mike
@mike_lesuer
terrible infant | senior editor @floodmagazine
really thought indie rock was done with the swords and chain mail stuff like five years ago




in case you were wondering whatever this is is very specifically the only way artists can secure coverage on flood




wrote about the jim carrey bad haircut show, which somehow barely seemed to exist outside of headlines about ariana grande floodmagazine.com/200436/life-af…
the defining image of this era of human history is mascots who can dance really freaky
was it a thing in the 2000s that we all thought the jet guy was addressing someone named tamahannah in that song. like just assumed there were people called that in australia and never questioned it
what has happened in the past couple years that every united state has launched an aggressive ad campaign where they insist that they’re not normal
me: greet death is like paul schrader writing internal monologues for psych-horror video games greet death: what if slash couldn’t get laid? floodmagazine.com/199116/greet-d…
getting grifted by a strategic problem-solver who claims to have market insights regarding the residents’ 1979 LP “eskimo”

my superpower is that i can look at someone named zach and tell you whether it’s spelled with an h or a k or neither
should’ve called that movie the hills have guys. there was guys in those hills
burying this in my backyard for archaeologists to find hundreds of years from now to confirm the existence of dance punk

a lot to be upset about these days but at least it’s been years since someone has said “no shit sherlock” to me
wrote about IBM (intelligent body music) floodmagazine.com/195042/youth-c…
spent the past few months playing through all the tony hawk games ever released on gamecube for the first time in 16 years, evidently, and wrote about all the bizarre narrative/music/gameplay choices they made with each one at the link in bio

“We need a left that’s willing to ignore genocide” is a terrifying indicator of the Democratic Party’s plans for future governance. Palestine is just the test run
we’ve invented a robot that tells people why they’re right no matter what they say, furnishes sophisticated arguments for their side, and delivers personalized validation from a seemingly “objective” source. Mythological-level temptation few will recognize for what it is
the era of AI-induced mental illness is going to make the era of social media-induced mental illness look like the era of. like. printing press-induced mental illness
reviewed an album that features what is by far mark zuckerberg’s best vocal performance of the past six months floodmagazine.com/193167/bruit-t…