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OTFPOTD: 12/3 - Why the Hell Did LaunchCast Just Play Jeff Beck Edition

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For some reason my Yahoo LaunchCast just played Jeff Beck. Why? I have no idea. I don't like Jeff Beck. My music tastes don't lend themselves to LaunchCast determining that I like Jeff Beck.

I watched two movies last night on my Xbox streaming Netflix: Ratatouille and Jesus Camp. Ratatouille was pretty good. I thought the first half of the movie was extremely slow, but the second half made up for that. Jesus Camp made me want to punch things.

What movies have you seen recently that made your temper go through the roof?

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That's exactly why I don't use/trust services like LaunchCast or Last.fm

because there’s not an algorithm in the world that can reliably predict what I’d like based on what I listen to, that I’ve found. The last five songs on my iTunes random play were

 - The Dickies: Bowling With Bedrock Barney
 - Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach: God Give Me Strength
 - Queen: Death On Two Legs
 - Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band: Open All Night
 - AC/DC: Whole Lotta Rosie

So my listening tastes don’t really lend themselves to a linear progression of “if you like X, Y then you’ll like Z” as most recommendation algorithms seem to do. I might like A through H, hate I, J, K, L, and M, and love N-Z; I prefer to control that myself rather than leaving it to a machine.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 8:53 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Agreed.

And if you don’t have Painted From Memory, the record he did with Elvis Costello, it’s definitely worth getting.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:01 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Feh. A huge letdown

A letdown precisely because All This Useless Beauty was such a miracle comeback. That one isn’t just his best album since 1986, it’s one of his all-time greatest….the Bacharach collaboration was such a disappoinment in comparison. Some inspired songs (like “God Give Me Strength”) but a lot of sentimental dross.

I yield to no man in my admiration for both Bacharach (the ONLY classically trained “pro” songwriter to be a pop genius) and Costello, but PFM didn’t live up to the hype.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:10 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

All-time greatest? Hmmmm.

I liked Useless Beauty pretty well, but I wouldn’t even put it in his top 5. I would say it’s definitely his best album of the 90’s, and he hasn’t done anything remotely as good since. I guess I looked at PFM as more of a Bacharach album with Elvis Costello vocals, so I didn’t really rank it in the Costello canon – thus I don’t really view it as a disappointment.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:14 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Maybe not his top 5, but not far outside of that....

Let’s see, my personal ranking:

1.) Imperial Bedroom
2.) Get Happy!!
3.) Trust
[all three of these are agonizingly close to one another]
4.) King Of America
5.) All This Useless Beauty

Hey, what do you know, it DOES make my Top 5. But only because I think Armed Forces has FAR too much ponderous bullshit on it to beat out Beauty, which is remarkably consistent and listenable. At least with Get Happy!! Costello realized it was a smart idea to make the bullshit songs only last 1m50s or so.

So the rest of the top 10 would be…

6.) Armed Forces
7.) This Year’s Model
8.) Blood And Chocolate
9.) My Aim Is True
10.) Brutal Youth.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:19 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I should have checked my iTunes folder for Bacharach when the thread of cover songs came up.

White Stripes ‘I don’t know what to do with myself’, Cranberries ‘(I long to be) close to you, Cyndi Lauper ’Walk on by’. Holy crap I forget how many people he’s worked with and how many people have covered his classics.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:13 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Did Ratatouille look shitty?

I started watching it the day Netflix went up on Xbox, and it looked far worse than DVD quality.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 8:55 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Huh.

Maybe it was first-day jitters. Or maybe I was overly critical. I was sitting a bit too close to the TV that day.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 8:57 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Same for me.

Thoroughly unimpressed by the quality on that one. Everything else looked fine for me

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:25 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I actually gave this a run after I heard you complaining about it.

Looked fine to me, but it might be because of my connection.

by BrianL on Dec 3, 2008 1:09 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

QUIT RUBBING IT IN I KNOW YOU HAVE FIOS

And I think mine was bad because I was torrenting, now that I think back on it

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 1:11 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

By the way, pbd, I started watching the show "Weeds" last night.

