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His drawings are pretty cool, especially considering he usually drew from memory. I wouldn't mind having a copy framed in my living room.
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The first time I heard Wesley Willis was a Napster download that someone had purposely renamed to look like something else. It was Suck a Camels rear end and it was incredible.
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Saw him with a group of friends back in 1998 when he opened for the The Frogs. We were not aware he was opening for them until we walked in and he was sitting at the bar. Friend went over, bought a CD and got a headbutt. Then he went on stage and played for way too long. One of the four of us was NOT familiar with him and was confused and a bit angry with the rest of us by the time he finished.
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jojoinnit posted:Super Size Me! Man, seeing that briefly made me a smug af teenager then I grew up and realised eating any lovely food with no nutrition regularly is bad for you...
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Too bad because the movie is apparently really good and the audiences at the screeners loved it. The chicken farmers in it also desperately want people to see it because their industry is rough.
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widefault posted:Saw him with a group of friends back in 1998 when he opened for the The Frogs. We were not aware he was opening for them until we walked in and he was sitting at the bar. Friend went over, bought a CD and got a headbutt. Then he went on stage and played for way too long. One of the four of us was NOT familiar with him and was confused and a bit angry with the rest of us by the time he finished. When I saw him, one thing contributing to his very, very long performance was that, for every two out of three songs or so, he'd abruptly stop at some point, announce "that was just a rock and roll test," and start the entire song over from the beginning. If you know anything about his music, you know that (1) you come for the lyrics, not the actual music itself, and especially not the interminable bridges between the second and third verses (which was inevitably where he'd start over) and (2) I cannot imagine even the most refined ear being able to tell the difference between a Wesley Willis song performed correctly and a Wesley Willis song with a wrong note. Ah, but he could. Bless him. I did get about twenty-five headbutts that night, and I've still got my autographed copy of Mr. Magoo Goes to Jail vol. 1 somewhere. quote:I murdered your family
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Mu Zeta posted:Too bad because the movie is apparently really good  
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Is it full of made up bullshit like the first one
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You can close the thread, as this is the most 90's thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sZ1DWsAHE
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Iron Crowned posted:You can close the thread, as this is the most 90's thing I agree
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It's at 80% if you just look at the top critics. Who cares what some Kansas online site thinks about movies.
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Mu Zeta posted:It's at 80% if you just look at the top critics. Who cares what some Kansas online site thinks about movies. "Top Critics" give the first one 92%. It's still a bullshit movie filled with made-up bullshit. For example, despite claiming in the film that he wasn't drinking alcohol, and despite the premise that he was only allowed to consume things purchased at McDonald's, water included, he was actually a full-blown alcoholic and hadn't been "sober for more than a week in 30 years." The film makes a big deal about the liver damage that showed up at the conclusion of his McDonalds experiment, but the more likely cause of chronic alcoholism certainly wasn't mentioned.
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If there's bullshit in the second one that's unfortunate but I still wish I could see it. He's not doing anything to himself in the second movie. It's all about the garbage marketing labels that go into restaurants like something being free range or local. Also pretty much all documentaries have manipulative bullshit so you just have to take the good with the bad in my experience.
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Mu Zeta posted:Also pretty much all documentaries have manipulative bullshit so
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Because most of the ones I like are very manipulative and there is no such thing as an objective documentary, at least that I've watched. Roger and Me is one of my favorites because it does important work but I can also acknowledge Michael Moore makes himself look like a hero in every shot.
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Mu Zeta posted:Because most of the ones I like are very manipulative and there is no such thing as an objective documentary, at least that I've watched. The objection wasn't that it wasn't objective, the objection is that it is *lying to you*.
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I still believe eating lovely fast food all the time is bad for you.
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So, how about those 90's?
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Mu Zeta posted:Also pretty much all documentaries have manipulative bullshit so you just have to take the good with the bad in my experience.
