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Capone says director Antoine Fuqua has made a great '70s cop drama with BROOKLYN'S FINEST!!!
Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
With enough rich material for three separate films, director Antoine Fuqua's spiritual companion piece to his best work to date, TRAINING DAY, is BROOKLYN'S FINEST, a triptych of police stories about three officers at critical points in their lives and jobs where they must make decision that will morally compromise everything they are supposed to stand for. As much as Fuqua is still finding his footing as a director (with missteps that led him to KING ARTHUR or TEARS OF THE SUN), I think this is the place where he exists most comfortably, by showing us these desperate men's character and honor get slowly chipped away by the world around them.
It's tough to pick a favorite storyline, but I think the section of the film I would have liked most to see become its own feature is the segment about an undercover cop named Clarence (Don Cheadle), who as drug lieutenant "Tango" has immersed himself in the life so deeply that when his long-incarcerated boss Caz (Wesley Snipes in a true return to form) gets out of prison, the two start making plans to expand the business. The problem is Tango wants out of the life that he's been living far too long. His handler (Will Patton) is trying to make that happen, along with a promotion. But as Caz realigns his underlings, tensions flare and Tango knows that trouble is brewing, and he wants to be gone before that happens. What Cheadle is pulling off here is remarkable. He's playing a cop who needs to be seen as a dangerous and threatening authority figure, who isn't actually allowed to kill anybody. So he uses all the acting tricks in the book to put the fear of God into his employees on the street. It's been a while since he's flexed those muscles, and there are few as good as him at doing it.
Another story is more familiar--that of Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke), a cop with a wife (Lili Taylor) and a big brood of kids living in a cramped, mold-infested home that is making his pregnant wife ill. What he needs is money, and he sees it--lots of it--every time he goes on a raid of a drug dealer's house. It's there for the taking, but he knows that doing so crosses a line he's not sure he can wander over. Hawke is most convincing to me when he's playing these twitchy, wiry guys, and that's Sal in a nutshell. He sweats just thinking about money and about the down-payment he needs to make on a new house that about to slip through his fingers. He sees the opportunity more than once, but something always interrupts the moment. When he finally does make his move, well, let's just say it's explosive. Hawke's only Oscar nomination for acting came in Fuqua's TRAINING DAY, and the two just know how to make things happen and give us just enough of a taste of these character to get the whole picture. Sal's '70s-style long leather jacket and dated hairstyle, not to mention the ugly colors in his home, all are signs that Fuqua might not care if we forget exactly what decade BROOKLYN'S FINEST is occurring. Although the stories is different, this is Fuqua's SERPICO, his MEAN STREETS, his HARDCORE, his SUPER FLY.
The third story might be the most interesting, and it features a character that you never see in movies about police officers. Richard Gere plays Eddie Dugan, a beat cop just days from retiring who has made a career for himself being unremarkable. He has no disciplinary problems, but he also is without commendations. He just wanted to put in his time, and retire with a pension. He has no wife, although he has a steady hooker that he's fond of. I'm so used to watching Gere play often larger-than-life characters, it's kind of great to watch him blend into the wallpaper and shrink from view. Since he's the senior most vet, the department has decided (unwisely) to pair him with a rookie and show him how to handle himself on the street. No one seems particularly thrilled with the situation, but he takes a couple of newbies out with him and essentially teaches them how to handle themselves on a call without getting killed or starting a race riot. He's not entirely successful. But his story doesn't end with his retirement. Just after he's turned in his gun and badge and decided how he would like to live out his remaining time on earth, he spots a young woman, clearly drugged, getting dragged into a van by two men. Eddie follows the van, and what occurs from that point forward is almost too unbelievable to say (and I wouldn't anyway because it's a surprise). The moral of the story is that sometimes the least noble person makes the biggest gesture when you don't expect it. Sal's story is the only one that doesn't feel slightly truncated, but I didn't mind the abbreviated plots.
The film flows seamlessly from one story to the next, and Fuqua builds each sequence up until a tension-filled series of conclusions that will leave you slightly speechless for a time. I wasn't kidding when I said there was enough material here for three separate movies, and sometimes these worlds feel a bit cramped. Of course the minds of these three men probably feel the same way, as the judgement is testing and nobility tested. Some fare the test; others succeed in unexpected ways. But the cumulative effect is quietly devastating, and that's the best type of devastation. The film is bleak and brutal at times, but it never felt forced or false, even with a few hyped up performances by some of the supporting cast. I was genuinely moved by BROOKLYN'S FINEST. Check this one out.
-- Capone
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I think Fuqua gets a bad rap, probably because he just doesn't want to play ball with producers. I'm actually shocked that after directing Denzel to his Oscar for Training Day that Fuqua wasn't the talk of Hollywood. The guy knows how to direct if H-Wood would just let him do it.
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You're telling us what happens in the movie. Isn't that what spoiler means?
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I fucking love 70's style cop shows. I'm in. Are you in?
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...some great cop movies of the 70's that haven't made it to dvd yet, The Choirboys and The Super Cops(the one with Ron Leibman, not the one with Terrence Hill).
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He should be doing more roles like this instead of the boring shite he usually picks.
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Mar 05, 2010 8:46:51 AM CST
Pretty obvious how each story ends thanks to this review.
by wickedjester
Still going to check it out, though.
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..actual good Fuqua movie?
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Is this a return to form for the Snipes? I always liked him better as an actor rather than an action star.
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Don't know why it gets so much flak. Training Day was awesome, and it's tough when your best work turns out to be your first, so it's hard to keep trying to measure up to that. The guy can direct, no doubt.
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but this looks exactly like Training Day. Same kind of bleached look with a hardscrabble cops-in-peril storyline. Ethan Hawke's story sounds like a direct rip-off of One Good Cop and the rest of the trifecta seem just as blatantly cliche. However, the cast seems interesting and Fuqua can create solid entertainment when he puts his mind to it. So, maybe this'll work.
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THAT'S A FUCKING cast.Plus, many actors form the Wire....goddamn I am sold
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It was a decent war picture that got right down to business and kept its level of intensity up for the entire running time. Plus it didn't try to squeeze in some lame love story between Bruce and Monica. That gives it definite points.
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Fuqua directed The Replacement Killers with Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino prior to helming Training Day. It's not a very good movie.
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Training Day was not his first film, it was his third. Regardless, my point still stands, when you hit the top early in your career it is hard to live up to it.
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Yea, as you can see from my above post, I realized that after I made my initial post. I saw The Replacement Killers, it was...ok....have seen better for sure but had some stuff I liked, but yea, was not great.
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...When can we get a comedy or dramady from him? he is always cool, but is usually always funny (see Inside Man interrogation scenes)... put him in a Meet the Parents type of movie...
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But, then again, I could watch Denzel Washington play an old Jewish woman clipping coupons from the newspaper. The climax could be her going to the store. That man has almost too much charisma for his own good.
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that loves Tears of the Sun?
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Tears of the Sun is pretty decent entertainment. You are in a small, but proud group.
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...for me, at least, is Mo' Better Blues. He also had great chemistry with Snipes who also tore that shit up
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Has to be a tie for me between 3 films:
Malcolm X, Crimson Tide and Man On Fire
Training Day is amazing and he gives a brilliant performance in the film.
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...w/ Oliver Stone's script that would have been something
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I really enjoyed Tears of the Sun, the Replacement Killers is actually a guilty pleasure of mine. King Arthur was terrible no doubt, but Training Day was great. I didn't hate Shooter but it was ok at best. Overall I really enjoy Fuqua's movies and hope he keeps getting work.
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He has to. Its the Law of Movies: Retiring Cop just wants to go through the paces but gets killed hours from his retirement in an act of heroism. If he DOESNT die, then the writer/director have just broken the laws of movie physics.
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But that was more for the military stuff than the story. It seemed like a pretty authentic depiction of SEALs and their gear, closer than any other film I can think of right now. I would watch a series of movies with those guys on different missions. Quiet badasses handlin' business.
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but fuqua admitted as much in his interview with AICN
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Is hard to watch because its so brutal. Good film. I like fuqua's work so far.. I will see this for sure.
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He's so good in that, that I usually exclude it from my "best of Denzel" choices to give his other roles a shot ;)
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some filmmakers just work for some people. David Ayer is another cat whose work I have consistently enjoyed, despite consistently poor reviews. There was something a little great and even touching about Harsh Times, and Street Kings, which I wouldn't hit with the "good movie" designation, was entertaining. And of course, Training Day.
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Why the hate? That was a damn good movie. Does it stand up to Training Day? Hell no, but not many movies in that niche do. I don't understand the linking of Tears of the Sun with Replacement Killers and Bait and King Arthur, as far as I'm concerned, the guys hitting pretty well, he's only directed a few movies and has a home run and a stand up triple,IMO
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Decent looking cast, caught in 20% decent script, 80% cop movie cliche. Although Keanu Reeves as a hardass racist cop still makes me chuckle.
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It's a good movie, and I don't get the hate for it. As for Brooklyn's Finest, it looks like every cop movie ever made.
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yea well I'll take Ebert over Travers every time
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Mar 05, 2010 3:59:06 PM CST
Tears Of The Sun, best action film of the last decade?
by the_genteel_gentile
If not, then what? I don't know, if Apocaypto counts as a pure "action" film then it's probably the best. Not sure how to categorize that one...period-action-adventure-epic? Additionally I think Casino Royale, The Rundown, The Kingdom, Rambo, The Bourne Trilogy, Hostage and Assault On Precinct 13 are up there as well. The first Transporter, Live Free Or Die Hard, Deja Vu and Cellular were alot of fun also. Spy Game, Man On Fire, Running Scared and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang were all pretty fantastic, but I'm not sure I'd classify them as being "action" specifically. To me superhero, fantasy, sci-fi, adventure, war and period epics are seperate genres, so I'm not taking stuff like Dark Knight, LOTR, Troy, Kingdom Of Heaven, We Were Soldiers, Kill Bill, The Island, District 9 or Avatar into consideration. The Hurt Locker feels like more of a specific refelction of true wartime events, so I'd classify it as a War Film with action whereas Tears Of The Sun, Rambo and The Kingdom seem more like fantastical excuses to have action set within the context of real global hotzones. If that makes any sense, I know it's a fine line but that the way I see it. Anyway, my point is Tears Of The Sun is a really great movie, especially the extended DVD version. Highly underrated.
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Really?
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Mar 05, 2010 4:18:16 PM CST
An action director with a conscience, how quaint.
by the_genteel_gentile
I really dig that Fuqua infuses a true sense of moral obligation and righteous indignation into his characters. To have violent men of action wrestling to choose the high rood is refreshing.
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obviously.
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It's all about the consensus, man. Chances are people will not like it.
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Also stop the Tears of the Sun bashing. Just because it didn't make a 100 million in the BO doesn't mean it was bad. I watched it the other day and it is a solid movie and hands down on of the better action movies in a while.
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don't get the hate from some people. the battle at the end was fucking intense. As was the village battle sequence. When the sniper in the tree takes out one guy and turns to the group putting his finger to his lips going "Shhh" was cool as hell. can't wait to see his latest. I liked Shooter too.
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At least not proper (stoned, drunk or even just distracted don't count). "Misstep" (?), to me that's like calling Apocaypse Now a misstep for Coppola. I think we seem to be unusually in accord here on this particular talkback that Tears Of The Sun is pretty great flick. I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised by the consensus, I don't believe one person here has said anything but good about the film. Bravo.
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It's a bunch of jaded cynics, mad that they haven't done anything with their lives that matters. Any single persons opinion of ANY piece of art is just as valid as the next. I certainly don't need a bunch of angry know-it-alls to tell me what I like.
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You are probably right sir I just despise Travers
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I'm a sucker for these kinds of flicks though, I love me a good cop movie!
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Sounds like it
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Yeah, right!!
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After 10 years on the job? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!! Why does AICN keep on kissing this hacks' asses? Why does AICN keep on giving so much chances to this fucking hacks like Antoine Fuckqua? Who understand this? Give me a break!
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Ever see "Carbon Copy", "Heart Condition" or "Ricochet"?
*shudder*
Although not INTENDED to be a comedies: ever see "Virtuosity", "Out of Time", or "Taking of Pelham 1,2,3"?
*hurl*
Top Denzel Movies?
Hurricane
Malcolm X
John Q
Either Washington gets on board the "Alex Cross" franchise that's just waiting for him or else Will Smith is going to do it and that'll leave Denzel at the mercy of some truly horrible scripts & treatments. -
That movie sucked. I'll take Bait, Replacement Killers and Tears of the Sun over that nonsense anydays... [Jamie Foxx's jail cell scene with David Morse is fuckin' hilarious in bait if you've never seen it btw....]
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snuck in the back door...
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Smells fresh.
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that was too much.
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Annoying little cunt...
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Beaks will rub some neosporin on it, so we can go back and collect Jaka later.
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re the cunt remark...
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The worst of all the non-leafy salads.
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We coulda just worked around him, you know.
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I'll keep him occupado over there so he doesn't think he's won anything.
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And his ALL CAPS cussin' doesn't look good on my work computer, know what I mean?
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...a stand-up fight...just a tar-baby.
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...come to think of it.
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I had the same idea. Just go and spar with him for shits and giggles.
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at the same time. fun times.
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wields the banhammer?
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My only saving grace is that I get a good advance warning when people are coming up from behind OR from the front, and my workspace is fairly isolated.
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I like that.
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Nothing like shaking of the yolk of a heavy TB. YOLK, GET IT? YOU SEE WHAT I DID???
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they're spelled differently! There's a word for that. Um, pud, put, pus, pun, pundenda, that's it!Col., made a pundenda.
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I'm not the only one waiting for you there.
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Without blowing our cover???
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Mar 11, 2010 3:49:10 PM CST
he doesn't even know what bamffing is, poor kid...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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...eggy won't be able to follow?
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in walks STLost, covered in egg whites.
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Nothing overt, now. He may be lurking. Why does this remind me of a WWII movie?
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, when you drive/ride different vehicles, up pops the name of the vehicle. The moped was the "faggio".
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it was handled, bro! If you're gonna drop clues, you gotta be way way way more cryptic than that!!!!
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I'll just stay on this side of the fence...
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Mar 11, 2010 4:04:40 PM CST
I didn't think Eggsalad would know what an octave is...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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So much so that I just traded in my PS2 last month.
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and play gta:vice city, san andreas, and all of my guitar hero games.
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his mom is making him do his chores and homework before he can get back on-line...
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My voice is my password. Verify me.
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...for Saints Row 2 for the PS3. It's ok. Prolly the king of the GTA ripoffs.
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Have you inaugurated the new abode yet?
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I thought of some music you might like, after all.
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and make it habitable by peadlback kind...
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That's a good reason to keep it, unless you have one of the older PS3s with PS2 capabilities.
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I haven't had the big itch to buy the PS3. I don't play games that often. I did play a baseball game and modern warfare on my brother's ps3 a few weeks ago, in HD, and was amazed with what the ps3 can do now. Still too expensive for me, but it looks awesome.
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It was a real tough call.
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I was worried he was still lurking.
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Bless his heart, he bought Fallout 3 as well. Right now I'm playing thru it as if I were Dr.Doom. Good times.
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those were tense times...danger lurked at every corner...decisions were made...Its just good to know I have people like you guys at my back when trolls attack...And now we have another escape route...next door...
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Had to clear something up...a sneakers ref too!!! Hot damn!!
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But other than Resident Evil 4, Everything or Nothing (James Bond Game), and my original PS Monster Rancher 2, there was really nothing worth holding onto. Maybe Red Dead Revolver, too, now that I think about it.
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Ethan Hawke didn't even merit half a star?
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It pays for itself, really. It's even got one of the best Blu-ray players on the market.
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I liked my 1 show about Jack bauer clue
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Peter Travers is a quote whore.
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whenever we BAMF! to a fresher thread where all these multiple conversations start up, but I can't figure out a thing anyone is saying. HA!
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I don't wanna get any hope up...BUT, what IF....I came to Austin that weekend and we went to see Kick Ass and then did "Two Guys Who Saw the Same Movie At the Same Time in the Same Theater"® And we would get drunk and high a lot, too. What do ya think?Maybe Sixes could join us, and it would be 3GWSSMSTST....
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I kinda have to submit my purchase orders through the finance department...ie: the wife.
And the finance department is really cracking down on discretionary spending.
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Is the only dialogue I remember from Sneakers, but I thought it was hilarious when I was a kid.
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I must atone for my sins against the PedalBack. I just didn't know exactly how cool a dude you were the last time you hit town, and I've been kicking myself ever since. Let's fucking do it!
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but I never would've figured it out. I went looking for you at the most recent 24 thread, and when you weren't there I figured you meant add "1."
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gotta watch the little one at her dance class.
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Finance department...Ha...My Financial life would be so much better if I still had one of those...I suck at budgeting...
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...and who gets stuck being The Gatekeeper?
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Break a leg little Loster. Not literally, of course.
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Mar 11, 2010 4:41:06 PM CST
Red Dead Revolver fan? Holy shit, man! Why you been holdin...
by anonymoose
...out on me? Fuck, I love that game. Oh, well. The sequel's coming. You've seen the Red Dead Redemption trailers, right?
Here's one:
http://tinyurl.com/yf5mob5
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I'll admit, that DID sound gay. But me and Cheeses were gonna be the first Peebs to make actual physical contact and I fucking flaked on him. So yeah, I'm excited to make it up to him. The Keymaster is a friend of mine, I'm supposed to meet him here.
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I think I did. Cool beans. That was fun.
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...about pulling a Gillooly on the competition if you have to.
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I have the opening titles music on my Ipod. You know they got Ennio Morricone to write that, right?
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Mar 11, 2010 4:47:32 PM CST
I thought they just pulled all the music from Spaghetti Westerns
by anonymoose
I didn't know any new music was written for it.
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Congrats. You've successfully navigated your first BAMFing. That was a toughie, too.
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Just like GTA IV.
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Teddy...I'll sit next to ya in a theatre and maybe shake your hand...But, don't set yourself up for disappointment...Remember, your Mom graduated the same year I did...
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Gotta love Rockstar Games. I'm also a big fan of 'The Warriors' game, but was never willing to put up funds for a new copy. And I've never, EVER, seen it used anywhere.
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Once I figure out how to find The Shelter, create a profile, request membership, get accepted, update my profile, introduce myself and then find the topic where you guys discussed your current location it was pretty easy. : ) Thankfully, I know of nodes.
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I am so proud of him...You can never re-bamff your first time...
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...fraternizing with a fellow officer. I just wanted to make the reference...and the idea of two Pedalbackers meeting in person gave me visions of dark vortexes of doom swirling above a suburban movie theater......THERE IS NO CHEESES, ONLY ZUUL!!
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...even if they aren't always "the best" games, technically. It just makes me happy that somebody out there isn't afraid to make adult oriented games that are actually entertaining and successful.
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That was a sly Ghostbusters reference. I knew I shoulda put it in quotes.
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...bamff barrier. It's a nice feeling. Slightly warm, and just a little fuzzy.
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in NJ. Because three (?) of us live here, and, uh, because of BUCKAROO BANZAI and stuff.
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Like Colonelman, said...a Brew of Pedalbackers is a' startin' to simmer...
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...show up all backwards and inside out...whispering...kiiilll, meee...kiiiiiillll...m...meeeee....
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Like getting drunk: http://tinyurl.com/cf26ey
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Not to be confused in any way with a shrubbery. Even though all I'm hearing in my head is, "bring us a Subbary!!"
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...that weekend. Riots, fires, surprise sexing, and who knows what else will ensue.
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when we BAMPF.
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Buckaroo Bonzai indeed. If you had the Jetcar you could drive straight here.
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...this is a nice concept. I've had many good conversations here at AICN over the years. But in the end they were always rudely interrupted or just trampled by a heard of mannerless elephants. I've though a few times of trying to get a group of people to chat in the forums, but the same thing happens there. This is a very inventive and fun way to work around said problems. I digs it.
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...I'm trying to hurry. Gotta cut out. Check y'all later. Peace.
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The President's on line one calling about is everything ok with the spaceship from Planet Ten or should he go ahead and destroy Russia?"
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....BROOOOKLYYYNNNN!!!
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Simultaneously full of itself and full of shit, BROOKLYN'S FINEST is a cop movie so shallow, dumb, derivative and infuriating that it feels like a parody of bad cop movies. From the glaringly obnoxious opening scene of a parked car with its turn signal blinking, blinking, blinking, to the spray of cliches that blast the audience without mercy, this movie is the cinematic equivalent of waterboarding. [Jebus, Pete! You need a food processor to mix those metaphors?] We're meant to weep at the tragedy of three cops out of Brooklyn's hardscrabble 65th Precinct. Should Sal (Ethan Hawke) go on the take to support his wife and kids? Will Eddie (Richard Gere) make it to retirement? Can undercover cop Tango (Don Cheadle) come in from the cold before getting infected with scum? (Wesley Snipes, returning to movies for what? This!) Blood is splattered, but the movie feels untouched by human hands, or by a director. This is startling since that job fell to the talented Antoine Fuqua of TRAINING DAY. The script by newbie Michael C. Martin seems unplayable, and I can't say the actors do anything to disprove my supposition. I hereby sentence BROOKLYN'S FINEST to die unmourned on the DVD scrapheap.☆☆☆☆© ROLLING STONE
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Mar 11, 2010 5:06:20 PM CST
Cheeses, I think you'll like that drunk video I linked to.
by anonymoose
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It's the best movie I've seen of 2010. Better than Training Day. Peter Travers can fuck off.
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...in Jersey for a Pedalback tournament.Now we just need to recruit a nurse, or doctor, or EMT...you know, to take care of the inevitable...
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or the fly....
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I might've made a little egg salad.
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I wanna get into that so bad. IF GTA 4 was a stump I'd hump it.
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to swing by our convention and drop a bomb?Old skool ref for the vetters.
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Mar 11, 2010 5:20:18 PM CST
Ted, just wait 'til you get to the downloadable episode...
by anonymoose
...The Ballad of Gay Tony. It's fucking nuts!
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Mar 11, 2010 5:20:27 PM CST
...Gatekeeper and Keymaster, just don't cross the streams...
by flickapoo
...I don't care how long the line for the head is after the show, TAKE TURNS...flip a coin or something.
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Each Peeber gets to pick one movie.
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http://tinyurl.com/yjw6z7x
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"Crossing streams..."
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That's how you turn your kids pro-gay, actually. Ruin everybody's fun just because of two gay kids, and the only one who looks bad is YOU.
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Las Vegas is the only way to go...Cheap flights and accomidations and I have lots of connections, having lived there for 13 years...
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I'll check you guys later.
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http://tinyurl.com/yzrz2rm
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But, you gotta pay the 'Stag Charges' yourself...
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...flights. You gotta walk, swim, run, bike, drive, hang-glide, paraglide, shoot yourself in a homemade catapult or rocket...Just no commercial flights.
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Fucking Vegas! I'd have to stop living paycheck to paycheck for a while and actually save up some money, but I would be totally down for that.
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It's really the most affective form of travel I've yet discovered if your physical form is required. Otherwise, astral projection works just fine.
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Mar 11, 2010 5:37:21 PM CST
...no, it's just cooler that way. I'm still picturing this...
by flickapoo
...like something out of Cobra's or Mac's story...or THE STAND.
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...transporting and astral projection would be perfectly lawful.
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I was in an APA, fan fic self publication, and all of us met two years in a row in Chigago for the Comic-Con...Meeting those guys and partying with them account for two of my top ten favorite weekends of this life...
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...walk, swim, run or bike. Vegas is kinda hot and dry. But I'm all down for the human catapulting.
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...so long as you stay away from the gambling, strippers and prostitutes.
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Never mind.
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...bartender, I said make it a DOUBLE.
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Where else but Vegas can you get an in-room stripper dance from a chick in green body paint?Plus the Star Trek Experience is still at the Hilton, last I heard...and that is geeky goodness at it's best
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At this point, I don't think I want to. My disbelief in the whole thing would cause the plane to drop like a rock. I'd prolly bus it to Vegas.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Future_Museum
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before the public because my brother-in-law was a security officer at the Hilton. The Transporter effect really threw mw...You're in a large elevator sized room and lights flash and coalesce and suddenly you are in the transporter room...Awsomwe experience...
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anybody got some spray?
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The Brooklyn-Back eh?
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Did STLost ever review SPACE COWBOYS cos I feel the need for another 3 star classic...
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Specifically, over the right to enjoy the movie in silence. And I didn't even pay to get in.
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Now THAT is Professional.
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Not quite as complete an experience as a cold beer, but when around small children and old ladies, an appropriate sort of a good time indeed! I love SPACE COWBOYS for it's B-student approach to filmmaking.
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on the Brooklyn's Finest thread. Ellen Barkin is the best part about BF. Sorry I poked the troll and left. i had to work. I really wanted to fuck with that tool.
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Flicka, we have a competing artist!
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Oldman starts speaking to you, right before you lose consciousness.
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Mar 11, 2010 6:17:29 PM CST
I just started a new series of columns at my blog last week
by yackbacker
My so-called "Movie Classics"- I opened it with MILLER'S CROSSING which I think is pretty fucking spectacular. I am about to type out my second column now, and am debating between THE KILLING (1956) and THE GREAT ESCAPE. I'm leaning towards THE KILLING mostly because I think many people haven't seen it. What say you peebers? Or should I go with a third choice? I'm moody right now, so I can't make up my mind.
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So I can't help you there. But Miller's Crossing is fucking great. I think it's my favorite Coen Bros. film, and that's a hard hard call to make.
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Mar 11, 2010 6:21:19 PM CST
Yeah Ted- MILLER'S is, what I would call, the best of theirs
by yackbacker
but LEBOWSKI is the one I'll pop in more often.
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I watched it last week as a matter of fact.
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Yack, people prefer to read about what they know. If you choose an artsy film that no one else has seen you risk making your readers feel inadequate and potentially alienate them...
That's a general rule of thumb. I've seen and enjoyed both movies and as much as I loved THE KILLING, THE GREAT ESCAPE is an iconic classic that's endured - and if you can find something fresh and fun-to-read to say about it then I'd definitely go with that. Plus you can whistle the theme tune. Always helps. -
Mar 11, 2010 6:24:59 PM CST
Teddy, one of the characters I appreciated more after the fact
by yackbacker
from LEBOWSKI was The Dude's landlord, Marty. I love the scene where he comes and asks Dude to come to his dance recital. There's something so plain and human about that interaction. It kills me, makes me warm and sad all at once.
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Note the plurality there.
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Mar 11, 2010 6:26:34 PM CST
...I haven't seen THE KILLING and I feel inadequate already...
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...I don't care for the feeling.
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I'll take that into consideration. Maybe a Charles Bronson angle... I fucking love his "I dig! I dig!" scene.
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Ted, you've yet to see THE KARATE KID, THE KILLING, and THE GREAT ESCAPE... I envy you my son.
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There's a truth, a reality to it. Coens are good at that.
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"If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself."
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When you're reading about movies, or shootin' the shit with people online about them, do you find yourself annoyed with people (or feeling inadequate) when they come out and talk about movies you've never seen? I'm generally the opposite, I want to know about shit I don't know about. Our esteemed cinephile Conti was put me onto a bunch of great movies over the past year. That said, I can see how someone constantly telling you "Oh you gotta see this!" can get really fucking tedious.
