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into NTBTS and other things that are funny free palestine and fuck transphobes

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Omg the new album... Jay McCarrol just come to my house and kill me it would be easier

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Guys STOP circulating this in light of what happened! What if he sees it and kills me for real

#jay if you are reading this it was a JOKE #i still love the album though

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Me getting ready to join the tumblr serial killer fandom now after thinking they're awful and creepy forever

#jay mccarrol #to be clear i still don't support people idolizing like. ted bundy or whatever

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This has been a fucking WILD day in Toronto. For anyone who doesn't know, one of Jay McCarrol's band members was shot and McCarrol himself is the main suspect (and no one knows where he is), an unidentified man climbed to the top of the CN tower and then jumped off (not a suicide attempt, he actually had a parachute!), and a man was electrocuted on the same street where the police were chasing McCarrol down (they didn't catch him), all today.

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Damn, the only crazier thing that could happen in Toronto is if the Leafs were actually a good team.

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Watching the "Jay McCarrol has been dropping us hints that he's secretly gay via his lyrics" crowd change their tune to "Jay McCarrol has been dropping us hints that he's going to kill someone via his lyrics" is absolutely sending me right now. This is truly the funniest timeline.

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#i'm just in total shock right now #how could the man who saved my life have ended another's?

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Okay guys I know we're all going kind of crazy right now responding to this and I'm feeling a lot of emotions about it myself but I do think maybe we could tone it down with all the jokes and memes? I know he probably won't see them anyways but I just feel like we should respect Jay and his privacy and not turn this into a total circus, it's gotta be really awful for him as it is. Speaking for myself I know Jay got me through some really tough times and now it's our turn to support him and not turn his pain into a joke.

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HIS privacy? Not the privacy and pain of the family of the guy he fucking KILLED in cold blood? God... Jay McCarrol fans have always been annoying but this is actually fucking ghoulish. He's not a baby bird that needs your protection, he is a murderer who deserves to go to prison.

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See, this is exactly the kind of persecution he's already facing. We don't know any of the details of what happened. What he deserves is the right to a fair trial, and what's "ghoulish" is people totally dehumanizing him and thinking they know everything about a situation we barely have any info about.

#i sincerely think in ten years we're all going to look back on this and regret our actions

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My Disney princess 💖

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Your Disney princess just killed someone

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If you were to tell 14-year-old me who made these gifs that a decade later Jay McCarrol would shoot someone and the way I would find out is by someone dredging up this very post. Well. Jay if you're out there do me a favour and fucking kill me next.

#i haven't really listened to his music or cared about him in years but #what the fuck

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This is literally going to ruin the tour

#jay mccarrol

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We should have seen this coming he was literally trying to warn us

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If anyone in the GTA is disappointed about not being able to see Jay McCarrol now that he's on the lam or whatever, DM me! I have a cover band, we are basically just as good as him and we don't overcharge for shows like he does.

#plus we're not murderers lol

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Hey everyone,

So, I think I'm going to be stepping back and taking a break from this account for a bit. I really don't know what to do or how to feel right now. I know a lot of you are probably in the same boat, and I just want to say how much I love this fandom and how much joy it's brought me being able to connect with people on here over the years and see how much creativity and passion everyone has in this space. Even though I'm definitely feeling a lot of negative things right now (confusion, betrayal, anger) the one thing I'm trying to bear in mind is that while Jay McCarrol is someone who I don't know, have never known, will never know, there are people on here who I do know because of our shared love of music and it's those people and that love that really matters.

I'm going to take some time to clear my head while we see what happens with this whole situation, but I do want to come back to this account eventually and maybe do something different with it. If anyone has recommendations or requests for other artists that they'd want to see photos/gifs/updates of, let me know!

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This is so well said! Love you and can't wait for your blog to come back in whatever form that takes 💛

#btw as far as recs go you should check out fionn!

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Who put this on Jay McCarrol's Wikipedia page I just wanna talk

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Would it be fucked up if I posted the next chapter of my vampire!Jay fic? I've been working really hard on it but it feels a little weird posting something where he's grappling with bloodlust now and I'm not sure anyone would want to read it at this point anyways.

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There's literally never been a better time to post it tbh

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This is exactly why everyone hates RPF writers

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Nirvanna ye Bard performing Nicholas Nicholas Nine Doors

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wouldst thou wish to trade coin ($350) for this original illumination, kindly dm me SOLD!

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So. Much. Fun.

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Happy Update Day Wednesday

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Until like a day before the trailer for Tony dropped, I thought it was going to be a full length movie about the Tony character from Nirvanna the Band. All I knew about the movie was the name, that Matt Johnson was directing, and that Stavros Halkias was involved somehow. And I just assumed Matt Johnson had enough cache now that they were letting him direct a whole movie about a bit role he played in the show. Then I saw the movie poster on twitter and watched the trailer and learned it was about young hot Anthony Bourdain. Did this happen to anyone else?

