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OTFPOTD 11/17 I Liked it More When People Were Making OFFTOPs at 12:15 AM Edition

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because that way I could come in to work and have a FanPost ready to go so I could comment to myself for a few lonely hours.

This is a you-write-the tags post, make tag suggestions and the best ones get tagged in the FanPost

Today's other topics mainly include fake violence and stuff

A. Quantum of Solace. It was OK. Not posting spoilers, but I sense that this story arc isn't over yet and that annoys me greatly.

B. Call of Duty: World at War is fantastic. SIngle player is meh but the multi is every bit as good as COD4, even if I do miss the R700. I'm excited to start unlocking more perks.

P.S. I really suck so far

P.P.S LL games? Someone here (seattlesundevil) appears to be pretty good if his stats aren't lying =)

OFFTOP. Go to work, people

 

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Quality always trumps quantity

or so they tell me.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 7:51 AM PST   0 recs

Oh and I thought Quantum of Solace was pretty damn good

not as good as the last one, but still.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 7:52 AM PST   0 recs

I just hated how the story arc won't seem to die

I like my Bond movies to be nice and self-contained.

Then of course, I grew up on the Pierce Brosnan ones, so this is the first time I’ve had Bond story arcs go across multiple movies. Plus I didn’t like how they didn’t focus very much on his gadgets.

by seattlebruin on Nov 17, 2008 7:53 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I have this sneaking fear that they're turning Bond into Bourne

and that depresses me – I agree about the self-containment, actually. Bond movies should be completely divorced from reality, and should be individual stories; if this arc does continue in the next one I won’t be as happy to see it.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 7:57 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'm pretty sure it will because there are way too many unanswered questions out of this one

and I hate how real-life Bond has become. Casino Royale was a cool departure, but this one didn’t even have a really hate-able supervillain to root against. I hope the next once concludes this arc as well as brings back the classic Bond themes of guns, girls and gadgets.

by seattlebruin on Nov 17, 2008 8:00 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I feel like I'm the only person in the world that didn't like Casino Royal.

I thought the whole movie felt like a prologue, and ended right as the longest prologue ever ended.

54!

by joof on Nov 17, 2008 8:06 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

The new one had a great retro cinema feel/look to it, I really liked it.

The clothes, the locations, the sets. Even the way they developed the film, pretty enjoyable.

The main thing about the new one that annoyed the shit out of me was the action sequences. I mean wtf, I hate that 1.5 seconds then jump cut shit. I avoid Tony or Ridley Scott pictures like the plague because of that jumpy cut cut cut action scene crap.

by dpseadv on Nov 17, 2008 1:21 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

I believe this arc was intended to be a trilogy.

Continuity is supposed to end after the next film.

by BrianL on Nov 17, 2008 9:21 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I was surprised to see Rolling Stone give it a bad review,

but then Rolling Stone sucks. I take movie reviews with a grain of salt anyway.

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by kevin_ess on Nov 17, 2008 7:55 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

If you like the Ramones, the Doors, or the Eagles

Rolling Stone is great. Jann Wenner and David Fricke don’t seem to realize that there’s been decent music made after 1978, though.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 7:58 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

You may not be the only one who yells at him/herself

but you are probably the only one that refers to themselves in the third person plural.

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by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 7:53 AM PST   0 recs

I'm back in the frozen north but my work schedule has changed.

I now work 1 am to 1 pm West Coast time so I can’t participate in these as much anymore.

Lame.

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by thewyrm on Nov 17, 2008 8:01 AM PST   0 recs

The night shift?

And I thought you did a bunch of ordering/accounting stuff? How effective of a work schedule time is that?

by Wilder. on Nov 17, 2008 8:33 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I do a lot of the end of the day paperwork.

This schedule is easier now that the rig is on drilling schedule and not start up schedule. Less ordering and more mindless paperwork now.

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by thewyrm on Nov 17, 2008 8:36 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I hate when it takes until 7:30 for off topic fanposts to appear.

Though I hate making fanposts because I never have anything to post in the body.

