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RedStripe118’s Top Ten Best (American) Hit Songs of 2021
And you may find yourself looking at this 2021 retrospective, dated four months into the year 2022. And you may ask yourself, “Is this moron serious?” And he may tell yourself, “Yes, he is.”
The Best Memes and Viral Tidbits of 2021
It is whenever times end up being so trying, however, that we’ve especially got to take stock of the things that bring us relief and joy. For me, a major source of such positive vibes ended up being those functionally useless yet arguably entertaining and/or hilarious things that we call “memes” or whatever it is that goes “viral.”
TAY2: Open Forum – Positively Unpopular Opinions
Releasing Wednesdays on a biweekly basis, Todd (of Todd in the Shadows) and Alina Morgan’s Song Vs. Song is essentially the only podcast which I regularly keep up with these days. And this Wednesday’s episode was a doozy: Not only this year’s Christmas-themed episode, but a full-on Beatles throwdown–Lennon vs. McCartney!!–as they pitted John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” against Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” in an hour of discussions.
TAY: Open Forum – And I Dance, Dance, Dance
Dancing–I’m horrendous at it! But it’s still a lot of fun to do!
The Anime Playlist of Winter 2021 – Infinity Edition
Welcome back to another edition of my Anime Playlist — your short guide into some of the best anime openings, endings, and original soundtracks! Contrary to popular belief, the news of my untimely demise has been greatly exaggerated. Jokes aside, it’s been nearly three months since I last posted anything, so I have some catching up to … Read more
Open Forum: A good comeback, who’s pulled one off?
A short talk about comebacks of the artistic or career sort
TAY: Open Forum – Re-Arrivals, Years in the Making
Today’s Open Forum is about those things in entertainment–games, shows, movies, music, and otherwise–that, after laying dormant for years, come back with a splash. Especially if it turns out to be something that excites you to your very core; even better if it’s something that you would have never expected to reenter your life anew. … Read more
TAY: Open Forum – Higher Fidelity
Salutations to you all! It always comes back to Mario somehow, doesn’t it? The Nintendo Gigaleak continues to provide fascinating insights into the behind-the-scenes details of how some of their games come together. One of the most recent ways that’s happened is that the Gigaleak apparently includes many of the exact names of the synthesizers … Read more