Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go listen to Fables of the Reconstruction, my introduction to these guys.
Shit
Françoise Hardy has hopped the twig, aged 80.
I Am Magneto! You Are Nothing
As indicated in the YouTube comments, this arcade game was MASSIVE in the early 90’s. Fun game, but really fun when other players jumped in to help you fight. On the big two monitor machines it was a six-player maximum, so all the X-Men could battle their way to final boss Magneto. (Whom I never reached.) Impressive this guy did it by himself.
If nothing else, just watch the intro.
These Just Keep Getting Better
Funny stuff.
Who Can’t Relate To This Song?
And should you want to learn how to play it …
Neil Innes, Genius
Here’s Rutland John performing “Godfrey Daniel.” SPOT ON.
Yes, Please
Saw this years ago on a shitty Blockbuster VHS tape, looking forward to seeing it cleaned up. Coming to Disney+ on May 8th, you filthy bastards.
Whoa
1950’s Super Panavision 70 style made with #midjourney #elevenlabs and #runwayai and edited in Premiere. Script by Chat GPT.
So This Is Cool
Learned this past weekend on a trip visiting my 81-year-old aunt that my grandmother’s cousin (my first cousin, twice removed) was a songwriter in California. And that I’m named for him, by way of my dad. (Fucked up spelling and all.) Here’s one of his tunes that Bing Crosby recorded.
And here’s another that could be fun to work up as a rocker.
These Jokes Got Norm Fired
And he did them anyway.