_______ __ __ ___ ___ __ __ | _ .----|__.--| | Y .---.-|__| | |. 1 | __| | _ |. | _ | | | |. _ |____|__|_____|. \_/ |___._|__|__| |: | | |: | | |::.|:. | |::.|:. | Issue 12 `--- ---' `--- ---' 2020-03-24 ------------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER: The Mighty Queen of Sin https://neozones.neocities.org/acidjaw/mail/issue12 https://wiki.squeeze.pizza/index.php?title=AcidMail/issue12 This issue we have: * Looking at The Fab Four * Draw something for us NOW OR ELSE! * A dog that shoots fire out of their arse (sigh) ------------------------------------------------- >DON'T FORGET TO ADD A TITLE HERE Hola, amigos, welcome to AcidMail, the ONLY newsletter on the Web that matters (I'm sure if we keep on saying that, it will become true!) Anyway... Enjoy... Oh! Also, for an upcoming issue of AcidMail, we will be covering an online art program called JS Paint (https://jspaint.app/), and essentially, it would be cool if people were willing to draw something that they wanted too that could be used in the upcoming addition of the newsletter (this could end poorly). If you're on Neocities, you can submit art here: https://neocities.org/site/neozones?event_id=1080222 Via E-Mail: <acidjaw@airmail.cc> Or PM OwlMan#6604 on Discord Deadline is 2020-04-29. - cheers! Oh, and don't forget to wash your hands, you dutty pig! ------------------------------------------------- >NEOZONES TURNS ONE-YEARS-OLD! On 2019-03-24, the website neozones.neocities.org was registered by a bunch of weird people from across the globe, since then, we have managed to somehow get a fair amount of followers with 40,700 plus views on the site and growing. We are all very grateful to the people who take the time out of their life to visit our site. Thank you all so very much and here is to many more years of NeoZones (and also our host, Neocities)! ------------------------------------------------- >A LOOK AT THE BEATLES At this point, if you have not heard of The Beatles, then it is likely that you have little to no idea about the Western World as a whole. Let's face it, The Fab Four are known by a lot of people, after all, they are regarded as the most influential bands of all time, selling over 183 million units in the States and estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide, the band also managed to get the record for the most number-one albums in the UK Albums Chart, most number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and most singles sold in the UK - so to say that they were a successful group would be an understatement. Along with all of the sales, they are considered to be "the best band ever", but is that justified? Well over the coming weeks, we will be looking at every album that the Liverpudlian boys made, in sweet chronological order (fancy), seeing if the albums that they made truly were worth all of the hype that they had, and if they still stand up to the test of time. For the first album we have... ------------------------------------------------- >A LOOK AT THE BEATLES - PLEASE PLEASE ME (1963) Starting off with their first proper album, The Beatles came-out with Please Please Me, an admittedly fun and sometimes catchy album at times. The record was produced by the late George Martin, who is often considered to be the fifth Beatle (although the whole idea of a "fifth Beatle" is very much up to debate; during a 1997 interview with the BBC, Paul McCartney said "if anyone [were] the fifth Beatle [it would be Beatles' manager Brian Epstein]", but later said after George Martin's death that Martin was the true fifth Beatle in a 2016 memorial post) - regardless, George Martin would play a large role in the band's albums. George Martin won't be the only recurring name throughout the history of the band; unlike other acts, all of the original members would still be working together at the start of their discography till the end. For the band, we have John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Before Please Please Me, the band was simply know as The Quarrymen, but they only played live gigs and never had any records out, although some scratchy bootlegs (also known as "Beatlegs") do exist, but they won't be covered. The album feels like a bit of a let-down for myself, the opening track of "I Saw Her Standing There" is fast and a bit of fun, same goes for its title track (Please Please Me), but the rest of the songs seem to be rather s..l...o...w, which would be well and good if there was a stand-out track that screams "This album is worth buying for this one song!", but non of them