#David Tennant my boo

[thecrowleyeditor]

David Tennant's side profile

[yummytiger]

[crowleysgirl56]

We’re in the end game people. Danny Motta’s react to Good Omens Season 2 episode 5 is up. My favourite highlights of his reaction below the cut!

- First off the bat, Danny being angry that there’s a Doctor Who reference. Boo Danny! Boo, I get you don’t like Doctor Who. But also funny comparison that Doctor Who is a direct competition to this show. Yes that’s fair.

- Danny’s double take realisation that David Tennant was in Doctor Who was fucking hilarious. Then him trying to work out if Crowley is David Tennant or if he’s an actor in this universe and how does it work.

- I cannot explain Danny doing a sketch about Crowley doing nice things and then telling people he’s not nice. It’s something you have to witness and man it was SUPER funny.

- “Jim looks like Ron Weasley about to make Hermione cry at the Yuletide ball” 🤣

- *cups Danny’s face gently in my hands* Danny. Sweet summer child. My dear sweet boy. Mrs Sandwich’s establishment is a brothel and the seamstresses are sex workers. Dear sweet child.

- Danny squeeing over Aziraphale’s face when he asks Crowley to dance. Correct response Danny!

- Every single adorable cute reaction over Jimbriel! Especially when Jim goes outside in the giant flamboyant coat. The best.

- Danny, it’s been five episode now! Nina is the brunette and Maggie is the blonde! 😖

- I love his reaction to Aziraphale’s line about Crowley rescuing him makes him so happy. Also correct.

- “Don’t like how you emphasised Come. Don’t think it’s something you do quietly Crowley.” Spit take. Yep. Yep that’s fair.

I love how at the end of the video Danny sings the praises of Aziraphale and how much he’s enjoying his character this season. I love that. But I’m super curious to see what his reaction is going to be towards Aziraphale after the final 15 next week. Well, one more to go people. Let’s see how he takes it.

[weclassybouquetfun]

The Ineffable Husbands will be back after a 3 year wait and everything will be tickety boo...

or will it?

The three years have gone by fast because Michael Sheen and David Tennant have not left our screens in 3 years. I spent the pandemic with them, Daniel Mays and Sheridan Smith more than I did with my family.

We had Michael Sheen in the too-short lived PRODIGAL SON, unrecognizable in QUIZ

, LAST TRAIN TO CHRISTMAS, VARDY V. ROONEY: A COURTHOUSE DRAMA about the Wagatha Christie football wives brouhaha. Tennant was in DEADWATER FELL (playing a bastard), DES (playing a bastard and absolutely robbed of a BAFTA nomination)

, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, INSIDE MAN (playing a very stupid man) and of course he and Sheen gave us three series of the fantastic STAGED.

It was a family affair.

The eldest of Sheen and Tennant kids Lily Mo and Ty - actors in their own rights

made an appearance each on STAGED.

TBT: Horrible pictures and video of the GOOD OMENS display at Amazon's FYC installation in 2019

and a post-screening Q&A with Neil Gaiman at the Arclight (RIP) where he talks the chemistry and acting prowess of Sheen and Tennant.

[consanguinitatum]

Oooooh, a decently rare David Tennant theatre programme for sale?

For all my David Tennant theatre programme collecting fans out there, check this out! It's a fairly rare programme (though it isn't likely to post to the US, boo!) First come, first served (as there's a "buy it now!" option)-

(1999) KING LEAR with TOM COURTNEY

MANCHESTER ROYAL EXCHANGE

[ficsonpost-its]

so how bad was the whiplash you got going from supernatural to good omens?

insane, actually, but in a funny way.