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I love how you put Karate Kid first in that list. Classic Cobes.
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Flicka, it's an old school b&w heist movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. Trust me, it meets your '5 star old movie' minimum-entry requirements... if you ever have the opportunity it's worth staying up late for.
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Is where he meets Maude for the first time and that douche guy is sitting on the couch and he is all creepy and then they take that phone call in another language and he is left standing there. You feel alienated by these pseudo-artsy assholes and I find that I comes through so clearly. Its umcomfortable and really makes you dislike them.
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Ted, my dream is that one day you'll see the KARATE KID. You'll log onto aicn all bouncy and excited. You'll blurt out how much you enjoyed it and about how cool Miyagi is... but I won't really hear the words. I'll just be enjoying the moment, with a single tear of pride running down my cheek.
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I'm usually pretty good at copping to my inadequacies. And, like you said, it's good to be turned on to new, potentially awesome movies.
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...for the most part only I can make myself feel inadequate...other people don't know the secret tickle spots.I love hearing about movies haven't seen, although I do sort of scan to see if it's something I might be interested in or not.
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is being talkied about. I hear a lot of talk about Kurosawa here and it interests me so I don't get annoyed cause I am watching a bunch of his stuff but there is also a ton i haven't seen.Now if people start talking about obscure French cinema I tend to check out or try and re direct the thread cause it doesn't interest me. A Prophet sounds good though and I hate to pigeon hole the French but I'm just sayin.......
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Once you see THE KARATE KID you're clear to race the Kentucky Derby, eh?
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But since you all BAMFed (bless you Kurt Wagner) I will post it here as well.
It is a nice little tribute to Film Noir.
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Yeah, the movie is all over the place, it's a carnival of emotions and moods. How about Walter hugging Dude after he gets Donnie's ashes all over him? Brilliant. And the relationship between Liam and Jesus- these people really fucking exist, I'm telling you!
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They could have called it The Rapping Kid. Mekhi Phifer = MiyagiBrittany Murphy = slutty Elizabeth ShueIt even has the exact same locker room scene.Don't be mad Cobes.
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Hehehe, Conti got me into French movies. I will say this, there are some directors working in France that know how to make real thrillers, the kind that we used to make back in the 70s. Real, gritty stuff- I wish we could go back to that, but show business demands 3-D stuff, etc.
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Have you seen Un Prophete (A Prophet) yet? Damn good movie.
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is when the movie stomps the breaks of the trippy ride and you feel really bad for these guys."Fuck it Dude. Lets go bowling."I can't tell you how many times I throw my hands up and "go bowling"/smoke weed/play video games.
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I practically soiled myself with Rita Hayworth popping that hair-flip. Sweet mother, she was the finest woman of all-time.
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Mar 11, 2010 6:47:41 PM CST
Conti- I'm got a copy and am going to watch it probably tonight
by yackbacker
I'm way overdue!
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...and I still haven't seen it. I picked it up for free when my job was cleaning out Greyhound-type buses, in case you're wondering.
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I would dig her up now just to sleep with what remains of her bones.
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Mar 11, 2010 6:51:29 PM CST
Will do, Conti. Hey, didn't Gloria Grahame fuck her stepson?
by yackbacker
That was one filthy broad. Rita only acted like she was sleeping with her dad when they were dancers.
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and I saw Martyrs which fucked my world up. i'm not against it, it just doesn't catch my attention right away. I think it is the accent and the attitude.Aside....how the fuck can we as a people, a culture, a country regress so far that the art (movies here)just has no heart, edge, message, ART to it at all. I KNOW there are people out there making good music and cinema and art and we never get a chance to see it. People get upset about our government. I get upset about how stifled we are. If we can't have one can we at least have the other. We are so derived and screwed over. We don't even have ONE director we can be genuinely excited about. Nolan? They are comic book movies. Not that I'm not excited about that shit but come on.....I'm 33. This country has no soul. It's pathetic.End rant.
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The Karate Kid;)
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What a fucking disaster the scene has become. Europe is putting out more innovative, original acts. Christ, even the Canadian music scene is better than the U.S. American culture took a decade off. Maybe 9/11 was a catalyst? It's a tough question to answer...
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I am going to have to say you've been grossly misinformed. Sure, there is a lot of pretentious and overendulgent stuff they have done over the years, even stuff that I like (Last Year at Marienbad, for example - I like it, but I wouldn't recommend that film to many).
But then there is another side of French films. The side that helped name Film Noir and inspire the gritty 70s New Hollywood Movement of Scorsese, Coppola, Friedkin and Penn. Guys like Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri Verneuil, Alain Corneau and now Jacques Audiard doing really tough, gritty crime movies. -
Nicholas Ray's son. When he was 13. Then she married him like eight years later.
And the thing is she comes in a distant second for biggest Hollywood skank of the golden age, behind Barbara Payton.
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I'll get to 'em both eventually.
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by standing next to him at the gym and letting him peep my youknow.
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a complete lack of information. I'm all for expanding my horizons when it comes to cinema foriegn, French or otherwise. I'm just saying I don't usually run toward it. Listening to you and everyone else talk about it definately catches my interest though. Like I said I'll see A Prophet. I swear I will. Don't hit me.
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Hope to catch you proper villains later tonight.
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I'm seeing Alice in Wonderland tonight.
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...to pay for his movies...he truly is Moses...Now, about parting the red sea...(and by "red sea" I mean Christina Hendricks' Holy See)
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...who feels inadequate now?
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...so I gave it up for free movies too.
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i took a smart joke and mad it the most juvenile vulgar thing i could think of. it's a gift.
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if I can get on the day shift it will open up a world of free passes to me that are usually snatched up before i get to work. bastards.
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http://vimeo.com/9997154
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Ron Silver and Rutger hauer are in the movie and all anyone talks about is Sandra Bullock!
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Fuck, I love that movie...
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...in the Bay Area. I was thinking about going tomorrow, actually. : )
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....even though I didn't want to. It's a decent flick, for sure. I still don't have to like candy boy, though.
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..................... that's all. I just wanted to pause on that for a few seconds.
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...when people are discussing movies I've never heard of or seen. That's part of the attraction to the Pedalbackers, for me, anyway. You guys actually talk about movies, not argue about who can say the "coolest" thing on every talkback.
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you can like that movie without liking old whatshisname. Thank you Curtis Hanson.
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Other than to say Mississippi is broken. And that BumLove must have been very confused for a minute or two. And that I don't really love Space Cowboys. Just too silly. Anything that out silly's the premise of Armageddon is too silly.
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...I'm about to watch PROJECT RUNWAY with my DW... give me strength.
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But it's 15,000 square feet of exhibits, full motion flight simulators, NCC-1701 bridge and Star Trek 2009 in the IMAX theater. Definitely think I'm going to go tomorrow. It's supposed to rain, so it seems like the perfect day.
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...I'm not sure I have that much strength to give. I'll send positive vibes that direction, though. And it's Star Trek The EXHIBIT. P'sha. I'll get it right eventually.
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Hope it's as good as the one in egas was....
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If that "horror jam" story ever gets made into a movie, I want to play me.
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Like you were actually walking around sets n' stuff. I know the one in San Jose is in an exhibition space, but it still sounds a'ight to me. I've never seen any of the real stuff or walked on a recreated bridge. I've been in a full-motion flight simulator, but not for a Trek flight. Plus, there is evidently some cool Borg "stuff" at this one (like a cube actually used for shooting) and that geeks me out. The only drawback for me is that I'm REALLY anti-Star Trek 2009. But checking it out on IMAX as part of the price might be enough to get me to finally watch the whole thing.
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or Guildenstern?
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...should be in every movie. The world would be a better place for it.
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I can't remember fuck about my career. That's probably because what I'm currently doing is so awesome that it drowns out my past.
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the Fatheart household, too. Real Housewives!
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...movie for the very first time a couple days ago (I know, I know - I suck). Has anybody here seen All Saint's Day? Trying to decide if I want to go pick it up at Best Buy or not.
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...you wanna let me know how Harry Potter 7 & 8 are going? It's been difficult to keep my head from exploding when thinking about the fact that they're almost over. The books are over. Years and years of Harry Potter events will no longer be taking place on a regular basis. ..... sadness....
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Woot!
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Do you already own all of my movies on Blu-ray AND DVD? If not, you'd better do that first. That includes pre-ordering The Book of Eli on both formats.
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Yeah, I'm credited in Hallows, but I can't say more than that. You want to get me killed? Warner Bros. has the power to do it. You don't even know.
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I'm afraid OVERNIGHT has put me off of it.
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Warner has me by the balls on this.
Alright. I'm getting into a conference call with Nolan. Later, my doting fans. -
Until all these cheap ass DVDs are no longer available. They look just fine to me, and they'll look even better on my eventual Blu-Ray player. But right now I am able to afford so many things that I couldn't before because they're slashing prices to make room for Blu-Rays.Oh, but, yes! I own everything you've ever done on DVD. So now please tell me. Pleeease? I promise Warna Brother will never know. : )
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It's definitely worth a watch. It's a good Irish gangster movie, kind of. It's bloody and violent and has a few original twists in it. Plus, it's got a great over the top Willem Dafoe performance. However, I just saw it on cable. I had never seen it prior to that even though people talk about it all the time. That's why I thought I'd ask what people thought of All Saint's Day before plunking down some cash for it.
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Did you like boondock?? I thought it was overwrought and pretensious and pretty fukken full of itself
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I'll give ya there
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It's not perfect, and it's not great. But I have a very large rating scale for movies when watching them on cable. Cable sucks a lot, especially the networks. But if you love movies there are always old ones (from the best to the worst) popping up on the pay channels (I have all of them). Keeping in mind that it's a vaaaast ratings scale, that I have a soft spot for hard ass Irish characters, I'd give it a even 7 out of 10. It was made very inexpensively and it looked fine enough. So that's a positive. It has an ass load of people getting shot all to hell. Positive. Willem Dafoe doin' some weird ass over the top performance. Definite positive. I don't want to say too much about the premise or how it plays out in case anybody watches it in the near future. But I like what they do, I like what happens with their pops and I like how Dafoe's character plays into it. But again, I saw it on cable. If I'd paid to see it in a theater or purchased the DVD I would probably view it in a little harsher light.
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I'll be honest, I liked the first one. Not the greatest but as a little discovery off the video store shelf that not many people knew about at the time, I liked it. I then heard all the shit about Duffy and still didn't care casue I thought the movie was good for what it was. Hearing that Harvey W fucked with Duffy actually made me like Harvey less. Then I saw Overnight and it still didn't really change my opinion of BS but I at least understood the backlash and that it wasn't completely unfounded.So I was cautiously optimistic about All Saints Day. I wanted to see what Duffy could do with actual backing. The result is a strained attempt at cool that doesn't come close to the original. If you like Trailer Park Boys then you get a little smirk but otherwise it is disappointing all the way around. 2/5 and that is generous. Keep in mind I liked the first one too.
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...the guys who play the Saints are probably the weakest part of the movie. That's a negative. But that's often the case with low budget indies.
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But that's what I needed to hear about All Saint's Day. I think I'll hold off spending money to buy the DVD.
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....Duffy, his issues with HW or Overnight. So I guess I saw Boondock Saints from a pretty pure head space.
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the first one spoke to me on some level. Second one crap. If you didn't like Flannery and Reedus in 1 then you'll hate them in 2 unless you like man ass. Flannery is a bloated shadow of himself or a victim of the worst plastic surgery blunder in the last 10 years. one or the other.
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cable someday at best.
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And saying the prayers were a little cliched and watching it in a netflix dub feature with overnight didn't help..but I agree with how watching a film
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But I actually thought one of them looked very different in the trailer I saw. And I can say with confidence that man ass has never been a selling point for me regarding which movies I choose to watch. Good lookin' out.
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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, MILLER'S CROSSING, GANGS OF NY, WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY.
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To be honest, I never really caught the entire thing as it's always kinda jumbled. But they did say it was a "family prayer". That Latin parts at the end were tradition for sure, though.
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not repeating what has been said of course
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Would have to be near the top for me. Even though I think Gangs is terribly flawed. My Left Foot gets another mention for DDL. Michael Collins for sure. Shit. I'm forgetting a comedy that I totally love but the title isn't coming to me.
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great band/irish movie
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Fook yah!
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Didn't age as well as I thought it would, but it's one I still re-watch from time to time. The music is definitely great.
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That guy rules for breaking out and having a career post Star Trek.
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The Proposition. The part where the dude sings Peggy Gordon is one of my favorite scenes as of late.
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Whatever. It deals with Irishness. lol
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...discovery of 07 or 08, I forget. Absolutely love that film, and strangely, it does deal with Irishness, but it's totally Australian.
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throughout the Commitments and the music is fookin grrrrreat.
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All I can come up with is Circle of Friends, but I don't think that's it.
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so to me it is Irish. If it was an Irish guy on the moon i would call it an Irish movie not a movie about space. That is just me though.
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...Circle Of Friends was actually really good too. I had to look at it's IMDb entry. A shitload of people who went on to do great work in that one.
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...just because I think every person who claims to love movies (and particularly westerns) should see that movie. I love Unforgiven. I mean I really love that movie. But after I saw The Proposition I realized that Unforgiven is just Clint deconstructing Clint. I used to think it was Clint deconstructing the western, but that's actually what The Proposition does. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford does it too, but in a different way. I do love all three of those films passionately, though. And Dances With Wolved. So those four, I guess.
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...is pretty damn funny, though. And might make for a good watch, too.
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I love it. It's actually become something I look forward to doing. Cable is expensive and I don't think network television (first or second tier) is worth the cost. However, there are also thousands of movies that I want to see but would never pay to watch in a theater or own forever on DVD. Netflix was nice for a minute, but I didn't send them back enough. So watching movies on cable has become something I take pretty seriously. I'll look ahead and set reminders, or set the DVR to record them so I can watch them at a more convenient time. And movies OnDemand are just brilliant. I'd say I catch at least 20 movies a month that I've never seen before, which is WAY more than at any other time in my life.
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"Fookin' shite! How tha fook did Uy git stook on the fookin' mooon!?!"
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is when the guy playing Paul Hill says, "I've seen people killed in front of my fookin' hice!"
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...that they couldn't find. There'd be a protagonist group and an antagonist group. At some point there would have to be a curse filled action scene played out in low G slow motion...
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Boondock first but I knew about overnight and duffys history
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...that he couldn't punch somebody fast enough in low G would be fookin' hilaaareioos.
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Perfect, Jaka. Sums up the Irish condition. Put to song by the Bard of BS, Bono.
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For St. Patty's Day, y'all should download and listen to "The Blarney Stone" by Ween, if you don't have it already.
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good call.
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Hail Boognish.
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The dramatic tale of two Irish families stranded on the moon, fighting to see who can find their only Guiness in the vastness of the Sea of Tranquility.
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actually a moon rock and gov funds a mission to the moon for Irish astonauts to discover its history and link to the Emerald Isle. Hilarity ensues.
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After I fook her, she'll get up and sing!
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I haven't read any reviews before watching it either. It's about as tight a story without feeling the least bit contrived. It works its circular narrative without feeling like a "movie." The acting is perfectly appropriate as well- no one sticks out but everyone feels like they belong. If you like THE WIRE or similar crime epics, you need to see A PROPHET.
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I'll punch in your face and bark at the moon. EYYYYE EYYYE EYYYE!
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But it needs to work in the Searching from Guinness concept from Jaka.
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made into a filmed rock opera of sorts.
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I sure as shit am now. Thank you, sir.
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...the Blarney Stone by the Search For Guinness.
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Siiiigh. When will somebody get around to filming that masterpiece. I kid, of course.
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ween tune. imho
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Mar 11, 2010 9:48:26 PM CST
There has to be a scene, Jaka and Mac, where the heroes
by colonelfatheart
accidentally ingest some kind of psychotropic substance and end up having a bizarro night journey a la Ulysses.
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http://tinyurl.com/ybbu35m
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...finding the REAL Blarney Stone in their angry search for the Guinness. Much to their surprise, both families are there at the time of said discovery. Forcing them to heal old wounds and take joint credit for their incredible discovery.
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the moon you strick Guiness instead of oil. Lets start production. Jaka your in charge of finance.
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I'm sure we can work that in there. Shouldn't be a problem at all.
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...to play the lead, I'm in!
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We were samesys on She wanted to leave. back to back
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I think we are related;)
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Mar 11, 2010 9:52:58 PM CST
Yeah, it can be like an Irished-up spoof of STARGATE.
by colonelfatheart
Instead of the "aliens" being the inspiration for ancient Egyptian civilization, the Irish astronauts can stumble upon the civilization that planted the Irish seed through the Blarney Stone and Guinness, which isn't actually brewed, but is beamed down through some sort of teleportation ... and is actually carbonated Dark Matter.
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I'm going to have to remember moonshrums. Gotta be some use for that one. A'ight cool peops, I'm a loooong time Survivor addict and it's about to start on the West SiiiIIIIde. Catch ya in a bit...
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Yep, Jersey born and bred.
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it is the cure for Earths energy crisis.
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Is the name of a real band. They have a myspace and are on youtube. I don't know why this surprises me... nothing should at this point. But that one, yeah... that one caught me a little off guard.
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been usin' it insteada petrol! Fookin' moon coonts!"
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exit 17. Upstate NY now but I go back and visit.
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Hence, brilliant.
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Talk to you gents lateh.
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is it Mexican Irish? They love Guiness in Mehico.
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since earlier this evening.
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And they named the trail after her?
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thanks for bringing that up...I just went to library website to reserve it!
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Have some Sugar Water. http://tinyurl.com/yz7hzhe
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check yall after the commute.
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Extra oil and MSG!!!
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Have a safe drive, Mac...
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Mar 11, 2010 10:40:39 PM CST
So, thanks to Conti showing up, I'm writing about A PROPHET...
by yackbacker
That's all the better- THE KILLING and GREAT ESCAPE will always be on standby if I ever need them.
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awesome movie.
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night guys...keep on truckin'
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not responsible for words written after this point...
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Wooow. I wish I could watch that one for the first time again. Even the second or third. Great mind fuck of a movie.
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And I myself am an Aussie of fookin' Oirish descent. Feck yez.
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Did I say before it's the only film Scientists agree doesn't contain a paradox?
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...know about such things. Oh wait... you said scientists. My bad.
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Person I was going with looked up the wrong times.
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Go back to the original, peeps. KK is fine and I love Miyagi, but was pretty let down the first time I saw it because it was such a shameless rip on Rocky. THEN I found out it was from the same director. WHY would you do that? Anyway...
I said that to a jerk at an FX house because I knew he was a big fan. He didn't talk to me for 3 days. Which was just fine by me!
8 Mile I found just as similar to Flashdance. Yes. Flashdance. I didn't make it through the Eighties unscarred I guess. Although I never understood why I received the soundtrack for my 16th Birthday. The Ghostbusters shirt was cooler.
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THE INFORMER by John Ford and THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY.
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Pudenda.
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Every Tex Avery cartoon with yer old pal, Spoik.
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I probably ask you more specific questions about your thoughts after I read your review.
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Duuude. I absolutely loved it. The longer version of my thoughts is here: http://tinyurl.com/yakvzy2
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Dude. That actually works for me. Too funny.I totally dig the original Karate Kid. It's well made teen angst from the eighties, and it packs a great emotional pay off. Plus, Mr. Miyagi is just a great movie character. He'll live forever, no matter how badly the new one sucks. Rocky is still better, though. So is Rocky II and Rocky III... I won't take it any farther than that. Apologies if I already crossed any unseen lines.I think I'm talking myself out of seeing Alice. I'm just going to go to the Star Trek Exhibit instead.
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Angela's Ashes (duh). Ryan's daughter. In America. My Left Foot (duh). Waking Ned Devine.
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Good call. I included My Left Foot because for some reason I can just never forget the (Irish) pub scene. Angela's Ashes never crossed my mind and I don't think I've ever heard of Ryan's Daughter (put it on the list).
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Yes. 8 Mile is a modern Karate Kid. He tries, he fails, he sharpens his skills with the help of a sage adviser, gets beat down by a group of rivals, slays his adversary with a unique style and last but certainly not least, both movies have the scene at the "tournament" when the group of "bad guys" come over to our hero and try to psych him out. Oh and I wanted to fuck both of their mothers.
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Colm Meaney was never in any danger. He didn't break out with Star Trek, he had a career before, so had no problem after. On the other hand, he could've been unknown to American audiences though...
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You pretty much summed up my same feelings about the film, especially the 70s grittiness. The film has this Friedkin, Coppola and even Bogdanovitch quality to it.
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I miss them. I mean, I miss them a lot. They were a great, great BAND. They were always overshadowed by Michael, but as a band, they were smokin'. Solidly in the pocket, funky ass white boys from Australia. As seen here http://tinyurl.com/b2qnjb and here http://tinyurl.com/y9nkjoj
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This Guinness is for you. Feck yuh.
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Starring Brendon Gleeson. It's got Jon Voight doing an Irish accent. Awesome heist flick.
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I was watching it going "Ah, so this is what SCARFACE would have been like had Oliver Stone not written it!"
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Well, that's what we claim the most, on my mother's side, anyway. Grandpa is Scotch-Irish.
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being the cinematic Ten Commandments to all hip-hop wannabes than Stone's script. But Christ, was it a perfect storm with Pacino. I love the movie, but it offends my intelligence on several levels.
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I don't know if "Americans" didn't know of him, but I certainly didn't. I'm sure I've seen stuff he did before TNG now, though. I'm just glad he cared enough to try. That's my gripe with Trek series actors. It's not that they can't get work, it's that they can live comfortably for the rest of their loves on residuals so they just don't try (or they become directors, because that's what they always wanted to do anyway). Meaney clearly cared about acting because he tried, and actually got some great parts, too.
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a recognizable character actor in the states pre ST.
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I certainly never expected people to be discussing it openly, though. But I also love it.
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Fucking professional. (sigh) Another gritty movie not made by Americans...
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I'm not sure how much I was actually paying attention character actors back then. I certainly wouldn't have known a good one from a bad one.
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It's a fable, a children's story for people who love violence, mountains of coke and maybe some incest. I liked it too!
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Although their first big single, "Just keep Walking" is still about the best thing they ever did. I miss 'em too. Loved Michael's out-there experiment with Max Q (you should check it out if you've never heard of it). Years later I thought they resurrected themselves from the stadium rock/anthem thing brought on by the success of Kick, when they did Welcome to Wherever You Are. Which I think was Michael saying - look - I was right! (about Max Q being the way forward). Too bad he had to chuck a David Carradine (before even he did). Yes, he overshadowed things, but look at the sad joke they've become with that knockoff they got from the reality show. I actually thought it was a shame they couldn't work things out with that other talented-but-enormous-ego, Terrence Trent Darby. I think I'm one of the few that had all his albums. Good God the man has soul in his bones and a voice I would fekkin' kill for. Ah TTD, how I mourn your demise, no matter how well-earned.
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Jinx!
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Creepy synergy there. Are you eating a log of cheese too right now?
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...Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues" Fook yaaa. Also guested on Remington Steele, MacGuyver and Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. First movies I remember him in (after digging his work as Chief O'Brien in TNG) were The Commitments, Far and Away (Irishness? Does Tom Cruise negate the Irishness?) and The Last of the Mohicans.
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Diane Lane was 17 or so at the time, and she is all sorts of jailbait in it. Terrible film, amazing movie.
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is a fekkin' tosser! Fook that wee coont!
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Hells yeah I know Max Q, I still have their first album on CASSETTE, dude. Everything they've attempted to do since Mike did the Carradine Dance has, indeed, sucked. Yes! Absolutely they would have ruled with TTD. No! You're not the only one. I actually own several of TTD's albums as Sananda Maitreya (check em out here if you haven't http://www.sanandamaitreya.com/ ). They're still good because his voice is just so damn incredible. But MAAAAAN what an ego. Music is my drug, man. I love pretty much all of it other than modern country and pop.
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(in best Homer voice)
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He claims BF is like MEAN STREETS and SERPICO. Is he right? Or is he not right (a.k.a. wrong)?
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...is Diane Lane.
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...it seems to be getting pretty positive reviews all over the place. And I'm always down for a good Don Cheadle part.
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I love Cheadle too.
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I want him to experiment with something. Cheeses, mix Vodka, heavy cream, and lemonade in equal parts and try it. This woman seemed to enjoy it.
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In love the Greengrass camerawork too.
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Sweet Irish Dreams.
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I was bracing myself for some surprise Futa or something through the whole video
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I want to hit that Star Trek Exhibit tomorrow and I still want to get some reading in tonight. Nice chattin' again. Catch y'all latah. Peace.
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Watch out for the little people, those wee buggers.
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Ricky Gervais just had a self-aware moment, ranting about how bizarre and ridiculous the show is. Larry David is being Larry David. Madonna makes me wish she stopped existing in the 90s.
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and opening his 16th beer of the day, even as we speak...
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the Marriage Ref....
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Thanks for the link. Jayzus Mary & Joseph (can't get out of Oirish mode), he's still talking about himself in the third person! What a king-sized prat.
Speaking of Oirish, Last time I was at Venice Beach a coupla years ago, I bought myself one of those novelty shirts that says "Irish Yoga" - with drunk guys passed out on the floor, then backwards over a chair etc. Got it to take the mickey (or Mick) out of me Da, the old Irish-Catholic drunk. I'll never forget how embarrassed I was when I brought my now-wife home (she's of Eye-talian extraction). It was dusk, and you couldn't see too well. There was this monstrous sound coming from around the back of the house, and as we got closer my wife's like, "What IS that?". I thought maybe it was my big black Cattledog/Labrador, but as we got nearer we discovered to my horror it was my Dad, passed out backwards lying on a bench (& hanging off either end), gut exposed and snoring like a freight train, Beer cans scattered about. I said to my wife, "Sorry you had to see that"... -
My daughter has come home many mornings to find me passed out and snoring at my computer desk...and I'm Welsh...
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on my 30th birthday I passed out in my recliner only to get up black out blasted, do an about face and proceed to piss all over the shoes in my foyer. My brother yelled at me (apparently waking a drunk sleep walker is ok) I pinched it off and finished up in a near by bathroom.
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when I reached over to check the time my night stand was completely soaked. The near by window was closed. There was no glass of water available. You figure this one out Columbo.
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curled up on the rug in front of my toilet in my house in Vegas. I guess I could find my way to the pisser, but not the way back to bed...
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Mar 12, 2010 12:50:17 AM CST
And those fuzzy covers chicks insist on putting on toilet lids..
by cheeses_of_nazareth
just soak up piss like a sham-wow...
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Mar 12, 2010 12:53:21 AM CST
Sleep walking takes on a 'russian roulette' danger...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
when you sleep in the nude...
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My buddy Joe insisted on driving drunk but my other buddy Rick wouldn't hear of it. They made a deal. Joe would stay if Rick did too. Joe took the couch and Rick took the floor. Early the next day Rick was woken by a gentle mist hitting his face. It was the splash of Joe pissing all over my coffee table. Rick says,"What the Fuck." Joe just looked at him like,"I'm taking a piss...duh."
