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If you haven't flown LAX - LHR in the upstairs of a 747, there's no real way to tell if air travel is worse now than it ever was (it's worse now). But that was one of those experiences I got at the very tail end of intercontinental travel being special, it was like being in a Pan-Am commercial from the 70's. The row was about 5' wide, 2 seats on each side of the plane and the seats were tall and solid so you felt like you were all alone with your seatmate while you sipped champagne. All hail the king, the 747. Achy Breaky Heart was first done by the Marcy Brothers, a couple years before the Billy Ray Cyrus version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CRhKr2L59Y&t=66s
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Pantera did an absolutely filthy cover of Planet Caravan and I'm sure a lot of people don't know that it's a Black Sabbath song. FizFashizzle posted:History has vindicated this choice: Metallica is the least metal band to have ever existed. This sounds like a bad opinion from either a late 90's metalhead or a black/death metal edgelord. Metallica literally created thrash metal, along with Exodus and other bands in the Bay area scene, and are pretty much the greatest metal band ever. I rejected them like an angsty teenager with the "sold out" poo poo in high school but in retrospect it's kinda dumb to expect any artist to literally make the same album over and over forever. Kill em All - great NWOBHM/thrash album Ride the Lighting/Master of Puppets - arguably 2 of the top 3 thrash albums ever made ...And Justice For All - progressive metal masterpiece (without bass) Black Album - commercial metal veering into hard rock but still pretty great for what it is. The Load/Reload albums are basically their hard rock/blues inspired albums And so on It takes balls to keep trying new things when you get to the apex of your profession because you can be like AC/DC and crank out the same stuff every couple years and always keep your fans happy or you can try to grow as an artist and take chances and risk getting backlash for evolving, which they did. Take those first 5 albums and compare them against any other metal band's best 5 and they won't come close to the legacy, impact or progression of the genre. By the time other bands caught up and started copying what Metallica did, they were already tweaking their sound to go a different direction. Say what you will about them but no other band has done more to spread heavy music to a wider audience and that has to count for something. Also, Hetfield is a riff and down-picking God. Trap sprung, I took the bait and will fight anyone on this
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Yeah, but have you considered that Hanson "Mmbop" is the last classic rock song ever made?
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Ether Frenzy posted:Yeah, but have you considered that Hanson "Mmbop" is the last classic rock song ever made? I thought it was "American Idiot"
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I am very happy to report that Monkey Man absolutely loving rips. I also see why there’s a real chance that it doesn’t get released in India. Abugadu posted:Heading to Norman, OK and then DC over the next month. Leave?
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Wife's birthday tomorrow, snuck to the store to get stuff to make a cake as well as let the kids pick out some decorations and flowers, then hid everything so we could do it all tomorrow while she is at work. Literally within 2 seconds of getting home the 5 year old told her everything unprompted.
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You are receiving this broadcast as a dream...We are transmitting from the year one nine... nine nine ...You are receiving this broadcast in order t
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Pain of Mind posted:Wife's birthday tomorrow, snuck to the store to get stuff to make a cake as well as let the kids pick out some decorations and flowers, then hid everything so we could do it all tomorrow while she is at work. Literally within 2 seconds of getting home the 5 year old told her everything unprompted. Kids under a certain age are completely unable to keep a secret.
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Abugadu posted:Heading to Norman, OK and then DC over the next month. The university has a couple of decent museums (Fred Jones for art, Sam Noble for natural history). Jones is small but Noble can kill an afternoon. The campus as a whole is pretty nice to walk around. As far as bars and restaurants, Main Street and Campus Corner are the main places. Campus Corner skews more college age, obviously, but O’Connell’s is an institution and has decent burgs. The restaurant turnover is pretty high and I moved away three years ago so I’m not super current. Tea Cafe is a well liked Chinese place. Neighborhood Jam is a really good brunch place. Scratch on main is pretty good. Also Norman Music Festival is usually sometime in April if you happen to be there that weekend.
