194. How Good It Was, To Have A Toe

Lords: * Danny * Danny Topics: * Most Song Lyrics are redundant * Perfect fourths and fifths are named wrong * It's almost summer and that means it's time for Mark Salud's "Forever in Summer" * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_K5DHZlfg * Who wants to do a smutty poem?? We haven't done one of those * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47339/upon-julias-clothes * Oh yes * Celebrity Deaths are getting out of control * ZZT has achievements now Microtopics: * Which Danny should go first. * The Noclip Archive. * Night Brunch. * Plugging before demonstrating your plugworthiness. * Whatever happened to MySpace. * The gnarliest weirdest thing you can get away with. * Stop making weird things! * Feeling passionately about individual words without considering their actual message. * Writing lyrics by stringing together abstract vowel sounds and then filling in the rest of the word later. * The native language of rock and roll. * Prisencolinensinainciusol. * Irish rap. * All the ways music is redundant. * A very inefficient way to communicate factual information. * The Mentos jingle. * Spoonman: a famous guy who played the spoons. * Music's ability to convey ideas that shouldn't be conveyed. * Teaching kids to love it. * What's perfect about a perfect fifth. * Music theory homework that calls it a "perfect unison." * Lydian to Locrian. * An extremely popular nostalgic songwriting device. * Trying to bring up topics out in the wild. * Even majorer then major. * What it means to be far from A. * A thing that happened on Public Access TV in San Diego. * Keyjazzing. * Weirdos making weirdo outsider art. * The tradition of using an Amiga 500 as a musical instrument. * Watching a musical performance by looking at the back of the performer's head. * Something to watch. * Economy of movement. * Playing drums so as to take up the most possible space. * The kind of singing that the Rock Band scoring system encourages. * Pre-singing the note so you're getting points as soon as the note starts. * Smutty poetry. * Whether singer songwriters have parentheses. * The Diamond Fleece. * Whether liquefaction is a Bay Area word. * Brave Vibrations. * What people thought was sexy in the 1600s. * Talking about a topic because people can hear you. * The 80s-90s thing of saying "as if" * America's Whitest City. * A phrase that Zoomers use to mean that they don't believe what they just said. * Investigating the Cool S for ten years. * Finding the Cool S in ancient Sumeria. * People in Latvia who don't know who Marilyn Manson is but they know he had a rib surgically removed. * The first celebrity. * Increasing numbers of celebrities. * Industrialized celebrity. * Adopting a future grief machine. * Practicing grief. * Several generations of digital fish. * Trugoy the Dove. * Disembodied consciousnesses living on a Dyson Sphere simulating Tina Turner's music. * Downsides of everyone living forever. * This is a mistake. (Here I go.) * Pre-dead. * Questions that will not be answered on this show because they are not topics. * Fish swimming in the background of someone's Zoom call. * What a time to not want to be alive! * Doing squats so you can get out of a chair. * Maximizing broken limbs while minimizing brain trauma. * Renaming Potomac Computer Systems to Epic Megagames. * ZZT: an Epic Game Store exclusive. * Caverns of Kroz. * An Amiga platformer sponsored by Chupa-Chups. * Retro Achievements. * Modding emulators to add achievements to old games. * Adding achievements to the Fairchild Channel F. * Achievements as a ludological device. * Assigning a point value to all the things your lizard brain needs an extra incentive for. * Citizen Game. * A game design trope that can be deployed with taste or not.