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One of Devon's finest products!

... now made in Ireland!

Corgan's mantra for the album's rhythm parts was "Shuffle!", which Jimmy Chamberlin resisted, but which eventually resulted in two songs on the albums with shuffle beats.[18]

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, August 27, 2024 11:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I love this so much, it's exactly the dynamic of a Pumpkins recording session that I imagine and have probably read about countless times, with such an incongruous musical direction from Billy for the kind of music they play. It's like the real life "more cowbell"

cracking up at the image of Billy screaming "shuffle!" at Jimmy as he drums

After the production moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, Jan-Michael Vincent became drunk, and insulted the local Native American residents, who in turn "befriended" him and gave him peyote, which caused a three-day delay in filming when Vincent became intoxicated, and could not be found.[4]

I went to Buckfast Abbey aged ~13 and my dad picked up a bottle of the wine, which he mostly did not drink over the next few years, and I secretly snaffled & watered down. Think it gave me a taste for fortified wines later in life, but port & sherry, not Buckfast.

can i just say how much i love those wikipedia pages that have comprehensive plot summaries of utterly unhinged 1970s made for tv movies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash-Up_on_Interstate_5

43 hours before the accident, Erica meets with her colleague Trudy (Terry Moore) at a sleazy bar, where she is introduced to a free-spirited life style. She is picked up by a doctor, Danny (Herb Edelman), but leaves the bar without him, despite his attempts to flirt with her. Meanwhile, Penny and Pete rob a gas station, and a gunfight leaves Pete injured, and the gas station owner shot. Seventeen hours later, they steal a car and force the owner, Lee Bassett, to drive under gunpoint. Nearby, Sergeant Marcum holds a truck for speeding, driven by Randy (Barry Hamilton), and issues a warning to the owner, who is in the back having intercourse with a woman (Cindy Daly).

"hey let's make 12 uninteresting, cliched films at once and maybe they won't notice they're uninteresting and cliched. also let's throw a car crash in there"

peak 1970s tv movie

The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the date of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence

Citation needed. They don't get July 4 off in Californny?

Scottish?!
One of Devon's finest products!

Duly noted! However, at least according to wikipedia, it appears to have left its greatest path of destruction north of the border

There is a Ted Leo song about it

The three grand soups of the world (世界三大スープ sekai sandai sūpu) is a common term in Japan referring to three types of soup thought to be the best in the world.[1][2][3] The origin of this term is unknown, though it was already in use by the 1980s.[4] Notwithstanding the term, there are four soups referred to as "three grand soups." This is because borscht and tom yam kung are considered to be tied for 3rd place.[5]

I feel like I haven't seen this before: her single gets its own Wikipedia page, but Paris Paloma herself doesn't : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_(song) <- "redirected from Paris Paloma" if you search for her

The band initially played the song in a march rhythm,[1] although Buckingham suggested a disco-like groove for the song after hearing the Bee Gees' "Jive Talkin'".[3] Buckingham and co-producer Richard Dashut built up the song with four audio tracks of electric guitar and the use of chair percussion to evoke Celtic rock.[7][8] A Naugahyde chair was struck with drum sticks to create the unusual percussion sound.[7][9] Originally, John McVie contributed a bass part that Ken Caillat described as "melodic" and "flowing". However, when McVie was on vacation, Buckingham put down his own bassline, one that was very simple, just quarter notes. “It worked, though. Buckingham had a grand plan in his head, and he got his way. This was the start of him really calling the shots. It became a ‘my way or the highway’ thing with him, which he perfected on the Tusk album.”[10] McVie would eventually rerecord the bass guitar part in accordance with Buckingham's instructions, but he made slight changes to make the part his own.[7]

Around late May, Buckingham suggested that Fleetwood play an "aggressive" tom-tom part during the choruses. Buckingham mimed the parts for him in the control room, which Caillat described in his 2012 book, Making of Rumours. "It looked as if Lindsey was showing Mick how to kill a snake with his bare fists. He was screaming out the drumbeats with his voice, while his arms flailed wildly in rhythm. It was a very young and aggressive drum part, much in keeping with the bass part he wanted to get from John."[7] After five to six takes, Fleetwood suggested that Buckingham record the part to demonstrate how it should be played. Upon hearing the playback, Fleetwood decided that Buckingham was better equipped to record the tom-tom fills. During the same day, Fleetwood spent several hours overdubbing some splash cymbal crashes; the band later kept the cymbal ad-libs they believed sounded the best, although Fleetwood later expressed his disappointment over the final result. "My version is in very random places. They don’t really make any sense. They’re in time, but they’re in very odd places, and they’re not uniform."[7]

During the guitar solo, the band overlaid a wordless vocal to enhance the effect.[1] Music journalist Chuck Eddy uses this as a prime example of rock musicians using vocals as a bassline.[11] According to author Cath Carroll, Buckingham's "syncopated scat singing" on this part and his singing on the "vigorous chorus" provides energy to the song.[6] Carroll also praises Mick Fleetwood's drumming on the chorus as being some of his best.[6] Carroll sums up the song by stating that "the romping acoustic guitars, pounding piano, and vigorous vocals combine in the final mix as an exuberant and hyper-rhythmic whole."[6]

I've never heard the Celtic rock in it

Stalin took the matter personally and arranged several assassination attempts on Tito's life, none of which succeeded. In one correspondence between them, Tito openly wrote:

'Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.'

