Nurture And Support

“I try to save myself, but myself keeps slipping away” Tangent Tally: 2.5 This week Mike and I discuss the sprawling, 23 song long Nine Inch Nails album, “The Fragile”.  As is our wont, we get right to business with Mike saying “Let’s jump right into this.” at around the 11 minute mark of the podcast.   Want to subscribe to the Nurture and Support podcast, which is also home to the Squat Cobbler podcast?? Our feed – http://nurtureandsupport.net/feed/podcast, iTunes – Nurture and Support, Stitcher, Google Play and Kelly’s YouTube Channel.   Thanks for listening!  Kelly (@kellythul) and Mike (@officialpagan)

This week Mike and Kelly discuss the bonus items often offered with pre-orders, meet and greets, and their experiences with them. Speaking of this, here is the pre-order link for the New Beasto Blanco album “We Are”! As promised, Kelly’s cool pic from the meet and greet with Beasto Blanco…

“Vocabulary seems to be the opiate of the people” This week we review Tonio K.’s EP “La Bomba”.  Five songs of wonderment.  As with the previous review of the Dwarves album, we visit the Book of Proverbs

“Everybody needs an antibody” So…. This week Mike and Kelly review the Dwarves album “Blood Guts & _____”. This was a really fun review, but there is a HEAVY dose of strong language in this episode, so wanted to give you a heads up. Enjoy?

We’re back this week with some old standbys: making stuff and watching documentaries. Come join in!   Mel’s Rec: Crafting Classes: Curious Mondo A really cool website that offers online classes for lots of different professional level craft making endeavors. Polymer clay ooak doll sculpting, jewelry making, a super cool puppet making class     Kelly’s Rec: Documentary: Finding Vivian Maier A very interesting look at the found art of Vivian Maier Check out her photos here     Social Media Corner: Kelly: Odin Makes on YouTube: cool cosplay stuff!     Want to subscribe to the Nurture and Support podcast?? … Continue reading →

TANGENT TALLY: 5 This week Mark and Kerry eventually discuss Klaatu…

“Don’t ya’ know it is wrong to cheat the tryin’ man?” TANGENT TALLY: 2 This week we review “London Calling” by the Clash.  Spoiler… this is a BRILLIANT album. Here is the… ummmm… interesting riff off “Guns of Brixton” by Cypress Hill that Mike mentioned. Well, we can’t end the post with that, so…

Music, books, steampunk cosplay Kelly’s Rec: Documentary: Devo- The Complete Truth about De-Evolution a documentary about Devo’s “mind blowing music video legacy” that’s free for Amazon Prime members share the earworm       Mel’s Rec:   Book: The Alchemists of Loom (Loom Saga Book 1) by Elise Kova Lotta steampunk with cool magic, political intrigue, and revenge And really cool covers You can read the whole series with you Kindle Unlimited subscription The cover art is freaking wonderful and the artist is Nick D. Grey   Clockwork Angels by Kevin J Anderson and Rush – totally not the Cassandra … Continue reading →

TANGENT TALLY: 12 Given our tendency to go off on tangents in past Squats, we have introduced the tangent tally – a feature on all future Squat Cobblers (and past ones when Kelly gets around to it).  Just our gift to listeners to warn them in advance on how meandering an episode might be. Also, in what is likely a vain attempt to cleanse future shows from this, we decided to do a show of nothing but tangents to “get them out of our (Mike’s) system”. So enjoy our discussion of hashtag games/bacon/MABA hats/The New Orleans Saints/the “big game”/Applebees/Women’s World … Continue reading →

Sorry for the long wait. Life gets in the way. A lot.  We’ve got a little something for your eyes and your ears this time!   Mel’s Rec Music: Trevor Hall His latest album is The Fruitful Darkness. Check it out on YouTube or Spotify. My favs are Karma and The Weaver. It’s very positive and upbeat and will make you a better person.

