Edwin MacPhisto

omar comin'

"I'm here to play the Dolphins, ya dumbass" just won't sound the same anymore.

I wish there had been odds on this, because I was thinking Kawalimus might have an outside chance at the win when the discussion first resumed last week. With his recent antics, he's gone from something like 27-1 to a solid 5-2.

Probably because that wouldn't likely be anywhere close to a significant portion of the vote.

Hey, Clark Johnson directed next week's finale. Didn't know that. First episode he's directed since the first two of the series.

Oh god, the Robert Palmer part.

noooooooooooooooooo My favorite blind character in any movie.

Juicy Pear are my favorite Jelly Belly! This thread was not meant for me.

That was remarkable. Even when putting out hits on people, Marlo's stone-cold. Not there. After next week, I think I'm gonna start over from season 1 and go through the whole show again. Tough not to.

Another incredible episode. Seeing Namond and Colvin again--and finally seeing someone winning, thank god. Small triumphs. Bubbles' anniversary speech was just floor you stuff. Glad next week's an extended episode. And I'm gonna miss the show, but damn if it isn't going out on top. When all is said and done, it's going to be incredibly difficult to find another show that has such an astonishing and consistent body of work.

This is actually my all-time favorite candy bar. Freakin' delicious.

Haha, yesss. Darthtiki wins.

Mods: change Marvin's name to Kawalimus Kid and see what happens.

I went back and forth on this pick a few times, weighing it between a few classics that surely won't be around in 30 picks and one of my favorite albums ever, one that I know The Coat Is My Father likes very much too. He already Rain Dogs'd me, so I decided that I had to lock this one down. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea If Agent's "sometimes nothing else will do" album is Souls at Zero, this is mine. It's a completely unique, freewheeling tour of Jeff Mangum's head, indescribable song after indescribable song. Essentially 40 continuous minutes of propulsive, unusual collusion between electric, acoustic, and esoteric, it also happens to be one of the most emotionally resonant albums I know. It moves back and forth between sounding like giddy euphoria and total desolation in the span of a minute or two. Lyrically, it's obtuse but not without intimacy, and musically it goes through a tremendous amount of highs and lows in 11 tracks. The whole thing is anchored by Mangum's slightly out-of-tune, fuzzy guitar, which has a very distinct thrum I've never heard anywhere else, and which matches his slightly out-of-tune, on-the-verge-of-breaking voice perfectly. You can hear him pushing his microphone to the limit sometimes, somehow making flat notes beautiful. I don't know what my favorite song is on here. "Holland, 1945" was the first one I heard, but then there's the title track. And "Two-Headed Boy." And everything else. It's easy to see why he hasn't recorded anything after this, despite it being 10 years old now: what could he possibly have done to top it?

"Smash Your Head" live easily generated the most rapturous crowd response I've seen at a show in years. I mean, insanity. I'm kind of surprised Elton John hasn't been sampled more often. I know "Ghetto Gospel," the (dead) Tupac song with Bodie from The Wire in it, samples "Indian Sunrise," but I can't remember much more offhand.

Heh. That's one of the things I really like about living in 2008. People who were in college when The Chronic and Doggystyle were dominating the airwaves are now pretty far along in their careers. I could make references to "The $20 Sack Pyramid" and my old boss would always get the joke. And the HR director? He'd never admit it, but I know he knows all the words to "Ain't No Fun." I just know it. Pick coming in a little while.

That's one of the most beautifully retarded album covers ever. Speaking of... We seem to be having a run on rap, and several of my favorites have already been snatched. Fortunately, mitigating that lines up pretty well with what I wanted to try with this pick, anyway: to pick the album that I associate with more good times than any other. If I'm running with the desert island concept, I'd really want to have something that 1) lines up with a lot of my best memories, and 2) is enjoyable enough in its own right to keep me going without them. Thus: Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle Weddings, parties, road trips, vacation, tailgating; this has been played over and over at all of them. I'm not sure you could find a better sing-along album. The inscrutable "I treat a bitch like 7-Up, I never have, I never will" cracks me up every time. So does the sheer obscenity of "Ain't No Fun (If The Homies Can't Have None)," and the entirety of "Lodi Dodi." And all my personal associations with it aside, this is a hell of an album, every bit the equal of The Chronic and the one I like better of the pair. The guest rappers are better, the production creates a more consistent sound, and Snoop turns in one of the best recorded performances of all time, one of the best and most unique rappers ever at the peak of his abilities and wit. Short of maybe Purple Rain, I actually listen to this in full the most out of every album I own.

I bought a friend the Shatner album The Transformed Man in high school. One of the best gifts I've ever given. I like Elton John and should probably pick up that two-disc compilation sometime, or just download all his albums.

McCain is such a fucking idiot. Obama's people should have smoked him on this one and let him off easy. Al Qaida barely exists anymore. Does nobody get that? Al Qaida in Iraq is just one of Zarqawi's insurgent groups with hardly any connection to those 9/11 dudes. He's just trading off the name. It's like if I started a basketball team and called them the Chicago Bulls in Virginia.

Slim is just ripping through eminently listenable classics right now. I listen to these albums all the time.

I'll still probably see this, but yeah. I want "formic acid!" and the awesome "ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee" sound.

I was excited that this would be a remake of the giant ants classic from the 50s , but alas.

Every time someone says "Illmatic," my head automatically refers to "that's a one hot album every 10 year average." Very good choice, disses notwithstanding.

I think that's just much more an effect of coaching than anything else. There aren't enough examples on either said to say "playoff experience matters" or "it doesn't matter." The Jazz lost to the Spurs last year because the Spurs were a better team because of their roster, their Tim Duncan, and their Tony Parker, not to mention a deeper bench and better in-game coaching and substitutions from Popovich. Of course, experienced players also understand the grind of playing the same team up to 7 times within 2 weeks, and staying healthy and productive up against the same squad, finding ways to figure out mismatches, etc., so I see that side of the "experience!" argument.

Is the Guitar Hero 2+guitar bundle for 360 still available anywhere? Mostly I just want to get Rock Band (game only, as I have no real interest in the drums) and a second guitar. Or, does Activision sell the GH3 guitar individually anywhere?