From the Wikipedia entry on singer, actor and financial journalist Adam Faith:

Faith died, aged 62, of a heart attack early the next morning, 8 March 2003, at North Staffordshire Hospital. His last words have since become famous and are often quoted: "Channel 5 is all shit, isn't it? Christ, the crap they put on there. It's a waste of space". It was reported after his death that the married star's 23-year-old mistress had been in his hotel room the night he was taken ill.

Some of the wisest last words ever uttered.

Wilson often said "if I get the ugliest girl in the audience to come up and kiss me, they'll all think they can have me and keep coming back and buying my records."

Upon Wilson's death, Manson was quoted as saying, "Dennis Wilson was killed by my shadow because he took my music and changed the words from my soul." Manson never substantiated these claims.

I rate Manson’s claim three Pinocchios.

in the article for Lyall Watson, who promoted the pseudoscientific "Hundredth Monkey" idea:

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Watson presented Channel 4's coverage of sumo tournaments.[4]

The Eagles' public relations director at the time, Jim Gallagher, said that Olivo "was the worst-looking Santa I'd ever seen. Bad suit, scraggly beard. I'm not sure whether he was drunk, but he appeared to be."[4] However, Olivo contests that his costume was high quality and he was not drunk, but conceded his fake beard was poor quality.

"I'm not drunk, I just always look this fucked"

He is known for being a short plump guy with a habit of speaking before thinking, often landing himself into hot water.[citation needed]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mike_Flowers_Pops

He lives in London, is still married and has two children.

oh ok, that "still" was added 10 days ago, maybe someone trying to see how long before it gets removed

Thomson was born on 30 October 1959,[1] although other sources have said in 1960[2] and 1964,[3] in Scotland[3] or Bath, Somerset, England

The language is polysynthetic, meaning that a phrase or an entire sentence is expressed by a single word. For example, the word for "white man" awanoch is a combination of the words awani meaning "who" and uji meaning "from". Thus, the word for "white man" literally translates to "Who is this man and where does he come from?"

probably machine-translated from japanese:

Shingo gets back to Japan and seeks his father—now living in Niigata. He seems falling in a Russian espionage operation. Shingo in form of one robot arm meets some people and a dog on the way, gives them his miracle life energy to get normal body, get younger and even get up from death. But machines and insects hate and attack him, he undertakes much damage; consuming much miracle power he slowly falls apart and lose his memory. With his final energy, he at last finds his father but can only scratch the road to write two characters from a lovely message left in his memory, namely "A" and "I", which should mean "love" of his mother Marin towards his father Satoru but could be read as "I" to manifest himself or mere two beginning characters of Japanese alphabet "A I U E O". The time of childhood of Satoru is, however, gone as well and he isn't able to recognize the meaning of the message nor the part is the very his child, Shingo, either. The inventors of "Monroe" pick up every part of Shingo to put together "Monroe" again but without finding any soul (any more) nor any black box with secret program to produce secret weapon. You can see "Monroe" in a museum simply as the first example of industrial robots .

Every day a large group of “Ramones Ducks” march up the hill to Dee Dee’s grave in his honor.

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) declared that it had only received one complaint about the show.[5] This was from a viewer complaining that he could "do without Keith Chegwin prancing around". An ITC spokesman said that there was no guideline against Keith Chegwin being on television

In "Bá’núsọ", Brymo continues to offer pseudo-intellectual advice.[7]

The mafia may ask the player to turn a blind eye towards some of the crimes and be rewarded with money, or if they wish to stay alive.

offers that may or may not be too good to refuse

[Mark "The Beast"] Labbett [out of The Chase] married his second cousin Katie in 2014, who is 27 years his junior.[29][30] The relationship ended in 2020. Together they had a son.[31]

meanwhile, Mike Flowers is still married

DIY fruit press
Given the simplicity of the design, and high usability, some people (e.g. those owning an orchard) have started building their own do-it-yourself (DIY) fruit press and have uploaded detailed instructions on how to do so.

reading today about christopher collins, who played king koopa in the local kids' show "king koopa's kool kartoons"

it turns out he was on the first season of _the simpsons_, but he didn't, in fact, play krusty the klown

