NielsBohron

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Connection: They Might Be Giants

I honestly had a hard time picking one TMBG song as they have so many great jams. Honorable mentions include "Birdhouse in your Soul" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"

[–] NielsBohron 2 points 13 minutes ago

Achh, good point. I'd forgotten about that

[–] NielsBohron 5 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Even better is the fact that Trump's Secret Service detail would likely be... shall we say "less than motivated" to protect their charge

[–] NielsBohron 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

We got in on on our house in early 2016 and the price of real estate in our area increased by 20% while we were in escrow.

Our house has more than doubled in price since then but if we had fallen out of escrow, we would not have been able to buy anything anywhere near our jobs/preferred city (and my partner and I have a combined income north of 150k/year).

Shit is crazy these days

 

Bunny -> rabbit

[–] NielsBohron 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Cheers, bud, same to you! I think the wide range of stuff we see and how quickly we can go from Bright Eyes to Hüsker Dü to Soul Glo is what makes it so fun.

 

Bad Brains are a classic hardcore fusion band, and Soul Glo are a modern take on hardcore fusion.

[–] NielsBohron 3 points 2 days ago

2meirl4meirl

[–] NielsBohron 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Rounders has a young Matt Damon and Edward Norton and is entirely about gamblers making their living as poker players in the late 90's or early 2000's.

It's pretty good

Edit: I just realized you said not entirely about cards, but I still highly recommend the movie. The plot revolves around cards, but it's also about ambition and knowing when to cut off deadbeat friends

[–] NielsBohron 10 points 3 days ago

I fucking love Powell's. I love the selection and the used books and the atmosphere and Portland, and really everything about it

It's honestly one of my favorite places in the world.

[–] NielsBohron 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Fucking Onion keeps giving them ideas; the GOP might as well start paying them as policy advisors

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Add a little bit of blues and early-Sabbath-style metal, and yeah, I'd say so

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I first heard both Bright Eyes and Limbeck as a result of my first college roommate.

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The electric (and superior) version of "My My, Hey Hey," also frequently cited as the birth of grunge.

[–] NielsBohron 1 points 5 days ago

it wouldn't be too hard to do the math.

I think you severely overestimate their ability to do math.

[–] NielsBohron 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that "Sweet Home Alabama" is very different. It was not written bitterly and it was written by a bunch of Neil Young fans (and Neil himself loved the song). The point of "Sweet Home Alabama" was to show that there were people who grew up in the South who weren't racist, who acknowledged and decried the racist history of the South, but who also felt resentment at being lumped in with the racists, past and present. Being both proud of being from the South and ashamed of being from the South at the same time even has its own term, coined AFAIK by the band The Drive-By Truckers: "the duality of the Southern Thing."

There are plenty of artists and musicians that should just be written off, but I don't think Skynyrd is among them. They were actually relatively progressive for their background and were trying to paint a fairly sophisticated and balanced story; it's not their fault that their fanbase evolved into a bunch of racist assholes who preempted the song for their own causes, especially since the heart and soul of the band died in a plane crash in 1977. But that's just my two cents as a huge music fan who grew up listening to Skynyrd in the 90's.

[–] NielsBohron 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That's because you're thinking of it like a particle moving a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.

Or at least that's how I think about electrons and Schrodinger's equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that's as small as an electron, but it's a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.

 

Welcome home, but thrash instead of corpse paint.

 

Red wine is obviously the connection.

It was either this, or "Champagne Supernova" but I figured the world doesn't need more Oasis and a lot of people might not know that Neil Diamond write and performed the original version of "Red, Red Wine"

 

These aren't necessarily Halloween-specific, but mostly on theme or at least comic book adjacent

Another from The Long Halloween

Also Long Halloween

More Mignola-verse

Watchmen

Other random stuff in my folder

 

Here are some more Hellboy-themed wallpapers, I'll make a separate post later for some others

Hellboy 1

Hellboy 2

 

Queens, and also because Amaarae's song certainly could be the "feel good hit of the summer"

 

Bonobos are apes, not monkeys, but I thought it was close enough.

 

Also produced by Blockhead

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