The Ghost Of Bon Jove

Google is gonna start selling old Google at a premium.

Just checking: in the past, when leaders made lists of the countries they intended to invade and conquer, were any of them good guys?

The slow could have used a guy even Devil could look down on

I want my immortal Wes Chatham.

He's a grown man now, he could at any time have just said "It's just Mark" or "Wayne's fine, actually", but he's stuck with it, so it's his own fault now.

Or, fuck it, finish The Expanse, you bastards.

You know what was good, and should have been continued, and was sorta unique in the space and could feasibly had a similar knock on effect? That telly adaptation of The Peripheral that got cancelled in a fit of pique over a writer's strike. Being that back instead

They've got id software too, and I think the most recent Doom trilogy has to stand up to any inspection of what can happen if you just let the devs work on the thing until it's actually ready

Actually, that was the Reverend William F. Gibbons

https://youtu.be/y0zpVFi_Rnc?si=F_orfBEXbF0bn6gB

It makes the Muse/Radiohead beef pretty funny because Muse were even more blatantly extremely conventional songs with very complex ornamentation. I think Yorke was as much afraid they'd give the game away as anything

Radiohead, and Tool to a lesser extent, are really good at making music that sounds complicated to non musicians and particularly music journalists. Similarly, they attract fans who think smart-ass is the same as smart, and the point of music is showing how clever you are

Though "Actually, I think Soundgarden made more use of weird time signatures and polyrhythms' tends to render sufficient apoplexy that you can leave unscathed

I fucking love Tool, unashamedly, but there's a set of dudes who love Tool, love music theory and have so obviously never been in a band, wrote a song, heard a joke or talked to anyone else that make that really, really hard.

I think it's mostly because he looks like Bill Maher with a five-head

For reasons not worth going into, I was in a really fragile state for a while, and during that watched "Into The Spiderverse'. Now, as incongruous as it sounds, that whole soundtrack will fuck me up for fun

Has anyone suggested a free and fair election, just for shits and giggles?

Ah yes, I've always found the more niche the kitchen I was in, the longer the restaurant lasted. Like a fucking law of physics, that is.

The Ones Who Booked Flights Back To Omelas

The Gervais-Linehan memorial whacky bastard to plain bastard pipeline. "I affected to be something I'm not for fun and profit and that's now the only lens through which I can view the world"

Sometimes, I get the impression that the ability to spot a Try-hard is an evolved survival instinct.

The Needle Drop And The Damage Done

Now that ClaudeAI has automated the bombing of schools and hospitals, US troops will have so much more time to devote to winning the hearts and minds of the Iranian people.

At root, this is "We're testing out new ways to kill people, live fire, on a populated area". Imperial Japanese Army in Manchuria shit. Fucking Unit 733t

Also, there's a time in every Uncle's life when they realise that such items are fucking *Ideal* to settle grudges against your brother.

Let's get the guitar players, like we're Lynryd Skynyrd, but have them all play the same thing, like we're a primary school class

It's been years (literally the GameCube release) but I think a big part of it is that the difficulty essentially melts once you get a few upgrades onto the Red 9 pistol.

Nothing's really as big as it used to be. Whatever's most popular gets a boost on perceived popularity because a great deal of the music business is still configured on 50s-2000s notions of a shared pop music. Those into "outsider" genre have parallel media, there's no crossover hits any more.

Can't a man just water his garden with WD40 in peace?

(also, not related but it really tickles me how Billy claims functional ownership of all guitar playing from about 1987 to the late nineties, yet 1979 is by far his most enduring hit, and that's almost entirely drums, bass and organ)

Billy at his peak would probably still do ok these days. He's *extremely* revisionist about how niche and underground his band were, and so when he compares himself to actual non-mainstream acts now, he's going to see it as a huge change.