Lurker > ChichiriMuyo

This album isn't not my kind of music, but the parts I enjoyed the most were definitely the sort I'd need to be in the mood to really enjoy. As I was listening to the album I kept thinking of Aurelio Voltaire and, no surprise, he was influenced by Tom Waits. The creepy circus-polka-nightmare bits of the album are great, and if I ran a Halloween event of any sort I'd certainly want that kind of music to be played. It is pure nightmare fuel in the most fun of ways. However that is only half of what the album had to offer, and the other half was a mixed bag to say the least. It lacked a flow or narrative sense that I like to experience when listening to an album as a whole. It almost felt like the tracks were chosen completely at random. It's an okay album, I just wish the artist had one idea in mind.

01 Rain Dogs
02 Time
03 Cemetary Polka
04 9th & Hennepin
05 Clap Hands
06 Singapore
07 Diamonds and Gold
08 Downtown Train
09 Jockey Full of Bourbon
10 Tango Till They're Sore
11 Midtown
12 Anywhere I Lay My Head
13 Gun Street Girl
14 Hang Down Your Head
15 Walking Spanish
16 Bride of Rain Dog
17 Big Black Mariah
18 Union Square
19 Blind Love

My most expensive comp was a hand-me-down, but that was also in the era when there were used computer dealers and the like. So, 2000+ (if new) but at the time it traded a lot like a car would.

The whole notion that people need to get dressed up super fancy for a wedding is ridiculous. It's just a post-industrial revolution means of scamming people out of their money. Now the fact that she doesn't look happy with him speaks volumes. Dude should have known better, and probably would have if they weren't both children that are too young to marry anyway. I'd take any odds on this being a shotgun wedding.

Yes

Why stop at games and comics, killing Nazis by the hundreds is a great time in real life too. Truly a guilt-free activity.

No. I'm not going to pile on with any hate since I don't know too much about his work, but it was never something that interested me. I'd watch clips and just not feel like a whole show could be worth the time investment.

Sounds legit. SpongeBob is, in fact, Satan himself. Of course he'd tell her to kill the child.

I love how Boba Fett is so lame of a character that after four episodes the writers decided the show should actually be about that other Mandalorian.

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Fuck China, fuck these corrupt games. China is essentially making slaves out of one of its minorities and this crap is just meant to distract from the fact that China has no human rights.

Agriculture was the biggest/best funded department at the high school I went to. Granted it was a small ranching/farming community, but that stuff is still taught in schools where people might actually go on to use those skills.

Short Skirt, Long Jacket

A lot of people would probably sleep on this album, but as far as dance-pop goes it shows a lot of range and intellect. You can hear bits and pieces of decades worth of inspiration that went into this work scattered throughout. The most stand out to me was the moment when a sample best known from 1997's "Your Woman" (White Town) plays, though it is itself a slightly altered sample from 1932's "My Woman" (Lew Stone & his Monseigneur Band). Generations on generations of collected knowledge. Is it perfect? Certainly not. Is it art? Absolutely. If there's one thing Andy Warhol got right it's this - something can be both art and a product meant for mass consumption.

1. Break My Heart
2. Love Again
3. Don't Start Now
4. Physical
5. Levitating
6. Cool
7. Pretty Please
8. Hallucinate
9. Boys Will Be Boys
10. Good in Bed
11. Future Nostalgia

Roblox is a scam to cheat people, mostly children, out of money.
Honor of Kings appears to be a Chinese MOBA

You won't fool me this time, Tom Sawyer.

Me - Sad I wasn't around to rate "My Head is an Animal"
Also me - Sad "The Queen is Dead" won't be ranked in the near future.

This album is all moods. While listening I felt like I was on a cross-country trip to relive a memory I never had. It oscillates between warm and comfortable to cold and lonely, but it is in the end a wonderous journey. This is an album from which I doubt I'd ever listen to a single. It must be experienced as a whole to really get the most out of it. This was a difficult album to rank the tracks, and if I did it again in a week I'm sure everything but number 1 and number 11 would probably be different (like my initial ranking a week ago), but to me that just says how good it is throughout.

1 Heard Them Stirring
2 White Winter Hymnal
3 Your Protector
4 Blue Ridge Mountains
5 Quiet Houses
6 Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
7 He Doesn't Know Why
8 Ragged Wood
9 Oliver James
10 Meadowlarks
11 Sun It Rises

Jemma Simmons
Leo Fitz

No trade needed.

Agreed with Tony. She looks the youngest to me.

This album is probably going to take a few re-listens before I can really rank the tracks. In my first listen I've just liked each track more than the last, which can't be true. I think I've just hit love at first listen with this one. You're absolutely right Zelos, this album is almost as pleasing to listen to as an album can be.

MrGreenonion posted...