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Dang ol' low country shrimp boil tuesday and the Arby's curly fries I tell you what Hank 
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Black Sunshine posted:Pantera did an absolutely filthy cover of Planet Caravan and I'm sure a lot of people don't know that it's a Black Sabbath song. i was talking about napster but i guess theres less overlap between metal and punk than i thought
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Pain of Mind posted:Wife's birthday tomorrow, snuck to the store to get stuff to make a cake as well as let the kids pick out some decorations and flowers, then hid everything so we could do it all tomorrow while she is at work. Literally within 2 seconds of getting home the 5 year old told her everything unprompted. I literally  ed at this. Just like a perfect dad moment.
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Apr 10, 2024 02:48
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Black Sunshine posted:Pantera did an absolutely filthy cover of Planet Caravan and I'm sure a lot of people don't know that it's a Black Sabbath song. Yeah their first 3 albums are metal masterpieces imo, just banger after banger. I must have listened to each of them hundreds of times in high school once I discovered them. They lost me with the Load/Reload phase and I never really checked back in after that. I know they put out several more albums after that, are any of them any good? The Napster incident was unfortunate and it’s too bad Lars is such a prominent figure because he seems like a douchebag. Their musical chops and influence/legacy however are legendary.
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opposable thumbs.db posted:Hot take: United's transcontinental business class is up there with, or better than, any carrier other than the Gulf carriers or the East Asian carriers. I haven't flown United business class in over 10 years, so it's been awhile, but my seat map shows I'm on the side all by myself, which was not the case last time I flew with them. I *could* have taken Italian Air but it was more expensive and I guess my work gets pissy about that sort of thing lol I'm taking Aer Lingus back which I'm excited about since I get partner miles for it on my main account.
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Well, if you were lukewarm on that Civil War movie before (like I was), looks like the film uses "footage" from known pos Andy Ngo (that was probably stolen by him): https://twitter.com/WillTheLandMan/status/1777791857650704798 https://twitter.com/WillTheLandMan/status/1777800466987892799
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If the movies fun / good I don't care where they get riot footage.
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Chances are very high that Garland has no clue who Andy Ngo is
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Freaquency posted:Chances are very high that Garland has no clue who Andy Ngo is That's what I'm assuming, but regardless it's a heads-up if that's a problem for anyone
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Hot Diggity! posted:The Ringer had a piece on this: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2024/4/8/24124015/shogun-cinematography-tv-background-blur-anamorphic-lens-effect I just saw Godzilla X Kong: the New Empire and they utilized this technique in some shots. Was kinda distracting because the entire movie is digital and my brain was "why are you doing this?" That said, that movie was fun for a matinee screening. Still mad I missed Godzilla vs. Kong in the theaters and spent the time watching it at home thinking "this would be more entertaining on the big screen…" 3 DONG HORSE posted:
 Shinji2015 posted:Well, if you were lukewarm on that Civil War movie before (like I was), looks like the film uses "footage" from known pos Andy Ngo (that was probably stolen by him): It should also be noted Alex Garland is British and likely doesn't know that Ngo is not a reliable "journalist." Then again he never read the rest of the Southern Reach trilogy when he did Annihilation and didn't care that Natalie Portman's character was revealed to be actually East Indian in the other books. I got my tickets for a Thursday screening of Civil War so I'm trying my best to go into it with no other outside influences.
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To be honest I don't care to read the thoughts of any American or British conservative. All of them have completely and utterly failed in their 4th estate duty and all of them are traitors to their cause.
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Black Sunshine posted:It takes balls to keep trying new things when you get to the apex of your profession because you can be like AC/DC and crank out the same stuff every couple years and always keep your fans happy or you can try to grow as an artist and take chances and risk getting backlash for evolving, which they did. Yeah, this. I remember when I was first getting into alternative rock/heavy metal/etc. in high school, and at the time, I was pretty into Sevendust. And when Animosity came out, it was so different from Sevendust and Home, since they were experimenting with different melodies, and it turned out to be an amazing album that did really well, but then they reverted back to their standard style and it doesn't seem like they've really deviated a whole lot since, with some exceptions. And to this day, Animosity is still my favorite album of theirs. Edit: Fifty Three posted:S&M and S&M2 are awesome albums. S&M has loving "No Leaf Clover" on it, and I will go to my grave with that being one of my all-time favorite songs across any artist. Canned Sunshine fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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Nodoze posted:Hot (lukewarm? slightly edgy?) take, metallica was never good They started sucking after the double whammy of Burton dying and running out of Mustaine's songs to steal. Ride the Lightning is unquestionably the peak, Master of Puppets is still good but unbelievably overrated.
