#the starjets

[opulentconceptions]

The Starjets - God Bless Starjets (Epic) 1979

The Starjets – “God Save Starjets” (Epic 83534) July 1979 The Starjets “God Bless Starjets” – Here’s an interesting album from a little known Northern Irish group that almost had a hit record in 1979 but the single in question, “War Stories” never quite managed to break into the Top 50 despite an appearance on ‘Top Of The Pops’ and ‘Juke-Box Jury’. They’re also a band I was unfamiliar with…

[danbenzvi]

On The Jukebox: Billie Joe Armstrong - “No Fun Mondays”

[From a trauma project to a pandemic project.  Back in the early days of lockdown in 2020, Billie Joe Armstrong decided he was going to relieve some pandemic boredom by releasing a cover version of a favorite song of his every Monday.  This is a collection of the songs that were released as part of “No Fun Mondays”:

“I Think We’re Alone Now” (originally performed by Tommy James and the Shondells)

“War Stories” (originally performed by The Starjets)

“Manic Monday” (originally performed by The Bangles)

“Corpus Christi” (originally performed by Avengers)

“That Thing You Do!” (originally performed by The Wonders from the film “That Thing You Do!”)

“Amico” (originally performed by Don Backy)

“You Can’t Put Your Arms Round A Memory” (originally performed by Johnny Thunders)

“Kids In America” (originally performed by Kim Wilde)

“Not That Way Anymore” (originally performed by Stiv Bators)

“That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll” (originally performed by Eric Carmen)

“Gimme Some Truth” (originally performed by John Lennon)

“Whole Wide World” (originally performed by Wreckless Eric)

“Police On My Back” (originally performed by The Equals)

“A New England” (originally performed by Billy Bragg)]

[jei-rifni]

we need more jetfire x starscream content

I made this like 3-4 weeks ago and i completely forgot to post it my bad thank you for reminding me it existed

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[pelmeshekjacki]

Hello. Well.. if it's not too much trouble, I was wondering how Hotshot would react if he saw Jetfire flirting with Starscream. Please answer me 🙂

Hot Shot doesn't understand his feelings

[spockvarietyhour]

L-133, Wunderwaffen

[nocternalrandomness]

Starjet A320 departing Tokyo

[genzo0910]

広島🏀強かった😓 #千葉jet’s #千葉jet’s船橋 #船橋アリーナ#b.league #flightcrew #basketball #starjet’s #2020-2021seasonchampions #2022-23season #beprofessional #6thmanclub #広島dragonflies (船橋市総合体育館 船橋アリーナ) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClK6LnDyhcE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rastronomicals]

8:18 PM EDT September 1, 2024:

The Mercury Program - “Nazca Lines of Peru” From the album From the Vapor of Gasoline (2000)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

While I don’t think that the Nazca Plateau is home to any erstwhile landing strips for alien starships, I can sure understand how its eerie, arid and isolated windscape might just facilitate the imagining, at least among our more suggestible and our more visionary, of just such a series of fantastic runways.

I think that The Mercury Program might be some of those doing this imagining, actually, visualizing the primitive starport as it might have been 1500 years ago, an anachronism nestled like a piece of engraved platinum between the hardscrabble Andean foothills and the Pacific Ocean.

he band’s music is nothing if not evocative, often spacious and always multilayered. Early on in “Nazca Lines of Peru,” it’s only Dave Lebleu’s marvelous syncopated drumming that separates the tune from minimalism, all you hear is the buzzing of the bass and of the wind, all you see are the high white clouds sailing by. Later on, a webbed hand switches the starjets on, and the guitars roar, as the chromium gullwing of the alien ship disappears into the cerulean blue of the Sechura Desert sky.

And then, as quick as the hummingbird whose wings magnified 10,000 times are etched into the rusty landscape, it’s only the echo of the wind and the vibraphones again, the Nazca tribesmen listening as the breeze blows across the lonesome plateau, watching the seasons change, waiting for the 20 minutes of rain each year, drawing another geoglyph onto the face of the desert every generation or so, waiting for the starships and the frogmen to return.

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[renerox]

SURFADELIC POP POWER! vol.7

. Even more Power Pop & Punk favorites in this brand new volume of POP POWER! series, featuring groups as THE BOYS, 999, BUZZCOCKS, BLONDIE, THE UNDERTONES, THE JAM, RAMONES, SHOES, FLAMIN’ GROOVIES, THE JAM, PLIMSOULS, JOHNNY THUNDERS, THE NOW, BRAM TCHAIKOVSKY, THE LAMBRETTAS, THE ELECTRIC CHAIRS, REAL KIDS, GENERATION X, RADIO STARS, IGGY POP, JUSTIN TROUBLE, STARJETS, THE RUSSIANS, THE LAST,…

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Starjets - Any Danger Love

[8one6]

I mentioned it before but whenever I start gearing up to run a TTRPG for my friends I put together a campaign prospectus. It's a page or so with three to five different campaign ideas that I both think would be fun to play and that I'd be willing to run.

In the past it led to some fun campaigns like the post-post (technically post-post-post) apocalyptic Fantasy Craft game where they had to find the keys to the engine keeping the world running, or the GURPS campaign that was pitched as "Non-military Stargate".

This time I've got five pitches:

Trinity's Gate - 80s cyberpunk/fantasy

The nuclear tests of the 1940s & 50s opened gates to realms beyond Earth. Wonders beyond imagination brought rapid advances in science and technology, allowed the wealthy to prosper, and caused the world to fall into corporate dystopia fueled by suffering and sorcery.

Arcanotronic cyberware, megacorps run by billionaire elves, shadows to run, and scores to settle.

