I'm a collection of song lyrics percolating in disorder. I like Star Wars and junk rock and old video games. Here's some memes and songs I dug and used to dig.
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i looked it up and apparently it is a product the designer has for sale but there was a first batch of 500 available in December that sold out and apparently another wave is coming this month
and apparently the designer is actually called Monoli as per this tweet:
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My eyes do this already.
(via Not Sold On Switch 2 Camera? HORI’s Piranha Plant Model Might Change Your Mind | Nintendo Life)
This Switch 2 mini-camera variant looks awesome. Will totally buy this.
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I’ve now seen two Shane Gillis episodes of SNL, and I think we have enough information to confirm he’d not have been a good cast member.
Not because of woke, but just because he’s not good at any of the things you need to do to be an SNL performer.
He’s not versatile, he can’t act or sing. He’s not super quick witted or dextrous. He can’t do physical comedy. He’s not a glue guy. It’s not clear to me what his skill was gonna be besides being an avatar for MAGA. Which I don’t know, that might have been the goal. But, shit, even Rob Schneider had moments that proved he belonged as a performer despite being a garbage person.
I’m not saying Gillis isn’t talented. He’s a comedian and that seems to be working for him. It’s not nothing. The last two sketches of the night were well-built examples of the naughty, transgressive bro thing he does. But they succeeded in spite of Gillis. instead, It was SNL regulars in each of the sketches that had the funny moments, while Gillis was the straight man (literally).
Emil Wakim as the doctor who is bitterly reminded he can’t self-fellate anymore and Sarah Sherman as a woman who gives coupons for sex acts she doesn’t want to fulfill were both funnier than Gillis while helping to bring to life dirty jokes from Gillis’s particular Bud Light milieu.
And I guess that’s the point. Gillis can help SNL poke around trashy white boy comedy tropes with plausible deniability. He’s a walking demo.
But he’s not ¼ of Will Ferrell or Darrell Hammond or Phil Hartman. Or even Beck Bennett or Pete Davidson. All of whom could have and did fill a similar role on SNL while actually being funny.
While America’s tripping over itself to dismantle its diversity / equity / inclusion programs, Gillis is the type of DEI hire we’re getting now and, I guess, into the dim near future.
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Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and pals just sit around and shoot the shit, and the conversation is interspersed with contextual music. That’s it.
A lot of Grateful Dead talk in some of these episodes, including this one. Somehow, even though I detest jam bands, I am not deterred (I’ve always been a fan of Grateful Dead on record).
Switching from PocketCast to Apple Podcasts continues to have repercussions. Maybe I’ll even get into their live jams?
For sure I’m way into this song:
It came up in discussion of Vampire Weekend playing a Musicares event focused on Grateful Dead songs. Koenig indicated the song’s relatively tight structure and compact size would be a good match for VW. But then they launched into a concern about how audience members would expect “Fire on the Mountain” to follow, because the Dead always played that song after “Scarlet Begonias”. At least they have since 1977. It’s combo that has been shortened to Scarlet > Fire or ScarFire.
Again, I hate sound of the Grafeful Dead jamming live. But this kind of deep catalog lore fascinates me. No matter who the band is.
Anyway, this podcast is a great hang. Which, really, is what all good podcasts are.
Coffee this morning: Atlas Costa Rica.
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I definitely feel your First Amendment rights to say whatever nonsense this is, but c'mon, man, the Buckeyes are playing. Man, come on.
Body cam video: Neo-Nazis claim to be victims after marching in Columbus
Several officers, including multiple Black officers, were present at the scene on the sidewalk. One Black officer tried to reason with the marchers, pointing out that they were bound to see confrontation from people for shouting hateful things.
Had this thought yesterday. Not the whole album, I don’t think, but aspects of it (including the SZA collab) are very Drake-y. www.theringer.com/rap/2024/…
My mom bought me the Black Crowes' debut album, Shake Your Money Maker for Christmas in 1990. She also got me ZZ Top's Recycler. They were first two compact discs I owned, and she also bought me my first CD player, a small boombox that could play cassettes, too.
Which was good because at the time, all I the music I had were several Eagles albums on cassette, plus Aerosmith's Pump and Don Henley's The End of the Innocence. I also had some of my mom's old records and a record player I had set up in my room.
I had turned 16 in September of 1990, and my first car was my mom's old 1979 Mustang. The same car my brother and I used to ride in on the way to preschool listening to Queen on 8-track. At the dawn of the 90s, that car was now mine, except the 8-track didn't work anymore. Instead, I just switched between the rock and classic rock stations on the old analog radio dial. There was a very narrow band of music I wanted to hear, and it lay between 101 KLOL (Rock) and 107.5 KZFX (Classic Rock).
The Black Crowes were just like all the classic rock bands I was listening to on the radio, except they were young and cool. Other kids at school liked them. Their videos were mainstays on MTV’s Top 20 Countdown. They were getting press in the music magazines I just was starting to read.
Getting into the Black Crowes felt like I had finally found a popular band that was mine. I wasn’t late to the party. I was in on the ground floor from their very first record. They were really the only modern rock band I liked in the first half of high school (along with Guns N’ Roses), and so they had huge impact on me. Seeing Axl and Chris Robinson on MTV made me want to be a rock singer. Before I could even play guitar I was practicing their moves and trying to sing like they did.
I even met some other kids at school who liked the Crowes and tried to start a band. I quickly realized just being a singer wasn’t gonna work, and that’s what got me started on guitar. The first guitar tablature I ever bought was the Black Crowes “Remedy” from their second record, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. Eventually, trying to play guitar like Rich Robinson got me into open tunings and Nick Drake. Which is why I was listening to Pink Moon well before the famous Volkswagen commercial aired.
All of which is to say that when you’re young, just being super into one band or one album can have a huge effect on your life. Send you down all kinds of rabbit holes. And here I am typing in my office with seven guitars on my wall, still gloriously stuck in the dirt I started digging 34 years ago.
This morning, November 3, is my mom’s birthday. In a million ways, she’s the reason I started digging. Her 8 track cassettes. Her records. Waking me up at the Kenny Rogers show when I was five to make sure I heard my favorite song. Taking me to see Don Henley at the Woodlands Pavilion. Buying me my first CD and first CD player. Signing me up for my first Columbia House subscription. Paying for me to have guitar lessons at Rockin’ Robin. And it was her subscription to Entertainment Weekly that eventually turned me into the music editor for my high school newspaper.
One of my earliest memories was my mom rushing me home in time to see Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park on network TV in 1978. I didn’t know then what the movie was called then. I barely knew who Kiss was. I only knew Gene Simmons was my favorite and that his tongue was scary. And that the whole band looked frightening and insane. I was only four years old. But what I remember clearly is how harried and stressed out my mom was trying to make sure that I got home in time to see it.
Well, I got to see it. I don’t remember seeing it. But I remember you. Happy birthday, Mom. I miss you.
Fave lyrics:
Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye
And no one ever want to' know
Love ain't funny
A crime in the wink of an eye
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