godthedog

"keep me hangin on" is my favorite supremes song. easily cracks my top 5 favorite motown songs ever, up there with "tears of a clown" and shit. i've never heard a satisfactory version of "across the universe." any of the 346 beatles versions out there, or the valium-ridden fiona apple version.

hey, look. just like at dvdvr, he registered with the forum just so he could post this list. i love it when that happens.

is unforgiven 02 the one where edge had a concussion and eddy won with a powerbomb & pulled the tights just to be a dick? that was the best performance i've ever seen out of him. he was like sting with the fighting spirit through the pain and the teased comebacks, he looked like he'd really done his oldschool babyface homework and he did everything right. i remember one spot near the end that was just edge winning a simple slugfest, but he really put his heart into it and made it look convincing.

...said the TSM poster.

i can't believe i missed the meltdowns for so long. that was some entertaining shit i just read in the sports folder. what was the worst one?

the best rap lyrics nowadays are far better than the best rock lyrics, if you're looking for inventiveness and use of language. and especially imagery.

i'm curious about this pit. somebody link me up.

hey fishyswa.

i just finished up school and will be on at least an 8-month hiatus, so i should be able to start writing again.

musical rhetoric in general seriously needs to cut it out with this "truth" bullshit. music has never been able to tell the truth. ever. it has no content. this is also the most dumbfuck logic ever.

God, I just saw The Beast of Yucca Flats this Halloween. That is the single funniest bad movie I've ever seen. Everything the narrator said is a gem. You know they though they were making a real message movie in this one. on a similar note, 'glen or glenda'. "glen is not a homosexual."

ornette coleman, for reasons listed in the jazz thread. charles mingus too, i always thought he was kinda bland. franz ferdinand. finally got the debut album, and aside from some standout tracks it really isn't as catchy as i was told it would be.

cause i keep telling you about him whenever you ask the board to recommend you noisy shit. i've always found the ornette coleman 'free jazz' stuff a lot harder to listen to, simply because it never goes in any direction (or it goes in too many directions at once, depending on how you listen to it). brotzmann could be loud as shit, but there's perceptible changes in the music over time. with coleman everybody's doing their own thing at once, and it just goes on and on; you might be able to catch small glimpses of band members playing off each other, but it never goes anywhere, and the musicians drop ideas & melodies as soon as they're picked up and move on to something else. which results in the first 2 minutes sounding exactly like the last 2 minutes, and every 2 minute chunk inbetween. it's like being at a party with 20 people who are all talking over each other at the same volume, trying to figure out what everyone is saying, only to find out that everyone at the party is talking to himself. i've tried to follow it, but after about five minutes my ear tends to zone it out as white noise and i just fall asleep. i feel like i might be missing something from this experience. if there's something about it that works & that i'm just not getting, i'm open to change.

first one that comes to mind is sam eliot in 'the big lebowski'.

franz ferdinand - s/t flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots

there's very little music i really love now that wasn't an acquired taste. usually it takes weeks, or months. it's kind of sad that i have very little time now to just sit down and listen to an album all the way through. it used to be that i'd buy maybe one cd a month and stick with it until i knew it well enough to really like it or not. now i usually buy 2-3 at a time, try them for one listen or a half-listen, then skip to the tracks i already like. i think it's my ipod's fault. those things make it way too easy to listen to music and do any number of things at the same time, and i tend to not pay as much attention. i bought 'loveless' like a year ago, and i still can't tell all the tracks apart. some albums i currently own that i haven't given full attention to: achtung baby ATLiens blur brown sugar the college dropout last splash licensed to ill like water for chocolate liquid swords milestones (miles davis) my funny valentine (miles davis) rain dogs ready to die reasonable doubt the times they are a-changin' tidal (fiona apple) yeah. sad.

that's the worst part of this report. the "i don't know what to do now," just...chilling.

