DEVO - Planet Earth YouTube video by ConcertsOnVEVO

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April 22 Earth Day song with the word earth, planet world

Devo - Planet Earth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLvg...

Duran Duran - Planet Earth (Official Music Video) YouTube video by DuranDuranVEVO

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April 22 Earth Day song with the word earth, planet world

Duran Duran - Planet Earth

youtu.be/8NF6Qa84mno

Friends, meet @joannamendoza.com. Daughter of farmworkers. Veteran of twenty years. Mom. And the Democrat who is going to flip Arizona's 6th District blue in 2026.

The polls currently say it's a toss-up. You know what that means? Every single dollar counts.

#NowPlaying
#AmListening

Leonard Cohen Live at Laudardalsholl, Reykjavik 1988.

#AintNoCureForLove

A) DoublePlusFuckYeah

B) Also PWYW right now.

Y'all have managed a finer-grained ranking than I've managed in 40 years of fandom.

I've got self-titled, Wild Mood Swings & 4:13 Dream in 3rd. Pornography, Disintegration, and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me in 1st, and everything else in 2nd. Also in 1st: any 10 live versions of A Forest back to back.

My 2014 retrospective review of the _Purple Rain_ soundtrack is part of this collection.

I've got two front paws, so that's two votes for 'Hooman StayInBed.'

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Yeah Chabon is *goooood*.

I think I read Yiddish Policemen's Union when it was first out in paperback which is possibly 18 years ago.

The one about comic books would be The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay which is also great.

I also really liked Moonglow.

Yesterday I finished The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon for this evening's book club (so good). I've got Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army queued up. My wife recommended it to me *ages* ago.

www.sarahhallauthor.com/carhullan-army

Ep 729 - I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman — Overdue A story about a young woman trapped in an underground prison with 39 other women sounds like it could be a stone cold bummer, and it isn’t not that. But this translated French novel from 1995 also...

Very trippy one, that.

The Overdue podcast covered it last year (and they may or may not have missed the point but it's still enjoyable)...
overduepodcast.com/episodes/202...

Okay, why was I not surprised to here the name @helenzaltzman.bsky.social in the credits of the latest episode of @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social ('Word Wrangling")?

Alas, they don't seem to cross the channel. I would drag friends to see them if they played anywhere in the Randstad (Amsterdam/Rotterdam/Den Haag/Utrecht/Leiden).

Oh man - 10 or 11 years ago we took brother in law/sister in law and 3 kids (who were 5 yr old twins + 8 yr old) on the Rotterdam pancake boat. Many kids in general, not romantic. It had a ball pit. And even then it seemed a health hazard.

But I'm super-happy you have a Dutch tradition to share!

Very cool. I too would pay 50p per song for good Sisters cov band.

Almost as much as I loved reading it!

Damn fine year.

Tell us, has Mr. Eldritch practiced growling in time with his own drum machine? (The band was spot on last time I saw Sisters; Andrew, however, was the weakest link.)

Haven't seen most of these, but TSH also fucked me up. Egoyan had a run of brilliant films, but I haven't seen any of his since then.

I've been wanting to rewatch Jesus of Montreal for ages. Hit me where it counts when it first came out.

90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’ Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

The Dickies - Banana Splits YouTube video by exumedcat

RIP Sid Krofft. (Krofft was not a member of the Dickies, but with his brother Marty created *many* TV shows, including The Banana Splits.)

(Link to the video of the Dickies' cover of the #BananaSplits theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMS...)

To which I gotta say, yo dawg, that can be nasty in a good way or in a bad way.

Yeah, I woulda been the tie-breaking vote to let you into the program. That sounds fantastic.

AAL FTW.

Shrooms, alligators and the swamp: how the ‘satanic e-girls of TikTok’ revived psychedelic sludge metallers Acid Bath The Louisiana band came to a tragically early end in the 90s, but after going viral they’ll soon play stadiums with System of a Down. They look back on the claggy riffs and circle pits

'"In the front row you’ll see an old fan and next to them is a 13-year-old kid singing all the words,' [says Acid Bath] guitarist Sammy Duet. 'What the hell is going on here?'"

Shrooms, alligators and the swamp: how the ‘satanic e-girls of TikTok’ revived psychedelic sludge metallers Acid Bath:

Hell, yeah. Special Beat Service is a *perfect* album.

And this (among many other reasons) is why I shouldn't look at social media. Ever. That is the worst kind of rage bait and I have no idea who to focus my rage on.

Pie chart depicting the ratio of all atoms in the observable universe. 91% are hydrogen 9% are helium All other (116) elements equal 0.1% combined

By count, the universe is binary.
That little anomaly, the 0.1% "rounding error" is the carbon we need for life, the gold that backs our money, the oxygen & nitrogen that we breathe.
We don't exist without our universe in its wonderful, fullest state.
We are, together, or we are not at all.

It is both, but it's also fantastic. I reread it every few years.