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its a constant battle in my house. 3 guys and my girlfriend. She is thrilled.
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Maybe not meeting/having a piss-up (that's drinks people) with all you guys is a GOOD thing.
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Same Joe as before. We were visiting a friend at Ohio State. We all get nuked. This girl passes out on the couch and with no place else to crash Joe passes out on the floor right in front of the couch. This girl rolls off the couch and straddles Joe and then wets herself. Joe comes to, thinking he is getting lucky only to realize he, and she are covered in piss.
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due to drinking to excess. i'm sure i have jinxed it now.
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when you were sober, Mac?
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I hate guys not being able to aim or put the lid down. I know, I know. But my God, drunken guys are one thing. My kids (one boy & twin girls) make an unholy mess and don't even have beer to blame for it!
Speaking of which one of my mates is very pragmatic when it comes to getting pissed/pissing all over the place. He reckons that when he's drunk he doesn't even try to aim. Just sits down! The big girl. Smart though. -
I just never left my room.
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- if you're into that sorta thing...
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my parents woke up to find my brother pissing all over the tv in their room. that went over well.
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ya whizzed on the electric fence, didn'tcha?!
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but i prefer log. its big. its heavy. its wood. its better than bad, its good.
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is a shocking experience...
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My cousin (notice how it never happens to me, heh) and I were playing on a jetty and jumping/walking on & off a little old boat with cabin & stuff & onto the jetty. But he did that thing where you've got one foot on the boat & one on the wharf, and consequently pushed the boat further away.
It was pretty funny, especially when we both realised he was too far gone to get back onto either. We were laughing so hard he pissed his pants before falling into the drink. I'm crying even remembering it. Which reminds me, gotta return his call (and remind him)... -
if you do it again, you must have liked it the first time...
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to much bourbon. You know how when your at the end of a handle and it is hard to estimate how much exactly is sitting on the bottom of the bottle? Well now I have damn near five fingers in this here tumbler. Not the worst thing that ever happened to me.
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Out now, from BLAMMO! Oh and add that to the list of what I've been introducing my kids to. Did I talk about the infamous Ren & Stimpy scratch 'n' sniff book in a previous PB?
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shit. .05 seconds and no one would have been the wiser. thats shit luck right there.
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space madness is the greatest. "I've had this ice cream bar...since i was a child. Ahhuuumm!"
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"No sir. I don't like it."
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What would Powdered Toast Man do?
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never saw it til now. I'm not overly impressed. Lynch gave it style but it is clear that the story was squeezed together. I can barely tell what the fuck is going on. Nice underpants Sting.
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You'll be pissin' on the nightstand before you know it!
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Space Madness,Stimpy's invention, Ren's toothache, Nurse Stimpy, are brilliant,
but Sven Hoek is pure genius.
Cadet Stimpy flicks Commander Hoek with towel - "Hey (coyly), cut it out!" -
busy weekend ahead...will try to get pictures...
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is the only 70's cop drama I give a damn about.
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What does it do? I DUNNO! Maaaaaybe something bad? Maaaaaaaybe something good? I guess we'll never know for sure! Because you're not going to touch it!
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Can Stimpy resist pushing the big red button? The jolly, CANDY-like button? Will he hold out folks? CAAAAAN he hold out? "NO, I CAN'T!!!" *pushes the button*
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BOOM! Cut to title card: BOOM!
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eager young space cadet!
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My aunt and Uncle are taking my young cousin to the University of Kentucky to check out the campus, so I'm charge of her younger brothers. I let them stay up past midnight last night to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (which I thought was the most boring Harry Potter ever), and I had to wake the youngest one up at 6:40. Now I should go back to sleep, but I hear some cleaning ladies are showing up at some point. Honestly, I'm about to make the move to the couch.
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AICN LATE WITH THE NEWS! Or better yet, I bet, AICN WON'T REPORT THE NEWS! Just like Mark Strong is Green Lantern, this will be overlooked too I bet. Or well, its early yet, let's see how the day plays.
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He's only in talks. But that hasn't stopped AICN from reporting possibilities before.
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I wish they'd hurry up and get to the end already so something would happen. The last two films have just been treading water, except for a bit of a tease with old noseless. I actually didn't read the books on purpose (besides some of the first) because I wanted to see if the films worked on their own, as films. The first was astoundingly lousy, with redundant scenes and others relying on the audience's knowledge to fill in the blanks. Lazy stuff, and the most insidious thing was that it was so slavish to the book that besides not working as a movie in it's own right, it committed the cardinal sin of the only big difference being that in the movie, you didn't even have to use your imagination. Undoing all the great work of the books and their popularity. Making the whole thing a 2 hour ad for the book - but an ad we PAID to see! Liked the second one a bit better, loved the third. Fourth, marking time, fifth, marking time...
The thing is, even though I'm guessing it won't happen, for a proper plot resolution and character arc, I reckon Ron really has to die/sacrifice himself for his friends. Making the less confident clown show his true colours and commitment and the noble and loyal friend no-one else really noticed he was. Giving Hermoine's character a tragic twist and setting her on a more adult course, her drive becoming more obsessive and given real meaning, rather than the anal-retentive flake from before. And Harry realising that you don't have to be a pre-ordained "chosen one" to do the big stuff. Of course Ron's demise would be at the hands of the noseless wonder, and ratchet up the drama to give Harry the final resolve he needs to finally carry out the terrible task. He would be bonded forever as family with Hermoine after the loss of his 'brother'.
Anyway I think that'd be cool. They'll never do it though.
But getting back to telegraphing (hah! segue!), what about that Hermoine chick's eyebrows. They make every one of her lines redundant! My God she is a lousy bloody actress.
Oh and Big V, on the telegraphing thing, did you see my final post re-explaining about the "t-rex can still creep up/we DON'T have to see him" stuff? I think you thought I was being more on-the-nose than I actually was. Aaaanyway...
I'm babysitting my kids today (Saturday), as my wife works today. I think a bit of Indiana Jones night be on the cards to continue their filmic education. Well, the boy at least.
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My next Oirish story is that when I was a kid, I kissed the Blarney stone when we went to the old country (my Dad's named Kerry, after the county). Then I found out that the locals piss on it 'casue they hate the tourists.
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Go the Aussies. Fookin' professional.
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I'll only go see the last movie(s) out of duty to my fiancee. That last book didn't need to be turned into two movies. There's this big chunk where the three principals are just trudging around in the woods, more like something out of Beckett than fantasy fiction. It's fucking boring and repetitive. The climax will pay off handsomely, though.
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Don't tell me though. Luckily I've forgotten since the usual tools spoiled the end without warning. Speaking of which, I better hurry up and get back to Lost...
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A little too overwrought, but it's honest and marvelous to look at it. The score is among the best ever, I think.
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I've got The Fountain, but still haven't watched it. Gotta hit the treadmill, so I might whack it on.
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I had all my hair and most of my beard shaved off yesterday for that leukaemia/world's greatest shave thing, and everyone I ran into afterwards, without prompting said I looked like an Irish gangster. My wife said I looked like Bono. Then I put a hat on, and she said The Edge. Off, Bono. On, Edge. On...
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Obie!
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Great fookin' movie. Helen Mirren was fookin' hot.
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Mar 12, 2010 8:11:45 AM CST
I disagree, the last book DOES need to be split into 2 movies
by d.vader
Its that dense with plot resolution and references to previous stories/movies. Especially the way the last movie ended, it HAS to be two movies. Have you read the books Colonel? There's no way they could do the last one as one movie and have it wrap things up satisfactorily. As for HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, it was just so damn boring. And I've NEVER been bored in a Harry Potter movie. I just didn't care for the melodramatic subplot about all the snogging and whatnot (though I do think its a good thing to be shown, to see these characters growing up and doing teenage things). It just got in the way of the REAL plot, the fatherly Dumbledore training Harry for the final showdown with Voldemort. But once again, fucking David Yates screwed things up, not having any clue of how to work in foreshadowing and doubt, not knowing how to REALLY wring out all the tragedy of certain situations (not being spoilerific here) and basically not going for the monkey. Sometimes I'm really happy with the way he does things, but on the whole, I hate the guy and don't like him for Harry Potter.
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I did see your last post about it, but I didn't entirely understand what you were going for. You are right, I DID think, in your first post, you were talking about being too on the nose. How much telegraphing did you want there? And Indiana Jones is a great film for the kids' education. These cousins I'm watching today, I showed them Temple of Doom years ago when the youngest one was probably 6. Yeah, the heart-grabbing scene freaked him out a little bit.
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Magical realism children's film that all ages can appreciate about a girl who goes to a small secluded Donegal fishing town for the summer and begins to uncover a dark family secret that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human.
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I was just monumentally bored with great swaths of the last one. I agree on Yates, though. He has a great eye, and he gets good performances out of his cast, but he just fucking fumbles all the big, emotional stuff.
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God, Bob Hoskins is an amazing and underrated actor. He is frighteningly mesmerizing in Felicia's Journey as a creepy middle-aged English psycho who tries to help a young Irish girl get an abortion which is a huge no-no in Irish Catholic Culture. Highly recommended. Wonder if Conti saw this one.
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It might be my favorite. I thought it was a great way to end the series, and as a "last" chapter, I loved the way it referenced every previous book to remind you of how far they've come. And if they stick to the blueprints, they've got an AWESOME climax in their hands. But nothing Yates has shown me so far instills any confidence in me that this will be the case, not after dickless neutered the endings to both the 5th movie and 6th one, completely cutting out the battle scenes. Yates just flat out sucks in my opinion. They hired a man who'd never read the Potter books at the time, and to me seems more like a director they can control rather than one they hired for being a good storyteller. Sometimes he has a few cool shots. But on the whole, like you said, he fumbles all the big emotional moments (the end of the last, 5th movie), and he seems unable to grasp *why* scenes from the book are important, both to the particular chapter they belong to, but also in the grand scheme of things (also thinking of the end of the last 5th movie, and others). He has no clue about foreshadowing and setup (though I was surprised one particular element was handled the way it was in the 6th movie- the locket Horcrux). I know some of the blame must be passed to the screenwriter, but come on, if you're the man in charge you should know how to do things right. And in my opinion, he doesn't. And what's up with this movie being fairly devoid of tension too, up until the very end? That one girl puts on a cursed necklace and is flying around in the air and slams into the ground, dying. And no one shouts for help. No one runs off. They just stand there until Hagrid comes casually strolling up- fucking STROLLING- and says "Hey everyone, stand back." Jeebus Cristo, how bout some friggin' urgency here man. I can name a number of other scenes like this that both A) should have had more tension and B) went on for way too long.
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Nice take on Yates, Vades.
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He does some good things. I enjoyed the first half of the 5th movie and thought he did everything almost pretty much right at that point. But in my opinion he sucks. "Flat out sucks" is too much, since he's done *some* good. So I'll stick with just plain "sucks".
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Mar 12, 2010 9:02:08 AM CST
I had a dream about a black cat last night that tried to kill me
by d.vader
It looked just like my girlfriend's cat. And it acted normal around everyone else. But for some reason, as soon as it saw ME, it went into a blood-thirsty rage and would run towards me screaming and hissing and would start clawing and biting the shit out of me. I spent the entire night dreaming of running away from the thing, climbing up walls and railings, standing on homemade towers of junk trying to get away. Sometimes I was clinging to window sills, kicking the thing. Other times I would somehow get away, or trap it in a certain room or lock it outside. But some jerkoff would unknowingly open a door and let it in. And the cat would be all loving and tender to them, but as soon as it saw me across the room- RAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! It tears off in my direction, leaping onto my hand and biting my fingers, its claws digging into my skin and I try to shake the thing off. This happened so damn often in my dream, that I tried changing tactics, and sometimes would try sprinting right back at the cat, hoping to scare it away, or in the end hoping to kick it across the room, but the damn thing was just too fucking NIMBLE! Aye yai yai, that thing was TERRIFYING.
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You shoulda tried pissing on it. Considering our overnight conversation above, I reckon the rest of the guys woulda sprayed the thing and marked their territory out but good. They seem to have an endless supply. Too much beer maybe. If cats hate being wet, they probably loath being pissed on.
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That cat will suck your soul out through your nose!
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I have pretty much the same exact recurring dream. Except sometimes it's my family's old dead dog. But, what I found is that if instead of reacting to the damn thing if you just let it go on biting and realize that it is just a dream the pain will eventually stop and the animal will get bored. Try it and see if it works.
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Hoskins is great. One of my faves many years back was The Dunera Boys, about immigrants coming to Oz. Hoskins plays a hard case. I seem to recall a scene where he thinks his sister has been having it off with some guy, so he gets down and sniffs the bedsheets where the wet spot would be. Geez! Or maybe that was the original (and best) Pennies from Heaven. Which was thought to be lost for years when those involved with the Hollywood version tried to burn/destroy copies of the other. If memory serves the infamous Rick McCallum had something to do with that. Hey, not that I'm implying the two are related...
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who would attack me while I slept. I used to sleep downstairs on the couch sometimes and I guess she didn't like me invading her privacy at night so she would literally run around the room until she gained maximum momentum and then leap full force right into my face. You wanna talk about some frightening a$$ shite to wake up to!
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The cat was hanging on to my hands with its teeth and claws, slashing and tearing everything to bits... and it really didn't hurt as much as I thought it would.
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Will sometimes run around in circles in the house, then come sprinting into the bathroom while I'm sitting on the toilet and come jumping up between my legs, putting her front paws on my knees and head in my face and start MEOWING incessantly.
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WhiteV & Jaka, I had the Max Q album on cassette years ago too, 'Way Of The World' was just an incredible track...
I've wanted to get it on Mp3 ever since but never found it (at least not on any of the freebie sites).. a lost treasure. -
On the subject of Irish gangster movies has anyone seen a flick called STATE OF GRACE?
Think it was early Nineties... but I remember it as being a really cool movie - plus it not only starred Ed Harris but our very own Gary Oldman. Anyone else seen it or did I just dream it up? -
Great fookin' cast too. But am I the only one who finds Sean Penn's "acting" kind of funny? He's that guy in drama club in high school who was just a too little serious about playing munchkin #4 in THE WIZARD OF OZ. I sometimes laugh my ass off whenever he's on screen.
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...at some point in the dream I've always had enough and kill the cat or badguy or whatever......but they won't die. They're not really a threat anymore, but they're scary because their head's half off, or their guts are on the floor and all...they just keep struggling, and struggling...now I feel like shit because the creature wouldn't stop coming after me...it wanted to hurt me...right? Right? I think so...now I'm not sure anymore....why the FUCK won't this thing die? I don't even want it dead anymore, but now it's hurt far too bad to recover...I've got to put this thing out of its misery fast...WHACK, WHACK...BANG!...BANG!...AAAAGGGHHH...it's still moving!.
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for one of his British mob films. What a wasted opportunity. I would love to see Bob reprise his mobster from long Good Friday.
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Three day weekend!! That's how I roll.. I think I'm gonna go see Remember Me to celeb!!!
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"cat was hanging on to my hands with its teeth and claws, slashing and tearing everything to bits.." It's funny we have the exact same recurring dream. I wonder if the dream means anything other than fear of pudenda.
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Wish I had a 3 day weekend. What time do you start drinking?
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You're weird, dude!
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About humanity's struggle to survive after robots attack. Seriously. Let's see AICN cover this one.
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Oh, it's Capitalism: A Love Story. No, that's cool. I do want to see that.
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ASAFP...hoskins was awesome in LGF! Love that ending! Mona Lisa too was great.
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...trying to kill something in self defense...but the thing just won't die?It's horrible, because it starts out as a clear cut case of fear and self defense, but ends up as pity, guilt, moral ambiguity, and horror.Then you either wake up, or the running starts all over again.
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Mar 12, 2010 10:14:34 AM CST
...coincidentally, I think it's possible that it goes back to...
by flickapoo
...an incident with a cat.I was about five, and a cat was crossing the street in front of my house. I shot at it with my cap-gun...the old kind with real gunpowder that made a big bang. Anyway, the cat froze. Now I don't know, but at the time I was convinced that it froze because I scared it. The yard had hedges around it, so you could only see the little stretch of road that opened for the driveway...and a fast moving car suddenly appeared and hit the cat. It rolled under the car for a while and then flew out into a ditch.I went to check, and the mangled thing was still moving...I told my dad what had happened, and he killed it with a shovel. He told me to stay in the yard, but I found a way to watch from a distance...[shudder]
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by lotharius3rd1118 Mar 12th, 2010
08:19:58 AM
Stopped watching Precious after the father/daughter rape scene in which every thrust was punctuated by an extreme close-up of fried food and pig's feet. Jesus fucking Christ, that is the most disgusting, repulsive, look-Mom-I'm-being-artistic, wastes of time ever committed to film. -
Rape scene in precious
by homer40 Mar 12th, 2010
10:01:13 AM
Yea, the cut aways in Precious reminded me of the cut aways in Deep Throat, in which every swallow was accompanied by shots of fireworks and rockets and such. Russ Meyer did the same in some of his sex scenes. Deep Throat was a better film than Precious, as was pretty much anything Russ Meyer did, including Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens. You might be wondering why I would compare precious to a straight up porn movie, or the Russ Meyer pseudo-porn films, and I don't have any idea. -
No doubt. That's a pretty facked up story, dude. We used to catch minnows in the creek by our house and lay them on the street to get run over by cars.
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...that's good work right there.
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Because everything I hear sounds like some huge potential for unintentional comedy gold, but then I hear that no it's not funny, just bad.
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Mar 12, 2010 10:22:07 AM CST
...um, I love the excerpts, not the minnows thing, although...
by flickapoo
...I did things like that from time to time...mostly slugs and snails.I killed a lizard once, but felt really bad and sick about it.
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Tell me that there is absolutely zero white guilt or political correctness involved.
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That makes me real sad and is actually one of my worst fears. That one day I'm going to come across an animal that was hit by a car but is still alive, and then what am I going to do. =(
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Mar 12, 2010 10:26:15 AM CST
I put glass jars, banana peels, and large branches in the street
by d.vader
And we hid in the bushes and watched cars run over them. Something in my head made me think a car hitting a banana peel would work like the cartoons.
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In our neighborhood, a few blocks away, there was a creek that ran through two dead end streets that butted up against the creek. You could cross to the other street by using the green bridge, and old walkway bridge made of metal. My friends and I would go there to hang out all the time. One time I showed up and there floating in the water was a dead dog. It had to have been someone's and not a stray, bc it looked like a Corgi. Not the kind of dog you see running around wild. The banks of the creek were steep, but I carefully slid down to take a look at it. It was the first time I'd ever seen a dead dog up close. Most of it was submerged underwater as it lay on its side, but part of its body, the side of his chest, was exposed to the air. And so, in this big hole in its side, where hundreds of wriggling maggots. I didn't like the sight of it, nor the idea of this poor dog being eaten by maggots as it floated around this creek. So I got a large stick and started trying to push the dog underwater, hoping water would seep into whatever wounds the maggots hard torn into it. After a lot of work, I finally got to sink a bit, hopefully drowning all those maggots and protecting the dog from that kind of decomposition. What happened to it underwater, though, is beyond me. Always felt bad for that poor pup, though, and wrote about this story in my creative writing class in college after having forgotten about it for probably 10 years or more.
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...flipping right up, hanging in mid air for a second...and then coming down flat on its back...skidding along, sparks...Oh, man.
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...I was right there with you for a minute...
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...for a long time I saw cars as an active enemy, out to get us...so any trick or trap you could set up for a car was god's work...score one for our team...one less dead kid on the streets.Fortunately I didn't try anything too stupid or elaborate, but I'm sure I'm responsible for some flat tires in the 70s...
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would shoot out of the peel like rockets when run over.
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"And where is The Banhammer?," asked The Joker. "At home, washing his tights?" ...March 11, 2010 ...Node #44181 ...Mac thinks only spammers need to be banned. We'll see how that theory holds up by the afternoon. ...Somebody confesses [splutter] to a reviled film [cough, cough] that he was involved with. Then, he confesses to another. ...'moose ranks the ALIEN films. ...Mac volunteers for a future "Some Guy & Some Other Guy." How about it Stabs or 'Lop? We've got a summer full of contenders. CLASH OF THE TITANS, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, IRON MAN 2, THE KARATE KID, THE A-TEAM, JONAH HEX (I'm "Some Guy" on this one!), PREDATORS. Teddy and Cheeses have reserved KICK-ASS, so pencil that one in for April 19th. ...Italian synthesized 80s pop music (http://tinyurl.com/mtpqf6) and whatever this is (http://tinyurl.com/yjbtzg5) ...Gary Busey, spitting drunk (http://tinyurl.com/yjprztc) ...In the latest episode of the horror jam, "Mary Catherine" gets a face-full of "Future Schlukkter." ...In the latest episode of Pedaltrek, Space Ass-Pirates spray their gunk all over the U.S.S. Oldman. ...Teddy doesn't get it, as he listens to some cool tunes on his iPod. ...Col. meets Mr_George_Kaplan, The Artist Formerly Known As Youngdog. ...He also slams PRECIOUS, and I agree. It's all the director Lee Daniels' fault. ★★☆☆☆ ½ ...Sixies and Jaka smooth over some ruffled feathers, remembering The First Rule of Pedalback: Scrape your shoes outside so you don't drag any of that shit in onto the carpet. ...Yack wakes up with something funny. (http://ow.ly/1fyjo) ...The love for CONAN THE BARBARIAN has continued overnight and through the morning. ...Flick shares one of his cover illustrations. (http://i43.tinypic.co m/n5qwk8.jpg) ...Stabby takes a stab at guessing. ...Yack nominates THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER as a perfect film. ...Stabby and savagedave (Hiya, savagedave! Where you been?) have degrees in film. ...Sixies wonders if characters in THE DARK KNIGHT were named after his college History of Film professor. ...Jebus! I haven't even Subbarized® yesterday yet! ..."Superboy" TV clips (http://tinyurl.com/yack9gf), (http://tinyurl.com/ybv73zc), (http://tinyurl.com/y938ga4), (http://tinyurl.com/ybtmwc8), (http://tinyurl.com/yhotax2) ...Hell has frozen over: The fridge nuking gets some props. ...Rancid eggsalad disproves Mac's Banhammer theory and gives everybody cramps. ...Granny capitalists (http://vimeo.com/10080719) ...Clumsy, awkward, mystery BAMF! ...Node #44181 + 1 ...04:19:40 P.M.: Sixies makes it official. ...Teddy and 'moose bond over Rockstar® video games and PS3®. (http://tinyurl.com/cf26ey) ...Teddy and Cheeses make a date. ...Col. suggests a Peeber Convention in Jersey. ...Peter travers of ROLLING STONE thinks BROOKLYN'S FINEST isn't even worth a star. ...Prom is cancelled in Mississippi because a young lesbian woman wants to wear a tuxedo and that might put the jock and the cheerleader in societal-sexual jeopardy and a kibosh on the whole educational value of prom. (http://tinyurl.com/yjw6z7x) ...No offense to Jersey, we settle on Las Vegas as the possible site of a future First Annual Peeber Convention. ...How many frickin' STAR TREK EXPERIENCES are there scattered across the country? ...Yack wonders if people want to read blogs about movies they've seen or movies they haven't seen. It's probably moot, depending on how well-written the blog is. Cobes thinks most don't want to read about artsy-fartsy movies, but by the same token, I'd rather have an itchy rash where I couldn't scratch than read another word about [deleted]. Still, Cobes and I would probably reverse our own rules in the case of something written with a good sense of humor. ...'Lop shares a tribute to Film Noir. (http://tinyurl.com/y8mhrku) ...GaryOldman pops his big, ASCII head in and says howdy. ...Col., Jaka, Sixies and Mac celebrate Irish Film, riffing on BOONDOCK SAINTS, MILLER'S CROSSING, Daniel Day-Lewis, THE COMMITMENTS, Ween and others, while brainstorming their own sci-fi epic featuring Irish Catholic brothers on an expedition to the moon to find The Blarney Stone who find, instead, a thick, dark, frothy substance that might be a sustainable energy source, but they decide to drink it and beat the fook oudda aich udder. ...Yack recommends A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE). (http://tinyurl.com/yakvzy2) ...Notshit®: Cibo Matto - "Sugar Water" ...Scientists agree 12 MONKEYS is the only time-travel sci-fi film that doesn't trip over a gaping paradox. ...vanilla thinks a better comparison for 8 MILE is FLASHDANCE. (Is 8 MILE the thing where M&M pretends to be Vanilla Ice pretending to be Prince in PURPLE RAIN?) ...'Lop and vanilla join Erin Go FilmFest, bringing more films, cartoons, books and Colm Meaney. ...INXS: Then And Later Then (http://tinyurl.com/y9nkjoj), (http://tinyurl.com/b2qnjb) ..."Ah, that Tahm Crooze is a fekkin' tosser! Fook that wee coont!" ...Whoo! [wipes sweat off brow] ... -
I'm trusting you on this one, bud.
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...it gets much better once the whole business moves to Rome.And like I said...don't be sober.
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...his first post of the day and he's pooped.
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the horror of being eaten by maggots relative to the horror of being nibbled upon by fish and eels and the cartoon physics of banana peels applied to automobiles.Just the most awesome 12 hours of Pedalbackery, ever.
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I'll only hop in and out, like a demon cat in Vader's dreams. Flick, by the way, you're not the only one to kill things in your dreams. I've done it in both self-defense and out of bloodlust. Once I dreamed I was the killer at the beginning of SCREAM, only instead of gutting Drew Barrymore, I beat her face in until it was an unrecognizable tangle of blood, muscle and bone. I woke in a cold sweat, instantly feeling guilty about all the bad I'd ever done or would end up doing. Ruined my week.
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I commend Subtitles' talents.
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Reading those stories reminds me of when I was mowing the lawn when I lived at home. It was kinda long. Came up to a few tufts of grass. Weird noise. A few baby rabbits jumping about. My heart stops. One didn't make it. Still kinda moving but the blades did their job too well. I couldn't finish mowing the lawn. Now if grass is unusually long, i'll check to make sure there isn't a rabbit nest. Poor guy (or gal).
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I usually have awesome dreams that I'm some kind of "hero" and always have to deal with some kind of terrorists plots, like they're holding hostages in a mall or office building. I usually sneak around and use my gun or fight a bad guy for a gun, and get people to help. It's awesome. I tell me wife the next morning, and she thinks I'm crazy.
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Jaka started something over at Googleville that I really like, where he posted an introduction that listed links to his interests. An expanded profile, if you will.I encourage the other twenty of us to do the same. We can link to other sites we frequent and want to share, or - and this is really where I want to go with this - link to our own creativity.Give me a little bit of time - I have to run it by The Boss (moose) - and we might re-name Jaka's thread to something more generic - but I'll make it clear.Hopefully, everyone will pocket their shyness and their modesty, even just a little, and participate.
