Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.

'Conviction (1)'


Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


Atropa - Oct 16, 2009 8:37:30 pm PDT #1772 of 6436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

This might be more appropriate for the Gaming thread but ...

So Pete is playing Brutal Legend. (Just pretend I coded the umlaut over the "u" in "Brutal", okay?) One of the songs that came up on the soundtrack was "Battle Angel" by Sanctuary.

"Waitaminute, that can't be the Sanctuary I'm think of, can it?" I ask. So off I go to wikipedia, and lo and behold! It IS the version of Sanctuary I was thinking of! They were a late 80s/early 90s Seattle metal band that I knew. They were nice guys, and did a very nifty cover of White Rabbit.

(Before Plei asks, no, I didn't date any of them. I just kept ending up at the same parties and shows with them in '89 - '91.)


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 17, 2009 2:46:05 am PDT #1773 of 6436
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Okay everybody hit the randomizer or shuffle on your music player and gimme your top five.

  • Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys
  • The Dark of the Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
  • Graffiti - Maximo Park
  • Any Day Now - Missy Higgins
  • All That We Let In - Indigo Girls

It's classics of the early-ish 2000s today, apparently. Nice soundtrack to today's dissertation session.

'Mardy Bum' is my favourite song on that Arctic Monkeys CD. I didn't get any other of their CDs after that one. I couldn't see where else they could go with their style. I should perhaps listen on Spotify to see where they did go.


Barb - Oct 17, 2009 5:48:52 am PDT #1774 of 6436
“Not dead yet!”

So Pete is playing Brutal Legend.

Nate and Abby are as well. They just killed Tim Curry.


DavidS - Oct 17, 2009 3:00:39 pm PDT #1775 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Wow, I just discovered The Apple of homemade goth videos. This is a pure genius of utter cheestasticness.

You are all obliged to watch....The Hunger by Joshua Michaels.


Calli - Oct 17, 2009 3:10:02 pm PDT #1776 of 6436
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

You are all obliged to watch....The Hunger by Joshua Michaels.

Huh. I didn't know ancient Egypt had sports bras. Live, learn.


DavidS - Oct 17, 2009 3:12:36 pm PDT #1777 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Huh. I didn't know ancient Egypt had sports bras. Live, learn.

Just one of several examples of pure genius.


tommyrot - Oct 17, 2009 3:18:53 pm PDT #1778 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

They need to make that into a movie.


Atropa - Oct 17, 2009 5:22:47 pm PDT #1779 of 6436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

You are all obliged to watch....The Hunger by Joshua Michaels.

I couldn't even make it halfway through. Wow, that was ... something.


tommyrot - Oct 17, 2009 5:30:06 pm PDT #1780 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Wow, that was ... something.

ITA. The people who made that definitely had... a point of view.


DavidS - Oct 17, 2009 5:33:44 pm PDT #1781 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

ITA. The people who made that definitely had... a point of view.

Susan Sontag's definition of camp insists that the work must be done without distancing irony; that it needs to be done in complete sincerity.

This was a sincere video.