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Cartoon Man posted:
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I don't know if I ever got a happy meal. We usually went to Wendy's for fast food. But t every now and then we'd go to Mc shits and my mom would ask me what I wanted and I'd always be like 'uhhh I Dunno just get me a happy meal or something'. I wanted that goddam toy but for 'reasons' to didn't just ask (or insist) on a happy meal so I'm pretty sure I've never had one ever. .did go to a mc shits birthday party back in the 80s though.
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Jul 24, 2021 03:18
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twistedmentat posted:We had one of those, my dad called it the house burner because it was so unsafe, and his insurance agents kids set their house on fire using one. My folks still have one and still use it. Huge fire hazard. We didn't use the butter tray, we just melted butter on the stove. It's lazy as far as I'm concerned. My grandpa, in the early 80's, always made popcorn on the stove top. So much more fire danger. It was better. Always served with fudge that my grandma made. This was not "Movie Night" or anything like that. We'd sit around and tell stories until 3 in the morning. Far more fun than watching some movie. Everyone should try doing "Story Night" instead of "Movie Night." Everyone has good stories to tell. Would you rather watch a movie with Bruce Willis phoning it in... Or hear about that time my mom was followed around Times Square in the late 60's by an insane person covered in bandages head to toe and she couldn't lose him on the subway so she had to lose him in a Library bathroom. Or how about the time my Grandma partied with Trotsky at Frida Kahlo's house? Or about how my (other) Grandpa kicked the crap out of a Feldwebel for stealing food and didn't get hanged for striking a superior because he was clever. Don't worry, he wasn't a NAZI. He was conscripted in Serbia, he fled to the US. Never had to fight. A very complicated story. About 50 pages. Far better stories than an old bald man taking any job he can get just to be on film. I'm looking at you Bruce Willis. Shame. Well, that went off on a tangent. One day, I'll write all this stuff down. It's all verbal with the exception of my Serbian Grandfather. He did write it down, but it needs a re-write as he uses a lot of wrong words and wrong everything in English. I can read it. Other's can't. The brutal blanket party for the Feldwebel is a good one though. Pretty short. Sarge stole food, the privates gave him a beat down. Meine Ota admitted it. He was only stripped of all rank. Sarge went to Russia and was most definitely killed in combat. Sad thing. It was early in '45. Now there's another good story about my great-grandfather who ended up in a concentration camp at the very end of the war but that's another tale.
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Jul 24, 2021 04:36
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Porfiriato posted:And we had one of those when I was a kid. You shoved some ice cubes in the hole and then turned a crank in the back and something inside (probably a blade or something else similarly dangerous) would shave off bits of them as it spun around. Once you had enough you used the little shovel to extricate the slush into the cup, then you aimed for a 50/50 mix of Kool-Aid concentrate "flavoring" and ice to get a sugar rush. Or at least I did. Also the little Snoopy with the Devo hat was a plunger you had to push down to mash the ice cubes against the grater wheel
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Jul 24, 2021 04:48
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I was in a Hobby Lobby last week (how much are train sets? JESUS CHRIST!) and they still have the good ol' Snoopy Snow Cone Maker. When I get the hankering for some shaved ice now I just hit up a food truck downtown for a half-gallon for like $2, but as a kid I tore that thing up.
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Jul 24, 2021 07:19
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Seattle's KEXP isn't an 80s station, just a regular, but independent radio station Anyway, today for no particular reason they did a 3 hour chunk of just music from 1986 https://www.kexp.org/djs/john-richards/?stream_time=1627480904 Man, a lot of good poo poo came out in 86 Definitely worth a listen E: Alternate link to just the playlist https://www.kexp.org/playlist/?month=July&day=28&year=2021&hour=8%3A00&m=AM&offset=0 a kitten has a new favorite as of 20:19 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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Jul 28, 2021 20:10
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a kitten posted:Seattle's KEXP isn't an 80s station, just a regular, but independent radio station in the same vein....    ('83)
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Jul 28, 2021 20:33
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I haven’t listened to it in years but KEXP was a drat good station when I did. I might have to check it out again sometime.
