dyin @ pplains
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 July 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
Lol
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
I mean, the whole idea that a second job makes up for what's withheld from your full-time job's paycheck...that's fitting a lot into a line!
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
pplains, think about when they sent Wallace out to the Eastern Shore--same deal
― gucci meme (theStalePrince), Friday, 22 July 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
Wouldn't be the first time I've heard *crickets* on this thread.
― pplains, Friday, 22 July 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pXrN9wY.jpgNO THANKS
― calstars, Sunday, 28 August 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
you'd 86 that monthly residency eh
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 29 August 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
Just think, if each show had represented a year of the 20th century, he'd be up to The Bridge by now.
― pplains, Monday, 29 August 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzi_0d240Uk
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Monday, 29 August 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
tickets are... $150-160 with fees. yeesh. i'd kinda get a kick out of going, but that's rough.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 August 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
Heard 'Uptown Girl' in a DIY store yesterday.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
D.I.Y.
You know I seen her with a hardware guy
I bet her plumber never told her why
I got a crowbar and I aim to pry
And when she knows what she wants from her toolboxes
She'll see my wrenches and hinges and padlockses*
She'll see I'm not so raw
Just because I have a saw
And I D.I.Y...
* = sorry
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Wow!So much better than the original
― calstars, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
https://imgur.com/Wawj5V5
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
Aw crud, supposed to be the splendid headlight polishing gif
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
We didn't buy the pliers
They were always turning
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 8 September 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
I mean, he’s not half-assing it!
Last night’s set list:Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)PressureRule, Britannia! (Thomas Arne cover) (Instrumental in honor of Queen Elizabeth.)Everybody Loves You NowViennaRunning on Ice (Extract)The EntertainerAn Innocent Man (Intro tease of ‘I’m Too Sexy’)Don't Ask Me WhyRoot Beer RagBig Man on Mulberry StreetMovin' Out (Anthony's Song)The Downeaster AlexaNew York State of MindAllentownMy Life (With “Ode to Joy” intro)She's Always a Woman (Syd Ruggles, daughter of sound guy Brian, on stage to play the flute)Sometimes a FantasyOnly the Good Die YoungYour Song/The Bitch is Back/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road/Ruby TuesdayThe River of Dreams (with ‘Dancing in the Street’ interlude sung by Crystal Taliefero)Nessun dorma (Giacomo Puccini cover) (Sung by Michael Delguidice)Scenes From an Italian RestaurantPiano Man
Encore:We Didn't Start the FireUptown GirlIt's Still Rock and Roll to Me (With “Be Bop a Lula” intro)Big ShotYou May Be Right (With interlude of Rock And Roll Led Zeppelin sung by Michael Delguidice)
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Saturday, 10 September 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
whole lotta Billy
― calstars, Saturday, 10 September 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
omg i had no idea this existed:
We Didn't Start the Fire: The History Podcast
apologies if someone who did know posted it two years ago or something. but new to me, and they're still making new episodes. current episode: "heavy metal suicide"!
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 21:01 (eleven months ago) link
just... wow
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 21:15 (eleven months ago) link
thanks i hate it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 21:49 (eleven months ago) link
SALLY RIDERIDE SALLY RIDE! We can’t believe it’s true, but Sally Ride is the birth name of the woman who’d later to become the First American woman to orbit space. Talk about nominative determinism!
Because she... "rode" in the Space Shuttle?
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:00 (eleven months ago) link
you mean you CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE?!?!?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:07 (eleven months ago) link
like, i know there’s a podcast for every thing and i am literally part of the problem but OMG its the fuckin podcast version of literally every newspaper & magazine article from 1989 BIG WHOOP
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:22 (eleven months ago) link
sorry
MAR I LYN MON ROE
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:23 (eleven months ago) link
Veg startin’ a fire
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:37 (eleven months ago) link
you could write a We Didn't Start the Fire that basically just listed SNL cast members at this point
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:55 (eleven months ago) link
i was honestly unprepared for how IA this makes me this is some old lady yells at cloudsbullshit whatever who caresbut i was fully having to look this shit up in world book encyclopedias and read the dumb endless articles about these dumb nouns that were still kinda mystifying to me a 13 year old and not an aging man caught in a rapidly changing world besides duh turns out they just random names of things to rhyme in a song that you can sing along todo we need a podcast about each of these nouns? do we fuck 30+ years later these little shits have computers in their pockets where they can just fuckin ask an ai bot to tell them about Red China Johnny Ray like oooh i can’t wait for the Walter Winchell episode FUCK OFF
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:28 (eleven months ago) link
BULLSHIT WHATEVER WHO CARES
would listen to those three or four podcasts :)
(also, you are not wrong)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:46 (eleven months ago) link
Testify
― calstars, Thursday, 27 April 2023 01:58 (eleven months ago) link
Dan Aykroyd, Chevy ChaseJohn Belushi off his faceRadner, CurtinBill Murray invasion
― Vinnie, Thursday, 27 April 2023 05:34 (eleven months ago) link
There’s a clip out there somewhere of Bob Costas defending this and Dave Marsh responding that it was a rap song without the rhythm. I thought that description was hilarious and kind of reflected the problem with a lot of his songs - pastiches without the heart or the backbone of whatever he was emulating.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 27 April 2023 07:05 (eleven months ago) link
...and there you have the Joelian paradox: for him, the pastiche IS the heart. The emulation IS the point. He's not even an avatar of anything: the dude is a television channel. And I think he kind of knows that. Fortunately or unfortunately he has become associated with what he was broadcasting.
