The original Matrix trailer was such stylish mystery and intrigue. Media consumption volume of the average person was drastically less than today and its release predated wide broadband availability. IYKYK but that film dropped like an absolute hype bomb and deserved all the love & success it received.

People will come to work and say “oh sorry, I can’t read that since I’m not wearing my glasses” and I’m like “why would you go anywhere without glasses if you need glasses?” I just don’t understand it.

Oh fuck I know it

Oh yeah. Probably in 92 when it was a single for the album

My Dad chaperoned on a Boy Scout trip and we listed to local rock radio in the church van. Dear ol’ Dad sung along to this song and the scouts couldn’t believe that this old man could possibly know G n’R. He BLEW THEIR MIND and gained a lot of cred.

Oklahoma is not the Midwest. There’s a whole musical about them being western cowboys.

I have heard this my entire life and now that I recently have kids and a home, I find it to be an insane take. If anything, the greater my knowledge of the world becomes the MORE liberal I am. I’m significantly more aware of rigged systems and injustice as I age.