PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

For some utterly inexplicable reason British people still totally lurve Oasis. It's baffling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_fallacy

I'm not sure what you're getting at? I never said that "songs about sci-fi shit = not prog"

She sounds stupid but she's (partially) right as authorial intent really is completely irrelevant when it comes to understanding/analyzing a text.

Erm, not really. Just because a band plays "complex" songs about sci-fi nerd shit doesn't necessarily mean they're prog. Illustrative example!: Prog: Fucking garbage:

Uhm, it's a metaphor for the oppressed white conservative finally rising up and burning down the house of PC Liberalism. Duh.

Pink Floyd's (kinda) cool and all but shit's basically the kiddie pool of progland. Expand yr horizons, dude!

*sucks a million dicks* *plays stupid masturbatory guitar solo* *is Dream Theater*

Hate 2 break it 2 u but Dream Theater is pretty much pure shit. Sorry bro! Also all you dudes who haven't heard Magma need to get fucking familiar. Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh is basically the hottest (get it? magma = hot. lol) shit ever made.

Magma rules King Crimson rules Close to the Edge is pretty sweet Rush sucks. Discuss.

haha

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence deserves at least an honorable mention.

End of an era

Well I'd expect nothing less from James Joyce's birthplace.

Right. I was more worried about the SERIOUS LIT CHAT getting buried under a bunch of stupid nerd shit. But I guess since we've got a dedicated comic books forum that probably wouldn't be that big of an issue.

The "best" western is probably McCabe & Mrs. Miller. But that one's not very fun, so

Well we all know that's not true. 1. High Plains Drifter 2. Dirty Harry 3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 4. A Fistful of Dollars 5. For A Few More Dollars I mean, come on. Let's review the action of that movie. He kills several men with a whip, rapes some floozy, and then makes a midget the mayor of the town. 1. Dirty Harry isn't even a western you noob 2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is head and shoulders above the rest. Let's not kid ourselves.

I think you might be underestimating the "conservative base." But whatever, the bigger point the post was trying to make is that trying to win this election by shoring up the base is really not the best idea. Which is, I think, a fairly accurate assessment. I could be wrong, though.

I don't really see anything wrong with that?? Maybe the conservative's-view-of-Obama caricature is a little over the top, but I think in terms of pure analysis it's pretty dead-on. EDIT: This is obv. in response to pbone's post and not SuperJerk's stupid white noise.

I'd vote for a real books forum but I'm not sure how successful/good it'd be.

That's not even the best Clint Eastwood western ever made you dummy!!

Actually a lot of MTV's non-music stuff these days is pretty great. All those obv. fake "reality dating" shows (Parental Control, Exposed, Next, etc) are totally hilarious. And that new show where they send girls from My Super Sweet 16 to like the jungles of Africa and shit is awesome.

It's pretty neat to see the nasty, curdled id of the conservative movement reveal itself on a national stage. It's like they just decided to abandon any pretense of appearing moderate and civil and have instead chosen to appeal solely to their ever-shrinking base. That was some grotesque shit and the fact that those people theoretically represent a fair chunk of this country is honestly making me a feel a little sick to my stomach. Obama may be full of shit, but if nothing else electing him would (hopefully) serve as a rebuke to the kind of small minded, vindictive, completely dishonest bullshit on display last night.

Start here or here. Then go read some newspaper stories or something. Seriously, it's not hard. There's really no reason to still be undecided at this point unless you're just too lazy to go and do even the most cursory research on the candidates.