NEW MUSE, BITCHES
So Muse came out with a new album and it’s sick. Favorites:
Will of the People
Compliance
You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween
And my absolute favorite:
The energy of this song is fire. I think Bellamy has my second favorite male voice (y’all know Chris Martin is my #1 by MILES) and this song really features his amazing range. I love how high his voice can go.
Also, this song would be FANTASTIC in Rock Band.
Edit: k so apparently people don’t like this album? Really? I think it’s great!
A Simpsons Follow-Up
So remember a few days ago when I posted a Simpsons line that’s frequently in my head? Another one is from that episode where Apu stopped working at the Kwik-E-Mart and he and the Simpsons sang the “Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?” song and Homer screws up the rhyme.
“Apu: Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Marge: Their floors are sticky-mart
Lisa: They made dad sicky-mart
Bart: Let’s hurl a bricky-mart
Homer: The Kwik-E-Mart is real – DOH!”
Homer’s line is another one that is in my head quite often.
Anyway.
What is one Simpsons line that you quote frequently in your head?
Here’s one of mine.
There are others, but this is one of the top ones.
That is all.
I found Lonesome Dove on YouTube and OMG
It’s incredibly true to the book, which means it’s great. The water moccasin scene was terrifying, just like it was in the book. I’m just to the point where Lorena gets captured by Blue Duck, but I’m excited to watch the rest of it.
WOO!
MICRO
Want a nice quick summary of the micronutrients important in the human body? Check this video out!
(I’m mostly posting this so that I can come back to it later myself, haha)
deGrom!!
HE IS BACK
Edit: and of course the Mets lose because the bullpen sucks and why should deGrom deserve run support anyway???
How Much Wood Would a Wooden Truck Truck if the Woooden Truck Trucked Some Wood?
Jesus, this is obscenely amazing.
The DETAIL OH MY GOD. It’s even got a suspension.
I love it. I want it.
Suburbia
North America is so broken, yo. I don’t think we even realize that our standard ridiculous cities and inaccessible suburbs are NOT the norm in other parts of the world.
I love this vid so much.
ScotomaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I know I’ve posted about scintillating scotomas on here several times before, but I just found this video:
I had no idea Herschel experienced these. That’s kinda cool.
Also, that drawing at 3:34 is ridiculous. That’s exactly what they look like (except in real life they, you know, scintillate).
Super interesting.
It’s Too Darn Hot
Annnnnnnnd now I’ve got this stuck in my head:
It’s 84-ish degrees today, which isn’t SUPER hot by any means (we would have killed for that temp during last year’s heat dome), but still. Gross.
Also, I ran 15 miles this morning and then walked a total of five miles on top of that, so I’m pretty over the heat right now.
(Also it’s allergy central, which doesn’t help things.)
DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THEY’LL REVIVE HER!
I’ve had this song stuck in my head all day, but with the lyrics replaced by the lyrics from “French Erotic Film.”
Tell me the internet was your best friend in high school without telling me the internet was your best friend in high school.
MORE NEW WEEZER
Remember back in March when I mentioned that Weezer was planning on releasing an EP for each of the four seasons this year? Well, it’s officially summer now, so here’s their summer EP:
“Records” is great and “Blue Like Jazz” is super intense.
I also love that the calm, green statue head from spring is now on fire, haha.
How do I not remember this?
The Grenfell Tower fire occurred in London on June 14, 2017. The fire broke out on the fourth floor, rapidly spread, and burned for 60 hours. There were 72 casualties and more than 70 people were injured.
I have no idea why I don’t remember this. 2017 wasn’t that long ago, and surely this received some sort of international coverage, right?
Structural fires are terrifying to me, so this is like nightmare fuel. Granted, there were several circumstances and mistakes that came together to make this an especially dangerous situation that could have been much less catastrophic, but it’s still pretty horrifying.
Pepper Play
As you’ve seen from many of my pictures and videos, Pepper is a very active, playful cat. One of her more recent favorite things to do is to take one of her favorite toys (either her new froggy or a particular mouse she loves), tuck it between her front paws, and then get wild when I try to take it from her.
