Good Music played well by men is something we need more of in the world. Music that everyone can dig and just get together to have a good time with. Not pop, not rock, not jazz, not rap, just . . . music.

we have enough dudes making music. we need more chick-rock. that doesnt suck.

rock for chicks? or rock created by chicks?

both.

where is your head at dog? that one was obvious.

Let's not forget The Monkees, here.

Lamed by mistake, though I can't think why someone wuld give the other lame.

True. Just because their suck was a part of our past as a culture doesn't make it suck any less. It's like being taunted for peeing your pants in grade school. You can't outrun that shit.

And eventually it gets so ba you have to become a hermit.

AT first glance, your avicon looks like dicks in butts...

it isn't dicks in butts, its penises in vaginas. Or should that be 'peni in vaginae'? Either way, its a painting called Penis Landscape

I can appreciate that.

Chubbied for H.R. Giger.

This was his worst piece. It shows so little of his talent.

It was sufficiently talented to warrant a raid on Jello Biafra's home then a lengthy & expensive court battle to determine whether the work in question created "prurient interests" i.e. whether someone, somewhere got his or her chubby on while viewing it. A special thanks to Tipper Gore's PMRC (acronym for Bouffant Encrusted Thought-Police). Oh does the name sound familiar? It's Al's wife!

My feelings on your avataricon: Pro.

Also, it wasn't really music either

hanson wrote thier own music. on instruments. i guve them respect for that, even if i dont particularly enjoy the specific sounds they created.

Husker Du.

There is something low and base about typing "lol" that is totally beneath Achewood.

This is why I choose to read the overmedicated comment as a statement of 'Achewood' is greater than 'lol'. That is acceptable.

I'm not sure if it was intended that way, but you're right, the idea is great.

Once I thought of it, I liked to assume Lyle has asked the question and suggested the two example styles, as the idea that Nice Pete is repeating them when answering is hilarious.

I too enjoy this interpretation and shall accept it as canon.

Also, his bottle of Jack might as well be a million miles away. It is of no help in this conversation.

He grows pupils when Nice Pete calls.

Fuckin' love this arc

Me too. 'It will just be good music, played well by men!' is such an epic damn quote.

I generally find that my pupils, regardless of my emotional state, tend to remain saucer shaped

Do you also think it is wrong for a man to give another man kisses?

No, I agree that it is okay.

As long as that other man isn't me, I don't care.

Can the first man be you?

I hate Pete's pose on the phone when he has the pencil in his mouth. Every strip where he is on the phone he does that pose. I guess I just think it doesn't suit him.

Chris Onstad should be praised for his apparent affinity for Rickenbackers. They are great guitars and perfect basses.

I know Nice Pete is American but it's impossible to picture him talking with anything other than Vlad's accent

also, the world would be a better place if the music industry worked that way

The only appropriate accent is the weird faux-british accent of teenage thugs nationwide, as in the thug kid in The Simpsons. This does not work with Nice Pete. He would have the blank affectless monotone of a bored news announcer.

I hear it as a mid-pitched breathy rasp, very crisply enunciated. I don't know how to explain it, and the internet isn't helping.

like the descriptions of behavior in both Men In Black or the G-Man from Halflife?

I still hear it as sounding kind of like that gay mustached dude from Family Guy who shows up in a variety of different occupations and situations.

Although I was thinking about Achewood voices not long ago and thought that Phillip Seymour Hoffman would make a good choice for Nice Pete.

Also:
Roast Beef - Steve Buscemi
Todd - Tracy Morgan

I think that was about as far as I got.

"F-f-fuck man, that b-b-bird b-b-better not fuck up my credit!"

I wonder if "Mister Band" was out of his own mind or whether he's heard of "Mr.Children".

Or Mister Mister.

This one is wonderful.

All that a music band really needs is a good, honest name that people can believe in. Oh, and music played well by men. Aw, Nice Pete. Such a dreamer.

These two should hang out more.

If I ever start a band, I'm telling everyone the genre is music-core. It will be good music, played by men.

i know, i love how the genre for mister band is music-core, we used to come up with these all the time, my favorites:
horse-core, so tuff you dont use cars anymore
and
apple-core, so stupid it needs no explanation

I totally wish Music-core was a choice on the drop down menu on Myspace.

Music-core has very much entered, if not my actual speech very often, definitely my thought processes. It's just such a helpful way to think of what one is doing while writing music.

Why - out of all the Nice Pete strips - does this creep me out the most?

For me it kinda demonstrates that if a fucked up serial killer calls you with a fucked up idea about starting a band even someone as hard as Lyle just has to stand there and listen and become involved, you do not say no to Nice Pete.

Lyle's expression in panel 6 is pretty close to perfect. How do people who know Nice Pete deal with this shit?

I 5'd this purely because of that very expression.

The last panel describes exactly the idea behind "American Idol" if you take out the third sentence.

Read Nice Pete's part in your head as Christopher Walken and tell me it isn't a PERFECT fit. Or better yet, don't tell me that because you will be making a liar of yourself and that is the saddest thing.

I have to disagree with you. I am sorry about this ricnine.

I can't help but see Nice Pete's ears as horns instead of ears. It must be the hair.

I'm not sure if Lyle is supposed to have actually asked Nice Pete what style of music the band will play, but I like it better if he doesn't, and Pete just supplies the answer. Or perhaps answers a voice in his head.

L@@K at his hand in panel three.