i mean first of all both shows tickle my sense of humour but good omens is obviously far more light hearted than supernatural at least from my perspective. also it's british so its no wonder i got the humour much more

the different ways to pronounce "crowley/crowly" was probably the thing that i had to wrap my head around the most but honestly it is so small it didn't take me long to stop mentally pronouncing it the supernatural way

also david tennant??? i love him as this character but, like supernatural, my most favourite character in this show is the classic car. you'll find me having more of a lady's hard-on for classic cars than people on this blog

do not get me started on the fact there is an angel called metatron, actually. poor @reverse-anon-333 had to listen to me laugh and make probably blasphemous jokes several times while watching supernatural but she's an absolute trooper. currently cannot remember if there is one in good omens bc my memory is shitter than that of a fish, so someone remind me

also pookie's a follower of the bible so naturally i went to her with all my "does this character exist in the most famous fanfiction ever written" questions and some she couldn't answer so boo to her (im joking i love her sm) but honestly, metatron??? probably the most modern name ever. go him i guess??

anyway i'm getting side-tracked.

the whiplash was minimal but the tonal shift going from supernatural to good omens was needed. i'm just glad there's another car to go "oooo prettyyyy" over. after this i'll be watching "the boys" so i'll probably make a post about that within like a fortnight

[asoulwithadream]

I have a few things I would like to discuss about the new season of Good Omens. I'll unfortunately have to excuse any spelling errors or uncontrollable and un-intelligible babbling, my hands are shaking out of fear shock and adrenaline is going to be the end of me.

We'll have to begin with the elephant in the room. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK FUCKS NO WAHOOS FROM ME THAT WAS NOT TICKETY BOO AT ALL. NEIL GAIMAN I DEMAN CONPENSATION FROM THE IMMENSE PAIN I HAVE HAD TO ENDURE IN THE PAST MINUTE OF JUST PURE SELF REFLECTION????????????????? HELP ME IM GOING TO START CRYING AGAIN AS IF I'M NOT DOING IT RIGHT NOW.

This was supposed to be a comedy. This was supposed to be the funniest Armagenope and the even funnier sequel. This was supposed to be quiet, gentle and romantic. WHY. AM. I. CRYING

Doctor Who is canon in this universe you know why? When he was selling the 1965 draft there were very clear TARDIS noises in the background....... I think the Doctor might have gotten the coordinates wrong. Must have been freaked out seeing a ginger version of himself through the window with Michael fucking Sheen.

HOW DID WE GET INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY SO FUCKING EASY???? I SWEAR IT WAS A JOKE SHIP HOW DID IT HAPPEN BUT THEY PULLED THIS FUCKING SHIT AFTERWARDS LIKE NOT EVEN TWO FUCKING MINUTES AFTER. IF FUCKING GABRIEL AND BEELZEBUB CAN FUCKING DOING IT, GIVE US OUR QUIET GENTLE AND ROMANTIC ENDING FUCKWADS.

"I forgive you." That's it. That's number 5. I hate the number 5 now.

Every day it's a-gettin' closer, I want to sit underneath a bulldozer. I don't think I'll be managing to live henceforth I quite think I will die now. Give me coffee or give me death you say? I pick the latter.

You can NOT say that Crowley isn't fucking Raphael now. YOU CAN'T. "For one Prince of Heaven to be cast into the outer darkness makes a good story. For it to happen twice makes it look like there is some kind of institutional issue." CROWLEY COULD ALSO ACCESS THE FILE- DUDE HE IS RAPHAEL HE WAS AN ARCHANGEL YOU CAN'T YOU ACTUALLY CAN'T YOU CAN NOT

Speaking of Crowley as an angel that opening scene I swear I was actually going to cry that was so sweet and oh my god if he had just KNOWN he is RIGHT I stand for CROWLEY. He deserves his rights, however I don't think he really wants to go back to Heaven now WWAAAAAH WHY DID I REMINDS MYSELF OF THAT.

Michael Sheen and David fucking Tennant. Hah. Well DONE. APPLAUSE. HAH. HAHHHHHHAHHAHAHAHH.

