One of my favourite things about this movie (which I love) is that little scene-within-a-scene where the two of them have that unspoken team-up. They're scared and out of their depths, but they're going to fight, damn it and then the dude gets eaten. It's thrilling and hilarious in equal measure.
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I could see Blink-182 writing a song called "I wanna fuck myself".
For the Canadian one, you'd keep the beards and swap the clothing for long johns and flannel. No other changes needed.
If you couldn't, song titles would be pretty damn abstract by now. You'd be listening to Beyonce's emotional new hit "Every Huguenot's Devotion to Zyklon 43" off of her bestselling album )))~fifty-twelve^HATE.
Here's a silly little story: a heavily drunken goof on that song was the last thing the first band I was in ever played together, though we didn't know it at the time. We were just goofing around in the rehearsal space and we started playing it for some reason. I sang it (because, honestly, practically anybody can…
Bing it on your Zune?
Yeah. The classic pantomime video is fine for the promotional tool that it is. It lets people know what the artist looks like, gives the artist a chance to dance if that's something they do, etc. If you're trying to make something specifically worth watching instead of just hearing, though, you've basically got to…
It's interesting how people approach music differently. Even when I'm looking up music on Youtube, I tend not to watch the videos. My preference is for an aural experience. This changes, however, with almost any live music, where I have a strong preference for seeing the performance. So your viewer-as-listener…
I think it's partially that popularity breeds popularity. She worked her way up into becoming a household name, so she's probably going to stay that way because she's now one of the handful of people that everybody knows. It's probably impossible for anybody to become as popular now as Michael Jackson once was, for…
Bowie in specific was definitely sort of a newer version of the old-school bandleader. He could play a number of instruments, but he preferred to have specialists do it while he focused on writing and singing. Collaboration is pretty much the essence of pop music.
That's one of the good things about this one. It's closer to the long-form music criticism that I actually like (short-form reviews aren't usually that great). It's a strong piece precisely because it seems to be trying to get into what's going on with the music instead of just being like "who do YOU think Becky is?…
I've often thought that part of why discussions about racism on the internet get entrenched so quickly is that people mean different things from each other when they use the word. I've seen racism defined a number of different ways and none of them has ended up as the definitive meaning that everyone has agreed to…
"<body></body>" probably became some band's name within six hours of you posting that.
I do have to support your last point there. It pretty much never once occurred to me to think of Before Watchmen as canon (or worth tracking down to read, for that matter). It's extremely ignorable, and that's a good thing. If I start talking about Watchmen with someone, I honestly don't have much fear that they'll…
Exactly. Work is almost categorically the worst place in everyday life to ask someone out if you look at it this way. People are theoretically there to get shit done. They have a right to do that without being impacted by unwanted personal attentions.
Maybe. I'm not a lawyer, but a bunch of other people on here are and it'd be informative if they decided to say anything on the matter. I'm just saying that I think that part of proving that you've been defamed is establishing that someone was talking about you in the first place. If any of them outed themselves as…
Yeah, that's kind of the upshot from all of this. It seemed to me that as soon as he was accused, a huge portion of the Canadian media practically yelled "FINALLY". I think he stepped on a lot of people's backs on his way up the ladder and I really doubt that he'll ever have the same kind of clout as he did, as…
Those were my guesses, too, but I'm biased towards wanting Flea to be innocent of this shit.
The downvotes don't show unless you look at them with Firefox trickery, but they're there. I think you can use a killfile to block, but I never have.
I really wonder what Flea and Chad Smith could do in a different band (I have no opinion on Josh Klinghoffer, as I don't think I've ever heard him play). Flea's guest appearances on stuff have always been pretty great.