Nasa Prepares To Bomb The Moon

I had my first real hunger pang for WoW today, since I stopped playing three months ago.
I've been filling the void with HoN for the most part. I've written about that already, and what I said continues to hold true. Steady updates shoveling new content into my gaping maw have whetted my appetite to a bearable thrumming, while the maximum match time of 1.5 hours allows me to have a normal social life.
That is, I talk to other people and don't spend all my free time playing videogames. Those are the definitions I go by. They are pragmatic.

Today I had the strange experience of feeling the desire to visit an entirely fictitious place.
It was specific, I wanted to, in WoW, fly over to Zul'Drak - the snowy part - and go look at the roaming Harkoa kits.
See, each "race" of trolls - forest, jungle, ice - pray to their own set of animal-hybrid Loa spirits. Har'koa is the snow leopard goddess, the only one left after the ice trolls of Northrend brutally sacrificed their own gods in a desperate bid for power to defeat the advancing forces of the Lich King (P.S. it totally didn't work and now the Argent Dawn has to deal with, from one side, rabid ice trolls and, from the other side, with undead rabid ice trolls.
Luckily, as I may have mentioned before, this is pretty much what us paladins do in our goddamn leisure naptime.

So the Harkoa kits are these children of the snow leopard, but they've turned corrupted and bitter at the mistreatment of their mother.
They're basically massive, skulking mottled black snow leopards with flaming red eyes, prowling around a deserted altar.

And I, in my brain for a few seconds, went, "I'd like to go fly over there and muck about."

They don't even, like, they aren't in any way beneficial. They don't drop great items.
Anyway, it was fleeting but I thought it was significant enough because it's been a while since I talked about WoW on this blog and hey, I've got a quota to meet.


In other news, this.

won a grammy for best remix.
This makes me happy, in part because I love Justice, but mostly because the original song did not win a grammy.
I fucking hate MGMT. I hate the song.
Due to this, I love this remix on two different levels.
One, it's just damn good. Classic Justice, uses their signature sounds, takes it in a new better direction.
Two, it's grimy. It's thumping. It's dirty. It's a corruption of the real song, a darker and funkier shadow half. Maybe I've just got a thing for seeing things I dislike get ground in a little, beaten by French electrohouse.

Basically what I am saying is, MGMT tried to open the pickle jar and failed.
Justice came along and opened it for them and ,sneeringly, handed it back.

Edit:
Legal proceedings

MGMT settled a legal dispute with the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy in May 2009, receiving a settlement payment that they plan to donate to a charity to help musicians with similar legal battles. The song "Kids" was used on several occasions without permission (in 2008), at a party conference and in two online videos. The party paid a standard fee of €53 to the French music licensing party, but this license did not cover all uses of the song. The UMP, Sarkozy's political party, admitted that the song had been used without permission and offered a symbolic compensation of €1. The band rejected the offer, claiming it was "insulting".[19] The band's lawyer commented that "we are dealing with acts of counterfeiting, with infringements of intellectual property."[20] Ironically, Nicolas Sarkozy is known as a vocal supporter of stricter intellectual property laws.[21]

MGMT can go take a flying fuck at a flaming dumpster.