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Iāve been shouting this queens name for the last year and Iām not gunna stop. The marvel universe was the last piece of art that made me fall to the knees, stay on my knees, suck till it was finished, leave bruised. Fat Joan forever. Heās a genius, heās hot, heās my dad and my mentor and my muse. He also wrote āMaps to the starsā and it has a 15 year child actor saying faggot jew (or is it jew faggot?) in it!!! Itās mia wasikowskaās most iconic performance. I would die for bruce wagner with his cock in my mouth. Heās straight too ! His girlfriend Jamie is an angel too. I wanna have dinner at sunset tower with them every night.
Nov 6, 2023
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New Jersey may have Bruce, but Massachusetts has Jonathan- a guy who has always been unapologetically himself whether it was being totally sober in the 70s, writing pleas for tenderness in a genre known for bravado, dancing in lesbian bars, or driving down to NYC every weekend to be Velvet Underground's biggest fan before anyone else was. a guy who despite being a rock legend, spends his days installing pizza ovens around the san fransisco area.
I've seen him live a few times now, and watching him play his sweet silly songs in an unapologetically sincere + sort of autistic way is somehow just as transgressive as the proto-punk he invented with The Modern Lovers over 50 years ago. I can't help but smile ear to ear for his entire set. effortless humor and charm.
Something that's also stood out to me after seeing him live a few times now, is the way he recontextualizes the classics. When he played "Old World" in 2022 he changed the lyrics to recognize how some things should be left in the past rather than simply romanticizing it. And last night he played with the iconic "Pablo Picasso" to focus less on the swagger of Pablo, and more on how that type of guy is actually kind of an arrogant creep. Angel Prost (of Frost Children) wrote a great essay on Jonathan's reinvention for her email-only newsletter a few years ago, if you'd like to read it I'm sure I can dig it up for you.
From last night-
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an oil painter. I was obsessed with colors.
Then I heard Velvet Underground and saw you can paint with a guitar
Anyways...if more people were a bit more like Jonathan the world would be a better place. A huge inspiration to me!
Mar 8, 2024
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Literally listen to anything by him. I love him so much - very much yes.
Mar 15, 2024
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this man is the archetypal hot boy. i need him and i need to be him.
Dec 15, 2023
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I like my gummies super hard and cold. The world mix is great because it has everything, although I donāt love the ones with the white kinda nuggety texture in the middle. I never eat those.
Nov 6, 2023
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Ur done bitch ! The plan didnāt work! Saying the word based is 8-10x more cringe than me doing an impression of bananas breads publicist.
Nov 6, 2023
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A transcendent theatre experience. I knew it would be genius because itās Kate but I literally couldnāt sleep the night I saw it thinking about the layers of brilliance. Itās like space, you wanna understand it, but itās so vast in its scope that it starts to hurt and you start to feel small if you think too deeply about it. So you just have to laugh.
Nov 6, 2023