A few years before Last Dance, but Runnin’ Down a Dream is the first rock song—and maybe the first song of any genre—that I can remember. Dancing on the bed while playing air guitar to Tom Petty is baked into my core childhood memories!
Feeling old indeed lmao
DOOM is like my Elvis — I know he’s gone, but being the supervillain that he was, I want to believe that he faked his own death.
Thanks for this, I don’t think I’ve heard this track before!
The first time I saw an advance question about merch splits, I was shocked that it was a thing. I knew the entertainment biz could be shady, but goddamn!
It was part of the slow realization of how good I have it at the venue where I work, and I’m always pleased to tell an artist “no split, merch is 100% yours”.
That’s a really cool solution with the Bluetooth receiver! I fortunately don’t have to play music from my own device too often — I was just shaking my fist at the clouds lol
Agreed about proprietary nonsense, for sure. I know I could have it much worse, since I’ve at least got a good ol’, normal USB-C port, and, as you mentioned, we aren’t living in the bad old days before at least some standardization came along.
I’m a live sound engineer, and whenever I need to play music from my phone over the PA, I now have to dig out yet another goddamn adapter to do so. A tour manager or road engineer with an apple device wants to play tunes over the house PA? Hope they have their own adapter, because my “universal” USB-C adapter won’t cut it.
I wrote almost all of my grad school work in Vim and Emacs/Evil, in a non-compsci field! It was fantastic for editing, and I used pandoc to automate proper formatting, citations, and bibliographies for my papers and thesis. 10/10 would recommend to someone who is tech savvy or has a tangential interest in programming.