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"Ours" is about Gollum

RIP The One Ring of Power, forged in the fires of Mt. Doom by The Dark Lord. You'd have loved Blank Space by Taylor Swift.

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The Owl House, "Watching and Dreaming" (2023)

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SpongeBob would get into the salty spitoon real easily if he just

did some classic sponge stuff

Tear off an arm, eat a bowl of limbs, shave himself to the brain

Classic sponge antics

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It’s appreciate a dragon day!

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There's no point going to Mars. In the song 'Toto' by Africa it clearly states 'there's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do'

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I think if you put someone from 2005 onto a website from 2025 without the slow creep we've lived through, they'd think they had malware

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Sometimes I see people from countries with public healthcare systems post videos that are like “This is the reality of socialized medicine. I had to wait in the ER with my sick baby for 4 hours.” “I had to wait 8 months to see a specialist. That’s egregious.” or “They didn’t have a bed for my loved one in mental health treatment.” and it’s like. Come to America babygirl. You can experience all of this and have your insurance deny it and pay thousands and thousands of dollars for it. Like I know healthcare systems in countries with public health can be bad but when I see someone imply they’re bad because the healthcare is universal, I want to jump through the screen and put my elbow on their throat. “The NHS is deeply flawed, therefore we should abolish it and go back to private healthcare. That will definitely make healthcare in this country better!” I am going to Kill You.

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May I present, Lord Dunsany's Chess:

fucking adore this man

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The Great Young One.

Teenage Terror.

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BUDDY you're a BOY you're a BIG BIG BOY you're a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BOY you got mud on your face you BIG BIG BOY kicking your can all over the place singing WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee

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Trump in the next rally

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so I started a new anxiety medication this past week and so far it’s been going very well except that I have extremely vivid dreams and apparently sleep texting. I seem to have sent this at 3am and i have no memory of it

but i am Right

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Mouth Opera, Part 4 (Conclusion)

Mouth Moods

Act 1

Smash Mouth pursues them into the ‘Mouth Silence’ universe, but enters a titanic showdown with other planet-spanning songs (“The Starting Line”, “Floor Corn”). AC/DC shows up in a flying piano to transport Steve and Monica to safety (“AC/VC”). Steve knows they can’t defeat Smash Mouth without the power of mashups, but realizes from a TV commercial that the Mediaman is the only one left with copies of his songs (“300MB”). They use a simple mashup to cross space and time to his headquarters in the ‘Mouth Moods’ universe (“Revolution #5”, “Dear Dinosaur”).

In his headquarters, the Mediaman – an enormous cyborg-like being made from a combination of tv screens and human organs, speaking though the image of Larry King on one of the TVs – conducts an orchestra composed of his ‘friends’ and the various musicians he has brainwashed, now only able to communicate in annoyed grunts (“Annoyed Grunt”). Steve and Monica arrive just as he starts an interview with Ray Parker Jr. (“Bustin’”), designed to distract Steve with various ‘adult videos’ (“Blockbuster”). Monica gives up on Steve and leaves him again, now truly believing ‘all that glitters is gold’ (“Busta”). Steve tries to shape up and go after her, but the Mediaman uses special effects to transform him into a ‘furry’ (“Tiger”) and he falls into despair, believing their quest was in vain (“The End”).

Interlude: “Shady Interlude”

Act 2

Steve is now living out of a dark, sad room in a YMCA. The other tenants – dressed in black with funny hats – perform an interpretive dance around him (“T.I.M.E.”). After they leave, a masked burglar breaks in through the window and clubs him over the head with a chicken leg. While his life flashes before his eyes, he is rescued by Harrison Ford, who fights off the burglar – revealed now to be Santana (“Smooth”). Monica arrives as well, and Steve offers her an apology based on what he saw in his vision (“Stand by Meme”). It appears at first that she rejects him, and he turns around to play a sad song to clear his head. But when he feels her hand on his shoulder, the song picks up and they dance together (“Wallspin”). The scar on her head finally disappears.

Smash Mouth bursts onto the scene, holding a man in a space suit and a cowboy hat: Mr. Smith. Steve duels him with music and sound effects, allowing Monica to finally defeat him by imprisoning him in an oversized drawing pad (“Wow Wow”). Now convinced that art is the only way to defeat evil, Steve’s keytar begins to glow, and he is able to contain Smash Mouth with one final ‘smash-up’, absorbing it into himself with shining starlight (“Mouth Pressure”). Now an ‘All Star’ himself, Steve sets the other songs and musicians free. At last able to appreciate life a little more, he realizes what he really wanted. Disillusioned with corporate media, he declares that ‘if life is going to be shit, I might as well doo-doo my way.’ Steve and Monica make up, and return home using the power of mashups while the rest of the cast, now freed from the Mediaman’s power, returns to the stage to complete the closing song (“Shit”).