I liked Sucker Punch, but I love a movie with a strong visual style that evokes the right mood, and I can forgive a lot in terms of writing and acting if it has that. I know that's not for most people though.

I don't know if anyone has told you this before, but Sucker Punch is legitimately awful. :p

Wow, I almost treated this like a real discussion. A real discussion started by LMS. But then he has to pull out that same bullshit nonsense.

Dear LMS, why not just have a discussion with B8 and not bring in YT shitposters? Why don't you just have a discussion with us? You were doing so well, why do you have to stir up the Internet's worst garbage?

I re-listened to Heroin since so many people are rating it so highly and I suspect I underrated it a great deal given the merits of its lyrics and its timing and such, but I'm going to let my rating stand. I'll be that outlier. I won't listen to the full album again to re-rank it. The fact is the song gave me a headache, and the album gave me a worse one. It was literally painful to listen to, and the pain keeps going even after I've stopped listening, and I just don't get how anyone could like that.

CasanovaZelos posted...

I'm pretty sure ChichiriMuyo would die if exposed to Trout Mask Replica based on that reaction.

Listening to it now. I'll let you know if I die. I actually think Captain Beefheart is better so far. It's not something I'd listen to for pleasure's sake, but I also don't feel like some trick is being played on me. Heck, I don't even feel like the instruments are being violated (at least so far).

Please, dude, don't use the term jipped/gypped or any variant spelling there of. It's an ethnic slur.

I've listened to "artsy" music before. Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman is a fantastic album that I could listen to any time. "Birthday Cake" also gets into that "instrument violation" range but then it has other songs top balance it out. "Know Your Chicken" is also weird and out there but it doesn't sound like they were trying to hurt their instruments.

The thing that bothered me about TVU+N is that it felt like there was no balance to it, they just kept going all the way every time. There really isn't anything likable in the album, it just comes off as pretentious bullshit. It feels like it exists only as an excuse for somebody to say "oh, you just don't understand art because you're not sophisticated enough." Not that anyone said that, but that's exactly what I felt even as I was listening to it, and having that Andy Warhol cover art sure doesn't help alleviate that sense. The truth is, as far as experimentation goes, they really seemed to have very few tricks up their sleeves and over-relied on the most basic and most grating of them.

Whast to say about The Velvet Underground & Nico? This album is essentially trolling in the pre-Internet era, but not in a way that I feel I can enjoy. I felt a bit of distaste for half the songs from the moment they started, while the other half tricked me into thinking I'd like the song then the band had to violate an instrument or two... every time. I honestly never want to listen to this album again, there isn't anything to enjoy here.

Here's my ranking, I guess, they could all just be last place really...

1. There She Goes Again
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
3. I'll Be Your Mirror
4. Venus in Furs
5. All Tomorrow's Parties
6. Femme Fatale
7. The Black Angel's Death Song
8. Sunday Morning
9. Run Run Run
10. Heroin
11. European Son

After this I'm tempted to nominate nothing but club music when my turn comes around.

All my problems? No. Most of the biggest ones, absolutely.

The problem is we all want those things to be unanswered for now but evidence suggests this is the end. Those things can and probably will remain unanswered forever (if you don't read the books). Maybe we'll get some movies, but they'll probably have the taint of not really fleshing out or finishing anything.

IMO we didn't even get a complete story for why Drummer sides with.. actually, the only explanation for almost every political decision all season is either you are with Inaros to your dying breath or obviously you have to be against him no matter what anyone else has done for the last two centuries. They took one of the most politically complex and realistic stories ever told in a sci-fi show and turned it into "this guy is bad, so he gets beated at da end."

Stuck the landing? Bullshit. Everything happened way too fast in this last season (or two, or maybe even three). Almost everything was actually unexplained, and that's before we talk about Laconia. It makes the last two seasons of GoT look well-paced. They successfully finished off one plot thread out of the dozen that make the story, but it wasn't even the most interesting one they had going on.

Huh, looks like that is true with e-mails. Weird, since in face to face conversation you wouldn't want to use -sama at all.

MZero posted...

If anything -sama would be better

No it wouldn't. You only refer to god and emperors and the like with -sama. Doing so to anyone else would just make them uncomfortable.

I wish they would have done more with Masuka. After season one he was barely there at all.

The only thing this story needs to cap it off is for a ten year old to have solved the robbery and brought the criminals to justice.

Forget Captain Worf, I wanna see Captain Nog (RIP Aron Eisenberg)

Of the "Big 4" Seattle Grunge bands Soundgarden is my least favorite (though they have the coolest name of the bunch). Still, I was excited to listen to this album since I know a lot of it but never owned it. The truth is, though, the tone is pretty much all over the place on this album. "Half" in particular doesn't even feel like it belongs on the album, or from the 90s. It felt like an experimental throwback you'd expect from an album 20-30 years its senior. Considering the fact that they really filled the album, they could have done without it and a couple other songs. Still, the top third of the album is good and still holds up today.

