Plus you gotta love Chuck and Glennis’ relationship, with hotshot Mercury 7 with the fretting 1950s housewives, and Glennis in pants, on a horse, tearing out among the Joshua trees (and getting Yeager’s ribs broken - ALL GLORY TO THE INANIMATE CARBON ROD!)

As much as anything, I consider that a movie about Chuck Yeager - brilliantly played by Sam Shephard - as much, if not more, than the Mercury 7.

Yes, this is with Sammy, but their Live Without A Net performance of “5150" is just fantastic. (I genuinely think Sammy’s a better live vocalist, because he takes it seriously, whereas DLR liked to screw around a lot, go off-tempo.)

“Look, man, once that head’s on the block, who’s to say if there’s actually pistons in the cylinders or not? There’s no way to tell. It’s up to the universe, man.”

In regards to the legions of hair-metal shredders that came after in the eighties - the 220BPM guys, the sweep-pickers, the neo-classicists - Eddie paved the way for them and was still the best...

Man, we told him not to drink that Texas tap water.

Calling now: this will be the new The Blacklist, with Johnny Slats being the new James Spader - the only thing worth watching the series for while everything else dissolves further down into mediocrity. 

The greatest compliment I heard of the Beat It solo was from a guitar magazine who said of it “We have no idea what time signature this is in”.

I wish we could send the AEC over to oversee it, like we do for a lot of countries. But you’d have to ask for it, and fuck the electoral college right off. What’s the deal with the EC, anyway?

How in the name of Melania’s contractually-obligated cuntoplasty does your fucking election system work, Yanks? 

“Independence Day, 4th of July.”

Who better to play the cunt responsible for neoliberalism than a Septic?

No Meloni?!?

Like yourself, mmm?

We all know what Biden we wanna see:

Exactly. They’re sound and fury, signifying nothing - except to those who get off on sound and fury. 

Peter Fucking Capaldi has way more fucking range than being a piece of non-threatening tumblrina bait:

You mean the cut-rate Wallis Simpson?

But Fuckwit Mike was still too lazy to say “in parts of Australia”.

Definitely these are the best of “retro modern” 4WDs. Not a fan of the New Defender, which is as far away from its Road Legal Tractor root of the original Defender as possible - but, as usual, I expect it to do a ripping trade as props for Instagram influencers who want to show off their new yoga pants outdoors.