The Gringo (he/him)

Oof, there was a game I was super excited about back in the day called Magic Carpet (Microprose, maybe?) that was a magic carpet flight sim, I played that for about 2 minutes and I was done.

Poster for Revenge of the Savage Planet

@rrwscott.bsky.social this is on my weekend to-try-out agenda, have you fucked with this one?

Poster for the documentary Video Heaven

#NowWatching: Remember how big a part of culture the video store was, up until Blockbuster and Video World ruined the landscape? Ahhhhhhh good times...

#DocumentarySky #Documentary #VideoHeaven #GetHighWatchDocumentaries

Apropos! 😀

Empty jar of what once held the marijuana strain Miracle Alien Cookies

Fare thee well, Miracle Alien Cookies. You were a solid afternoon smoke that wouldn't get me too fucked up, and at $30/zip, so well worth it. I suspect we'll meet again on some spectacular sales day, but until then, au revior et merci pour tout les poissons.

#WeedSky #MiracleAlienCookies

I've developed an appreciation; I really need to get into local faves Hüsker Dü.

Not so much a favorite show, but there are things that get her attention. She likes seeing the doedicurus when we watch prehistory documentaries, also wolves running on a hillside and a YouTube video of ducks just chilling in a creek. She dislikes Klingons and humans in animal costumes. Bark time.

I collect those eye rolls like Pokemon now.

Right? I'm sure he was happy regardless of the purchase... if you do ever get a chance to see him live, please do--he gathers everybody's requests from social media a couple days prior and then just plays everybody's requests one after another. It's awesome.

He seems like a genuinely interesting dude.

I think Roger Daltrey's a super talented performer with an incredible voice, but there's just something off-putting about him to me. I think it's his intensity; I didn't develop an appreciation for artists yelling at me until Rage Against the Machine. (And now I'm gonna have to listen to them...)

There are a lot of beautiful lyrics--yeah, a lot of really weird shit, some of Robyn's weirdest--on this album, but my favorite of this whole thing:

"Something Shakespeare never said was 'You've got to be kidding'."

That makes me smile every time I hear it.

A friend who was a DJ at a college radio station introduced me to Robyn's music in the '80s--this album!--and I've been a fan since. I FINALLY had tix to see him live a few years back, but got covid and had to cancel. Last year I was vindicated. #MusicSky #AltSky

A friend who was a DJ at a college radio station introduced me to Robyn's music in the '80s--this album!--and I've been a fan since. I FINALLY had tix to see him live a few years back, but got covid and had to cancel. Last year I was vindicated: and at my favorite venue!

#MusicSky #AltSky #VinylSky

White dude doing an anti-apartheid album in the '80s is already so far beyond the pale that they probably just shrugged.

Thank you, I try to make time for her because if I don't, she makes my life hell.😀 I do try and figure out my furbuddies' needs because it seems that the more effort I put into understanding them, the more they do the same toward me. Kiwi is currently trying to figure out what watching TV is about.

Such a contrast to Pete's smooth, almost soft-spoken voice.

I know it's blasphemy and all but I prefer Pete's solo stuff to anything by the Who. (Same w/Paul McCartney.)

Looks like we're on the same psychic fax network... 😀

Jeff liked to play bass; not in a band, just fucking around playing along with his favorite music (including this album). In school he'd dance around me playing air-bass and shouting "Face the Face" while gleefully violating my personal space. That's always gonna be his song in my mind.

Pete Townshend's album White City

#NowSpinning: I approach this album with caution; it was my best friend in high school's favorite album; he ended up unaliving himself due to the pressure of being gay in a conservative region.

But yesterday @mangoboy66.bsky.social and I were talking about Pete, and I got that earworm...

#VinylSky

That's an awesome effect

The Ramones: Road to Ruin

#NowSpinning: Felt like I needed to give my rock section some love. If you're like me and your name is David, there's an 82% chance you hear "I Want a Piece of David" instead of "I Wanna Be Sedated." Science!

#VinylSky #RockSky #PunkSky #Ramones #RoadToRuin

I do think Mississippi is ~12% of the reason I don't drink now.

"I still have some love to give" is something an 80-year-old says, Roy.

I was there for tech training (computer communications), and every day in class I'd look at Airman Humes and whisper "beers" and he'd look at me bleary-eyed and hung over and mouth "NOOOOO!" but by the end of the day he'd come around to my way of thinking. I wonder how he feels about Mississippi.

The Traveling Wilburys Vol 1

#NowSpinning: I'm now 5 years older than Roy was when he passed, and all of a sudden the oldest member of this supergroup doesn't seem so old. Mmmmkay, yeah, he still kinda does.

#VinylSky #MusicSky #TravelingWilburys

Drop someone Annoying.

I only remember "Africa" and "Rosanna," this is a new one on me!

What, so it's just me and Airman Bodamer with good memories of Mississippi?