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Will the American version retain all the anal sodomy that made the books and Swedish version so entertaining?

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MAN did MIA fucking suck at Hard NYC this weekend.

Weird Al's a fucking lifer, though. He'll still be around about 10 years after the Kings of Leon fade into obscurity…so…he'll be around in 11 years.

Yes, but that being said, if they weren't on the ground floor, why would Harry need a second floor to jump out of? What's wrong with jumping out of the floor they were on?

I think Don was making reference to their own office having something going on in the second floor that sort of escaped me…Bert said that he didn't want to see what went on in the second floor, and Harry said that "if there were a second floor, I'd jump off it." All of that sort of confused me, because it doesn't look…

The thing that annoyed me most about the movie was that they mispronounced literally every single name.

I just hope they don't overuse the old characters. Maybe a Toph appearance or an Aang appearance here or there, for fans.

Another ringing endorsement. Also, from another point of view, the martial arts were stunning - each element got their own style (e.g. Air was Ba Gua Zhang, Water was T'ai C'hi), and they really stuck with it the whole time. The eastern philosophy was handled very well, and it was a perfect balance of drama and…

When I met the AV club at their book thing in Brooklyn, I asked the same thing. They were all like, "oh, what's your username?"
"ba"
"oh…."

Spencer Kornhaber?
I hope that's a pseudonym. This is one of the most anticipated albums of the year, and you get a freelancer to review it? This should have definitely been done by staff.

Also, the people doing the interview are rarely the people who review the album. That's sort of the point.

I don't really blame pitchfork for their reviews - they definitely follow a certain mindset and aesthetic, and they are most definitely revisionist (as someone said about Aeroplane, but also their constant disses towards NiN only to write fawning news articles about Reznor, and the fact that virtually the only albums…

It's Havok. Quit spelling the word right and start spelling the name right! And Sinister or Apocalypse sounds like the obvious choices. People at io9 were speculating the shadow king, but that seems unlikely.

That's exactly what they should do - a one hour special.

I was always pissed that I missed the bowie/NiN show…and then they didn't tour for 5 years after. Off the top of my head, I saw them in '99 (the show in MSG where marilyn manson showed up and they did a cover of beautiful people), three times in '05/06 (once at hammerstein ballroom, twice at arenas), once in 08, and…

Yeah, the sound is exactly as described. But the vocals are so subdued, you can almost think of it as an instrumental NIN album, and ain't nothing wrong with that. It definitely deserves exactly a B-.

They'll all go back to slingin' derves
I'm going to ride this out in my purple tube of consciousness.

Did they even suggest the marriage at the end of the last film? I'm guessing the whole beginning of the film will be radically altered.

Gen X ends somewhere between '79-'81, depending on who's writing a book on it. I was born in '82, and I watched transformers daily, AND saw the movie (not in the theatres, but when I was about 6 or 7)

Yeah, I watched the first season on DVD about 2-3 weeks ago, and then watched 19 episodes in a row with a friend last week. Excellent show. I kind of hope they don't continue it, because those two seasons were sterling, like a good BBC comedy series. 2 seasons and done.