“May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”?

Nothing against Bender whatsoever, but didn’t Marvin, the OG paranoid android, call it?

I know it’s rather a consolation price given the current situation, but I find some solace in May’s near-constant humiliation. (If only she and Don decided/were forced to clutch to each other’s hands again and walk off into a sunset of the unwanted, though.)

...and thanks again, might check out Self Destruction. If you haven’t come by them yet, I can recommend Friendship’s ‘Hatred’ (it’s on Southern Lord’s bandcamp) in the field of abrasive Japanese stuff, they’re more on the power violence-y side, but there certainly is an overlap with grindcore.

Hey, thanks for the info and recommendation, I’ll check out the Path certainly!

Discovered Iron Chic and Big Thief via AOTY-lists and they seem to be really good bands, need to listen more.

2 Ready 2 Player One

Finished Chabon’s ‘Kavalier and Clay’ which was a ton of fun to read throughout (not to forget dramatic, stunning, touching), but while the friendship arc of Sam and Joe comes to a poignant end and sort of wraps everything up, it still feels like it rather peters out than ends and there’s still plenty of plot-yarn to…

When Pascal, the eminent Belgian paleontologist, was on a break he quickly dashed out of work to meet and tell his sister Monique and her boyfriend Chandelier, who also happened to be his best friend, about the amazing discovery of the halzskarsptor only to be incredulously asked: “Could there be any more neck?”

Tune in next week for an incredible truth hidden in plain sight: how Thrash Metal Excel really made its music. (Hint: not with guitars and drums!)

I’m holding out for the ‘I, Chazz’ biopic about Chazz Michael Michaels.

To expect a flawless album like Slip, or the incredible urgency of the debut ep, would certainly have been wilful, I think it is recognizable as Quicksand and doesn’t veer too much into the, idk, more pop hook/less groove direction (not sure about that description) of Rival Schools.

Listening: new Quicksand, it feels good and right, but it hasn’t caught on yet. Also new discovery Death of Lovers a sideproject of cool HC-shoegazers Nothing, which (DoL) is a full on-eighties-synthpop-thing because why not. It is really good. Also a lot of throwback thrash/crossover stuff, especially Expander and…

It doesn’t technically fit in here, but just last week Death Of Lovers, a side-project of already-awesome-by-itself-shoegaze-with-HC-”sensibility” (for lack of a more fitting term) act Nothing - have dropped their album “The Acrobat” and it is AWESOME synth-pop, strangely or not so strangely. Got me excited.

Well, I once saw that Adam Bus-Driver guy scribble ill-concealed-as-poetry-diary entries in a black notebook of Japanese manufacture! In a park with a waterfall! He’s, like, emo incarnate!

Obligatory “Film’s score is by MBV, I take it?”-comment.

...the first part of the Monty Python sketch...

Well, that’s it for my idea for a new breed of rock-hard attack dogs then. (They would have been called Gravel Pitbulls.)

English breakfast is just the best.

I googled this, it exists, and I found Nathan Rabin’s 2013 review, good read as is to be expected: https://film.avclub.com/tommy-and-the-cool-mule-stars-the-voice-of-ice-t-and-is-1798237121