And then the United States dropped these big bunker buster bombs. They flew these B-2 um airplanes in, dropped these bombs, smashing up the site.Yep. And then it felt like it was over. And then we the United States went into negotiations with Iran to try and get
I mean, later you would go on to talk about Nirvana, and Green Day, and Ani DiFranco, and a lot of other artists. But Smashing Pumpkins was the first. What kind of drew you specifically to their music?
And sort of, like, culturally, at school, kids would be into something and I would be into it. But Smashing Pumpkins sort of felt like I actually had my brain rearranged. It was actually a boy at school who had given me a copy-- well, given Tegan and I a copy of "Siamese Dream."
Lord Byron's only speech in the House of Lords was defending the followers of Ned Ludd, the person who was smashing the mechanical looms in England, because he thought they were putting people out of work. But Ada loved the looms, and the beauty of connecting the technology and humanities together.
particles. Why do we build atom smashers outside Chicago, outside Geneva? huge gigantic atom smashers smashing atoms apart. Why? Because then from the debris we begin to figure out these vibrations are particles.
And violence and vandalism breaks out all over the country. And the idea is-- smashing windows, yes. They stood there and waited to be arrested because that would mean they went straight to the police station.
What do you do on Saturday mornings when you don't feel like you need to be doing anything else? What does smashing success looks like a year from now?
They didn't talk as they drove down 2222 and merged onto the highway bearing south. One of Tabitha's Smashing Pumpkins CDs was blaring quietly. Tabitha tossed her filter out the window, licked her lips, and then looked over at Julie.
daughters angered Thor by urinating in the river while he was trying to walk through it, so he killed her by flinging a rock through her head. Then two more giantesses tried to crush him by smashing him repeatedly against the ceiling of their stone cottage, but he got both hands on the ceiling, pushed down, and snapped both their backs with one might shove. Then Geirrod himself showed up and started taunting the already-berserk Norse god, so Thor grabbed a piece of molten hot iron out of the fireplace and threw it so
oranges and lemons. It uses rum. Typically, it's some sort of citrus zest with rum or brandy in with some sweet milk or cream. It's really good, right? Mr. Countryhouse takes a milk punch. He's smashing things around there.
I think that the plywood was put there to provide some absorption of the impact of my body. The interrogators realized that smashing me against the hard wall would probably quickly result in physical injury." That plywood I've thought a lot about and one can say a couple of things about it. One is that the problem of torture is -- how do you inflict enough pain while keeping the person who's being interrogated healthy enough to be interrogated?
normal kind of non-permanent ways of making yourself look better. Or you can be a hard maxer, somebody who like gets plastic surgery or engages in bone smashing , which is the term uh for what you're talking about. Um basically hitting yourself in the face in order to ostensibly create micro
I think you may have. Because literally my next question is about Smashing Pumpkins. Oh. Yes, 100%. Because one thing I was clocking as I was reading your book-- and I don't know if other people felt this way--
I'm the worst fan. But I had to listened to Smashing Pumpkins in a long time. And writing the book really-- I don't know, it did something for me.
You've made me want to go back and listen. I haven't listened to Smashing Pumpkins for a while. The good news is they've remastered all their albums.
This saves your knife. It's also good for smashing garlic, chopping dough, all that stuff. So if you want a scoop that up right into the hot oil.
So if this new X particle interacts with protons or with neutrons or quarks or neutrinos or whatever, strongly enough to affect your everyday life, then we could make it by smashing together the particles out of which we are created. And the punchline is we have looked.
and some dumb thing about I think sports players getting scared by their own mascot. I could see the water smashing out the baby blue louvers.
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, and pull me up out of this smashing and screaming, and take me home.
monsters kind of falling down and smashing things and eating garbage out of the garbage can.
You don't see the choir members smashing into the trams.
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And you just see this smashing together. And you can go to a place then, a couple of weeks later, there's a fairly, large-size massacre.
So, you say they go to insane means to max their looks. Um I have read that one of those means is smashing their faces with a hammer in order to improve jawline. Um is that a thing that people are actually doing or
but you kind of gave a little bit of blueprints to kind of, like, make a mix tape as to what kind of informed the Tegan and Sara high school experience. And Smashing Pumpkins actually-- I'm sure you know this-- was the first specific than that you mentioned by name in the book. I mean, later you would go on to talk about Nirvana, and Green Day, and Ani DiFranco, and a lot of other artists.
But they put all these deluxes out. And it's been really fun to get back into Smashing Pumpkins. It's kind of like when you watch those movies, those fictionalized movies about people who go back to high school and re-fall
in love with their high school sweetheart. I feel like I re-fell in love with Smashing Pumpkins over the last couple of years. I'm back in deep.
So when you see your kid holding a doll tightly or smashing a truck, you can theorize about what
So the challenge for us in this age-- not in smashing technology, not in controlling it, not necessarily in breaking up Google or Facebook or Amazon--
need to go pretty quickly so this Wiki was a smashing
It's associated with destruction and revolt and smashing and burning.
Another was caused by a giant ball from space smashing into Mexico.
But blue mussels are amazing in that their glue needs the fortitude to withstand the smashing of waves and baking hot dry spells, all in a day's time.
I wanted to, like, just and breathe it. And I became so-- I mean, Tegan loved Smashing Pumpkins as well. But I remember it was the first time in my life that I became devout about something.
It was like a cross between Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots and Smashing Pumpkins and stuff like that, and then stuff that I didn't really like.
sentences, and then I would be smashing onto the button.
And so you're not cutting the cells of the-- you're not smashing the cells of the vegetable, it's just cutting down.
Once again, the theme for this conversation is smashing the glass ceiling.
First, kind of looks like smashing , but touching rice.
I don't know. I mean I think smashing people who seemingly don't seem like they should be friends are put together in one place.
trying to seize control of Iceland and was eventually killed by five Vikings while cowering in his wine cellar. Ok, so here is Thor, I am going to do this reading. Thor was the head smashing Norse god of lighting, thunder, storms, being awesome and killing giants by hitting them in the face with an enormous magical hammer. The son of the god Odin and the goddess Fjorgyn. Thor was the defender of the Heavenly land of Asgard. The toughest warrior among the gods; an original avenger; best friends
And um oh like you don't know you've had a ton of goombbe smashing some drink in the mouth.
or whoever, to say, hey, do you have three minutes to listen to this song I've been working on is very different than saying, would you mind reading through, unedited, like 5,800 words about my feelings about 1996 and the first time I heard Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight, Tonight"? I just think there is just something more exciting about playing a song for someone.
And with what drew you to them, do you incorporate any of that stuff in your own music? Well, I mean, Smashing Pumpkins, it was easy. I didn't have to think about it.
Like Tegan and I had a subscription to Spin Magazine and Rolling Stone. And the decided-upon rule was, if anything was mentioned about Smashing Pumpkins, I was able to cut it out and put it on the wall in my room.
And so it was really fun to write about. And actually, I hadn't listened to a lot of Smashing Pumpkins-- I'm a piece of shit. I mean, sorry, I don't know if I'm allowed to swear.
You just literally have to put pen to paper, and just start smashing on the keyboard, and let those ideas come out.
Memory I can place chronologically directly before that, one of my mom smashing a whiskey bottle over his head to stop his violent advances.
And unfortunately, a lot of workplaces, leaders are unwittingly smashing hope.
I remember, as a kid, smashing rocks together, and seeing them break into smaller rocks, and wondering how long can you do this for?