Can’t wait (2018) probably
Goodbye Ozymandias, cat of cats. Gentlest creature ever to walk the Earth. A gray ball of fur brought home 17 years ago, named ironically after the self-important subject of Shelley’s poem, who grew into his regal stature. I have never cried so much in my life, and I’m stuck in this damnable pit without him.
I have nothing…nothing to give, and I have not a single reason left to live.
I take a boat into the open sea. I am adrift, I am debris.
I am lulled by the ocean’s rhythmic splash, when I’m beset by a tempest in a flash.
My craft is rent, my fate is clear: my body washed up here.
What I was disappears; I see my future here.
Time is clawing at my fate.
There is no fauna – no sound of life; the jungle’s darkness as oppressive as a vice.
Upon the mountainside I find some human tracks, and when I hear the drums there is no turning back.
Welcome to the island.
They writhe around the fire as if a dying snake, their flesh impaled, the mountain’s bloody thirst to slake.
The altar glistens with the latest sacrifice before a toad-like idol with a thousand eyes.
The native cries seem to feed the flame.
Their eyeless faces turn to me and call my name.
Curtains of smoke recede, reveal a blackened throne, and I…
I am home.
Iä Tsathoggua!
Reddit user /u/FuturePunk made these cool retro-style designs of modern media/internet companies.
gryffindor: gives a shit about quidditch, gives a shit about people
slytherin: gives a shit about quidditch, doesn’t give a shit about people
hufflepuff: doesn’t give a shit about quidditch, gives a shit about people
ravenclaw: doesn’t give a shit about quidditch or people
why the fuck aren’t you all ravenclaw you sons’a bitches
Just in case my comment doesn’t get posted on the original article:
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Consider some of the biggest albums of the time period (not necessarily the best):
VNV Nation, Praise the Fallen (1998), Empires (1999) & Futureperfect (2001)
Covenant, United States of Mind (2000) & Northern Lights (2002)
Apoptygma Berzerk, Welcome to Earth (2000) & Harmonizer (2002)
And One, Virgin Superstar (2000) & Aggressor (2003)
Assemblage 23, Failure (2001) & Defiance (2002)
Haujobb, Ninetynine (1999) & Polarity (2001)
Icon of Coil, Serenity is the Devil (2000) & The Soul is in the Software (2002)
Wumpscut, Embryodead (1997), Boeses Junges Fleisch (1999) & Wreath of Barbs (2001)
Project Pitchfork, Eon:Eon (1998) & Daimonion (2001)
And others–just to name a few: Absurd Minds, Solitary Experiments, Wolfsheim, Suicide Commando, Das Ich…this isn’t even touching the Ant-Zen side of things (Converter released Shock Front and Blast Furnace in 1999 and 2000, Iszoloscope dropped Au Seuil Du Néant in 2003, Imminent Starvation’s Nord was also 1999, etc) or other left-field releases (all of Gridlock’s oeuvre was from 1997-2003, Individual Totem’s Mind Sculptures Flesh was out in 1997, Mentallo and the Fixer released Burnt Beyond Recognition in 1997).
A lot of these could be considered “landmark” albums. A few have really stood up well to the test of time. All that is to say: there were a lot of really distinctive/groundbreaking albums to choose from in this time period, and within that set, there were a few timeless classics, albums that transcended our little genre and still reward listeners to this day. And yet, despite a wealth of worthwhile alternatives, you chose FLAvour of the Weak and VAC. Kill me.
Thought I’d draw some Daria characters, seeing how I’m rewatching the show yet again. I urge everyone to watch the original series. IT’S STILL GOOD.
‘Children of Men‘, Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices.
Guernica
Miss Kitty, also resplendent.
Ozymandias, a most excellent cat, going strong at 16 years.
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
I don’t like this setup, Jet. I don’t like it at all.
Spike