Jason R. Wallace

Today is a day for silence. My own, that is. No speaking. Too much speaking, too little meaning.

1. Talking Heads (5)
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers (3)
3. Jane’s Addiction (3)
4. Alice Cooper (2)
5. Muse (2)

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Sandra Bullock won Best Actress Oscar. Insert snide, reptilian comment about “giving them away” or it being “Opposite Day.”

1. Nine Inch Nails (49)
2. Disturbed (2)
3. Queens of the Stone Age (2)
4. Rob Zombie (2)
5. At the Drive-In (2)

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More Silversun Pickups in Rock Band. Would be more excited if I wasn’t slowly dying from some hitherto undiscovered illness.

The ending of Silversun Pickups’ “Common Reactor” sounds a lot like Lavos from Chrono Trigger doing his taxes.

Blue Öyster Cult

“Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll”

Blue Öyster Cult (1972)

Out of one kickass song - “The Wizard” off of Sabbath’s debut - comes yet another. Albert Bouchard’s vocals here aren’t the greatest in the world, but that classic guitar lick more than makes up for it. With material like this, why is BÖC so underrated by the youth?

Devo

“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978)

I like to think that, in a proper universe, this was a Devo original that the Rolling Stones covered / swaggered up.

1. Gnarls Barkley (15)
2. Polysics (5)
3. X JAPAN (3)
4. David Bowie (2)
5. System of a Down (1)

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hungryfreaksdaddy:

ohbaby.

mineshaftgap:

@Prolefeed - is this not your doppelganger?

Maybe, if I’d been alive in the late ’70s and trapped in an industrial windtunnel.

The cheeks are more gaunt than mine, and my nose is a bit bigger (at least at the tip), but otherwise that’s pretty damn close.

I’ve never gotten this one before. That’s probably because my peers have no fucking idea that the New York Dolls even existed, much less could name any of their members.

Vote “Snake ‘n’ Bacon,” but only if you like good things. http://www.adultswim.com/promos/bkbuns2010/index.html

1. Megadeth (24)
2. KMFDM (7)
3. Slayer (3)
4. Devo (3)
5. The Grateful Dead (3)

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Just received my Bayonetta contest shirt from Penny Arcade. Thanks, @TychoBrahe, @cwgabriel and everyone at @PA_Megacorp!

Justice / “Valentine” / † (2007)

That’s right, kids! You, too, can be topical with little to no effort whatsoever!

Enjoying a donut whilst watching an episode of the Simpsons. Could only be more apropos if I also had jaundice.

Megadeth / “How The Story Ends” / Endgame (2009)

I am losing my goddamn mind here. I’ve listened to this album so very many times - and in so very many contexts, because I understand that your health and state of mind and the time of day and even the fucking local barometric pressure can affect your perception of an album - and I still can’t understand why every other person on this revolving rock thinks it’s Rust In Peace II: Electric Boogaloo!

The finest songs to me are “Head Crusher,” the one above and “1,320,” and there are caveats even with those. The rest either develop poorly, end poorly or just sound like Dave and co. are going through the motions. Even the good old “society’s stamping my face with its boot heel, and now I’m going to cut a bitch” schtick isn’t any fun, as “The Right to Go Insane” fails to be menacing, ripping or even enjoyable in a goofy way (e.g. “Sweating Bullets”).

The funny thing is, the metal community and me, we agree for the most part on the group’s material hierarchy. Rust In Peace and Peace Sells… are the undisputed kings, thrashy as hell and true classics. Countdown to Extinction, Cryptic Writings and Youthanasia proved Dave could get a little poppier and still melt people’s faces. And so on and so on, but as soon as we start talking 2000s, I feel as if I’ve slipped into some frightening, carnival-esque negaverse:

“But I enjoyed The System Has Failed, I loved United Abominations and I really dislike this Endgame business! ME AM BIZARRO ME FAN OF DEGAMETH”

As Mugatu once said, “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!”

If I could find just one fan who felt the same way, I think I’d be able to stave off my coming aneurysm.

Power outage over. Snow in southwest GA still mind-bottling. Took the dark downtime to hear Megadeth’s Endgame again. Still dislike it.

jonnyathan:

Finally, a card game I can get along with.

That said, what happens if your opponent has an Alan Rickman card?

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Why, the very fabric of the universe is torn asunder, silly.

1. Megadeth (3)
2. Rush (3)
3. The Who (3)
4. Judas Priest (2)
5. Marc Bolan & T. Rex (2)

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Just discovered Diablo Swing Orchestra. Swing metal with hints of Mr. Bungle, the Reverend Horton Heat and Oingo Boingo? Sign me up!