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Jul 28, 2021 21:34
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Aug 9, 2021 16:30
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I'm not even sure I knew there was a 3-2-1 Contact magazine, but I loved the show. The theme song still sometimes pops into my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-LEBc2sO8 Unrelated to that: look at https://twitter.com/Bodegacats_/status/1424766011220320256?s=19 a kitten has a new favorite as of 17:32 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 16:53
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a kitten posted:I'm not even sure I knew there was a 3-2-1 Contact magazine, but I loved the show. The theme song still sometimes pops into my head Despite being from the 80s, it had a 70s as gently caress theme song. It was also where the Bloodhound Gang came from, even though I've encountered a lot of people who think that was the name of the Scooby Doo group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51tmT-ANAYc There was also Mathnet that appeared on Square one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmWPNckrpo
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Aug 9, 2021 18:15
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It's hot as fuckin' balls here in my part of VA right now. And, I'm going through my cassette collection. Here's what's been on the JD playlist of "it's-hot-as-balls nostalgia late 80's summer music" : Big Black ---- Atomizer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cDvRl3edo Sonic Youth ---- Daydream Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVwJMOtfJbU Public Enemy --- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz9ozmJ_kM fake edit: in opening multiple tabs to get/copy those links, the videos all started playing up on top of each other, and this mashup is WILD 
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Aug 11, 2021 00:08
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God drat, the Atomizer album cover is just so good. Maybe I should see if I can find a vinyl copy just to hang on my wall
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Aug 11, 2021 00:19
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a kitten posted:God drat, the Atomizer album cover is just so good. Maybe I should see if I can find a vinyl copy just to hang on my wall one of my favorites for sure. i think you can get a repress for pretty cheap. hammer party had a pretty good one too. album covers for nasty moods.
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Aug 11, 2021 00:30
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2/3 of JD's playlist was in my tape deck as a high school senior. e: I loved Steve Albini but boy oh boy, his working on an album did not mean it was good
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Aug 11, 2021 01:00
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JacquelineDempsey posted:It's hot as fuckin' balls here in my part of VA right now. And, I'm going through my cassette collection.
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Aug 11, 2021 01:44
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This is a cool thing, because as a 80s kid and a 90s teen, i have no connection to the teen culture of the 80s outside of what i've seen in media, which based on 90s media about teens, i know is full of poo poo. What kids were actually putting on mix tapes to listen to while they got drunk and high and hosed is very interesting. Or played D&D and watched Star Trek reruns, i dunno, whatever you did back then.
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Aug 11, 2021 02:13
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Pastry of the Year posted:2/3 of JD's playlist was in my tape deck as a high school senior. Atomizer is a fantastic album and I’m glad they threw in the towel after Songs About loving And yeah I own a bunch of CDs he was the producer on (engineer is his preferred term) and it doesn’t mean he had anything to do with the album other than recording and mixing I really wish he wasn’t an idiot choosing the name of his next project because this was a great album 
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Aug 11, 2021 08:51
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Keith Atherton posted:And yeah I own a bunch of CDs he was the producer on (engineer is his preferred term) and it doesn’t mean he had anything to do with the album other than recording and mixing My assumption, which even from the remove of adulthood doesn't seem that stupid, was that he worked with bands that had a similar sound or aesthetic. Oh, well! I do remember an article, maybe it was an interview or one of his infamous opinion pieces, in which he laid out the price structure for recording bands; there were some that would pay, like, a dollar, and others he would happily milk for every penny. And yeah, I loving loved Two Nuns and a Pack Mule but that band name was indefensible. "No, no, it's not what it sounds like, it's from a Japanese comic about this guy who ... huh, it's exactly what it sounds like."
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Aug 11, 2021 11:07
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Maybe I have the dissenting opinion here but the only album I can think of that I'd say Albini "ruined" is PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me": even her self-recorded demos are better versions of those songs. IMHO. Otherwise I'd say he's recorded an astounding percentage of the best rock albums of the last 40 years. You're right that he doesn't call himself a "producer". He fills that role, but his credit usually says "recorded by", and for many years now people have sought him out because they already want that sound. He also doesn't charge exorbitant fees relative to his status. I think last I heard he charges something like $800 a day and that's including using his studio. Despite his prickly image he also does a ton of children's charity work on the down low. Like literally answering local kids letters to Santa kinda stuff. He's like Moe reading 'Little Women' at the Children's Hospital. Personally I think he sounds best when he's recording either acoustically driven music or huge metal, like the albums he did with High on Fire and Neurosis.
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Aug 11, 2021 11:46
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Imagined posted:Maybe I have the dissenting opinion here but the only album I can think of that I'd say Albini "ruined" is PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me": even her self-recorded demos are better versions of those songs. IMHO. He wrote a good article about the music industry and seeing up and coming bands getting signed to a major label Scroll through the parts about studio technology unless you are interested in that https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music
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Aug 12, 2021 01:23
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Tonight I stumbled across a fan page for David Dixon, an actor who basically hasn't done anything of note in the 40 years since he was Ford Prefect in the 1981 BBC television version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: http://www.rabid.oneuk.com/daviddixon/
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Aug 15, 2021 00:56
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 I keep forgetting that every loving actor ever was in this movie.
