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[Nighthawk 0]

Apparently Good Morning, Captain was used in the movie Kids. Has anyone seen that? How's the song used?

I don't remember how it's used, but that movie is a didactic, cringe-inducing embarassment of cinema.

 

And song titles go in " ", not italics.

I think it's over the closing credits.

 

Incandenza doesn't get the movie at all, by the way. His statement is the equivalent of saying he hates the 3 Stooges because you couldn't repeatedly poke someone in the eyes without inducing serious coronary damage.

[godthedog 0]

it's almost impossible not to "get" that movie. i think you could accurately infer that inc's problem with it is the same as many other smart people's problem with it, which is that instead of having any real meaning, it just strings together a bunch of shock tactics with a preachy after-school "message" to give it some illusion of depth and make people think that they're watching it for their own good.

[Nighthawk 0]

I know, I'm just busting his balls.

[Nighthawk 0]

Rob Zombie writes terrible lyrics. He's worse than Marilyn Manson and Nelly put together. Except I like Marilyn Manson and Nelly. I sort of half like White Zombie but I don't like Rob Zombie at all.

[Nighthawk 0]

That really wasn't fair, he's not worse than Marilyn Manson and Nelly put together. "You ain't from Russia, so bitch why you rushin'" may be the worst line ever.

 

Monster Magnet is pretty good. They're like what Rob Zombie should be if he was good.

[godthedog 0]

rob at least has the 'campy imagery' thing going that matches the tunes pretty well. stuff like "crucifixion nails stain the bed of the holy" and "come on come on, the motherfucker's on fire/cut through the bone, cut through the wire" are kinda fun.

 

trent reznor writes way worse stuff, and it's meant to actually be taken seriously. no attempt to be poetic or creative with any language or ideas at all, no imagery...not even BAD imagery, NO imagery...he's the biggest skeleton in my Adolescent Closet of Shame. "god is dead and no one cares/if there is a hell i'll see you there"..."i want to fuck everyone in the world, i want to do something that matters"...there is only one word to describe that, and the word is No.

 

EDIT: i just remembered that there are some NIN songs with imagery ("reptile," "the downward spiral," etc). most of it bad imagery.

[godthedog 0]

the beastie boys turned into the laziest motherfuckers on the face of the earth with choruses and song titles. "fuck you," "right right now now," "ch-check it out," "triple trouble"...i think that was my biggest beef with the new album. sucky titles, crappy choruses.

[5_moves_of_doom 0]

The Arcade Fire live experience is overhyped in no way whatsoever. My only complaint is that they did not play for long enough.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Hey, I'm listening to Swans' Soundtracks for the Blind and I totally wanna have sex whilst it plays in the background.

 

Awesome.

[Anorak 0]

I said "cinema." Time for suicide.

I call the tv remote 'the channel changer'. I caught that one from my mum and dad.

 

On a musical note my dad often refers to the radio as the 'wireless'.

[godthedog 0]

i'm getting a kick out of playing all my ipod songs alphabetically. there's a weird kind of organic rhythm you get when you play coltrane's "acknowledgement", tori amos's "agent orange", wu-tang clan's (erroneously named) "ain't nothin to fuck with", and radiohead's "airbag" all in a row. i eagerly await the next track.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I went to go pick up Fozzy's new album, All That Remains, on Tuesday, it's release date. Not a single store I went to has it.

[godthedog 0]

dj spooky is one weird ass motherfucker. this 'rhythm science' thingy is pleasant to listen to, and the scope of it is impressive, but it makes absolutely no sense to me.

[razazteca 0]

What is the deal with the Dropkick Murphys?

[Cartman 0]

They suck.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

You lie in the snow, cold but not dead.

