Add Scott Wilson to the growing list of people who are no longer watching The Walking Dead.
Weird Al Takes On The Pixies, First World Problems
The man is a national treasure.
UPDATE! Down the rabbit hole I go.
I Wanna See This
Correction: My inner 12-year-old wants to see this.
Shit
Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, dead at 72.
How They Made The Exploding Head In Scanners
https://youtu.be/0O_KrHjcF_c
BOOM!
How Bruce Thomas Came Up With That Glorious Bass Riff
As Thomas tells The Peverett Phile blargh …
The riff wasn’t totally spontaneous, it was sort of contrived [from riffs] I’d been listening to at the time. It’s kind of weird. If you listen to “The Price of Love” by the Everly Brothers, you’ll get the rhythmic pattern.
And if you listen to “You Gotta Lose” by Richard Hell & The Voidoids, you put those notes to the riff you get “Pump It Up.” It’s a hybrid riff.
Then I was left with a half a bar so I added “You Really Got Me,” which was one of the best songs ever written. So, that was it.
I love this shit. Everybody rips off somebody – some are just more creative about it than others.
MAD’s “Punk Rock Group” Of The Year
I’ve posted this here and there before. Deal with it.
Holy Shit, This Game Looks Good
I returned to console gaming last year after acquiring my son’s never-used PS4. I’m pretty picky about what I play, but I quickly realized that anything Naughty Dog releases will be top notch. I bought The Last of Us Remastered at Target on a whim and I couldn’t put it down. After that, it was The Last of Us: Left Behind, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and then Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Rumor has is that The Last of Us Part II is coming sometime next year.
Can’t. Wait.
More Brains …
Okay, let’s see if this works.
Anybody a fan of Return of the Living Dead?
UPDATE: This is an experimental server upload of a documentary about the film.
The “5th Ramone” Speaks
Great interview with Monte Melnick on the Please Kill Me blargh. If you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, here’s the best part.
PKM: There’s a great story in your book that takes place in a Texas gas station.
Monte A. Melnick: My favorite story. This was early on. We were driving through rural Texas, driving five or six hours, and we pulled into a gas station to get some gas, and there was a little store there too, so they all pile out of the van, looking like zombies. They were staggering around because they were seven hours in the van. So they’re in the store looking at stuff, and I come in to pay for the gas and the lady says “It’s sure nice of you to take care of these retarded boys.”