Def Leppard's Adrenalize was a pastiche of sounds, from early 90's pop to early 80's hard rock. Eventually they got back to that Hysteria sound of power chords, guitar licks and what we've always called 'Wall of D' vocals. We give you White Lightening:
Oh, there we go. There it is. If you're a Def Leppard fan, you waited four songs for White Lightening. White Lightening is about Steve Clark's alcoholism and death. A trainlike bass drives the verse to a great bridge. There's an intense chorus followed by a long, multipart guitar solo. Whie Lightening goes right to the Def Leppard fan's brain. A perfect song for a serious subject.
As of this writing, The Great Nuclear War of 1975 has 30 ratings averaging 4 + stars. Here's the two latest reviews:
Which is nice. Which was the point. Heh, the retired air force guy didn't notice I used Air Force MPs rather than the proper SPs. High praise though. High praise for sure. The Great Nuclear War of 1975 works because it's bleak, as the other above reviewer says, bleak AF. The story gets even bleaker after the little Malvines submarine adventure, with people freezing, starving or beating each other to death. [Malvines! Why you cheeky....Ed]. Readers will notice we took the teen summer camp fantasy trope (which we kinda used in To Survive the Earth) and made it a nightmare.
Herein lies the risk for The Great Salvation of 1976. There's lots of cabinet meetings about problems we think are interesting, reconstruction, elections, etc etc. There's still plenty of vignettes but these are more hopeful. They feel kind of like the scene in Independence Day in which all the fighter pilots from various nations are gathered in the desert. Which was totally cool. We're almost done with the print readthrough. The ending feels a bit short. 68,000 words. We'll rap things up in April.
This blog has men on the ground all over Canada. Yellow Knife, Moose Jaw, White Horse, Cambridge Bay (Ok, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Quebec). One of them informed us that the communist NDP made a deal with the Libs for Justin to stay in power till 2025. Our man is skeptical the deal last that long, but still. You asked for Justin. You voted for Justin. Canada, you deserve Justin Trudeau.
What Will's Watching, Black Crab: This Guardian review is spot on, 'There’s a civil war on in Sweden, and yet no one seems to know why. It’s gonna be a bad one, as imagined by the sporadically tense and consistently pointless Netflix thriller Black Crab, which sends the country into a state of dystopian devastation only five short years removed from the present.' Black Crab must sound more menacing in the original Swedish. At times the cinematography is beautiful, but overall Black Crab does not reach the heights to which it aspires. 2/4
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