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Badger of Basra posted:Is it worse to like music written up in pitchfork or to like black metal? Pitchfork has brief moments of lucidity, like when they liked Bobby Conn before turning on him because he said mean things about George Bush.
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black metal is actually good
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Aug 1, 2014 08:12
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moller posted:Also, blaming "kids today" for a commercial you saw on television is weird because I don't think anyone under the age of 50 watches television outside of a streaming/on-demand context. I wasn't really, that was more poking fun at myself.  Swan Oat posted:extremely lo-fi folk/acoustic music is a thing, i kinda like that song but i can see why other would object. Yeah, I mean, it's not that I object to lo-fi folk, because I don't. I like that Billy Bee song a lot more than I like the Apple ad song, but I think the reason why is because the former isn't monotonous or boring; the latter is, at least IMO. I don't know, I just don't like singing voices that strike me as bland.
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Aug 1, 2014 08:20
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You made me look up the ad. I can't even bring myself to hate the song because I'm too busy resenting the ham-handed aspirational imagery and sublimation of desire. The ad implies that if only you had an iPhone 5S you too could become the humble-bragger impossibly together young adult you long ago hid from your facebook feed. Goddamn. gently caress you, Edward Bernays. EDIT: If I heard the song in isolation or heard any of the verses maybe it would seem tinged with regret and uncertainty, but in the context of the ad it seems like a literal statement. moller fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 08:28
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moller posted:You made me look up the ad. Nothing cures a horrible commercial like spreading it around. 
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after i left grad school due to reasons i spent about a year as an SAT and general academic tutor for a test prep company, this must have been in 2010-2011. i remember getting reflexively angry at all my middle school kids with iphones and tablets. gettin mad at kids these days apparently can happen at age 23 when technology is concerned.
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Aug 1, 2014 08:34
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I actually like Apple's products, but hoooooly gently caress do I hate their commercials, or at least the ones from the last year or so. The "Gigantic" commercial was awful but so unintentionally funny. This current one is both bad and a snooze.
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Aug 1, 2014 08:42
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in america, watching the super bowl just for the commercials is totally a thing; do other countries do a similar thing for other sports? i imagine not soccer but cricket, maybe?
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:in america, watching the super bowl just for the commercials is totally a thing; do other countries do a similar thing for other sports? i imagine not soccer but cricket, maybe? No, at least not in Australia.
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Aug 1, 2014 09:04
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There was that Prius commercial a while back that emulated the lo-fi/folk sound and it too was loving terrible. I blame it for motivating people to roll coal.
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Aug 1, 2014 09:48
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The last licensed car commercial I recall was the VW one that used Mr. Blue Sky. Which I didn't mind because ELO are kind of cool. Although the imagery was aspirational in this subdued lovely way. Like, if you slavishly dedicate yourself to a corporation and suit the gently caress up one day you might own a car that Hitler designed to be cheap enough to be given away to the unwashed masses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-aUBso-XuA moller fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 09:54
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Swan Oat posted:charlotte's airport has that, i ate and drank there while waiting for a connecting flight about a month ago Pages back but Charlotte's airport feels like the floor in the office building from Being John Malkovich. That was my departure point for too many flights and god drat do I not miss that place. Architecture of a shopping mall, carpets of an off-strip Casino, patrons from an after-church NASCAR race, dampness and odor of a Fort Lauderdale basement apartment. gently caress CLT forever.
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Aug 1, 2014 10:55
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I was also in a weird part of NC where Tri-Cities just outside of Bristol, TN, was about the same distance and only found out about it after way too long. Four or five gates, security lines of about 10 people, depending, take off in the mountains. Awesome. Also Lamar Alexander keeps offices at the airport, hah.
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Aug 1, 2014 11:01
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The Columbia airport is a great place to take a nap.
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Top ten movies of all time: Predator
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euphronius posted:Top ten movies of all time: They Live Ghostbusters
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Sorry my list was already complete?