1 The Day I Tried to Live
2 Black Hole Sun
3 Spoonman
4 Fell on Black Days
5 4th of July
6 Kickstand
7 Let Me Drown
8 Limo Wreck
9 Fresh Tendrils
10 Head Down
11 Like Suicide
12 Mailman
13 Superunknown
14 My Wave
15 Half

CasanovaZelos posted...

Grunge definitely has more than 3; I'd put it at at least six all-time essentials.
Nirvana - both Nevermind and In Utero
Pearl Jam - Ten
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Hole - Live Through This

I don't believe the last one is as big as the other five, especially at release, but I'd also argue it has grown more significant with time.

Live Through This is underrated imo. Courtney as a songwriter could do circles around Kurt. Regardless of how I feel about her as a person I have to give it to her that she is (was?) talented AF. This is one of the albums I'm considering for nomination when my turn comes around. I also agree you can't leave out Ten. Even if you've never heard the album you've probably heard half of it on the radio. Heck, my local rock station actually did play the whole thing at least once when I was a kid.

BetrayedTangy posted...

Medium Rare, but if I don't trust the place I'm eating at Medium

If you don't trust a place for food handling safety then medium will do nothing to make it more safe than mid rare. You might as well go somewhere else, because if they can't keep their contamination under control then only well done is truly safe.

Slot 1, except when I used to rent games as a kid since there was more of a chance the save might survive until the next rental.

The release order is: DD1, JJ1, DD2, LC1, IF1, Defenders, Pun1, JJ2, LC2, IF2, DD3, Pun 2, JJ3.

IF1, as you likely know, is the worst of it, but other than DD3 the rest of the shows never fully deliver on the level of those first 3 seasons. You could also watch the two Punisher seasons without seeing anything past DD2 since he no longer crosses over with the rest story-wise after that.

VintageGin posted...

Outdoor cats live 1/3 as long and destroy local wildlife. So nah.

Feral cats live 1/3 as long, and being feral is not the same as being an outdoor cat. Trying to equate the two is like comparing homeless people to hikers. The reason your house pet cat shouldn't go outside is a combination of the dangers to it and the dangers it poses (including breeding feral cats), but it's not going to face nearly as many dangers as an ownerless, homeless cat.

26.

Not a great score, but better than I thought I'd get with how rough my start was. I kept knowing the series for a lot of tracks but not the specific games so I only came out of round 1 with 1 point and round 2 with two total. I was also upset at round 3 as I kept knowing the series but not which specific character. The one that really killed me was Sami, as if its easy to tell any if those character themes apart - I heard an Orange Star theme and assumed Andy. The quotes ended up netting me 12 points, though, and the final round has to have the easiest 5 pointer possible.

R1: SOTN
R2: Chrono Cross
R3: Ramza, Gilgamesh
R4: Fludd, Otacon, Ganon, Alucard
R5: DKC, Eyes On Me

While I was driving home tonight someone shot off a firework and it went off right above my car. Many people who use personal fireworks are just assholes. BTW, this same asshole in my neighborhood stockpiles the things and sets them off at seemingly random times all year long. Not just holidays, not even just weekends. He'll fire the things off on weekdays with no regard to people who have to get up the next morning. I hope he burns his own house down.

For me it's easily The Matrix. It'd be much more competitive if it was against T2, but when I rewatched T1 earlier this year it really didn't feel like it held up all that well. That's not even considering effects or anything, the script is paper thin and many scenes feel like filler so that the movie can reach a decent runtime. That's not to say it's a bad film, far from it, just that it really shows its age.

Peter was stopping crimes as he came across them, not looking for some grand conspiracy.

Yes, it is very, very watchable but it's not release order like the others I mentioned.

TBH you could really just watch DD1, JJ1, and DD2 and those three season gives you the majority of the goodness of the Netflix series (and happens to be release order iirc). There's still a lot of good stuff in there afterwards, don't get me wrong, but it's a lot of content with much more varied quality.

I think a large part of the problem with the Netflix shows (other than IF1) is that the announcement of Disney+ and the reorganization of Marvel Entertainment came at just the right time to derail a lot of stuff and before they were even half done the Netflix side of the partnership decided that they'd fulfill their contracts but they weren't going to push for much more than that. Not that it's a great mindset, but I just don't think they felt it was worth it to give their all once Disney announced their "divorce."

Nanis23 posted...

What the hell is this
Are US Houses made of wood?

Many are, yes. It depends on the region as well as the age of the neighborhood.

Natural burial. Body in the ground, no embalming no caskets. Just corpse and earth and worms. I don't even do composting myself, but that's what I'd want.

Those gas pumps aren't dominos, you have to hit them pretty hard to knock them over. The driver i9s at fault here.