And this is why we all love Courtney.

I ask it again, how can this movie NOT be 3 hours?!?

We have to cover his intended proposal to MJ, the introduction of Eddie Brock, Harry gone Goblin, Peter finding the symbiote suit, SANDMAN, and Eddie being taken over by the symbiote.

A few quick musical hits here from a new guy.

Take it or leave it...........


The Toadies - Hell Below Stars Above is a one of the most underrated albums ever. (Seriously. Heel, HB/SA, Pressed Against The Sky, Little Sin, Plane Crash, Jigsaw Girl, Doll Skin, and my personal fave....Sweetness)
The Supersuckers (where I got my name from....that band is so fucking awesome.....)
The Burden Brothers - (Seen them more than anbody else combined. So fucking solid The Buried In Your Black Heart album was gold. Mercy was even more golden. Seriously, thats some sweet shit.)
The Pixies.
Flogging Molly.
CKY (Camp Kill Yourself) (older stuff was greatness)
The Reverend Horton Heat.
The Sahara Hotnights. All chicks, But all Awesome.
Muse, the Sex Pistols, Thin Lizzy, Tsunami Bomb, Johhny Cash, Kaiser Chiefs, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Also, look up Within Temptation, HIM (Yup), and the White Stripes

as far as I know. I found it on apple.com. I saw a promo for this (FIDO) movie last night.

Got two Southern Culture on the Skids CD's in the mail recently, one new, and one of their older ones that I had but it had been stolen. They are both great, but the older one features one of my favorite songs ever:

Clyde’s Lament

My name
Is Clyde Jones
I work in a factory
I got five fingers on one hand
On the other one I just got three
I lost one finger in a huntin’ accident
Lost the others in the factory

I said hey sweet mamma
Don’t you want a man like me
Said hey sweet mamma
Don’t you want a man like me

I could put clothes on your back
Put food on your table
Woman just take a load off me
Put food on that table
Clothes on your children’s backs
Woman take a load off me
I said woman take a load off me
Let’s get gone now

I got five fingers on one hand
On the other one I just got three
I lost one finger in a huntin’ accident
Lost the others in the factory
Said hey
Said hey

Yes my name is Clyde Jones
And I work in a factory
Baby, c’mon and love me
C’mon and love me
I’m a man that can work with my hands
C’mon now
C’mon now
C’mon give me
c’mon give me some
you can love me
you can love me
come on and love me
you can love me
you can love me
come on and love me

The music is this weird gritty, hollow sounding kind of stomp, I don't know how to explain it, but I love this song

I remembered this thread from the "early" days of Punboard. For Christmas I got the Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits and Videos compilation, specifically for the videos dvd, and finally watched it yesterday on the plane trip back from Washington DC.

While I had seen these before and vaguely remembered them, the RHCP make some frickin' awesome videos. OK nothing will ever come close to Duran Duran's nite version of Girls on Film which Sal mentions above, but these 3 videos by RHCP are just completely awesome..and watching them with a fresh and appreciative eye made me like these that much more.


1) Otherside


2) Can't Stop


3) Californication



EDIT: And an extremely belated exalt to Sal for having started this thread oh so many months ago in the first place.

I sent you each an e-mail with some links to files on xdrive. I don't think you need to do anything but click on the links in the e-mail. Here (I think) are 2 of the links as well (you have to copy/paste them into browser).

download.xdrive.com/s/611193773aNQH1dt3Himl6FfHrEh&partner=plus

download.xdrive.com/s/611193863GpycdAvfUv01HvlKLuU&partner=plus


These are all from his latest live CD "Live at the Ryman". Let me know if there are problems and I'll try something else.

And if anybody didn't pick it up right away, I got it from Best Buy for $9.99 yesterday even though the price tag said $14.99.

Pick it up, bitches!

alec baldwin is the funniest man on television. 30 rock rules.

Ok, so if I buy the album, is it worth it? Naturally, I liked the video for Open Season. Very much a Faith No More vibe, and I figure that if the whole thing is like that, then it's worth my 22 bucks american.

Exalt! And now I have a craving for fried pickles again....

I hate Ben Stiller. I love his wife.

I hate you, Sol.

Oh, Sergei - I like Phil Collins, but even I hate Sussido. And I like "Jack and Diane" and "Pink Houses", but I hate hate hate "Walls".


Another song I hate, but thankfully I never hear:
"Get Out Of My Car, Get Into My Dreams" by Billy Ocean.

Dynamite Hack's cover of "Boyz N The Hood". It was fun at first, because it was just a cute joke, but the big rock station here in LA decided it'd be fun to play it a lot. The joike isn't funny anymore. And 6 years later, they still play it at least once every few months. And I truly hate them for it.

I also hate Sheryl Crow's take on "Sweet Child O' Mine". Blah.


Oooh, this gives me an idea for a new thread...

what

There's about 7 eps on volume 1 from what I've heard, volume 2 coming out late Decemeber. Yeah, we're getting the UK versions apparently.

"It's like Vince McMahon got drunk and wrote a movie"- my fiancee, on the Marine.

