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QUOTE (Тайг @ Jun 24 2008, 03:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm also going to point out that this doesn't imply atheism. For one, god being malevolent doesn't imply that he doesn't exist. I'd actually call it more likely that he would be malevolent if he did exist.

Special K and black coffee for breakfast Healthy Choice for lunch veggie sub for dinner Watch the pounds melt away!

He called TSIB his favorite album a bunch of times (though it obviously no longer is). I just remember him liking Dopethrone a lot when he first heard it, and as I recall, he ended up preferring Come My Fanatics. Man, I know way too much about the dude's taste. Oh well, he probably introduced me to more bands than anyone else here, I guess it's fair.

Anyway, what I was going to say about Shaft was that it and Sweetback (they came out around the same time) are the perennial blaxploitation flics, because, well... they aren't. Sweetback was Melvin Van Peebles being his usual brilliant self, in a movie about getting the Man's foot outta his ass. Shaft was a mainstream action movie with a black cast. - The purpose being to open doorways for black actors (which it did, in a way), that goal being sabotaged by what became of blaxploitation later, ie Super Fly, which is a good movie, but a pretty bad message, and the scores of outright offensive imitators. Basically the genre that had started out to combat racism became racist itself. The story of Shaft itself is pretty interesting; the casting, the score, the author of the book and his input... but in the end I think it's just a good solid movie with a lot of historical significance. It was the high end of dignity for blaxploitation, if you even want to call it that.

Metalocalypse I've been debating this one, since I'm not sure how many fans are in this draft, but adult swim has been going around, so the time is right. Nowhere near as good as Venture Bros., but I love the hell out of this show. Probably more personal to me, with the in-jokes and what not. Also one of the legit best bands around.

Oh, it's all big-girl with you.

There's a direct chicken equivalent to sushi... barnyard sushi. It's not safe... but people eat it.

I was a proponent of proper capitalization and punctuation at all times -including chats and instant messages- long before it became the vogue, and now everyone is doing it. But still... it doesn't really bother me to read nontraditional typing. Some of my favorite authors use it.

I'll tell you what you can do with a piano that you can't do with a fish...

I get free copies, right?

You know what? Me too.

No, you were. Since you missed your last pick, you were allowed to take it at any time.

This false start makes it difficult to tell who... Well, we've had two full rounds of Milky to Coffin Surfer, so now begins two full rounds of Coffin Surfer to Milky. So I guess, next choice is to Coffin Surfer, and the last choice was made by... Coffin Surfer. Since Detox was taking a lost pick... GAH! This was why I didn't want to run this, but hopefully it'll pan out in the end. In any case, we have two rounds of Coffin Surfer to Milky ahead of us.

Ok, she's the GG Allin of pop.

And did you know that the PCA once ruled the exact opposite, in response to the the 1945 sex edusploitation film Mom and Dad? To the response that the subject matter was justified because it was educational, they ruled that movies were purely for entertainment, and had no business teaching us anything. Oh yeah, I just out-snobbed your snob friend right in his snobby face. Snob Snob

Good choice for the movie snob picture of me, as I'm wearing the shirt the kid wears in Gus Van Sant's Elephant.

You need to stop that. A person's incapacity to be bothered by hate on the internet is directly proportionate for a person's capacity to hate on the internet. Being hated on the internet is no better worse than being hated anywhere. The thing I hate about it that you're going to get hurt, and that would devastate me.

Well, I didn't necessarily mean you. This is just the things that anger you thread, and you reminded me of it. I didn't mind Transformers either.

That's a very good point, Kristianna. Besides Milky, being hated by someone on the internet isn't really a big deal. But if Milky hates you, that's a big deal.

Y'know, she could be referring to the racial segregation of wealth, ie, Chris Rock's rich vs wealthy. Still stupid, as all races are wealthy, just maybe not here in America.

That's true in a very general sense, but there are people who just don't get movies. Like all the people who say Citizen Kane sucks. Fuck you, you don't like movies. I'll admit that I am a snob (it's part of my unsettling recent realization that I am a nerd), but I keep my hyperbolic comments between my snob friends and I. Anti-snobs are worse. You're not proving a point about freedom of choice because you like shitty movies and don't know quality when it smacks you in your low, sloping forehead.

Why would you keep bringing that up, just to make me hate you?

Dumbass.

Penn and Teller: Bullshit! An entertaining show which is occasionally informative, although it's usually not telling me anything I don't already know. Still, it's phrased well. I, like P & T, am a profane skeptic and realist, and this is probably not too different than what I would do were I given my own show.