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...Childhood Villainy...I'm remembering all sorts of stuff...One interesting one (to me at least) is that there had been some bad earthquakes in Italy when I was a kid...we felt at most a few tremors, but they made a big impression.Anyway, I would cut little people out of paper, and draw and color on them...one would be me, one for each family member...a bunch of random strangers, and a few villains.I'd spend an hour or so building as complicated and tall a tower as possible out of my wooden blocks...then I'd arrange the little people in the structure randomly.Next came a slow and morbid game of Death Jenga...I'd remove one block at a time from the base until the tower fell. I'd very carefully excavate the rubble one block at a time looking for victims and survivors...finally drawing in any injuries with a red marker.I remember being particularly interested in who lived and who died...did I survive? Friends? Family?...how about the strangers and villains?I remember running the experiment again and again and again...hoping for the perfect outcome. Turns out that good guys and bad guys bite the big one equally. The universe doesn't give a shit.
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I had exactly the same experience with the lawn mower and a kindling of baby rabbits. I forget how old I was, but that messed me up!
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You were born for a creative life, Flick.At the same age, I was probably bashing GI Joes and Matt Mason dolls together (nobody'd coined the phrase "Action Figure" yet).Joe and Matt were fighting, by the way, not destroying The Institution of Marriage.Pedestrian and dull compared to Paper Doll Cataclysm.
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...hehehehehe...
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Chaos fucking reigns.
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Flickapoo went for destroying my action figures, but I had my fair share of throwing them around. I didn't melt them or blow them up. I was pretty kind to them, I guess.
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...I never killed Drew Barrymore! She's so cute!I remember once, at the peak of mid-teen unresolved hornyness I had a surprisingly lyrical dream about walking up out of a lake and finding a pale girl with sort black hair lying on the beach. She was naked and had a badly broken leg.I helped her, but had sex with her first...trying very hard to not hurt her by bumping her compound fracture.I woke up feeling really weird about it...a therapist would have a field day with this shit.
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nice, Flickapoo. Did she enjoy the sex?
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...and I lived there until leaving for college in the US. I'm "American", but did all my childhood schooling in Italian.
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"Critics" = News Corp.'s own Kyle Smith. Oh, and four old folks walking out of a screening in Buffalo. http://tinyurl.com/yj99wcy
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It began about two-thirds of the way through the first incarnation of The Pedalback, The Oldmanback. I noticed Cheeses and the contingency of Mad Brits - including savagedave, Youngdog and GetEveryone - were going off on these crazy, funny tangents, and I was thinking the daytime regulars - Sixies, Series, Stabby, and all the others - might be missing out, so I tried to hype the night-shift by summarizing the night's conversations.That went on for awhile until Cheeses and diarrhea complained that they never got a similar summary from the other half of the day. So, that's when they became regular and sort of official.I used to try to just crack wise, expecting peeps to scroll up for the stuff if they were interested, but then I started getting some pushback from trolls and I stopped doing them altogether.When I decided to start doing them again, I realized the thing was really pointless if it was just me snarking on previous posts and worked better as a more detailed summary for people who didn't have the time to scroll through hundreds of posts but wanted to catch up with the gist. That's around the time I coined the word Subbary®. I've been thinking lately they're not as funny or clever as they used to be, but I'm not going to stop doing them until you all tell me to. I enjoy having to go back over everything, and, much as I approach The Shelter, I think it's good for people to be able to get all of 'moose's links - just as one example - in one place rather than have to hunt for each individual one.
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So is your family still in Italy, or did they move back as well?
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...delirious, or in shock...which seems reasonable with a compound fracture.It was a very shitty thing for me to have done...and I was sorry.But I woke up knowing that given the chance, I'd do the same thing again.
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get back on track on more than one occasion. It's a blessing. A blessing, I tells ya.
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Sure, I remember little bits, here and there, but I think it's usually when I'm in a half-wakened state because I add little bits of recognizable stuff from the past day or a movie in my head. I get out of bed, sickened, wondering what causes my imagination to put the face of my old boss on a serial killer's body.I've decided it's my natural resistance to getting out of bed.
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When you have one of them "intimate" dreams, and you get rejected. That's bad.
It has happened. You wake up thinking "Who the hell do those women think they are?!"
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in your dream, right? i mean, Flick, in the real world, you'd pull your cell-phone out of your pants before you'd pull your youknow. Right?
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...vital even...if you can keep it up.I'm sure it's a grind sometimes...we don't thank you for it often enough.
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That, to me, is the number one indication of my nation's general state of complete fuckedness. I really want to dress up all "The Real Americans" in their flag-colored cammo and send them off to war.They're breathing air the rest of us could use.
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Subs...
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I don't have satellite or cable.
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http://tinyurl.com/y9tsaw6
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I look forward to doing.
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...well of course now I'd help right away...but what was so disturbing at the time was that the dream was so vivid...it felt as though I had made a real choice.It was a really beautiful dream though...almost silent and nearly black and white.
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...but that's great.
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Mar 12, 2010 12:04:06 PM CST
Flick, that sounds like an idea for an "adult" picture book
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We needs it.
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...why do you hate yourself?That's just fucking mean, man.
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GREEN ZONE, this time. It's the thing where "Jason Bourne" uncovers The Conspiracy of Stupid that preceded SHOCK-N-AWE, and, of course, we can't have our fiction reflect anything but Republican sound-bites.Heaven forbid! Fiction become confused with media fact? That would cause a ruckus! We, as a nation wouldn't survive! I'm almost certain young lesbian women would start showing up in tuxedos all over the place! And you all know, when that happens, God dies.
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in my dreams, but it has happened....once or twice.
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experiencing her monthly cycle?The sweet sounds of Michael Buble emanated on autoplay from her lap.
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...maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but I suspect that having a violent dream and waking up feeling all shitty makes you a decent guy.I bet real bad guys dream of puppies, and sunshine, and flying all night long...and then go out and do bad guy stuff without a second thought.
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anybody that the director of UNITED 93 is anti-American.
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with alcohol binges. Now it pretty much behaves the way I tell it to.
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Mar 12, 2010 12:26:10 PM CST
...EW just stole my idea of Christina Hendricks for Ginger...
by flickapoo
...in the GILLIGAN'S ISLAND movie.I posted that weeks ago.Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D Please let it be in 3-D...
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They really have no other choice.
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The world could do without it. And Flick, you know that they're going to get a non-redhead to play Ginger with dyed hair, because that's what Hollywood does. And then when they have a natural redhead like Scarlett Johansen they make her bleach her hair blonde. Idiots!
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And I had a weird ass completely frightening dream last, well, this morning really, for a a very long time. See, I don't sleep well. I don't go into the proper states. Even had shit stuck to my head and been tested. I rarely, RARELY have any kind of length dreams and I remember them less often than that. Once or twice a year. Yeah, well, I still remember this one. Bleck. Oh but what a lovely Subbary.
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Yes! Love it. It's actually been on the pay cable recently and I gave it a re-watch. It held up nicely except for some reason their wardrobe struck me as lookin' cheap and eighties. Not something I usually notice and it probably wasn't. But that's how it looked, to me anyway. I love me some Robin Wright, though, and I was already WAY more than hooked on The Princess Bride when this movie was released. .... anybody want a peanut?
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http://tinyurl.com/yj3jhpv
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No Star Trek Exhibit today (I had no idea it was spread out across the country). Friends want to go, so it's put off until tomorrow.
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We've all been so busy, but it is always wonderful to see you. Here, put on these goggles and sit over there. That's the chair with the best angle for when AMERICAN IDOL starts."A little later..."Oh it was nice having you over. We should do this more often. Just drop your goggles in the box there as you leave. See ya!"
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And trust that I try to be one of the most Anonymous Folk on teh internets. That's why none of those links contain my real name. ; )
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Go fuck all yourselves.
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I too would like to take a moment to doff my proverbial cap to the Subbary's.
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...just cracked me da hell up. Thanks. I needed that.
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Jaka, nice - you remember it too. Think it was probably the first time I saw Oldman in anything (had no interest in the SID & NANCY thing he did right at the start of his career). But even in that early role you could tell the guy was a talent to watch.
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of Quaker Oats. Now he needs to be the face of 3D.
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Ugh! I don't understand the attraction, and I've got a pretty open mind to music. They're just.. just... pablum.
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I always thought that was Barbara Bush.
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Isn't there a scene in CRASH (the Cronenberg one) where James Spader fucks a broken leg???
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But, she denies it.
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Sean Penn, Robin Wright, Gary Oldman, John Turturro and John C Reilly. Can't really hate on that too much. I like Sid & Nancy, though. Doubly strange because I think the Sex Pistols are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. Their influence should be looked at more from the cultural standpoint (which largely had to do with Malcom and/or they and their friends being poor) than a musical one.
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...caffeine drip. Be back shortly...
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If I remember right, the scene in question involves a female accident victim being pinned in the front seat of a totaled car. I can't remember if he was also in the car or if he was a passerby who got so horned he pulled over and climbed in..
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Without it, a working girl like me would have NO idea what was going on. Another work week, TOAST! Let's party, boys...
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That showed just how literally biased they are in their COMMERCIALS. Talking about the Health Care debate and what the GOP need to do, "the cost of freedom". Fair and Balanced my ass. We all know, for the longest time we've known, that they are not fair and balanced in the least bit. But how can their viewers, the ones that support them FOR being "fair", watch these ads and take them seriously? Its absolutely ridiculous.
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Cronenberg's, that is, not Haggis the Hack's POS. If you like Cronenberg you'll dig crash. It's like if Cronenberg was trying to make a softcore twisted fetish film in the style of Brian DePalma.
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Jaka, i agree. Don't think I could name a single Sex Pistols track... I do like The Clash tho (London Calling, Rock The Casbah, Should I Stay Or Should I Go..).
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even though I have a nagging felling that if we actually all met in one place, it would be like you time-traveled, and your self from the future met your self from the past, and you ceased to exist. I feel like it would kill the PB. It would be effing cool, though. Also, I've never been to Vegas.
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it helps their views seem more fair and balanced. See how it works?
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...but my favorite Cronenberg films are the two with Viggo, History of Violence and Easter Promises. After that I'd go The Fly, Scanners, and then Crash. Next rung (personally) would be Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch. You'll probably get a ton of different opinions depending on who you ask, because that's what Cronenberg's films do to people. For what it's worth, I found his Crash to be very interested. It's a fetish film about a VERY strange fetish indeed. It's got that great cast thing going for it again. I always like James Spader and Holly Hunter, and they're both good in it.
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Waitress, I can see Pedalbackers shiftily turning up at the casino, all wearing red carnations.
Sidling up to one another - "Mr Stabby I presume?".
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Is worth the price of admission for Crash alone.
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Jaka, i'm pretty much with you on that sequence but I've gotta lotta love for old Brundlefly - that would have to be top pick.
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I worship at their feet. Thing is, they were so influenced by the Pistols in their scene, not by their music. More people than can be believed saw the Sex Pistols live in a very short period of time. A great number of them said, "well fuck all, I can do that better than they're doing". Then proceeded to pick up instruments and do exactly that. Love me some Clash, though.
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Should be right up there after the two Viggo flicks. My bad.
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Something told me you'd have an original response for the Pistols conversation.
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would be to place it in a locale like Vegas, where it isn't the main attraction. We all know we're there, but we're basically still anonymous to each other. Then if we choose, we go down to the casino and look for the drunkest guy, the sexiest girl, the utterly handsome bald guy, and we try to meet them casually."Hello. My eyes are up here.""I'm sh-sh-sh-sl-sl-sorry, I jush dropped, I dropped, I dropped, my quarter fell.""You seem very familiar to me. Do you like movies?""AVATAR shanged my FOOKING LIFE!""Excuse me, miss, may I buy you a drink?""Sure. Hey! I really like your tee-shirt.""Thanks. It's Gary Oldman. I be-dazzled it myself."
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There's also VIDEODROME and THE DEAD ZONE, both very cool and distinctive movies.
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"I be-dazzled it myself." by four lengths!
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Love it. The "shocking" stuff is organic, part of the whole.
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I still think we should have our Peeber Convention in Second Life. And make me make it clear that I've never played Second Life in my first life ever as most of us I'm sure which would make it all the more funny.
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I'm now tempted to watch CRASH after some recommendations... i worry that my opinion of it may be closer to Subs' though... but an interesting failure is often a better watch than 'generic hollywood product of the week'.
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...that ever made my PC run slowly. And I mean slooooooowly. But I haven't tried in a couple years. Not even sure if it was the same PC.
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Cronenberg's best two or three. DEAD RINGERS is number one, though, and I'd put VIDEODROME up there, too. I am a Cronenberg fanboy.
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outside of SHIVERS and RABID, imho. eXistenZ is like VIDEODROME lite. Still haven't seen M. BUTTERFLY, though.
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diarrhea and savagedave have turned all ninja, sneaking in here with all stealth, dropping in one post and then disappearing? What's up with that?
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...would have to includ M. Butterfly in there. The latter put me to sleep, literally. I'm also not a huge fan of Videodrome. Although of all the films on his super weird, near experimental side, that one made the most sense with what it was trying to say.
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Mar 12, 2010 1:37:58 PM CST
spader was trying to get it on with a gash from am accident
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not a broken leg...and it was rosanna so you know its ok..she did have a song written about her.
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...and return some fishies due too a overpopulation problem brought on by mass birthing. Catch you guys later.
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"Most days, you're an annoying prat. Today, I just must have more patience for some reason."
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And, Sixies, don't say "gash" unless you mean he was actually trying to penetrate a wound.
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You mean to the pet store? To the sea? To their egg-state?
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in this case--gash DOES mean wound
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No, actually, my local non-major chain pet store will take them back AND give me credit.
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massive hallucinogenics to be truly appreciated. Same with the book.
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little buggers would go for 10 a pop at the pet store...i tells ya..i was a lil trump when i was a wee shaver.
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when I'm in the Police booking area and they are booking people...they're in cages and I'm free. Weird.
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an unadaptable book. It's actually more of an adaptation of the circumstances surrounding the book and Burroughs himself, but Cronenberg does a nice job of really tying everything together. Even if there are a bunch of ejaculating typewriters.
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kittens and toddlers."You want to return him? But, he's adorable!""Eh, he refuses to play catch, and he still substitutes 'w's for 'l's. My wife and I talked about it and really don't think we could face the Parent - Teacher conferences.""Um, fine, then. I'm sure someone will want him. Do you want credit, or do you want to look at the others that we got in yesterday? I'll tell you what, we got the most beautiful little girl in the back. Smart and friendly. just didn't acclimate with the family dog.""What? Do I look like the tea-party and pageant kind of father to you?""I'm sorry, sir. I didn't mean to offend you.""It's fine. Credit, please. And, again, if my wife comes in without me, she can't sign on the account. I don't want a repeat of last year's Lay-Away incident."
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i used the quart-o-blood technique!in honor of STLOST
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It's so crowded in China that they don't have room for regular-sized hamsters?
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Cronenberg got it dead on.
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Nice! Trading Places!
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I have to ask, does Spader actually succeed in fucking the wound in her leg?!?
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The president of Detroit's school board is unable to fully grasp the English language: http://tinyurl.com/yjkghy9
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and exploit the shit out of it.
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that it is quite obvious that he is having sex with her scar. he also said that he didn't want to show explicit entry so as not to make it pornographic. He told a journalist to watch that scene again as he (the journalist) thought it was just 'normal' sex.
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if the kids were to realize his deficiencies, they would probably wonder why they have to work so hard in school if he "got by".
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Ballard ejaculated into Gabrielle's scars.
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I wonder if semen has anti-bacterial properties like saliva?
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though, he didn't really just "get by." He struggled, and he had to achieve his position. Yeah, it's somewhat deplorable that the head of an entire big-city school district can't write, but, truth be known, our glorious 3D future is going to be full of people who can't write. Anybody read Donald Trump's e-mails? Sam Walton's? Dubbya's?My point is, the fact that he doesn't try to deny or excuse his defficiencies might, in fact, be inspirational to kids who might otherwise think they are unintelligent and should, therefore, just drop out.I dunno. I'm torn.
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Alice in Wonderland is just the first of 20 films due out this year to use the 3D format.
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See? I can't write, either!
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are they written backwards?
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I would've figured there'd be at least one opening every week."Tyler Perry's PIGFOOT IN THE EYE based on the novel 'Cookbook' by Oprah, The IMAX EXperience, starring Mo' Nique" is on the list, yes?
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are actually just captions written in whatever language the film's characters are speaking.
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and got through high school and college, but the kids will only look at it as him half-assing his way through. They'll think "I just need 2 no enuff txting language 2 get by"
I'm wondering if in decades (or centuries), shorthand texting-speak will start to supplant regular english. Like in "1984" when the ministry people are creating Newspeak. But instead of removing all creative thought (like in the book), in reality, "txtspeak" will be removing all creativity by just plain dumbing everything down to the least common denominator. -
Mar 12, 2010 2:36:30 PM CST
...if there are subtitles in hell, all the movies are very...
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...talky, and the helltitles self regulate how long they appear on screen...disappearing just before you finish reading...laving you with the constant sense of confusion and the feeling that you almost get what's going on, but not quite.Also, there is a lot of subtitled talking during scenes of Christina Hendricks nudity, resulting in further rage and frustration.Eventually, you claw your own eyes out to stop the pain.
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I wanna be naughty tonight.
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...from the small type on this laptop.Or maybe they're just wigging out.
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his achievement, but look at the situation. If successful business people like Sam Walton and Donald Trump write some mangled drivel in their emails, so what? They're private businessmen and beneficiaries of their bloodline, and they're not in charge of evaluating curriculum or setting a standard for the public's children. This Detroit guy is serving the public trust in an educational capacity. I'm all for people with disabilities getting equal opportunity, but there has to be a line. If the guy can't write a coherent sentence, he shouldn't be in a position to oversee writing standards. Would you hire him to work at a newspaper? Dubya? We all know that fucker isn't qualified to do much at all, let alone carry the standard of the U.S. Bad example.
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Not really.
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U' Nique is starring in that.
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the current Pedalback node (Brookback, I guess), the next one in line only has 120 new posts in a 24 hour period. AICN doesn't get much traffic nowadays, does it?
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are in 64 Comic Sans font.
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The Mo'Nique sister who has a paying sponsor.
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...Subs and 'moose could run this place with their eyes closed.Make it swift, and as merciful as possible. The streets of AICN run red for one dark night, and then...utopia.
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She stars in chubby chaser porn of course.
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What, exactly, would be the difference between meeting on Second Life and what we're doing right now?
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that he re-set standards to his own level. He can still enforce the consensus of educators. He can also articulate the issues faced by kids with learning disabilities that can better inform those standards. "No Child Left Behind," LITERALLY, as opposed to reduced to some bureaucratic measurement.I certainly wouldn't want him as the head of a newspaper or the editor of a publishing house. He lacks those skills. But, I don't think that's a relative argument.
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But, if one of his teachers was insisting my child was stupid when I knew that my child was just having real difficulties, I'd want him standing between me and that teacher instead of somebody who had no sensitivity or, worse, just insisted my kid ought to accept his lot.
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That would be remembered as a greater embarrassment for Bush if he didn't botch nabbing Bin Laden, or invade Iraq, or balloon the budget deficit, or unwittingly encourage the global economic crisis ...
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for which I do not have a reasonable answer for. I just know that meeting in real life in Vegas or anywhere ain't gonna happen, but this could.
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"Cheeses, my eyes are up HERE!"
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with learning disabilities, and he likely is. Beyond that, though, I still think he's unqualified to oversee the whole educational system.
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quote me.
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I'm not suggesting we do it all the time because in the words of eggsalad, 'That would be gay.' I'm sure 'moose would be up[ for it if he wasn't still pissed at me.
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Say "most likely won't," or, if you wanna inspire it to happen, say "will happen when Subby shuts up about 3D."Then you'll see 'em all making reservations in Vegas, for sure.
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Sure, we'd be hard-pressed to get EVERYone in the same place at the same time, but I think that we could organize a good enough number to make it worth it. And it would be a shitload of fun, too.
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HA! So much for your artistic high-road argument, you buffoon!
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I'm seeing CLASH OF THE TITANS in 2fuckingD.
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Clash of the Titans! This Spring Six Demon Bag Will... Be in the theater with 3D goggles strapped to his face watching 3D Krakkheads.
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Least, he better not be. He said "Fahgeddaboudit for real."
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That's coming up.
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That's really starting to annoy me about the Clash of the Titans commercial/trailer. Too 300ish.
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I'd love to, but work is so unpredictable.
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the success of 300 is the only reason they've remade CLASH OF THE TITANS. They're just going to play down the homo-eroticism and play up the fantasy.
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that need to be told, "Honey, I'm going to Vegas this weekend to meet up with my online Movie Trivia Message Board buddies. Oh, and one of them's a waitress with a nice rack." "Ok, Baby. I'll keep your keyboard warm while you're away. Have fun!"
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instead of Monday, if work schedule was the issue. Nothing says it has to be a specific time. We just have to plan ahead in order to keep a quash on spoilers and to hype it up.
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Weekly crash at AICN.
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I'm not keen on meeting in real life, though. That would be too weird for me. Way too weird.
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Testing...testing...testing.
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The only one of us that would prolly not want to do is diarrhea.
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Mar 12, 2010 3:19:47 PM CST
I'll think about Sunday; I'll get back to you guys on it.
by colonelfatheart
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I hope it stays that way and doesn't disappoint in the full feature. I just recently rewatched the original for the billionth time and it's not some heady, artsy film. It's a movie about cool special effects and epic action. If this remake hits that mark, it's set to be a good movie in my point of view.
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But I still think it's a reasonable enough thing that we could get a pretty strong group of us together.
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Yes?
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...of fail.
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Mo'Nique's grandmama
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Mo'Nique's perfectionist cousin?
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Where Mo'Nique shops
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Just to be absolutely clear.
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...critical mass here on the East Coast...Colonel, Scary, Mac, Stabby, D.Vader and I would fuck the rest of you uuup.
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She's really into working out...
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For the 1st Annual Pedalback Convention? Our avatars would have to reflect our Talkback names.
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LOL. That's great.
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Although, I hope the first one isn't scheduled while I'm still unemployed. Yet, at the same time, I wouldn't want my situation to kibosh it if everybody decided to do it next month, either.
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Mo'Nique's nickname for her Va'Jayjay!
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as much as I'd love to serve y'all pie, I think meeting irl would kill our community. Maybe in Second Life, though... do you have to pay? If so, forget it. I's po'.
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Mo'Nique's AICN handle, if she ever needed one...
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That would be a little easier to justify.
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I tried that one for five minutes and uninstalled it promptly. I couldn't get into it, which I guess is a good thing. There's no way all of us would be willing to do Second Life, considering some of us have trouble with technology.
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and there's probably a ComiCon in Second Life.
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If I won the lottery, though, I'd comp you all for a trip to Comic-Con. It would be a blast.
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but as a one time thing it could be fun. Or it could be really lame too. Just a thought.
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I think a congregation of Peebs would only strengthen our bonds and make the PB even more unstoppable.
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...would stomp us all...would be to pick some not too fancy online game, the kind where you design an avatar and have a name floating above your head. It would have to be something nobody has played before, so we could all stumble around drunkenly and fuck up royally.I, for one, would love to frag Subby's ass with a flack cannon for an hour or two...
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This is something to consider, for me, when talking irl scenarios.
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Just saying. Whoa. JUST found out Ernie Hudson is gonna be there. Ernie Hudson!
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..."no" means no.
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When he dresses up as Mo'Nique and tries to pick up men to flack frag their ass.
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Mo'Nique's favorite vacation spot.
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If PRECIOUS melded with X-MEN.
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...yeah, she's gassy, but she's got a healthy cholesterol level.
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...in case we decide to do a one time meet up. Only some of us will be able to figure it out, though. I guarantee it.
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When you like Bique so much, you want Zam Mo.
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Young Mo'Nique's favorite food.
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Mo'Nique's brother, still lives at home in his parents basement, playing Atari and bagging Black Panther comics.
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find out when that comic con is..i could prolly skip out on the fam or drag em along.
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Not Mo'Nique's legs.
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Mar 12, 2010 3:44:48 PM CST
...I don't think I feel a particular need for this Second...
by flickapoo
...Life business...unless it involves a flack cannon or a gravity gun.I can't imagine the communication would be better than it is here...hell, The Shelter still smells strange and new to me.
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What Gabourey Sidibe's Hollywood future looks like, alas.
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**shutter**
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Mo'Niques feet?
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It's not until November, so there's plenty of time to plan it out.
Also, my Blue Beetle costume will be completed by then, and I fully intend to parade around the con in it. Just warnin' ya... -
I kill. Hold on, though, I gotta go take a L'ique.
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"could my boobs ever live up to the hype?"
Have faith Waitress - I think they could. Of course a full inspection from all Peebers would be required to validate that...
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Mar 12, 2010 3:52:40 PM CST
Fffuuuuck. I remember why I hated it. I'm deleting my character.
by anonymoose
And nuking the thing off my HDD.
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is Renegade Longstaff.
you can use guns (sorta) and use vehicles in Second Life. -
Their fiscal situation, it is fucked.
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Ted, doubt is the enemy within.
Waitress knows to stand up straight, suck her tummy in, puff her chest out and start feeling confident in her irl potential. Glory begins within. That is the way of the dojo. -
College cl'ique flashback.
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We thought it was him until he stood up. BWAH-HAHAHA-HAHAHA!
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Fair nuff.
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Mo'Nique's pet mouse.
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Like The Who said, "One life's enough for me".
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I wouldn't be able to figure out Second Life is my life depended on it.
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FACK!
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the Detroit Board of Education.
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★★★★
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Why should we care? Oh yeah, gambling ........
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is any time i try to play like the cool kids
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http://tinyurl.com/yemlzgnIf you've never seen it, there's video of Halle Berry accepting her Razzie Award for CATWOMAN.
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http://tinyurl.com/y9g32os
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Considering we'd already done the obvious ones, you were left with the gook at the bottom of the barrel. Plus, I really appreciate that you didn't use your first Pedalback post to call us pathe'tique.Good on ya!
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http://tinyurl.com/yjn5mrz
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Anybody need me to bring something back?
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Mar 12, 2010 4:30:42 PM CST
...it's cold and rainy here Subs, anything thick and dark...
by flickapoo
...will do nicely.
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http://tinyurl.com/yzpq4tc
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It's dumb, but still funny...
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http://tinyurl.com/yfbrdgx
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That should bring Flick back...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_trSIBCgF0
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...GOLDRAKE song! That cartoon was insanely popular when I was a kid (there were only two channels on TV, so the show was a national ritual).I wept a little when I found this clip last year...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ndFjCNCmv4 I wish I was kidding about the weeping. -
"Let him borrow my truck once."
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While the poor, unfortunate Colonel toils in the silent blandness of his job.
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...and you'd make mix tapes by holding your little tape recorder up to the TV speaker...later they started selling bootlegs on the street...
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...it's an Italian Anime Disco Party!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awuIl8GN7g8
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"I'm gonna rewind that so I can watch it again."
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straight down the middle. That's the kill strike.
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http://tinyurl.com/yebl8hb
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I hope that means YELLOW SUBMARINE is dead!
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...Miyazaki...best show in the history of shows.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knsDAEK1ULA
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Mar 12, 2010 5:13:50 PM CST
That's a pretty dark credit sequence for kiddies, Flick.
by subtitles_off
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@ Googleville, inspired by Jaka's post. I'm hoping everybody will log on there and start adding to that thread. I'd really like to see examples the creative stuff that people have done professionally or even just links to their other interests. It's a way to expand our profiles and hype our accomplishments.I understand if there's hesitancy or personal reasons you don't want to share, and that's all good, too. I just know that there are a lot of really cool things that some of us have done or are interested in that we might not really want to put up in public Pedalback for the world to see.