You weren’t kidding about Mary Louise Parker.

Swooooooooon.

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 8:56 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Yup, she shore is purty

and she only gets better as the shows go on.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 8:58 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

But the fact that it's covered by different artists every week was kinda cool

by this season they’d gone away from that song entirely in the credits though.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 8:58 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I love it.

More for the lyrics, though. It’s a dead-on critique of The Valley.

Also, in the later seasons, a new person/band sings it every episode, which makes it kinda fun.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 8:59 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Weeds is filmed where my girlfriend's parents live.

And it’s exactly like that. All the houses look exactly the same, and they’re massive, and they’re soulless.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 9:01 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

it's so much worse though

I have family in Riverside, and every time I go down there I get lost in their neighborhood because every house within four blocks is, without exaggeration, exactly the goddamn same. Same design, same color, same lawn, everything.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 9:09 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I also feel the same for her

I’ve got the first 2 seasons on DVD on my shelf, yet haven’t even watched them. Lazy I guess

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:26 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

So I'm like 75% sure I have a urinary tract infection. . .

I still have a week and a half left in my hitch up here. I don’t want to go home early, but I don’t trust the medics here to give me an accurate diagnosis.

Fear the NPE

by thewyrm on Dec 3, 2008 8:58 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

It's becoming apparent that Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket

is one of the more under-appreciated drummers out there. He pretty much kicks ass on their last three albums.

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 9:02 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'm a pretty casual MMJ fan

but their most recent album verges on the unlistenable for me. It’s really not very good. Maybe I’m missing something, because I do like some of their older stuff OK, but Evil Urges is just….wow.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 9:10 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That album has taken me FOREVER to get into.

But once I decided not to expect the southern rock that was prevalent on Tennessee Fire, At Dawn, and It Still Moves, I was okay. Z was already starting to move towards 70s pop, and Evil Urges is a continuation of that. It doesn’t surprise me that you don’t like it, since I know how you feel about Elton John, and that’s what their newer music reminds me of.

(bahaha, “Break Like the Wind” by Spinal Tap just started playing on my music player)

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 9:14 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Highly Suspicious makes me want to kill people

but maybe if I skip that one I should give it another shot.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 9:18 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

"Big boy breakfast" Heh!

So how big is this bowling alley, and how much are these people drinking because that’s a lot of milk! And what the hell is a Dirty Mother?
 I love articles like this, when they leave you with as many questions as they answer.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:08 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Dirty Mother:

Tequila, Kaluha and cream.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Dec 3, 2008 10:46 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That's racist

Why when you throw anything Mexican related into the mix it adds ‘dirty’ to the title

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:52 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Have you met my friend Sanchez?

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.

by kevin_ess on Dec 3, 2008 11:14 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Heh
“I am really happy to be back in Calgary, I love Canada. I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don’t know what that’s about. Enjoy the game tonight.”

http://deadspin.com/5101142/apparently-the-nhl-wont-stand-for-sean-averys-sloppy-seconds

by Robert on Dec 3, 2008 9:24 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Luanchcast used to play me songs by William Hung

I think, for some of their peddled mainstream selection, they don’t care what your tastes are.

by Gomez on Dec 3, 2008 9:27 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'm picturing Pandora trying to justify this

This William Hung song has syncopated rhythm, melodic vocals, and an E-minor chord, which are all parts of [this song you actually like].

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Dec 3, 2008 9:29 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

WLHUNG

Ryan Howard: You a big William Hung fan?
Todd Packer: Why does everybody ask me that? Who the hell is that?

by Fin on Dec 3, 2008 6:09 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Charlie Weis staying at Notre Dame (haha)

While Mike Leach

is being swooned by UW.

Make. It. Happen.