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Aug 26, 2021 00:35
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Cartoon Man posted:
If you're one of those weirdos that buys DVDs get 'the complete novel' version of it. I had aa VHS tape of it that I taped from TV and watched like, however many times over the years and then I got the above mentioned DVD and was all like 'what the poo poo? I don't remember this scene'. wesleywillis has a new favorite as of 00:58 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Aug 26, 2021 00:56
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Diane Lane and Tom loving Waits too!
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Aug 26, 2021 17:32
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Tom Cruise trying to look tough in that picture is hilarious. The only one I don't recognize is the guy in the front.
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Aug 27, 2021 17:10
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twistedmentat posted:Tom Cruise trying to look tough in that picture is hilarious. C. Thomas Howell?
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zzuupp posted:C. Thomas Howell? holy poo poo he was Soul Man...wow.
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Aug 27, 2021 17:50
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I showed my wife the G-shock I want to buy (https://i.imgur.com/J7gvjFv.png) and she wrinkled her nose and said "It's very you" It turns out I am Cassette Futurism: The Human
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Aug 27, 2021 19:01
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Imagined posted:Tonight I stumbled across a fan page for David Dixon, an actor who basically hasn't done anything of note in the 40 years since he was Ford Prefect in the 1981 BBC television version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: It was a pretty good adaptation
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Aug 27, 2021 20:07
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Yeah, I rewatched it recently, and to be honest I kind of understand the fandom. He had a certain undefinable intensity. You can almost believe he really is an alien pretending to be a human. Maybe it's the eyes. Are those contacts?
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Phy posted:I showed my wife the G-shock I want to buy (https://i.imgur.com/J7gvjFv.png) and she wrinkled her nose and said "It's very you" If I were in the market for a G-shock, that would be my choice too. The ones that everyone think of when they think G-shock, to me, are utterly ridiculous. What does your nose-wrinkling wife think of those?
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:If I were in the market for a G-shock, that would be my choice too. The ones that everyone think of when they think G-shock, to me, are utterly ridiculous. What does your nose-wrinkling wife think of those? "Ill have to hear "no its not casio terrorist watch" multiple times a day"
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Aug 27, 2021 22:51
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I would blanch a little bit at paying a $150 for essentially a replica of a watch that practically came free with boxes of cereal back in the day, especially when I paid about that much for a Fossil smartwatch. Of course that one probably has more than a 6 hour battery life, unlike my Fossil. 
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:If I were in the market for a G-shock, that would be my choice too. The ones that everyone think of when they think G-shock, to me, are utterly ridiculous. What does your nose-wrinkling wife think of those? She has one of the ones with a step counter. Full-sized, not a Baby G. She loves it and wears it every day. I don't want to accuse her of having bad taste, but she did marry this idiot *points thumbs at self* Rigged Death Trap posted:"Ill have to hear "no its not casio terrorist watch" multiple times a day" Lol I have one of those too (albeit in "steel") Imagined posted:I would blanch a little bit at paying a $150 for essentially a replica of a watch that practically came free with boxes of cereal back in the day, especially when I paid about that much for a Fossil smartwatch. Of course that one probably has more than a 6 hour battery life, unlike my Fossil. You can get a basic battery-powered square G for like half that (look for DW5600), I wanted one that auto-syncs to the atomic time radio signal Recently Casio made steel-cased G-shocks that cost like $600 or more because the watch market is absolutely loving bonkers
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Phy posted:Lol I have one of those too (albeit in "steel") I understand your wifes disdain now
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A fair assessment
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Imagined posted:Tonight I stumbled across a fan page for David Dixon, an actor who basically hasn't done anything of note in the 40 years since he was Ford Prefect in the 1981 BBC television version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Ambitious Spider posted:It was a pretty good adaptation So he's still committing to the part by pretending to be an out of work actor, just like Ford Prefect did or is 
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LifeSunDeath posted:holy poo poo he was Soul Man...wow. I prefer to think of him as Robert Morris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4JPMo4bMa4
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minato posted:So he's still committing to the part by pretending to be an out of work actor, just like Ford Prefect did oh joke was just that he was good in the role so a long running fan site was appropriate.
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