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by joof on Nov 17, 2008 8:03 AM PST   0 recs

On a scale of 1 to 10 how gay and or pathetic does this make me:

I am totally in love with the band Paramore. I am listening to them like 24/7! Someone help me please! It’s like Avril Lavigne is fronting Fall Out Boy but it somehow doesn’t suck.

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by thewyrm on Nov 17, 2008 8:04 AM PST   0 recs

It doesn't make you gay or pathetic

but it does make you 13.

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by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 8:07 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Sounds like your weekend was similar to mine

Bought COD World at War on Friday and saw Quantum of Solace yesterday. I thought both were good but slightly inferior to their predecessor.

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by mem on Nov 17, 2008 8:08 AM PST   0 recs

According to the AV Club

This is the best cover song of all time. I hadn’t heard it before, but it is indeed awesome.

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by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 8:13 AM PST   0 recs

Here is my list

10- Letters to Cleo covering Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams
9- Nirvana covering David Bowie’s Man Who Sold the World
8- the Sundays covering the Rolling Stone’s Wild Horses
7- the Doors covering Kurt Weill’s Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
6- Jimmy Eat World’s cover of the Prodigy’s Firestarter
5- Fionna Apple’s cover of the Beatle’s Across the Universe
4- Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah
3- Gary Jules covering Tears for Fears’ Mad World
2- Jimmy Hendrix covering Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower
1- Joe Cocker covering the Beatle’s With a Little Help from my Friends

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by thewyrm on Nov 17, 2008 8:35 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Well, since we're listing covers

In no particular order:

Mike Ness – Don’t Look Back, It’s Alright
Young Fresh Fellows – I Wanna Be Your Driver
Gary Jules – Mad World
Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Murder City Devils – Alcohol
Shatner – Common People
Smugglers – That Is Rock N Roll
Lazy Cowgirls – Route 66
Billy Bragg – She’s Leaving Home
And I gotta put the Killdozer on there just because it’s awesome, even though it’s new to me.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 8:46 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

You're all wrong.

Johnny Cash’s version of NIN’s Hurt.

Although The Shat did well for himself by nabbing a good second place finish.

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by Faux on Nov 17, 2008 9:13 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

HOLY CRAP HOW DID I FORGET THAT

my list has no credibility now. Shit.

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by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 9:15 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Plus no disclaimer.

You’re slipping.

It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray

by Faux on Nov 17, 2008 9:16 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

It's monday, it's early

I’m not awake yet.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 9:21 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Actually I think that Cash's cover belongs on a separate list

the list of covers that are far better than the original versions.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 9:22 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

You could add Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World to that list.

But I’m probably one of the few that don’t like the orig.

It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray

by Faux on Nov 17, 2008 9:23 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'm the same way.

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by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 9:29 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I think they are both great in their own way

NIN’s version is much more visceral to me. Cash’s feels like something done by a man who had lived a long, troubled life, and wrote the song as his final look back on things. He died shortly thereafter, did he not?

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by tootthekazoo on Nov 17, 2008 9:24 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

He did, and the video is heartbreaking because of it.

The video is basically a photo retrospective of his life and his family, and the first time I saw it I cried.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 9:30 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

It seems that's the only way he would agree to do the song.

I’m not positive about this, but I’m pretty sure that I read that right around the time the song came out.

by coolguyrob on Nov 17, 2008 9:35 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Although changing lyrics in general is not as bad as changing pro-nouns.

Man does that shit piss me off. Nothing will make your cover sound shittier than taking a song about a girl and forcing it to be about a dude. We are all adults here, just sing it the way it was meant to be sung. For a good example look at Sheryl Crow’s terrible cover of Sweet Child of Mine which may have been decent had she not altered it to make it sound like she is singing about a man.

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by thewyrm on Nov 17, 2008 9:38 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Correct

“I wear this crown of thorns” ??

That was disappointing. I looked very to his raspy old voice saying that line as one of his dying words

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 17, 2008 10:17 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Oooh good call!

I can’t believe I forgot that one. His rusty cage is better than Soundgarden’s too.

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by thewyrm on Nov 17, 2008 9:24 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

What about Puff Daddy?

“Every Breath You Take”

Whenever I hear the opening to that song, I think of the tourette’s guy
“I hope this is the Puff Daddy version of this song; not that Sting PIECE OF SHIT”
*Sting begins to sing
“FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!”

