You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Strange realization: I've spent most of the past month obsessed with Hans Christian Andersen fanfiction
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
all for freedom and for pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever
all for freedom and for pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever
every imi wants to be patchouli
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears For Fears is what's being parodied here, just so everyone is aware
I'm John, The Jokesplainer. You can contact me at 555-5555-55-55.
See the joke there is that that's a fake phone number, because I'm not a real Jokesplainer, because that's not a real job. Nor, in fact, is my name John.
all for freedom and for pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever
every imi wants to be patchouli
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears For Fears is what's being parodied here, just so everyone is aware
I'm John, The Jokesplainer. You can contact me at 555-5555-55-55.
See the joke there is that that's a fake phone number, because I'm not a real Jokesplainer, because that's not a real job. Nor, in fact, is my name John.
And I'm referencing The Dancing Did, who named themselves after a line in William Blake's "Jerusalem" and about whom might be the only time where you'll hear the words "whimsical" and "pastoralist" used to describe a '70s post-punk band.
And yes, that song's kind of a throwaway, but it gets stuck in my head, and all of their stuff is about that silly, if generally somewhat more pointed/topical/dark/outré and significantly more melodic.
Sredni how did you hear all the music in the world by such a young age
I found out about these guys from the online "esoterica" appendix to Simon Reynolds' mammoth post-punk tome Rip It Up And Start Again, which you should read if you like music writing and history and sarcasm and beating on Maggie Thatcher.
Yeah, I love weird little bands like that. They come out of left field and you're just happy you found them. Felt the same about Bugskull, The Door and the Window, Car Seat Headrest, Androids of Mu, The Legendary Pink Dots even... yeah, that's sort of my whole world...
Beating on Maggie Thatcher is always a fun sport. Can't be done with her alive anymore, unfortunately. Though I did raise a glass to her belated demise. A shame the IRA didn't manage to take her out.
<blockquote>I found out about these guys from the online "esoterica" appendix to Simon Reynolds' mammoth post-punk tome Rip It Up And Start Again, which you should read if you like music writing and history and sarcasm and beating on Maggie Thatcher.
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wait, Rip It Up And Start Again has an appendix????
Beating on Maggie Thatcher is always a fun sport. Can't be done with her alive anymore, unfortunately. Though I did raise a glass to her belated demise. A shame the IRA didn't manage to take her out.
But they did take out Mountbatten. One of the most reasonable people on the English side during the Troubles, and they blew him up. While he was on vacation with his nephew. How fucking stupid can you be. Or just evil. Or both.
That VHS Head track is pretty cool. I feel like it could have developed more interestingly than it did, but the sampling was very classy.
<blockquote>I found out about these guys from the online "esoterica" appendix to Simon Reynolds' mammoth post-punk tome Rip It Up And Start Again, which you should read if you like music writing and history and sarcasm and beating on Maggie Thatcher.
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wait, Rip It Up And Start Again has an appendix????
The original UK addition has some extra stuff at the back end, and some online stuff that didn't make it to print, including a run-down of lots of also-rans who barely missed being in the book. Some were major players with their own in-depth stories, like Ludus and SPK; others were pretty minor, like the myriad DIY bands that coalesced around Fuck Off Tapes and The Homosexuals' collective.
I prefer the UK edition. It's more thorough, with some really cool stuff about Black Flag and Einsturzende Neubauten, although there is some new material in the American edition that I wish had been in the original.
In fact, in that game that I started in 1444 (the earliest start date) as Tuscany, I now control (either directly or indirectly) everything that is green on this map of the world
you may notice that the new world looks a little bit different.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
In fact, in that game that I started in 1444 (the earliest start date) as Tuscany, I now control (either directly or indirectly) everything that is green on this map of the world
you may notice that the new world looks a little bit different.
Yeah wait is that how the Renaissance Italians thought America looked?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
This David Bowie biography manga took a strange turn
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I'm John, The Jokesplainer. You can contact me at 555-5555-55-55.
See the joke there is that that's a fake phone number, because I'm not a real Jokesplainer, because that's not a real job. Nor, in fact, is my name John.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Honestly Yarrun, it's like you don't even listen to my inane ramblings about the goings-on in the alternate histories that happen in my video games.
less than 48 hours to go
you may notice that the new world looks a little bit different.
nothing quite like reducing a 600 year history of systematic oppression and exploitation down to procedural generation eh.
what would Ukranians even call someone named "Francesco Stefano Pietromarchi"
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
ahhhhhhh im gonna have jeans that look nice ahhhhhhhh