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...as a kid you didn't give a crap about how grownups blew up the world...that was ancient history, it was all about Conan and Lana, baby!
And you can already see all of Miyazaki's signature stuff, long before Studio Ghibli. -
I'll drop in occasionally over the weekend, and I'll try to engrave my story over at The Shelter cave.
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That was how we understood the world then. It'd be a much better place without the grown-ups, we thought.Still kind of convinced of it.
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6:51:18
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Hey pally.
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...The bars are already full of assholes.
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Please to enjoy. http://tinyurl.com/bd786
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The New York Review of Books has a terrific review of [DELETED].
And by terrific I mean scathing.
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That's Fantas'Tigue!
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I am in awe.
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I know convention crowds are loathed by locals, often for good reason, but aren't there any acts you'd be interested in seeing, if the crowd didn't give you heebie-jeebies?
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Because I was the model for it. Lumberjack McGay couldn't find a tree to scale though.Does that sound boastful?
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...gas up, and do it again.Gives a new definition to "bar oil".
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But still there's usually one or two free shows each year that I'll check out. Last year it was M.Ward. Before that it was Ice Cube. I think those are the only shows I've been to since I moved here.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23726I don't think it's quite "scathing," but I like his thesis. All of this effort and "technology" in the service of making the unreal "real," has always been at the root of my disinterest. And, I'll say it again, there was more creativity and original imagination spent by Little Flick on the floor in Italy where he played rounds of Death Jenga® than can be found in Cameron's movie.
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...of both the movie and the man himself. I like that part.
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To polish your oak.
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...if I can get it.It has a deep, rich finish.
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imagination. I realize the comparison may have come off as a put-down.It's kind of the argument I use when discussing Nolan's Batman or that wretched Superman Singer did. I don't care if you liked it or hated it, but I can guarantee you find yourself a four year old and ask him or her to tell you a story about Batman or Superman, you'd have a much better time than you had during the three hours you spent watching those movies.
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But you can decipher my meaning.
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he likes to use his tung when he polishes.Hehehehehehehe.
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Matthew Perry, Almost Heroes.
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...but much, much better.
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which honors the comparison to WIZARD OF OZ, and [deleted] which mocks it.
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he was made out of pine, one of the softer woods.
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...every time.Hardwood is essential.
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OK, Peebers. I'm off to dinner. Have a great evening, youse!
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...tung oil > elbow grease, but if elbow grease is all she's offering...don't be too proud to take her up on it.
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And dismantled it? what they were pissed Xmas carol didn't make avatar bucks?
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We're out of elbow grease.
And headlight fluid.
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"This shit sucks. Buy it and close it down!"
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Happiness and tung oil for all.
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...I've hated every frame I've seen of his Mo-Cap stuff, so I went to see [deleted] with very low expectations...mostly our of a sense of duty in fact.
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...amen.
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20 minutes of nothing huh? Glad i didn't miss anything. Except Mi'Ster'Biques. Colon_El won with that one.
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...he should be a writer, or an editor...or something.
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I would meet up with ya's but I think it should be some out of the way Mid-West "halfway point" like the mob does. Only we could go to like Mall of America or something terrible. Then go off on so kind of wild scramble like It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I'm gonna shoot off into the sky on a runaway jetpack, for instance.
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...still pop into my head and make me laugh.
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And his dead-eyed Zombies of doom. How the guy actually went backwards from Beowulf to Christman Carol is beyond me. Every time someone smiled that rictus grin with those dead eyes it creeped the fuck outta me. [deleted] was so much better. But I maintain that the perfect use of mocap (and Massive) will always be Happy Feet. That's the sorta appropriate retargetting/translation that Zemeckis just doesn't get. Sorry Robert, but having adult Hanks play a kid through mocap was NEVER going to work, because of the subconscious body language inherent in the way a child moves and reacts. It's not actually a matter of a Peter Sellers multi-role opportunity. Dick.
Oh and Flick, did you watch The Red and The Blue when you were young? 5 minute stop-mo plastcine thing? Good God I loved that. It's been copied a buncha times, but never bettered. -
i'm guessing he took these pics. some good stuff in there.
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...too bad I'm not. I'm too lazy to shower. Maybe I'll be more motivated after a glass of Pinot.
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Mar 12, 2010 8:20:17 PM CST
Oh and fook yez all for the travel rules on the get-together
by white_vader
I'm in the wonderful land of Oz, remember? No planes my arse!
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..vanilla will be in the flying house. Flick you get the thimble which leaves you with the Iron Ess Dubb.
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Who really was just a pretenda.
She don't look like a man-ee But she's really a tranny In all of her gay drag-queen splendah. -
we like dirty girls here.
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there are some among us who are not of the US of A. What about them?!?!?!?
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together it would be a minor miracle. I have friends I live 3 doors down from that I hardly ever see.
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...but that's not the same as trying to be a kid in mo-cap...impossible really, due to proportions and physics etc... it's like what you were saying the other day about a woman's gate vs. a man's due to hip structure etc...
I just watched a THE RED AND THE BLUE on Youtube...I'm sure I saw that growing up, but it wasn't a regular thing.As I mentioned above, I grew up in Italy, and they deregulated TV when I was five...they went from a two channel government monopoly to the Wild Wild West overnight. It was great.Little stations sprang up in people's attics, and they ran whatever they could get their hands on...THE LITTLE RASCALS, old black and white movies, lots of Anime, LOONEY TUNES, FURY, THUNDERBIRS...whatever.And only knew what you were going to see if you turned the TV on after dark...it was great. -
...it was sort of like WHEEL OF FORTUNE, but with simplified poker rules...a man vs. a woman, and whoever lost had to take off clothing.They knew their audience of course, because the woman stripped down to a little thong, and the man stripped down to an old timey striped bathing suit...the one-piece type with shorts and tanktop combined.Also, there was one hot model girl for each European country, and however many money units the winner won...that's how many Miss Europes had to strip.
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I used to wake up at 5 in the morning to watch The Samurai, then Thunderbirds at 6. Brought out the drawing papaer to copy Superman & other casrtoons at 7. No wonder I didn't grow enough. Not enough sleep!
Oh that reminds me - that cover of yours really WAS a tinypic! Anything a bit beeger? And as for a 90s vibe, nothing wrong with that - from the teensy pic it gave me a bit of a lush Dave McKean vibe. And McKean is one of my heroes. -
That's so Italian! I love those un-PC game shows, talk about your un-repressed Europeans. I love the talk shows that are really an excuse for whatever starlet or especially singer to appear in next to nothing or better still pretty much fetish gear. Love it.
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Mar 12, 2010 8:45:51 PM CST
...McKean is great. What do you think of your compatriot...
by flickapoo
...Shaun Tan?
I've got some decent images from my most recent book that I need to send to Subs...so he can post them at the shelter or something.I'm a bit crippled in the tech department, so it's easy to procrastinate. -
I never capitalised on the opportunity for a snide little comeback to Subby's grumbling about keeping everyone in their boxes re: Cinematography/photography/directing etc. when someone mentioned Kubrick's The Killing.
Then again maybe that's grist for his mill, as Kubrick fired the D.O.P. for getting all uppity and refusing to use a wider lens for the dolly between rooms because he "knew better" and SK was just a young upstart. Kubrick fired his arse. And SK was a photographer for Look when he was 16 from memory. Hell yes directors can control the photography. I love the story about how he tricked NASA into selling him a unique Mitchell camera for low-light use in Lyndon.
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Only seen a couple of his books. A bit puzzled about how he's managed so much adulation without people being tipped off that he's basically doing deluxe comics. No slight on him, maybe it's just good publicity and nimble avoidance of the 'C' word (hey, kids!). Which is bizarre, because illustrated books are generally looked down upon as being below adults in the same snobby western ways as comics. I put this forward to an fx guy who was brandishing the latest Tan as some amazing breakthrough and he was sideswiped. Kuh-c-comics? I shoulda said, "Here mate, let me introduce you to this book by Scott McCloud"...
And don't even get me started on how the Ash Wood (another great Aussie artist) hype machine has brainwashed his ignorant fanbase into thinking he's "original"...
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And I have a story. I've met Neil Gaimain, like, ehhhh, shit, 10 or 12 times now (possibly more). Love the guy. He's one of the most personable, open and friendly "celebrities" I've ever had the pleasure of speaking with. More, he hasn't changed since I first met him in the early Sandman days. If anything, he seems to enjoy his public appearances even more now (he promotes and documents them quite well on his blog). So, for the Mr. Punch signing tour, Dave McKean was with him. Dave doesn't do nearly as many tours as Neil. Very few, in fact. So, when deciding what to bring to the signing I thought I was being very clever. I chose my Death: High Cost of Living issue #1 (because Neil and Chris Bachalo had already signed it), the Bast one-shot issue of Sandman (because it's a favorite of mine and I love Dave's cover as well) and my Being An Account Of The Life And Death Of The Emperor Heliogabolus ash can (because I have Neil sign and date it every time I meet him). I was all totally cool with this decision, nearly bouncing up to the table with happy thoughts of talking to Neil again and meeting Dave for the first time. Neil signs my stuff, we have a small signing table chat, on to Dave. Dave proceeds to give me a fairly dirty look. In my head I start thinking really quickly, "what? why? what I do?" I realized about this time that there were huge stacks of the Mr. Punch book all over the store and that every other person in line was holding one they brought with them, or had purchased upon arrival. I was flummoxed. I didn't really want to buy one that day and it would have been too late to get it signed at that point anyway. So instead I tried to make small talk about the limited edition photograph sets he had sitting in front of the table. He answered my questions, I paid $30 for one of them (as I recall), and he promptly proceeded to KIND OF politely shew me away from the signing table. That's my Dave McKean story. Love the guys work, though. Both with Neil and on his own. I mostly own the stuff he's done with Neil but I've picked up a couple of his books over the years as well. .... hope you're talking about the same Dave McKean.
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...does the company you are working for at the moment own your images? How about process drawings etc? That's what I love to look at, sketches...the rougher the better.
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Don't much care if it's "original" as that's not a prerequisite for my enjoyment of art. Particularly in comic book form. If it is the same person, I dig their stuff. It's aesthetically pleasing, to my eye, anyway.
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...I'd love to talk Gaiman and McKean with you, but duty calls...
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Big would absolutely be in my top 10 favorite movies of all-time list. And Forrest Gump easily makes the top twenty, no matter how much shit I'd get for it. Robin Wright is in it, too, remember. : )
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Ach! That statement hurts me head. lol I can't live without. I physically jones for it.
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Hopefully everyone is out actually having a life this fine Friday evening. I'm around.
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Thanks Mac. I appreciate it. Just a small hobby, definitely something I'd like to get more into. There's just a few of my shots in there. Some local stuff from around my house and a slideshow of some pics I took South of Market in SF. A few more in one of the videos on my YouTube channel. However, the giant 60 page folder of random silliness, not a one of those were taken by me. Just weird stuff I collected over the years on teh internets. Haven't added to it in quite a while, either.
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...but I'll say again, it's intensely resource heavy. Uses HUGE amounts of RAM and requires a fast processor. At least that's my experience with it. At one time I was going to create a club to try and run my Live365 station through in the Second Life world. But my system was dragging so much that I just gave up. I'd be willing to try it again just to make fun of your avatars, though. Muahahahaaa!
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I should post some of my more recent snaps.
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Just did the 'walk-out' I shoulda done last night, finishing watching Indy & the Temple of Doom with the boy. He loved it.
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It's in my info at the secret special place. But it's a public bucket, so here's the link. http://tinyurl.com/yg3xhwe
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And I'll stand by that, firmly! Grrr! lol Nah, just kidding. I know a lot of people hate that one. But I actually saw Temple first (many times). I even saw Last Crusade before Raiders. So, regardless of what may actually be the best of them. My order is Temple, Crusade, Raiders. I refuse to watch the fourth one.
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And I'll stand by THAT, firmly! Because that actually makes sense. Rather than just standing behind the title of a movie, which is kind of silly.
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The comic guy. But in case it wasn't clear, I do think he does fantastic stuff, mainly the covers/life drawing stuff. I don't want to appear hypocritical, because I have a lot of influences and basically coming from advertising do any style that's required of me. So I love messing around with different looks - it's all about context. And pays my bills when the vast majority of commercial illustrators only have one or two styles they cultivate over many years.
So like I was saying, Wood's stuff is GREAT, but I'm talking about the hype machine that surrounds him and perpetuates itself. Both the publishers and the fans, who either have no idea about the monstrous ripping Wood did until recently and whose aesthetic & success comes from guys like McKean, Sienkewicz, Kent Williams, Jon Foster (it irks me that people fall down at AW's feet about the robot stuff because I guess they've never seen Foster's say, Robot with the crow), Phil Hale, Glen Barr and so on. One of the most disingenuous marketing feats was the "Sparrow" book series, where the Wood book came first, then many of those others I mentioned. To give w=Wood his due, I think it's a great idea to use his success to open the eyes of the fans to his heroes, but by sneaky shit like having the Wood stuff come first and THEN the others, the fans thought that THEY were the imitators! I've been on more than one thread where they say exactly that. I like to believe that Wood had the best intentions. But having worked with marketing people for decades now, I'm not giving them an ounce of doubt. And hey, of us Aussie comics guys, Ash is really the only one who's gone on to huge success. Good on 'im. -
Mar 12, 2010 10:58:04 PM CST
I'd be willing to try Combat Arms if you're familiar with that.
by anonymoose
Flick did say he'd like something with more violence, not that he'd be able to figure out how to work it. It's free and easy to sign up for.
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...because he did the Metal Gear Solid graphic novels.
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barring Crap-shaw, who can't ACT "period", doesn't look period, and doesn't SOUND period at all. I understand the archetype they were after, but "she's no "broad"" as my wife said. And not a patch on Allen. It's not the looks that are the most important (and half the time with the hair and tan she looked and sounded like an 80s Valley Girl), which is why I think peeps are insane that say Kidder wasn't a brilliant Lois just because she's not some bombshell. BUT, I love most everything else in Doom, aside from some shtik that ruins the tone of some heavy/scary moments. Even the name is cool! Now THERE's a good Lucas prequel!
But better than Raiders? You've gotta be fookin' kiddin' me, boyo.
I'm not so big on Crusade. Aside from doing the Return of the Jedi recycle, it's another one where they have goofy humour at the expense of both character and story. Hell yes I love River Phoenix as the original Young Indy. Yes I love crusty old Connery. But Sallah being reduced to a camel-obsessed extended joke? Marcus Brody likewise a doddery English cliché? Racist lazy stereotyping that adds NOTHING to the film. Don't gloss over that stuff. Forget Jar-Jar (if only...), I felt those were worse! The fourth isn't unwatchable if you love the third, that's for sure. No I didn't work on it, but worked for one of the heads on a previous film I've already mentioned. D Vader knows who I mean I think. I can understand if you saw those first why you'd be more forgiving. Hey, I always make the point that if Donner's Superman 78 came out today TBers would rip it a new one and have coniptions about Luthor & Otis, with a slight pass on account of male hormones going to miss Tessmacherrrrrrr! -
Mar 12, 2010 11:09:02 PM CST
She looks and sounds like she's on her period throughout.
by anonymoose
Period.
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that I WOULD hold against Ash Wood is that he did those rushed Tank Girl things because it was a fast buck and fans would buy it because his name was on it. You could argue the same holds true of the Metal Gear stuff, but I actually think that one's a more natural fit. Wish he could be bothered to do actual comics with backgrounds though. Back to Tank Girl, I worship at the temple of Jamie Hewlett and the new ones were sorta sacrilege.
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And lets throw Ted McKeever in there, too. I think Ash and Ben Templesmith owe all of those guys (and the others you listed) a great deal of thanks, personally. I'm pretty sure THEY know that, even if a lot of fans don't. I totally understand your point, though. Thankfully, I'm approaching thirty years of rabid comic book intake so I've got a decent grasp (not perfect or all-knowing, but decent) of who came first and who followed where. The thing for me with all visual arts in general, is that unless you are doing a straight copy of somebody elses work, I can usually still see the good in it. If it moves me, it moves me. I have no boundaries for what my eyes find appealing. I have a lot of jazz musician friends who are very into the modern art scene in the Bay Area. Personally, I think a great deal modern art sucks (boring and pretentious). I think they go out of their way to make visually distracting, unattractive work for the sake of calling it "art". So you have a better idea where I'm coming from, I'm not even a big fan of Pollock and his ilk. All of the modern and/or abstract biggies have done work that makes me go, "hmm, that's nice". But nothing any of them has done makes me loose my breathe like I do when I look at something by Dali, Magritte, or a classical master. Now, jumping back over to comic books...The way that comic art has advanced in the last 30, 20 and 10 year spans is mind boggling. I mean really, as an art form, it may have taken more giant leaps than any other in modern times (if they could just break away from the damn 22-26 page issue a month shackles, but I digress). So, I get even MORE frustrated with comic book geeks who claim, "this is new", or "this is the best". It's all a progression, and a vast majority of it is very beautiful to my eyes. So for me, I don't care for the this guy or that guy is better arguments. "This guy is the best inker." "This guys colors are something that's never been done!" Bleh! For me, it's just about, "have you seen this!?" And it pisses me off that people loose that childlike enthusiasm for the medium. It's a COMIC BOOK! And the field is FILLED with more intricately beautiful artwork than will ever be recognized at the level it deserves. Now, the down side...It's an insular business. A vast majority of the people working in the field grew up immersed in the subject matter they're creating. It's natural that they're going to (re)create at least some of what they've seen over a lifetime (or even a short time) of reading/writing comic books. So long as the artist owns up to it, I really have see no problems. They're just part of the progression. Sheeew, kinda went off on a rant there. Apologies. So I'm guessing from your description above that you do print ads? Whatever, it's cool no matter which area you work in. Advertising makes the world go 'round. : )
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Mar 12, 2010 11:19:27 PM CST
Didn't get the Metal Gear Solid GNs because his name was on it.
by anonymoose
I got them because they're Metal Gear Solid comics. The artist was unknown to me.
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Never met McKean (seems like you got him on a grumpy day!), although I do have an awesome signed poster from Cages. Gotta frame that, and my Henson & Kermie "Think Different" poster.
But yeah I got something signed by Gaiman many moons ago. Everyone was bringing the usual things, but I brought along one of my faves - the awesome Hellblazer one-shot "Hold me". With the bum that looks suspiciously like Alan Moore, written by Gaiman and Drawn by McKean. Gaiman was really pleased as he said no-one ever brings that one and he was proud of it. I didn't do it for the Gaiman-points, but yay me. -
...it wasn't my favorite thing he's done. I dig Jamie, too, btw. I think I have a complete TG run. MGS didn't bug me so much. And we'll have to agree to disagree about his lack of background, because I dig it. I dig that he often ignores panels, too.
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Hows yous?
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I won't go on about it too much. All I can say is if you don't collect his stuff, either prose or comic books, you should still take the time to check out one of his readings. He'll spend hours up there being scary and funny in equal parts, holding his entire audience in rapture. It's quite a good time. If you do collect his stuff, but have never taken the time to meet him at a signing, do it! He's everything you want your comic book heroes to be. Yes, he wears black. Yes, he almost always keeps the sunglasses on. He does silly little drawings when you don't ask for them. He'll chat with you about anything, and seem happy to do so. My fave Neil story is as follows. I've told it many times, even here at AICN, so I'll do a short version. Way back during the peak of the Sandman craze he did a signing in Berkeley, CA that went HOURS long. Instead of being a "I'm a cool guy comic book douche", he took a short lunch and stayed until every last person had met him and gotten their books signed (even the people who continued to get in line after the announced time of the signing had passed). My girlfriend at the time, who thought he was "cute", was pissed off after an hour of waiting. I think it took us near three hours to get to the table. As we walked up he smiles and says, "hey, how are you doing today then?" in his slightly British accent (it is British, but it's not thick). My girlfriend, in a totally shitty and embarrassing tone says, "I'm thirsty". Without missing a beat, and I mean it was like one seconds time, he reaches out, grabs his own water glass and hands it to her. I must have been smiling, literally, from ear to ear. She was speechless. Love that guy.
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lol I'm totally down for whatever so long as my system can deal with it. My PC is a couple years old, but I'm not ready to upgrade just yet. I have USB gaming controller, though. Would we end up playing in the same place? Within the gaming world I mean. If it's doable, I'm down.
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Forget Combat Arms.
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If that's the case, it's not worth it.
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Cool beans man. My professional life is not that interesting. But it's allowed me to be a total geek, so I have no complaints.
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...that made me ask. There are slower MMP where you can easily run into each other. I'm not sure how much fun they'd be for everyone, though. And they can take up some time. I used to play The West with a group of friends. We all joined in the same world and built a town together. Good fun. But it's real time, so it takes a while.
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Eddy Current! Sorta the same weirdo universe as Stary Toaster in my brain. And like I say, I'm sure AW and Ben ('nother West coast Aussie I think) Templesmith DO respect and admire them.
And hey, I'm not making the same mistake by lauding McKean and Sienkewicz blindly. I'm well aware of how much Gustave Klimt, Archimboldo, Barron Storrey, Neil Adams, Bill Peak and so on were in their earlier stuff. I think both those guys defined themselves apart from their influences earlier on though. And yes, if it moves you, it moves you.
Doing a neat segue to Indy again, I don't get all anal and say those are useless because they just appropriate the earlier tropes of the serial stuff. Same with Star Wars, sometimes the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Although I do believe in the law of diminishing returns. Yes Lara is just Indy (but I totally would the Angelina version), and sorry but I thought The Mummy remakes were lousy. They weren't good Karloff OR Indy tributes. IMHO.
"This guy is the best inker" arguments - does that annoy you because those guys are just tracers?
Great 'rant', btw!
And print ads many years back I guess, but also comics, graphic design, commercial illustration, Film & Television (different capacities), Character Design/Mascots... but my defence of graphic design and commercial illustration is why SHOULDN'T we bring art and some sort of refined aesthetic to this post-industrial revolutionised world? It's better than NOT doing it, right?! Although typography and advertising illustration as a whole have sucked arse for the last decade or so. Not a blanket statement, but you know, where are the guys like Vaughan Oliver, David Carson and Neville Brody? And advertising illustration is more than Finlandia Vodka/Rave compilation looking chicks or 70s re-appropriated Clipper art. Hmpfh. Now I'm gettin' crabby. -
I just found a way to create a private match. If you want to download it and join me, hop on over to the shelter for exchanging usernames and private match passwords.
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Maybe I'll have a bash at Uncharted 2. Everyone keeps raving about it. Although I REALLY should do some work.
I recently found out they made a DS game around some of my characters. And didn't bother to tell or include me (I do a lot of consultation on merch, apparel, Character Costumes & so on). Apparently it's shit. I woulda art-directed the shit outta that bitch! And the thing is, gotta buy a fucking DS if I even want the game. Which I also hafta buy. This is me venting again. Grrrr. -
I worship Ted McKeever. Have everything the guy has ever done. I think people like me are few and far between for the guy, but I just love his stuff. I love his overly thick line work. Totally original when he first started doing that. "because those guys are just tracers?" lol Well, some of them pencil and ink their own stuff, so they're tracing themselves. However, no, that's not it. I just think it's a silly argument because their work is part of a larger whole. Somebody wrote and or scripted it, somebody edited that, somebody might have penciled before them and may be coloring after them. As far as "just tracing", though. It depends, some guys do. But some guys completely change the look of the original penciling (for good and bad). I know you know that, though. I dig your rant. Sounds like a cool career. I totally feel what you're saying, though. Advertising has become a bit stale in recent times. And when it's not it seems like companies are often looking for the quick "money shot" instead of the slow build into something memorable. All part of the microwave world we live in.
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Just caught up with the days posts and I must say, You know your comics…I agree with most all that you say….except, that I believe Sienkewicz found drugs halfway thru his career…
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I've got software running, doing some, uhh, "stuff", that I don't want to interrupt right now. But I'm down for some gaming starting tomorrow night for sure. Any time.
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Finally watched it earlier tonight. Awesome, awesome time travel story. Like others have said, no time travel paradoxes to be had. I give it 3/5.
EDIT: This is STLOST from the future. 12 years to be exact. AICN finally has an edit feature, so I came back to change the rating to 3/5. "Past STLost" had 4.5/5, but 12 years later I couldn't let that happen, what with his..er..my penchant for 3 star theater. Anyway, Cubs still haven't won the World Series. The conspiracy theories about the Amero came true! Except the powers that be didn't call it the Amero. They voted on the Pudenda. -
Love comic books. Love them obsessively. Comic books, Star Trek novels and music - mostly vinyl (records, don'tcha know). I work to support those habits. Heh.
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It's not that good, anyway. I'm uninstalling.
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...Brad Pitt wasn't faking it, and how I know that he's not trying hard enough lately.
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Tron lightcycle games over the internet?
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Mar 13, 2010 12:00:44 AM CST
Jakaman, I’ve been a comic book lover and collector since 1976.…
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Sold off all but my most favorite stuff when money got tight..and I seriously wanted to be a comic book artist…in fact I sold a comic that I wrote, penciled and inked to an independent publisher, but to the best of my knowledge it was never printed. But I got paid….almost $2,000...And I’m serious about Sienkewicz. He used to be so Grell…
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I love how Geoff Darrow is a bit miffed that no-one believes he doesn't do copious amounts of drugs.
I remember getting Hard Boiled when it came out and thinking Oh God, I would hate to be his colourist (especially on those crowd shots). Later I visited Dark Horse and was shown the original art on giant sheets of tracing paper/drafting film. When he ran out of space he tacked another piece on and kept going. My God!
Jak, yeah of course the tracers thing was just a joke - and a Tracing -oops, Chasing Amy ref. -
is "crazy as a loon!" (twitch,twitch)
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Sweet. You've got a few years on me in the comic book world. Bad ass that you had something purchased. And hey, if it's something you want to do, don't give up. It's one of those careers where there is no age limit. I have no doubts that Sienkewicz has opened some doors, my friend. No doubts at all. Having walked those halls myself, I'd go so far as to say he may have even gone to some unfriendly dark places. ST. Haven't played any online games in a minute. But like I said at the Shelter, I'm down for whatever a group of people decide to play. I likes tryin' new stuffs.
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There’s probably not a comics artist alive or dead that didn’t at least smoke weed…Except maybe Rob Liefield….And I think Gene Colon smoked the most weed of them all…not a sharp line in his work…
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Nice one. The crowd shots are insane. And I can't imagine him needing to add another sheet to something that intricate. Nice info, though. : )
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My boy discovered Tron through something called GL Tron that the kids at school play on the net in Library time. His eyes opened wide when I told him Tron was a movie. So began the edu-ma-cation. Then I showed him the teaser/fx proof-of-concept bid that came out a coupla years back and his head nearly exploded. Followed by "two thousand and TEN?!". Two years is forever for a kid...
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I had a joint when I was on Lurhmann's Australia once. Shhh. And Liefeld? Can that arse draw feet yet?
