It's better to burn out than it is to rust

The Sex Pistols rule. Their response to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's invitation to be initiated came in the form of a "crudely scrawled, mispunctuated handwritten message posted on the band's Web site," which said:

"Next to the SEX PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum. Urine in wine. Were (sic) not coming. Were (sic) not your monkey and so what?"

That's rock and roll, children, pure and unadulterated.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke.

Is it like today?

World Party (Karl Wallinger) on Late Night with David Letterman in 1993 performing "Is It Like Today?"

Here's to guilty pleasures

Here are the Fab Five (apologies to Duran Duran), shaking their collective money makers.

Open the pod bay doors please, Hal

The Astronomy Picture of the Day reminded me (which they also mention) of that horrific scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the HAL-9000 computer severs the lifeline connecting Frank Poole to the U.S.S. Discovery. Fortunately, the suit was empty. Here's the explanation from the site: "Dubbed Suitsat-1, the unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit filled mostly with old clothes was fitted with a faint radio transmitter and released to orbit the Earth."

"The Empire Strikes Brick"

While I played LEGO® Star Wars™™ The Video Game, which is incredibly fun, I kept thinking how much more fun it would be to play through the original trilogy. Well, that will soon be possible. TheForce.Net posted an article way back on February 10 about LucasArts's plans to release LEGO® Star Wars II™: The Original Trilogy during Fall 2007.

For me, these films are very much about the music, and I loved how the actual scores (and sound effects) were used throughout LEGO® Star Wars™™ The Video Game. The first time I activated Qui Gon's light sabre filled me with an embarassing amount of glee for a person my age. The controls were smooth and fluid. And the graphics were just the right mix of cartoony (it is after all a LEGO "template") and faithfulness to the films. If lightning strikes twice, it should be a blast.

Now, if SONY can only remedy the whole blue disc issue...




Pictures from Rebelscum.com

animated Star Trek

Opening sequence from the Star Trek cartoon that first aired Saturday morning, September 8, 1973.







Pics from Star Trek: The Animated Series (website)

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Backstage in San Francisco on October 26, 1957

"All Shook Up" (Reached the top of all three U.S. charts [pop, country and r&b], staying there for eight weeks in 1957, from April 13 through May 27. In the U.S., it is regarded as the top song of 1957.)

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