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Mouth Opera (part 3)

Mouth Sounds

Act 1

Smash Mouth, in abstract form, descends through a hole in the moon (“Promenade (Satellite Pictures at an Exhibition)”). On May 4, 1999, at a ‘Modest Mouse’ concert, the singer is the first to be absorbed by Smash Mouth (“Modest Mouth”). Meanwhile, David Byrne assembles a secret council – which includes Austin Powers, Homer Simpson, Fred Newman, Dave Matthews, and Sir Mix-a-Lot, among others – in response to the arrival of Smash Mouth into this reality (“D’oh”). But the council is interrupted by Mr. Smith, an agent of the Mediaman, who brainwashes the musicians with his neuralyzer (“Vivid Memories Turn to Fantasies”).

Steve goes to meet his ex-girlfriend – let’s call her ‘Monica’ – at a club where Michael Jackson and Nirvana are playing (“Bills Like Jean Spirit”). Portrayed by the same actor as Alanis Morisette from Mouth Dreams, she is identified by a tattoo shaped like a ‘third eye’, scratched out by an L-shaped scar. She explains the Mediaman’s goal of taking control of all music through the domination of a single song, and the audience hears of why she and Steve broke up, this time from her point of view (“Full Mouth”, “Alanis”)

The two of them are approached by Paul McCartney and the other survivors of Mr. Smith’s attack, who explain that Smash Mouth seeks to absorb every song in the world (“Imagine All Star People”). Paul shows them how The Black Eyed Peas were brainwashed into thinking they are bees (“Imma Let It Be”). But one of the surviving musicians turns out to be a traitor, hiding Smash Mouth, who absorbs the remaining songs like a musical tornado (“Daft Mouth”). Tay Zonday is injured in the battle, and gives his dying words as Harrison Ford looks on (“Like Tears in Chocolate Rain”). All the songs on Steve’s synthesizer – as well as his credit cards – have been totally corrupted by the music-storm, except one. He uses what remains of this song to fight back Smash Mouth with the power of love, imprisoning it under an elaborate ice sculpture (“No Credit Card”).

Interlude: “Bega Interlude”

Act 2

A very rough-sounding Santana enters, melting the ice and allowing Smash Mouth to rise again (“Melt Everyone”). Smash Mouth rapidly expands in all directions, with Steve and Monica unable to stand against it (“The Sharpest Tool”). Steve realizes that the only way to escape is though the hole in the moon. They hear about a space-ship that the Mediaman has been keeping in Silver City, New Mexico, and race against time to get there (“Mullet With Butterfly Wings”). Commandeering the ship, they sail away to the moon, as Smash Mouth engulfs the world below them like a fire (“Smooth Flow”).

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Mouth Opera (Part 2)

Mouth Dreams

Act 1

Steve enters the ‘Mouth Dreams’ dimension (“Yahoo”, “Mouth Dreams (Intro)”). He dreams of Queen performing the SpongeBob theme song (“Spongerock”) and the place where Johnny Cash is imprisoned for being the gun that shot SpongeBob full of holes (“Just a Baby”).

The sage David Byrne warns Steve not to seek Smash Mouth because it would drive him mad (“Superkiller”). Unable to be discouraged, Steve is informed that those who found Smash Mouth never returned – they are known as ‘the Backstreet Boys.’ Following their path, he will surely find Smash Mouth. Steve sets out on his quest (“Get Happy”). The road leads to a Chili’s, where Marilyn Manson is speaking out against the Mediaman; in retaliation, the media-friends capture him and barbecue his ribs (“Ribs”). Steve is also captured, and is to be taken to ‘baby prison’. Steve’s fear almost causes him to wake up (“My Mouth”), but then he remembers his girlfriend, and triumphantly decides he’d rather stay asleep (“Aerolong”). Using his mashup power, he escapes the prison train and continues along the backstreets (“Sleepin’”), stopping at an Italian restaurant to celebrate (“Aammoorree”). Recovering from his hangover, Steve remembers going to Stacy’s house to try to hit on her mom, before falling into a dark unconscious (“Where is my Mom”). Then – in a musical aside – he reveals why he broke up with his girlfriend, which, in true dream-logic, leads to an Ewok rave (“Fredhammer”, “Limp Wicket”).

