William (Jack) Welch, a pioneering astronomer whose visionary work in radio astronomy helped advance the search for extraterrestrial technology, passed away this week at 90. Welch, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, played a pivotal role in designing and developing the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array, significantly advancing our understanding of the universe. Welch was married to SETI Institute co-founder Jill Tarter. https://www.seti.org/astronomer-william-jack-welch-dies
HOW did I not know about Memoriam, the Bolt Thrower singer's new thing? They have 3 albums (edit: there are 3 on Bandcamp, they have 5 full lengths total), and all of them are 🔥
"I knowed his ma. They was good folks. He was full a hell, sure, like a good boy oughta be…He done a bad thing an’ they hurt ‘im, caught ‘im an’ hurt him so he was mad, an’ the nex’ bad thing he done was mad, an’ they hurt ‘im again. An’ purty soon he was mean-mad."
- J.S.,who really just wanted to be a fucking marine biologist, as evidenced in his conributions to Between the Pacific Tides, by his friend Ed Ricketts, yet much to his chagrin was relegated to authorship in depression era grit fiction, notable for his brutally honest naturalism, social commentary on extreme hardship, heartache, and subsequently immortalized in pen and celluloid.
Now you fucking know, bitches.
#tallship#lit#history#memoriam and #heroes, both celebrated and vilified; yet still one of my all time great inspirations as an artist. But just who was it he invoked that was so injuriously transfigured?
Can you haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔 Can you? I doubt it. lemme know :p
Today’s category for @HailsandAles' 2023 #MetalheadClubAwards is Discovery of the year: A band that released music in 2023 that you had never listened to before?
Erm... it feels like 90% of bands I listened to this year fit into that category.
So I'll crank it up an choose from bands I never even heard of before.