GrognardDave

"The big bang took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
The end was begun it would hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots try to hold it back
Fools try to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say"

"Manhattan Project"
Rush

Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

Leave the enshittification behind and come over to Kagi!

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RIP Chuck Mangione.

From "Land of Make Believe" to "Belavia" and everywhere before, between, and after, your music always "Feels So Good."

"Grave of the Fireflies" has got to be the saddest animated movie of all time. Powerful even 37 years after its release.

I'm sick and tired of seeing people whine, "I didn't vote for this."

Yes. Yes you did!

Now, go fuck off and #STFU

Happy "Independence" Day.

You heard them: don't visit the United States!

"Just don't. It's not worth the risk."

Phil McGraw’s Merit Street Media Files for Bankruptcy, Sues Distribution Partner Trinity Broadcasting The talk show host’s media venture launched in early 2024.

Shocking! Another MAGA-adjacent property is going down the tubes.

Too bad. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

"Out of touch
With life in the land of the loving
With the living night
And the darkness at high noon

You can never break the chain
There is never love without pain
A gentle hand, a secret touch on the heart"

'Secret Touch'
"Vapor Trails"
Rush

"Mystic rhythms
Capture my thoughts and carry them away
Nature seems to spin
A supernatural way

Mystic rhythms
Under city lights or a canopy of stars
We feel the powers
And we wonder what they are
We feel the push and pull
Of restless rhythms from afar"

'Mystic Rhythms'
"Power Windows"
Rush

"Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day’s toil
Pulling into Katmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there"

'A Passage to Bangkok'
"2112"
Rush

"How can we ever agree?
Like the rest of the world
We grow farther apart
I swear you don’t listen to me
Holding my hand to my heart
Holding my fist to my racing heart"

'Hand Over Fist'
"Presto"
Rush

"Pack up all those phantoms
Shoulder that invisible load
Keep on riding north and west
Haunting that wilderness road...

Carry all those phantoms
Through bitter wind and stormy skies
From the desert to the mountain
From the lowest low to the highest high"

'Ghost Rider'
"Vapor Trails"
Rush

"If we need too much attention
Not content with being cool
We must throw ourselves wide open
And start acting like a fool
If we need too much approval
Then the cuts can seem too cruel"

'Emotion Detector'
"Power Windows"
Rush

"I wasn’t walking on water
I was standing on a reef
When the tide came in
Swept beneath the surface
Lost without a trace"

'Sweet Miracle'
"Vapor Trails"
Rush

"Well, I need it quick
and I need it now,
before I start to fade away.
That’s why I’m searchin’,
that’s why I’m lookin’
each and ev’ry day."

'Need Some Love'
"Rush"
Rush

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him, To the people I know who voted for him,

"I am going to hold you responsible: ..."

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

"The menace threatens, closing
And I’m frozen in the shadows
I’m not prepared to run away
And I’m not prepared to fight

I can’t stand to reason
Or surrender to a reflex
I will trust my instincts
Or surrender to my fright"

'Freeze'
"Vapor Trails"
Rush

"We’ve taken care of everything
The words you read
The songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure
To your eye
One for all and all for one
Work together
Common sons
Never need to wonder
How or why

We are the Priests
Of the Temples of Syrinx"

'2112'
"2112"
Rush

"Imagine a man
Where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick
But this was something more"

'Manhattan Project'
"Power Windows"
Rush

"Hey now, baby,
well, I like your smile.
Won’t you come and talk to me.
for a little while.

Well, you’re makin’ me crazy,
the way you roll them eyes.
Won’t you come and sit with me.
I’ll tell you all my lies."

'In The Mood'
"Rush"
Rush

"A man can lose his past in a country like this
Wandering aimless
Parched and nameless
A man could lose his way in a country like this
Canyons and cactus
Endless and trackless
...
Searching through a grim eternity
Sculptured by a prehistoric sea"

'Seven Cities of Gold'
"Clockwork Angels"
Rush

"It’s understood
By every single person
Who’d be elsewhere if they could
So far so good
And life’s not unpleasant
In their little neighbourhood"

'Middletown Dreams'
"Power Windows"
Rush

"Run with wind and weather
To the music of the sea
All four winds together
Can’t bring the world to me
Chase the wind around the world
I want to look at life in the available light"

'Available Light'
"Presto"
Rush

"What would touch me deeper
Tears that fall from eyes
That only cry?
Would it touch you deeper
Than tears that fall from eyes
That know why?"

'Tears'
"2112"
Rush

"Just another gypsy with a plastic guitar
Just another dancer with her eyes on the stars
Just another dreamer who was going too far
Just another drunk at the wheel of a stolen car"

The odds get even...

You bet your life!"

'You Bet Your Life'
"Roll The Bones"
Rush

"You can do a lot in a lifetime
If you don’t burn out too fast
You can make the most of the distance
First you need endurance
First you’ve got to last"

'Marathon'
"Power Windows"
Rush

"Here’s a little trap
That sometimes trips up everyone
When we tire of our own company
Sometimes we’re the last to see beyond the day’s frustrations
That’s how it is: How it’s going to be"

'How It Is'
"Vapor Trails"
Rush

"Each emotional injury
leaves behind its mark
Sometimes they come tumbling out
like shadows in the dark "

'Scars'
"Presto"
Rush

"We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust
We can fall from rockets’ red glare
Down to “Brother can you spare...”
Another war, another waste land,
And another lost generation…"

'Between The Wheels'
"Grace Under Pressure"
Rush