I went hunting for the Neil Peart lyrics thread, but couldn’t find it in the archive. Sadness! However, Wayback Machine has preserved a key page . Allow me to reduce that to haiku: Suburban Ontarian visits Toronto Buildings! People! And Weed! Put more succinctly: When we fuck I think of strippers T...

Not crap, you complete nimrods.

<troll dude> That link shouldn’t have been posted on this thread at all, and shouldn’t be engaged with. Has no place here, and a Google search would tell you in less than a minute the guy’s an awful person (and an incarcerated one, at that). Nice to see you back, Chomskyite, mind. Same with the oth...

You’re very welcome. I’ll put Heather’s tribute here as well. If I prayed, I would pray for you that someone loves you the way that Steve Albini loves the people with whom he loves, all of the animals, the work, the words, the purpose, the dream. All of it is meant to be loved. And if there is a pow...

The tribute by his brother is lovely. Steve Albini entered this world on July 22nd, 1962 in Pasadena, CA. He left it by a heart attack May 7th, 2024. He leaves behind a grieving family and many friends and peers; this obituary will try to give the world an idea of the man we’re missing. He was the y...

When I first heard Big Black on Peel I thought “this is how it is meant to be”, the “it” some refined intangible I’d been groping towards. I bought Pigpile, read his sleevenotes, and thought “this is how to say it”, a scarifying manifesto trailed by laughter. I kept track, met him, once got his perm...

Heard this appalling news just now as we were preparing to take the kid to the beach. Had to run off for a minute.

I’m so sorry to all of you who are close to him. Love the man.

Helldivers 2 has hooked me harder than any online game ever has. Such a delightful game, and having a couple of old PRF cronies join me has turned it into my main social release in the relative isolation of parenthood in a new country. I have played ten minutes of Paranormasight on the Switch, a vis...

The 1960s, the decade that loomed largest in my formative years, were closer to WW1 than they are to now, which is both meaningless maths and a cause for head throb. Right now, I feel like the decades that I’ve been present in are less real than the ones stacked up before.

Helldivers 2 is tremendous fun. I think one of you (AMWT?) recommended the first to me years ago, which I never got round to. It’s a beautifully designed thing and extremely funny. Am hoping they add some colour accessibility stuff on the PS5, as I discovered today that the “you’re about to be oblit...