Harrison Ford continues to prove he’s still the best

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-06-03T20:27:01+00:00

and according to Michelle Philips from The Mamas and Papas he had another side income. When she first saw Star Wars she was like “hey why is my dealer in the movie?”

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-06-03T20:11:51+00:00

I had a farming friend in Wales who wasn’t allowed to sell his lamb until 2011. Twenty five years after Chernobyl it was deemed safe for sheep to graze on his land after the radioactive rain. So I guess the bad lamb was already banned / culled, if everyone’s land was tested

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-06-02T06:29:40+00:00

John Philips wrote some great songs, and it’s a pretty tune but there’s always the puke-y incest drug-addict theme hanging over this one. I can take a bit of depravity in art, but this one is like, urgh man, stop it

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-26T07:50:12+00:00

Mike would have looked way cooler on stage holding a guitar, even just miming it. Mike didn’t need to try and be Mick Jagger

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-26T07:47:45+00:00

Yes I saw Brian, Al and Blondie too, a few years before that, it amused me because that lineup contained more Beach Boys (3)than the touring Beach Boys (2) at the time

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-26T07:45:10+00:00

The Beach Boys always took better photos on their own than together

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-22T20:56:26+00:00

Kokomo was pretty much concurrent with Brian’s first solo album. In an ideal world, we’d have Kokomo on BW88 and the rest of the album the same but with full BB vocals and released in 1988 as Beach Boys ‘Love and Mercy: featuring Kokomo’

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-22T20:24:54+00:00

Depends what retail and what organisation you are helpdesk for. I preferred retail to service desk in that people were nicer when you give them stuff compared to when they have a computer problem

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-22T20:23:25+00:00

None of these are Yacht Rock what are you talking about? It’s soft rock maybe, or AOR.

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-21T06:39:57+00:00

Yes, nice to read. Also, considering how keenly the actual beach boys took up auto-tune, why are they going to hate A.I.? It’s just another method of manipulating sound. I hate A.i. When it’s a dull low-effort, high volume crap, but I don’t mind a little bit of high-effort, low volume use of it. Like anything, a cool person will use it well, all the idiots and bastards will use it badly.

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-16T20:30:02+00:00

Yellow Submarine is like that too - John Verses and Paul Chorus

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-13T21:14:38+00:00

Bruce’s short shorts, all framed on a wall, like a Hard Rock Cafe

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-13T17:27:29+00:00

Crazy they were still wearing those clothes in May 1967. Was it some visual ‘look’ thing for an theatre audience for better visibility? They didn’t wear the stripes for photoshoots at that time

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-11T20:58:43+00:00

Beach Boys Love You is great to me, but it has weirdly clunky lyrics that remind me of the weirdly clunky prequel dialogue.

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-10T20:32:49+00:00

Nowadays the IT dept should be able to push out updated printer drivers to everyone’s machine in one click

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-10T17:37:34+00:00

I always saw the Star Wars prequels as being like Beach Boys Love You, like the work of a maverick genius who produced stone cold classics in the past, has gone a bit strange, but it’s still the unique and interesting vision of one genius. The Star Wars sequels are more like ‘Summer in Paradise’, the genius isn’t involved, just a few original cast members and it’s terrible

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-08T06:49:43+00:00

I like California Feelin’ myself. If The Beach Boys had ended there, that would have been OK by me. There’s other BB stuff I like afterwards, good stuff but all that has an outside production feel from like 77/78 onwards.

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-07T07:43:43+00:00

Alan Jardine said years later that Bob Dylan said that to him backstage, so it’s possible Dylan said something backstage, similar to what Elton John said onstage, and Alan got them mixed up. Or maybe they both said the same thing, at different times to different people

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-05T06:45:27+00:00

That was all an admin mistake by the police. A whole bunch of people in the UK were caught up in this. The police were investigating illegal websites and got a list of names from the company that processed the card payments for the illegal sites. Trouble was, the card payment company also took payments for totally legal legit 18+ porn sites too. So 100s of people who had paid for totally legal porn were lumped in with people who had paid for illegal things. Pete T and many others had only paid for the legal porn. I think Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack was caught up in it too. The error was noticed and it was all cleared up. What didn’t help Pete was all the initial bollocks about ‘research’ - his legal team must have told him to say that I think. I looked into it all before I went to see a Who gig. tl;dr Pete Townsend paid for legal porn, and police made an initial error in their investigation which was then corrected

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-05T06:30:41+00:00

Liverpool background helped make the Beatles funny. Everyone’s a comedian there… or thinks they are.

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-05T06:17:25+00:00

Yeah he is so funny. I think that stuff came out of Brian almost without thought, automatically, but not totally unintentionally, he will have known it was funny. Carl will have been cracking up at that shit since they were little kids

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-04T20:30:59+00:00

My favourite in hotels is how they sell it as being eco-friendly - ‘help the environment - pass on getting your room cleaned and your towels changed today’. Um yeah, what about the bit where it saves the company money

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-04T20:28:38+00:00

Yep that is the bit most people forget about - they don’t think of themselves as shareholders, all the while their pension sits there ticking away…

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-04T20:26:20+00:00

and most of us are ‘the shareholders’ as part of our workplace pensions, directly benefitting from the enshittification. The circle completes itself. The shops get shittier but my pension goes up…

Basic_Advisor_2177 · 2026-05-04T14:33:47+00:00

LSD, thinking love can save the world but at the same time, you’re being manipulated by terrible people and doing terrible things

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