[King Kamala 0]

I'm glad the final tour date for U2's tour is in Boston (The date which I'm attending), cause the opener for their first leg of the tour is Kings of Leon. I don't think I sit through Kings of Leon for any band. KoL might be worse than Jet.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I was entirely unaware that Trail of Dead had a new album coming on Tuesday until I looked at this morning's Best Buy circular. I think I'll probably buy it, since Source Tags & Codes was pretty wonderful.

[Nighthawk 0]

The thing I don't like about Rob Zombie is that no matter what your opinion of his music, it could be better with very little effort.

[Jingus 0]

I don't care about Zombie's lyrics, cuz I can hardly ever understand a word he says.

 

Nobody could ever be a worse lyricist than Nelly.

 

Reznor's line that ends with "something that matters" kinda appealed to me when I heard it, cuz I'd had thoughts like that before.

 

godthedog pegged Kids exactly, it's nothing more than a standard after-school special with "gritty street realism" and an NC-17 rating thrown in for marketability. It's hardly the worst movie ever made, though; for that, see the same screenwriter's next "movie", Gummo.

[godthedog 0]

the movie isn't totally without merit. korine wrote some fantastic "cinema verite"-type scenes and dialogue that make their point without seeming to go anywhere or show the author's sleight of hand. the sheer mundane, wandering episodicness is good and incredibly hard to pull off, even if it is used to preachy purposes. if it wasn't trying so hard to be excessive in certain places, it could've been really thick and unsettling.

 

of course, korine later proved that he was only really INTERESTED in the excesses and not in really exploring issues or people's lives or anything like that. and deep down, i do like 'gummo' for being that warped and surreal. it didn't pretend to be something it wasn't, and that's what hurts 'kids'.

[Jingus 0]

Let's just say that I've talked to people who worked on Gummo, and Harmony Korine is lucky he got out of Nashville without getting his ass whipped.

[godthedog 0]

nashville is cool.

 

at least the area of downtown nashville that i spent time in.

[CanadianChick 0]

I went to go pick up Fozzy's new album, All That Remains, on Tuesday, it's release date. Not a single store I went to has it.

It took me about a year to spot Happenstance, so that doesn't really surprise me.

[razazteca 0]

it's almost impossible not to "get" that movie. i think you could accurately infer that inc's problem with it is the same as many other smart people's problem with it, which is that instead of having any real meaning, it just strings together a bunch of shock tactics with a preachy after-school "message" to give it some illusion of depth and make people think that they're watching it for their own good.

Larry Clark's tactic of using kids off the street who are willing to get naked and cannot act forces the viewer to think that the movie is a faux documentary that uses reality tv drama makes the movie an overrated art house film. Larry Clark is better off directing day time talk shows instead of making films.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

So I thought "Evil," one of the best tracks off of Interpol's new album, could be the track that made them really hit it big. Seems like I was halfway right: it's their second single, but I caught the video today, and it's one of the shittiest I've ever seen. I can only hope they were morbidly high when they came up with this one, because it's just a puppet, and not a very good puppet at that. See the atrocity here.

[Nighthawk 0]

Watched some of Simpsons season 5 and noticed Chalmers say "Take it outside, Godboy.", which is a song by Foetus. I had to check when the song came out, and it was predated by the episode, so it was Foetus referencing the Simpsons, which is pretty cool, but not a tenth as cool as if the Simpsons had referenced Foetus.

[nl5xsk1 0]

Monster Magnet is pretty good. They're like what Rob Zombie should be if he was good.

Monster Magnet is the single-most underrated band out there.

[Nighthawk 0]

I agree. Their cup of coffee with mainstream success allows me to pick up their albums dirt cheap, which is good. They have a lot more than I had initially thought.

[nl5xsk1 0]

What are your favorites, IDRM? Personally, Dopes to Infinity is one of my 'deserted island albums' (meaning if I could pick 5 albums to listen to for the rest of my life, but only those 5, it'd be one of them) and Spine of God isn't far off from making that list as well. Superjudge & Tab are both Ok, and anything newer than the original 4 is just touch-and-go for me.