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Ds game stickers this month :]

You can get these on the Patreon before 2/1 if you are interested! I will mail them to ya as always

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For a long time, this was the definitive version of tetris. Which is weird, considering that licensing rights kept this in a limited run.

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beta zigzagoon i love youuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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forever screaming and crying about the unused Mega Blastoise and Venusaur designs

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Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird (1985)

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Field Works & Kelly Moran // Sodalis

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Beth Gibbons // Floating On A Moment

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Hazel English - Slide

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Virna Lindt // Underwater Boy

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M83 // Run Into Flowers

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Julia Holter // Evening Mood

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Yusef Lateef // Love Theme From Spartacus

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‘Galaxy Force II’ was released in Arcades 36 years ago this month in Japan. Support us on Patreon

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Molly Lewis - On the Lips - don't know if I'm ready for a full-on lounge/exotica (re)revival, but it's the perfect milieu for a whistler

Consider this your invitation to Café Molly, a lounge bar like they don’t make them anymore. The lights are low, the martinis are ice cold, the banquettes are velvet, and the stage is set for the electrifying talent of whistler Molly Lewis. Molly’s soft-focus cocktail music conjures up visions of classic Hollywood jazz clubs, Italian cinema soundtracks and lingering embraces between lovers. After the exotica stylings of The Forgotten Edge EP and the tropicalia-indebted Mirage EP, Molly wanted to encapsulate the sound of Café Molly for her debut album On The Lips, a dreamy tribute to classic mood music. That spellbinding sound, which usually comes to life in Los Angeles, has also popped up in Mexico City dancehalls, graced the runways of Paris and London Fashion Weeks, and made a magical appearance at a children's fairyland. Molly Lewis’s love for this smoky corner of the world doesn’t end with her songwriting. She is a devotee and an archivist, capturing and enlivening the pieces that endure. She was a regular at the legendary shows by Marty and Elayne, the lounge duo who spent almost 40 years playing LA’s Dresden bar. The duo came to global fame after an appearance in 1996’s Swingers and kept going long after that spotlight faded, finally finishing their nightly residency after the death of Marty at the ripe age of 89 last year. “That felt like the end of an era,” says Molly. But there are still flashes of that world to be found, and she finds them. “I’ve been spending a lot of time in New York lately, where there are a lot more of those moody, classic jazz bars,” she explains. Over the past few years Molly has flexed her one-of-a-kind musical skill alongside Mark Ronson on the Barbie soundtrack, as well as with Dr Dre, Karen O, actor John C Reilly, Mac De Marco, fashion houses Chanel, Gucci and Hermes, and folk rock royalty Jackson Browne. After a performance with longtime friend Weyes Blood on Burt Bacharach’s The Look of Love during a Café Molly evening at LA’s Zebulon, Molly supported the singer on a US tour, introducing her sound to a brand new audience. “I forget sometimes that what I do has that factor of surprise and uniqueness – it is something that most people have never seen before,” says Molly. She too might never have entered the idiosyncratic world of whistling had she not as a teenager seen the 2005 documentary Pucker Up, which details the International Whistling Competition. Equally amused and bemused by the eccentric event, in 2012 she competed herself. Spending her early twenties in Berlin she then moved to LA to work in film – and returned to the contest in 2015 to take home first prize. One evening Molly did a turn at an open mic at the Kibitz Room, a tiny late-night bar inside historic LA deli Canter’s. Her display led to appearances at performance art happenings across the city, and she soon caught the ear of independent record label Jagjaguwar. On The Lips was recorded with producer Thomas Brenneck of the Menahan Street Band, Budos Band, Dap-Kings and El Michels Affair, at his newly-built Diamond West Studios in Pasadena. The pair bonded over the work of 1960s soundtrack composers Alessandro Alessandroni and Piero Piccioni, and, with something of an open door policy during the sessions, a stream of acclaimed musicians ended up across the album’s 10 tracks. With her intoxicating compositions, and wry brand of stagecraft (she might not be singing up there, but she can sure tell a joke) Molly Lewis looks set to join her heroes in the storied lore of the Los Angeles lounge scene and beyond. So pull up a chair, order your favorite drink, and prepare to fall for On The Lips.  PERFORMER LINE-UP: On The Lips Molly Lewis - Whistle, guitar, vocals Joe Harrison - Flute, bass Eric Hagstrom - Drums, clave Thomas Brenneck - Organ Written by: Molly Lewis

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I usually post with a very cynical attitude, but today, I wanna spread some positivity.

“Thunder, Lightning, Strike” is one of my favorite albums of all time, and I hope you all listen to it.

Anyone that can read this, and has the ability to listen to this album should absolutely give it a try. Spotify, CD, MP3, YouTube rip, whatever, I think this album is worth every ounce of effort you have to put in to try it.

It is an incredible album that is very uplifting and very energetic. You’ll feel better once you listen to some of the songs, I guarantee it.

I myself would often listen to it for inspiration when writing and when I was going through tough times as a kid. Whatever it was, there was something in the music that made me feel great.

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day 30: rush

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Genki Rockets: Heavenly Star

And you guys thought I would never talk about No More Heroes again.

Ah, the greatest joke humanity ever told was hope...

If you were lucky enough to have the original Wii/Playstation 2 version of No More Heroes, you were going to hear this song in the background in a couple of places. Or, if you're Japanese (Sorry for this entire blog if you are) or European (HA-HA), you got to watch it on Travis' TV. This song slaps and makes you absolutely wanna kill people to J-Pop.

...Just me? Oi, I gotta rethink my demographics...

Song Score: 1000/10