BREAKING NEWS: Kubrick’s The Shining still gorgeously shot, highly disturbing, infinitely classic. Just thought I’d remind everyone…

Megadeth’s classic album Rust In Peace coming to Rock Band. HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. I think my heart stopped.

RBN has raised the stakes (for me anyway)! Ministry, KMFDM, Prong….glorious!

1. Megadeth (10)
2. Nine Inch Nails (4)
3. The Beatles (2)
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers (2)
5. David Bowie (2)

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Pro-life activists would not find Run-D.M.C.’s little-known gem of a jam “My Dead Fetus” very funny. But I sure do. CHECK OUT MY RHYMES.

Foobar shuffle at 6:39 AM on February 2nd yields T.Rex’s “Christmas Bop.” Yep, this is going to be a strange day.

My celebrity doppelgängers.

These are not jokes in any way. I have legitimately been compared with both. And yet I can’t stop laughing.

Finished Bayonetta on Hard. NOTE: not WHILE hard. Hope Gabe & Tycho have shirts left! Also, no Non-Stop Infinite Climax for me! JESUS CHRIST

J.D. Salinger dead at 91. Body found by spooked kids hunting for wayward baseball in lawn of tall weeds and discarded newspapers.

Two Jeannes moving twice as fast as normal? Well, so much for beating Bayonetta’s Lost Chapter. I didn’t want that bonus character anyway…

jasontheexploder:

me: OH MY GOD, KATE, THIS COUNTRY IS SO FUCKED.
so very very fucked.
we have a nonfunctional government that will soon be paid in full by xe and altria
i really hate that the DOE has such a strict anti-booze policy. i’d have a liquid lunch right now if i could
Kate: yeah i oscillate between fury, reminding myself i want to work abroad anyway, and complete drunkenness

I am entranced by this, and I have no idea why. Someone please kill me before I BURN OUT MY OWN EYEBALLS STARING AT THIS FUCKING .GIF.

1. Nine Inch Nails (7)
2. Devo (4)
3. Megadeth (4)
4. David Bowie (4)
5. Rush (4)

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thecount:

jonwithabullet:

Christina Hendricks

This woman must be a robot. Or at least a registered companion, trained to seduce and lure men(and women) to their deaths for the ships.  Mrs. Reynolds, you minx.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlady.

playerspulse:

Chrono Trigger (SNES) - Depths of the Night

Square’s games for the SNES all had incredible music, but I’ve always loved the themes in Chrono Trigger the best.

Agreed. Listening to the soundtrack even today is an emotional experience. Some of the greatest theme music PERIOD…and that’s across all media.

I got a Star Trek Online beta key from @NowGamer_Dan. Click here to find out how you can too. http://twurl.nl/ixh65a

Am now officially a Rock Band Network playtester. Hope I’m not awful.

Compliments of Patton Oswalt.

1. Oingo Boingo (22)
2. Nine Inch Nails (4)
3. Deep Purple (2)
4. Motörhead (2)
5. Judas Priest (2)

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I have a burning desire, at every possible minute, to join an Oingo Boingo cover band.

Have a drink, perhaps? Bourbon on the rocks. Bitch and moan about this and that with the alarmingly pale barman. Change lightbulbs. Shovel coal. Remove wasp nests. Work on that novel you’ve been talking about for years. Do a little radical redecorating. Take a brisk, outdoor sprint. (Hedge mazes are lovely this time of year.) Spend some quality time with your wife and son. Let them know you care. Have another drink.

I regret to inform you that this is not a question.

1. The Beatles (4)
2. Daft Punk (4)
3. Public Enemy (3)
4. The Smashing Pumpkins (3)
5. Sonic Youth (2)

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Tegan and Sara / “Dark Come Soon” / The Con (2007)

I know that personally philosophizing through some dopey song or arbitrary picture pasted with an ironic, faux-heartfelt, bullshit quote is one of my generation’s greatest sins, so this will be my only exception. I am currently this, and this is currently me.

Watching Brick for second time. It’s finally clicking.

It is a new year. It is also my birthday today. Neither are cause for celebration.

WHAT THE FUNKY FUCK IS GOING ON I DON’T EVEN

All I know is an Italian artist wrote this song in gibberish to sound like American English.

Finally 1000/1000’d Modern Warfare 2. Had to clear Veteran Spec Ops. Echo missions were a pain until smarter strategies prevailed.