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That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
Both very right-wing politically, both the most disposable member of the band in the early years but managed to make themselves indispensable and survive the other members. Both *really* didn't get on with their drummer.
Main difference is Daltrey's only married twice.
They're both basically the same person. Bit older than the other members of the band, the only one who ever had a "real job" (even both worked at a sheet-metal factory), not-especially-great singers but great frontmen, wary of the main songwriter's artistic moves away from what made them successful.
But in personality types and general biography, Roger Daltrey *is* Mike Love and Keith Moon *is* Dennis Wilson to a quite spooky extent. (And Moon was, of course, an absolute Beach Boys fanatic).
Led Zeppelin very clearly patterned themselves after the Who -- to the extent that the initial lineup Page wanted when he first started thinking of the idea was Page, Jeff Beck, Keith Moon, John Entwistle, and either Steve Winwood or Steve Marriott.
(For those who don't know about the death Moon accidentally caused and don't want to wait for my episode, google "Neil Boland", but warning, many reports have some fairly gruesome details I'm not including. One of those where it was absolutely not his fault but you can see why he blamed himself.)
Like it's genuinely difficult here because there's only so many ways to tell that story, but it looks hack if you just repeat yourself, but it also becomes clunkingly obvious if you say "and just like Dennis Wilson in last year's episode..."
And that's right down to "undergoes a trauma related to a horrible death he considers himself responsible for, right as 1969 is turning to 1970, and from that point falls into addiction that slowly destroys all the good points of his personality while amplifying the bad, as a way to punish himself"
Weird how the Who at points parallel the Beach Boys so closely it's hard for me to consciously write something different than what I did in the "Never Learn Not to Love" episodes. Keith Moon *was* Dennis Wilson (without the songwriting or vocal talent).
Looking like this will end up being a three-parter. Part two will be Tommy/Live at Leeds, and part three Lifehouse failing and everything that followed.
Replace him with Gnasher
The Mekon, Biffo The Bear, Nemesis The Warlock and Hook Jaw are in a sense British animals
Oddly saw this *right* after writing a section of this episode which talks about the Bonzos' last gig, and the tragic events that happened involving Keith Moon and "Legs" Larry just a few days later.
It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.
Yep. If someone misinterprets you about something unrelated to their personal identity or trauma, of course argue/explain. But if you've actually hurt someone, even -- especially -- unintentionally, telling them they're wrong to have their feelings is useless.
Yep. There are a *lot* of jokes I don't make because even though pretty much all my friends are queer, I'm not, and there is an *urge* to join in with riffing on stuff that would sound very different from me than them.
There is, of course, the possibility that you inadvertently hurt someone who reacts badly, or does something you see as overreacting. If that happens, just do the same as if they'd reacted politely. Apologise, try not to do it again, and don't get defensive and argue or try to explain.
I have, in the past, said and done all sorts of things I'm now horrified by because I didn't get something about a marginalised group that I now get. In almost every case, people told me, kindly but firmly, to do better, and I tried to do so. I'm sure it will happen again.
I have found that most people, in most situations, can tell the difference between somebody sincerely trying to be helpful and maybe fucking up, and someone who's insincere or deliberately provocative.
Replies to this very much a reminder of why "ally" is a term that should only be used by the marginalised community about someone outside it, *never* by a purported ally about themself.
Once you make "ally" your identity, rather than a thing you try to do, you stop doing it.
Statler and Waldorf as the other Italian musicians at court
Finished Amadeus & thought about it &
Wolfie - Kermit
Stanzi - Piggy
Salieri - controversial, but: piano, sidelined original Main Guy - Rowlf
Leopold - Sam Eagle
Emperor - Fozzie
Simon Callow - Gonzo
Cynthia Nixon - Janice
Lots of dunks on this news on my feed, but we're all going to be eating crow when it turns out Winslet is playing Shelob
I will never tear up my Lib Dem membership card, because it has on it a former Leader I both adored and had more face-to-face rows with than any before or since because he, too, cared passionately about principles.
I don’t row with the current one.
Just groan, ‘Oh, God, what useless banality now?’
Long ago when I was a Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate I’d quote Churchill in support of Europe, or human rights, or against fascism or poverty.
It was a way of getting Tory-ish but Liberal-curious voters to listen (and also made far right explode).
But against badgers…?!
Don’t be an absolute dick.
Donald E. Westlake's Gun:
A gun that appears on the wall in the first act would blow someone's brain out in the second. But it blew up the brains of the wrong person and now our beleaguered protagonist has ANOTHER body to get rid off.
Richard Stark's Gun:
You might think that if there's a gun on the wall in the first act it would fire in the second act. But the fact is - Parker doesn't need a gun to kill a man. Nor does he intend to wait for the next act.
Just made myself laugh by looking up how long Winston Churchill has in fact been on the banknotes, a tradition that postdates the last One Direction album
This Grammarly thing is just wild, the presumptuous hubris of the whole thing, the fact that the AI bros think everyone will have no problem with being constantly impersonated for profit in virtue of being even a minor public figure
AI reveals some of the deepest bankruptcies in our culture
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