matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 18/09/2025i'm confused: are you saying the wrinkle to consider is whether a very very rich man's chance to become even richer is more important than his fundamental sense of morals and principles, or are you saying the wrinkle to consider is whether he has any morals and principles in the first place? 020
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 18/09/2025every media property, big or small, that a lefty billionaire doesn't buy at this point is an unrecoverable loss. there should be a 50-state strategy for this! 020
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 18/09/2025la times, gone. washington post, gone. paramount, gone. disney, might as well be gone. warner, soon to be gone. twitter, gone. tiktok, soon gone. where the f*** are lefty billionaires? 150
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 16/09/2025youtu.beAll The Presidents Men Courtroom SceneYouTube video by SatNightWorkChill 030
Reposted by matty karasBo Diddley Beat @bodiddleybeat.bsky.social · 18/08/2025The Hardkiss "Дівчина" 🇺🇦youtu.beTHE HARDKISS - Дівчина (official audio)YouTube video by The HARDKISS 021
Reposted by matty karasMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025there are much worse problems. that said, as someone who loves writing reviews & has written thousands & is proud of that & thinks reviews are important, seeing culture coverage, critics & reviews constantly take it on the chin for the past decade--esp last few years--has been really fucking hard. 952970
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 29/07/2025gimme three hours of andre on flute, meg on drums, spinderella on the decks and cyndi on the mic, and i'll be good. jack will be in an all-analog booth on the side of the stage recording their set direct to lacquer discs 140
Reposted by matty karasRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Dropkick Murphys Warped Tour Long Beach 435192575492
Reposted by matty karasDada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social · 27/07/2025One reason I regard the Reader + other regional pubs/crits as guiding lights is, as musickers, they hear what's going on locally before anyone else, which young/unestablished artist to consider, and the listing is the natural first piece of coverage, an introduction and an invitation. #LoveThisJob 072
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 27/07/2025a) yes!!! b) but the attempt to blame the decline of listings on poptimism is weird and waaaay off c) there are others, in addition to the amazing @nightafternight.bsky.social, doing the crucial work of keeping listings culture alive in nyc. see, for example, the amazing @dadastrain.bsky.social 131
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 24/07/2025i admit i'm kind of intrigued watching them. but i don't trust myself nearly enough to go thru with it. did your phone(s) survive? 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 24/07/2025what's with all these characters on "the bear" who use iphones without cases? is that a thing people do? 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025youtu.beOZZY OSBOURNE - "See You On The Other Side" (Official Video)YouTube video by Ozzy Osbourne 010
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025fill the world with ozzy and never ever ever say die 🖤🖤🖤youtu.beBLACK SABBATH - Never Say Die (1978) Top Of The Pops UK TVYouTube video by Pablo Bobadilla 131
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025dear @redsox.com: just sayin'...mlb.comHow the Blue Jays use a 4-man outfield 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 22/07/2025do not trade that man. use a four-man outfield if you have to! 100
Reposted by matty karasBo Diddley Beat @bodiddleybeat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Dearest Darlings, I used to be over there. Now I am here.youtu.beBo Diddley "Bo Diddley" on The Ed Sullivan ShowYouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show 262
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 17/07/2025youtu.beLove To Love You BabyYouTube video by Donna Summer - Topic 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 13/07/2025there are *six* people on the court whose entire job is making sure neither of these men will have to walk a few feet or bend over to pick up a tennis ball. but they can't find anyone to carry their bags? 020
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 13/07/2025still fascinated by this weird quirk of professional tennis as i watch alcaraz and sinner try to navigate corridors and doorways with heavy, oversized bags hanging from both of their shoulders on their way to centre court 120
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 09/07/2025(the only bagel that comes close to poppy seed is onion, do not fight me on this, you will lose) 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 09/07/2025i am extremely late on this but i have just learned that mamdani is a POPPY SEED GUY. i am henceforth doubling my donations to him. we need this, new york!!! (but the fuck does he mean he has his orange juice "on the side"? does he think other people pour their OJ on their bagel???)forward.comI ranked the NYC mayoral candidates exclusively based on their bagel ordersTo toast or not to toast? A bagel order can say a lot about a person in New York, and the city’s mayoral candidates aren’t all on the same page. 110