This one is a little light on the description because it's going to be pretty obvious that it's store brand Shadowrun. Most of the players enjoy the various flavors of cyberpunk and I think adding portals to fantasy worlds offers a lot of hooks for the players and for running it. Also making the tech explicitly magic powered means I can go as chrome and neon mirrorshades as I want.

Blood Red Planet - 90s action/horror

The Face of Cydonia was real. Beneath the 10 million year old ruins of the Red Planet the first explorers found strange artifacts that kicked off a 21st century gold rush. You live and work in Muskberg, one of the half dozen cities on Mars, living the normal lives of service workers, corporate drones, or security guards when one day all hell literally breaks loose. Now monsters tear through the aging habitats and leaky domes, strange energies mutate your fellow citizens, and the only way off the planet is through the heart of the ruins. You'll need your wits, some luck, and the biggest fucking gun you can carry to escape from a planet stained blood red.

This is "What if Doom and Total Recall had a baby?" and I'm not even going to pretend it's not. It would likely be a shorter campaign mostly due to there being a pretty firm end goal of either stopping the invasion of Mars or getting off the planet.

Aaron's Troubleshooters - space adventure

Freelance problem-solving you can trust! Courier service, private investigation, security consulting, defense contracting, emergency extractions, resource scouting, and birthday parties. No job is too big. Founded by the child of the former owner/CEO of Aaron-Starjet Astroneering (And Aaron's Errands package delivery), the Troubleshooters have fallen on hard times. You are the crew of the company's last starship, the cryptid-class Chupacabra. Your mission is to take any job worth more than the fuel cost to get there, pay off your debts, save the company, and maybe solve a galactic crisis or two while doing it.

This one is a bit of the opposite. It's an open ended sandbox. The players get a ship and a goal to wipe out their mountain of debt. Also the name is 100% because Aaron sounds like errand and I thought the pun works.

Spears & Spirits - Animal empowered cavemen vs demons of shadow and bronze

You know the rituals to absorb a creature's spirit and take its power and strength for your own. You know how to make stone and claws, wood and bone, fangs and flesh, into tools and weapons for yourself, your band of warriors, and your tribe. You know how to tame flame and turn back the darkest night.

Something evil now encroaches upon the lands of three rivers. Creeping from the depths of dark fire mountain a new threat has arisen, monsters armed with strange, gleaming weapons and commanding the forbidden dark flame.

Think fantasy Far Cry: Primal. The players gain the powers of creatures they hunt (like wolves, cave bears, dragons, etc) and use them to fight the armies of invading demons. I was looking for an idea that wasn't just standard fantasy and I had the idea that stone age vs bronze age (but with magic) would be neat.

Hench-Monsters in the Dimension of Dungeons - Monster dungeoneering

Hench-Monsters: name for the many creatures spawned in endless hordes by the Mother Dungeon, a near limitless expanse of always, mazes, chambers, corridors, caves, and caverns.

Known to the outsiders as the Dimension of Dungeons, the outsiders come seeking treasures, power, and the glory of defeating the Dread-Boss at the heart of every subdomain.

You were a Hench-Monster until something awoke within you. Perhaps by random chance or a gift imbued by the Mother Dungeon herself, it is a spark of greatness, a spark of awareness, and unfortunately for you, a spark that has severed you from the Grand Cycle of battle and rebirth. Without that you are as much an outsider to the other dungeon denizens as any Elf or Human.

By scavenged sword, by tooth and claw, by wits and cunning you fight and survive. Will you carve your own kingdom from the dungeon walls, will you seek the outsider gates and the realms beyond, or will you brave the perils to seek the secrets of Mother Dungeon herself?

Simple idea: what if you played the monsters in the dungeon? The setting is basically the dungeon from Danmachi and the players would use the species creation rules from the Genesys RPGs Keyforge book to build their characters.

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All of these are pitches for a Genesys RPG game because right now it's my favorite generic/universal system (no one wants to play anything goes GURPS for some reason). We've got access to all of the published materials and it's got some decent support on Drivethrurpg.

Once we can get together to discuss what sounds good for the group I'll know which pitch they like and can begin camping prep.

[dstrachan]

'VIEWS FROM THE EDGE' - w/c 20th March 2023

OIEE ‘Marathon’

Jean Cabbie & The Secret Admirer Society ‘Paper Doll’

Stiff Little Fingers ‘Alternative Ulster’

The Amorettes ‘Everything I Learned (I Learned From Rock & Roll)’

David Bowie ‘Starman’

Parabola West ‘Calling Your Name’

The Starjets ‘Titanic Town’

Sandy Thom ‘Runaway Train’

Izzy Marie Hill ‘How The Story Goes’

Grateful Dead ‘Wharf Rat’ 

Sonisk Blodbad ‘Stay Away’

Sonisk Blodbad ‘Yoga (Helene Rickhard Remix)’

Papooz ‘Ann Wants To Dance’

Khruangnbin ‘Time (You & I)’

Macon Heights ‘Headlights’

Tenek ‘Headlights’

Danny P feat. Toni Etherson ‘Feel The Light’

Jimi Hendrix ‘House Burning Down’

Caragh ‘Burn Bright’

Caragh ‘Panic Attack’

Caragh ‘Sleeping With The Fishes’

Elton John ‘Tiny Dancer’

Donovan ‘The Trip’

The Whythouse ‘Breathe’

Healthy Junkies ‘Witches Of Lust (Live at The Vale)’

[urbanenemy]

JAKE BURNS AND THE BIG WHEEL - She Grew Up 7" (1984/UK)

[obbydrawsstuff]

One more toonkind title card dump, as a treat!

[artsilon]

I didn’t want to draw Jetfire and honestly it’s better this way.

Anyway, result of some dumb but fun crossovers with @shychangling