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Iron Crowned posted:So, how about those 90's? Does anyone else sort of like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer Orchestra or is it just me? I think it's because I played in a youth jazz orchestra when I was younger and we did some of those charts.
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Iron Crowned posted:You can close the thread, as this is the most 90's thing The 90s, where even dogs had racial stereotypes.
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The voice actor was cool on Reno 911.
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Pastry of the Year posted:When I saw him, one thing contributing to his very, very long performance was that, for every two out of three songs or so, he'd abruptly stop at some point, announce "that was just a rock and roll test," and start the entire song over from the beginning. I'm so jealous of you fuckers that got to see Wesley Willis. I've got a live recording of his song "Micheal Jackson" from I think Cleveland Ohio. I love the audience participation,and the fact that he'd respond to indivduals in the crowd.
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Iron Crowned posted:You can close the thread, as this is the most 90's thing Would it be more ‘90s or less if you consider the commercials promoting the 1997 Godzilla miscarriage?
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wesleywillis posted:I'm so jealous of you fuckers that got to see Wesley Willis. Have you tried looking in the mirror?
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Would it be more ‘90s or less if you consider the commercials promoting the 1997 Godzilla miscarriage?  from the Pastry of the Year "First Date" collection
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Wheat Loaf posted:Does anyone else sort of like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer Orchestra or is it just me? I still Stan for Brian Setzer, it may have been a fad but it's still drat good music. Maybe I'm just weird/old, but big band/swing music feels like it will always be appropriate in a certain context. Sort of like classical I guess.
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The only problem with the 90's swing fad is that not enough people realize Cherry Poppin' Daddies weren't a swing band, but genre hoppers that wrote, among other stuff, swing songs. Their funk stuff is surprisingly awesome once you get past the guy's pinched chipmunk voice. I'll also defend the ska craze of '96 to the death. Let's Face It was the first non-Weird Al album I ever owned and holds up to this day.
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OutOfPrint posted:The only problem with the 90's swing fad is that not enough people realize Cherry Poppin' Daddies weren't a swing band, but genre hoppers that wrote, among other stuff, swing songs. Their funk stuff is surprisingly awesome once you get past the guy's pinched chipmunk voice. I hated Cherry Poppin' Daddies because their name sounds loving vile.
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I reckon the 90s with the whole alternative music movement and all its permutations is the worst era for band names. What's the worst one? Cherry Poppin' Daddies is pretty bad but I have a particular dislike for Hoobastank. It's so weird how alternative rock cycled through a couple of genres in the 90s. You had grunge first, then Britpop (Oasis, anyway) was very briefly the thing, then ska was briefly the thing (for, like, one summer), then swing was even more briefly the thing, and finally they settled on post-grunge, which I feel can be blamed on Creed more than Nickelback.
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Wheat Loaf posted:post-grunge, which I feel can be blamed on Creed more than Nickelback. Hard agree.
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Seven Mary Three and Creed are basically Pearl Jam for frat boys.
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Randaconda posted:I hated Cherry Poppin' Daddies because their name sounds loving vile. I mean that too.
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This sounds like an In Living Color parody of something.
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Thanks to this thread i have rediscovered a song i thought i dreamed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_fg_D1noOY
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Iron Crowned posted:I watched The Evil Dead in 4k yesterday (looks fantastic btw), and had the realization that 90's teens are probably the only group that had to experience movies like that in a very specific manner. A few pages back, but you kinda sorta have to go out of your way to find movies that either had a limited laserdisc release (lol) like From Beyond or even ones like The Abyss that don't even have a blu Ray version.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I reckon the 90s with the whole alternative music movement and all its permutations is the worst era for band names. What's the worst one? Cherry Poppin' Daddies is pretty bad but I have a particular dislike for Hoobastank. Ugh this is so spot on. I quit listening to commercial radio altogether around 2003-‘04 so I don’t really know what is trending. Is post grunge buttrock still the dominant thing in the genre?
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