Edwin MacPhisto

I really like this. Thirded.

They got the pretty inevitable song of the year, right. I really don't think I like Kala as much as most people, though.

Everything said already is spot on. The last third of this movie made me feel how I imagine stupid people felt about the last third of No Country for Old Men.

"Love Song" keeps popping up on XM43. On a trip to and from Baltimore yesterday, I heard it going each way. Meh. She's a cutie, though, in a weird dorky way.

I lurve Tago Mago, Future Days next in line, and Ege Bamyasi coming in third. I haven't given the others the consideration yet, though I did download some apparently rare live stuff of theirs a while back.

It translates to film just fine as long as you're not desperate to be locked into the absolutely most staid definition of story structure possible. I mean, The notion that a successful story has to absolutely follow the 3- or 5-act dramatic structures laid out by Aristotle and Freytag, respectively, is infantile. The reason your ending is goofy: I think this is a pretty much perfectly executed film that subverts and manipulates many of the expectations and desires you keep coming back to--confrontation, closure, etc.--on its way to telling a compelling and uncompromising story. And I think that will end my comments on the movie in this here thread.

I don't want to be mean here, but that's a stupid conventional ending that makes little sense given Sheriff Bell's character and adds nothing to the movie. All it does is make you feel like Bell is more of a hero than he actually is for the sake of gratuitous action. The notion that a character has to partake in a car chase to have a point is just the wrong way to watch a movie. At the point that you're blaming characters for events and making judgments on whether or not they were "pointless," you're just way outside what's actually there in front of you.

That sucks. I'd go with the tried and true method of "restart your computer after letting it sit off for a while." That sounds like it could be bad if random computer juju doesn't fix it on its own.

evilhomer just cut a promo on the planet earth. Like fuck.

Black Kids must have put on a great live show at CMJ with cowbells and clapping and all that, because yeah, they're pretty indistinct, albeit fun. I listen to Clap Your Hand Say Yeah's first album every now and then, but three songs are in my regular rotation. I mentioned them here before at some point: "Let The Cool Goddess Rust Away," "The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth," and "In This Home On Ice." Great songs all. If they could replicate that kind of energy and interest in everything they did, they'd be a great band, but alas, evidence to this point suggests they've only got so much in them.

There's a comment on the Idolator article that really pushes my buttons. Of course, I can't find the exact one now, but it was something to the tune of "The worst thing about music blogs is that I don't know who's good and who I should listen to, because so much stuff gets pimped." I mean, the solution there is to listen to music and decide if you like it. Not terribly difficult. I read this and the complementary Status Ain't Hood post back in October and mostly agree that the article is hipster hand-wringing. There's certainly an argument to be made--a group noodling around will probably develop differently under a microscope than fucking around in someone's basement--but who cares? If a band gets to grow up playing a few shows to 200 people instead of 20 their first few years of existence, so be it. Blogs and Pitchfork have basically stepped up to perform the NME hype role for U.S. listeners, and England still carries on all right after these many years.

Edit: Go spoiler tags, go.

You really missed a lot of very obvious details. Check the IMDB boards if you can't figure something else out. There are piles of threads answering all this stuff for people who similarly missed the details.

"Fuck the world" doesn't seem like a particularly appropriate motto for someone in commercial moving and furniture installation. Or anyone at all, really. What are you going to do, rip a couch cushion and then flip it over?

I haven't read the book, which might clarify things a little further, but I thought most of this was pretty clear.

I have heard very little Randy Newman, but my impression of him is "probably the most boring musician in the history of the craft."

Vince Gill released a 4-disc album? There must be dozens of people who listened to that.

cabbageboy: It's been a month since I've seen it and this is even moreso the best movie of the year.

I tag all my mp3s because I still have associations of albums with their art and don't mind seeing it when the song comes up. And yes, it looks pretty on the iPod.

Fantastic technology, but kind of useless as a table. Your back would be dead in 2 days.

Those are the two!

U2 was my favorite band up through even my first year of college. I'm convinced they won't ever produce another good song, as the few high points of the last album were really stretching the definition of "good song," much as I may have tried to justify them as good songs then. The new Portishead, however, interests me. I mean, 10 years off is a long freaking time. I wonder if Beth Gibbons even sounds the same. Dummy was probably the first really off-the-radar album I bought for myself, picking it up used in maybe 9th grade based on some 30-second samples of "Biscuit," "Sour Times," and "Mysterons" that I'd heard on a now-surely defunct music review website. It is one of the few albums I got into that young that has done nothing but get better since that early age; I think OK Computer's the only one that comes close. Maybe War too, to finish back on U2.

That all started a few years ago. They still field teams but no longer have an athletic department. It's been merged with the rest of university administration. The idea was that it would help eliminate any sort of rule-breaking or bending that athletic departments are notorious for allowing, and make student-athletes for the major sports (namely basketball and football) into better students. Whatever the effect, it hasn't hurt the football team at all, which has been the most competitive it's been for 2 decades over the past few seasons.

48 hours and the ACC is looking considerably stronger than it was on Wednesday. Jim Grobe is in fact staying at Wake instead of going to Arkansas, and Paul Johnson will replace Chan "5 losses? Let's do it!" Gailey at Georgia Tech.

iTunes is great. But, I'm on a Mac. Used to use Winamp. Still don't know Zappa. Bye, thread.