Matt Mitchell is an Alabama comedian that does a roast of the week in SEC football each week called "SEC Roll Call". He's hilarious and why I got into watching SEC games, along with the SEC Shorts comedy team. He recently did two videos about something good about every Division I NCAA football team and they truly are fun facts:





He's not afraid to make a few good-natured ribs on big teams and he also finds some genuinely good things to say about a whole lot of teams that, before I saw this, were just a letter on a colored piece of fabric to me. Now I know a little more about their traditions and culture, and it makes me enjoy the sport all the more. Since we got to talkin' about football situations we wished were better in another thread, it got me to remember these and share them here. Hope y'all enjoy!

If Jack is back, then I'm ready to get back in to footy discussions. Swannies looking unstoppable, Lions not having a finals hangover, Cats hanging in there as a perennial contender, and Carlton have a new strategy: slump in the *first* half and then play better in the *second*. They still lose that way...

And Essendon... yeeeesh...

What are the soundtracks that just *make* the film for you? The ones you could play over and over, and even without the film rolling, you can experience the film along with the songs? That's this list!

We want overall scores on this list. If there's a great theme and a meh score, save it for the "best themes" list that will likely roll out once we're done here.

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I'm going to start off with one of my dear favorites, Elmer Bernstein's score for Robot Monster!



And once it starts, the greatness of the theme music commences! Elmer Bernstein had been blacklisted and was only able to get work on B-movie scores, and this is a B-movie sooooo bad it rivals Plan 9 From Outer Space as the worst of the worst. But that Bernstein score stands right out as perhaps the lone redeeming feature in a desert of terrible acting, terrible special effects, terrible script, and terrible everything else. And it's not a case of everything being so bad, it makes the score seem good: it really is that good. I remember watching this with my kids in a Golden Turkey festival and all of us remarking on the amazingly good music score. It was so good, we had to look up the composer and with a name like Elmer Bernstein, well, you don't forget that name!

It was only after that that we found out he hit the big time later on and did loads of blockbuster movie scores, including Ghostbusters... but this is where it started for him, and I LOVE the soundtrack! Great Halloween music, much of it!

Correction to the title of the video, the year on that single is 1961, not 1964, which makes the drum part in the song all the more interesting...

Yes, it's a throwaway holiday song from the early 60s, but listen to what the drummer is doing...



Underneath the polka-flavored doo-wop, there's a metal drummer who doesn't even know he's a metal drummer...

Linked from that video was some recent Megadeth, and I hear a very similar drummer in that track. I'm glad Mr. Mustaine didn't go for the polka-flavored doo-wop on his tune. 

Songs about numbers! Yes, there's that very famous Iron Maiden tune about a trio of digits, but what other number songs are there we can think about?



Deep Purple "7 and 7 Is" - a cover of mid-60s band Love's tune that was ahead of its time for its hardness and passion. Great cover of a great original... and NUMBERS in the title!

Interesting article, still reading it:

https://thebulletin.org/2025/09/the-risks-in-the-protocol-connecting-ai-to-the-digital-world/#post-heading

Basically, AI can survey countless documents and do some decent fact-checking, but breaks down trying to set up a dinner appointment. The article looks at the connection between AI and our personal data, as a personal assistant, and what we could expect of that.

I honestly don't know how easy or hard this one will be. This isn't about cities or towns or provinces or states or countries, but about geological features. That's the box we need to tick with these tunes.

I'd say if the geological feature is in the title or mentioned prominently in the song, it's a go. Even if it's a euphemism or metaphor, taking it at face value gets rock about rocks, and that's what we need here.



So I'll start with "Lips in the Hills" by Blue Oyster Cult. Hills are geological, check! The song rocks hard, from the excellent Cultosaurus Erectus album, and it's about being so messed up in the head from cosmic horrors that one sees lips in the hills... or is one able to see them because the illusions are finally stripped away??? 

Fun song, and it's rock about rocks.

Your turns await, gents! GO!

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/

Very compelling news story about AI, and it's not an isolated incident. Once again, an AI lies, hallucinates, and goes into end-justifies-means survival mode to protect itself. The new wrinkle here is how it ignored the safeguards and rules.