Music of the World (Warriors)

U.S.S.R./Zangief Theme icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track from Street Fighter II icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 by Yoko Shimomura icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 and Capcom icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Super Street Fighter II promotional artwork. [Formatted]

Japan/Ryu Theme icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track from Street Fighter II icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 by Yoko Shimomura icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )
U.S.A./Balrog Theme icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track from Street Fighter II icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 by Yoko Shimomura icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Who? What? When? Where? Why? (and Sometimes “How?”)

If you ever want to have good, clean fun with the enthusiastic pot-smoker(s) in your life, sneak away his smartphone when he is off taking a massive bong rip and set the alarm to 4:20am. Sort of like this:

Cell phone screenshot displaying the alarm app set to ring Monday morning at 04:20. [Formatted]

Odds are good he won’t notice you made this change and will be jolted out of bed on Monday morning well before the sun rises.

Also, I would have liked to configure a pop-up message that appears as the alarm is going off that says “Wake up!!! It’s 4:20am Monday morning, dude! The early bird gets the worm! The party starts with you! Time to smoke some green!!!!” Unfortunately, this particular app doesn’t have that feature implemented yet (but I filed a suggestion with the developers).

On a related note, isn’t it funny how the only thing pot-smokers never forget to do is smoke more pot? The rest of us just have to struggle to remember as many things as we possibly can, and dart in increasingly-random mental directions as we attempt to hold on to important memories and life details that are in the process of being further displaced, lost, or forgotten.

(NOTE: This post was written after drinking 3ea Obsidian Stout beers, produced by Deschutes Brewery icon-external-link-12x12 in the US state of Proper Oregon.)

I Don’t Know If I’ll Be a Star, but I’m Going to Play Guitar

We Can Get Wild icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 05 from the Kill to Get Crimson LP by Mark Knopfler icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Mark Knopfler "Kill to Get Crimson" album cover. [Formatted]

We’re old enough for leaving home
The old Joanna and the old trombone
It’s all going on
I’m growing my sideboards long
You and me can be who we want to be
Listen now, right here
It’s going to be a beautiful year

Calling it a teenage scene and I have a dream
Don’t know if I’ll be a star, but I’m going to play guitar
I’ve seen this rocking cat, I wanna be just like that
Listen now, right here
It’s going to be a beautiful year

Look at you baby
Tell your daddy you’re no child
Look at you baby
We can get wild

We’ll be on our own
Billy Fury on a gramophone
Take you to the pictures and a dance in my drainpipe pants
Check the mirror and the old DA and you can play in a day
Listen now, right here
It’s going to be a beautiful year

Look at you baby
Tell your daddy you’re no child
Look at you baby
We can get wild

Be Forewarned, Dear

I Don’t Mind the Pain icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 10 from the Danzig 4 LP by Danzig icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

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Remember to call my name, I adore it
If you speak my name, I implore it
If with all these things we invoke here, call you out our name—but be forewarned, dear

I don’t mind the pain

We hear you call our name, we adore it
Hear you all these things that we invoke here
If you call our name, rest assured, dear
See you all these things, but be forewarned, dear

I don’t mind the pain

I stay so arcane in the shadows of your brain
Will I come to you again?
Remember that I don’t mind the pain

Hear you call our name, can you afford it?
Wracked with all these things and beyond hope, dear
Remember to call our name and we assure you
Trip with all these things that we invoke here

I don’t mind the pain

And I stay so arcane in the shadows of your brain
Will I come to you again?
Remember that I don’t mind the pain