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Rocktober – Intermission
First a public service announcement from two legendary rockers…
Ozzy begins a new dietary plan
And now a promotional consideration for a Rock Legend without peer – Billy And The Boingers!
The metal band Deathtongue languished in remainder bins until a Senate Committee on Rock Music forced a name change to Billy And The Boingers. Their next song “I’m A Boinger” rocketed them to superstardom
Music will resume after a brief word from our sponsor –
And now back to our most irregular Halloween programming.
Rocktober – Ten Nights From Hell
Rocktober is in full swing and Halloween draws closer. Night Sky Radio will be broadcasting directly from Hell. \m/
Those with delicate sensibilities are advised to go here instead.*
* Some would say – and i would not argue – that this is more hellish by far.
…I Got Nothin’ To Add To This
Allamagoosa is a devoted listener of Radio Dead Air, specifically their show “What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?” and proving yet again that she’s the right girl for me. The most recent episode ended with a segment featuring one of the top 10 greatest headlines ever written –
Homeowner Clubs Burglar With Pottery, Holds Him At Elephantpoint After He Urinates In Basement, Leaves Beer In Washing Machine
Tell me you don’t want to read that.
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It still doesn’t quite match up to the standard set by the 61-year old cross-dressing, meth-dealing priest who liked homosexual transvestite sex in the Rectory and used a sex store & head shop to launder the drug money, though. But then, what could?
Degeneration X
What’s the message I’m conveyin’?
Can you tell me what I’m sayin’?
So have you got some idea?
Didn’t think so, well, I’ll see ya!
Vox Day posts Khyron’s Generation X Aptitude Test –
1. Do you want to change the world?
A. Yes, and I’m proud to say we did it, man. We changed the world. Just look around you!
B. Yes, absolutely, and I promise I will get back to doing that just as soon as interest rates return to where they’re supposed to be.
C. Omigod, omigod, changing the world and helping people is, like, totally important to me! I worked in a soup kitchen once and it was so sad but the poor people there had so much dignity!
D. That question is so stupid and absurd that there is obviously no reason to continue this pointless exercise.
If you answered D, you are Generation X. Thus endeth the GXAT.
Following this, a rather, uh, spirited discussion broke out over what should be GenX’s anthem. For most people, it will be Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” although one commenter did aptly suggest “Rape Me.”
Not everyone was 20-something long-haired disaffected white kid with divorced parents and a stack of Melvins and REM records, though. Generation X was probably the most fragmented generation up til that point, requiring multiple anthems.
A significant number of Xers came of age in the late 80s and early 90s – the last real GenXer year in music was ’94 or ’95 – so this focuses primarily on that age bracket. The following is a list of which band is most suited to you based solely on ridiculously arbitrary stereotypes with no guarantee of actual accuracy.
If you…
Were a confused kid starting to figure things out but couldn’t quite hack it and blew your brains out* – Nirvana
…and I swear that I don’t have a gun…
Could rock out at first until becoming boring PC, follow-the-script left-wingers – Pearl Jam
After Pearl Jam boycotted Ticketmaster, fans had to deal with the unintended consequence of out-of-town scalpers
Same as above, but even whinier and without the politics so much – Smashing Pumpkins.
Were in college getting good grades or just sorta hanging out – Toad The Wet Sprocket
A hardcore leftist idiot who really could rock out – Rage Against The Machine
A black-wearing clubgoer – Depeche Mode
A bitch – L7
A lesbian with a pickup truck – k.d. Lang
A deluded suburban white kid – Vanilla Ice
Style like a chemical spill, indeed
Passed out under the dance cage with naked girs next to you at a club at 3 AM – Lords Of Acid
An educated white kid posuer trying to look nihilistic who later got pissed off for real – Nine Inch Nails
A scrawny four-eyed nerd who managed to avoid beatdowns by being funny – “Weird Al” Yankovic
A gangsta – NWA
The original cop-killin’ gangsta – Ice-T
A rapper with a positive attitude and a thing for horseshoes – Arrested Development
Thought you were cool like that – Digable Planets
A nympho – Liz Phair
But not at the same time
Disliked all the other slackers in school – Harry Connick Jr.
Centered virtually your entire life around drugs and despair – Alice In Chains
What’s my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
The Devil’s spawn – Michael Bolton
What, you expected something happy in a post about Xer music?
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*Or were so messed up you married a woman who arranged for your death and made it look like a suicide. Opinions are divided on that one, but either way it’s a bad day.
Taking A Shat
Apparently The Adaptive Curmudgeon hates everyone with such a passion he would drop a raccoon turd on your dinner plate if he could, but since he doesn’t have a couple billion of the masked critters to aim and squeeze at Dollar Menu entrees, he posted this instead –
It was moderately amusing for me (for me, for meee), but then I find things like Late Night Mistakes and Batman vs. Donkey Kong to be High Art, so I don’t think I qualify as an arbiter of crimes against culture. In fact, I’m quite likely a repeat offender.
Which is a good enough segue as any to drop these classy bits from LNM…
Dude, smile! You’re harshing the mellow at this party
…and a thousand hentai jokes were launched
“Drink up, mates!” indeed
100 Encores
Blogger makes 100 posts, blames me
Now that I’ve shamelessly appropriated undue credit…
What Do You Do For An Encore? has reached 100 posts. Pretty quickly, too. His focus is primarily on music, ranging from funk to progressive to jazz to J-Pop and a couple things I don’t know what they are. I’ve discovered some great stuff there, such as Kimiko Kasai covering Herbie Hancock’s Butterfly (I had never heard either one, as far as I recall), the utter surreality of Caroline Charonplop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and something called alley shrines. And sometimes he just goes nuts. I suspect heavy drinking is involved, but he says no.
Go check it out and get some learnin’ about all kinds of music and maybe a little about Japanese culture, too.
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