every time i watch this movie i love the photography more, and i really appreciate the long stretches of exploration without any dialogue, but miss johannsen's limitations as an actress get more and more obvious. she uses the cuteness really well, but she isn't anything special. isn't very expressive, and just doesn't do very much, and doesn't react a whole lot to what murray gives her. favorite thing about the movie now is probably the music. "sometimes" was an inspired pick.

i'm convinced that there are two types of people who argue badly. there are people who just use incorrect reasoning (using logical fallacies, resorting to name calling, so forth), and there are people who seem to use correct reasoning but have no grasp of a situation. they find one or two inane points to launch off of, and drive them into the ground at the expense of everything else without any real sense of perspective, listening, etc. basically, people who can't follow the FORM of an argument, and people who just argue about the wrong THINGS. you, like mikeSC before you, argue about the wrong things. you seem to lack the basic ability to grasp what's important and what isn't. you look for tiny things to disagree with and disagree with them into oblivion, always repeating yourself when someone else tries to make another point about it. case in point: people make fun of matt young for posting 36487364939 pictures of his girlfriend. you respond, "IT SAYS POST PICTURES OF YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER, I MISSED THE PART WHERE IT SAID 'ONLY POST ONE PICTURE THEN NEVER MENTION THEM AGAIN." people respond in turn that what matters is that he kept posting pictures long after making his point, becoming ridiculous and self-important. you respond, "IT SAYS POST PICTURES OF YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER, I MISSED THE PART WHERE IT SAID 'ONLY POST ONE PICTURE THEN NEVER MENTION THEM AGAIN." they, in turn, repeat themselves, because you haven't really responded to what they said. you repeat yourself, because that's what you do. you know why you missed that part about only posting one picture? BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO GRASP OF WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT A SITUATION AND WHAT ISN'T. you have the cognitive skills of a ferret that's just been hit on the head with a sack of quarters. your disagreements are too literal, unimportant, and inane. this is why arguing with mikeSC was always so frustrating. he lacked the understanding of any other argument beyond its literal content, so he would just repeat the same objections with different words. he lacked perspective, the ability to separate what matters from what doesn't. this is why you will never be able to grasp why what matt young did was stupid. i'll give you an analogy: once there was an insane man who escaped from an institution. this insane man knew that he had no grasp of reality, but he didn't want anyone on the street to find out that he was insane, so he devised a plan. he knew it was irrefutably true that 2+2=4, that nobody could ever think he was wrong if he said it. so he put a coin in his pocket, and every time he felt the coin hit his leg when he walked, he would yell out "2+2=4!" because it was irrefutably true, because nobody could ever think he was wrong if he said it, and so people would think he wasn't insane. this man was promptly caught and put back in the institution, because whenever someone tried to talk to him, he would just yell back "2+2=4" over and over again, so everyone who ran into him thought he was insane. this is something like what you're doing. i have no doubt that you'll reply with something like "i don't see how that refutes what i'm saying at all." but that's the point. because you are stupid.

turns out it would be too time-consuming. i gave up, i have too much other shit to worry about. ^this is my favorite of the comments i've found though.

i like this fishyswa guy and his complete lack of ability to argue about anything. i think i'll go find the other arguments and points he's made in the other forums and compile them into one thread. not now, but sometime in the next few days.

there was a 'friday' marathon on AMC saturday night.

caught it last night. it's the exact same movie. compulsively enjoyable in its very badness. i can't talk about how bad it is without bringing up how much i enjoyed it, and i can't talk about how much i enjoyed it without bringing up how bad it is. people die in all sorts of implausibly creative and elaborate ways, there's lots of melodramatic weeping and gnashing of teeth, plot twists abound for their own sake, ridiculousness is made into an art form. oh, and in the words of my girlfriend, "it looks like it was edited by a ferret on crystal meth."

r.e.m. songs: 1. leave 2. let me in 3. electrolite 4. you are the everything 5. pilgrimage

eh. so-so movie. entertaining while it was going, but the conflict and the characters really didn't get thick enough to make it stick. it all felt pretty slight and inconsequential, too streamlined.