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United’s flights over oceans haven’t been a problem for me, though it’s only been trans-Pacific for me and not over the Atlantic. (Still the best flight experience I’ve had was Emirates, though ANA overnight to London was also pretty good because for some reason coach was shockingly small in that plane) Still haven’t flown since the pandemic, either, though we now got our toddler a passport so hopefully that means travel this year or next.
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Pain of Mind posted:Wife's birthday tomorrow, snuck to the store to get stuff to make a cake as well as let the kids pick out some decorations and flowers, then hid everything so we could do it all tomorrow while she is at work. Literally within 2 seconds of getting home the 5 year old told her everything unprompted. We can't tell my 4-year-old what gifts we get people because she has a history of telling them what the gift is right before they open it
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Holy poo poo I'm lucky - I left the (electric) stove on overnight. Nothing happened except a potentially ruined pan luckily 
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Good morning ladies and lads https://x.com/nocertainlynot/status/1777738022676471887?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA
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Yeah, that “Civil War” film screams idiotic“moderate” “Why can’t we just meet in the middle” agree with the right politics to me. The kind of politics that treats lives like mine as bargaining chips to be given away. Anyway, I do be wondering what’s up with Courtney Barnett. Like, professionally. I think about lesbians a lot more these days than I did a few years ago.
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Last time I saw Courtney her girlfriend was opening for her, but that was a pretty long time ago so who knows if they're still together
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Grozz Nuy posted:Last time I saw Courtney her girlfriend was opening for her, but that was a pretty long time ago so who knows if they're still together She played her back catalogue by herself on the tour. And she’ll probably never say a word about any of it unless someone gives her a dictaphone again. Edit: I thought of all of this because of the discussion of artists selling out, and making an instrumental album is usually the opposite of doing that. Kurgarra Queen fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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Seems very silly to turn up the outrage when nobody knows how long the footage is, or even what is in it, that this guy provided.
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Hot Diggity! posted:Yeah but outrage drives clicks which will inevitably get butts in seats I would argue that the kind of person that's going to see an A24 film in the theaters would be turned off to seeing it at all with this info, myself included. All these post collapse civil war style movies are thinly veiled right wing propaganda, and they're generally terrible too. Early returns on this newest one aren't great, and that's before Andy Ngo got a special shout out in the credits.
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I believe the point of this movie is that civil war would be bad, very bad. It's not supposed to be propaganda.
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FizFashizzle posted:Good morning ladies and lads I can’t make myself watch it again, but this is a big heartfelt wedding production after he left her and his kids for 8mo and she stuck around pining for him? Or did I miss something else key here?
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Yeah, I will bet money the director himself is just like "who the gently caress is Andy Ngo?" when hearing about all this.
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LeeMajors posted:I can’t make myself watch it again, but this is a big heartfelt wedding production after he left her and his kids for 8mo and she stuck around pining for him? Or did I miss something else key here? I think that's it. Although, even the flower girls could sense this wedding was a mistake.
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LeeMajors posted:I can’t make myself watch it again, but this is a big heartfelt wedding production after he left her and his kids for 8mo and she stuck around pining for him? Or did I miss something else key here? Thank you for summarizing this because I wasn't going to watch a 3 minute video with zero context.
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https://x.com/thehill/status/1778046787623821780 With friends like these… wandler20 posted:I think that's it. Although, even the flower girls could sense this wedding was a mistake. The kids should’ve told him to go gently caress himself Bird in a Blender posted:Thank you for summarizing this because I wasn't going to watch a 3 minute video with zero context. I didn’t realize it was 3min until I was 2min into, so I gave into sunk cost
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