Ross

Ross

@memoryboy.bsky.social

he/him/his/hither/all the "he's" . I make art sometimes and talk about music and movies way too much . 28 years young . 18+ only . livin' in Virginia . DMs open, I don't bite

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My Halloween costume as Ed Wood. Believe it or not, I had actually shaved my beard that very day - the stubble grows back fast

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10/10 album, cemented their status as the best band of the aughts (yes, really)

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My Chemical Romance's classic stadium-status emo-glam concept album 'The Black Parade' turns 20 tomorrow; take a look back with us

stereogum.comMy Chemical Romance's 'The Black Parade' Turns 20You can’t just decide to make a classic album. If it were that easy, everyone would do it. We’d have to sort through piles of classic albums every week. An artist can’t simply make up their mind that ...
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In case anybody needs some catharsis this Halloween season, Sweeney Todd (2007) contains a scene of Sacha Baron Cohen getting his head smashed repeatedly with a tea kettle and his throat promptly slit in close-up

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(2/2) I've exhumed it and still find it to be somewhat readable and mildly interesting, so if you ever wanted to read my thoughts on why games matter and why Van Sant is a god, then dive in and have fun! ross24fps.medium.com/remediating-...

ross24fps.medium.comRemediating Empathy: Video Game Aesthetics as Audience Association in Gus Van Sant’s “Death…The process of remediation is not typically a form of adaptation brought up in critical discussion. Defined by Jay David Bolter as the…
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Listened to the Cameron Winter live album, this kid's the real deal. If he keeps up this momentum then he'll be in the same leagues as Bejar and Wainwright. Super exciting.

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Finally getting around to listening to that gay skyscraper album that was spammed relentlessly throughout the summer, this better be worth it

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Two of the three times I've been overtly hit on by retail cashiers have been at Spirit Halloween. I can only interpret this as being indicative of a wider hookup culture scene that takes place once a year at these stores. I implore you all to take your kids somewhere else, somewhere safer.

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(1/2) Over five years ago, I was asked to present a large scale presentation on Gus Van Sant's Death Trilogy and its relation to video games at the Popular Culture Association conference in Philly...but then COVID happened and the whole thing got canceled, so I repurposed it as an essay on Medium.

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(2/2) I've exhumed it and still find it to be somewhat readable and mildly interesting, so if you ever wanted to read my thoughts on why games matter and why Van Sant is a god, then dive in and have fun! ross24fps.medium.com/remediating-...

ross24fps.medium.comRemediating Empathy: Video Game Aesthetics as Audience Association in Gus Van Sant’s “Death…The process of remediation is not typically a form of adaptation brought up in critical discussion. Defined by Jay David Bolter as the…
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I'm used to having idiosyncratic tastes that separate me from 90% of all other people, but did my brain really have to decide to plunge me headfirst into an opera arc that I certainly never asked for?

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I did my leg day sets to Britten's Paul Bunyan at 7 in the morning today - I'm either turning into a foppish Travis Bickle or a supporting love interest in a Fassbinder movie