Our version had negative subtlety.
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Our version had negative subtlety.
Back in college, my band did covered Leave It. We stripped all the subtlety out and played it as a straight rocker. Like what Yes did to Simon & Garfunkel’s America but in reverse. We were hoping it’d be like DEVO’s cover of Satisfaction. We did not have the same intrigue as a court of kings.
Happy 9/01/25!
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Titus Andromedon Jack Donaghy
Louis Wain says that’s a good start
It occurred to me that I don't promote my books enough. First up: "Newshounds: The Complete Story." The entire Newshounds graphic novel story in three volumes, from Lorna's early days to KPET's grand finale. Also serves as a PE prequel! Available now at FURPLANET! furplanet.com/shop/search....
Emo died when Sunny Day Real Estate broke up. The first time
Doglight Savings Time
….is that Ken Nordine?
This makes me wonder if my cats are just silly little guys or if they’re trying to enforce a set of rules that are just incomprehensible to me as my rules are to them (stay off the counters, don’t eat plastic, quit stealing all of Mojo’s treats)
I discovered Cathedral today; they're a prog band. It's perhaps a bit dismissive and shallow to say they sound like Yes. But listen to that bass and guitar tone and tell me that they didn't try and succeed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJA...
I enjoy your wrestling takes because we’ve got very different ideas about how flippy and/or silly the sport should be.
I discovered Cathedral today; they're a prog band. It's perhaps a bit dismissive and shallow to say they sound like Yes. But listen to that bass and guitar tone and tell me that they didn't try and succeed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJA...
so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures
Quote with a gif from the last show/movie you watched
Even taking that into account, still.
Increase a band: The Apples in Dolby 5.1
I was going to say “the only guy in wrestling to have an original idea was Toots Mondt” but you know he wasn’t the first person to rig a sporting event…
Seriously. Dude invented the arrogant heel archetype. I’m just surprised he can wrestle good too
Slightly diminish a band: The Three and a Half Tops
Slightly diminish a band: Built To Trickle
Slightly diminish a band: The Apples in Mono
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
Darkwing's biggest fan? Checks out
When there's only three channels, you watch what's on
there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win
Thank you! We’re doing well enough these days. Just not in a creative space right now
In 1999, I was an unknown web cartoonist with like 100 readers. And yet, during the April Fools comic swap we all used to do, the great @billholbrook.bsky.social asked to swap comics with me! I was pretty blown away! I still have Bill’s “Ozy and Millie” strip hanging in my office.
(My fondness for bloom. for example is not unrelated to them being the biggest band in Gainesville when I went to college. I’m sure otherwise I’d see them as a fairly standard 90s alt-rock that never made the big time)
There are a lot of bands that I love the one album I got when I was 20 but there other stuff - which is pretty much the same - doesn’t resonate with me as much. There’s a lot of music I would have liked more 30 years ago Also, apparently I like every song on Assim Assado’s sole album
3) While these are all excellent albums, a lot of it is just the right music finding me at the right time - when I was younger *and* would dwell longer on an album because I didn’t have a billion hours of streaming music at my fingertips. I try not to let my tastes ossify but it’s hard.
By that point in the album, I'm Along For The Ride, y'know?
2) There's a lot of songs that may not make the playlist but wouldn't rise to the level of actual skipping; it's not bad, but it's the sixth-best song on the album. There are a lot of bands that have a high floor which makes it hard to stand out
1) The nice thing about mp3 playlists is all the bad songs come pre-skipped. I'm never going to listen to Student Demonstration Time just because it's the next song.
Los Shakers - Toto's Bar Love - Forever Changes The Moles - Instinct Mount Pressmore - Enjoy Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Os Mutantes - S/T Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Spirit - 12 Dreams The United States of America - S/T Yes - Topographic
Beauty Pill - Describes Things As They Are Big Star - Third bloom. - O Sinner Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On Cardiacs - Sing to God The Chills - Submarine Bells The Ettes - Wicked Will Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory Harumi - S/t Julian Cope - Saint Julian Loud Family - Days for Days
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My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head
In fact, it was more than a little bit frightening
He hosted my comic for several years, as well as The Nice and their extremely chatty forums, back when web hosting was *expensive*. He was more generous to me than was warranted. We drifted out of touch years ago, regrettably
That's a mean thing to call Riff-Raff
Ok, that was pretty rumbly
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As the one person who unironically likes Attila, I say "California Flash", no question.
Glad to hear it! Our cat Buttons had the same thing back in 2020 and it helped her immensely. She was standoffish on a good day and I'm not sure if she noticed that everybody had to stay out of melee range for two weeks
He got to install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries
you should always have a few moments to watch a Ricky Steamboat armdrag
No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.
Much like sex, every generation thinks they invented surreal anti-humor
(Forgot the alt text. It's Gene Ahern's "The Squirrel Cage" from 1945 and Charles Schulz' "Peanuts" from 1971. I apologize for not tracking down an appropriate Rube Goldberg or Krazy Kat strip to take it back to the 1920s as well)
Much like sex, every generation thinks they invented surreal anti-humor
I'm sorry that happened. You did everything that could be done.
