Topix Underground

"..TIL there’s a term for the feeling of the pressure you feel in your ears when driving fast and only have rear windows down: The Helmholtz Resonance.."

But it made you feel a little better for a moment, no?

Yes! 

"..We gave weapons of war to every small-town police department in ththe country, which used those to create SWAT teams. They did not receive the military training—they only got the weapons.

And that’s how every small-town police department has the wrong overlap of inexperience and munitions to burst into homes and threaten murder because a 16-year-old with stolen VPN credentials and a VoIP account thought it would be funny.."

Yep, what the kid did was bad, what made it bad (how we all expect police will behave) is worse.

"...Wayne Kramer, the co-founding guitarist and composer of Detroit’s punk band MC5, whose social activism carried on throughout his lengthy solo career, died on Friday at 75. The news was confirmed on Kramer’s and MC5’s official Instagram with the phrase “Wayne S. Kramer ‘PEACE BE WITH YOU’ April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024. No cause of death was disclosed at this time.

The only thing angrier than Kramer’s left-wing socio-political radicalism was his gruff guitar sound, a powerful feedback-fueled noise with a gutsy swagger that made every track of his – from his famed, first days with MC5 and “Kick Out the Jams” to his searing solo works such as “Adult World” – ring and sting.


Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, long an acolyte of Kramer’s rangy guitar sound, told The Mirror UK, “Brother Wayne Kramer was the best man I’ve ever known. He possessed a one-of-a-kind mixture of deep wisdom & profound compassion, beautiful empathy and tenacious conviction. His band the MC5 basically invented punk rock music… Wayne came through personal trials of fire with drugs and jail time and emerged a transformed soul who went on to save countless lives through his tireless acts of service. He and his incredible wife Margaret founded @jailguitardoorsusa which founds music programs in prisons as life changing effective rehabilitation. I’ve played with Wayne in prisons and watched him transform lives, he was just unbelievable … The countless lives he’s touch, healed, helped and saved will continue his spirit and legacy. He was like a non-Tom Joad. Whenever and wherever any of us kick out the jams, Brother Wayne will be right there with us.”..."

Hey you! Doing one of my favorite things in life, besides a bubble bath, a movie on the big screen. A childhood thing - The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Dr DooLittle.

Love Sam Rockwell . .
😊

Been near a decade since I watched a movie at a theater. My ex had mobility problems so we just quit going.

"...Wayne Kramer, the co-founding guitarist and composer of Detroit’s punk band MC5, whose social activism carried on throughout his lengthy solo career, died on Friday at 75. The news was confirmed on Kramer’s and MC5’s official Instagram with the phrase “Wayne S. Kramer ‘PEACE BE WITH YOU’ April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024. No cause of death was disclosed at this time.

The only thing angrier than Kramer’s left-wing socio-political radicalism was his gruff guitar sound, a powerful feedback-fueled noise with a gutsy swagger that made every track of his – from his famed, first days with MC5 and “Kick Out the Jams” to his searing solo works such as “Adult World” – ring and sting.


Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, long an acolyte of Kramer’s rangy guitar sound, told The Mirror UK, “Brother Wayne Kramer was the best man I’ve ever known. He possessed a one-of-a-kind mixture of deep wisdom & profound compassion, beautiful empathy and tenacious conviction. His band the MC5 basically invented punk rock music… Wayne came through personal trials of fire with drugs and jail time and emerged a transformed soul who went on to save countless lives through his tireless acts of service. He and his incredible wife Margaret founded @jailguitardoorsusa which founds music programs in prisons as life changing effective rehabilitation. I’ve played with Wayne in prisons and watched him transform lives, he was just unbelievable … The countless lives he’s touch, healed, helped and saved will continue his spirit and legacy. He was like a non-Tom Joad. Whenever and wherever any of us kick out the jams, Brother Wayne will be right there with us.”..."

Too many figures are dying. It is depressing.

Getting old sucks, but beats the alternative.

Not getting old?