We’re Made of Stars: All Elements Come From Stars (except for the very first two, hydrogen and helium)

“The entire universe shares a common set of elements. In the very early universe, the only elements were hydrogen and helium. But since the formation of stars, lighter elements within the stars began fusing to create heavier elements, producing all the other naturally occurring elements. Under the extremely high temperatures and pressures within the core [...]

Josef K–It’s Kind of Funny; Killing Joke–Love Like Blood

Josef K–It’s Kind of Funny. One of the best bands ever. Basically, Franz Ferdinand’s first album was a Josef K tribute, in a good way. Their scrapped first album (included on the Only Fun in Town CD (of which there are several versions, I like the first CD [...]

The New Battlestar Galactica is So Good

Okay, so I’m like five years late to the party, but the new Battlestar Galactica series is so good. It’s not all cheesy like the original Battlestar Galactica or limp sci-fi cornball cheesiness like the Star Trek The Next Generation, which I thought was pretty grossly barf-tastic compared with the at least palatable/charming cheese [...]

80s Aesthetics Mania Has Not Even Begun Yet

The finer points of 80s aesthetics are still just being mined and rediscovered…now people are picking out the best aspects of 80s aesthetics which also had traces of the best of 70s aesthetics in them as well. I think it probably goes way deeper than what has been brought to light so far, as [...]

World of Warcraft Freakout Video

Okay, is this fake or real? What’s with the remote! Actually, there is a whole genre of World of Warcraft freakout videos on Youtube…

Taking Back Sunday–Sink into Me

Taking Back Sunday–Sink into Me
In the 1990s, I don’t think there’s any way a song like this would be on popular radio, it would have been relegated to indie/college radio. It’s good to hear some good music slip through onto popular radio sometimes–sounds something like Foo Fighters meets Swerverdriver and [...]