PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

This will be perfect for my ironic hipster Christmas party.

I couldn't even sit through that shit. L'Avventura is pretty great, though.

The only VU album that I ever seem to find myself going back to anymore is the third one. VU & Nico never impressed me much beyond a few songs, White Light/White Heat is something I appreciate more than I enjoy, and Loaded's plenty nice and all but I just never really feel an urge to listen to it.

Sometimes I'll be about to post something in the music folder but then just as I'm about to click the Add Reply button I'll pause and think, "But what if Incandenza doesn't approve of my tastes? What if he speaks condescendingly to me???!!??!" And then I'll just delete what I was going to post and close Firefox and stare wistfully out the window.

Jay-Z 1. Reasonable Doubt 2. The Blueprint 3. The Black Album 4. Vol. 3 5. The Dynasty (if you replaced all the Memphis Bleek and Amil appearances on this w/ Jay verses it'd probably be a bit higher) 6. Vol. 2 7. Unplugged 8. Kingdom Come 9. Vol. 1

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3 lottery picks in this draft. Minnesota could really parlay that into something good. Well, if they draft well, and knowing what a fool they have in charge, who knows. Spencer Hawes, Joakim Noah, and Javaris Crittenton.

Boston kinda really gets the shaft in that deal. Jefferson and #5 for Jermaine O'Neal? I know they're probably desperate to land a big name player since Pierce is supposedly ready to demand a trade if they don't, but this would be a pretty stupid thing to do.

Why did you spend time typing all that?

I highly suggest you take your own advice. That statement is very hypocritical. I only said what I did about you in response to your statements in the post before mine. Prior to that, although I did know who you were, I did not have any sort of dislike toward you. In fact, I still don't. I believe that you are intelligent, and you have demonstrated the fact that you can type well when you want to do so. hahahahaha. Matt Young is clinically oblivious.

Heh, yeah, I guess you could say I'm kind of a "player." I'm pursuing multiple women at all times. They pretty much just throw themselves at me (probably because I work out so much and am, as the say, rather "ripped"). I never get emotionally involved, though. You know that song "Big Pimpin'"? Yeah, that's basically my life story. I'm pretty cool

Dumars said on some radio show that Phoenix wanted two starters and both first round picks for Marion. So that's probably not going to happen.

Finished this. My initial reaction ("nothing earth-shattering, but nice enough") turned out to be a little off the mark as the book wound up being way better than "nice enough" (though still not quite earth-shattering). After the first hundred or so pages a lot of the forced quirkiness that I found grating started to drop away and was replaced by some really great writing and a genuinely intriguing plot.

Top 5 songs of 2007 so far 1. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" 2. Fat Joe ft. R. Kelly, Lil Wayne, Birdman, TI, Ace Mack & Rick Ross - "Make it Rain (remix)" 3. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - "Umbrella" 4. R. Kelly - "The Champ" 5. UGK ft. Outkast - "International Player's Anthem" albums 1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 2. The Good, The Bad, and The Queen 3. Battles - Mirrored 4. Deerhunter - Cryptograms 5. R. Kelly - Double Up

Yeah, I found that sort of dissapointinting too. I didn't absloutely love the CoC, but I did think they provided a nice counterpoint to everything else that was going on. Though I didn't find their dissapearence from the novel as dissapointing as Lake Traverse's. Another problem I had with the book is that it seemed like some of the charactierization got lazier near the end. I'm thinking of Yashmeen in particular; she goes from being probably the most interesting character in the book (especially during the Göttingen section) to being basically just another run-of-the-mill Pynchon heroine who's into kinky sex. As for good books from the past year or so, I'm currently reading Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which had all the critics going nuts last year. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it's nice enough (though the narrative voice--that of an over-educated college freshman--can get a little grating from time to time).

I just thought that the Frank stuff could have been handled without sending him to Mexico. It almost felt like Pynchon felt obligated to somehow work the Mexican Revolution into the book and so just sort of forced Frank into it. I understand that Frank needed to be a presence in the second half of the novel, I just think it could have been handled differently. Looking back on it, though, I realize that the Mexico stuff didn't really eat up that much space, and so it's not that big of a deal. As for Cyprian, I found his relationship with Yashmeen to be the most compelling part of the whole Cyprian/Yashmeen/Reef storyline. I was actually sad to see him go, because Yashmeen/Reef alone was really sort of dull and uninteresting.

I was "listening" and I fully grasped everything you touched on in the spoiler. The problem was I simply didn't care. This was mainly due to the fact that the characters in the film barely resembled actual human beings, and as such it was hard to get deeply invested in a story about their eternal and undying love. The film is so concerned with making these grand statements about love and death that it totally misses the "human" element that makes those things matter.

I liked Cyprian. I thought if anything could have been cut it was Frank Taverse's protracted adventure in Mexico. It added nothing to the novel. At least Cyprian provided for some fun sex scenes.

I straight hated this movie. Dippy new age bullshit trying in vain to say something Deep and Insightful. Yuck.

I was pretty big into The Who when I was a freshman in high school. I'm glad I got over that.

After roughly seven months of fitful reading, I finally finished Against the Day. It was a bit baggy and a little trimming down (to, say, 800 or 900 pages) probably wouldn't have hurt it too badly. That said, it was still (way) better than anything else I've read in some time.

What's wrong with writing songs for girls?

I never really got what people see in this album. I love Supreme Clientele and Ironman and I think Ghost was the second best part of Cuban Linx (behind RZA's career-best production work), but Fishscale always felt kind of sloppy and unfinished to me. It's certainly got some great stuff on it, but it just doesn't seem to hold together the way the best Wu-Tang stuff does. Maybe it's the complete lack of RZA (or even Mathematics) beats?

Rap albums 1. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords 2. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt 3. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 4. Outkast - ATLiens 5. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Neil Young 1. "Motion Pictures" 2. "Albuquerque" 3. "Birds" 4. "Ambulance Blues" 5. "Rockin' in the Free World"