"Did John Cena make that movie as a practical joke or something?"- my friend Robyn, a rabid pro-Cena activist.



To call "The Marine" one of the shittiest fucking movies I have ever seen would be paying it too high a compliment. Besides, that is an honor reserved for an equally treacherous but far less entertaining crapfest called "Eye of the Beholder" starring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor. In all honesty, as bad as "The Marine" is, it probably doesn't come close to half of the crimes on humanity starring guys like Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Dam. So at least it's got that going for it- but not too much else.

I honestly am not sure where to even begin. I could probably go right after the dialog. You are probably thinking to yourself "yeah, I can imagine it was atrocious". Well, you are wrong. Atrocious is sixth graders writing fan fiction about Harry Potter. Atrocious is the script in really bad porn. I'm not sure an adjective exists that concisely describes the dialog in "The Marine", but I am willing to bet money that it was mostly written by a bulimic teenage girl who was forced at gunpoint to regurgitate a bowl of Alpha-Bits. You kind of realize what highbrow stuff you're getting approximately five minutes into the movie, when John Cena's character John Triton (I'm operating under the assumption that Cena's character in the film was also named John to prevent Cena from becoming confused on the set) is given his discharge from the Marine Corp. His Oscar-invoking response: "But sir.... I'm a MARINE!"

Sadly, the script is probably the least of the film's concerns. There is also the matter of the plot. I have to tell you that when I type the word "plot", I'm laughing manically because you can't actually hear me do so. If you've viewed any WWE television in the last six months, you're at least acquainted with the synopsis of the movie: John Triton is discharged from the Marines, and upon his return home, his wife is kidnapped by jewel thieves, so Triton sets out to find her. Simple enough, right? Well, not only is that the plot synopsis, that's actually the entire fucking plot. There is absolutely nothing else going on. It is literally a fifteen minute set up leading to a one hundred and five minute chase scene.

If you are a veteran poster at OO, you may remember a thread going on last Christmastime about John Cena's bizarre "nothing can stop him. No, seriously, nothing" push. We all got a good chuckle out of it because we pretty much all assumed it was a joke. Apparently, it was not a joke to Vince McMahon. Not only does Cena not job to Edge, this film also asks us to accept that he also does not job to the following: shots to the grill from fire extinguishers; exploding gas stations; thousands of shots fired from semi-automatic guns (while at the same time maneuvering a police car in a very high speed chase); being in a car that explodes as it drives off the edge of a cliff; more gunshots; exploding bait shops; standing outside of a big rig that is driven through a wooden building with a metal roof; a direct hit with a sledgehammer (didn't Robert Patrick learn anything from Triple H's futility?); a flaming roof collapsing directly on top of him; and lungs full of water. That's a fairly impressive resume and looking back now, I'm surprised Edge was ever able to get one over on the guy. The best part of all of this is that Triton does not even bleed until the very last scene of the movie. I was honestly in my seat thinking that the only logical way this could be explained would be to reveal that the Marine Corp did biological experiments on him, grafting his skin with the hide of a rhinoceros, or perhaps at the end of the film, Jor-El would descend from the heavens to tell Cena that he was the last surviving son of Krypton.

Watching this movie was a lot like watching a retarded child riding a bicycle in heavy traffic: gut-wrenchingly terrible but also perversely amusing.

With all this in mind, you may be wondering if I have anything nice to say about this movie, and surprisingly enough, I do. In spite of the heaping pile of shit of a script the actors were given to work with, most of the people involved tried as hard as they could to salvage something from this film, particularly Robert Patrick and the exceedingly lovely Abigail Bianca. I had a disagreement with my fiancee and our friend about Cena's involvement with the film: I actually argued on his behalf, saying that I didn't think he was that terrible of an actor. They told me this was because he didn't have very many lines and I just didn't notice. I would say "you be the judge" but I wouldn't ask anybody to actually pay to see this film. Except for maybe GoVols or loki; they're Browns fans so they're obviously into masochism.

So with all of this said, here's the strange part of this film: I actually walked away from it feeling like I like John Cena a lot more than I did before. Maybe it's because Cena's got a certain humble likability that doesn't come across as much when he's in the wrestling ring. Or maybe it's because I just feel sorry for the poor guy: it's obvious that he really wanted this film to be something special, but he simply got no help from the writers or producers.

I got the 1st book from the Wheel of Time series as a present recently. I enjoyed it a lot, but discovered that the publisher had actually cut the original 1st book in half, probably to get people to pick up the series by making it look less daunting. Problem is, I haven't seen part 2 for sale, so may have to buy the whole book to carry on. Per Wikipedia Jordan has health problems, and I truly hope he manages to get the series to a reasonable end point, or perhaps recruits a coauthor who can follow his vision.

I have no idea if this is true or not, but I read it on a blog somewhere and I just thought it was funny.

Bono is at a U2 concert when he asks the audience for some quiet. Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands. Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone… “Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”

A voice from near the front pierces the silence… “Well, fucking stop it then!”