Probably just a ploy to get more money out of TTU, but Leach would be an awesome hire for Washington. I mentioned how cool it would be

to have Mike Leach as a coach just a couple weeks ago.

(And I have no clue why the HTML breaks the line)

by Wilder. on Dec 3, 2008 9:28 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Wilder was already taken.

My original screename was my real name, but it was not capitalized. I didn’t like it and went with my nickname that someone already took.

by Wilder. on Dec 3, 2008 9:32 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

YES

Let’s throw the shit out of the football at Montlake.

by Gomez on Dec 3, 2008 9:33 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Oh shizz, "Canibal The Musical" is on the streaming Netflix.

I’ve never seen this movie, and now I’m really excited.

Oh shit, so is Orgazmo.

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 9:41 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I didn't know Orgazmo was there

Cannibal! is on my queue already. I’m at like 50 movies, and the only reason I don’t have more is because it’ll take me forever to watch what I’ve picked already

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:33 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I had to stop myself. I already have a queue loaded with movies I've never seen before

And I don’t have a ton of free time to watch movies, so I need to slowly burn through them

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:39 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

God, I'd give my first born for it to be next Thursday

I just want this fucking shitty year to be over with, and having school done would be a good start.

Jeff's guide to not looking stupid:
+/- is an absolutely terrible stat, so don't use it, and don't give up on young players before they turn 24.
54!

by joof on Dec 3, 2008 9:46 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

BOTD...

Changing it up a bit for laughs…

Bacon Hitler!!

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.

by kevin_ess on Dec 3, 2008 10:05 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Currently listening to: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads

Holy shit, Talking Heads put out one of the greatest live albums in rock history. WHO KNEW?

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:06 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

A lot of people, actually.

It’s not like Talking Heads were some secret underground band. And, if you’re keeping score, they actually put out TWO of the greatest live albums in rock history – Stop Making Sense is fantastic too.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:08 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Actually, I've known that TNOTB was an all-time classic live album for years now.

It’s just that, listening to it again for the first time in awhile, its incredible freshness hits me all over again. The Rhino expanded reissue is flawless too.

Stop Making Sense is actually sort of weak. For one thing, it’s not really “live” (it was almost completely done in the studio), and for another it’s too heavily reliant on the Speaking In Tongues album, which was a massive drop-off from the first four albums.

But man…those first four Talking Heads albums…what a brilliant quartet. I honestly can’t say which is my favorite. Fear Of Music has some of my favorite songs in “Air,” “Cities,” “Heaven,” and “Memories Can’t Wait” but loses points for having too many mediocre cuts like “Mind,” “Electric Guitar,” “Paper,” etc. Remain In Light has their best-ever in “Once In A Lifetime” and “The Great Curve” but puts a lot of eggs into an 8 song basket and blows it with the unbearable “Overload.” So it comes down to ‘77 vs. Buildings And Food. Jesus, how do you split the difference between those? “Found A Job” is the great hidden Talking Heads classic, but then so is “The Book I Read”…crap, I’ll go with Buildings And Food for the Eno production. And the segue between “The Girls Want To Be With The Girls” and “Found A Job.”

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:16 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Yeah, I have to pull it out every year or so

because I always hear it and go “goddamn this is an amazing record”. I really like STop Making Sense, but that could also be connected to the fact that I saw it in the theater and was blown away by it and it’s stuck with me ever since.

I go with Buildings And Food, definitely, although there’s no bad choice between that and ‘77. I’m still so burned out on “Once In A Lifetime” that I can’t rank Remain In Light up there, even though I know it is – I need to go a couple more years without ever hearing Once In A Lifetime again before I can appreciate the reputation of that album.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:22 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The trick to getting back into "Once In A Lifetime": listen to Tina Weymouth's bassline.

It’s just two notes. THE ENTIRE TIME. Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, never changing. She’s quite a capable player, so it was clearly some sort of hilarious art-rock conceit and by god it works. I could listen to her see-sawing back and forth on those two notes for hours.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:31 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I just wasn't sure what all the fuss was about with that movie

it was fine, I guess, but…meh

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:10 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Like I was a 4-year-old being lectured on something every single person on Earth knows.