really do that for myself. What seems to be a recurring theme in the album itself seems to be the idea of how nice it would be if you were my girlfriend. It may be unfair, but I don't really like the early songs from this band, sure some of them stick out, and it may seem pessimistic of me, but I kind of do think that the band would get much better a whole once they would experiment with not only their music, but also with drugs (mostly LSD and marijuana to a small part). Without experimentation, a band can kind of blend into the nothingness and can be swapped and replaced by other bands from the time. A band needs something that splits them apart from others in a way that will make the listener want to play them over another, and at least for this album, The Beatles don't have that. Is it worth buying? Well, sure if you find one for under 20 DollarPounds, then go right ahead (saying that, Beatles' albums do seem to cost a fair bit - at HMV in the UK, the album on record can set you back a cool £30). To sum up; Please Please Me is not really an all that exciting album and quite a few of the tracks are worth skipping (looking at you, Milk and Honey). ------------------------------------------------- >ASCII OF THE NOW The ASCII of The Now is a weekly thing we do where we dig threw the old archives of forgotten websites, finding ASCII art that time forgot. _______ _______ /_/___\_\ /_/___\_\ \ \ / / \ \ / / ____ \/ v \/ _______ \/ v \/ /\__/\ \ | / /_/___\_\ \ | / /_/ \_\____ \|/ \ \ / / \|/ \ \__/ /\__/\ v \/ v \/ v \/__\/_/ \_\ \ | / \ \__/ / \|/ \/__\/ v David Cole https://owlman.neocities.org/ascii.html#David%20Cole https://web.archive.org/web/19991006084809/http://knowmadz.org/gallery/ascii/gems.htm ------------------------------------------------- >CHECK THIS SHIT OUT! We're addicted to browsing the WWW over on at NeoZones, and as many of us no longer have work or schools to go to because of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), we thought that you might like to waste the hours of nothingness browsing our terrible link suggestions, ooohhh yeah! B-) : ROCKET DOG : https://rocketdog.cartoonhangover.com : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9WYRTCoOsA As co-made by Frederator, Rocket Dog is the classic tale of a boy and his dog, a dog that can (of cause) shoot fire out of their arsehole so HARD that they can fly (we have hit the highpoint of AcidMail, by the way). Over on at the NeoZones Discord server (https://neozones.neocities.org/discord/), we watched the Rocket Dog pilot only a few days back as of publication, and we all found it to be very, very funny indeed. Sadly, there is only the one episode so far, but on the blog for the show (as linked), the owner of the blog wrote "Believe it or not, Rocket Dog is still in development at a network here in Burbank", although they carry on saying that "If we're lucky enough to get a series order, the show wouldn't air before 2019" - that was in 2017. Has this dog been put down? Only time will tell. : ESPERANTO PROFANITY : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_profanity Wanted to know how to use rude words in your favourite constructed language? Well, looks like you can now thanks to this Wikipedia article! : 'NOPE', HE SAYS, BODY ISN'T HIS : https://cybre.space/@witchfynder_findennr/103794179196228844 Weird news article from pre-World War II America about a man who was seemly asked to identified a body to make sure that it wasn't his own person. : CHILDREN HOLD MINECRAFT SCHOOL GRADUATION : https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51930728 In the last week's addition of AcidMail, we showed off The Uncensored Library, a library that only exists in the world of Minecraft, well this week we want to show off a small article of a Japanese primary school who, due to the Coronavirus, were unable to celebrate their graduation, so instead, they celebrated it in Minecraft - very cute! ------------------------------------------------- >UNTIL NEXT TIME AcidMail would not be possible if it won't for the cocky people over at NeoZones, one of the worst s0-called "webhome". To browse more bad ideas by the NeoZone losers, check out their URL over at: https://neozones.neocities.org Do you have anything that you want to see in next week's issue of AcidMail? Is it a link, a comment, a short story, or some art? Well whatever it is, E-Mail it to us, and we will probably put it on the next issue (with credit, of cause!) If you have any questions, comments, or anything in between, please don't hesitate to E-Mail us!