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Ozzy Osbourne - “Crazy Train” (Live; After Hours; 1981)
Fucking Randy Rhoads. What’s left to say?
Jesus.
[per Roderick on the Line #62]
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rotl:
Black Sabbath - “Never Say Die” (Live; 1978)
Cf. Sloan’s “Iggy and Angus“—a loving tribute to Patrick Pentland’s formative bands.
A propos of nothing, easily one of the best live Ozzy performance I’ve ever seen.
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rotl:
Battlefield Britain - “The Battle of Hastings” (s01e02; BBC; 2004)
Pop some corn, and hoist your Pope Flag.
Because, le merde is ON!
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In case you’d ever wondered about the time John’s pillows turned into owls, here’s an excerpt from the March 27, 2012 episode of Roderick on the Line, Ep. 26: “Go Practice the Car”.
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John Roderick on String Art Owls, Copper Pipe, and Bono’s Boss on Vimeo (The Merlin Show; Prod. Ben Durbin; 2007)
People ask about the exact origin of Roderick on the Line.
But, while the whole story of how John first ended up sleeping at our house one night in 2002 has never been told in the exhaustive detail it deserves, I can tell you that this 5-year-old video captures the first time I officially interviewed John as an actual thing.
I like it a lot, and the unintentional genesis of Roderick on the Line is clearly in there.
Alongside John’s 2011 interview for Back to Work, you’ll definitely get the feel for why we thought chatting each week might be a useful way for John to help many, many people.
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I have a pair of cream colored calfskin gloves waiting to slap anyone across the face who calls themselves a Civil War buff.
RotL Ep. 60: “Writ in His Boots” (via roderickin)
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A Lovely Holiday Message from the Dominican Brother With Whom John Argues On Twitter
rotl:
@johnroderick @hotdogsladies Merry Christmas guys!
— Br Gabriel Mosher OP (@lukei4655) December 26, 2012Can’t wait to hang with Br. Gabe.
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Irish Breakfast
Mixed grill. The bitch is back.
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FINISHED!
Keep a small bag packed on Flickr.
I hope that when Supertrain gets here, I will be worthy. And I hope to Christ I’ll have everything I need.
This is going to help a LOT of people. Glorious!
Thank you, Bee-Dawg.
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rotl:
Wow. Fancy shootin’, courtesy of the portable victoria
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rotl:
Always wondered exactly how similar the openings to @roderickon were, so I combined the first 20 into one track soundcloud.com/staticoceans/h…
— Benedict Fritz (@benedictfritz) November 13, 2012This is very important material. THANK YOU, Benedict.
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rotl:
Roderick on the Line, Ep. 55: “A Welsh Troll” on Huffduffer
The Problem: Life with a German disease.
For the one hundred and thirty six (136) constituents of Generation: Supertrain™ who follow this modest web (sub-)property, maybe let’s just call this…the dead drop.
Being your artisanal, sneak-peek preview of the upcoming episode of John’s Help. Which help officially goes live tomorrow/Thursday in the early morning hours.
And, as for this one? Well. This one…is…a good one. It’s one of those episodes. And, we really hope you’ll enjoy it.
Please consider that you can help John help even more people through a variety of little missions:
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“Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don’t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don’t worry about the numbers.”
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Merlin Mann // Taken from Episode #91 of Back To Work (1:07:00-1:07:24)
I am consistently floored at Merlin’s ability to take some aspect of our collective existence that often completely escapes the majority of us and then turn it into something absolutely profound that all at once inspires me and nearly moves me to tears.
Wow.
Thanks for the amazing compliment, PF. What a wonderful thing to say.
And, yes: I am totally quoting myself on my own site. Because I think the head-shaking thoughts contained in that paragraph maybe four times every day, and, frankly, I am very unlikely to ever put it any better than that.
