Saved by Dani Murphy
Hey Mr DJ, put a podcast on
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done ... See more
You know what I miss, and have found myself going back to? The radio. Real people, alive, breathing, conversing with others over the phone, playing something that means something to them. Maybe this is what made clubhouse so big in its time. For me, the draw was listening to people interact without a script from their kitchens, versus watching them
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What’s worse is the deep capitalism poisoning that confuses consumerism with culture: a new water bottle despite having water bottles, simping for and falling for billionaire theatrics, happily welcoming the AI-fication of everything. A loser landscape is emerging, as teens want less sex in movies, as nightclubs close and sober bars rise, as nightl... See more