i haven’t taken down my silver-plated stainless steel titanium trimmed keyboard (with single shot, burst, or automatic settings) from the mantle where it’s rested, for over a decade, madam.
there are no monsters here. i believe derrida said it best: monsters cannot be announced. one cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters,’ without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
If you watch TV in the UK, every so often, on one quiz show or another, you will very often hear the question: What year did rationing end in the UK? The answer is always the same: 1954. That’s a fact.
The minute a ship sinks, the crew stop getting paid, because apparently it’s no longer a ship.
Pistachio nuts are not allowed in cargo holds of ships, as they are one of the items marked as combustible, because they are known to spontaneously combust.
Coconuts kill about 150 people a year, from falling on their heads, so double the amount of those killed in shark attacks.
that song was actually done by little stevie vai and appears on his very first solo album. his career began when frank hired him in the 80s, and he stayed with frank for several years before going off on his own. ordinarily frank would write all the music himself and select/hire musicians to play it, but steve, being a badass, often contributed to the song writing. here they are working out what’s new in baltimore.
but you can definitely hear frank’s influence on the album ‘flexible’. steve hadn’t fully transformed into the the formulaic heavy metal soloist yet and was still (instinctively) writing more compositional songs.
but yes, frank usually has a song for every occasion. on the matter of aliens there is ‘inca roads’, which i’ve already posted, and we are not alone.
Now that could possibly qualify as a weird fact, Frank having a song for every occasion… just goes to show how prolific a writer he was.
Weird fact: a company wants to create modern mammoths, by gene editing their genetic material into Indian elephants, so that they can then populate areas with specific types of trees that produce 100 times more oxygen than the trees that replaced them since the mammoths went extinct, due to the nature of their feeding and stomping habits.
Author Charles Bukowski is so famous for telling other artists “Don’t Try” that they put in on his gravestone, and yet he is also quoted as saying, “If you’re going to try, go all the way.”
The superbowl is watched by 100 million people and is considered the greatest spectacle by Americans while 600 million people around the world watch the average English Premier League (soccer) game.
A computer makes a decision in a nano-second, which is a billionth of second and falls below the level of human perception. The human mind cannot conceive of how fast this is.
Talking of the catholic church, in the dark ages, there was no discernment between good or bad witches and warlocks, they were indiscriminately burned at the stake.