sweet nectar
I love R. Dorothy Wayneright so much it’s unreal.
It’s The Big O, a turn-of-the-millennium mecha anime series made by Sunrise after they did some work on Batman the Animated Series, with a style very heavily influenced by that (as well as Giant Robo). Professional negotiator Roger Smith is secretly the pilot of the skyscraper-sized ‘megadeus’ Big O, a massive robot that he can send through a secret subway system to emerge anywhere it is needed within the domed metropolis of Paradigm City. Assisted by his butler Norman, Roger is soon joined by the deadpan android R. Dorothy Wayneright.
The Big O is remembered for its distinctive retro visuals, incredible soundtrack, gorgeous mech design and battles, and the really bizarre places the plot went later on.
“YOUR A LOUSE, ROGER SMITH”
"We only want to sing you to sleep
In your bedroom speakers, whoa"
I came up with the idea for this drawing a while back and finally felt like I could draw it exactly like I saw it in my head 😌
bassist on drummer violence at 2ourdust
Everybody hates on paywalls but they've saved me from reading so many NYT articles 🫂
Patrick in 2003 vs 2023
"We had a huge fight over 'Chicago Is So Two Years Ago.' I didn't even want to record that song. I was being precious with things that were mine. Part of me was thinking the band wouldn't work out and I'd go to college and do some music on my own. I had a skeletal version of 'Chicago.' I was playing it to myself in the lobby of the studio. I didn't know anyone was listening. Sean was walking by and wanted to [introduce it to the others]. I kind of lost my song. I was very precious about it."
-- Patrick Stump, Alternative Press #303
[Talking about 'I Am My Own Muse'] "I've been doing film scores for the past like eight years, like film and TV, like you know, music in the background kind of stuff. So I've been working with orchestras and there was this thing and I just started writing it—you know, I think I was playing around with themes for maybe a movie and I started writing it, I'm like, 'No, I want this. I like this. I won't—this isn't for this movie. This is for us.'"
-- Patrick Stump, "Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump Talks to Maegan from WiLD 95.5"
I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.
stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.
bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.
mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:
The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."
Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)
Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."
Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."
Doctor Who The Angels Take Manhattan | 7.05