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Monster Engine
Music Painter
Go paint some music. You won’t regret it.
Milkshakes
I just invented my own Magic 8-Ball. All it says is no.
Space Grooves
You recognize this song, of course, from the twentieth Buck Rogers episode, Space Rockers, but its crunchy grooves are worth yet another replay.
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
Arthur C. Clarke
Here’s a pitch for a sequel to The Big Lebowski: The Little Lebowski, which follows the love-child of Maude and The Dude. I’d watch that, and I’d be dressed as a nihilist at the cinema.
Eleven
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marti DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marti DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marti DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marti DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marti DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
