Debuted circa 1985 on MTV’s Liquid Television. I thought that the ol’ Trinatron gave up the ghost and I would be blamed. It gave up several months later and I was blamed then.
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Was in a 2nd hand record store the other day, saw an album with a wasp on the front, title was, Wasp Sounds.
I have Pet Sounds in my collection and thought i need to buy this.
Got it home, put it on the turntable, and thought, “that doesn’t sound at all like a wasp.”
Looked down at the record and immediately recognised my error.
I had put the “B” side on.
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What have you done to my cold, black heart, I’m melting! What a sweet video 
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So I am sitting here at work and for a while have wondered if someone else was listening to music. And then I recognize “VX Gas Attack.”
and that’s when I realize that my phone has been quietly playing Skinny Puppy for an unknown amount of time because apparently I butt-dialed the music app.
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Very cool. I rate it 3 bong hits. 
I want my MTV! 640x480 video. Huge, heavy CRT-based TVs. Those were (not) the days.
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Going back even further, this year is the 80th anniversary of the release in movie theaters of arguably the greatest sports-themed cartoon of all time, Baseball Bugs.
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First time it died was both the vertical and horizontal, so ya, the dot in the center. Dad hot-rodded it with a bigger capacitor, I think, and it bought some more time. Second failure was vertical, even though the horizontal held. Line swept to the bottom of the tube. No coming back from the fried vertical circuit, and it was inevitable, with the bigger capacitor feeding the circuits.
Anyway, when the animation broke to the three other sleds, I thought the set was dying, which added to the surprise effect of the protagonist emerging back on the screen, even without the aid of psychedelic enhancement.
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Tough but fair, I am in here in multiple places 
starting at 1:11, in fact
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And now, for something completely different…
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OK, that gets a LIKE for being truly something completely different.
In case anyone is wondering, “Angine de Poitrine” mean “angina pectoris” (chest pain or discomfort that occurs when a part of your heart doesn’t get enough blood and oxygen). Once again, truly something completely different.
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What’s not to like here…
love the spotted sheet over the drums, the hats, great hats, counter black / white motif, excessive use of pedal board,
but
playing bass with a pick !
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In this case, it makes perfect sense. One, he switches between the guitar and the bass on his double-neck on the fly. What’s he going to do with the pick. Two, in any case, he uses HEAVY sound manipulation where transients matter.
As an aside, it’s my understanding that both the guitar and the bass are microtonal.
They’re pretty far out there, even by Québecois standards.
I never did LSD in my life. Is that how it feels like?
They certainly mastered the art of getting everyone’s undivided attention, while at the same time making sure no one will be able to recognise them on the street. 
Extra points for being able to play so well while wearing these costumes!
First of all - some wisdom of the well known and very respected US educational program South Park (that became even wiser in the current season…):
That said: I don’t know anything about drugs (…), but a friend of mine took LSD and said:
- Timothy Leary was right: set and setting is important!!! So: you must feel good and you must be in a setting that’s good (as in known & with friends you trust 100%).
- Be prepared for it to last a looong time, so take the day and the day after off. If everything goes well, it will feel like having travelled for thousands of years in thousands of spaces. It’s great fun … but of course you will have travelled for about 8 hours in reality (whatever that is)…
- Set & setting is important!
- Set & setting is important!
- Set & setting is important!
- It can change your life. He is an absolute atheist, but he saw God, hanging around at a corner of the ceiling. God’s name was Dennis and he looked exactly like a Jamaican friend of ours - ymmv, of course
- Set & setting is important!
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I wish I had experimented with LSD at least once when I was young. I wouldn’t do it now. It would have been much safer then. Nowadays any kind of drug could have something extremely more dangerous mixed in it.
A ‘friend of mine’ smoked pot a few times when young. 
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In my opinion it’s exactly the opposite.
It’s really not good to take drugs when you’re younger, any drug, and that includes nikotine and alcohol. Your brain develops until you’re about 25, and drugs have severe effects on the “reward” mechanisms, among other not so great effects.
When you’re older, you can cope much better with “drugs”, also cause of life experience. And you will likely not buy some sh#tty sh#t on the street, but you’ll get good quality tested stuff, like it’s possible in Holland, Switzerland and (I think) Portugal.
Also, you can make an informed choice with knowledge about effects and consequences - free from social peer pressure.
Again, I advise for anybody not to take drugs, especially nikotine, alcohol and all kinds of sh#tty sh#t that the pharma industry is happy to sell, cause of all kinds of invented psychological mumbo jumbo…
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