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 17, 2008 10:19 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Correct. Was a little tongue in cheek, but I walked in to work this morning and it began to play as I sat down

I sat and laughed to myself while in my head was an endless “FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK”

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 17, 2008 10:22 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, at least the Puff Daddy version's so bad it's laughable

the Police version just makes me cringe every time I hear it.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 10:23 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I've got a few that I enjoy...

Johnny Cash, covering “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode
Obadiah Parker, covering “Hey Ya!” by Outkast
CAKE, covering “mahna mahna”
The Proclaimers, covering “King of the Road”

That’s about all I can think of right now. I just sat up in bed, so stafoo.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Nov 17, 2008 11:24 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Hmmm.

I always thought Tori Amos’ cure of “Lovesong” was more “The Cure” than The Cure’s own version of that song…

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by PositivePaul on Nov 17, 2008 11:27 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

What about Tool's version?

Only version I’ve heard is this live one

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 17, 2008 11:31 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Joining LISTMANIA here on cover songs (that I didn't see mentioned earlier)...

Smashing Pumpkins covering Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide
Failure covering Three Dog Night’s One
Tori Amos covering Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit

by James F'n X on Nov 17, 2008 11:58 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Some of my favorites that haven't been listed

The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
The Beatles – Twist and Shout

by darmok on Nov 17, 2008 5:17 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Good mention of the Fiona Apple tune.

That really is an amazing remake/cover.

by coolguyrob on Nov 17, 2008 9:01 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

My all time favorite cover

the Mighty Mighty Bosstones cover of Rudy Can’t Fail. Joe Strummer doing Redemption Song, especially when I see the video, never fails to bring a tear to my eye also. Also, Redemption Song-most covered song ever?

by Hit By Pitch Brewing Company on Nov 17, 2008 4:55 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Great cover songs

I have too many to mention but a few are:

Cat Power did a piano version of Rollin’ Stone’s “Satisfaction”. (Actually the whole cover album is pretty cool.)

I can’t remember who did it but there was a metal version of Alanis Morissette’s “You Ought to Know”.

Ben Folds did two covers that are very cool: “Bitches Ain’t Shit” and “In Between Days”.

by mark sobba on Nov 17, 2008 1:04 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

In Between Days is a fantastic cover indeed

He did “bitches ain’t shit” the last time I saw him, as a duet with Rufus Wainwright – then they did “Careless Whisper”. Both awesome.

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by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 1:08 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Wow, some great covers listed here. And screw you guys, this was the heart of my next OT. Boooo.

Sunday’s covering Wild Horses was already listed, but my other favorite is:
Foo Fighters, Baker Street. They replaced the sax with guitar, and it blows hair back every time.

by dpseadv on Nov 17, 2008 1:28 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Don't you play the sax?

I’ve got both on my driving playlist. Kind of different songs to me.

by dpseadv on Nov 17, 2008 1:31 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yes.

And the first thing most people ask me when I’m playing at a gig consisting mostly of people 40 and older:

“Hey can you play that sax solo from Baker Street?”

Yes. Yes I can. It’s like ten notes.

by BrianL on Nov 17, 2008 1:32 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Sometimes I think there are a couple of different types of music fans.

One predominate type is like my wife, they listen to lyrics and really enjoy a well written song.
Another kind is like me, I rarely listen to the words of most music and the mood it sets really gets me. I’m not so certain of my theory, but the way I listen to music kind of explains why I think of both vs. as different songs.

by dpseadv on Nov 17, 2008 1:40 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

I have a foot on both sides

most times, I’m definitely a lyrics guy. But there are some bands, like AC/DC, where the lyrics don’t matter, it’s how the song makes you feel.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 1:43 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Elliott Smith always did beautiful covers.

Thirteen (Big Star), Because (Beatles), and Care of Cell 44 (Zombies) are my favorites.
Then you have the Ben Gibbard covers of Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated” and Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds”.

by royalcurve on Nov 17, 2008 2:26 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Ah, the Zombies

a band that I really want to like, know I probably SHOULD like, but really don’t. Frustrating.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 2:28 PM PST to parent up   0 recs