While I have always felt that Malcolm X was an important film, I have never thought that it was a great film...if that makes sense. There are scenes in it that are great and performances as well...but as a self contained film, I think it drifts and loses it way. Anyway, off topic.
chubbsswigert
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“For years I’ve felt he needed to write less and direct more.” It is no surprise to me that two of his best and most complete films are 25th Hour and Inside Man, neither of which he wrote.
I wasn’t really hip to the Foals before this article and your post. Now, I can’t get What Went Down out of my head. Moreover, no other piece of music that I have been exposed to emotionally destabilizes me as this song does. And it is not a garden variety “hyped up” or “pumped up” or saddened or angered. Just an…
Color me not surprised that Scut didn’t take too kindly to a reference to his hated rival’s favored weapon.
This has not been updated recently other than the addition of the peeps....In fairness, this was taken from another commenter somewhere who had cataloged.
“The retired defender had gone through a similar situation himself earlier..”
Spoken like the general in the DJ army!
Your post while accurate paints an incomplete and skewed picture.
“..but you said the Gold Cup result was the worst result in 15 years (it’s not); by modern times I meant the ‘00s (aka your 15 years).”
Your “Golden Generation” formulation is so restrictive as to be meaningless. By that measure, Neeskens, Cruyff and co under Michels don’t qualify. Nor would Figo, Rui Costa, Pinto, Nuno Gomes for Portugal or Drogba, the Toure brothers, Zokora for the Ivory Coast. Soccer at the highest levels is precarious and one off…
It was indeed the Czech Republic’s golden generation, though their last hurrah. They were ranked 2nd in the world in the run up to the tournament. Nedved, Galasek, Rosicky, Koller, Baros, Poborsky, Ujfalusi, Grygera were on that team. However, Jan Koller’s injury coupled followed by Baros injury and a sending off saw…
Guys, all this player development and systemic change stuff is nonsensical with respect to the coaching position. Those are issues for a technical director to deal with. And guess what, the DA system was put in place in 2007 and is starting to bear fruit. The reality is that the issues JK has criticized US soccer for…
What makes the Gold Cup worse is that while we might hope to be a Czech Republic team featuring its golden generation and the tactically brilliant Bruckner, we are supposed to beat Jamaica on home soil.
“This, though, sounds like LD saying “he was hard on me so you should be hard on him”. Mmmmm.... sour grapes.”
Jurgen seems to get unquestioned praise for taking a German team to a 3rd place finish at home. While the team played poorly at the 2004 Euros and the public was understandably concerned, it is a bit strange to me when JK’s US defenders lean heavily on this as evidence of his quality as a coach. They were the runners…
Pack fan. Love them both. Holmgren was able to keep Favre a little reigned in for a few years during those two SB years and just prior. However, Favre and Rodgers have opposite instincts. Favre seemed to hate throwing the ball away and had an inability to fight the urge to make something happen even when nothing was…
My argument was more expansive than simply drugs and I was not responding to or building upon anything that Nutty was saying. Rather, I was responding to your post which seemed to be searching for additional factors. Which is strange, in that once presented with additional factors, you then proceed to view them purely…
· The influx of drugs into inner cities, starting with heroin in the late 60s and early 70s and cocaine in the 80s (an influx which, if you believe certain portions of the .DOJ and CIA inspector General’s reports in the wake of Iran Contra and the Dark Alliance SJMN series, may have been unwittingly facillitated in…
you know what, F. Gary Gray.