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Is there at least a catchy synth riff called Mr. C?

The first Kickboxer is a work of genius. They took a Moroccan guy named Michael Qissi and reassigned him the identity of a legendary fighter Tong Po, then had "Tong Po" play himself, rape-bragging, shard-licking and all.

So which of the best four-year college basketball lettermen of the last 15 years has an advantage over Lebron?

Music is neither accounting nor carpentry and Whiplash is still a terrible movie.

Unless you can come up with a drummer in the pantheon who went to a jazz academy, yes it does.

Yeah, me too. But the white kid going to school to be more like the white drummer is still poaching at its worst.

Did you like the Frank Langella/Adrian Lynne one?

First name doesn't start with "M" nor last with "R."

That's true. But my response was to a comment referring to the movie as good. And it ain't.

So I missed the point because I wasn't thinking like I was supposed to, and if I was, I would have recognized that Whiplash is a very good movie about a guy going about being great in the wrong way?
Nah, I'm gonna stick with IT SUCKS.

In deviating from the source material, perhaps. But not as enjoyable cinema.

Really. So where'd Buddy Rich go to music school, genius?

Do you even Peter Sellars, bro?

So the Germans' secret weapon in global soccer domination is importing coaches from the Bronx?

Whiplash is terrible! Nobody determined to be the greatest jazz drummer ever cuts his teeth in a fucking academy and he certainly doesn't worship Buddy fucking Rich. Oh, but let's put him in a car wreck and give him a Shine-like nervous breakdown, because… passion!

That Matrix line is actually a pretty direct crib from the Bible, where the freed slaves, griping about the scant menu choices in the dessert, say that at least in Egypt the fleshpots were full, so maybe slavery wasn't so terrible.
Couple that with the Master/Slaves title and the fact that Esmail is Egyptian and I

Vin Diesel triggers cyber bullying. Because Vin Diesel is fucking method. Vin Diesel doesn't act in the Slow and the Sanguine. You gotta problem with that Dwayne? Because I personally saw Vin Diesel throw Evander Holyfield out of a bar (true story).

Close. It's Neptune.

Saw her perform in early June. At the end of the show, the bandleader said, "Ladies and Gentlement, you just got your asses kicked by a 60 year-old cancer patient!" He was right.

Or… Elliot's in prison but fantasizing he's not and fellow inmate Craig Robinson threatens to puncture that fantasy…