The writing was dreadful, the acting supremely overrated. Just a big Hollywood jerk-fest, really. Absolutely no moral to be taken from it. Zero redeeming value.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:18 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

It won Best Picture because Hollywood people are egomaniacs.

Because it basically made it seem like every single person in the world was secretly a violent racist, Hollywood people said, “Hey, I’m not like that!” and it justified their sense of self superiority.

The Oscars are worse than the major baseball awards to me; I KNOW they’re a giant crock of horse shit most of the time, but I can’t not pay attention.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:20 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

My wife and I have an Oscar party every year for that very reason

if they’re going to show the horse shit, the least we can do is revel in it and laugh at how stupid it is.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:23 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

They actually did okay on most of the major awards last year.

I would have picked TWBB over No Country, but they were both pretty amazing movies.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:26 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

There wasn't a single WTF moment in there.

I had a few minor qualms (even though I love Ratatouille and think it’s the better movie, I think Persepolis was more Oscar worthy for example) I was pleasantly surprised.

Now watch them give Best Picture to the Duchess this year.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:31 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

No Country was an amazing film and most years I would have wanted it to win hands down.

TWBB may very well be the best film of the 2000s so far. PTA outdid himself.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:32 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

For me, what amazed me about No Country was just the polish.

I didn’t see it as much more than a thriller, but it was just perfectly made.

And yes, I’m a big fan of PT Anderson. That movie stuck with me for months.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:35 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I really didn't like it after I saw it.

And then I dreamed about it all night and couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks. I watched it again and was just blown away. I need to watch it a third time, now that I think about it…

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:37 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Have you read McCarthy's novels?

They are so relentlessly… remorseless for lack of better phrase. I have a real problem with them, yet read them. They really fuck with my head.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:50 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I enjoyed On The Road,

but it came with so much hype from a few friends that I was a touch disappointed. Can’t wait for the movie, though. That book begs to be on the big screen.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:52 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I haven't memorized his work, but for a semi-happy ending.

That’s the only one of his novels I can think of that has one.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:54 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I just watched it again last night.

I love that there is absolutely ZERO music in the whole movie. I contrast that with TWBB which had one of my favorite scores ever. I like TWBB a little better than No Country, but they are both now 2 of my favorite movies ever

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:38 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Agreed.

Last year was a pretty great year for movies.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:40 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I felt spoiled

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:42 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I've almost completely cut back on seeing movies in the theater this year.

The only recent one I caught was Slumdog Millionaire. But damn…that was worth it. Check that shit out tonight, if you have any love at all for the idea of modern day realist fairy tales.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:43 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Take the time to get out to your local art-house cinema and do it.

It’s worth it. TAKE A GIRL IF YOU CAN. It’s very romantic in a non-pussy way.

I have to say, after TWBB and No Country, it’s kind of nice to see a movie with a lot of grit and unhappiness that nevertheless has a totally awesome positive happy ending. As I said, a modern day fairytale.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:47 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

How is that place?

The Seattle Landmarks are such fucking dumps (I love them anyways, but it’s true) but people from other cities tell me the Landmarks are the nicest theatres they have.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:52 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The Landmark in Chicago (where I saw it) is a lovely theater

Sorry that Seattle sucks so much.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:53 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I worked at a Landmark for years.

My drummer manages one. I don’t know what the deal is; the company owns most of the buildings, so they should be able to maintain them a but better than they do.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:55 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I've been there once. For the Aqua Teens movie.

It’s not pristine, but the screen was pretty big if I remember right, and it’s in probably the nicest “urban” neighborhood in San Diego. (I’ll enforce a stereotype here and mention that it’s “the gay neighborhood.”)

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:55 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I love that part of town.

