Waits has always seemed like an outlier to me, by making accessible and credible tunes from that influence rather than pastiche. But then I could be heavily retconning: Strictly Personal and Black Rider are amongst my favourite albums after all.

^ this! When I finally heard the things Arthur Brown's band tried between Crazy World and Kingdom Come and immediately clocking they were trying the captain on for size.

Every time I've seen you mention this, I've just assumed that TOND is the onomatopoeia for the orchestral hit at the very first jump scare, and that it will therefore be an astoundingly good scare.

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Starting to wonder if there'll be a surge in not only burner phones but burner emails, socials and bookmark lists

I'm using this as a diagnostic tool.

a solid plan could be to make a bootable USB pen drive that runs a Linux variant, and use libre from there. No distractions whatever!

I almost posted "and _this_ is what makes you feel like a pervert?!" in response to what you said about Berberian Sound Studio a few days back. Now I kinda wish I had, so I coulda quote-posted it with a don't-make-me-tap-the-sign gif.

Never fails to disappoint me that popular podcasts always seem to be just some people chatting and laughing while sometimes mentioning the headline subject. I want to hear about the stated topic, not feel like I've forgotten my headphones on a bus full of school kids.