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Isn’t that a great feeling, turnin’ your kid on to something you love…???I’m going thru a similar thing with my 24 year old daughter and my collection of science fiction novels …and, Sha came and asked me about the Beatles the other night because of a book she was reading, and while she knew who they were, her generation only knows the music thru commercials. So, we spent a couple of hours playing the classics and she REALLY dug ’A Day in the Life…” After that, I felt like the universe was a better place…
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It'll be like Subs and Avatar. We'll be talking about comic books and there will be an [edit]. That will be for the Robster. Joint.... what's a joint? Weed? Never heard of it. *uhum*
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So, are you chattin' with us from the time paradox that is Australia? Or are you in the states? I've got a few net friends down under and it ALWAYS trips me out that they're living in tomorrow, while I'm still in yesterday.
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Just caught that my DVR is recording the new ep of Spartacus. I'm going to go check that out. BBL.
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That I am very happy to have you guys join us. I often don’t get home until late when most of the peebers have to crash…I’m glad to have people of your caliber to talk to on the night shift…And I am very high and on my 6th beer an hour and a half…It’s just how I roll…
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I speak to youuu from tha fuuutuuurrreee! And you gotta set your clock soon, remember. Daylight saving change for you isn't it?
Cheeses. Cheers dude. Have one of whatever for me. -
Are you an EXTRA day in the future, Whiteman????
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Mar 13, 2010 12:58:14 AM CST
The Godfather of Soul, James Brown’s body…. MISSING????
by cheeses_of_nazareth
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1257377/James-Browns-body-missing-crypt-alleges-singers-daughter.html
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Me! Me! Onea the old ones. Great Blu-ray player too. Put a 500g drive in so I can get that DVR thingie for it. Have you played the puzzle game Ehochrome? That'd probably do Cheese's head in at this point!
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It was fun.
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To tell you the truth, the hours and days I work, a lot of the time I don't know WHAT day it is. Oh the irony of me living in tha fuuuturrrree!
The James Brown thing. Wow. He really IS the hardest working man in show business! -
being deleted by Alice and therefore re[deleted] later on maybe with more (non) "footage", he's gonna have a conniption, as the old folks are wont to say.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/liz-cheney-keep-america-safe
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Deleted being deleted by Alice? Huh?
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Hardest working man in showbiz, indeed…
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Ass-crack o' dawn, an' all that...
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screens. They pre-book these things. So they're thinking of re-launching it again later on, as Caeron reckon the suits think there's a coupla hunnerd mill in the old girl yet. They're thinking about adding some of the - you guessed it - deleted scenes back in. Got me?
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A cross between Jim Cameron, Alfonso Cuaron and Charon, the infernal ferryman. Or a typo. Whichever.
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ltfol! My cat just FELL off the bed. Hella loud "THUMP", I turn around and look and he's picking himself up and strutting out of the room with his tail in the air, like, "that never happened, hmph". Aaaaah too good. Back to my point, seeing as how I'm kinda new here, I don't know exactly what the opinion of [deleted] is with this crowd. Personally, I liked it. Not the greatest movie of all time, and many of the story complaints are valid. But it sure did look purdy. Since I'm looking forward to a longer cut on DVD, I would go see it again in the theater if they added to it. I'm more interested in seeing Titanic in the theater again, though. And I don't really care if it's in 3D. I like that movie and I feel no shame.
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...in the future! Thanks for the heads up, though. I had no idea that was happening this weekend. It doesn't really affect me too much so I tend to pretty much ignore it.
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I mean, really. Crazy ass show that keeps surprising me with the intrigue of it's first season story and the acting by of pretty much everyone involved. Last week was the first ep that I didn't think improved on the previous one, but tonight's just knocked it out of the park. Great twists and epic gnarliness. Crucifixion with your "cock separated from your body" is definitely not the way I'd like to leave this world.
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I'm going to read and fall off. Peace.
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And yeah, TRAINING DAY is overrated. Great script, fucked yup directing. Deal with it.
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...why?
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Flicka, check scalp for 666.
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Just so you know: a cucumber WILL cure a mild hangover. Not a major one, but if you wake up with that kinda dizzy feeling, consume on whole cucumber, and you will feel better. Who knew?
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There's no Peebers' Manifesto on the movie.
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That is so fucked up. ToD was crap, from start to finish. And whoever said that the 4th one is watchable if you liked Last Crusade... WRONG. I loved LC, and despise the 4th. I won't even speak its name.
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...brilliance. I'm only on episode 8, so no spoilers please...
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You mean 'INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL'...?
You start speaking that title on a Sunday and finish it on the Wednesday.
Why was it even 'the kingdom' of the Crystal Skull... I didn't see no monarchy about? Why even stick that shit in the title. INDIANA JONES AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL would have been a better title in every way surely? (not a better film tho, alas). -
"We are now on the border of Bolivia and 'The Kingdom' of the crystal skull" Mutt
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Or maybe the Crystal Skull is the King of Shitty Maguffins?
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Believe it.
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March 12, 2010 ...Food Network cook Sandra Lee puckers. (http://tinyurl.com/ycc5fuo) ...Looka' it dis way, lad. If ya bring your sweet lassie home to meet your dear ma and da', n' find de ol' rascal passed out o' the floor wit' the drink, 'is belly all out like a great, beached whale, den you know dere ain' no pressure on de girl to make a first impression, begorah. ...Mac tells some tales about "watering the plants in the middle of the night" and his buddy, Joe, who should've worn a splash guard. ...When you're straddling the distance between the edge of the boat and the pier, you might as well just jump in the lake, as opposed to piss yourself, laughing. ...Quoting "Ren & Stimpy," and, um, admiring Sting's underpants in DUNE. ...diarrhea, Cryptic Ninja, striking out from between the shadows, evaporates into the mist before he can be clocked. 70s cop dramas fall to their knees, throwing star between the eyes, never knowing what hit them. ...Baby-sitting Vades is up early and shares opinions on HARRY POTTER movies with the other flavor-vader. ...vanilla once visited his father's home in Ireland and kissed The Blarney Stone while all the locals pointed and snickered. (Ah, you see, on the rare occassion an IOirish man passes The Blarney Stone a wee bit knackered, he'll wet The Stone, if'n you know wha' I mean, in 'onor o' all de coont tourists.) ...Vades and Colon-El hate on Yates' POTTER. ...Stabby props THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH and Bob Hoskins. ...Vades dreams of a satanic black cat. ...Stabby's brother's cat: Worst alarm clock, ever. ...Flick has recurring dreams of Things That Will Not Die. He traces it back to an incident of unintended 1st degree catslaughter from his youth. ...Random PRECIOUS condemnations ...Child-Vades and the physics of cartoon bananas. Plus, the poignant memory of his first reaction to floating, maggoty dog corpse. ...Col.'s subconscious really doesn't like Drew Barrymore. ...Mowing baby rabbits. ...STLost's subconscious is Jack Bauerful, but it sometimes - only infrequently - gets rejected by chicks. ...Jaka starts a thread @ Googleville that we can all use as a place to post samples of our creative accomplishments or our interests. ('moose has re-named the thread "What's Your Story?") Please participate if you will. ...Flick recalls playing Death Jenga® when he was a bright, imaginative, complicated child. And, he relates a dream from his teens about a girl with a broken leg and his pubescent urges. ...A Brief History of Subbarization®, Or, Unintentionally Trolling For Positive Reinforcement ...FOX News hates on GREEN ZONE as un-patriotic. ...MaxiPod (http://tinyurl.com/y9tsaw6) ...Cameron and those ubiquitous whores, The Black-Eyed Peas, pimp 3DTV as "the future." Still no jet-packs, flying cars or world peace but we got goggles to watch football with! The future fucking bores me to tears. ...Remembering Cronenberg's CRASH and rating his edgier films. ...Real Vegas or Second Life Vegas? ...Sixies was a mad scientist in his youth, cross-breeding hamsters and Chinese dwarfs. ...Debating the qualifications necessary to be President of the Detroit school board. (http://tinyurl.com/yjkghy9) ...Stabby creates another meme: Mo'Nique's sisters, including U'Nique, Cli'Nique, An'Tique, Chro'Nique, Pathe'Tique, Tàka L'ique, and many others. ...Oscar-winning actresses at The Razzies® - Halle Berry (http://tinyurl.com/yemlzgn) and Sandra Bullock (http://tinyurl.com/y9g32os) ...Olde-Timey Batman (http://tinyurl.com/yjn5mrz) ...Country dance lessons (http://tinyurl.com/yzpq4tc) ...Italian space opera-disco (http://tinyurl.com/yfbrdgx) reminds Flick of his Italian childhood (http://tinyurl.com/ycf6dzz), (http://tinyurl.com/yj3p5m8), (http://tinyurl.com/yg49ev8) ...EssDub's DD likes Muppet Martians who don't like rock. "Wot wot wotwot wot wot. Yip yip yip yip yipyip yip yip yipyipyip yip yip. Ray-DEE-oh. Ray-DEE-oh." ...Disney® chops off the head of Zemeckis' mo-cap zombies. ...Teddy suffers the SXSW invasion. ...A large shaft of wood, deep in the verdant forest (http://tinyurl.com/bd786) ...Tung oil is best to use, when polishing wood. ...The New York Review of Books on [deleted] (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23726) ..."The Red and The Blue" (http://tinyurl.com/l9tcm5) ...European Game Shows: Soft-core giclee™ ...Jaka ranks the "Indiana Jones" films. ...Fave comic book artists: Dave McKean, Bill Sienkewicz, Ted McKeever, Geof Darrow, and Others - Sources and Influences ...Jaka's Photobucket includes mostly photos he's appreciated and collected off the web (http://tinyurl.com/yg3xhwe) ...STLost really likes 12 MONKEYS (this much, ★★★★☆ ½), but he rates it ★★★☆☆, due to contractual obligations, else the future ceases. ... -
Time for coffee! Anyone else?
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Totoro is a great way to start the day. Makes me feel like drawing... which, of course, I won't actually do...
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I had two social engagements and I completely redesigned my blog too. Today, I am going to my neighbor's book signing (he's an author!) and then going out with my lady tonight. Tomorrow, I'll be doing a triple-decker of events- brunch with one friend, afternoon shenanigans with another and finally a late post-dinner meetup with one other friend. In other words, I'm probably not going to be Subbaryworthy™ until Monday.
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Your Subbaryworthiness™ is always implied and assumed.
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Thank you, Subs!
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complimented your junk?I say lots of nice things. And, a lot of not-so-nice things, but those aren't usually personal.
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You offered manual labor and to spoon me in bed. What the hell did I do to deserve such generosity?
In other news, I need eggs, Be back in a little while! To the Kingdom of the Pasteurized Eggs I go. Bring your passport, Mutt! -
There was a period where a few of us were barely holding The PB together. As we slogged through the third of the long, long Nolanverse posts, we began to become bored with the sound of my voice and drift away to other corners of AICN. Sixies, Stabby, Cheeses, diarrhea and a handful of others did all the heavy lifting those days. Then for some reason, Yackers returned after being otherwise engaged for a long time, and he re-energized The Pedalback, attracting a view other absent vets to pedalback too. I don't remember the specific conversation, but I do remember the energy, and I know The Pedalback has remained on the top of The Talkback pile nearly ever since. Had it not been for that, who knows? We might not have lasted to meet Flick, Col., EssDub, Mac, vanilla, ST or Jaka.Good on ya, Yackers!
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FARM-FRESH EGGS
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Jebus! A FEW others. EssDub, throw some of that hot coffee in my face. I don't drink the stuff, but the shock will wake me up.
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I know that we were getting into the various typography tricks too- that was an Epicback! But yeah, that's when you and I really gelled. I'll always have fond memories of that day.
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I cannot imagine. I seriously can not.
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Has anybody seen Dr.Morbius lately?
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COMMUNE OF THE UNIMAGINED DRINKERS OF TEA
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24 might be sold to NBC.
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Mar 13, 2010 10:45:50 AM CST
24 might be sold to NBC = NBC might buy that used Toyota
by scarywaitress
from his Uncle Larry. The industry equivalent.
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That should be the title of something. That's really good.
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"I wanna buy an inexpensive car for my kidd, Mutt, here. Something with failing brakes he can just drive off into some exploding Nazi truck or something. Got anything like that?" asked Jack Bauer, in a cross-over episode that made the geeks wet their underoos.
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http://tinyurl.com/yhfu389
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Somebody throw a cat at the other guys to wake them up.
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He really knows how to rip his subjects new assholes... nicely done, Garbage Man!
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Kill Bill's Pussy Wagon is featured prominently in it. There's a bunch of other pop-culture crammed into it. I don't like the song much, but the video is cool.
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...my least favorite, right next to Poker Face, which I still despise. I actually dig her, but her songs either really work, or REALLY don't. That video is INSANE. THAT woman is craaaaaaazy.
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Mar 13, 2010 11:37:00 AM CST
1 in 10 British kids believe the Queen invented the telephone.
by anonymoose
http://tinyurl.com/ylyjltn
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Hehehehehehe.
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Mar 13, 2010 11:38:31 AM CST
My favorite, scathing snark from The Guide and Anti-Guide
by scarywaitress
"[this band]is a nerdy-vocalled Casio-plinking goofball ensemble that fulfills the expectations conjured by the phrase 'started as a dance theater project.'" "As far as Funky Bunch rappers go, Milwaukee's Juiceboxxx could be worse, I guess. But he'll probably "get hype" and take off his shirt and run around and swing from whatever there is to swing on, dripping sweat on you like a gross sprinkler system, so skip this one unless you want to spend the rest of the night drenched in Juiceboxxx." "Then there's Vancouver's Josh Martinez (above). He's passable when rhyming over guitar loops, less so when playing pouty rock singer, but ask yourself: Could I be doing something better right now than watching this man rap?" "There's Ben Rector, an easy-listening schmuck from Nashville who could be the next John Mayer/Jason Mraz-style plague carrier." "Seeing She and Him at 10 is perfectly acceptable, unless you're planning to pay homage to Zooey Deschanel's unbearable 500 Days of Summer character by following this up with the aptly obnoxious The Summer Set at 11:20." And my personal favorite: "I would almost like to be at She Wants Revenge at 11:20, just so I could go around interviewing everyone and asking them "why the fuck are you here?"
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TAVERN OF THE RAPPING SWEAT-SPRINKLER
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China zoo starves 11 Siberian tigers to death.http://tinyurl.com/yc4h3kq
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Why Your Loved Ones Hate Videogames
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Are you putting the first line, , and the TinyURL in a single line? That's probably why they're always broken.
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Those tigers didn't get enough omnoms and proper treatment. China, you is fail.
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We're supposed to understand and coddle bullies now?http://tinyurl.com/ycfvy2l"Ahm sicken turd of always havin' my kid watch out fer the feelins o' some whiner! Amer'ca weren't made o' no pussies, dammit!"
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Rap Bookbinding Cars Knitting Juggling The national highway system Sleep The olive press Masonry Antidisestablishmentarianism The term "Generation X" Refridgeration China Pasteurization (that Louis Pasteur is a credit-stealing smuck) the course of modern cinema from 2010 on Solar power technology and The Periodic Table of the Elements. Not the table... THE ELEMENTS.
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Mar 13, 2010 11:57:24 AM CST
...Woman Destruction Hitler needs to be in toy stores by...
by flickapoo
...Christmas!"...
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http://tinyurl.com/ycfv y2l
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They remove Thomas Jefferson from the textbooks because of his views on the separation of church and state.http://tinyurl.com/ygscw9h
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...I said blood tears! Program that!And make the whole scene zero-G, I want those tears to float up in the air like little red rubies of grandmother grief!
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© Popeater.comhttp://tinyurl.com/yes3q65
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The subject line cut-off point has never beaten me yet...
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Here it is again if you have no idea what Flick is referencing.
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Try it like this:
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you always gotta remove three or four blanks from his links 'cause he doesn't even bother with the tinyurl...GRIN. I'll try to do better from now on.
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Mar 13, 2010 12:12:35 PM CST
...Cobra, I've only lost the last letter of the last word...
by flickapoo
...several times in fact.I'm a risk taker. That's like surviving D-Day and getting your helmet shot off...multiple times.You'd think I'd learn my lesson, but no. I have to push.
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I HATE that I get judged for loving the ever-living shit out of PoP2, especially if the person judging has never played it. Or even SEEN it.
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and Jolly Rancher® jelly beans together and put 'em out when the kids were visiting. Next time, I'm gonna mix in some of those Harry Potter® jelly beans that taste like boogers and grass, just to watch the greedy li'l knobs pucker.
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I say, what DEƒUCK®, figure it out.
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...there's a link to TinyURL below the text field. You have no excuse.
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Nobody wants their tinys lopped off.
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I used to claim I had no addiction to caffeine, that I could "quit any time I wanted". See, I've done that with two other less than legal substances in my life, as well as cigarettes nearly twenty years ago. I just tell myself, "Self, you're done with that". And I was. Actually quite smoking in the middle of a pack. But one day a couple years back I didn't have coffee all day and I got this RAGING MF of a headache. Something I had never experienced in my life. Headaches that is. I was like, "whoa aaay... what's that mess all about?" Tried it again a few days later, same result. ...my name is Jaka and I'm a coffeeholic.How in the fuckballs do you STARVE 11 SIBERIAN TIGERS TO DEATH in this day and age? There is only 500 of them left in the world! How about you just reach out to the world and ask for some help with you money and feed issues. Morons! Damn it, 11 zoo keepers should be fenced in and given equal treatment. I have no hatred or cynicism regarding James Cameron. He's a douche, but that's his choice. I just like his movies. His douchery has no affect on my life. Lady Gaga, on the other hand, is the surest sign yet that the apocalypse is upon us.
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I don't want nothing lopped.
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Sardine and Horseradish are BY FAR the worst flavors I've experienced. Shrimp was none too wonderful, either. I've heard Sulphur is TERRIBLE, haven't had that one yet. Lamb, which I don't eat, was surprisingly good.
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...in a good way, I think.
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Mar 13, 2010 12:30:44 PM CST
A buddy of mine said years of smoking pot nigh daily
by colonelfatheart
has removed entire words from his memory.
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And I won't even rant on her. I just believe her to be everything that is wrong modern day force fed "entertainment". Evil on a stick.
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He just needs to smoke more, they'll come back.
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Every once in awhile I swear the end to caffeinated high-fructose corn syrup and suffer the same raging head-bangers.
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Do they have people eating boogers, dirt, earthworm, earwax, rotten eggs, etc?
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ranting on GaGa is my job.
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But, truth be told, it's the same way we all know that they got those flavors so-right.
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"Bleh... oh yes *gag* that tastes perfectly like a rotten egg *hmph*gag* wonderful!"
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Everybody bites it or just GaGa? I'm way for it if I can get one of the Golden Ticket admissions to the govt.'s underground bunker, so I can later emerge into a Gagaless world.
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since you were seven, but pop one of those in your mouth, and you know they nailed it.What is the spice mixture for earwax?
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Well, truth be told, I really enjoy drinking coffee. And I try to avoid high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated anything like the plague. I don't always succeed, but I do alright. Coffee though, mmmmm. Anything from say a Foldgers level on up to the small batch, organically farmed limited release stuff. Just love coffee. I even want to try the stuff that gets pooped out by that beastie in South America... but I'm not brave enough to do it. lol
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I'm with you on the Gagapocalypse. If the ticket allows you a guest I'll be sure and take you if you can promise the same for me. I don't understand why people don't get the joke there. I know she's just sitting back laughing at us, counting her piles of money.
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South American Poop Coffee?Chupacabra®, available in Tall, Grande and Venti.
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...if it meant I never had to unexpectedly run across another sardine flavored one. Bleeeeech.
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So soon, so soon.
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did he invent DOUCHERY or just its FUTURE?
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...check it out here. http://tinyurl.com/8l875 It's a real thing and it's supposedly incredibly tasty. I guess I just don't have the balls to eat anything that's been previously excreted. It also has a Wiki page here... http://tinyurl.com/55g7s
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MUCH funnier.
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I got my animal poop coffee countries mixed up.
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Who first brewed lowak scat? Bear Grylls?
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We're talking coffee made from animal waste!
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...but it's a pretty solid bet that the more expensive you go the better quality pot and/or pan you're getting. Once I started paying attention to the pots and pans I was buying I became a much better cook. Makes all the difference, no matter how much I didn't want to believe it.
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...it's been "thoroughly washed, sun dried and lightly roasted". lol
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It's a wedding, dammit! You don't have to ask for the whole boxful. Just get a good omelet pan, a couple of Calphalon® pots and some cast-iron. Who cares if they all match?
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...eating anything that's been previously passed. I'm pretty sure that would fall under the category known as "common sense". The coffee really is supposed to be incredibly tasty and has been ingested by many, MANY people with no ill side affects. I just can't make myself do it. A group of my friend were going to go together on a bag at one time and then all try a pot together. We all chickened out.
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Best gift I ever got was a selection of three, thick wooden spoons.
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It's all about what you need. A big stock pot is a must. 16 to 20 quarts at least, triple layer with an aluminum core for fast even heating. Big enough for lasagna noodles, ribs and crab. Register (I'm guessing you, or somebody is getting married?) for a good over-sized frying pan, too. You may not always use it, and while they're expensive, they're not SO expensive that somebody wouldn't give you one. : ) Dang, now I want to cook.
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I gotta cut out. Going to try and motivate my lazy ass friends to get ready to get their Trek on. Something tells me I'm going on Monday by myself, which is fine, really. But they told me to wait until today, so I'm at least going to try. Catch y'alls later.
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There was an extended period, when I was younger, that I worked four ten-hour days per week which often stretched into 12-13 hour shifts. This corresponded to the time when I was very fitness and diet conscious, too, so it necessitated some creativity on my part for healthy meals.I subscribed to Cooking Light magazine and reserved every Sunday to cook my entire menu for the whole week. There was a good five - seven year stretch, there, where, aside from obvious staples like chicken soup or spaghetti, I never repeated a recipe.Good times.
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...but I should probably point out, if you ingest milk, you're consuming something excreted. Ditto for eggs.
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...but for some reason that doesn't bother me.Good point on milk and eggs, Scary.
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Eggs aren't pre-digested, though.
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...do I want to whip up some homemade gnocchi? Or just do a simple pasta primavera, with papardelle instead of fettucini, just to spice it up? No cream sauce... just a sauté of zucchini, peas, baby carrots, and asapagus, in EVOO. Shavings of good Parmesan on top. I really need some better pans. And, also, a more efficiently laid-out kitchen.
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...I drew the Tiny Bloody Embryo card.Easily worse than sphincterbrew®
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Last night's dinner: braised short ribs, with onions and mushrooms, served over creamy polenta. Side of brussels sprouts, sautéed until just slightly crispy... paired with a BANGIN' Cabernet.
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So, I'm off to the store. I need to get the toddler out of this house, anyway, she's bouncing off the fokking walls. Catch you gents later!
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EssDub's meal options. Not undeveloped chickling fetus in the yolk.
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...and more about the ritual.I used to religiously start every day with at least half an hour of good coffee + good book.
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ToddleraPoo will be waking up and taking care of herself, before you know it, so you can return to your own routines.
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...you mentioned "the kids" up there and it clashed with the (completely incomplete, and largely fictional) Subtitles_Off narrative in my head...
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Whatever.
The ritual is part of it for me for sure. Particularly when it's during relaxed free time. And ESPECIALLY while reading. But I'd be in complete and total denial if I didn't admit that I'm FULLY addicted to caffeine. Both physically and mentally. Because I am. mmmmmm... cooooffeeeee.... That is a good point on the eggs and milk. I don't drink or cook with milk whenever I can avoid it. What most people consider "Milk" is not at all what actually comes out of a cow, anyway. Eggs, love 'em. I mean near addiction love 'em. Don't care about the wee tiny embryos in the slightest. However, neither of them are actually poop, nor do they ever mix with poop. Coffee beans harvested, by the manufacturers own description, "from the excrement", are just not the same thing. At least my mind won't let me think they're the same thing. I can admit that. I started cooking because I was tired of spaghetti, canned tomato soup and boxed mac n cheese. Moms lost her baggage when I was 6 and worked incredibly long hours until I left for other environs at 15. I was responsible for my sister and the homestead (not a sob story, just the way it was) so I decided to start cooking other kinds of food. Started with whatever was in the house. Then, around 10 or 11 I guess, started asking Moms to buy certain things when we could afford it. After I moved out it was into my hippie phase (full on btw, over 120 Dead shows) and my healthy food craze. So that was learning another kind of cooking. Since then I've mellowed and just try to keep an even balance on everything I eat. Moderately low fat and small amounts of red meats. But otherwise I'll cook and eat pretty much anything. The love of books got me into buying used cook books in Berkeley and SF, so one of my favorite things to do is find random recipes and try something new. Can't say I've ever gone a long period with always trying new things, though. I really like making something again if I liked it the first time. Those recipes get transferred over into "the box". Pretty sure I'm making French Onion Soup from Julia Child's "Mastering Vol 1", tonight. It's a great recipe and I've got a bag of onions, a loaf of sourdough and some of that good parm in the house. Mmmm...cooking... Something else the Pedalbackers can geek out on. Teehee. -
I have no kids, nor will I ever have any kids, so I can cook whatever I want.
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favorite uncle. In fact, I think I attract adult friends through my trustworthy baby-sitting skills.
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...I type really, REALLY fast. So apologies for all the long posts. You can tell me to shut the hell up anytime. I really won't be offended.
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...would leave their kids with me if their lives depended on it. I have no patience for kids. I don't really like them, either. As mentioned, I was largely responsible for raising my sister and that was enough. I told my Mom when I was 13, "I am never having kids". When I was around 35 she finally admitted that to herself that I was serious. My Sister has had three now, ages 16, 14 and 6. So Moms got her Grandkids and I get to be the Grumpy uncle who's always giving them good books, comics and music to check out. Works for me.
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We've all got our own writing styles.It's not even a rule that you always type something interesting, he says to his own reflection in the mirror.It's funny how some of our writing styles have even changed over time as a result of those long Pedalbacks where it took forever to load anything that wouldn't fit in the header.Sixies, for example, is one of us who comes to mind, as someone who used to stretch out over a long post but now seems to prefer to do it surgically.
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...to the culinary occasion.I love food...fortunately my DW is an excellent cook. When left to my own devices I just masticate nutrients and revert back to my old Weight Lifting 101 days...tuna and ketchup sandwiches on whole wheat, oatmeal, eggs, chocolate milk, split pea soup, fruits and vegetables.
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"if you ingest milk, you're consuming something excreted"
Waitress, you know I have a lactation fetish... That's dirty talk! Don't toy with me unless you're prepared to finish the job... (a word or two about your breast pump oughta do it) -
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skat all jazz-like, or tell stories to each other in stream-of-conscious and Engrish.
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Jaka, never say never. Sean Connery taught me that while wearing a toupee.
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...is like...uh, something people want a lot...money, coffee, Asian girls of legal age dressed as cartoon characters.
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Every day, for first lunch, during my weight-lifting days, I'd eat a can of tuna on top of a dry baked potato with a dollop of home-made salsa.So, nasty.Every morning I'd have oatmeal cooked in apple juice, a dozen scramble egg whites and half a cantaloupe.