EVEN THE FUCKING KISS WAS SAD AND HOW AZIRAPHALE REACTED IM JUST I WAS ACTUALLY CRYING. I WAS PHYSICALLY SCREAMING THE ENTIRE TIME "GO AFTER HIM LIKE THOSE AIRPORT THINGS CATCH HIM BEFORE HE LEAVES GO GO GO GO GO SAY NO SAY NO PLEEEEAASSSEEEEE"

If Crowley says being smitten by Gabriel is a bad thing, he wishes he would have had Gabriel instead of Gaiman as his punisher.

All in all, I very much loved the season beside the incredibly unbearingly heavy angst that fingers at my eyeballs, scratches at my neck and burns my intestines. Can't wait for season 3!!!!!

[hickeysgodcomplex]

Url Change!

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Back to this one cuz ive got David Tennant stuck in my head again and i cant for the life of me come up with a good Doctor Who url... boo.

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Icon: me.

[wonderlandleighleigh]

Joel somehow getting punched in the face?

(I am late on Punch Joel April)

"So supposedly," Graham Norton smirks from his spot in his chair. "Supposedly you used to punch people you shouldn't punch."

"Oh, this was a very, very long time ago," Lenny admits with a chuckle, placing a hand over his mouth. "I was young, and very, very stupid."

"But it's a great story, right?" Graham asks.

"Well...one of them is funny, and the other is not so much," Lenny explains as he sits back on the couch. "The funny one is basically some schmo in a bar, mouthing off and hating Jews. I was a little drunk, so I went over to pick a fight. And he...threw me through a plate glass window."

The audience laughs at that, and Graham grins, "So it was a trip to hospital?"

"Eh. I don't remember. Maybe."

"What was the other one?"

Lenny sighs heavily. "So...you know, Midge is my second wife. She's the best. She's great. Her ex-husband is...not great. He's better than he used to be now that we're all old fogies, but back when we were all young and full of piss and vinegar and crap, he was - well for lack of a word i can get past the censors, he was an asshole."

"Lenny, we're past the watershed, you can call him a shithead," Graham assures him.

"Really?" Lenny lights up. "He was a huge shithead!" he crows loudly, making the audience laugh louder.

"So you punched him?" Edris Elba asks from next to him.

"Once," Lenny admits. "Only once in all the years we've known each other. And it was the first time we met."

The audience laughs in surprise at that.

Lenny sighs heavily. "So Joel - his name is Joel - back in the day, owned a nightclub in Chinatown. And when it seemed like Midge and I were getting serious, she took me to meet him during the day at the club. You know, and at first, when we're introduced, he's the nicest guy. Tellin' me how big an honor it is to meet me, how he hopes I'll consider doing sets at his club."

"And then Midge drops the bomb?" Graham guesses.

"Yep," Lenny nods. "She says, 'So Lenny and I have been seeing each other for a little while, and it's getting serious, and I figured you two should formally meet.'"

"How'd that go over?" Dame Maggie Smith asks.

Lenny chuckles, making the audience laugh, and he takes a moment to shake his head.

"Joel looks at me. Turns and stares at Midge. Looks back at me. And then he goes 'so that's how you make it in comedy.'"

The audience gasps and boos.

"That is- that's quite the statement to say to anyone, let alone someone you used to be married to," David Tennant comments from further down the couch, clearly horrified.

"It really was," Lenny agrees. "Joel turns around in that way that do for dramatic affect when they're upset? And I'm standing there, and my mind is fu- it's racing. And I think to myself, 'who the hell does this guy think he is? Midge is the funniest person I know. How dare he?' And my caveman brain just takes over, and suddenly I'm tapping him on the shoulder, and he turns around, and I pop him right in the nose."

"Good," Maggie snaps firmly. "He earned that."

"Did you break his nose?" Idris asks.

"Surprisingly yes," Lenny confirms.

"I don't usually condone violence, m'self," David chimes in again. "But in this case, he really did deserve that."

"Was Midge angry?" Graham asks.

"She probably could have been angrier, all things considered," Lenny smirks behind his hand. "And I shouldn't have done it, but it was such a low blow."