I haven’t spent a ton of time in San Diego, but I remember thinking that if I ever moved there for some reason that’s probably where I would end up. I tend to like the gay neighborhoods of cities.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:56 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Me, too.

I live a few blocks away from the official boundary. It’s a safe neighborhood, it’s clean, and it has a ton of bars.

And a much lower crackhead quotient than North Park, where I live.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:58 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I don't usually see a lot of movies until this time of year.

The only movies I’ve seen in the theater this year (well, since March) are the Dark Knight, Encounters at the End of the World, the Searchers and Night of the Hunter.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:46 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

So that made me bump TWBB to the top of netflix

Adapting Cormac McCarthy to the screen was amazing. They left out a couple of scenes I thought could have been left in, but keeping the basic ending of the novel was unexpected. Which shouldn’t be because it’s the Coen brothers, but I have low expectations from Hollywood.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:37 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I did not like it at all.

Maybe I’ll watch again to see if this is true.

by Sec 108 on Dec 3, 2008 12:10 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I know people that hated it.

Double D just doesn’t do it for some people.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 12:27 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

It felt like some sort of vehicle for him.

I have no problem with him per se, just the whole personality of his character was off for me. Seemed too unreal.

by Sec 108 on Dec 3, 2008 12:38 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

My favorite part:

When two black guys (“Hey we need a black guy. Call Ludacris! He’s black!”) talk about how racist it is that a white woman clutches her purse as they walk by. Then they rob them.

I started throwing shit when I saw that.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:22 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

God I wanted to hit something when that part happened

That movie was so grossly overdone I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was total shit and forgot about it immediately. Then, it won motherfuckin’ Best Picture. Jesus what the fuck is wrong with people

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

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:41 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I turned it off after 20 minutes.

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.

by kevin_ess on Dec 3, 2008 10:13 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I watched the whole thing

but afterwards couldn’t for the life of me figure out why.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:15 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I could have just come over to you house

 and screamed “PEOPLE AREN’T ALWAYS VERY NICE TO EACH OTHER!!!” in your ear for two hours. Would have been about the same thing.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:16 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Worst film ever to win a Best Picture?

Or are you talking about Cronenberg’s Crash?

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:20 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Nah, I haven't seen Cronenberg's.

I have the book, but I couldn’t get through it.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:24 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Cronenberg's is definitely strange

but well worth seeing.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:24 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I just couldn't wrap my head around the premise.

I’m usually into weird books/movies like that, but getting off on car accidents was beyond my limit.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:28 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I think American Beauty might have been worse

but when you consider what they were up against (Crash was better than Brokeback Mountain and Good Night, and Good Luck? Really?) I’d say Crash winning was the bigger crock.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:24 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I thought Shakespeare in Love was utter ass.

But that’s not my type of movie anyway so I try not to be too critical.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:25 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

To me, Driving Miss Daisy is what Crash is to you

It makes Hollywood feel good about itself because it shows the quiet dignity of the African-American. Forgetting all about the fact that HE WAS BASICALLY AN INDENTURED SERVANT to the BENEVOLENT WHITE WOMAN. GOD that movie pissed me off. AT least Do The Right Thing was honest about race relations.

GOD.

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

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:29 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Driving Miss Daisy Crazy

Spoke much more to race relations IMHO.

by Sec 108 on Dec 3, 2008 10:31 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I should rewatch that movie.

I haven’t seen it in years, so I may very well agree with you.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:33 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Honestly, it's terrible

because it has that same “look at how well we can be sensitive to the plight of others” condescension as Crash does, only it’s much worse because they try to cast race relations through the lens of a kindly old Southern woman. Honestly, if there’s one set of eyes I don’t want to look at African-Americans with, it’s the eyes of a Southern noble and her family of casual bigots as they learn the Very Special Lesson that All People Are Alike.

But hey! Morgan Freeman! If we put him in it, EVERYONE WILL LOVE IT!