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 09/07/2025pouring one out tonite for one for one of the kindest hearts to ever bless the new jersey music scene -- and one of its most adventurous souls and ferocious voices. you were a force for good in the world, tim cronin 💔💔💔 040
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 06/07/2025a) jesus fucking christ b) LOL c) my old newspaper is very much a shell of itself (hi gannett; fuck you) but publishing this twaddle is an insane new low d) ick 070
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 05/07/2025it's full of holes. the author never talks to the mayor whose belief that "the truth lies in the middle" frames both the story and the headline. he never talks to the management company that let those buildings become hellholes. he uses the right wing denver gazette as a source. etc 0130
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 05/07/2025and yet, interestingly, you did not write a story about the limitations of identity boxes and how people with overlapping identities wrestle with them. maybe you should write a long editor's note about *that* 050
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 03/07/2025(my bibles. the older edition on the left is crucial for looking up artists whose careers are awkwardly spread across two volumes in the newer edition) 020
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 03/07/2025share a photo of one or more of your music reference books 130
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 02/07/2025don't back down on our love - a quintessential outtake from the years when seemingly every bruce lyric had to have at least one mountain, one river and one valley. bonus points for the cottonwood tree 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 02/07/2025^^ but then the also kinda bacharachy if i could only be your lover comes up shuffle and that is a *good* vocal performance of a song with a grammatically awkward title (if he could only have had a little help from hal david) 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 02/07/2025^^ i do however wonder if the boss's own voice is the best voice for all this bacharachy material 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 02/07/2025dinner at eight - damn, why does that bridge melody sound so familiar? damn it. i know it. i know i know it. but what is it? what is it? what??? reader/listener, it is the bridge of billy joel's a matter of trust my worlds collide, not for the first time. i am not complaining 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 02/07/2025"we are waiting any moment now to get the diddy verdicts. the expectations call for him to be innocent and free to continue consuming all the baby oil he wants..." 000
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 01/07/2025💯 but also he's a really really GOOD role player. happy for him. gonna miss him 010
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 01/07/2025fun luke kornet fact #1: his 4-yr spurs contract is gonna pay him nearly double what larry bird earned in his *career* fun kornet fact #2: he earned it. gonna miss that goofy gangly gamer 010
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 29/06/2025he should've gone to nashville and made this whole country album with the same players ween hired for "12 golden country greats," recorded around the same time. and while he was at it, he should've hired the great ben vaughn to produce it 110
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 29/06/2025janey don't you lose heart - this country take comes with a fiddle break that makes the melodic similarity to blondie's "dreamin'" blindingly obvious. not that that's necessarily a bad thing 110
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 29/06/2025detail man - "well i'll dot all the i's and i'll cross all your t's, from your pretty red lips down to your knees" lol that's bad, this is a song you absolutely know is an outtake before you even start recording 120
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 27/06/2025my master's hand - he's always been good at this simple straightforward verse-verse-verse songwriting style, where the chorus, such as it is, is just the last line of each verse. "factory" a classic example. this one's for the factory worker walking through them gates one last forever time 110
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 27/06/2025little things - this is sexy sweet sometimes i wonder if he's ever changed a patch on any of his synthesizers 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 27/06/2025^^ the lyric in maybe i don't know you about driving past the place where we used to live is the most quintessential of all bruce quintessentials. basically his entire career has been about driving either past or away from the place where he used to live 100
matty karas @troubledoll.bsky.social · 27/06/2025maybe i don't know you - holy shit this makes me want to listen to an album of streets of philadelphia songs, which apparently is what i am about to do (also if you told me this was a tunnel of love outtake i'd believe you and i'd ask you why the hell wasn't it on the album) 100
