I keep going back to Sleepwalker. There's something about his voice and melody when the chorus kicks in that evokes big nostalgia for me and I get a little choked up. Probably bringing back a lot of the 80s stuff my dad was listening to at the time.
His continued parodying and takedown of guitar YouTubers warms my heart. I think a lot of those guys can laugh at themselves and often do but he's wisely chosen his foil in Beato.
If I had "fuck you" money I'd hire them to play a full covers-only, 4-hour, 3-set night at a local sports bar without advertising. I feel like they'd enjoy themselves.
Chinatown and How Dare You Want More are his best work as far as I’m concerned. The latter had me downright giddy when it came up on my Release Radar while driving and I didn’t have a chance to check who it was until the thing almost over. I was more than pleasantly surprised. Like my friend likes to say when referencing Antonoff, “That fucking guy?!”
I listened so you don’t have to but it’s surprisingly not awful. Some real “Dewey Cox at the end of his life” energy and Grammer’s voice is often as lovely as it should be. It’s worth the morbid curiosity to spin it at least once.
I had since forgotten about Master P playing for my hometown CBA team. He lived at the downtown Hilton while he was on the team and an acquaintance of mine was his weed guy.
Can we talk about what the hell is going on with “Blue Dream” exactly? It’s a “Crazy Train” cover but with different lyrics and melody? Mostly? It’s a VERY confusing piece of music in an otherwise inoffensive collection that I’m sure will grow on me. I think “Sheila Can Do It” is their best song in a long time. It’s got that bouncy yet driving chorus thing going on that I’ve missed.
Scoured the comments to find a commenter of true culture. The Angus soundtrack was a beautiful little collection that was like a secret handshake in my friends group.
I guarantee some of that annoying golly-gee attitude is going to be dealt with in the Avengers, Gabe. That'll make for some interesting depth to the character that is, otherwise, just a walking/punching propaganda piece. *Pushes up glasses* In the comics, specifically the Ultimates, he is thawed out and they deal with his Boy Scout outlook very well, he also visits his old sweetheart and it is very touching. I wasn't bothered by the last line of the film, in fact I thought it carried a lot of weight and said a lot about his whole "man out of his time" arc. What I thought was awful was going from that line directly into the bombast of the end credit animated sequence. Total tonal shift in a split second.
God, people are weird. This comes from a random person on Facebook about Dunn's death:
"I felt the same way :( I'm going to stop liking celebrities...First Heath Ledger, now Dunn...I have a bad track record..."
Haha, WHUT?
It wasn't that early for me, but only a couple years later I was deeply contemplating my own reason for being. No child should have to go through that.
When I was a senior we had an 8th grader hang himself from his bedpost with his belt because of the kids always calling him a faggot and other such niceties. I wrote an editorial for the school paper about my own history with those dark thoughts and asked to speak with the 8th grade class at a meeting they were having to "deal" with the issue and I damn near got sent to counseling. Nothing was published and I did not get to speak to those kids who probably could have used something more than the "Bobby's in heaven now" speech they probably did get.
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