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by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:36 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I don't think Miss Daisy could ever be described as kindly

I didn’t really interpret the film as a study in race relations. I saw it more as a film about the relationship that evolves over the years between two lonely people from extremely different backgrounds who come to rely upon each other. I love this movie.

I previously posted as "Man From Nantucket"

by mem on Dec 3, 2008 11:43 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Man, American Beauty was an enormous load of bullshit, wasn't it?

Talk about a film that was utterly morally corrupt at its core. Now normally such things don’t exercise me that much, but everybody was holding the damn thing up as if it was some kind of brilliantly thoughtful, righteous commentary on American values.

I caught the film with my girlfriend on TV the other day, and it hit her the way it finally hit me: the first time you see the film you’re taken with it and you walk out thinking “man, that was DEEP!” But then you start to thinking about WTF it was trying to say and you realize how hollow it ultimately was.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:27 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

So hilariously true.

As I was watching it the other day, this leapt out at me: Jesus, was behavior like that somehow more acceptable back in 1998?

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:32 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I saw the previews of that in the theater the other day

It looks like the most unwittingly offensive concept for a movie I’ve seen in years. “ZOMG OH NO MIDDLE CLASS LIFE IN THE SUBURBS IS KILLING ME GOD I WISH I WAS AN URBAN HIPSTER POOR AGAIN!!!”

Seriously, sometimes I just want to say “fuck you, Hollywood.”

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:37 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Revolutionary Road is one of my favorite books of all time and I have been waiting for it to be made into a movie since I read it.

I just think Sam Mendes is a fucking hack and he’s going to make it a prequal to American Beauty and I’m going to go home and open a few veins to keep myself from harming anyone.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:39 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Didn't even know it was a book.

Who wrote it?

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:41 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Richard Yates.

He wasn’t very prolific, and Revolutionary Road was definitely the high point of his career, but it’s fucking fantastic. It makes some very important points about suburban isolation and the selling of one’s soul for a slightly more comfortable life without making it a “be sorry for me, wah-wah” type of thing. Highly recommended.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:45 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The preview I saw came across as the most obscenely "GOD WHO COULD EVER LIVE IN THE SUBURBS WITH THESE YOKEL AMERICANS!" bullshit

Both me and my girlfriend had immediate, violent reactions to its tone. We’re urbanites, but shit…it felt like Hollywood was urinating all over our parents, for god’s sake.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:48 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

This was my fear.

The book is much more subtle; it’s about people giving up the life they want for the life they think they’re supposed to have and how it made things shitty for pretty much everyone. It’s less an indictment of the suburbs and more and indictment of urbanites that sold out.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:54 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

So true.

I thought it was well-made, if full of itself.
My wife says, “That was soulless, pretentious shite,” and I want to defend it, and just can’t… “well what about the….hmm. Yeah, fine, but you’ve got to admit the way they deal with…. no…. uh, it was pretty?”

It’s a little bubble, and if anyone points out that there’s no there there, the whole thing crashes.

by marc w on Dec 3, 2008 10:52 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I found it hilarious.

But I’m kind of a dickhole sometimes.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 11:00 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'm a total dickhole, but I don't have a wife and kids to think about.

The idea that you shouldn’t have to live with the choices you’ve made is my least favorite Hollywood conceit.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 11:03 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

But that's the American way!

Why should I be responsible for my own choices? It was someone else’s fault!

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by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 11:04 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

And millions of 35 year old dads who need a hobby nodded their heads

and silently made plans to trade in the minivan on a ’72 Hemi Cuda.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 11:06 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'm excited about that actually

Couple more years they’ll start keeling over and the market will be flooded with cheap used Harley’s.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 11:09 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I want a Sportster

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 11:10 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Me too, sometimes. I don't have enough of an ass for a hardtail.

