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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: walkonby on July 15, 2010, 10:01:14 pm
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i like the idea of starting a whole thread just so that brian wallace and i can chat with each other about all sorts of things. latest films, clothes we like to buy, where we shop, our favourite gravy recipes, who we like as puppet dictators. you know, basic guy talk. it perhaps won't go anywhere and be at the bottom of the page before long, but hey, i hereby extend my paw outwards and attempt to shake the hand of my new unseen friend.
greetings, person of earth . . . i come in peace. (and no i don't mean come like that).
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you have to add a cat photo to get things started ;D
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good call!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gTJMEP-c2fo/SOtO0ar1j3I/AAAAAAAAGkQ/fp5u3wlzz5U/s400/cat+friends.jpg)
"let's be friends" (ooh, ooh . . . can i be the monkey?)
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spank his monkey...
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add julian and it's a perfect triumvirate
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(http://cadmium2.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/withnail-and-i-movie-poster1.jpg)
Brian
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i wonder who gets to be "uncle monty"? to the countryside!!!!
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Julian is banned so Joe will do.
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wow. you guys impress me. "withnail and i" was the first thing i thought about when i saw the title of this thread, but i didn't bother referencing it 'cause i didn't think anyone would know that movie. well done.
i wonder who gets to be "uncle monty"? to the countryside!!!!
funny, i didn't wonder at all ;D
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so brian . . . what is your opinion about musical downloading and the state it has created that we all live in now? i myself have never downloaded a single note of a single song ever and still only listen to music the old fashion way by means of hard copy. you know how us gays like it hard. do you scour the net for hours searching for that free leak, or those internet only mix version of songs left well enough alone. i like music. i like new music. i like odd music. i like it when azag gets mad when i moan about downloading. hope you are having a good weekend.
i think maybe next we talk about our favourites food and restaurants.
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nice one in that other thread. i am a bit . . . jealous.
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First of all, I hope this doesn't turn into one of those Chuck Klosterman/Bill Simmons self-centered, pop culture dorkfests. I'd like to think we're more refined than that. Maybe if we can't give Katharine Weymouth a quarter mill to run with the big Beltway dogs at our own Salon, we can at least try to give her a stylish, super sassy makeover.
Rather I think we should aspire to recreate to this infamous (and most likely apocryphal) 70's encounter:
While recording "We Will Rock You'' at Wessex studios, Mercury came face to face with Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. "So you're this Freddie Platinum bloke that's supposed to be bringing ballet to the masses,'' Vicious snarled, prompting a completely unfazed response from Mercury: "Ah, Mr. Ferocious, we're trying our best, dear.''
(http://www.worleygig.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Freddie-Mercury2.jpg)
(http://www.rtvchannel.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sid-vicious.jpg)
But we can switch roles every couple of weeks. I'm a better pitcher than catcher, though. Stronger arm.
If that doesn't work we can always go to the B roll:
When informed that the Pet Shop Boys cover of "Always on my Mind" had pipped The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's immortal "Fairytale of New York" to the 1987 Christmas U.K. No. 1, Shane McGowan complained that they had been beaten by "two queens and drum machine."
(http://www.ecorazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/petshopboys.jpg)
(http://irishrockers.com/images/artistpics/ThePogues.jpg)
Those roles are a little more difficult to ascertain...
Ummmmm.....No. I don't download. I probably more of a Luddite than you. But you know, it's only really fun to be an anti-technology zealot if your name is Jack White. It's not even the morality of downloading that I find so distasteful. It's my megalomaniac tendencies. It's too overwhelming. It's a world of soup and all I have is a fork. If I can't have it all, no one will.
Please be more specific, do you blame downloading for the general lack of manners in the modern age...or the slow, painful i.v. drip of the music industry...all of the fat kids running around...or something else?
Brian
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haha, this is great ;D
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to be quite honest, the picture comparison montage, that you made seem so effortless, was touching and poignant to an (inserted) degree, but you chose two bands/icons of a culture so often used as a reference that i'm not a fan of. my beef with downloading is the medium. like the page or the canvas or the film of a photograph. plain and simple. perhaps i am ignorant, but i believe that the downloading scene is a scheme to obtain music in an inferior form from inferior value, truely crushing an avenue that artists had to make money. maybe the music scene was too big for its too much money ways and needed this earthquake shakedown that forced bands to embrace an internet revolution of "free"dom to seem relevant and not so self gratifing.
and after all that . . . i just like to look at the art work.
