Lamp, broken circa 1988

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xq4o-kE-j8 Sometimes they rock and roll Sometimes they stay at home and it's just fine This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire I am my mother's hen And left the body in the bed all day We don't know what to do This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire A thousand made-up loves What makes the sound of surf once you know you're alive? This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire It's getting better all the time It's getting better all the time This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire And you're my favourite thing Tell it everywhere I go I don't know what to do This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire Sometimes they rock and roll I'd rather stay at home in real life This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire It's getting better all the time It's getting better all the time It's getting better all the time It's getting better all the time This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire This heart's on fire

Special fun time reminder time! This one goes out to all the people that posted their lists in here and then floated away. We're closing in on two months until ballots are due, and there's all sorts of rad shit that's been pimped in here. Check it out! And the rules dump is still over here.

I'm just saying that the idea that the grammys have fuck all to do with music as an artform is ludicrous. The grammys are just spectacle, and spectacle has nothing to do with the artful uses of sound and silence. Spectacle might incorporate music, which is where you might be getting this all twisted, but the point has never been music. Something that would make the grammys actually interesting is if they gave up the artifice of honoring the achievements of an art form and presented it like a playoff game. Experienced sports commentators crunching the business numbers and talking about the stories of the artists leading to their moment of supreme profitability. Tested veterans against young underdogs, long-standing fringe characters taking on financial forces making the same power moves. That'd build some actual tension for the awards! basically my main point is that peyton manning is daft punk and they can all burn in shit forever and also fuck the grammys

why are you guys talking about television in the music thread

oh man alien hominid i'm gonna go dig that up

Seattle. This has come up elsewhere, but I hate my hometown (San Diego). The way that it's so thoroughly landscaped eats at my psyche bit by bit. So every time I go up to Seattle, when I'm at the outskirts of the city and I can see how the woods try to push in, I feel healed. Also a small town in Idaho, but if I give the name it can't be my secret anymore.

You need to go expose yourself to how women in the games industry get treated by the kind of people I'm talking about. Start with Zoe Quinn or Jennifer Hepler. Then see if you're still okay with the ass-backwards way videogames portray relationships. EDIT: Also, holy fuck, did you seriously use "Women As Adversaries: The Adventure Game" to try to quash this argument?

Eric Bischoff and Natalya. So, despotism and nepotism. Seems good. Seems right.

Hey, you know who strikes me as a crowd that could use something that explores a more thoughtful approach to sexuality and human interaction than Bioware's "Time + Gifts = Fuck" system? Young adult males who play video games as their primary engagement with media and entertainment. Granted I have totally given up on video games as an artistic medium after an article pointed out that Gone Home, one of the more progressive pieces of game fiction and design currently available, is basically an OK young adult novel and I don't really have a way to disprove that. So if we've decided to just send a gigantic middle finger to another medium that could enlighten people, I'm fine with that. I'm just tired of the waffling between making toys and making art, or even worse trying to have it both ways.

pokemon pocket monsters maybe if they made, like, housemon or something then there could be console games, but otherwise you just want them to say "ehhhhhh, fuck having a solid design idea"

Oh! Not a band, but Oneohtrix Point Never (Returnal -> Replica -> R Plus 7) is pretty fucking all powerful, if a little impenetrable. If you can brute force through the first track of Returnal I'd say there's a 90% chance you end up hooked.

less cool is them going after Stoic, the developers of The Banner Saga, on the same claims of brand confusion. Grim norse strategy epic, candy puzzle game... I could see how that kind of confusion could happen.

My semester starts tomorrow! :D :D The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles It went like this: The buildings tumbled in on themselves Mothers clutching babies Picked through the rubble And pulled out their hair The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days" You grabbed my hand And we fell into it Like a daydream Or a fever We woke up one morning and fell a little further down For sure it's the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood

Wire (Pink Flag -> Chairs Missing -> 154) leaps to mind as a pretty unfuckwithable trio of records. Just total growth over each record in just as many years. Also Lightning Bolt (Wonderful Rainbow -> Hypermagic Mountain -> Earthly Delights) and the mid-late 90s Boredoms (Chocolate Synthesizer -> Super ae -> Vision Creation Newsun). This one's personal only, but I'm a big fan of those first three Liars records (They Threw Us All in a Trench and Built a Monument on Top -> They Were Wrong, So We Drowned -> Drum's Not Dead) oh and probably Wolf Parade's three records. Every time I go back to Expo 86 thinking it's only okay I end up headbanging for the length of it.

A Superplex has the aggressor on or partially on the middle rope. A top rope superplex...well...yeah.

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are -you- happy, gonzalez?

man, if your only exposure to Outkast is Hey Ya!, I am so sorry. They are impossibly talented rappers with three classic records released before Hey Ya! ever existed. Just... go pull up that record Stankonia some time.

man i'm barely motivated to talk about kanye when he has new records out

fuck it, it's tuesday by government standards. Also, a bootleg of this song has been stuck in my head for months, but now it is ready to conquer other ears.

i don't share a lot about me but in my experience someone else has to know for something to become a reality in my life and the rest of my posse's asleep The shortest possible version of my story is that I buried my father at the start of high school, badly hurt my knee in high school, let myself stay in a shit relationship for five years, and then buried my closest uncle (bought my first guitar) at the end of that relationship and the start of college. Skip ahead a few years and I'm a 360+ pound ex-binge drinker who knows how to write songs. Last year was the first year things have started looking up, with getting into SDSU and finding a group of very intense and creative friends. NOW THE GOOD NEWS: I made two a-few-days-after-new-year's resolutions: play my first show, and get good at yoga. I ordered the DDPYoga set because I guess I'm still a mark, and I'm writing this after doing it the first time. I can do this.

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hey did you guys see that gif of the face brock lesn

secret candidate for post of the year right here, intentional or not