"Truly, what a rotten thing to say," Maggie grouses.

"Yeah, he was a little shit back then," Lenny agrees. "Now he spends most of his time complaining from an armchair."

"And you produced a movie!" Graham cries happily. "That a nice bit of karma."

"And a great plug," Lenny adds with a chuckle.

[puppy-love-girl]

i need david tennant to say “tikity boo” not crowley i know he says it i mean david tennant i just know he’d have the spirit to say it well and it would sound like rice krispies in my brain

[santacoppelia]

I've been listening to Good Omens season 1 to celebrate Wahoo Day... But, for the first time, I'm listening to it dubbed to my language.

I'm discovering A LOT of things about my pet peeves and obsessions:

In LatAm Spanish, most of the male voices sound like generic 40something men, with not many differences. Sorry. The worst offender: Shadwell, who sounds exactly like any other male actor, with no accent, no mannerisms, no nothing. When you have to turn around to watch who's speaking, you've already lost me.

Most of the "different" voices are not worth the difference... Hastur sounds like a complete ham ("evil old man, cackle, cackle"), Death does not have a regal, deep voice...

Voice actors for Aziraphale and Beelzebub are really distinctive, you can hear the way their faces are moving expressively. I loved them. Hope they keep being the same for season 2.

Crowley is, somehow, fruitier (a little more soft, tender, even sad) but less expressive (no hissing, not a lot of changes in tone...) I'm expecting the same effect that David Tennant's face has in his voice, and it doesn't happen. (Season 2 has just started, and Starmaker is already a lot better. You can hear the faces in his voice!)

The translation is... Oh, Someone. Two examples from e0106: Aziraphale becomes, in Crowley's words, "un bastardo maldito que vale la pena conocer" -> "a damned bastard worth knowing" (instead of "enough of a bastard..."). The phrase about "there never was an apple that wasn't worth the trouble" was absolutely butchered. I get it, sometimes you have to change the words to fit the mouth movements... But losing sense and intentions hurts (and the "apple thing" is in a voice-over bit, so...)

We lost at least one duck reference thanks to the translation. Suspicion slides in water just like fish, instead of water sliding from ducks.

I finally understood that I usually write fanfics in English because I HAVE NO USEFUL REFERENCES FOR HOW THE CHARACTERS SOUND IN MY LANGUAGE!!! I lose their rhythms, their peculiarities, their quirks and their particular words! ("tickety-boo" goes untranslated, instead of risking going for a funny archaism, for example) (S2 has already started better, with a couple of funny things in Maggie's dialogue: "Holy Shit!" and "stripper-deliveroo-gram" were translated in a context appropriated way) . This might be in order to make it "LatAm Spanish" and avoiding regionalisms, but it also misses a lot of what brings me pleasure when watching series, movies, etc.

It has been fun, tho. And I'm a snob, so it seems. I'll finish watching s02 dubbed, just for the sake of it!

[engagemythrusters]

okay. ahsoka. here we go

Immediately a fan of the music. Did they get the same people as TBOBF and The Mandalorian? The Ludwig person? Forgot the name…

INTRO CRAWL?! DAMNNNNN

But also red? Why red crawl?

Why is she searching for Thrawn not Ezra. Like I know the two left together but you think Ezra would be the priority. Not thrawn.

Aaand there’s the ship. Always start Star Wars with a ship.

Uuuugh my pirate site keeps buffering. Booooooooo

“They’re jedi” okay vibe but are they actually. Or is it those sorta-Sith guys

Ugh okay my annoying I have to go without subtitles now… :/ tbjs js gonna be hard

Okay that was a very Star Trek move. Why. For what.

YEAH ITS THOSE SITHLIKE BITCHES

Shin Hati evil love that for her. Love evil gorls

Evil granpa got shoulders daaamn love that for him

Ah it’s Bad Wig Girl.

God seriously why are the wigs so bad. Fucjing Disney. Boo.

