Just for your viewing pleasure, Monica Bellucci and her daughter Deva Cassel:
The youngin needs more than a couple pasta dishes to catch up to Mama (see below), but it’s an excellent start.
Month: June 2023
That 80s Thing
From Longtime Reader John L. comes this question:
“I remember you saying that you like 80s music. I’m trying to get my daughter — a Millennial — to give it a try. What dozen or so songs would you recommend as a primer?”
Difficult choice, but here we go. Most of the songs are more about the sound than the music, because the 80s was when recording- and instrument technology started to expand (sometimes not for the better, but there you go). First, two older guys (from the 70s, but who got it):
Phil Collins: Sussudio
Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
And then the newer generation of musicians who took it from there:
Gary Numan: Cars (okay, technically, Numan probably started the whole thing off, but whatever)
Tears For Fears: Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Howard Jones: Things Can Only Get Better
Joe Jackson: Stepping Out
Soft Cell: Tainted Love
Wang Chung: Dance Hall Days
Simple Minds: Don’t You Forget About Me
Talking Heads: Burning Down The House
Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (although I actually prefer Would I Lie To You?)
Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls
Some notes:
I’ve excluded from the above those musicians who just kept on playing their 70s-style music for the next ten (twenty?) years, e.g. Richie Blackmore, Journey, Huey Lewis, punk bands, and so on.
I’ve also excluded those who just played their own music during the 1980s, which has proven to be pretty much timeless regardless of decade, e.g. Level 42 and Prince.
If you think I’ve missed any (and I probably have), have at it in Comments.
Terminology Change Alert
Just FYI, remember these guns?
These of course were always referred to as “assault rifles”, “weapons of mass destruction”, “evil black rifles”, “military-only weapons”, etc., etc.
No longer. According to our very own Gummint, these guns — which have been issued en masse to IRS agents, USPS inspectors, Fish & Wildlife agents, Dept. of Education bureaucrats and pretty much the entire sub-strata of the Deep State — have been classified as…
Personal Defense Weapons (PDW)
Now I know that one’s first thought would be “Defense against whom?” because as far as I’m aware, these government thugs agents are not being mugged or attacked in the streets of Baltimore, Oakland or even Chicago, nor are they being ambushed in the deep woods (unless by bears, in which case they’d need something a little more effective than an AR-15) or in post offices (unless by their own coworkers), or in similar situations.
Clearly, these weapons are to be used in “self-defense” against… us. Against We The People.
Oh, and they’re not being issued with semi-auto AR-15s, but with full-auto M4-style battle rifles (once again: “battle against whom?” but I think we all know where this is going).
I don’t think I have to say any more on the topic because we’re all intelligent people, and can draw our own conclusions from the above.
Also just FYI:
(via Ammoseek)
…and the above rifles are two examples of Bushmaster’s M4 “Patrolman’s” line. Apparently, they are reportedly head and shoulders above the older Bushmaster models, which were always a hit-or-miss proposition [sic], quality-wise.
Click on either pic for the link.
Finally, if you’re ever reproached by some gun-fearing wussy (GFW) about your “assault rifle”, you may correct him with the proper term, as defined by our own Gummint.