194. How Good It Was, To Have A Toe

Lords:

• Danny
• Danny

Topics:

• Most Song Lyrics are redundant
• Perfect fourths and fifths are named wrong
• It's almost summer and that means it's time for Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer"
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg
• Who wants to do a smutty poem?? We haven't done one of those
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47339/upon-julias-clothes
• Oh yes
• Celebrity Deaths are getting out of control
• ZZT has achievements now

Microtopics:

• Which Danny should go first.
• The Noclip Archive.
• Night Brunch.
• Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness.
• Whatever happened to MySpace.
• The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with.
• Stop making weird things!
• Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message.
• Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later.
• The native language of rock and roll.
• Prisencolinensinainciusol.
• Irish rap.
• All the ways music is redundant.
• A very inefficient way to communicate factual information.
• The Mentos jingle.
• Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons.
• Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed.
• Teaching kids to love it.
• What's perfect about a perfect fifth.
• Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison."
• Lydian to Locrian.
• An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device.
• Trying to bring up topics out in the wild.
• Even majorer then major.
• What it means to be far from A.
• A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego.
• Keyjazzing.
• Weirdos making weirdo outsider art.
• The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument.
• Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head.
• Something to watch.
• Economy of movement.
• Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space.
• The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages.
• Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts.
• Smutty poetry.
• Whether singer songwriters have parentheses.
• The Diamond Fleece.
• Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word.
• Brave Vibrations.
• What people thought was sexy in the 1600s.
• Talking about a topic because people can hear you.
• The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if"
• America's Whitest City.
• A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said.
• Investigating the Cool S for ten years.
• Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria.
• People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed.
• The first celebrity.
• Increasing numbers of celebrities.
• Industrialized celebrity.
• Adopting a future grief machine.
• Practicing grief.
• Several generations of digital fish.
• Trugoy the Dove.
• Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music.
• Downsides of everyone living forever.
• This is a mistake. (Here I go.)
• Pre-dead.
• Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics.
• Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call.
• What a time to not want to be alive!
• Doing squats so you can get out of a chair.
• Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma.
• Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames.
• ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive.
• Caverns of Kroz.
• An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups.
• Retro Achievements.
• Modding emulators to add achievements to old games.
• Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F.
• Achievements as a ludological device.
• Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for.
• Citizen Game.
• A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not.