This woman should have so many more fucking views than she does. It pisses me off. And dipshits like Taylor Swift and Beyonce whatever the fuck her name is just shit out garbage and are rolling in money and overinflated recognition (from what I understand Swift comes from old money fascists, so I guess it's not really all that surprising).  It's fucking gross.

I love Ruby. These two have been on repeat off and on all day. 

 

Ruby Waters - Numbers (Official Audio) 

  

Quantum Physics - Ruby Waters

 

At least AI can't fuck up my Youtube playlists, ammiright? 

 

 

  

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I fell asleep almost immediately after The Elephant Graveyard Radio Show because it was amazing and brilliant, and calming, and funny, and beautiful.  I literally said aloud, "Welp, I'm going to sleep well," about 5 mins before I was ignoring the tingling from my wrist bending backwards and on my way to open mouth snoring.  However, I woke up about an hour later completely awake, as apparently my brain was still processing what I had just experienced.  This was about 2:30 and I didn't want to stay up long enough that I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep.  I went to bed, but needed something to sleep to.  I opened my 400 tabs and this video was already pulled up after I'd stumbled across it by chance earlier today. It is great because he knows what he's talking about and he loves Rudimentary Peni an appropriate amount. The best part, for me, was when he got to Cacophony he said he's going to have to restrain himself a little bit, and I was like, ohhhh nooo, but he immediately became one of my new favorite people instead.  His notes describing Nick's vocals made me laugh out loud, 'cause it's true.  I don't agree with him about the later stuff, but I think everyone is going to have a different take on those albums/EPs based on your relationship with the band overall. I just have a hard time describing any Peni as definitively good or bad, I just think that misses the point of what the band is. For his part, I don't think he feels all that comfortable doing so either. Nick will just forever be one of my favorite people in the Universe and can do no wrong.

My kid tolerates them, thankfully, because they're always on the rotation and she knows how much I love them. I assume she probably lets the "trivial" stuff I tell her about them dissolve into the ether in the same way I know she does when I won't shut the fuck up about The Kinks or Leonard Cohen, understandably so. I know I am annoying.  I just want her to be educated about her soundtrack, ya know?  This means I haven't been around anyone who appreciates this band in probably 25 years or more (other than my ex, but I don't think we spent much time talking about them beyond the late nineties). This is one of the most important bands in my adult life, remains so even now.  Anyway, watch or don't, I give a shit.

But do I hope you watch it.

 

 AND NOW I CAN'T FUCKING SLEEP.  

Also this dude has a whole lot of other videos on other bands I love like Zounds, Subhumans (UK, I assume, I don't think it's on the Canadian Subhumans, no offense to them, they have decent stuff), Crass, etc, so maybe I'll post more of his stuff once I have time to watch them.  

I finally got to finish all of the Radio Hours that Elephant Graveyard has put up, and man, I was blown away by the last two. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed all of them, but this is some next level shit.  A lot of them borrow from that kind of fantastical, old-timey radio storytelling that all at once feels like a warm blanket, menacing and cathartic.  They have great music taste and the mixing coupled with the visuals are insane.  It hits all of the right spots for me. It seems to be a perspective from a very specific place and time that I can easily understand, recognize, and feel.  The Berger influence seems obvious, but I'd be truly shocked to find out that these guys aren't FOTs.  Their perspective very much feels of that world.  If not from Newbridge, from some remote Canadian sister city.  I am so sad I don't have anything new to watch from them now.  

This one got me. I will probably watch it again.

Edit: I am a liar.  I didn't know these guys had a channel and were broadcasting these things live on our precious Twitch until about month or so ago, so I missed all of the past live streams.  TONIGHT at 10PM ET they are streaming an episode that they did live like a year ago, but never put up the video. SO!  I do have something new to watch from them! Tonight!  Then everyone will be very bewildered and sad, but understanding. 

Removed the Boomer meme, it was dumb. 

Sorry. 

Edit: 

I was going to post a link to the EG Radio Hour that was streamed the other night because it was so, so good, but I just realized it's unlisted. I don't want to fuck that up. So you should go to Patreon and become a member (or Substack, too, I think) so you can watch.  I will probably watch it again (and cry and cry).

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We Sued the Government to Find Where Your Drugs Are Made - From Propublica

 

This is such a great answer? No, that's not the right word.  Sendup? I don't think that's it either because it's so much better and smarter than "Land of Confusion." I love Julian's voice so much, but by the end the cranked up autotune almost feels overwhelming. So good. 

I did re-watch "Land of Confusion" after this, and it's still fine, but it's a pretty predictable 80s perspective when viewing it in 2026. I think it was kind of a big deal for a very short while when it aired.  I just remember some of those puppets creeped me the fuck out when I was a kid. I worshiped at the alter of Jim Henson, I was used to all puppets being created with love. They were beautiful in their own way, even if they were meant to be viewed as "ugly" like some of the characters in The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. I thought the puppets in the video were just fucking warped and ugly and I did not like them. I didn't know anything about Spitting Image and didn't realize that repulsion was on purpose. It is weird though, I loved and collected Garbage Pail kids, the grosser the better, while owning a few Cabbage Patch Kids.  I guess I just didn't like anyone fucking with my idea of what puppets should look like?  I don't know, I was weird. Genesis was a band both of my parents loved, so they were on all of the time at either of their houses or on the car radio throughout my childhood.  Dad was early/Gabriel Genesis, Mom more later/Collins Genesis, both often had music on in general.  I am a little biased towards both good and shitty versions of the band because they're part of the my childhood soundtrack.  Like Pink Floyd or Rickie Lee Jones, I didn't really have a choice, they were always just there. That said, I don't think "Land of Confusion" is a great song, but I'll probably listen to and enjoy it another 1000 times in my lifetime because it's part of the soundtrack.  If I'm lucky.  Now my adult kid can say The Strokes are part of the soundtrack of her whole life.  I am old.