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euphronius posted:Sorry my list was already complete? ehhhhhh
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You forgot Space Jam.
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Princess Bride. Yes, I'm going to say the line out loud when he keeps repeating it. I'm that guy.
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paragon1 posted:The Columbia airport is a great place to take a nap. Must be nice there. The Atlanta airport installed trash compactors in all of their garbage cans, which are ubiquitous, and go off in intervals one minute less than the time it takes to fall asleep. Btw, gently caress you Airtran, bring back the Wendy's promotion.
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Aug 1, 2014 13:52
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The best movies are eternal sunshine, what about bob, Groundhog Day, Truman show, big lebowski, matrix, fight club, something about Mary, dear Zachary, touching the void (or maybe the other one about mountaineering, I forget), pulp fiction, shawshank redemption, full metal jacket, platoon, goodfellas. Serenity and galaxy quest and borat and office space and defending your life are also very good. Make sure you watch these before watching other movies and then you will be in the proper mindset to dislike most other movies in the proper manner.
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you have two jim carrey movies in your top ten. im not saying anything, im just saying.
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paranoid randroid posted:you have two jim carrey movies in your top ten. im not saying anything, im just saying.
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Chinatown is the greatest movie ever made. Space Jam is second.
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In no particular order, the best movies ever are: Transformers the Movie (The original, not the Michael Bay abortion) The Prestige Alien Aliens The Thing (80's version with Kurt Russell) Dawn of the Dead (the original George Romero) Night of the Living Dead Children of Men Ghostbusters The Big Lebowski
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Space Jam had the best theme song.
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Children of Men is a top-tier movie, man, I though Clive Owen was really going places that weren't Cinemax. I mean, the Knick will probably be good, I just kind of thought he'd be too busy grossing hundreds of millions at the box office to do a TV show. Also, the Ugandan 2014 anti-gay law has been invalidated by the Ugandan Constitutional Court on grounds that it was passed via improper procedural methods (apparently there was no quorum?). Colonial-era anti-gay laws are still in effect and the legislature will probably at least try to reenact the 2014 act. The Warszawa fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 14:21
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Lee Pace can carry that torch. I always wanted good things for him after The Fall.
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The Fall is the most gorgeous movie I've ever seen. drat.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Space Jam had the best theme song. This is true, although despite its cultural relevance it wasn't quite the tour de force that Who Framed Roger Rabbit was.
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I can't believe I haven't seen The Guard mentioned. Ok, all time, who knows, but in the last 10 years it's one of the greatest movies made - and Calvary is right up there. I can't wait for the third film in the trilogy. I don't think I laughed so hard as I did at The Guard since maybe Oh Brother Where Art Thou or The Big Lebowski. It's amazing. Calvary's a different tone, but still brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrOVH-bLrq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOF1GJimMJI ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 14:37
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Whoops looks like Fox 7 caught me rollin dirty on a texting while driving segment.
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Chantilly Say posted:The Fall is the most gorgeous movie I've ever seen. drat.
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Swan Oat posted:e: err uhh to clarify what i mean is i had been listening to black metal for years and didnt want all the kvlt longhairs to assume that i was some interloper looking for a new fad pretty antithetical to the metal ethos to give a gently caress what other people at a metal show think
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The Warszawa posted:Children of Men is a top-tier movie, man, I though Clive Owen was really going places that weren't Cinemax. Agreed, he's a seriously underrated actor. I loved the 2011 adaptation of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," which he was not in, but I would love for them to do "The Honourable Schoolboy" as well, with Owen as Jerry Westerby. Unfortunately, they're skipping that one and going onto "Smiley's People," which I can understand, since "Schoolboy" is long and really complicated. But still, it would have been fun.
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Children of Men is one of those movies that's just so much better than the actual book.
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American Psycho was a painful slog to read.
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Gravity was pretty good as well, except for the dialogue.
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I would rather you unironically support Mitt Romney for president than Gravity as a good movie.
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