Little. But I needed to buy this particular 1976 episode for 1.99 from YouTube because the host was Louise Lasser who was then starring in my favourite television show Mary Hartman Mary Hartman. There's never been anything quite like Mary Hartman with its deadpan sensibilities. I'd call it skewed but it was right on target with the issues of the day (and it was also a rather feminist show). It was more than mere soap opera parody dealing with the curious denizens of the town of Fernwood, USA. It lasted just two years and over 300 episodes at five nights a week (which must have utterly been exhausting for Lasser) and was a culutural phenomenon. Louise Lasser's character Mary Hartman had a total nervous breakdown on the show and Lasser did similarly during her opening monologue on SNL. It's fascinating to watch as an exercise in awkward comedy out of step with the rest of SNL. What is real and what isn't here? When she rubs her gums is she really high on cocaine? She discusses her personal problems. How planned is this? This is true comedic risk-taking that doesn't always work but is fascinating to watch. She mostly performs solo (or, as in one sketch, across from a dog) leaving the rest of the cast to fill the rest of the show with their by-the-numbers work -the sole exception being a bizarre song sketch about television technology featuring SNL's two stand-out talents: the no-holds-barred Dan Aykroyd and the very under-rated Laraine Newman. It was said (perhaps falsely) that Lasser was the first host to be banned from SNL but with SNL later having guest hosts like Trump and Musk, today being banned from SNL reads like a badge of honor.

@robertdayton

Jul 19, 2025

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