Man I miss when Star Wars had cool titles. Phantom Menace. Return of the Jedi. Now it’s just fuckin NAMES.

Oooo interesting place. Old jedi temple? Looks like it.

Aaand her Lekku and Montrals still look like shjt styrofoam.

Okay fun lightsaber trick. At least theh didn’t forget how cool Ahsoka Tano is.

Wonder if we’ll see Morai…

Oh wow. Ahsoka wearss lipgloss ig. Okay.

This is very slow paced. Move a lil girl.

Those remind me a lil of the Zeffo spheres. But if they were filled. Idk maybe I’m making a connection that isn’t there. I just really like Star Wars Jedi games. Their lore was WAY COOL.

What do droids need capes for tho. Like why. That’s literally so fuckin impractical

UH DAVID TENNANT rip

RAMP JUMP RAMP JUMP RAMP JUMP

God I love T-6 shuttles. Best Star Wars ship. I mean other than bobas. But yeah T-6 sexiest SW ship

Do we get to see Sabine soon I miss her

OH MY GOD HERA

OHHHHHHHHH MY GOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

THE GASP I JUST GUSP

Okay her makeup and contacts really really suck

Hera just. Disbelieving. I get it. She’s so hurt she can’t let herself hurt anymore.

“Does that mean Ezra—“ WEEPING

Hera “oh my god more jedi bullshit I can never escape” Syndulla

SHES NOT FORCE SENSITIVE LEAVE HER ALONE

YAY SABINEEEEEE

Oh lothal so so pretty

RYDER hi!

EZRA MONUMENT?!

Ohhh it’s that wall

Ohhhhhh weeping

SABEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

Oh she’s not there

Hehe I love her

OH IS THA—YEDSSS JAI

I love u Jai

God look at them. Look at the wall. Christ. Kanan…

Hehe sabine

SPECTER?! YOURE NOT ALLOWED THAT. YOU DONT DESERBE IT. THATS FOR THE FAMILY. THATS FOR! FAMILY!!!!

Sabine u shit hehe

This is a good actress for her 10/10 thank you for giving yourself to our beloved explosions girl

“She’s crazy” yeah she had years of being stupid with Ezra to make her nuts xoxo

TOWER TOWER TOWER

OHHH KITTH KITTH KITTY AAAH

What’s the kitties name

Ohh it even uses the same loth cat sounds from the show AND real kitty sounds

What’s the NAME of kittyyyyy

Oh Ezra’s stuff 😭

EZRAAAAAAA

“More than others” WHAT?! Okay. Not sure what that means.

YES SISTER OKAY YES. NO SHIPPING. JUST SISTER. AND BROTHER.

Not sure that I like the change that recording brought. But. It’s okay I’ll accept it.

Evil gorl <3

SHES A DUCKIN NIGHTSISTER?!

WHYD she choose such a bland ass name then?!?!!

INQUISITOR?!!!

THATS AN INQUISITOR

SABINE IS NOT FORCE SENSITIVE *FUCK YOU* LITERALKY S4 OF REBELS CONFIRMED IT SO HARD THAT CHANGING IT WOULD MAKE THIS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER IN THE HISTORY OF STAR WARS

oh my god. Jesus that was force shit wasn’t it. Fuck that oh my fod DONT MAKE HER FORCE SENSITIVE YOU DUMB FUCKS. IM SO FUCKING MAD.

Haircut time?

No not yet.

That was CRAP dialogue. That was HORRIBLE. Wow. Oh my god fire these writers. So hard.

I do love this music tho. It’s p good.

Okay so far it does NOT make sense how ahsoka arrives at the tower at the end of rebels. This isn’t fair. I loved that scene so much.

Awww chopper drawing.

Okay she’s a puzzle maker now as well as an artist? That’s dumb

GOD SHES NOT. FORCE. SENSITIVE.

THIS IS SO FUCJING STUPID THIS IS DUMB!!!

SHES! NOT!! FORCE!!! SENSITIVE!!!!