Interlude: “Cannibals”

Act 2

An unseen voice introduces the next act, as characters who will probably not appear in the story walk on stage (“The Outsiders”).

Johnny Cash crosses paths with Steve again, warning him that the world is gonna roll him – ‘Rick-Roll’ that is... (“Johnny”). Steve walks through a nighttime field full of fireflies, which depart as he continues up the mountain path (“Closerflies”). Suddenly he is grabbed by demons – who are shaped like Digimon – and taken to the underworld where he meets Evil Billy Joel (“Nightmovin’”), and is then dropped into a cartoonish factory, where he must fight against his rivals in love, such as SpongeBob, and Wario (“Whitehouse”, “Wah”). He is defeated, and forced to retreat through the windmill-powered Rube-Goldberg contraption while Wario, De La Soul, and PeeWee Herman laugh at him from a movie screen (“Pee Wee Inc”). Finally escaping Alanis Morisettepulls up in a car – which turns out to be KITT – and offers to help him escape. He asks her to bring him to Smash Mouth. Steve realizes she is not what she appears as the car begins to fly through space, and he jumps out into the rain before they crash (“10,000 Spoons”). Falling through the void, suddenly the clouds part and the choir of the Backstreet Boys is heard, but too late does Steve see the true face of Shrek. Luckily, he is waked by an angelic Serj Tankian before he can be devoured (“Mouth Dreams (Extro)”).

Steve wakes  up in his living room again, the sky outside is Shrek-green as Smash Mouth enters the universe. He cries out to his ex, lamenting his foolishness, only to realize, hard as it is to believe, that his father – the Mediaman – had manipulated him into awakening Shrek (“Britthoven”, “Ain’t”).

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Mouth Opera (Part 1)

A few years ago, I came up with the idea to interpret the story told by the "Mouth" albums, based on something a friend said to me. I've decided it's about time I shared it with the world. Enjoy.

(For reference:)

Act 1

It is late afternoon, May 3, 1999. Our protagonist – let’s call him ‘Steve’ – is bored with life and wants something else, though he isn’t quite sure what (“Goodbye”). While playing with a keytar/synthesizer in his living room, he creates a portal into another universe, which he can control using the power of mashups (“Rollercloser”). He soon learns of a powerful business magnate called The Mediaman, who uses his television empire to spread his propaganda (“Furries”). Steve is approached by a group of people who refer to themselves as the Mediaman’s ‘Friends,’ and they flatter him into signing a record deal (“Friends”, “Best”). But after seeing the Mediaman’s televised condemnations of Pokémon (“Pokémon”) Steve has a flashback to talking about Pokémon with his girlfriend – when he was working on a mashup of all 17 Pokémon theme songs. He remembers his father’s final words to him about love, despite the media-friends trying to distract him (“Sexual Lion King”). At his concert, Steve denounces the Mediaman by performing “Crocodile Chop” with help from Serj Tankian and a host of Pokémon-shaped angels.

Interlude: “Transmission”

Act 2

Having received a coded message from an unknown source after the concert, Steve decides to visit an eccentric professor to help him decode it. He gets a ride from some teens on their way to the ‘Love Shack’ which is on the way (“Love Psych”). Steve escapes being murdered at the abandoned shack, and drives to the lab, only to find that the professor has been arrested. His son Kate shows Steve a machine that can be used to view parallel universes (“Orgonon Gurlz”).

Steve takes a train back to the city, where Bruce Springsteen entertains as a vaudeville performer (“Born to Cat”). He ponders the meaning of the message, trying to decide whether to pursue it, or simply return to his own life (“What Is It?”, “It’s”). But then the meaning is suddenly revealed: a being of dreams that walks on the sun and can make all stars fall from the sky (“Close to the Sun”). Steve starts making calls on his touch-tone telephone following the clues, asking everyone he meets for help in understanding the path to this ancient being (“Numbers”). He eventually discovers in an apocalyptic prophecy that the being is guarded by Billy Joel to prevent it from making the world on fire (“Space Monkey Mafia”). Quietly, Steve tries to think back to his old life, and his girlfriend, imagining what he’d say to her, but he literally can’t find the words (“Wndrwll”). His train of thought interrupted, Steve suddenly decides to pursue the mysterious message, and uses a bunch of drugs, alcohol, and mashups to induce sleep and enter into the “Mouth Dreams” universe, to seek the power of Smash Mouth (“Piss”).