PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

I think most of my problems with The Holy Mountain stem from the fact that the first half of the movie feels like a mediocre Buñuel rip-off that's trying way way too hard to be In Your Face. Once it settles down and gets into the meat of the "plot" it's actually pretty entertaining/interesting and I think I was kinda too hard on it when I called it a "mess of over-indulgent shit" on the last page.

Don't ticket holders get free tacos if the Lakers score 100+ or something? Maybe Sasha was just trying to make sure no Lakers fans go to bed hungry tonight.

The refs are apparently attempting to prove that "superstar calls" are a figment of the imagination by adamantly refusing to give Kobe Bryant free throws.

Kobe led the league in Ts this year.

I'm in.

It's really nice to see Democrats adopting Rush Limbaugh rhetoric.

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Being christened "Mr. Big Shot" was pretty much the worst thing to ever happen to Chauncey. Now it's like he thinks he has to be the guy making the plays down the stretch, even though the Pistons are at their absolute worst when one of them is trying to do too much and they're not sharing the ball.

Hey I'm Keith Olbermann I'm going to go on a nine-minute self-important rant that's mostly just warmed-over DailyKos shit and then show some clips of monkeys doing silly things that I found on the internet and maybe also include some audio clips of Stewie the talking baby from the hit TV show Family Guy somewhere along the way. I am truly the spiritual successor of Edward R. Murrow.

Fucking useless. Music for people who can't listen to music without texting some other cunt-for-a-face. I just watched the video for "Great DJ' on YouTube and, yeah, the music's pretty terrible but that girl is fucking hot as hell goddamn.

I think this movie might be over my head. Explain to me why it's a brilliant masterpiece and not just a mess of over indulgent shit. I normally like that sort of thing (eg Godard's Week End is totally in my Fave Five) but something about The Holy Mountain just didn't sit right with me. Some of the character backstories were kinda inspired, but other than that it seemed like a whole lot of "Whoa look how RADICAL & TRANSGRESSIVE this is!" and not much else. Am I missing something?? Also, that Harmony Korine movie sounds pretty sweet.

The best part of the show was when they started trying to work in references to September 11 to give their stupid melodramatic storylines more weight. There'd be a story about a kid who was depressed or whatever and at some point one of the teachers (usually Chi McBride) would be like "After that tragic day in September a lot of people have been feeling depressed" or something and it was always totally forced and out-of-place and hilarious.

Good win, but I still don't understand the relative lack of Maxiell and Amir. I mean, one of the biggest reasons that Atlanta was able to take Boston to seven games was that their freakishly athletic forwards created all kinds of matchup problems for the Celtics. Why Saunders chooses to let his similarly freakishly athletic forwards rot on the bench while Theo Ratliff lumbers around doing nothing is beyond me.

I pretty much hated Shoot Em Up too. That films was beyond pointless. I don't know how anyone can hate Shoot Em Up. That shit was hilarious.

This and the fact that Flip continues to give all of Amir Johnson's minutes to the decrepit Theo Ratliff (who's contributed absolutely nothing in this game) are both pretty inexplicable.

The Lakers seem to defend Ginobli better than just about any team in the league (I think he's averaged like 29% shooting against them this year). I don't doubt that he'll have better games than last night, but I wouldn't count on him going off for 25+ at any point in this series. It was a really terrible call, yeah, but it didn't really affect the game at all. The Lakers didn't score and the refs immediately made up for it when Ginobli fouled Gasol and knocked the ball out of bounds and they called it out on Pau. Fisher's not that vital, but one of the main reasons that they were able to beat Utah semi-handily was Odom playing out of his mind. When his head's actually in the game and he's not blowing easy layups or tripping over his own feet out of bounds he can be an absolute nightmare matchup, especially for a team like the Spurs whose front-line guys don't really have the quickness to stick with him.

Oh man, I just read that The Decemberists played at that big Obama rally in Portland. I don't know if I can vote for someone who shows such open support for boring, milquetoast indie rock.

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I have to call bullshit on this. A lot of Chicago's problems this year can be attributed to stuff like a lack of motivation and disarray in the locker room. Do you really think that adding a certified head case like Randolph to the mix would have improved things?

I like to see Kobe try to get other guys involved but 3 shots in a half is just way too few.

I think maybe the Tyrus pick might have been Paxson's attempt to prove that he's not what everyone says he is by picking a player that's basically the complete opposite of the prototypical "Paxson guy" (super-athletic, questionable bball iq, etc).

It'd be #6, probably. I like it well enough, but it doesn't quite move me in the way that those 5 do. EDIT: Welp; I just realized I'm a total retard and completely forgot about The Raincoats. That def. should be somewhere in the top 5, possibly as high as 2 or 3 (or maybe even #1??!? ranking albums in a meaningless hierarchy is tricky business)

John Paxson is an American white guy and his biggest dream is to build a team comprised entirely of John Paxsons.

Ha, yeah, it really is. ban them both/

Top 5 canonical post-punk albums 1. The Pop Group - Y 2. Wire - Chairs Missing 3. Public Image Ltd - Metal Box/Second Edition 4. This Heat - Deceit 5. The Slits - Cut EDIT: on second thought Chairs Missing is better than Metal Box