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...when I read "a word or two about your breast pump oughta do it" Thanks Flicka. That's not actually a TERRIBLE diet that you listed. But that may be because I like all that stuff. Other than chocolate milk... Random aside. Back, damn, I'm getting old, I guess nearly twenty years ago, I worked with a woman who went on this crazy tuna fish, canned green beans and mustard diet. I have no idea what she ate at home, but that's all she ate at work for lunch for nearly a year. People even started complaining because they were tired of smelling tuna and mustard. But you know what, it TOTALLY worked. She lost massive amounts of weight (she also got really into walking miles every day) and from what I've heard she kept it off.
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...society, or the patron saint of insecure new moms around the world...The Don Juan of weening...the Lothario of the nipple latch...the Casanova of casein.
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The future Mrs. got back from work so we had some lunch. Thanks for the advice on the cookery, folks. We're definitely registering for that shit. I'm with you guys on the mix and match idea, but the future Mrs.'s delicate sensibilities were rattled at the mere suggestion (save for the stock pot).
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I won't even consider dating women with children, of any age. Sometimes you've just got to know yourself. I am not meant to have children. And without ranting, I think far too many people have them because "that's what you're supposed to do". No judgment of others, that's not my thing. I just know I'm not having kids. One of only a few major regrets I have in my life is not getting my shit tied-off when I had the insurance that covered the operation 100%. I seriously wish I would have done it.
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I'm definitely stream-of-conscious. But sometimes I wish I could pull it back a bit.
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...that doesn't sound so bad to me...in fact it's making me hungry. I used to like I giant plate of rice, plop a can of tuna on top, a (LITTLE) olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe some stewed tomatoes on top.I had no idea we had so many ex lifting junkies here.
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"But they won't match!" lecture, Colonel? It's a valid point from a decorating stand point. But there's always a piece or two that rarely (or never) gets used.
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I hate that.
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I'm glad for her persnicketiness, too. If it were up to me, this place would be just a couple of bookshelves, a futon, this Mac and a giant TV.
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I do it all the fucking time, only to kick myself in the jimmy.
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But not enough to regret being single. Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily like being solo, either, and I've come close once, maybe, twice. Still, when people start to get doey-eyed with me and tell me I need a permanent significant woman, I just patronize them with some Dr. Phil-talk to get them off my back and thank my lucky stars.
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...advice.I like to make popcorn on the stove the old fashioned way. I like to use as little oil as possible, so popping all the corn without burning the popcorn was a delicate and adrenalized art.
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Truly, you're more likely to get high-quality pieces of cookware if you ask for them and list them separate on your register. Otherwise, you or your guests will compromise to get an affordable set which just makes cooking more of a chore.
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Whatever makes you happy, etc. etc. etc. For me, personally, no marriage, no kids. I shant get my rant on about it either. But it's a lifetime of living (and reading) that has lead me to be perfectly comfortable with these decisions. I'm happy and comfortable with myself and my life. Other people's hangup have no affect on that anymore.
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Mar 13, 2010 2:21:14 PM CST
Hmmm ... the future Mrs. loves old-fashioned stove popping.
by colonelfatheart
But she won't use copper pots because, according to her, they're so hard to clean. What say you?
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But I don't want to torture the Colonel, either. Because he's going to loose that one. *poke*jab*snicker*
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made on the stove, with real butter.Put some apples in the butter and sprinkle some odd herb like tarragon or red pepper on that stuff when you've got a girl over, the movie was bad, and you want to get back on the straight track to nookie town.
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Plus, copper bottom doesn't matter unless it's insulating some aluminum. That's what's important. You can get the same kind of pots with a brushed aluminum, or shiny aluminum too, though. It's the ceramic bottomed non-stick sets you've got to watch out for. A lot of them are just complete crap.
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Mar 13, 2010 2:24:37 PM CST
If you get good cookware, you gotta care for it properly.
by subtitles_off
That's the same for pots made out of any material, even stainless, except for the junk.
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...I had zero urge to have children until we finally did. And then the urge was very, very small.
I can say that having a child opens up a whole new room in your brain that you didn't even know was there...like this locked door in your apartment that serves no purpose, so you shoved a dresser in front of it or something.It's very interesting. And entire areas of art, literature, movies, etc...suddenly make sense all of a sudden. I thought I understood a parent's motivation in a story before, but I didn't...not really. -
And I've never heard the apple idea before. I'll be trying that for sure. Tarragon is a favorite herb, but it's growing in my garden. I wonder if it would work with fresh? My fave additives for popcorn are parmesan cheese and black pepper.
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Thank you all again.
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All in due time, though.
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...the copper is just a thick copper colored stripe in the bottom to evenly distribute the heat.I find them infinitely easier to clean because they don't burn. My DW is an inspired but distracted cook...the lack of burning is a huge benefit.
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Just as I'm absolutely certain there are benefits to a lifetime spent with a single significant other.But, some of us were just meant for other priorities.
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Yeah, I'm angry. Full of righteous rage. But I am absolutely heartbroken for the kids, millions of them. The future doesn't bore me. It saddens me.
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Just put a sprig or two of fresh tarragon in with the apples and the butter.
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One of the myriad reasons, for me, to not have children. I see nothing work leaving them on this rock. Not now. Maybe in another time. But definitely not now.
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I got here just in time. To take it in a completely opposite direction.......MEGADETH is in Buffalo tonight and I can't FUCKING go. AAAAAHAHHHHHRRRGGG!!!! Stupid fucking work! AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
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repeated all over the country. If it's not Jefferson, it's something else some cracker-headed dipswitch wants to remove from history.Thing is, it's always been that way.If it were up to me, elementary history would be a horror story as opposed to the subject of some patriotic dress-up pageant.
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lol There's a great Megadeth show that is available for streaming on NetFlix. It's from, like, 2005, so I thought it would be terrible. I was happy to see that it wasn't. The band is no Megadeth that I remember, but Dave still rocks. And his new guitar player is pretty bad ass.
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...I was going to say to Subs...
But you HAVE to have a kid...just to enjoy movies properly (not that you'll get to see movives ever again).Just have a kid, experience the full 3-D effect for a year or two...and give it up for adoption. Totally worth it.It was going to be very funny. You guys were going to laugh, and laugh...but I ruined it. -
Have to what, Flicka?
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Pollution? Comical political corruption? Shitty traffic? "Guidos"? Yeah, but at least Thomas fucking Jefferson is still in the goddamn history books.
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I don't have to own 'em to take 'em to 3D movies.
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History or math teacher. That's one of the other regrets, too. But ya know, I hate kids. Soooo, never mind.
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...business to sound know it all or condescending. It's just an interesting side effect...and something you try to remind yourself of when your kid wakes up at 6: 50 am after you got frisky the night before and drank too much and stayed up too late.Just think of the character you're building!Kiiiill....meeeee...
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Dave rules. I heard they are playing all of Rust in Peace. My brother is going so I'll hear allllll about it.
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but I wouldn't be surprised if I go that route eventually. After Jabba the Governor is out of office, that is.
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Prolly not the cabalistic slave-raping Jefferson of reality, but a Jefferson. Just like Texans will have a Jefferson, just no evidence of his philosophy.They're used to that. They've done it for hundreds of years with Jesus.
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that is why my 8 month old niece ended up with a lumped up head. we were moshing.
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I was too busy asking the question to listen to you already answering it.
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Laughable, I know. Scotch soon to follow.
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nephew and niece, too. They both pre-dated the Disney pop-slaught.
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That's the one, Mac. Insane crowd. And Dave sings some shit in Spanish, too.
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...man myself.
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Queensryche, Iron Maiden, even fucking Manowar. Now his son is about 11 or 12 and he's taking drum classes and he's already killing on "Enter Sandman." He's such a cool little kid. Very geeky, wild, crazy hair. Jean jacket with Maiden and Megadeth patches.
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Edgemont. I think it is Canadian cause I just saw Kristin Kreuk talking to Grace Park in the halls of a high school.Anyone who said Grace Park would look better if she put some weight on, over in that Hawaii 5-O Tb, was sadly mistasken.
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to Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti.""Play tambled unner foot agin, Unka Mike!"
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when he was four. I'd play "Stigmata" or "What About Us?" and he'd be bopping around relentlessly. And when the songs were over, he'd say "AGAIN!"
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...is so positive that I could never give you a hard time about it. You're clearly into your kid(s?) and that's all that matters. Too many people have them, don't give a shit and then wonder why they're a pain in the ass, or don't turn out how they expected. Plus, I've heard enough people say the kind of things you're saying to know that there must be some truth in it. I still don't believe that everybody is destined to have children. And it will forever frustrate me that a large number of people believe it's some sort of requirement that you're not fulfilling if you choose not to have any. But... uhh... I'm ranting. Stopping now.
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metal doesn't get much more pretentious. Greek mythology and guitars. I'm there. I think Coheed and Cambria are taking over that slot. More sifi less greek.
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...the cliche' is true, having a child is the best thing I've done in life......but we aren't having any more. We're not cut out for the baby lifestyle. Maybe I'm dreaming, but I think that with one kid you can still drive into the city, see a play (something fun) spend a little time in a museum...more than one and you're a zookeeper for the next twenty five years.
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shooting up to Just One Fix, and now........I'm gonna listen to that song.
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Perfect day for drinkin' an' Pedalbackin'.
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A lot of people say this, but I really do. I don't get down on modern country (post-Alabama) and I hate what it currently considered "pop". Otherwise, I listen to and collect music from the beginning of the recorded age (cylinders) right up to stuff released this week. No boundaries. Very little makes me happier than hearing something new (to me) that I really love, no matter what era it's from. I was a major Ministry fan for about ten years. Good shit. : )
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"Never trust a junky-yy ..." Haha, fuck you, Courtney Love.
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Love Maiden. Even a fan of Seventh Son. Which is pretentiousness layered on top of more pretentiousness.
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Anybody else check out Judas Priest's Nostradamus? So much better than it should be.
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It was when they were touring for their "Rio Grande Blood" album, I think. That was a mean fucking album, and that was mean fucking show. Revolting Cocks even opened for them. One member (haha) even dressed in a giant dick costume.
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I did a silent, college film, set entirely to that song. It blew the minds of the class. Unfortunately when it comes to art in school I always peaked early while setting the bar for everyone else. Nothing I ever did in that class after was that good. I also expected an A in the class based on one project. I hate school.
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Well, I agree with you about the Zoo keeping. But clearly I'm not the best judge of such things. My Sister has that near ten year gap between the second and third and it seems to have allowed her to run through the cycle you're talking about again. Because the older ones can stay home by themselves and don't need as much supervision when going on family outings (they just ask for more money, heh).
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...I'm curious to find out if it works...
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and yeah it is an epic in every sense of the word. BTW I'm loving Colon_El right now for bring up Minstry. I think I am scaring my co workers.
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less work, but I also think there would be such a thing as hedging your bets. what if that kid is a fuck up and an asshole.
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...and that was just at Lollapalooza... in the day time. Would have loved to see RevCo, too. Caught Throbbing Gristle once and Front 242 a couple times. Saw NIN so many times I lost count.
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...but what if you have five and they're all fuck ups and assholes? lol
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...ha! I always wondered that too. I don't like your average kid, and I actively despise more kids than I should...what are the odds I'll like my own kid?Fortunately, I think there are chemicals in your brain that take care of that....although I'm still early in the process. Lots of time for things to go wrong...I'll get back to you.
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Mar 13, 2010 3:11:49 PM CST
The pope apparently personally covered up a molestation
by colonelfatheart
case in Germany when he was archbishop there. http://tinyurl.com/y9n3mk5 A conspiracy of child abusers. Can't people fucking see that?
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...while sitting here. What a waste of film that piece was. I was expecting something better than that. That was just silly and pointless. And Sam Jackson emoting "oh, oh, oh" as each bullet struck at the end actually made me laugh.
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Do me a favor and go to The Shelter and leave a post in the "What's Your Story?" thread. That way, when I figure how to get it uploaded, I'll have a place to put it. Unless, this is just a test and you don't want to have it at The Shelter, in which case I'll delete it once I make sure it will work. Make sense?
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show I ever saw. Sepultura and Biohazard opening. Not so. The show where I most feared for my life was Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies openning for Metallica on the tour for the black album. Mostly cause the audience were a bunch of poser assholes who were just there to hurt people. We had lawn seat (big mistake). The first thing I saw when I got there was some kid bleeding from the nose and mouth RUNNING looking over his shoulder to see if he was still being persued. That set the tone of the show. Then there were 2 6'5" native american dudes who didn't think twice about blasting my 16 year old blonde girl/friend blindside style (save the jokes). All bets were off.
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and KNOW it was all my fault they turned out that way;)
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i always do that and then hate myself. Like eating a whole sleeve of chips ahoy without the pleasure.
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was Marilyn Manson on his Holy Wood tour. I went to the show anticipating a rather mellow time since I had seen him on his Mechanical Animals tour and the pit there consisted of minge-y Goth mopes and their chubby, clove-smoking girlfriends (nothing particularly wrong with that, per se). The Holy Wood show, however, was packed with jocky frat douches there to be violent. I was stunned, and it made me long for the day when only pussies and misunderstood smart kids (like me!) liked Manson.
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Looks like I'm going to have re-think that strategy. 'moose and I will work it out.
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into a meaty spasm. I was immediately knocked to the floor. I remember looking up and thinking it's like being at the bottom of a deep, deep swimming pool and all you see is some shimmers of light and fleeting, warped shapes. Fear choked me. I felt like I was drowning. Then, two hands reached down and grabbed each of my arms to pull me up. Two complete strangers saved me from a Doc Martens stomping. I've rarely felt more grateful for anything since then.
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Aaah, the memories. Most violent pit I was ever in was for Slipknots 'Iowa' tour. 10,000 people on the floor were basically just beating the shit out of each other in complete chaos (also my last pit ever, for sure). My back was broken (not really, but it was really messed up) for a good month from a messed up blind side. People were clearly running scared at that one, too. Never seen anything like it. Previous to that it would have been Slayer with Testament opening, but that one was fun. Best Metallica pit was at Concord Pavilion where the grass is a steep hill - people were moshing up and down it all night long (but organized). The upper were constantly gettin' knocked on their asses, but everybody was laughing about it and helping each other up (non-posers). Best mass of people all together feeling the same vibe moment (other than Dead shows and raves) was actually for Weezer when they made their return on the Warped tour in 2000. The Warped Tour in SF is down on Pier 30/32, right on the water, but facing the city. Weezer headlined (with Green Day) and were playing as the sun set over the City after a long day of great performances. From the first note of their set every damn person was pogoing in unison. You couldn't even stop yourself from doing it because the entire crowd was pushed together, bouncing. We were only about 12 rows deep and you could clearly see the entire band and all the stage hands smiling from ear to ear.
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even though i was in a frat. it was the reason i failed my first year. the hidden reason to hate frats, as if you needed more. i majored in partying my first 2 semesters.
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its a scary place.
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Mar 13, 2010 3:30:08 PM CST
Best vibe I ever got at a concert, either the first Ween show
by colonelfatheart
I went to, or my first Clutch show, which was either late 1999 or early 2000. They just fucking rocked and grooved and jammed. And everyone was so happy. I still have the shirt from the show. It's deep red, with the Clutch logo. Below the logo it reads, "2000 is here, have a beer."
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...and I'm vain, so don't post anything if it starts to look shitty due to reformatting etc...I tried sending it to myself as a jpeg and the colors got all weird.
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occurrence with all this rock-n-roll contact sport stuff
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before anyone knew who they were. 9 dudes crammed on a tiny stage. After they played they ere just walking around the fairgrounds still in costume. It was funny.
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It's proper pit edicate. It's really a shame that type of show has become about hurting other people. Pits/moshing used to just be about getting violent to let off some steam. I don't understand the beating down your neighbor mentality. I did experience a violent Pantera pit, btw. But it was really only bad during 'Walk'. The rest of the show was manageable.
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There's always an asshole. Or 500.
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attest to color accuracy, but, once it's posted you can see it, and if it bothers, it can always be removed.I think we're going to have to go The Archive route, setting up a page for each Peeber that they can edit themselves. 'moose knows more about it than I do, but I'm going to force him into a tutorial so I can pass the info on as necessary.
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It's what first got me into them. Their show became progressively more violent the bigger they got, and they totally encourage it. So not more Slipknot shows for me if I can't get a safe seat.
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the venue is tiney and you are almost right on stage with them. They might be the band I have seen the most at this point. Last time they diod a whole instrumental set as The Bakerton Group and then came back and did a whole Clutch show. It was great.I've seen Ween twice. The first time it was really stripped down. Good not great. The second time it was one of the top 10 shows I had ever seen. Gene Ween had broken his foot so he was in a cast (funny). It was great. I had some Phish fan tell me after they broke up that he was gonna follow Ween. I kinda wanted to slap him.
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Not getting the reference, Subs. Was that a Who show?
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...Gogol Bordello at the Trocadero in Philly. Famous smallish place, and it was full of drunken Eastern Europeans...it had this punk-family reunion-immigrant catharsis vibe.Great live show.
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I think he gave it **1/2 stars when it was released, too. http://tinyurl.com/yh4fs8a
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it would seem like I would dig them but I don't.Anyone at the show just to "own the pit" is a total dickhead. Hate those guys.
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But I never really got into them. I have a buddy who was of Eastern European/Romany stock and he was TOTALLY into them.
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Mar 13, 2010 3:41:43 PM CST
...Colonel, I wasn't all that into them until I saw the live sho
by flickapoo
...that changed everything.
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watching Wonderlust King on youtube. It has a gypsy/punk feel to it.
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...I push it to the limit, man.I live in the danger zone.
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11 kids got trampled to death when they opened the doors to a General Admission show. Not exactly the same as a mosh, I know, but add the elements of shirtless drunken boys and I'd guess a mosh is a giant fukken tragedy waiting to happen.
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Lineage doesn't change, does it?
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Trent put together this incredible interactive visual arts crossed with Nine Inch Nail live music for their 2008 tour and then filmed three shows in HD with the intent of releasing a DVD. Due to fuckhead label issues it was decided that it wasn't going to happen. So, being the smart guy that he is, Trent released all 405gb of footage to his fans, for free. The fans then collectively got together and created their own DVD from the footage which you can now download in a myriad of formats, as well as purchase. However, since the whole thing was working on the "free" concept, it's also available on the YouTubes in regular and HD formats. Here's the link to the YouTube channel http://tinyurl.com/ybzafu5 Highly recommended from just a "holy shit I've never seen anything like that before" place. It does move slowly into the more visual moments, though. So the first 6 or 7 tracks is just cool lighting (like, a wall of them), but once the screen drops down in front of the band shit gets all kind of weird. Here's a link to the official NIN page in case anybody would actually want to download it for themselves. http://tinyurl.com/yfqxjxt
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There are a lot of rageheads in pits, a lot of posturing. You'd think death or maiming would be more common.
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Bless Trent for his fans-first tack. I've kinda strayed from his music in recent years, but the man knows how to put on a show.
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I tried not to like Gogol Bordello. But then I saw them at Coachella while waiting for another band to perform and damn it if they aren't one of the most infectious live bands I've ever seen. Rage at Coachella was one of the stupidestly violent things I've ever seen. Clearly a bunch of frat/jock types just being violent. I mean, I know their show were always intense. But this was just out of control violence. Thankfully I was really far away from it. I try to go to at least one live give a month, and I usually make it to two or three if you count small club gigs for jazz and experimental artists.
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the video is with the guy hung upside down by straps or whatever and there are levels of people on catwalks in a circular room? I saw it on HeadBangers Ball years ago and i never remember the name of it. It never gets much love over hurt and closer and all the other NIN stuff.
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I'll play the trivia thing with you though as to not waste you time.
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...Rage Against The Machine, even though I think that's not what Colonel meant by rageheads. I just connect "head" to describe whatever band people are talking about liking. Old habit. Welcome for the links. It's an enjoyable watch, considering it's free.
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I do not shit you, he's actually gotten a bit smaller. He got way too big at one point. To answer your question, though. When he gave up alcohol and heroine. He went on a health kick that, so far, he appears to be sticking with.
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He's a bit of a health freak now, I believe.
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you win the pudenda offandMi'strBi'quesbut not this time..at least not that guess.
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Colon_El is to fast.
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...it was Wish. http://tinyurl.com/nn63wr Could also have been Head Like A Hole. Trent's hanging upside down in that one (he must have a thing for that). More likely Wish, though.
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http://tinyurl.com/ykj46yw
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not really into NIN much but that song kills.
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...at first, but they're contagious, and incredible live.Also, they have a weird old-world seriousness and romanticism mixed with an absurdist nihilism that I find irresistible.
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Just gave my memory a workout.
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Since 89, actually. Just does something for me.
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What’s the word?
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Headbangers Ball. I used to for-go all other activity on Saturday night just to watch it, or we would say,"Yeah I'll be there but I gotta be home before midnight for the Ball." MTV is fuckin gay now. Not that there's everything wrong with that.
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whatsup Cheeses
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http://tinyurl.com/ykw46d7 These guys are right around the corner from you, Flick, over in New Hope.
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They removed the "Music Television" from under their logo recently. It seems to me like they should just remove the M and brand re-brand themselves. The channel has almost nothing to do with music.
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Sorry Subs.
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Mar 13, 2010 4:09:44 PM CST
For NIN, I'll always have a place in my heart, and on my iPod.
by colonelfatheart
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I'm no professional like Subs or Cheeses.
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I need to actually do something today... well, no, I don't need to. But I want to. Catch y'all in a bit. Peace.
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of a band. I just couldn't tell if it was a gimmick like KISS or GWAR. The dudes mustache looked fake to me. It seems like a Dropkick Murphys kinda, old world music mixed with new world punk. I can dig it.
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Mar 13, 2010 4:11:35 PM CST
Daughter is scurrying to get ready for tonight's performance...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
I’ll probably take a short nap, myself.…I don’t need to be there ‘til 9 ish, but tonight is going till 4 AM... I was up at 6 AM this morning and left work two hours early…and then there’s the after party to consider….I certainly hope somebody has sense enough to bring some serious stimulants…
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...they're from New Hope?You know, I worked at an orchard just outside of New Hope around '98 or so...a girl I worked with was always pushing her brother's friend's band...I could swear it was these same guys.I could be wrong, but I'd bet money on it.
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Best concert musically/entertainment wise, or, best concert gaged by how much fun and/or pudenda I got as a result of being at said concert?
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Followed by Talking Heads, Chicago, 1977Prince, Indianapolis, 2004UB40, Chicago, 1981Last concert I went to was Roger Waters, Indianapolis, 2008.
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They've been around for about 20 years, and they have grown significantly as musicians and tunesmiths.
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show where you walk away on a cloud. It isn't always your favorite band or necessarily the most technically proficient. I for one like smaller shows where I feel like I experienced something special.Probably The Reverend Horton Heat club tour for Martini Time.I think when you go to a show and you know all the songs and the set is awesome that means more to me than saying Black Sabbath at Ozfest (which I also loved) but I'm thinking of the "best time" I ever had at a show.
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If you want to split into categories, that's fine. It's more fun that way.
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somewhere, too. I saw R.E.M. in a dive in Bloomington, IN, above a gay bar.Worst concert: U2 (and that's from a guy who has seen a ton of crappy arena 70s rock)
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UB40. I never really listened to their stuff before their big singles. I take it they're worth my time?
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My brother and I snuck up front when I saw him. We knew it would be the closest we ever got to seeing Floyd so we weren't gonna blow it. Dropped a tab and was blown away. The campground we stayed at after tuned into anarchy as cops flew in on golf carts and started dragging people away. That didn't help the trip at all. Great show though.
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Or, as my geeky friends and I like to call it: "Episode IV, Pa."
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I don't think they are anymore. "Geffery Morgan" is a really good record, start to finish.
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when you consider three of those top four where in small clubs prior to the bands becoming household names.
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Maiden puts out just a little more for the Canadians. Dickenson is still spot on. It felt like a REAL concert.
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...sound is bad, but oh well...
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...AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! I can't believe I haven't heard that before.
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I figured that's what it would be like. The lead singer is insane.
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If you don't know him you should. Singer songwriter. I'm a metalhead and I still love this shit. This is great but doesn't even touch what he can do live. amazing.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFWBBMQPsY
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Better than a Floyd show. In fact, I need to squeeze this show on my list, too: Waters, Indy, late 1987. It was his "Radio K.A.O.S" tour (his weakest album), and it seemed like a comedown since it followed his tour with Eric Clapton playing guitar and this one only boasted Paul Carrack. Add to that, False Floyd was going to tour in 1988 and they were doing this thing where they'd announce their shows and sell tickets a full six months in advance, in direct competition with Roger in some cities. in Indy, that meant Waters sold only about two thousand tickets. But, to his credit, he played in that 80%-empty arena, and when he was interviewed by ROLLING STONE later he would call it a "redemptive" experience for him. I remember that word, specifically. Anyway, he performed "In the Flesh" - you know, "are there any queers in the theater tonight..." - and when the lyric hit "there's one covered with spots," guess who got hit with a spotlight that made him look like he was covered in spots? Yeah, me and the three guys closest to me. Thought that was cool.
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Enjoy yourself!
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Dailor is from my hometwon and I used to see him in this band called Lethargy before he moved, hitched up with Mastadon and got big. If you go to a certain bar on Christmas you can stand next to him at the bar cause he is home for the holidays.
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That's incredible, Subs. I can't believe False Floyd pulled that shit, though.
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My favorite concert story to tell people about…November 1, 1981, I had just learned to appreciate the effectivness of alcohol and getting laid and had not yet tried Mother nature’s gift. It was at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas ….Rolling Stones were headlining for a second night and we drove from 100 miles away to party…ZZ Top (before Leggs®) opened for them and the pre-opening act was the barely known regional band at the time, the Fabulous Thunderbirds…It was my first coliseum concert and while I wasn’t too surprised to find them confiscating alcohol at the door and throwing them into dumpsters, after all, they sell alcohol inside…But, when I saw the people walking up and down the stairs carrying signs that said, “LSD for sale,” carried like a vaudeville hawker, reading the sign VERY loudly in case there were any illiterate people who wanted to buy drugs….Every person in the upper level cheap seats around us were smoking joints OPENLY!!!. Cops walked right by us and said nothing. And, Beers were like 3 1981 dollars a piece…fuck that!!! I I suddenly changed my stance on drug use… That concert was a REAL game changer for me…
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I like all their shit, but Crack the Skye is one of my favorite albums. So fucking epic.
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Of course he did that, shit. He did it in Chicago, too, but it didn't work, there. Roger played a smaller venue that year, but he played three dates to False Floyd's one.
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aint that tough enough? yes it is.
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Just. Wow. Fuck. I mean, fuck. Incredible.
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This is my house...I hafta defend it!
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until right this second.HA! That will always just be plain-old STAR WARS to me.
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that snake was eating the mice. Now you're gonna have to kill all of them, too.
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...thing you can do to defend hearth and home, Sixies.
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...that for me, it's a small club, or don't even bother.I'm sure I've missed a lot of good stuff that way, but if I can't see the spit fly I'm not interested.