I really want one, I just don’t want to pay for the Harley name. Either used, or a Japanese knockoff. This Baby Boomer generation has been making my life miserable, now that they are retiring I want their toys, and am hoping the market gets flooded.
Then when the s.o.b.’s retire, I want their retirement property. Or now, since their retirement funds are vanishing like a puff of smoke.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 11:13 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

There will definitely be plenty of them out there

I’m just not big enough for anything more than a Sportster. Hell, you saw me at bowling. I’m hardly big enough for a Sportster, but I am not a fan of Japanese style sportbikes. Nakeds are the only sportbike I can stand the look of

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 11:16 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I don't know why I want a Harley, or a look alike.

I have a Suzuki 950 in the garage, 1981. Killer bike, rides great. Has 4 carbs made out of aluminum, and cheap aluminum. So they corrode pretty quickly and gum up if you don’t ride it more than once a week. I need to put it up on recycle, I just want it gone.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 11:30 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

On recycle?

I’m assuming that is a website?

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Dec 3, 2008 12:05 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Oh, I'm thinking of freecycle.

Keeping this sucker tuned up is not what I want to be spending money on these days. I should have done it when gas was over $4 a gallon.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 12:56 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

There is nothing catchy about that song

well, I suppose there is, in the same sense that food poisoning is “catchy”.

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by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:24 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

FUCK YOU FUCKER JUST MENTIONING THE TITLE WAS ENOUGH TO PUT IN MY HEAD AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

jabs screwdriver into ear to stop the pain

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:24 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

This is why I'm glad I keep Ace Of Spades on my ipod at all times.

Lemmy cleanses a lot of musical sins.

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by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:26 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Ironically enough, I have "Wonderful Christmastime" on my computer

But only because I have the complete works of Paul McCartney that I ripped from my CD collection to my laptop. I would never actually LISTEN to the damn thing.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:28 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Also: check out this incredibly underrated McCartney song - "Little Lamb Dragonfly"

I’m sure you can find it on YouTube. Gotta be one of the best songs The Beatles never recorded. Abbey Road quality all the way.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:29 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Speaking of the Beatles

This week marks 40 years since the White Album was released.

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by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:30 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The Beatles' best album? Quite possibly.

It’s down to that, Revolver, and A Hard Day’s Night for me, and all for different reasons. The Beatles is the only one of them with some genuinely shitty tracks on it (e.g. “Wild Honey Pie,” “Bungalow Bill,” “Helter Skelter”) but probably wins on sheer volume alone and the way it so brilliantly disguises its own weaknesses through the greatest act of song-sequencing in rock history.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:34 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I don't consider that an album

It’s a double-EP. The stuff on the second half of the CD is just the non-album singles they released in the year 1967, much of which had nothing to do with the MMT project.

And even if you consider MMT as an EP set, it’s a fucking weak set by the Beatles’ standard. A throwaway instrumental in “Flying,” a soporific Harrison number (“Blue Jay Way”), one of the worst “famous” Beatles songs in “Magical Mystery Tour,” and a middling McCartney song in “Your Mother Should Know,” which was sent to the presser at least two ideas short of an actual song. Really, what keeps that EP afloat is “The Fool On The Hill” and “I Am The Walrus.” “I Am The Walrus” is unimpeachable. God, those opening organ notes…that’s queasy psychedelia in a nutshell right there.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:41 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I don't even bother to choose

all I usually say is that there’s no band ever that has been more prolific and more successful in such a blazingly short period of time, in completely different genres – love ’em or hate ’em, The Beatles definitely redefined music in about a five-year stretch there.

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by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:38 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Helter Skelter is not shitty

…and it’s between Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road

Furcal

by JI on Dec 3, 2008 10:56 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

"Helter Skelter" is a shapeless mess and proves that the one genre The Beatles absolutely sucked at was hard rock.

Try as they might, they could never pull off hard rock like the Who or Zeppelin. Which is fine, because they were master craftsmen first and foremost. “Helter Skelter” is messy, loud, interminably long, and doesn’t have a single interesting melodic idea outside of its first 10 seconds. A massive blemish on their discography.

“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is similarly problematic, but limps across the finish line on its conceptual/structural merits. Still, that fucker’s at least two minutes too long itself.

