I know this isn't the case, but Concrete Blonde always seemed like hair-metal dorks trying to be goth and failing. Bad song, bad band. CRAP. I’ve always considered them an evolutionary missing link between 80s hair metal and 90s alternative. They were an 80s L.A. band—indeed, I wonder if any band o...

Not my favorite Concrete Blonde song (count me among the “Happy Birthday” fan club) but far, far from crap. I’ll never not be amazed that a song this unsparing made it into the Billboard top 20. (Top 3 that week? Mariah Carey, M.C. Hammer, and Vanilla Ice.)

Gorgeous Mankey guitar solo, too.

The YouTube algorithm recommended to me this made-for TV film from 1983 about The Day After a US-Soviet nuclear war. This created quite the hubub on its release. Major watching event. Terrified the fuck out of everyone. Cadet Mahoney is in it. As a child of the 80s, this movie traumatized the crap ...

https://i.redd.it/3ir58d3gv3ze1.jpeg “In a publicity still from the new sequel, Twister 3: Out For Vengeance , the sentient tornado—which christens itself Sebastian after learning to manipulate electronic billboards through downed power lines—breaches an NBA arena mid-game, forcing players to hang ...

Dovira wrote: Thu Feb 23, 2023 11:47 am

“What’s really freaky is that after they sing, ‘Freedom of choice!” this little alien comes out of the bottom of the screen, like this, and says, ‘It’s what you got.’ I’m serious! It, like, totally skitches me out, dude!”

“Shiny, happy people pooping pants….”

And now.. Clem Burke 😢 I had a weird compulsion to watch some Blondie videos on my phone earlier today, and specifically for Clem. (I was thinking about those mid-song stick twirls he does in the “X-Offender” video.) An hour or so later, I surfed over to the PRF … and this. I’ve always been a fan. ...

You're not dealing with a sane person, and Howard Lutnick et al know they can buy for pennies on the dollar during their manufactured depression. I love the book Citizen Hughes , and one of my favorite revelations was that Lyndon Johnson—the arch political operator; the man who knew every weakness ...

I don’t want to sully the Member Assistance Thread with something this trivial, but…. Omnibus Press in the U.K. will be offering signed copies of Tom Wright’s forthcoming collection of his photos of The Who in the late 60s: https://omnibuspress.com/products/their-generation-the-who-in-america-1967-6...

losthighway wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:22 pm It's freeze dried space ice cream.

I don’t think you realize what high praise that is for me. Like … you dig it the most.

That’s a potential C/NC topic right there.