That said, I think he has genuine and sincere things to say (cf. "And So It Goes," "This Is the Time"). But he's had such a long career of being a glib entertainment channel, and that's so very easy and lucrative, that the real Bill (if there ever was one) got lost. It's either an American tragedy or a type of American triumph.
― pinot grigioriffic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 April 2023 11:55 (eleven months ago) link
I may have thought about this guy an unhealthy amount (for reference, see this entire thread)
― pinot grigioriffic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 April 2023 11:57 (eleven months ago) link
and we wouldn't want it any other way-ee-ay.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:09 (eleven months ago) link
lol @ Doctor Casino... but the record will show that you, in fact, started the fire
― pinot grigioriffic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23 (eleven months ago) link
Kenan Thompson, Colin JostGleeson is a guest hostChe, Michael; Michaels, LorneWishing I was never born
We didn't start the sketch show
― pinot grigioriffic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:29 (eleven months ago) link
TINA FEYWENT AWAYWHAT ELSE DO I HAFTA SAY
― pinot grigioriffic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:33 (eleven months ago) link
thanking u
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:38 (eleven months ago) link
veg on the mark.
I just hate podcasts though.
― pplains, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:49 (eleven months ago) link
Do they give Nixon the ol' Grover Cleveland treatment since he appears twice in the song?
the long-awaited double-length "back again" episode
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:55 (eleven months ago) link
the only good thing about the song said podcast is based on is it gave us the opportunity to randomly insert "JFK, BLOWN AWAY, WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY" as a non-sequitur into random conversations
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:56 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZQnlQjx.png
― pplains, Thursday, 27 April 2023 15:09 (eleven months ago) link
I saw Billy Joel a few nights ago at MSG. It was my wife's idea to get tickets as a present for our 11-year old son who is a fan. We were in the cheap seats, and we were surrounded by very young and enthusiastic Gen-Z kids who sang along and danced to all the hits (and even some of the album cuts that casual Joel fan me didn't recognize), or who got laughs by calling out ironically for "Tiny Dancer" or starting to sing "Benny and the Jets" between songs (not sure what the joke is exactly, other than that they are both old famous piano guys?) Anyway I have to respect Joel for his professionalism. The dude is in his 70s and had a slight cold, is apparently no longer super steady on his feet, but still seemed to be having a blast and the crowd was eating it up. The show was supposed to be on a Saturday but got postponed to a Tuesday because of the Rangers playoff game, but the place still seemed to be pretty full. My son was starting to get tired at about the 2/3rds point, but Joel (the canny professional that he is) of course had saved most of the high-energy hits for the end so once that started, he didn't want to leave. He did a "We Didn't Start the Fire" standing up and playing guitar - even tossed the mic stand around! I've always felt that song was cheesy to be honest, but the kids loved it. I know Joel gets dinged for being unauthentic or not writing songs from the heart, but I think this is related to the allergy of many rock fans for songs written in character, which Joel does in many of his songs, much like Steely Dan, another band people ding for insincerity. I think he is actually pretty underrated as a lyricist.
― o. nate, Friday, 28 April 2023 13:13 (eleven months ago) link
It’s cool that your 11 yo likes him
― calstars, Friday, 28 April 2023 13:19 (eleven months ago) link
"Vienna" was one of the album cuts I didn't recognize that most people could sing along to. I guess that one has risen in popularity. It's not on my Greatest Hits CD.
― o. nate, Friday, 28 April 2023 13:35 (eleven months ago) link