And don’t get me started on how overrated Sgt. Pepper’s is. I could go the rest of my life without hearing “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” the title track, or “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!” again. “Getting Better” and “When I’m 64” still bop my bippy, though.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 11:01 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

PROVE IT!

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 11:17 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Bahahahahaha

This will not happen.

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.

by kevin_ess on Dec 3, 2008 11:17 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

This is actually one of the main reasons I shopped for a Thinkpad

It has a middle button, and I am forever grateful. I use mine so much I can’t imagine life without it. On my macbook I have to command-click, and I use Tab Mix Plus in Firefox to force all links to outside pages to open in a new tab. Try Tab Mix Plus and your life will be forever enhanced

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:51 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I love old Video Game music

This is my ringtone

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:47 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Did somebody say Jesus Camp?

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:23 AM PST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I saw Jesus Camp mentioned and found this before even going thorugh any comments

I have Jesus Camp in my queue, will watch it at some point. This gif is just too bizarre to leave out of here though

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:26 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

BAHAHAHAHA!!!

Now I fully understand this gif.

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 10:41 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That's the only reason Jesus Camp is in my queue

I saw this a long time ago, and finally learned the origin earlier this year. Seeing it on Netflix felt like fate

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:52 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

You've been here for how long, exactly?

Dude, this .gif has been around at least since the Rays started wrecking shit in the AL East. May ’08, whereabouts.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 1:17 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The Rays version has Raymond the Ray's head 'shopped onto the velociraptor head.

In fact, I think this image may be origin of the “Velociraptor Jesus” nickname that DRB has for David Price.

For some reason, I suspect Frosty Raptor may have played a role in its original creation. Or at least its importation into the LL biosphere.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 1:19 PM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'm watching the Price is Right, and I swear these people are betting in Yen or something.

A surround sound system! 7500! 6000! 6500! God damn you stupid people.

Jeff's guide to not looking stupid:
+/- is an absolutely terrible stat, so don't use it, and don't give up on young players before they turn 24.
54!

by joof on Dec 3, 2008 10:40 AM PST reply reply actions actions   1 recs

I am too.

It amazes me that I watch the Price is Right MAYBE once or twice a year and I know all the rules to all the games, and these people love it enough to make puff paint Price is Right t-shirts and stand in line for 17 hours but still have to have every rule explained to them.

by acblue on Dec 3, 2008 10:42 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Rec'd.

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.

by kevin_ess on Dec 3, 2008 11:20 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The last time we went to LA

We stayed in an awesome hotel right across the street from CBS, and I guess a lot of Price Is Right people get put up there. Every night, this place hosts a one-hour talk about how to win at the price is right; they’ve got a whole wall full of photos of guests that have won ridiculous amounts of crap over the years.

We sat in on one session, and were truly amazed at how not smart most of these people were.

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by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:44 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Probably because they watch game shows in the morning instead of going to school/work.

(Some people work nights, I know, please don’t flame me. Maury was always my daytime TV vice.)

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 10:46 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I had a customer in last night bragging how he bought a 12 inch audio cable at half price for 1,800 dollars.

One thousand and eight hundred dollars. jesus titty fucking christ. One thousand and eight hundred dollars

by Robert on Dec 3, 2008 10:46 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

There was a study done with a bunch of self-proclaimed audiophiles

Played them music with different cables and asked them to say which was better. The people didn’t know which was which, but the test used monster cables for one session, and COAT HANGERS for the other. The people voted that they couldn’t tell much of a difference.

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by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 11:01 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I am a nutty audiophile myself

And I absolutely agree with you. Also: people who scream about the superiority of vinyl are, for the most part, pretentious pricks who couldn’t back up their claims in most cases.

That said, the Loudness War really is something worth getting pissed off and snooty about, regardless of whether you consider yourself an audiophile douchebag or just an average everyday music-lover.

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by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 11:03 AM PST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs