Skywarp!

In the link I posted in this thread a while back, I find the scariest part to be the author's assertion that as we need to begin once again having an agricultural society to thrive, the suburbs will go down in history as the worst allocation of land resources the world has ever known. And China will fight us tooth and nail for oil when things start getting desperate.

That's insane.

I wish the Toadies had more than 2 studio LPs before calling it quits.

Johnny Glitch > Matt Morgan <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Glitch's last recorded loss was to the reigning Intercontinental Breakfast Champion.

Hmm. I always assumed "tip drill the bitch, yo" meant fucking her fast with just the tip of your penis in the vagina. Shows what I know.

This is disgusting. They didn't need to tazer her. Even though they warned her like 5 times, she kept saying "taze?" like she didn't know what they meant. They should have used mace. It's a better first step and would have gotten her out of the car. And you should be careful doing that to a woman. If she was pregnant, and the baby became brain damaged, or defected the cops could be sued, or if miscarried, then they would be up on murder charges. This was an abuse of power.

Not guilty. Wow.

Some of my friends started DCW (Drunken Championship Wrestling), where they would all drink Budweiser and Yueger and then proceed to hit each other on the heads with stop signs and frying pans. I wanted nothing to do with that. Instead, some other friends and I made up a "comic" league--a wrestling parody show with gimmicks that were funny in a joke league, but would have been awful if a real promotion would have done them. For instance: Johnny Glitch, a robot from the future who would "glitch" during the match and keep doing the same move over and over, which would cost him the match (i.e. keep attemping an elbow drop repeatedly, even though the opponent rolled out of the way). My friend probably still has the tapes, somewhere.

Here is another article on the "Long Emergency" (oil crisis). It sounds pretty damn worrisome. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7203633

I always wondered how long it would take for someone getting dropped off in Manhattan in the "I (airplane crashing into) NY" to get beat to death. I think you would need a stopwatch, especially if you were in front of a fire department.

The excellent tracks on "Make Believe:" This is Such a Pity Freak Me Out Haunt You Everyday The good tracks on "Make Believe:" Pardon Me The Other Way The "Eh" Tracks: Beverly Hills Perfect Situation Hold Me We Are All on Drugs The Damage in Your Heart The awful tracks: Peace Best Friend They should have built the album around the vibe of Freak Me Out and Haunt You Everyday. Then it would have been an 8.0 album, instead of a 5.0 one.

Especially when it looks like it has a real minigun that could shoot live rounds.

As far as naming technology goes, I think the scariest possible thing that could be done is to name any large government mainframes "Skynet".

That ranks among the most vile things I think I've ever seen. That picture of a girl in a bathtub projectile diahrrea-ing on herself is the only thing that is worse.

I got "Good News..." on the strength of "Float On" and ended up liking that album a lot. They seem to have a very gigantic catalogue. What should I check out next?

I'll give you that. My main problem with "From Chaos" is that except for the melodic gems, they didn't do enough to progress their sound. The funny thing is that a handful of those songs rank with some of the best work 311's ever done. It's just too few and far between, though. "Evolver" was a relief for me, since it was following "From Chaos". I felt like it was a step up, if not a full return to form. Even though a Beatles-influenced album is a refreshing change for them, 311 need to remember that funky rhythms are their bread and butter. There's a reason "Don't Dwell" is my favorite track. That said, there's supposedly a slathering of reggae influences on the new album.

Really? I think that's one of the most competent covers in recent memory.

Funk/rock veterans 311 are set to release their eighth studio album July 26. This is also my first post using the brand new board.

I think we have a new worst Pitchfork review. Apparently that's a record review. That tells me nothing of why it got a 6.8. So Cornell has creepy lyrics. BIG DEAL.

Another typical review was when they panned Jet's album. I wanted to know WHY it was bad. I didn't want the article written in the point of view of a stage manager, watching Jet get booed off the stage while people throw human excrement at them. That tells me nothing. Actually, the worst review by that Brett C. person is of the Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs". He basically ends the review talking about how he's too good to review records anymore and that his indie film is set to debut on the big screen. Someone should have went to that and given it a snarky write up with a 1.4 rating in his local paper.

I forgot just how well Super Mario World was scored. Best ending theme ever. Or at least one of them.

...And Beyond!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7935916/site/newsweek/

It's just a disgusting cover-up that sickens me. And you see why they did it--just how bad would army recruitment have been hurt had they just come out and admitted that in an act of stupidity they murdered their own poster boy?

I think I want to call this the best System album yet. They didn't do what I feared...shit out a rote nu-metal album. They embraced melody, and when they rocked, they kept their goofy sense of humor and delivery that made them bouyant, floating to the top of the sea of passionless monotonous genre of nu-metal in the first place. And let's also commend them for being savvy--if you write 2 albums worth of material, it's better to have the fans leave the table a little hungry and promise dessert then to stuff them sick with a bloated double-disc. Great job guys. Album of the year, so far. Of course, I say that with the realization that the only other 2005 release I've heard so far is Weezer's "Make Believe". With that said, even with a potentially great year of music ahead of us, I don't think I see this album being knocked of the top of the mountain by anyone except possibly themselves in Autumn.