So I thought I had some major Syd Barrett news. Last week, I came across this - a Syd Barrett cover from The Purple Gang's 1968 album. A year before Syd Barrett himself released it. 1/9 youtu.be/3fJL7SXCsbY
Also, turns out that this was a known fact. Just not by me. I hadn't been keeping up with Syd Barrett news since there's been precious little of it in my lifetime, and if I had read about this, I lacked the context to appreciate it. So here you go. Context. 9/9
Turns out the song I heard is on the album - the expanded 2017 release. They finally recorded it in 2006. In my defense, when they say "2006 version" they usually mean that's when it was remastered or remixed youtu.be/nBabGRYeg-c 8/9
(unrelatedly, the only song listed under Syd Barrett on Youtube Music is Rhamadan, a tuneless 20-minute piece for guitar, bongos, and motorcycle. You can find it and listen to it if you want, but the novelty wears off long before the twenty minutes is up. I'm a superfan, but still no.) 7/9
Here I Go didn't fit Syd's usual style. I wonder what the other songs on the tape were. Chris Joe Beard, Purple Gang's guitarist, says "Golden Hair" was one. I think "Love You" is a bouncy tune that would lend itself to a skiffle arrangement but I'm just speculating. 6/9 youtu.be/5PX82V_q2zw
Also, while "Granny Takes a Trip" seems like it'd scandalous enough to get attention, yet innocuous enough to get airplay, it flew too close to the sun and got banned. The follow-up single didn't chart. They didn't release anything else until 1998 5/9 thestrangebrew.co.uk/interviews/p...
Pink and Purple were both recording at the same studio when Syd Barrett and gave The Purple Gang a demo with a few songs, including Here I Go, which he wrote for them. The label's CEO didn't want them doing covers, so that got nixed. Then they lost the tape. 4/ 9 youtu.be/lhUT00LJbAM
The Purple Gang was a skiffle band - skiffle is British schoolboys playing jugband music; was HUGE in the 50s. They're known for Granny Takes a Trip. It's made it to a lot of compilations on the strength of its title 3/ 9 youtu.be/nTP0WoVJ9co
It wouldn't be THE first Pink Floyd cover. That would be See Emily Play by Three to One. But that's another story that you don't have to know right now 2/9 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpSf...
So I thought I had some major Syd Barrett news. Last week, I came across this - a Syd Barrett cover from The Purple Gang's 1968 album. A year before Syd Barrett himself released it. 1/9 youtu.be/3fJL7SXCsbY
Back to back on my feed.
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this just stopped me dead. how have i never considered that?
star trek
So I called up the captain I said please bring me my twine He said we haven't had that hemp thread here since 1969
Nice! I’ve always been a believer in the Joni Mitchell theory of Distributed Computing, myself
There are things that Walt Kelly could get away with because he is Walt Freakin’ Kelly. Everybody else, though…
The thing about 70s comedy albums is if you listen to them on your own, they’re hilarious. When you tell a friend they gotta check this out, turns out they’re kinda rambling and rely WAY too much on one of the guys doing a silly voice and/or a seriously inappropriate accent.
Everyone in your mentions is too much of a coward to appreciate Attila. Dude’s best song is “California Flash” and nothing he’s done since has come close
Well, it’s in reruns with new and old commentary, so now is a good time to get back into it Going to have to check those songs out
I got those books because of the movie. If I ever find where I put them, I should re-read them; see if I get more out of it now that I’m not 14 anymore
Everyone in your mentions is too much of a coward to appreciate Attila. Dude’s best song is “California Flash” and nothing he’s done since has come close
On a whim I decided to draw Agent P, Doofenshmirtz and Major Monogram as Hanna Barbera characters. This was a lot of fun and surprisingly easy for some of them; mostly Perry. Hope ya like them and I might just do the boys next. #phineasandferb
The best thing about threads like this is it makes you think “How could Frank and Jim make this happen” rather than the default of “Of course Miss Piggy could do this. She’s talented.”
Trans women are women, pass it on.
But did he get the duck?
What is common in your field but shocks outsiders? Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language. It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.
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Surf by day, viva California time
Even Ding Dang???
At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*. Yet here we are:
Postcards from Paradise begins “I searched here, there and everywhere Until I saw you standing there I am the greatest fan of you And love is all I've got to do It's all too much my little child If you will be my honey pie Eight days a week you will be mine And getting better all the time” Cmon man
So I’m listening to Ringo Starr’s discography and there’s a lot of “Hey, remember back when I was in The Beatles and we were really cool?” A LOT of that. I mean, yes The Beatles were really cool but I’m already aware of that. I mean, I’m here listening to a freaking Ringo album. I know who he is.
Harry Nilsson performing “Think About Your Troubles” - One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite artists, and a beautiful contextualization of the significant insignificance of our existence (all set to a lovely tune)…
Kevin and Kell was one of the first webcomics, but before that, it was a print comic for the BBS/ISP industry magazine Boardwatch. (Source.)
The minor demon has also failed out of kindergarten
No attempt to categorize Love You is really true or useful. It is itself
I’ll be at San Diego Comic con this July and this is some of the original art I’m bringing with me. All are 9x22” and start at $140. Or the price of 2 churros. Find me in Artist Alley at table ii-06. Look for the pirate stuff. (Thread)
Back where I’m from, “Resistance inside the ISB” means you’re Clive Palmer.
It seems to me you lived your life like a pancake in the fridge.
« the largest show of military might » somehow looks like a Doonesbury comic strip from the 1970s
That sucks and I’m sorry it happened to you. But just remember that there are two ways to find out that your brakes need to be replaced and this is the more pleasant one
An expanded version of Love You and Adult/Child, which feature Brian Wilson at his most unusual, is expected later this year
If you haven’t paid attention to the Beach Boys discography lately, be aware that there are GREATLY expanded editions of their albums (Shutdown through Holland) on streaming. Including 5 discs of the Smile sessions. Be aware
For the love of god, Montressor!
Given how the Captain has treated his bandmates in the past, that may be for the best