This week Mike and Kelly set a record for tangents prior to the recommendations.  Sorry. Mike’s Recommendation – Technology Connections YouTube Channel This channel is a treasure trove on all sorts of technology tidbits ranging from closed captioning, LEDs, DVD-RAM, Laserdiscs,etc… Mike specifically mentioned the segment on the history of cassette tapes as a “must listen” Kelly’s Recommendation – Walking Dead Our World app Great game play, augmented reality, and zombies (!) in the Pokemon Go meets the Walking Dead app.  Available on Android and iOS, this joint effort between Google Maps and AMC is extremely fun to play.  Game … Continue reading →

This week you’ll get a great YouTube channel recommendation and a fun retro gaming option.  In addition to the recommendations, Mike and Kelly wander around such topics as YouTube comments, monetization, the Amiga 2000, BASIC, and The Killing Joke. Kelly’s Recommendation Orvix Cosplay – This is an awesome YouTube channel run by an equally awesome person.  It has cosplay talk, how-to videos, vlogs from cons and Disneyland… what’s not to love? Here is the super cool Killing Joke shirt project Kelly mentioned Mike’s Recommendation The C64 Mini – Aside from a keyboard unable to cope with Mike’s large man hands, this … Continue reading →

We’re BACK!! Well, sorta. If Mel’s internet holds up. We’ll see. No guarantees.    Mel’s Rec:  YouTube: The Crafsman SteadyCraftin The most positive and cool Crafting channel you will find on YouTube   Kelly’s Rec: Apps: Cash Show and HQ Trivia These 2 trivia apps PAY you real money for answering trivia questions. Cash Show is on hiatus until 2019 and HQ Trivia has suffered the loss of it’s CEO Get ready for Cash Show on itunes or google Get HQ Trivia on itunes or google   Dylan’s video for reference      Mike’s Rec: Album: Mayhem’s Grand Declaration of … Continue reading →

This week Mike and Kelly run down their top five favorite live albums… Mike 1. Appetite for Democracy – Gun’s N’ Roses 2. Still – Nine Inch Nails 3. Live – Alice in Chains 4. Live Bootleg – Aerosmith 5 . Living in Clip – Ani Difranco   Kelly (true Alice Cooper fan) 1. Waiting For Columbus – Little Feat 2. Alice Cooper – Fistful of Alice 3. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel Play Live 4. Big World – Joe Jackson 5. Welcome to the Club – Ian Hunter

My prison is your brain, your prisoner’s insane This week Mike and Kelly discuss Kelly’s recommendation – Ian Hunter’s “Welcome to the Club”.  This is a wonderful live album featuring the incomparable Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson’s amazing guitar work. As mentioned in the podcast, Kelly had assemble a playlist to fully recreate the actual album experience via YouTube, it can be found here. Mike and Kelly both loved the screaming lady on this track, so we had to include it… Lastly, the lyrical awesomeness of “Bastard” (album track)  

“I”ll do anything…” This week Mike and Kelly discuss an album recommendation from Mike – Type O Negative’s “October Rust”.  While a bit of a departure from their typical music, this is a very enjoyable album.  As per usual, Mike and Kelly go through the album track by track and share their thoughts. As promised, here is Mike’s Grandmother’s favorite track… (honestly)   As also promised…

Had we named it, it would have been related to the Sea-man talk at the end of the episode. This week we return to recommendations… Mike – Podcast: Video Palace Available on Shudder and Apple Podcasts, “Video Place” is a podcast about a podcast seeking out rare VHS tapes.  So meta. Episodes run around 20 minutes each and are some really great retro/mystery fun. Kelly – Documentary: Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2017) Available on Netflix, “Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2017)” tells … Continue reading →

This week Mike and Kelly discuss the album/EP by Deep Watch, “Endless Fragments of Time”.  This work has had its share of controversy given its somewhat sketchy debut on Spotify.  You be the judge.    

“It’s bigger than King Kong” Thanks to a suggestion from our listener Mick, this week Mike and Kelly discuss Battle Axe by Billion Dollar Babies.  When the original Alice Cooper group went there separate ways, three members of the band formed Billion Dollar Babies.  The concept for Battle Axe was to be the follow up for the the original group’s final collaboration, “Muscle of Love“. While there are some moments, listening to this album (and Alice’s “Goes to Hell” and “Lace and Whiskey” outings that were also released around this time) point out how amazing the original group’s mixture of … Continue reading →

I’m the bump on your head as you step on the rake At “breakneck speed” Mike and Kelly review the latest Alice Cooper release, the live album “A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris”.  Outside of song discussion you’ll learn of Kelly’s deep love for the French and the usual uncomfortable reveal of Mike’s inner passions. In the review, Mike mentioned the cover might be a bit similar to the newest Prince release.  You be the judge… Also, as promised, Zorro’s Ascent (sadly, not on this album)