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The Increasingly Manic Tom Bak
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Only if you can explain away the existence of "Sledge Hammer!"

That Panopticon album is really, really weird, but it's also pretty good.

That Panopticon album is really, really weird, but it's also pretty good.

Judging by the soundtrack listing, he finally got bored with Morricone, and moved on to Luis Bacalov.  Maybe by the time his next movie comes out, he'll have discovered Bruno Nicolai.

Judging by the soundtrack listing, he finally got bored with Morricone, and moved on to Luis Bacalov.  Maybe by the time his next movie comes out, he'll have discovered Bruno Nicolai.

There are FOUR malls, thankyouverymuch.

There are FOUR malls, thankyouverymuch.

If "Terror of the Vervoids" was just a regular serial and not part of ToaTL, it would be in the running for C. Baker's best serial.

If "Terror of the Vervoids" was just a regular serial and not part of ToaTL, it would be in the running for C. Baker's best serial.

I'm not sure whether RTD explicitly stated it, but he did put the Ood Sphere in the same system as the Sense Sphere.

I'm not sure whether RTD explicitly stated it, but he did put the Ood Sphere in the same system as the Sense Sphere.

In honor of the onset of the grimmest and most frostbitten season, I Made You A Mixtape.

In honor of the onset of the grimmest and most frostbitten season, I Made You A Mixtape.

For mine, I tried to keep the somewhat-amorphous structure of the Lightning-AJFA albums, i.e. Side A: fast w/acoustic intro, tech thrash, mid-tempo, ballad Side B: fast, mid-tempo, instrumental, fast.

For mine, I tried to keep the somewhat-amorphous structure of the Lightning-AJFA albums, i.e. Side A: fast w/acoustic intro, tech thrash, mid-tempo, ballad Side B: fast, mid-tempo, instrumental, fast.

I was listening to it on the drive home from work yesterday and thinking that I only really like about half the songs on the album.

I was listening to it on the drive home from work yesterday and thinking that I only really like about half the songs on the album.

Yeah, Gopher Sounds.  Beaver St. had me confused.  I'd take boxes of castoff paperbacks to Bookman's and get tapes with the trade credits.  Then I'd take the tapes to Gopher Sounds and trade them for cash.

Yeah, Gopher Sounds.  Beaver St. had me confused.  I'd take boxes of castoff paperbacks to Bookman's and get tapes with the trade credits.  Then I'd take the tapes to Gopher Sounds and trade them for cash.

Yeah, me too.  You can see where I used to pay rent, and where I used to sell used cassettes (was it called Beaver Sounds?) to get said rent money.