If open to sharing, which music gives eezeebee this effect?

I dragged my introverted ass to 10 houses on my street in an attempt to find a shred of US political solidarity in a red state. I got 7 no answer, left 1 Ring Camera message, 1 polite declination, and 1 prison guard who “doesn’t really watch the news”. I felt awkward as hell but I remain excited about talking to enough people to find 1 or 2 who are like “You think this is all insanity too?!” This isn’t the “topic” OP solicited but as an introvert it feels valuable to share here that I felt good after forcing myself to break that ice.

I am easily spun up talking about myself. Getting me talking isn’t too hard, but I start to feel introvert exhaustion once I think maybe I’m talking too much or I find reason to doubt the person wants to talk any further.

Movies/shows have been good topics for me. Enough people have seen Spaceballs, Interstellar, The Pitt, Marvel that people’s inner nerd pops out like a Jack in the Box when their fandom comes up. A coworker and I once had nothing in common, but I brought up Mystery Science Theater 3000 offhand and she cut me off to shout “I LOVE EMMESSTEE THREE KAY!!”

WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD JACKASS!

Thank you for this image.

Years ago I saw a pic of a puke-inducing sunlit living room with “Home is where the heart is” superimposed over the image. It looked like a soulless ad for overpriced white-woman-instagram furniture.

And someone overlaid an image of THIS MAN but with like 1% opacity, like it was a ghostly face haunting the scene. You wouldn’t even notice it if scrolling too fast.

I loved it and I miss it and this brought me back.

Asking his 12 year old, over the protests of his wife, whether said 12 year old prefers girls with big boobs or small boobs. And pressing the issue for ten minutes after the 12 year old told him that that was an offensive and disgusting question to hear from this particular pervert and demonstrated child groomer.

Echoing Alice’s Restaurant. It’s funny too.

New bar trivia team name: The Group Dubya Bench

Oh fk I’m gonna christ

Paging Joe Burrow

Dawww, they’d claim that was the reason too. So, my idea goes behind the shed.

Symbol of “the cross” with hover-over text in which Microsoft writes “pray I don’t amend it further.”

For that future timeline when the meaning of Save becomes “stop working, let Copilot perfect it, and close”

They say he’s got a lot of chutzpah.
He’s really quite hip.

Nuclear fusion is only 9 more years away.

Corn bats

John Mulaney: "BIG ASS H "

I enjoy that community as a non-participant. A user’s decision to merely interact can reveal much more than they intended to reveal - super interesting to me. Just the existence of the community pits dudes with insecurities against their own lack of self control or social tact, for all to see.

Future me might comment there too quickly after overlooking the community name. I’ll get a warranted Tsk and I’ll see myself out. No big deal. It’s not a kick in the nuts unless I make it one.

GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS ON ENERGY

You’ll be UNCOMFORTABLY ENERGETIC

rising up against all of this

Does Rise Against count?

I am not a good gatekeeper of “mainstream” or “sellout” etc but this feels like a hostile thread so I guess criticism is incoming.

I feel like the entirety of RA’s discography fits this theme perfectly. The songwriting is part of why I can’t get enough.

(I can’t speak for their recent Ricochet album - the sound quality is poor and lots of fans hate it; we hope we get a rerecording some day. Set aside Ricochet and I feel like you can’t go wrong with anything else of theirs.)

Trying to list deeper cuts that might be good hooks:

Album / Song:

The Black Market / Bridges
The Black Market / People Live Here
Endgame / Disparity by Design
Endgame / Midnight Hands
Endgame / A Gentleman’s Coup
Nowhere Generation / The Numbers
Nowhere Generation / Sudden Urge
EP Nowhere Generation II / Holding Patterns
Wolves / Welcome to the Breakdown
Appeal to Reason / Entertainment
EP / Megaphone

And you can’t go wrong with the back to back tracks “Prayer of the Refugee” followed by “Drones” from the album The Sufferer and the Witness.

Even older albums have good stuff but I didn’t list them since idk if you’d call them “modern”. Tip the Scales + Give It All are good tracks.