This is a fantastic performance
So Laura is Laura now, and not Tom anymore, I guess? I haven’t figured that out yet, but I think she’s going by Laura now.
Regardless, this was a fucking awesome performance, and apparently she’s regularly playing “We Did it All for Don,” which is really awesome.
On a mechanical note, I have no idea how she manages to so seamlessly switch those D-chord variations (the two different notes on the end of the intro riff) on “Walking is Still Honest.” I can’t do it without lifting my finger from the G string, which makes the entire thing sound off.
I was teaching myself the chords to “Walking is Still Honest”
AND I THINK I CAN PLAY THE B CHORD WITH SOME MODICUM OF CONSISTENCY.
I can’t remember what I wrote
when, a long time ago, I wrote a short blurb that described how much I loved Japandroids new single, The House that Heaven Built. I said that I really loved a certain verse in that song, but I totally misheard what Brian King was singing. I wrote something like
“You’re not willing to die for anyone/So I must live”
I’ve finally got the damn record in my hands and it came with a nice handy lyric sheet. Turns out that line is actually:
“But you’re not mine to die for anymore/So I must live”
So there.
as a follow up
The WWE has a huge group of talented wrestlers. They have dudes who can work, dudes who can promo, dudes who can do both. Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler have been in like 45 some matches, and literally every single one is fantastically entertaining.
And instead of pushing either, they throw them in the tag division that they clearly don’t give a shit about, and then they show me a Ryback squash match.
Simply stunning.
timetoteleport asked: there's this really cool thing from a former WWE writer that's too long to send in an ask and also the link I have to it is on a private forum but I'll find some way to send it to you. also the only glimmer of hope I have for three-hour Raws is that it means they might either devote time to things that wouldn't otherwise get time (tag division and/or actual wrestling plz) or call up all the good wrestlers in FCW. Black/Mox have gotten to actually be good, Claudio was BITW as PWG champ, Hero obv)
I forgot Hero. The thing is that they can barely (and regularly do not) create a compelling two-hour show. Three hours will be NOT FUN.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything
I’ve been listening to a ton of Against Me! and Moss Icon. Mostly Against Me! though, I never really learned to appreciate the phenomenal combination of anger and sadness that seethes through Reinventing Axl Rose, until like, three weeks ago, so I guess I’m catching up.
On a totally different tangent, WWE just announced that they are making Raw three hours long every Monday in July.
Someone kill me now, Punk/Bryan/Heyman can only save so much. Competent booking of Ziggler and Cody Rhodes would help. So would actually making Alberto like, a threat. So would bringing up Claudio, Tyler Black, Jon Moxley et al. But hahahahahahaaha I just typed “WWE” and “competent booking” in the same sentence.
Maybe Vince MacMahon and Peter Angelos will lose control of their respective businesses on the same day.
I don’t get annoyed at video games all that often
And, to be perfectly honest, I’m not particularly annoyed right now. But I still feel that a company such as Blizzard should probably have been better prepared for what is essentially the largest PC launch of all time.
Ah well.
