PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

It looks like pbone's taking Intro to Gender Studies this semester. How adorable/ edit: The best thing about homosexuals is their dance music.

You have to buy your own high school books?

Don't forget that The Departed won two years ago. I think they're trying real hard to atone for giving in to Crash in '05.

I hope the Pistons decide to do this.

I tried to color between the lines.

No one's said Pierrot le fou yet, but they should have. It's a little more toward the avant-garde end of the spectrum than, like, Breathless or The 400 Blows, but it's still really fun and accessible (esp. compared to what came after). Really, just about everything Godard made between Breathless and Week End is worth your time. He made some interesting stuff after that point (Tout va bien, his collabo with Jane Fonda, is particularly notable), but most of it is extraordinarily difficult and none of it is especially New Wave-y.

I know, I fucking hate high energy games and slam dunks. Give me Tim Duncan backing down in the post for 8 seconds and then either banking it off the glass or passing out to a shitty roleplayer for a corner three. Yeah, that's the good stuff.

I wish Criterion or someone would release Celine and Julie Go Boating on DVD in the US. I really want to see it but don't feel like shelling out $60 to import a Region 2 DVD. Someone needs to release Histoire(s) du cinéma over here too.

I watched Breathless for the first time in a couple years this past weekend. That movie owns. <3 Jean Seberg <3

You seem to be ignoring the fact that they went to the Western Conference Finals twice in four years, and were it not for some hilariously awful luck (Joe Johnson's broken eye-socket, Amar'e missing a whole year, Nash's nose exploding, the Stoudemire/Diaw suspensions) they would have had a legit shot at making the Finals and winning a championship (they probably could have beaten Detroit in '05 and definitely could have beaten Cleveland in '07). To completely write off a team that averaged 58 wins a season over four years as some kind of colossal failure is kinda silly. When taken to the extreme D'Antonin's system probably isn't a model for sustainable success, but its influence is pretty undeniable. Scoring is up everywhere (11 teams, including five of the six division leaders, are averaging over 100 ppg right now. In comparison, only five teams averaged 100+ in 05-06) and teams like the Lakers, Cavs and Magic are proving that potent offense and solid defense aren't mutually exclusive. The league as a whole seems to be reaching some kind of dialectical synthesis and it's a beautiful thing. I will agree that Nash probably didn't deserve two MVPs, mainly because Kobe deserved in in '06.

Fire Reggie Miller.

I'll be honest, I was expecting her to have a dick.

Nobody's posted about music blogs yet, so here are a few cool ones: http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/ - Provides .rars of super-rare, mostly foreign, mostly avant-garde records. An absolutely invaluable resource. Updated once a week or so. http://ghettobassquake.blogspot.com/ - Pretty good site if you want to keep up with what's popping in club scenes in Africa and Latin America. I doubt it'll find much of an audience here, but maybe... http://www.thefader.com/ - Probably the best clearinghouse for "hipster music" on the net. Toms of free mp3s and DJ mixes and mixtapes posted every day. http://brandonsoderberg.blogspot.com/ - One of the few blogs I've seen that engages in, like, real long form rap criticism. I don't actually agree with half of what this dude writes, but it's still usually pretty interesting. Right now he's doing a month-long "appreciation" of J. Dilla's Donuts which is starting to get a little tedious, and so I'd advise against judging the blog solely by the last 10+ posts. There's some good stuff in the archives. http://www.riffmarket.com/ - Former pitchfork writer and noted Village Voice fabulist Nick Sylvester's rarely-updated blog. He only posts like once every three months, but when he does it's usually some of the most thought-provoking music writing on the web. He's one of the few dudes out there who's really 'thinking critically' about our current musical moment. The two latest posts (one of which is about Animal Collective and Hipster Runoff, the other of which is about Girl Talk) are both pretty phenomenal and well worth your time.

If any of y'all are looking for some new shit to listen to I would recommend checking out this sweet as hell "Global House" DJ mix I just found. It's hot.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/02/staggering_fail.php

I've often considered dowloading the demo and dicking around with it, but my computer's a piece of shit and I'm really lazy. Maybe someday......

What are you making in Fruity Loops?

Except it is. Her novels are utterly without literary merit. Were it not for their supposed "philosophic" underpinnings they'd have been consigned to the trash heap of literary history ages ago. Her writing is mind-numbingly simplistic and to describe her characters and plots as "paper thin" would be to give them too much credit. If you agree with her philosophy, that's fine, but to try and pass her novels off as anything more than the most rudimentary hackwork is ridiculous. There's a reason she's not studied in English Departments, and it has nothing to do with ideological bias.

Ayn Rand was a hack "philosopher" and an absolutely dreadful writer.

Fred Durst was once photographed wearing a Sonic Youth t-shirt, so there's a really good chance that he actually has better taste in music than JAxlMorrison.

I think Czech makes some very good points, he just goes about making them in the wrong way. I'd genuinely like to hear more of what he likes to say instead of him just waltzing in once every other month to try and kill whatever the buzz is in this folder. Yea, it'd be better if he tried to actually discuss the topic at hand instead of wandering into TDK thread going lol Batman and Heath Ledger and just coming off like an ass. Maye you guys could actually address the points he made instead of just calling him a smarmy elitist asshole? Otherwise you're doing essentially the same thing you accuse him of doing.

I'm kinda bummed that M.I.A didn't make an appearance during that best song thing. Her Oscar couture prob. would have been off the chain.

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