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i'm sure most of this applies to walkonby......here you go.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/signs-your-husband-is-gay_n_687160.html#s128659
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i'm sure most of this applies to walkonby......here you go.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/signs-your-husband-is-gay_n_687160.html#s128659
except for the most obvious . . . i'm not married to a woman. i love the one, "if you're sassy around your friends, you're gay."
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This has to do with downloading so I guess it's somewhat tangential.
There's few people I enjoy hating on more than little Johnny Cougar. I almost hate him as much as I hate Russell Brand:
Rocker John Mellencamp Likens Internet to A-Bomb (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11425737)
Way to keep things in perspective, John. Not famine, violence, genocide, terrorism. No. The internet has caused you not to make NEARLY as much money peddling your bullshit so it's almost as a bad as the atomic bomb.
Where to start....
- First, unlike most, I think Springsteen is a tired, nostalgic fraud who is incapable of writing a song that isn't A. maudlin B. clichéd (It's no coincidence that the most popular songwriters from Jersey are Springsteen and Bon Jovi) or C. both. And Mellencamp is like the generic Springsteen. He's the worst elements of Dylan and the worst elements of Springsteen.
- He wrote an un-ironic (it was back in 1985 before irony was even invented) song called "Small Town" which contains the lyrics:
"Got nothing against a big town.
Still hayseed enough to say
'Look who's in the big town.'
But my bed is in a small town.
Oh, and that's good enough for me."
and then he went out and married an f'ing supermodel.
- He had a heart attack and yet still chain smokes which just shows he's WEAK.
- He's working on a musical with Stephen King. Nothing more needs to be said.
- Except that the title is "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County." That title is so bad it's beyond parody. You CAN'T make fun of it. Bono or the singer from Creed wouldn't even call something that.
- His last two studio albums were called "Freedom's Road" and...wait for it..."Life, Death, Love and Freedom" I really hope some day he goes back and completes the trilogy with "I Woke Up One Day and Someone Took All My Freedom."
- He called his anthology "Words & Music". Because apparently "Turd Sandwich" was taken.
- He was Mr. NO SELL OUT! He thought selling your songs for use in commercials was "awful" and "disgusting" and "how much money do you need?" and THEN when HIS songs stopped getting played on the radio (because the American public and radio industry came to their senses and realized they were shit) he SUDDENLY finds religion and sells his stupid, simplistic "This is OOOOOUUUURRRRR COUNTRY!" song to Chevy which proceeds to get played about 70 times each sporting event broadcast.
- And NOW the internet is "evil." It's killing "rock n roll". He's just going to be a "footnote." (Footnote? Try aiming a little lower, buddy. You don't even make the first draft.) Which may be valid points. But coming from HIM, he's just bitter and incredulous that the gravy train has stopped. No one has bought or played his music in 10 to 15 years and he just can't IMAGINE how the public can't recognize how awesome he is. Don't they know he's our poet laureate of greasy spoon diners...Friday night high school football...working double shifts at "the plant"...chicks with bad bird tattoos and Stevie Nicks hair who are working a little too hard at the 7-11 to get their ungrateful step kid an X-box...cans of Skoal...NASCAR...and things that JUST MATTER, DAMMIT!?!?
Listen, John Mellencamp. You're not Woody Guthrie. You're not even Conor Oberst. You may be Billy Bob Thorton, but that's pushing it. You're a hack. Always were. Still are. Always will be. So put on your monkey suit and go out and play your greatest hits CDs. You're in no way special. You were lucky enough to have a few hits in the 80s and you'll be able to make enough to pay for Rogaine and Viagra for the REST OF YOUR LIFE! So just shut up and go away.
Brian
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but he sang Jack and Diane, a little ditty ;D
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though i found your feelings toward the man to be entertaining brian, his work on farm aid, activism since the mid eighties, grammy, rock n roll hall of fame, and twenty-two albums . . . trumps your aces in the hole.
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Uh, Twitter? Facebook? MySpace? AIM? Email? Skype? Texting? Calling? Writing? Good old fashioned face to face socializing while drinking beer at a bar and making some mistakes?
How about one of them?