And she’s gonna steal it isn’t she hehe she is def Ezra’s sister >:)

Huyang like “I taught this”

Luke so not the only jedi he was meant to be hehe I mean k get it. But also it’s so dumb 😂

SHE DID IT HEHE I LOVE U SABINE

Sad that they didn’t make Lothals mountains just like the ones in the real series.

Towerrr

Kittyyyy

WHAT JS KITTY NAME PLEAS TELL ME

callin him Turkeyleg until told otherwise

Sigh I miss Ezra.

Fucking miss Kanan. It still hurts so much.

It’s been so long does Sabine still hurt? Does she still miss him the way she used to?

Heraaaa hiii 🥰

Hera knows her daughter

Okay so why is holograms so. Sounding like this. It’s more… MORE. Than how they used to sound. Is technology worsening or some shit?? Don’t like that.

Ahsoka stop being MEAN TO MY SABINE.

Yeah SNIPS. Ha.

Heras greatest strength is that she is understanding above all else. And I love her sm for it.

FATHER SON DAUGHTER RIGHT

I better be

Palm hand fist…

Oh.

Okay fine.

Hhhh.

SHES SO SMART I LOVE HERRRRRR

Mr Tukeyleg

OH NO DONT HURT SABINE OR TURKEYLEG

Ah shit yeah I figured

Nothing will ever be easy for her. Nor for ezra.

HELMET

*HIS SABER*

SHES NOT FUCKING FORCE SENSITIVE OKAH

She can use a lightsaber and she can use the Darksaber BUT BY GOD SHE IS NOT FORCE SENSITIVE

Why are u flying so slow 😭

OH MY Fod

OH MY GOD NO SABINE

No not my girl 😭

Oh is that the end ep 1?

Oh who is Ray? Rest well, Ray <3

Ep two coming in a sec.

[an-unraveling-unknown]

Did I just binge watch all of Staged with Michael Sheen and David Tennant in one day? Quite possibly. Is it to cope with the ending of Good Omens seasons two? No hush your face i am in a perpetual state of tickity-boo there is no need to suggest such nonsensical bollocks. Is it a good coping mechanism? Given how I went about it, that’s groovy and laughable and no but did I have a good time? heck yeah but it did not leave me feeling aces, I feel spades impaling into my soul and I am slowly bleeding out on the floor and ruining my perfectly good rug but I loved it dearly so that's somewhat amendable.

To keep it short and held in my very objectionable opinion, it was fantastic, it was complex and thought provoking and well thought-out, it was terrifically funny and sweet and enchanted me past the very end where I sat looking at the blank screen for a solid six minutes but now I need to resort to my backup coping mechanism of shoving peanut butter and chocolate into my face

[joeonmusic]

Beast Mode is out today!

Yesterday I held a listening party on Bandcamp to celebrate the release of my new EP, Beast Mode, and give people some insights into the songs. I thought I'd share my notes for those who couldn't make it, so you can read as you listen along. The EP is produced by Chris Marney (referred to as Chris throughout here).

Pass the puffer is the first track and I wrote the lyrics after reading about an episode of Spy in the Wild on BBC. It was narrated by David Tennant. In it, the dolphins pass round a puffer fish and get blissed out from small doses of the lethal toxins. I did a bit more research on dolphins and put something together that’s not supposed to be political or animal rights based, just observations of strange behaviour.

The music was written a while ago, and I added the guitar and dolphin samples a bit later. I think my producer did a good job in bringing out the bass notes a bit better than I had it in the original mix - that’s never my strongest point. 

