It's actually my favorite KJ album, and I'm fine with that. I dig their heavy, ugly, dissonant material too.
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He was at least 75 percent terrorist, 24.5 percent criminal thug (as in the kind that kills for money rather than ideology), and maybe .5 percent freedom fighter. I find his era fascinating and I'm pretty far on the left, but Carlos was definitely a self-aggrandizing, macho, violent piece of shit. And the movie does a…
I've been waiting for a Jim Henson biopic for a long time, but this will do in a pinch. We need more popular art that demonstrates the value of earnestness, warmth, empathy and humanity. How many films are there about people who positively impacted the lives of children? (and Patch Adams doesn't count)
I don't think people have looked up to Carlos since 1978. And even before then, most of the people who idolized him were fringe dwellers, or the kind of women who fetishize terrible, but strong-willed, men. Even the RAF and the Revolutionary Cells were more idealistic than that mercenary. Most radicals these days…
She's hated for a lot of things (witness her shitty Boston Bomber Bros. poem). I don't hate her. I just think she needs to drop her sad clown sub-Weimar street theater bullshit off a pier.
In think it's worth noting that De Gaulle warned the US not to get involved because he knew what a clusterfuck Vietnam was from personal experience, and US presidents (Kennedy and Johnson) didn't really feel they needed his advice. The US really believed they could do it right despite every indication from the…
Oh my. And I here I thought I was just going to get that poorly animated, but hilarious, TMNT porno with Krang taking it on the face. Instead, what I got was more, so much more. And yet, strangely less.
If cancer were AIDS, it would be this post.
I hated Garden State when it came out, because I'm so hip. Or rather I have something approaching taste.
If Sleeper is post-apocalyptic, then so is Demolition Man.
It's post-apocalyptic in the same way Sleeper is. If you're gonna include societies that rebuilt, then Demolition Man definitely qualifies.
Yeah, you might as well throw Isis and Neurosis in there too, even if they're not everyone's bag of tricks. Isis really defined smart metallic music in the US for a while there.
I'd add Septic Flesh to that category.
It's just catchy rock music with a 70s horror vibe, and that's all right.
Yeah, their first four records were all fantastic, but MAYH and Still Life were definitely their apogee.
They have quite a lot of Blue Oyster Cult in their sound too, which is a bonus.
Opeth was better back in '99.
Well first off, Ghost doesn't have growled vocals, and the music is actually melodic, even mellow at times. Hell, they sound like Blue Oyster Cult most of the time. And their lyrics aren't really genuinely Satanic—it's hammer horror/70s supernatural horror stuff, about as satanic as Halloween. As for growlers not…
No Trekkie backlash here, but just a general "here's some more blowy-uppy-in-stereo shit" backlash.