I walk up behind her and start tip-toeing really loudly as I get closer and she starts flipping her tail and putting her ears back and getting that wild, playful look in her eyes. I reach down around her neck from the back to try and get the toy and she tries to shove it further beneath her as she growls (playfully) and hisses (also playfully…trust me, she could demolish me if she didn’t like what I was doing).
One of her favorite toys is a frog that ribbits. She destroys one of these per three/four weeks on average, so we’d just given her a new one. Here’s a video of her being super protective of it while we play. I love that dirty look she gives me at the end, haha.
So tough!
Oodles of Noodles
I love how chill and informative this is.
“Oh, I can see the guy inside!” That was super cute, haha.
I feel like I wouldn’t get the full enjoyment of this ‘cause I can’t taste garlic, but it looks good! I love how happy he looks when he tries it.
So RANDOM THOUGHT:
Gravity Falls. I’ve never watched it (apart from like little clips), but two things that bug me about it:
ONE: Why does Dipper sound like he’s 40 years old? Like, the two girls in the below clip sound appropriately aged. Why does Dipper sound like he’s about to take out a second mortgage on his condo?
TWO: Why doesn’t Bill Cipher sound like Plankton from Spongebob? He should sound like Plankton from Spongebob.
Am I judging a cartoon on very superficial components without ever watching it? Yes.
Fight me.
(This blog is brought to you by 1.5 hours of sleep and a REALLY weird bag of cheese.)
Collect n’ Display
My dad collects stuff.
He always has.
Christmas ornaments, VHS tapes, DVD sets, Happy Meal toys, you name it.
So it’s no surprise that when seasons of The Simpsons started to come out on DVD way back in *looks up release date of the first season and gets lost on Wikipedia for two hours* 2001, he started to collect them season by season. Then we got to Season 6 and the DVD box looked like this:
Yes, that is a 3D plastic Homer head. I think it had a super flimsy clear sleeve to make it more DVD-box-shaped, but I don’t remember what happened to that.
Anyway, I remember thinking that people might be upset at the sudden structural change to the DVD box. When I read the little insert inside that had a blurb from Matt Groening, he actually mentioned that they sold “regular” versions of the case (where it was just your traditional DVD box shape and material) for people who were “obsessive about that sort of thing” (not a direct quote, but it was something like that). Which is hilarious.
Anyway, here’s a whole video on the controversy surrounding this unique box.
Fun times.
Dave Stieb
So remember the guys that did that fantastic Seattle Mariners set of videos?
Here’s a set of videos on Dave Stieb and his wild pitching career. We watched it a while ago, but here it is for all you nerds.
I love their way of telling a story. It’s so engaging. I had no idea who Stieb was before watching this but was super invested while watching Part 1.
Also, I looked it up and it sounds like he uses Google Earth for all his zooming in and out of graphs/pictures. I thought the motion of the “camera” looked familiar.
All of Part 3 is fantastic, by the way.
Ultimate Canadian Coins
I don’t care how exceedingly extravagant this is, these coins are beautiful.
My dad used to collect coins. He obviously couldn’t afford these, haha, but I wonder if he still pays attention to this kind of thing.
END!
METS!
This was fantastic. The Mets are special this season.
Yesterday:
So since yesterday was my blogiversary and thus my blog post had to be dedicated to that, here’s what else went on yesterday that I didn’t mention:
I did my virtual Bloomsday run!
I typically run seven miles out and seven back to get my 14, but I decided to just tack on the extra 0.46 for Bloomsday on the end of the seven miles out. That took me to the end of Bowness Park. It looks like they’re either rebuilding the Stoney Trail bridge or are making a new one so that there is a bridge for each direction of traffic.
Either way, I love this bridge. It’s so tall and almost surreal.
I know it’s early…
…but the Mets are looking so good this season.
That is all.
This is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard in my life.
I don’t listen to a lot of songs for their lyrics. I listen for the music. The beat. The chords.
But this song has all of it. Wonderful strings, wonderful tension, and these are perhaps the most impactful, painful, wonderful lyrics I’ve ever heard from a song in my life.
“Hurt and grieve, but don’t suffer alone / engage with the pain as a motive.”
“It’s more courageous to overcome.”
And the two different “voices” singing? Jesus.
This song is a work of art. I have never sobbed so cathartically.
It’s also right in my vocal range, so I’ve been singing it constantly, too.
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