[dontpmeo]

On reflection, I think I saw a fake poster for Tony on the NTBTS subreddit where it was about the character from NTBTS. Just fully thought it was real #mygulliblenature

[lookoutsea]

half-formed thoughts on the political economy of Nirvanna the Band the Show

this post is about [matt johnson, the character] and {Matt Johnson, the director}. i hope its formatting is parseable.

this is a show about alienation and its effects on the parasitic non-haute-bourgeoisie / consumer aristocracy. {Matt Johnson} didnt know that thats what its about, and that (the fact that he didn't know) is why it is so rich. the core tension at the heart of ntbts isnt actually about their relationship or fame or music but about the fantasy of totally unalienated labor that the band represents to him.

this hit me the hardest in The Buena Vista Social Club, a very sweet and funny episode. the ending montage is basically the first time we see [matt] enjoying interacting with people other than jay, on his own, in Cuba, a country marked by poverty but with the kinds of social relations only found on the margins of capitalism or outside it to some extent. it serves as a little glimpse into that contradiction at the heart of the show (the veil gets pulled back a bit in Viceland too in their interactions with homeless people and street musicians? but it seems moreso played for laughs there).

[{mMatt jJohnson}] is constantly alienating himself from the social world via fiction and metafiction, both its [{consumption}] and its {creation}. but more than anything else, he fears the alienation of his labor. in Cuba, he experiences kindness, welcoming, surpassing the language barrier, intertwined with the shock of meeting people who have never seen an iPhone, meeting a man who sets fires and herds cattle, dancing with a group of kids who welcome him in. he's from Queen Street.

he's apart from jay for just a day. he's torn away from his little world - immersed in a revolutionary proletarian culture, surrounded by people who welcome him in despite the language barrier and his obvious commodification of their culture. he's torn - he's inspired by the promise of fame, he realizes he misunderstood the situation, he says these are just some stupid cuban dancers - he puts down the phone and looks and for a second he gets it, or starts to. and i think he might even realize what makes Cuba Cuba, and what makes its art and culture so greatly different from what he's used to in klanada.

and the realization shocks him, and [he] misses jay, so he goes back home. he goes back to toronto because unalienated labor & the material comfort he's used to are irreparably at odds. {He} goes back to insisting, in interviews and podcasts, that klanadian culture is just the nicest, the coolest, people are so good to you. (thought shamelessly ripped from @petrodragonicapocalypse <3).

expand scope. matt's control over jay, his dramatic highs and lows, his suicide attempts and time-turning, at the thought of jay leaving him, it's all inextricable from his discomfort with the idea of alienated, or even socially-organized, labor. jay getting a job doesn't stick in matt's craw so much because it would take jay away from him - compare his reaction to jay having a girlfriend (upset, lashing out, misogynistic) to his reaction to jay wanting a part time job as a jingle writer (suicidal, life-ruining, show-ending) - it's because it would merge their little self-contained u/dys-topia with (alienated, albeit non-exploited) labor.

it's the link between his watsonian deepest fear (losing jay) and [matt from ntbts]/{Matt Johnson}'s doyleist deepest fear (being proletarianized, no longer being [a trust fund kid LARPing as a] {a famous and well-regarded} self-sustaining artist, having to work the same kind of menial job as the people [delivering his pizza and showing him around clothing and tech stores] {hanging around in the background, sometimes almost prop-like, in everything he makes})

everything about [matt] and jay's life is sustained by the labor they abhor. they get food delivered, they pester customer service workers, hell, the money in matt's trust fund didn't come from nowhere. this is nothing out of the ordinary for a good old artist-story. where it becomes especially interesting, though, is the fact that they have nothing to show for it. they are parasitic (in the political economy sense, not the Nazi sense, don't have a cow, man!) without even cultural output to show for it, just a constant spinning of wheels. {Matt and Jay}, on the other hand, bear a similar economic and social position without the futility and stagnation.

for all that Matt's work is intentionally harshly self-critical, i think that recognition of the petit-bourgeois (and thus slowly dying) nature of Artistic Individuality is beyond his grasp. he imagines his idea of “making it” as being disconnected from fame and fortune per se - less about money and more about “self-expression” - but still this desire for self-expression and self-dissection is ultimately just as bourgeois a goal as if he were in it for the money in the first place, and this is the one part of his process that he’s not self-aware of.

"it's cogent, but because his sole goal is "making it" (even if hidden behind characters, the fact that this is the central premise of ntb is absolutely a reflection of a real feeling in real life matt and jay), everything is kind of secondary. so if he "makes it", if he gets the attention and the funding and the license to do what he loves, he views everything that led him there as necessary and proof of the truth of his worldview" -phyrex h. @phywreks, 2026

at the end of the day: the Rivoli is the resolution of the contradiction between bourgeois-imperialist social life and true artistic novelty, and the Buena Vista Social Club is the promise of a higher form of art, art serving a purpose, and matt will always be inspired by, not the promise of that reconceptualization of art, but the possibility of cannibalizing it, and he will always be let down but quietly pleased by the nameless and non-famous Cuban dancers, and then he will always come home from Cuba, and {[he]} will always write pastiches of rap {that win awards}, and they are never getting that show

[dontpmeo]

caleb pitts stuns in new homosexual anthem

[dontpmeo]

ive been holding myself back from watching matt and mara bc i can feel that I’m on the precipice of having a horrible crush on matt johnson and that movie would definitely push me over the edge. and im opposed to celebrity crushes for myself on principle #justsayno #mattjohnsonyoudonotcontrolme

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HUGE NEWS FOLKS!!!

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season 30 sneak peek

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