Fed to the tigers is probably the saddest song on the EP. Again, in terms of the music, the guitar was the last thing I added and I think it gives it an extra dimension with the tremolo weaving in and out. The lyrics explore how a zoo came to decide to kill a 2-year-old giraffe. Marius the giraffe was born at Copenhagen zoo, but he was from the same gene pool as too many other giraffes in European zoos so was no use for breeding the next generation and it costs money and requires space to keep such animals. They didn’t want to sell him to some private collector or a circus so decided the most humane thing was to kill him and feed him to the tigers. I don’t make a judgement, just think it’s a dilemma that’s worth thinking about…

Cyborg (broken animal) is up third and it’s less of a story than an exploration of these around adding technology to humans and animals. There’s a philosophical element to it in terms of how we should feel about experimenting with impulses going straight to the brain to control movements and things, plus a bit of a fear of what if it goes wrong and robot-insect armies start attacking us!

Musically it is the probably the closest to dance music through parts of it, although there’s a really brutal guitar solo in it to throw you off. You can hear what Chris did with the remix a bit later for a different take on the song.

Sweet Kiss of Death (or the story) was suggested to me by my Twitter friend Stephen Haggart. There was a horse (Sweet Kiss) that won a race, but the jockey died on his back some time before the end. I decided to write the song from the point of view of the horse who was henceforth nicknamed Sweet Kiss of Death.

I wrote the music for this a couple of years ago, but played around with it and added the weird talking bass sound to get away from it being too traditional a reggae sound. I’ve always loved reggae and those who’ve listened to my earlier albums will have heard elements in those from the genre. Also from my band at uni, we had a dub reggae stage, influenced by Boo Radleys and other 90s bands who added it into rock/indie.

The cyborg remix is not the first time my voice has been put through a decoder. The Invisible squirrel also did it with the remix of Trace in 2022: Listen here for that. I love what Chris did with this. It has a very different feel from my version, while still being recognisable. The guitar solo's gone, but there are some really gnarly synths to give that menace still.

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs was originally released in October 2022. It was the first song Chris mixed for me, so I thought I’d bring it back, as it was just a single, so has never been on Bandcamp. It was fast and punky all the way through before, so I slowed down the verses and chopped up the guitar line, adding a few synth elements, too. 

I read a story about how the wild boars moved into the contaminated land without feeling any ill effects and made themselves at home, inter-breeding with the domesticated pigs that had been left behind in the desperate aftermath of the disaster. The title’s a little bit sensationalist, but when I read it, I just thought that has to be a song! Thematically it fits perfectly with this EP.

I hope you enjoy listening to the EP. Please buy a copy on Bandcamp if you can, or just share it with people who you think will like listening to it. Word of mouth and recommendations from friends are the best promo in the world.

[lookninjas]

And this is why Uncle David isn't allowed to babysit anymore -- "Stay Up Late," Talking Heads (10.4%) Parade routes at 6 am on July 4th. -- "Lawnchairs," Our Daughter's Wedding (3%) Neil Tennant's Sugar Momma Blues -- "What Have I Done to Deserve This," Pet Shop Boys (feat. Dusty Springfield) (1.5%) Tears for Fears like you've never heard them! (not actually Tears for Fears) -- "Head Over Heels," the Go-Gos (4.5%) Wait, is this song about sex, or is it about backpacking? -- "Roam," the B-52s (10.4%) No, this one's DEFINITELY about sex. -- "World In My Eyes," Depeche Mode (7.5%) I spy with my little eye a sick accordion solo. -- "Peek-a-boo," Siouxsie and the Banshees (16.4%) Narcissus goes ska. -- "Mirror in the Bathroom," the English Beat (7.5%) Never has a saxophone been more punk rock (or prescient). -- "Identity," X-Ray Spex (25.4%) I've heard a million different versions of this song, and all of them slap. -- "Blue Monday," New Order (13.4%)

Pick a Song Based on a Bad Description: Lightning Round (Sirius XM edition)

I'll probably do a proper bad song description poll tomorrow to celebrate getting my car back. In the meantime, here's a one-day poll as a tribute to the Sirius XM station that got me through the last... Jesus. It was like two weeks or something, IDEK. Too long. Anyway, thanks for all the classic new wave and alternative, channel 33.

[arodrwho]

turning over so many dr who thoughts in my brain right now