Bay Area retro-punks Shannon and the Clams latest album, Dreams in the Rat House sees it’s official release through Hardly Art Records today. “Rip Van Winkle” is the second single from the new album, and although it was release by a contemporary act, the track sounds as though it were some old record from 1963 which was forgotten and rediscovered in a dusty, used record store. Ah, the power of analog recording!
The band will be on a lengthy tour with stops in San Diego, CA; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Missoula, MT; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Milwaukee, WI; Cleveland, OH; Toronto, ON; Montreal, QC; 6/20 at the Bowery Ballroom; and several others.
Awesome summer fun-times
The Empire Strikes Back was released 22 years ago today
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Deleted scene from Iron Man 2
It’s good to know everybody loves Ben’s Chili Bowl.
Fan-freakin-tastic people.
Let me explain you a thing.
When I say I adore Misha Collins, I don’t mean because he’s attractive or funny (though that comes into it), I mean because he is a genuinely nice person.
I was at Asylum 10 this weekend, and for Misha’s autographs he wasn’t allowed to personalise things because of time constraints which is fair enough. However, when I was getting mine, I managed to blurt out (I mean it I was shaking really hard) how important it was to meet him, as Asylum 10 was a goal for me not to kill myself.
The second I said that he stopped writing and looked up at me, and his response was:
“You need better goals.” I almost laughed but I was really trying not to cry, so I responded with:
“No. I don’t.” At this point, he reached across the table and grabbed my hand, pen still off the paper. He looked up at me, shaking and almost crying and smiled and said the simplest thing. At this point he let my hand go.
“See you next year?” I nodded, I was shaking really hard and I picked up the picture and went to leave, but he grabbed my hand again and pulled me back a little. He asked for my name and then wrote what it says on the top left hand corner. He squeezed my hand and smiled and then let me go.
This is lovely.
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Guys, hey, guys. Do you remember that time that Coulson called Natasha and she ended up forming the Avengers? Remember how she did that by digging up Bruce Banner and introducing Steve to him then was the voice of reason when Tony and Steve were bickering and then how she brought Clint back from being mind controlled so that they can be a team? Remember that? Remember how the Black Widow out smarted a god? Remember that time she kept her shit together when the Hulk attacked her, even though she was really scared? Remember when she knocked an alien off his flying scooter and figured out how to drive it despite it being extrateresstrial tech, then got her ass up to the top of Stark Tower, found Loki’s staff and saved the world from being invaded by turning off the machine?
Remember how she was the central character of the whole freaking movie?
Anyone else remember that? I sure do.
#and remember how they didn’t sexualize her #remember how she was independent and didn’t need a male crutch #remember how when loki implied that she needed a man she completely tore him down #remember how natasha romanov doesn’t take shit from nobody #especially not a man
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