![]() ![]() Though The Simpsons have featured dozens upon dozens of great songs over its long run, very few of them qualify here. Image Credit: Alex Buono/© IFC Films/Everett Collection ‘Catalina Breeze,’ The Blue Jean Committee.“We set out to make a song you want to do spin class to,” Versteeg told Elle. ![]() But while the ridiculous earworm might have started as a joke, it quickly took on a life of its own, inspiring countless TikToks, gay club ragers, and even an authorized video. That Alexis had a brief, “critically reviewed” reality show called A Little Bit Alexis was a detail show creator Dan Levy came up with when he was sketching out the character, according to an exhaustive oral history of the song in Elle, the fact that its title track made it into the show’s fifth season was pure chance. Modeled off Britney Spears’ “Work Bitch” and “a bunch of Paris Hilton stuff,” Alexis Rose’s “A Little Bit Alexis” was written by Annie Murphy (who plays the broke heiress on the Canadian hit Schitt’s Creek) along with her real-life musician husband, Menno Versteeg, and his old bandmate Nick Boyd. (Otherwise, “Daydream Believer” would have been very highly ranked.) We also had a long debate about what to do with the Monkees, before it was decided that at a certain point, they Pinocchio’ed their way into being a real band, and thus didn’t qualify. We set out the following eligibility rules: 1) Original songs only, with apologies to the Blues Brothers, the Commitments, and other great fictional cover artists 2) No biopics or other films where musicians essentially play themselves (e.g., Prince in Purple Rain or Eminem in 8 Mile) and 3) It has to be some kind of genuine fictional music act, rather than someone just performing an original song in the context of a movie, show, or stage musical. It’s a strange but often hugely appealing musical subgenre, and this is our attempt to figure out which are the true best songs of the fake best songs. ![]() Today’s launch of Daisy Jones & The Six, Amazon’s 10-episode adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel about the rise and fall of a fictional Seventies rock band has us wondering where The Six lands in the long and sometimes distinguished history of fake bands and singers in film and television. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Rendered in UE4, used ZBrush, Maya, Photoshop, and Substance Painter. Particle Effects were modified from stock Epic assets and a modified store asset particle effect. I decided to just go for it and am really glad I did. I’ve been wanting to make a Shodan fan piece for years but wasn’t sure if I had the skill set to see it through. I wanted to try making something really different and kinda risky. Giger, and a little bit of Terry Gilliam.īig thanks to my friend, the amazingly talented, Csaba Molnar for helping me finalize my scene and giving me valuable feedback and critiques. ![]() Heaviest influences are the key art for System Shock 2, Zdzislaw Beksinski, H.R. Worked on it for the last 2 1/2 months in my free time. Based on the System Shock villain by the same name, this is my interpretation of what she’d look like if she had merged with the alien biomass from System Shock 2. After being taken over by the psychic influence of the Many on Tau Ceti V, Dr. They may be based on some of SHODANs earlier cyborg experiments on Citadel Station. They are the only cyborgs under the control of the Many other than reprogrammed Cyborg Assassins. Soldier proceeds there to reach the UNN Rickenbacker and stop the Many.Long time since I posted anything here so I thought I’d share something I’ve been working on in my free time. Cyborg Midwives are an enemy in System Shock 2. ![]() After soldier sends off the transmission and completes the objectives on the Operations Deck, XERXES is sufficiently powerless, allowing SHODAN to unlock the elevator to the Command Deck. At the Athletics he restores local power and reaches the transmitting device. While in the Quarters, he also finds a keycard giving him access to the Athletic Sector. Soldier discovers that the code is hidden within the contents of the Art Terminals scattered throughout the Recreation Deck in the Mall, Garden and the Crew Quarters. Unfortunately, the transmitter is powered down and needs a code to be activated. There, a transmission device has been set up by the members of the Resistance, including Enrique Cortez and Marie Delacroix. SHODAN informs soldier that to deprive XERXES of any further power, he will have to send a warning signal to Earth from the Athletic Sector. ![]() ![]() ![]() 14.1 Rebuttals of flat earth conspiracies.12 Reverse Flat Earth conspiracy theory.11.4 Gravity would pull a disk that big into a spherical shape!.11.2 Eratosthenes's shadows proved a round earth!.11.1 The shadow the Earth casts on the Moon is round!.11 Common counterarguments that do not refute flat earther claims.5.3 Questions that Flatheads can not answer intelligently.3.2.11 But NASA means "deceive" in Hebrew.3.2.9 How can a pressurized atmosphere exist next to a vacuum?.3.2.8 So why don't people on the Southern Hemisphere fall off?.3.2.7 So why is travel banned to Antarctica?.3.2.6 So how can water stick to a spinning ball?.3.2.4 So why did Neil DeGrasse Tyson say the earth was pear shaped?. ![]() 3.2.3 So why are there no REAL photos of the earth?.3.2.2 "X object" shouldn't be visible, yet it is!.3.1.7 But NASA's secret documents admit the Earth is flat and non-rotating!.3.1.6 But pilots use Flat Earth maps for navigation!.3.1.5 But the horizon is always at eye level!.3.1.4 But star trail photography proves that the earth doesn't move!.3.1.3 But Kansas is flatter than a pancake!. