While I love Metric’s take on it, it’s pretty clear that The Shade is a Chvrches song that got assigned to them by some kind of cosmic mix up…
Music Break
Just a few tracks that have caught my attention of late.
The album version of Shiny Toy Guns’ Don’t Cry Out. The male vocalist is nasal, the female vocalist is basically just screeching, and the bells are out of tune, BUT IT ALL WORKS SO WELL!!!
This “Parallel Universe” mix of Kate Bush’s Running Up that Hill/A Deal with God by Matt One. Adding vocals from Placebo’s version works incredibly well and slipping in the guitar solo from Another Brick in The Wall is a masterstroke!
Going really far back for a couple of 80s tracks that totally passed me by at the time. The Great Commandment by Camouflage and the odd but compelling Screaming Jets by Johnny Warman, which I presume is where the 90s rock band got its name from.
And finally perhaps the most ludicrously happy piece of music ever recorded -, the theme song from the 1988 Crystal Light United States National Aerobic Championships. The fact that such a contest existed, that it was televised, that the opening is such unadulterated, unintentional camp, AND that they came up with such a banger of a tune for it is so incredible that I am simply lost for words. And on top of that, the singer – Ty Parr – went on to be a regular bit player on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is just baffling in a truly wonderful way.
That’s it. Go find your own entertainment!
Just Another Day in Paradise
I have to admit that I found the fourth installment in the Death in Paradise franchise pretty hard work. It went on and on for hours and Gérard Depardieu didn’t solve a single murder!
Modern Love
Forming a romantic relationship with an AI chatbot is simply pathetic.
With a little bit of effort anyone can enjoy a highly detailed relationship with an entirely imaginary partner using nothing but the brain they were born with!
An Image Dump. Because I can.
FIRE BUTTHEAD!! FIRE!!
Plug in brand-new hot wire cutter.
Holding down trigger makes wire slightly warm.
Laboriously take apart.
Laboriously put back together.
Hold down trigger.
Wait for wire to warm up.
Glance at wire.
Double take at GLOWING RED HOT WIRE 😱😱😱
(I guess I fixed it!)
Ranking the Pre-Raphaelite Models
Hot take I know, but Jane Morris is prettier than Lizzie Siddal.
Come at me Rosetti Bros!
Work in Progress
OK, that looks a little bit better. Still need to sort out the header and footer and work out what’s going on with the links, but the Wyrmlog is starting to look like its old self.
Stand by!
Dagoth Ur Welcomes You
I’m putting these lyric here so I can find them quickly when necessary.
(I shall leave the circumstances under which finding these lyrics quickly would be necessary to your imagination.)
Dagoth Ur welcomes you,
My sweet persistent friend,
To this place where destiny’s made,
Why have you come unprepared?
Nerevar, friend or traitor,
Come and look look upon the heart,
I wait for you, countless ages,
On your next incarnation,
What a grand innocence!
Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha!
Did you get the false Sunder?
So naive! Shame on you!
Moon-and-Star, I’m Dagoth Ur,
And I’m a God, there’s no escape,
So come to me and bring Wraithguard,
Through fire and war, where we last met,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth Ur, Dagoth,
Ha-ha-ha-ha, oh dear me,
Sigh
I should post something about Iran, and about the attempted Invasion Day terrorist attack, and about that other local fuckwit planning a terrorist attack, but the state of the world is such that nothing outrages me any more – it just makes me sad and tired.
I’ll never stop fighting back though.