Azaria said that when he asked why he had replaced Collins, he was told by Matt Groening, "He (Collins) was great... He was just a dick. His voice was great, he was just kind of jerky to everyone." Azaria continued, "Think about how awful—that guy could have been on The Simpsons his whole life. Lesson to you kids: Always be nice!"[5]

The article on King Koopa's Kool Kartoons is cracking me up

The live-action Koopa would then act as emcee, introducing old, public domain animated cartoon shorts, wrapped around different live-action segments, including a segment with Ratso, King Koopa's pet rat, a segment with Koopa reading fanmail, a segment with Mr. Mean Jeans, and a joke segment. King Koopa would then end the show by telling the audience to be a good Koopa Troopa or he would "Koopa Youpa'. After that, he would give contestants prizes with an envelope given by Ratso.[5]

Partway through the series' production, Christopher Collins was fired and replaced after a string of incidents occurred, including an altercation where Collins's own son was among the child audience.[6] Additionally, after the firing Collins, children noticed the difference between Collins and replacement actor Pat Pinney and would insult Pinney, or call him an imposter.

i've been looking up collins' stuff and he is just _incredibly_ obviously a completely garbage, piece of shit human being.

there's a clip of him on a&e's "evening at the improv" and he starts out by saying "everyone else here is a comedian. that's not what i am. what i am is a psychotic who's learned to market his problem."

there's a long-tradition in stand-up of fucked-up people getting on stage and bluntly telling the audience about the ways in which they're fucked-up, and i believe that chris collins belongs firmly in that tradition.

eight minutes and by minute four he's being blatantly racist. he tries to justify it by talking about how hard it was for him to grow up as a white kid in harlem, but fuck that. adverse childhood experiences neither necessitate nor justify becoming a racist psychopath. he was also racist on king koopa's kool kartoons - on one of the surviving clips you can hear him throw a racist insult at a section of black kids in the audience. funnily enough, he _didn't_ play krusty in the first season of the simpsons.

the main thing he has going for him is that he _was_ an incredibly gifted and versatile voice actor. azaria said that he "could have been on the simpsons his whole life" - i mean honestly if he hadn't been an alcoholic psychopath sure, he could've had a long and storied career, he might be thought of as one of the great voice actors of the 20th century. he might also have lived passed 1994. so what? that's not who he was. he was a piece of shit human being, and he's dead.

n 2022, Bobby Brown claimed he started wearing the "diaper pants" that Hammer altered and made famous, on his A&E show Bobby Brown: Every Little Step.[5] However, Brown wore a less sagging variation during some concerts and in music videos, such as "My Prerogative" (1988) and "Every Little Step" (1989).

For some, the lyrics evoked the Christian belief of salvation and had a Christian Rock feeling. (e.g. Waitin' for the train to come home sweet Mary," etc.) Without comprehending the drug reference to the word "toke," a cover version was performed in early 1971 by Gail Farrell and Dick Dale on The Lawrence Welk Show. (Welk was seemingly unaware of the song's drug references or the meaning of the word "toke," and had programmed it after mistakenly concluding that the song was a "modern spiritual.")

Reiger was found to be carrying a loaded revolver and a box of cartridges. His letters to Roosevelt had asserted that people's names should correspond to their professions (e.g., carpenters should be named Carpenter), and that the present manner of naming people had caused a war among the flies.

From Chubby Checker's page:

In 2013, Checker sued HP over a WebOS application using his name. The application, before being pulled in September 2012, was used to unscientifically estimate penis size from shoe size. The district court said that Checker's trademark claim survived HP's motion to dismiss, but his other claims were dismissed per Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilu_Henner

Henner, who has hyperthymesia, was a consultant for the CBS drama Unforgettable, which starred Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a woman with the same ability. Henner guest-starred as Carrie's aunt.[7]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia

Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail. It is extraordinarily rare, with fewer than 100 people in the world having been diagnosed with the condition as of 2021.

Macca talks for about a minute, but then catch Marilu Henner talking about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UidGrceG5Z8

classic pplains with the otm out of nowhere

She was 17 years, 3 months and 15 days old.

costas should have asked her how good it was

Stigwood remained active during his later years, primarily in musical theatre, taking a role in stage revivals of Grease and a theatrical adaptation of Saturday Night Fever. In 2005, he sold the Barton Manor estate on the Isle of Wight, which had been his home for many years.[20]

Stigwood was homosexual.[21]

oooh, i also like this bit

Not all of Stigwood's films were popular. The third film of his Travolta deal, Moment by Moment, which co-starred Lily Tomlin, was panned by critics and is credited with turning Travolta into 'box office poison'.[15]

i really enjoy the use of the word "credited" there.