PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

M.I.A is awesome even though a plausible argument could be made that her music is basically the aural equivalent of a $50 Che Guevara T-Shirt.

this song makes me appreciate life and it reminds me of my big brother who dies bfore i was born by my father

I was going to post something along the lines of "Paris Hilton would be a better President than John McCain" but then I realized that they'd both just turn out to be equally mindless pawns for corporate interests. Though I guess having someone like Paris Hilton in office could potentially expedite the sort of violent revolution necessary to finally shake this country out of its Late Capitalist doldrums. So maybe she really would be a little better???

I can't believe I had Hoop Dreams stolen from me by ^^this^^ asshole. What the fuck.

Temple of Doom is the second best Indiana Jones movie. It's nowhere near as good as RotA (duh), but it's way better than the other two.

This is a really sweet sentence. Very elegant.

I guess I'll just make my last pick now too Week End If/when I start missing civilization I'll just watch this. Then I'll immolate myself on a pile of palm fronds.

I don't see what's so baffling about it. The right wing in this country has just managed to use race/religion/guns/"political correctness"/whatever to essentially trick a whole bunch of people into voting against their own economic interests. It's pretty simple, really.

If Obama picks Evan Bayh to be his running mate I'm going to shrug my shoulders and let out a deep sigh and resign myself to the fact that this country is never going to shift back toward the left in any meaningful way. Are we really doomed to just oscillate between center-right and far right every eight years or so? What have we done to deserve this?

Oh come on. It wasn't that bad.

That was harsh, Nighthawk.

I drink because I love loudly talking about how much I drank over the weekend w/ all my bros in class on Mondays. When those cute girls who sit in front of me overhear how totally fucking wasted I got at Sig Eps on Saturday I just know they'll be super impressed. High five!

I HAD NEVER SEEN A SHOOTING STAR BEFORE. 25 years of rotations, passes through comets' paths, and travel, and to my memory I had never witnessed burning debris scratch across the night sky. Radiohead were hunched over their instruments. Thom Yorke slowly beat on a grand piano, singing, eyes closed, into his microphone like he was trying to kiss around a big nose. Colin Greenwood tapped patiently on a double bass, waiting for his cue. White pearls of arena light swam over their faces. A lazy disco light spilled artificial constellations inside the aluminum cove of the makeshift stage. The metal skeleton of the stage ate one end of Florence's Piazza Santa Croce, on the steps of the Santa Croce Cathedral. Michelangelo's bones and cobblestone laid beneath. I stared entranced, soaking in Radiohead's new material, chiseling each sound into the best functioning parts of my brain which would be the only sound system for the material for months. The butterscotch lamps along the walls of the tight city square bled upward into the cobalt sky, which seemed as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap. The staccato piano chords ascended repeatedly. "Black eyed angels swam at me," Yorke sang like his dying words. "There was nothing to fear, nothing to hide." The trained critical part of me marked the similarity to Coltrane's "Ole." The human part of me wept in awe.

Also George Bush's crimes against rhetoric are far far graver than just saying "uh" between sentences.

It's because the cigarette is a phallic symbol. Subconsciously you're sucking each others' dicks.

Itself

Hahaha there's so many strawmen and reductio ad absurdums in this post that it's making my head spin. People in favor of urbanization want to abolish cars and vacations! X 10,000.

I'm not sure what you're responding to??

Guess what, just because thats the way things are layed out now doesn't mean thats the way things have to or CAN BE layed out in the future. Things have to change. I usually think that Eric's kind of a holier than thou faggot, but he's pretty much dead on here. People act like America's "car culture"/suburban sprawl/whatever just appeared fully formed one day ex nihilo and is now here to stay forever. Except, it didn't. It was a mass social movement spurred on by a whole slew of social/cultural/political factors. I don't see why it's so inconceivable that a reverse movement out of the suburbs and back into the cities couldn't be brought on by high gas prices and shit. Is there any real reason to live in some backwater small town 40+ minutes away from your job/proper civilization? Not really.

She's going to kill herself. How's it going to make you feel knowing that this poor girl died alone and in desperate psychic pain and you just sat back and watched and laughed and did nothing to help her? You disgust me, sir. I hope you are tortured by guilt for the rest of your days.

The problem is that any "reasonable" defense the Democrats manage to come up with just elicits the exact same bullshit, prefab response from the Republicans. There's no honest give-and-take at all. It's the Marabar Caves. After a while that shit starts to wear you down.

Mr. Arkadin My list is currently sorely lacking in Orson Welles. Time to rectify that. This is basically Citizen Kane through the looking glass. Where that was an extravagant, stately look at American ambition this is a grotesque, seedy tale of European corruption and paranoia filmed on a shoe-string budget and hacked to pieces by the studio upon it's original release. It's totally dizzying and baffling and constantly feels like it's on the verge of just completely breaking apart into an incomprehensible mess. What saves it is the absolute, unshakable sense of purpose that Welles brought to every film he made. It's like his artistic vision was just too strong to ever be fully constrained by bullshit externalities (budget constraints, studio meddling) that would bring most filmmakers to their knees.

Feedbacker, mothefuckers. I mean, check that cover

If you go here you can get the new Walkmen album for the low low price of a $5.00 donation to cancer research. You should do this because a) it's a good cause and b) the album is pretty great.

Hahaha what kind of stupid retard name is Manda?