Yay on all the good pooping out there!

[Sabamah]

Good one, Moe. 

[Spud Boy Rosa]

Killing crappity is my new favorite video game.

I've been a life long fan of the JokeKiller game series.  It's a bit like Final Fantasy, just not as funny. 

[Tripp]

about to go sweat it out at the Lair with Stan...  Not too long ago I nabbed some kick-ass speakers from work..  Turns out the cones were cracked so that's why nobody cared that I took them.  But apparently these are really nice expensive speakers.. Stan took them to a repair shop and the dude said they were worth 600 a piece.. SO, we're shelling out about 100 bucks to get them fixed up. Hopefully Stan has them already.. What this means is now Dragoon will have ACCURATE PLAYBACK when we record..

that's kinda humongously huge for me..  it'll make recording go ten times quicker..

[Tripp]

in the comic Watchmen, ozymandias fools everyone on Earth into thinking we're being attacked by aliens by teleporting a Lovecraftian monster into Manhattan, killing hundreds of thousands of people. And since Dr. manhattan had seemingly abandoned the Earth earlier, all the nations of Earth decide to band together in the face of this new alien threat. So world peace is achieved.
in the movie they changed to so it appears that Dr. manhattan had attacked the Earth but y'see, this wouldn't have the effect of bringing people together. If America's Superman attacked every major city in the world I think it'd make everyone else nuke America, not suddenly decide we're super-cool..
What pisses me off about the decision to change that ending is that the studio thought that the 'space-squid' was too hokey for an audience to accept. Because, you know, a glowing blue guy with his dick hanging out...  that's totally awesome.  Space-squid.?  Now you've gone too far.

What I liked is that it's a telepathic space-squid.  It teleports into a building, which kills people...but its psychic trauma kills even more as it assaults people's minds.

true dat.
AND the location the space-squid is teleported into is the intersection where the entire supporting cast is primarily seen.  So after 11 issues of getting to know all these characters and caring about them.. they ALL get fuckin' killed..  It was devastating.

[capt. qitn]

about to go sweat it out at the Lair with Stan...  Not too long ago I nabbed some kick-ass speakers from work..  Turns out the cones were cracked so that's why nobody cared that I took them.  But apparently these are really nice expensive speakers.. Stan took them to a repair shop and the dude said they were worth 600 a piece.. SO, we're shelling out about 100 bucks to get them fixed up. Hopefully Stan has them already.. What this means is now Dragoon will have ACCURATE PLAYBACK when we record..

that's kinda humongously huge for me..  it'll make recording go ten times quicker..

hell yes!     so important.

either my cats or my kids just put a dent in one of my NS-10s.     I've intentionally not sleuthed out who it was.   I can't handle being that pissed at any of my fave mammals.

Makes it worse that they stopped making them about 5  years ago when Japan started protecting the trees they make the speaker paper from.     They aren't great speakers (especially the bottom end) but EVERYONE had a pair, so they were the perfect reference.

[Just Some Girl]

Actually, the kids don't get into Alejandro Escovedo either.

They don't. But I do. Have loved him for years. Since Rank and File and True Believers, etc, and early solo stuff through to today. I've only seen him a couple times (the first time was a tour that was shortly after his wife died, and he was left to raise his daughter alone...which made his music even more unbearably poignant than usual), but I really really love him. A cover of I Wanna Be Your Dog, or Pale Blue Eyes doesn't hurt. I wanted to tell him I loved him when I interviewed him in '99 or so. But then I thought that might be a tad unprofessional.

I could see the "Springsteen" thing you're seeing, Evan, though much much more of his stuff is singer-songwriter-y and less "rocked up" than the (non)hits, like the more upbeat thing he did on Letterman the other night...

[Just Some Girl]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/XSIetIg7O3M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/XSIetIg7O3M</a>

DAMN DAMN DAMN! I was gonna post that. One of my bestest friends in the whole wide world art directed that. (Patrick Banister. There were three art directors I guess. But still.) He's been working on that, no joke, since January 2009. Yep. Also, he neglected to tell me he was working with Jon Hamm. So obvs not that great an old friend.


(scowl face)

[Afton Bar Pickles]

Paul McCartney really kills at the White House...on PBS.

He sings Michelle to the first lady.  Kinda creepy.

[Afton Bar Pickles]

Seems like Sucker Punch is friends of crappity.

[Afton Bar Pickles]

The speaker news is cool, Tripp.  Good find.

[Moetown]

Actually, the kids don't get into Alejandro Escovedo either.

They don't. But I do. Have loved him for years. Since Rank and File and True Believers, etc, and early solo stuff through to today. I've only seen him a couple times (the first time was a tour that was shortly after his wife died, and he was left to raise his daughter alone...which made his music even more unbearably poignant than usual), but I really really love him. A cover of I Wanna Be Your Dog, or Pale Blue Eyes doesn't hurt. I wanted to tell him I loved him when I interviewed him in '99 or so. But then I thought that might be a tad unprofessional.

I could see the "Springsteen" thing you're seeing, Evan, though much much more of his stuff is singer-songwriter-y and less "rocked up" than the (non)hits, like the more upbeat thing he did on Letterman the other night...

I guess I honestly haven't listened to much of his solo stuff - just the stuff NPR plays whenever they're doing a feature on him (about once a year). I did listen to Rank and File way back when and I actually saw True Believer play in Dallas. I'll try to be more open minded next time I hear him.