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and the weather is warming up, and the station is near the woods so there are a bunch of little garter snakes popping up all over the place randomly. girls and pussies are freaking out like a bunch of bitches. these things are thinner than my pinky and only 10" long. no big deal.
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Have a fun time tonight.I'm out 'til later, fellas. Peace.
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Knew one day I would use it
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I've been front row to one concert, a Joni Mitchell - Bob Dylan double bill in the 90s. Don't ever get front row seats. Fucking ridiculous, sitting there looking at a bouncer the whole time. We traded our tickets as soon as we got there with kids in the twenty-fifth row on the center aisle.
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now I realize I MUST have one.
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...watch out for bad guys......and when you spot one, show him who's boss. I'm sure you know more dirty tricks than all of'em put together.
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MOON is a mini-masterpiece. Do mini-masterpiece's deserve as much glory and plaudits as major-masterpieces? That's the question you have to ask yourself when deciding how many precious stars you decide to give it.
It's a great little movie. Tight as a drum, and yet baggy enough to give the characters and situation just the right amount of room to breath. It's not action packed but it is definitely compelling. The first act of the movie thrives on intrigue (i'd kinda had this spoiled for me by reading too much about it before hand), but then the middle act and the climax are all about character development, introspection, and looking for that elusive 'way to win'. I was cheering Sam on in the end (Rockwell that is, who is also audaciously called 'Sam' in the movie) and willing him to find a way out of his Lunar solitude.
To say too much about the movie might spoilt it for others but I would certainly recommend it for any fan of serious sci-fi. Maybe not as a date movie or over dinner with the Mrs, but when you're feeling a little thoughtful or introspective yourself then I think it would really hit the mark.
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...I've been looking forward to that one.Good review.
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I agree on just about everything, except the "minor" part of it made me downgrade my rating to 3.5 out of 5. It will be something I revisit, though.
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http://tinyurl.com/yg3ebdp
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the answer to the TeaBaggers called.........wait for it....The Coffee Party?????? Really?
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Fucking liberals. And I say that as a liberal.
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Flicka and Col, thanks guys. Personally I don't think this is a movie i'll revisit in a hurry, but for a one watch movie (particularly if you're in a chilled out mood) it's mighty good stuff.
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I already frayed the end of one of my extension cords…works better than a taser…
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http://tinyurl.com/y895xfd
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I should probably get a couple of hours naptime in before 9, but…I’m not in the least bit tired…
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...seems inevitable in retrospect.
A great idea, just sitting untapped...out in the open.
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http://tinyurl.com/y86rsve
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but I had to post....Temple of Doom is leaps and bounds better than Last Crusade. LC cinematography looks like it's filmed on vhs, and Sallah and Brody are horribly written.
Temple of Doom...you have Indiana Jones character growth, from a "fortune and glory" kinda guy to understanding the true power of artifacts, and realizing how important they are to their respective cultures.
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I got a vasectomy in 1987 JUST to keep my sperm from winning the race ever again…
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Cheeses, forgive my ignorance but when you come does that mean zero sticky stuff shoots out... what's the deal?
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...kibbles and bits a bit.
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Flicka, to clarify are you championing vasectomy performed by hot chick with sharp fingernails over qualified medical practioner?
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Creamy fluids still continue to flow…no discernable difference in ejaculate, just sperm free….My Ex used to call it Diet Jizm,… “Same great taste, zero sperm count…Filling but not so filling…”
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"AAARGH, it hurts!! But look at those sexy red fingernails... aarrgh jesus that stings... but fuck, she's so hot...ARG! ARG! ARG ! You do know what you're doing right??!!! AAAAARRRRRGHGHGHGH"
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...that's a reference to a story I told Cheeses a while ago about my first visit with an Italian Monica Bellucciesque ladydoctor as a kid...
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hope she doesn't mind perma-boner.
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Cheeses, I see. Being a tight wad I was thinking it might be a great way to save on tissue paper.
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It frightens me.
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http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebs/monicabelluci/monica_belluci_1.jpg
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I have a lot of suspicions that my decision to have a vasectomy at 25 years of age has a direct effect on my lack of a sex drive today. I mean if you‘re blocking sperm you gotta be blocking testosterone and other vital hormones…But then, I usually blame the obvious ‘drugs and alcohol‘ abuse…But, I know a LOT of drugged out alcoholics that still want sex…
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next time tinyurl that shit though. Is it wrong that I couldn't copy and paste that shit fast enough?
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Mac, I'm eternally jealous of all the tinyurl posting that goes on here - I don't have a clue how to it.
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Best afternoon in a while, chaps.
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At least once a week to stave off prostate cancer caused by Vulcanism…which is, of course, repressing emissions for more than 7 years at a stretch….Or, seven days in the case of human physiology…
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1. Go to whatever you want to tiny. In this case the hot ass pic of Monica.2. Ctrl+C (copy) the address.3. Go to tinyurl.com4. Ctrl+V (paste) your address in the avvailable window.5. Click the make tiny button,6. Copy the new "tiny" address and paste it over here on AICN.
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Cheeses, holy fuck dude that's harsh. Maybe it's just a natural part of the male aging process but maybe you just have a fetish or an unusual orientation that you just haven't discovered yet?
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http://tinyurl.com/yzw5svx
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I often think you are correct though, Man…I think a lot of it IS mental…I will never top the relationship I had with my second wife…I am totally convinced of that fact ….so, why waste the cash trying? Especially when cash is SOOOO tight you have to give up weekly comic book stops….
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Man I gotta be careful what I pull up on the work computer. It's worth the risk.
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From the elbows and forearms up…
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does that count as a three-way? i hope its a girl.
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Hehe, it's all just a bit of fun... I have to run now guys - but thanks for the entertainment - laters!
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I was always afraid of having sex with my baby’s momma when she was pregnant…I was afraid the infant would come out literally ‘fucked in the head’…I was afraid at the time, that it would jump up immediately and punch me between the eyes five or six times with its fist and then scream, “How do YOU like it, bitch!!!!”
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yeah.. I've heard that one Cheeses.
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I have no clue…but, I know I LAUGHED like a mad-man the first time I heard it…because it hit WAY too close to home…
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I heard it from a friend. I thought it was just one of those classics.
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...pregnancy/sex nexus, but your reptile brain wants to procreate more than anything, and once your reptile brain gets a whiff of a female successfully implanted with your DNA...it becomes a snake on a mission......MUST PROTECT THE VESSEL...A SUCCESSFUL AND FERTILE VESSEL...MUST DELIVER PAYLOAD AGAIN...WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH SUCCESSFUL DNA REPLICATION IS MINE!!...BRING ME THE VESSEL!!!
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The girls are getting their hair and makeup done right now, and I’m supposed to be napping, which, apparently isn’t gonna happen…Should be fun, even though that music always sounds half finished to me…There’s gonna be like 12 DJ’s and the girls are getting paid to dance at as many of them as practical, hence the portable stages I built…the theme is Quarantine, like in music infection, CDC and bio-hazards…I hope to have some pics to share if I ever make it home tomorrow and figure out how to link them to the shelter…
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of "your" all together since I can never manage to get it in there. and since it is supposed to be "re". William Shakespeare would kick me in the balls for the way I mangle the English language.
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There comes a point in the pregancy where the missionary position isn’t any fun for either of you anymore…
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...at a gypsy-punkshow...big fun.
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It’s like fuckin’ one of them dodge-ball sized chick exercise balls…
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...you just fray the female end, exposing the wires, plug the other end in...and let the pain begin...right?
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You need a spray bottle of water…or, one with a squirt cap works even better…Splatter tham with water and when they react, as all people do when sprayed with water, hit them in the wet spot with the exposed end…it won’t take ’em down…but they will back the fuck off…
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is this a legit event or some kind of underground thing? My brother played bass in this punk band and at one point we (I was roadieing)went to play this 2 day independent event. The band was set to play first on the second day so we just went to hang and party the first night. Shit was crazy. It was really humid, I remember cause these "Ya Hoo's" were driving around in a shitty pick up throuwing gas around to get bonfires started.Anyway there must have been around 300 people or so (mostly bands and their friends). A really surreal kind of vibe cause it wasn't one type of music. Everyone got blasted and the next day a friend came and woke us up at like 8am(unheard of in the music community, right?). He said, "Go home. Show is off. Someone got hit by a train."The show was put on by, just some kid at his house in the middle of nowhere, near some train tracks. This guy beat the piss out of somebody and just left his drunk battered ass on the tracks. A train came by later the next day and ran the dude over. He lived long enough to tell cops and paramedics who had done it. Fucked up. Known as DeathFest amongst my friends
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water and extension chord.No offense Cheeses but that is like white trash MacGyver shit. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
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...GANGS OF NEW YORK...everyone's gearing up for war...spiked clubs, swords, homemade spears, razor claws, butcher cleavers......and Cheeses with an orange extension cord and a Vidal Sassoon water sprayer......the fuck you lookin' at, kid?
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ahahhahahahahahaha"...the fuck you lookin' at, kid?" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahaha.
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...ahahahahahah!!...I'm gonna teach you a lesson old maaa..aaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!PLEASE, PLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!
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You guys are killin’ me…BTW, if you substitute a glass of rum or vodka for the water bottle, you get a nice little flash fire to add to the shocking melee…
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The Outdoorsman? It is a about a group of guys in the North West I think and they compete in this intense drinking/lumberjack-ish competition. It is fuckin awesome. Don't know what made me think of it.Mac tested and approved:Martin SextonThe Outdoorsmanseek, find, absorb
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I think people very conveniently forget all about how fucking awful what they did to Sallah and Brody was. Cheers. Capshaw still sucked though, to be fair.
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It’s a sanctioned event at a large warehouse complex near the old Texas Stadium in Irving…I’ve been once or twice, but never for something this big…
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Hop on over to the shelter.
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Was it you that was sayin' about how it's easy to make a splash or be outrageous/contoversial music-wise, but much harder to actually make an impact through the quality of your work? I can't find it any more.
Anyway my fave gig was pretty mainstream - Crowded House supported by The Clouds (little-known Aussie band) at the glorious State Theatre in Sydney. Transcendent stuff.
Lately I was knocked out by The Hives, and on a more 'snobby' note, Michael Nyman band at the Sydney Opera House. Staggeringly great. I go all over the map, musically speaking. -
cool - heading over!
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Somebody better HAVE some White Vader tonight to keep me awake until after 4 am…I’m sure I can get tabs, but, I hate the chewing the inside of my mouth thing I always get when I roll,…. and I’m not about to walk around with a pacifier in my mouth…
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SPONTANEOUS LACTATION. The term for when a woman who is lactating begins to... er, produce, as she reaches climax. Sometimes abundantly. Like, you-could-take-an-eye-out abundantly. Take it from someone who knows.
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I only do it for my darling belly dancing daughter…I have been up since 6 Am and will likely be up till 7 or 8 AM tomorrow policing and coordinating her troupes show tonight…Tabs are probably my best bet with this crowd, low hallucinations, high amphetamine content….at least the ones they get in DFW are mostly that… Oh, and by tabs, I mean Exctacy…
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Don’t tease Cobraman like that…
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i think your looking for ConfuCheeses.
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I'm doing him a mitzvah over here.
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uuuhhhhhhmmmmmm....yeah. Sounds like no fun at all;)
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The man does know what he likes…
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keep having to go away and do other things, but having a great time reading everything.
Cheeses: that frayed extension cord sounds painful! I'd like to see it used on someone though....out of morbid curiosity. -
Maaaannnnn-chesteerrrrrrrr!
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You want that with flash flames or without? Just cut the female end of a regular brown or white household extension cord, plug the male end into an electrical socket, then lick the exposed end wiring….Then imagine that TIMES TEN with an industrial strength power cord…It’s a lot different than that similar trick you used to do with 9 volt batteries…
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...some nimrod is going to read this on here, try it, and fry his brain... and his mama's gwan come lookin' for your ass. With lawyers. It's gwan git UG-ly up in dis piece, yo.
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taking somebody's eye out - yoiks! All natural though, in a weirdly unnatural way. You've edu-ma-cated some of the peebers I think. I also think you've just given them some new Christina Hendricks fantasies though!
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...are cut from similar cloth, build-wise. Her boobs are bigger than mine, though.
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If anyone reading this tries that, I will nominate them for the annual Darwin Awards….which celebrates those stupid enough and kind enough to remove themselves from the gene pool…
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The original The Ladykillers which I've tried to get around to for ages (yay cheap Blu). My God, it was excruciating and just genius. Every element fine-tuned to perfection. Five Fucking Stars© from Vanilla.
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6:11:51
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Ooh bebeh. She does have a very classic 50s/60s build. Boobs aside (I'm more a leg fella but as an artist I appreciate the whole package believe you me), the shape of her neck to her shoulders and those amazing hips, she's perfect for the role. The costumes accentuate it of course with those necklines and hems, but if you don't got it in the first place you can tell. Exhibit one - back to my previous evisceration of Cate Kapshaw in TOD. We may disagree about the film, but I'm sure we have common ground on her being completely inappropriate in every way to play 'period'. The 80s soCal tanned thing ISN'T 1930s.
Back to your build Scary, you're a lucky gal! I did a pitch on a Dior thing recently. Hope it happens. HE didn't believe in girls looking like pre-pubescent boys... -
Such elegant clothes, that actually NEED curves in a lot of cases. Of course, I'll never, in this lifetime, ever be able to afford that. My ass- shapely though it may be- is not worth a $4k dress.
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If I were turned on by that, I would have become a Catholic priest a long time ago…
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...yeah, it's impossible to get stuff right online, and jpegs always mess up colors and details...I just have to swallow my pride.
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5 Monsters 1 Cup was shit and I was STILL never happy with how it looked on my computer. It turned out pretty alright. I have very high standards for the low level shit I turn out. BE BETTER, CRAP! It rarely works.
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Have you seen that credit card rewards commercial where the husband is trying to talk his wife into using their rewards points to go to Cabo or Italy for the weekend and she tells him that they can’t because she spent their rewards points on the new dress she’s been trying the whole commercial to get him to notice. I do not condone hitting a woman at any time…BUT, I understand it sometimes…
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...hey, that's my life motto...It's all shit, but I'd sell my soul to make really, really good shit.
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...and it's an ugly fucking dress, too.FUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOUU!!
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selfish bitch. She better have nothing on under that dress and ready for some A.T.M. Stealing reward points comes at a high price.
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I get you on all of those consumer driven commercials. It's almost like saying "you need this. If you don't have this, you are nothing!"
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Cobra linked to, open on a tab. I periodically click on it to brighten my mood.
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He wants her dead.
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"My husband is a complete idiot", angle. "Just give my the money and shut the fuck up stupid. Shouldn't you be at work? I have shopping to do."DIE!
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...trying to decide between serious and substantive, or fecal and flippant...
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Mar 13, 2010 8:57:06 PM CST
I know it was a while back... but the thought of Grace Park
by scarywaitress
getting chubby and less hot is deeply saddening to me. Just sayin. I mean, LOOK AT THIS WOMAN. http://tinyurl.com/yfpbn35
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http://tinyurl.com/yf42jqg
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I am officially out of here for the rave…Til later tomorrow…
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The piccie at the shelter is fantastic! Lovely, lovely stuff dude! I love the composition & focal point too, beautifully constructed.
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she was not heavy by any means but still a kid so she wasn't all athletic and really slim.
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...is that they can't get pregnant. Pregnant Monica Belluci is dangerous. Mm.
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We'll have to discuss raves at some point in the future.
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...described above.
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I don't love Asian women or super thin women in general. Particularly that upper arm or thigh being the same width as the lower arm or calf. Not into the "model look". Just not my thing. So hey! More thin model types and Asian women for you guys! Woot!
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...putting my stuff online is frustrating, because my pictures aren't very cinematic...they're more about surface texture, so a lot is lost on the screen."Constructed" is the right word, most of the jungle plants are from my backyard...pressed, dried, and glued with matte medium. In the book reproduction you can see little shadows and 3-D effects on the page...it was fun to do.
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they are silly little guys
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But, ya know, to each their own.
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Is that the pic you guys are talking about?
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I dig it. I was immediately drawn to the wasp/spider battle before I even read the text. Love the green mottled background a lot. Scanning is an imperfect art as every dang page/image seems to scan differently (I've scanned tens of thousands of comic book pages). That particular image looks like it's needs to be lightened a bit. Without seeing the original it's hard to tell. Anywho. I dig it. What's the text about Flicka? I lervs me some Darwin!
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How can that be relevant? To anyone?
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i don't tweet. don't care for it
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...one of the many music sites I visit regularly and their current lead news headline is "Top 20 Tweets Of The Week". I don't get it. And I hate Twitter. The internet had already done enough to dumb down the world with blogs and bbs systems before people were forced to complete their inane ramblings inside of 140 characters.
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I need my cougar trolling fix.
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Peops seem to be having lives tonight (yaaaay!) so I'm going to shut the pc down and finish a book I'm into. Plus, gettin' up early tomorrow to get this years garden rolling. Peace.
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I was all confused yesterday, thought I'd be gaining an hour. So it's a perfect night to read and try to actually get some sleep. Pleasant dreams Pedalbackers.
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checked it. seems boring. what do you do? spam them about breast feeding or something? I just saw asome shit about daylights savings time and kids that get up early.
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Subtle and overt.
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You ARE confused. LOOSE? ;)
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over the lightening?
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post partum melt downs.
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She was saying that a kid's bad behavior is the parents' fault. I was saying it was the teacher's fault. Boy, was she pissed.
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Saw the post. Sorry can't do it today, & the next week is a killer for me. Maybe after that though? I'm just checkin' in here from time to time while I work. Cool?
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Man, that scan at the shelter is super dark compared to the other one at the 'other' site. You can see the flower & leaves much that repeat the butterfly motif much better. Having said that, I love the dark one too!
And hey, I love texture and patinas to bits. Makes it richer. Congrats dude. And guess what? We share the same first name! True! -
http://tinyurl.com/yg99f4t
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newest thread on the home page. lets just take it RIGHT NOW.
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I was like.... whhhhaaaaa? Had to look at it about 10 times. Uhum. Lose, I meant. I haven't seen any other version of Flick's pick, but I definitely think the scan at the Shelter is a bit dark. OK, leaving now really...
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Mar 13, 2010 10:28:05 PM CST
Careful, Mac. That's at the very top. Do you want to get b&?
by anonymoose
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fuck you then
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i just want to take over the thread and talk nonsense that has nothing to do with the topic. if we were at full PB strength we could just overwelm it and make it ours right away. it would be a biblical move.
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...Annette Kellerman is really attractive and/or has a prosthetic leg? That avatar reminds me of a Suicide Girl... only without any tattoos.
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http://tinyurl.com/yz832b8
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I'm seriously leaving, damn it! No, no. You can't make me stay. I have a book to read. And... and... sleep to sleep. .... if I could just make myself go do it....
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take it easy PB
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Is that you over there stirrin' up some shit Moose? You're broken. Nice.
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I've been stopping in there recently... go inot a HUGE smackdown with some silly twatwaffle who claims that Easter eggs and Santa Clause have RELIGIOUS significance. I love arguing with dumb-ass Americans who have no idea that there are cultures besides their own.
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Jesus. And, I've actually had WAY less wine tonight than normal. Trying to cut back. Mostly because of the calories, really.
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That takes the cake.
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...do you want to change your nickname at the shelter?
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Or do I have to create a new profile, and all that?
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Click on "Edit my membership" to the right.
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it still comes up Friendly. I'm going to try to sign out and sign back in. This place sees a fair amount of action, huh? Nice job on this.
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I see your "name" is Scary again, but your nickname is still the same. On the right side, in the brown sidebar, there should be a link that you can click, underneath the main navigation links. It should say "Edit my membership." You can change your nickname there. This is separate from your profile.
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people can post their art at The Shelter. You're going to have to put up some sort of tutorial, somewhere. And, if they can't attach to messages, we'll have to create Archive pages for them. Any member can edit their own Archive page, correct?
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One of the things that pissed me off WAY more than the creepy zombie children in Polar Express was that the whole thing was predicated on the idea of Faith as it relates to Christmas. Then at the end we discover he means (SPOILERS for those who spared themselves the pain) faith in SANTA CLAUS. NOT faith as it relates to the most intrinsically Christian celebration there is. Could you be more disingenuous if you tried?! I may be of Irish Catholic decent but Jayzus Mary & Joe-seph that doesn't mean I'm hard core religious (actually agnostic) - OR that what Zemeckis did isn't a fucking sneaky sleight-of-hand insult. Fookin'Coont.
But that reminds me Scary, I was gonna ask you earlier - where you from? -
I see no one has really done the Who Are You? challenge... I'm going to post mine tomorrow. Can we post tinypics of our art? Are tinypics permanent? I have no idea how that site works, long term... I've used it in the past for YB, though. Anyway, g'nite all.
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but I have for lo these last 14 years dwelt in the hills of the wilds of New Jersey. The pretty part, where there are cows and horses... not the shit part with the congested roads and the Turnpike. Not the part that SMELLS like Jersey. You're Aussie, right? Where?
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is adding files to the Files section. Using the upload button that's found on the home page. 'moose knows more about applying those images properly, but he's keeping that information close to his vest. Things keep appearing and disappearing there, and I'd like to find a way to make it permanent, long-term and easily accessible for all.We'll straighten it out eventually.
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I really am beat... and we lose an hour... but of course, my 2.5yo doesn't give a rat's ass about that...
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so when y'all have a way to upload images, let me know.
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to files section is that isn't very organized, and it'd be pretty hard to find something specific the more files get linked there. You once had created an Archive page that collected Mac's suggestions as to Hollywood types he imagined us as. I was hoping to be able to have something like that credited to any Peeber with the stuff they wanted to share that they could update themselves.
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Here's their stance on how long files can stay up.
"Your files will only be deleted if they do not adhere to our Terms of Service. If you are registered, your files will be available forever. If you are not registered, any file that you upload will continue to be available if it is accessed by anyone at least once per year."
TinyPic is the same except that it's 90 days instead of a year. -
partitioned into folders? Or is the only choice between a list and a grid?
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and link to that site? That's not what I'm looking to do.
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more detailed image up. See if it's ok, please?
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'Cause I'm all liquored up. 'moosie, I'll e-mail in you in the morning when I'm clearer-headed, and if we can do what I want to do, you'll know how. If we can't, we can't.
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You link directly to the files, not the files section.
If you want your image in the shelter, email it to me. -
and it worked fine. That, of course, means I always have to have that image on my computer as the host, which is fine, if that's the way it has to be done.
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That's not how it works.
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I don't know what to tell you. I just uploaded Flick's jungle.gif which allows a little more detail than the png version that was loaded earlier.
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What are you doing?
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uh oh.
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My daughter just dropped me off at home and she has gone back to the after party. I was rollin’ balls ‘til just a little while ago, need to sleep but probably couldn‘t if I tried. Not a fan of the Xtacy, but it did what I had hoped tonight…kept me awake with minimal jaw-chewing… My stages all held up, we kept the riff raff off of them and I only had to whip out the frayed extension cord once when this great big dude jumped up on the stage with my daughter and nearly tipped it over. Fortunately his buddies had the good sense to pull him outside and away from me. The pictures I took are not very good, but daughter is friends with the official photographer, and she always gathers pics off everyone of her friend’s Myspace pages, so I am hoping to have a few to go in the shelter soon…that is if Subs hasn’t broken it… Y’know, I like a lot of the techno drum and bass music but, FUCK….7 hours of it blaring from the different rooms and warehouses was about 5 hours too long…I know I had all the kids scared that I was a cop or a molester when I first got there, but after enough introductions were made people sort of relaxed, plus they got me a Security t-shirt, which helped me blend in. And WTF was with everybody wanting to sip out of my water bottle…??? They gave them away for free and no way was I swapping spit on the rim with any of these diseased kids… The following is a true conversation I had with a cute little girl in her early 20’s wearing only panties a bra and candy necklaces…”So you must think our generation is just too wild…”she asked me. Gesturing to the dance floor and the lights. I looked around the giant room full of smoke and lasers and told her, “My generation had disco…not much different…” “Oh, you like disco…You must be a fan of the Beatles.” As cute and nearly naked as she was, I just had to walk away and put down the extension cord before I used it on a naïve, stupid, but ultimately innocent, person.
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*rolls over and lights a cigarette*
Waitress, phew, thanks sweetie, that finished the job. -
Cheeses, sounds like we're talking a 4 out of 5? Not bad mate, I think you did your girl proud.
Take it easy tommorrow... maybe a nice stroll in the country air. -
Yes, I am still wide awake, despite having been in that state for just over 24 hrs. Thankfully I have no place to be, and no where to go until tomorrow afternoon…
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Plus, i've never seen your posts so lucid and finely formatted. That E must agree with you!
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Cheeses, a Pink Floyd and big fat spliff moment?
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Want your child’s lucidity and formatting abilities to increase to GED level overnight..? Try E-xtacy , and stop giving them Ritalin…
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I’m smoking’ bowls, downin’ beers and jammin’ to the 70s music channel on my TV….I need to hear music with melodies…and words…
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Cheeses, if I were there right now i'd give you a hug and say "I love you man".
Sadly i'm not able to do the first but I can do the latter... sleep well old chap when dreams finally take you. -
Daughter WAS happy, but they do need a lot of organizational assistance next time. Plus, three women on equal footing, even best friends, can never come to a consensus on costumes, dance schedules etc… Now that I have actually seen one of these things in action, I gots ideas for da next time…
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Just after the guy had jumped on the stage with my daughter, and probably because of that incident, the head of security for the place, probably the next oldest guy there at 35ish came in with a small squad of people in security shirts like the one Daughter’s friend gave me to wear. Security man starts ordering all these hot, near naked girls to get off the railing to the dance floor because they “Weren’t supposed to stand on it!” “You know the rules…” and then he looked at me in my security shirt and was all like WTF, how could you let them do that?I just shrugged. “Kids these days. Go figure…” was all I said…
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THUKKA THUKKA THUKKA BOM BOM BOMSound familiar, Cheeses?
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Chief Exorcist Says Devil is in Vatican http://tinyurl.com/yccntbb
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Plenty of glowsticks….but now they got these hand led things that are COOL AS SHIT and induce amazing close up freakout hand hallucinations…
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Shouldn't have told you you did until I was done typing the last "fuck."Hehehehehehehe.
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ah-ooo, ah-ooo
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I can’t type anything, gotta cut and paste everything, and it takes forever to upload…That’s the only sand I have in MY vagina…
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Take a look around at the options. Something that seems dead and is on the relative low side as far as posts is usually comfortable.
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Col. is going to be sooooo proud of my grammar this morning.
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I think we should continue to climb one 'octave' at a time, only maybe more frequently, somewhere around every 1000 posts…once a thread reaches 1400 to 1500 posts, it just dies on me…
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Like today, the +1 is capone's review of ALICE which is already full of posts, so there'd be no point.There are a couple of "Front Page" threads that would make good alleyways, though. Check out Fragglecomicback or ZoeKazanback.
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Mar 14, 2010 9:34:15 AM CDT
The Exploding Girl room has hardly been touched...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
seems like a nice place...
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Lettuce BAMF!
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And it ended with a freeze frame. You never end with a freeze frame.
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