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lau, RichGains and Tony Seltzer, among others. It also includes production from Gibbs himself, credited as Freddie Kane, alongside Kenny Beats, Jones, A. The album features guest appearances from Gibbs' daughter Irie Jane Gibbs, alongside 03 Greedo and Cassie Jo Craig. It was released on June 22, 2018, through ESGN and Empire Distribution. The album is not as good in terms of production as 'Piñata' because it's not done by Madlib the legendary hip hop producer but a lot of the trap beats from the first half of the album really got me pumped.Freddie is the fourth studio album by American rapper Freddie Gibbs. ![]() One was the hook on 'Mexico' and that was actually a pretty good hook (future level) and the other was on 'Packages' which I didn't like so much because the guy on it just sounded like a bad future rip-off. Anyway back to the song I should be talking about **** Up the Count', it made me kind of worried when it was released as the first single because there was a bit of auto-tune at the end and I didn't know if the rest of the album would be heavily auto tuned but there was really only 2 bits on the album from what I can remember. **** Up the Count' has a great beat based off, I think, Nine Inch Nails' 'Right Where It Belongs' ending piano notes which makes me love it even more because NINE INCH NAILS and 'With Teeth' is one of my favourite albums of the 21st century so any samples of it are gonna be appealing to me. ![]() I'm not discrediting it but as a white middle class English male I find it completely unrelatable and that applies to a lot of hip hop releases, I'm only mentioning it here because I've seen more of an emphasise put on it by critics. ![]() His flow, in my opinion, is perfect on every single song here- that's probably the reason I could never dislike a Freddie Gibbs project- and he portrays a pretty good image of growing up in the hood with his lyrics but I've heard most of it before so it's not really the main reason I return to the album. Although it's not as good as I'd hoped I still like a good portion of it. This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.įavourite Songs: Narcos, **** Up the Count, Rearview, Careless, Forever and a Day Least Favourite Songs: Basketball Wives, Lately, Packages After the 'Pronto' EP came out in February I became extremely excited for this album by October I'd pretty much given up hope on hearing it before 2016 but thankfully he finished it and here it is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the passed 40 years I've had the very good fortune to chase snook in many places, spots that have long and storied reputations for producing giant snook in mind-boggling numbers. I've not seen that anywhere but in Southeast Florida. Literally every piling that broke tide flow harbored a healthy snook, or two, or more. Then I saw a swirl near another nearby piling, and several more and bigger fish were stationed there.Īs I looked around the pilings of the marina dock in early morning light, there were dozens and dozens of snook, and plenty in the 20-pound class. There are so many snook in southeast Florida now, that at dawn, while standing on a dock near a clear-water inlet waiting for a buddy, I looked down and saw a pair of 10-pound snook hanging in slack water behind a piling directly below my feet. But if you've ever wanted to catch (photo and release) a snook 20 pounds or more, now is the time to do it. To preserve vulnerable spawning snook, by law it's all catch-and-release fishing through August. Great fishing for snook can be had now from Sebastian Inlet to Miami, but Stuart is snook central, and it's incredible by any measure. Stuart currently is the epicenter of snook angling because the hard-striking, fast-running, high-leaping, line-sided gamefish are spawning in huge numbers in and near southeast Florida inlets. ![]() STUART | Drive four-hours south on I-95 to the coastal town of Stuart and anglers now can enjoy what is arguably the world's best fishing for one of the greatest light-tackle gamefish on the planet - the snook. ![]() ![]() It is frustrating because upon visiting their city, I saw clear signs that the player opened the game and then left permanently. Since I’m still in the Iron Age starting over again, I cannot attack players since most of them have not unlocked pvp yet. Why is pvp important? It’s helpful In getting resources faster and to expand the map giving you more stuff to do to expand your empire. Nowadays you have to research for a whole week just to unlock that feature. ![]() I used to have forge of empires awhile ago, and it really was fun back then due to pvp including everyone. 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However, in 2002 researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Nebraska, as part of the Beef Checkoff Program, devised an innovative way to trim the connective tissue resulting in a tender and juicy beef cut called the flat iron steak. For many years butchers considered it an unusable piece of meat therefore, it was used for ground beef. The area where flat iron steak is located has an abundance of connective tissue and sinew. ![]() It’s a newer cut and is also known as the oyster blade steak, butler’s steak, shoulder top blade steak, top blade steak, and top blade filet. In recent years flat iron steak has been growing in popularity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Middle Ages, it was a plain, undyed garment worn next to the skin and under regular garments. Although the women's chemise was a closely related garment to the men's, it is the men's garment that became the modern shirt. ![]() ![]() The shirt was an item of clothing that only men could wear as underwear, until the twentieth century. The small fringe formed during weaving along one edge of the cloth has been placed by the designer to decorate the neck opening and side seam." 3000 BC: "the shoulders and sleeves have been finely pleated to give form-fitting trimness while allowing the wearer room to move. The world's oldest preserved garment, discovered by Flinders Petrie, is a "highly sophisticated" linen shirt from a First Dynasty Egyptian tomb at Tarkan, dated to c. A shirt can also be worn with a necktie under the shirt collar. In British English, a shirt is more specifically a garment with a collar, sleeves with cuffs, and a full vertical opening with buttons or snaps (North Americans would call that a " dress shirt", a specific type of collared shirt). 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