Author: gangstercomputer
The Night Thread is So Hard Done By
Interesting and sophisticated Refusing to be celebrated It’s a monumental big screen kiss It’s so deep it’s meaningless Continue reading The Night Thread is So Hard Done By
The Night Thread Gets Into Vandal Moon
Synthpop band from south of the border. My Pen! listened to these guys a LOT while receptioning in Germany. An evening hostel playlist mainstay. Howl with me, friends, at the behest of the vandal moon. Continue reading The Night Thread Gets Into Vandal Moon
It’s Been One Week Since the Night Thread
This one’s dedicated to you, Night Thread
The Day Thread Reintroduces… Pleasure Goat
The Day Thread Cuts the Big Bean
Fleshy, moist, and yielding. Continue reading The Day Thread Cuts the Big Bean
The Day Thread Steals Time
It’s ‘big papa’ Pen!’s Friday today, and he plans to slack as much as possible at work, of life in the system of brutal capitalism containing us all the sad necessity. So regale us, everyone, and share! Spin me the … Continue reading The Day Thread Steals Time
The Day Thread is this Baffled Dog
The Day Thread Enjoys Eggs
Eggs are good. So say we all. Continue reading The Day Thread Enjoys Eggs
The Day Thread of the Maidstone Brawl
Rip Torn vs. Norman Mailer. There can be only one. Continue reading The Day Thread of the Maidstone Brawl
The Night Thread Fixes My Heart
Heartbreak is hard. When we are with our loved one, our heart is fixed. It is fixed in one place, and it is fixed, availed of its formerly sad, broken, single state. Loneliness. When a breakup occurs, a heart is … Continue reading The Night Thread Fixes My Heart
The Night Thread Listens to 00s West Coast Canadian Rock
Allegedly, Zach Gray isn’t, of the material off The Zolas’ first record, especially fond. But there’s good stuff on there. Catchy choruses aplenty, melodies for days. The band ditched the extremely piano-heavy sound on subsequent records, which isn’t to say … Continue reading The Night Thread Listens to 00s West Coast Canadian Rock
The Night Threads learns… the Lovercall
Canadian rocker Danko Jones doesn’t presume to be better than you. Canadian Danko Jones does not presume to have all the right pickup lines, the flashiest clothing, or even to show up on time for a date. But he’ll tell … Continue reading The Night Threads learns… the Lovercall
The Night Thread… understands.
The WHOWHOOZ are a local Dresden band My Pen! has a second-hand connection to. The song “Understand” is about a man who desires to communicate to his lover that it is over, and implores her to understand that fact, hence … Continue reading The Night Thread… understands.
The Day Thread Has Been Living All Its Life in a Dark Sky Sanctuary
Freeways are a Canadian band playing what accounts to NWOBHM cut with April Wine. My Pen! saw them in Dresden a few months ago and met the lead singer and songwriter, Jakob, an incredibly nice dude, before the show. I’d … Continue reading The Day Thread Has Been Living All Its Life in a Dark Sky Sanctuary
The Night Thread Feels Like Makin’
The Night Thread is Bright and Poisonous
From 2024’s self-titled record. Enjoy Vancouver’s own Wormwitch. Continue reading The Night Thread is Bright and Poisonous
Playing Through Baldur’s Gate, A My Pen! Adventure (Part Five)
Chapter 7: Endgame We were wanted, now. Fugitives of the Flaming Fist. But our quest, our finality, took us back to Baldur’s Gate, and the heart of the very group hunting us. Sneaking across the great bridge in the pre-dawn, … Continue reading Playing Through Baldur’s Gate, A My Pen! Adventure (Part Five)
Playing Through Baldur’s Gate, A My Pen! Adventure (Part Four)
Chapter 5: Baldur’s Gate; A Thickening Plot I have never felt so uncomfortable as I do in Baldur’s Gate. The walled city seems to close around me, drawing, for each step, tighter. My elvish blood, or so much time spent … Continue reading Playing Through Baldur’s Gate, A My Pen! Adventure (Part Four)
Playing Through Baldur’s Gate, a My Pen! Adventure (Part Three)
We travel Northward, to Beregost, in search of Tranzig. In battle, my companions have proven themselves time and again, but I find myself most appreciative, of the things to appreciate, of their candor beyond the ring of steel and spray … Continue reading Playing Through Baldur’s Gate, a My Pen! Adventure (Part Three)