Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (4281)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
    Double Tap (2000)

    Double Tap (2000)

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    Movie

    What begins as an innocuous entry into a gun competition eventually steers Rick towards a path of...

    Toyota Parts Diagram & VIN

    Toyota Parts Diagram & VIN

    Catalogs and Reference

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    The mobile application «Toyota Parts Diagram & VIN» contains full information on spare parts and...

40x40

Jonathan Higgs recommended track He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot by Grandaddy in Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy in Music (curated)

 
Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy
Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy
2011 | Rock
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite
Details

He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot by Grandaddy

(0 Ratings)

Track

"This is another great example of repetition, something simple and small that carries a huge resonance. There’s that line he keeps repeating: 'Don’t give up, 2000 man.' That whole record has got this incredible apocalyptic feel and the scene they paint over and over again is one of Earth covered in detritus from this era that’s become obsolete; something happened to humans and now all their crap is left everywhere, their computer keyboards and so on. “I’ve used that idea six times in my own band: the title ‘Qwerty Finger’ is about a qwerty keyboard that washes up on a beach and at the end of ‘NASA Is On Your Side’ you’ve got children climbing over fridges. It’s because that imagery is so powerful and I don’t think anyone really went there again. “I kind of believe that will happen and I don’t know if I believe it because of Grandaddy or because it’s a rational thing to think, but I do and I do still believe that our time will pass and all of our technology and crap will come to nothing. That’s a big influence for a band to have on a little boy I think. “This song is probably the best one on there and the way it just keeps on going is incredible, both in terms of its length and that churning message: 'Don’t give up'. It made me feel that I was the start of life around that age, the ‘2000 man’ and that’s very powerful stuff if you hit the right kid at the right time."

Source
  
40x40

graveyardgremlin (7194 KP) rated Black Rabbit Hall in Books

Feb 15, 2019  
Black Rabbit Hall
Black Rabbit Hall
Eve Chase | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I liked the book, but I didn't love it. Told in alternating voices and time-lines, first-person for Amber in the late 60's and third-person for Lorna circa 2000. Amber's voice definitely had the edge as Lorna's felt more distant, probably due to being in third-person, so her story didn't have much of a punch for me. Also, her connection to Black Rabbit Hall felt too pat, too obvious, and not surprising in the least. One thing, as silly as it might seem, that bothered me was the casual mention of texts and wi-fi. Easy to overlook in this day and age, but they just weren't common in the late nineties/early aughts. Otherwise, it was an easy, if predictable read.