304. Turn On The MacLachlan

Lords:

• Andrew
  • https://highcadence.online
• Brandon
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/Demonschool/

Topics:

• My daughter's high school pep band playlist is full of bangers
  • https://embed.music.apple.com/us/playlist/lakeridge-pep-band/pl.u-LdbqENjt759ZJ
• Why some actors can't carry a b-movie but others can
• What do these white rings on the Microbrute mean?
  • https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/114842907188616207
  • Andrew wrote to Arturia support like a madman, and they got back to him to say that yes, the rings just mean "this knob is important"
• Medley by Louis Phillips
  • https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/06/29/medley/
• Things you can eat in your garden that you might not expect

Microtopics:

• Bringing the fact that you are now a Lord to everyone's attention.
• Hitting 1700 nautical miles today.
• Demonschool. (Wishlist it.)
• Whether it helps to un-wishlist and re-wishlist a game on Steam.
• The Hot Dog Plant.
• Tiny stinky blobs that attach to each other.
• What kind of marsh grasses rich people in the 80s would have in their house.
• Calling an aesthetic "southwestern" even though it's to the east of you.
• A pep rally band playing a Lil Nas X tune.
• The band soundtracking your No Kings rally playing a medley of Blister in the Sun, When the Saints Go Marching In, and I Want You Back.
• Transcribing music from Double Dragon 2 and slipping under the door of your high school band director.
• Disasterpeace's score for Under the Silver Lake.
• How many people it takes to compose a pop song.
• What it means to be a producer.
• Kyle MacLaughlan desperately trying to hold on to Elizabeth Berkeley.
• Christopher Lambert being legally blind and accidentally stabbing everyone while filming Highlander.
• A weird guy who goes "hheeehh"
• Mean Guns.
• Putting a b-movie guy in a b-movie and everyone is like "nice!"
• The Recent Vampire Movie With Nicolas Cage.
• The kind of movie you can follow without looking at the screen.
• Someone who has at least one idea and a vision for how to achieve it.
• Jean-Claude Van Damme pushing you aside so he can take over the editing suite.
• Making a movie while making another movie.
• The dwindling number of people getting weird chances.
• What day they bury people in Ghana.
• Art that's only good if a friend explains what's good about it first.
• The comic relief witch doctor who is funny because he keeps screwing up.
• Trying to type on a 25 key keyboard.
• The three knobs that you have to be able to see best in a low light environment.
• The ultrasaw: not as good as a supersaw.
• Paying extra to get the one in red because of the kind of person you are.
• Why buy an analog synthesizer in 2025?
• The tactile wall of knobs.
• The giant modular synthesizer at Mills college.
• The tiniest patch cables.
• Adamantium Rage's FM doom metal soundtrack.
• Did you mean: I love Mickey Mouse?
• Emailing Arturia Support.
• The Pants That Said Maximum.
• A poem with rotational symmetry around the center axis.
• A poem where the whole point is the acrostic complaining about something.
• Eating the leaves and stems of a squash blossom.
• Allowing lettuce to bolt.
• AeroLettuce.
• Making pesto out of herbs other than basil.
• The fragrance and the earth tones you get from a bay leaf.
• Top garden plants you might not have thought of eating.
• A hobby that is cool and fun to do.
• Discovered two giant cucumbers you hadn't even noticed before.
• Volunteer squash and wacky gourds.
• Sharing the fruits of your garden with your neighbors.
• When it's lemon season and everybody's trying to give everyone else lemons.
• Some plants are in pots; some are in the ground.
• Growing a plant that can give you something back.
• mstdn.party