Edwin MacPhisto

how do we feel about Tical. Tical is actually a perfectly fine album. I just don't like it--or Method Man--as much as any other Wu-Tang guy's work, really, so I kinda disregard him. I haven't listened to it in forever. It's not as catchy. Not as thoroughly interesting as its predecessor. Jay Bennett might be a bit of a headcase, but I missed him on this. However, I will say that A Ghost is Born sounds great live. I was way impressed with "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" and "Hummingbird" in particular; the latter became one of my favorite Wilco songs after I saw them. "Theologians" also gets a lot more bounce and sounds like it could have snuck onto Being There quite nicely.

Easy there buddy. The top four are nearly interchangeable, but Sign o' the Times is probably my favorite album ever. Outkast: 1. Aquemini 2. Stankonia 3. ATLiens 4. Speakerboxxx 5. The Love Below 6. Southernplayalisticadillacmusik

There's a ten-mile difference between considering all reasonable options and holding out some weird masturbatory hope that the U.S. government was secretly behind everything. Don't bring out the "do the victims justice" gibberish too--I don't care who's doing justice for whom, I just don't want to have to be embarrassed by my fellow man and his goofy ideas. The government lies about taxes, it lies about its reasons for supporting/rejecting particular social platforms. It doesn't lie about killing 3,000 of its own citizens, and the jibba jabba of a bunch of people who think they understand science or what a particular picture means or any sort of this nonsense is stupid as hell.

Prince, the pretty much impeccable '80-'87 run: 1. Sign o' the Times 2. Purple Rain 3. Dirty Mind 4. 1999 5. Around the World in a Day 6. Parade 7. Controversy Wu-Tang solo albums I've had occasion to hear: 1. GZA, Liquid Swords 2. Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 3. ODB, Return to the 36 Chambers 4. Ghostface Killah, Iron Man 5. Ghostface Killah, Fishscale 6. Ghostface Killah, Pretty Toney Album 7. GZA, GrandMasters 99. Shitty albums by Method Man And yes, there are lots of gaps in there. I burn out on their solo stuff from time to time and it takes me a while to get back into it.

Oh my god, this is the first I looked at this thread. Some people should be embarrassed. Lovecraft, however, should get bonus points for that last one.

I think you're gonna get one. This was basically the reverse of game 4--very close till the end of the third, beginning of the fourth quarter, at which point the home team just goes bananas and makes it look like the whole game was a rout. I doubt either team falls apart like that again, so I'm guessing this'll make it back to Dallas. I really hope it does, because this has been another real good series in the list of great ones so far this year.

Kerrang's a terrible publication, and this is the kind of drivel that keeps them so.

Suns are way fun, and ultimately who I'm pulling for out of everybody left. I don't really buy the "they get away with all sorts of jersey tugging and fouls" stuff; if the refs don't call it, they don't call it. Don't blame it on the team. Flopping's just ridiculous everywhere, so it doesn't bother me that much when any team does it.

Read the book, I guess, if it's fascinating you. You sound like you need something fascinating. All you're going to do is come out of it thinking "see, it's okay to be like this--LOTS of people are like this." But it's not okay. You just need to be happy with whatever you're doing. If never talking to women makes you happy, then be that way, but jesus christ, don't call yourself "love-shy" and mope around, because you're even wasting your own time if that's the case.

Marvin, all reading that book is going to do is let you justify your own pathetic behavior. Get rid of it and get into real life.

It seems like most teams in the league could use a strong low-post presence. Who do you all consider the genuine good ones right now, much less the ones that are available?

Remember last summer, when the Atlanta GM/owner/whoever thought including Diaw in the trade for Joe Johnson was too much? Dude looks like a genius now. That dunk over Dirk was awesome.

Pretty good stuff. So far this is taking on the default "I'm driving around and it's summer" slot in my car's CD changer.

Great character actor, and he's superb in Die Hard, especially when the FBI guys show up and he's suddenly one of the good guys by comparison.

The Suns are playing fantastic defense so far. Forcing 24-seconds violations, blocking shots, steals, and straight up defensive stops. Very strange, but satisfying, to see.

I think I've had mine for a little over two years. Which is long, but definitely not the longest. I thought of KKK, though I think he changed it for a week or two at some point, to the great regret of many.

Sabertooth in the first movie was terrible. I always forget how bad he was until I catch it on FX or something like that. Though you're way too geeky/fanfictiony in your appraisal of the movie, you're right in that it was just too cluttered. The cure or Phoenix on their own would have been fine. As it was, you had a less-than-two-hour film with two major plotlines that didn't really intersect convincingly, and a ton of characters each getting their "moment" admist them. Very scattered stuff, with very few of the actors (McKellen and Kelsey Grammar, really, maybe Hugh Jackman) being able to keep it together throughout.

This thread makes me happy about who I am.

I didn't read the spoiler stuff, but I'm wondering what sort of changes there could be. I just hope we don't introduce a bunch of new characters again--I think they're kind of out of random sources for people, unless they want another plane crash, people hidden on the island, etc. Making some of the characters we've already seen more regular (if Desmond survived, I'd love to see more of him) would be cool, but I'm against adding people just for the sake of adding people.

Seeing it in a college town, it was evident that a large portion of people in the theater knew the famous internet video. As soon as Juggernaut dropped the "Do you know who I am?" line, assorted whoops of "ohhhhhh shit" and "yessssss" and "ahahahahahahahaha" resounded throughout the theater. I admit to contributing on the "ahahahaha" front. I'm absolutely certain this was a reference to the clip.

I am a big fan of the series, and felt the same way. Loved the short prologues, loved the danger room scene. Loved the stuff with Beast, and the initial discussion of/reaction to the cure. And then as soon as they started bringing Jean back into things, it went downhill very quickly. I did really like the girl who played Kitty Pryde, though. Added a lot to a small part, and she really seemed like the only worthwhile addition out of the 7 or 8 new mutants, Beast aside. Ultimately the whole thing seemed pretty small scale, which it shouldn't have.

This thread's good, because it inspired me to listen to Amnesiac for the first time in a while. I like it much more than the last time I listened to it, and I'm thrilled that "I Might Be Wrong" is still a totally fucking great song in every possible way. I never liked the second half that much, so we'll see if that holds up too.

Yikes. These radio show guys are way too excited/indignant about this,

You have weird novel concerns, but yeah, I think you'd like his stuff. I haven't read The Plot Against America either, but I'm going to say you'd like most of his stuff just because it's...well, good.

Philip Roth is wonderful. The Human Stain is also very good--it's sloppy at times, and kind of falls apart in the final third, and is really two or three different books smushed together, but it's still pretty damn great, sometimes because of those inconsistencies.