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  • catchy, populist brand of heartland rock which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. 
    that sounds so boring.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    It is...though it's pretty surprising that you never heard any.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I like how that description basically says- "his music is not unique or interesting in the slightest" but tries to portray it in a positive light.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I like how that description basically says- "his music is not unique or interesting in the slightest" but tries to portray it in a positive light.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    "heartland rock" is, like, a big red flag saying "this will bore you to tears"

    for me anyway
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Same here

    Also I feel weird

    I find myself missing 2012, even though I told myself many times that I wouldn't

    And I want my Anonus but he's in bed...I wonder if he'd be up for a Skype session tonight
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    mass graves, those are always cheerful
  • image

    on today's edition of "What naney has been listening to"
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
  • i remember there was this kid at my school who was really obsessed with Electric Wizard.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    there are worse things to be obsessed with
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.


    not this however
  • just got back from swimming in a river

    i am wearing a have a nice life t-shirt and hawaiian shorts

  • My dreams exceed my real life

    The point here is that as the liberal reformer hero gradually gave way in the face of Reaganomics and the various hedge fund schemes, as wealth became more polarized, and as the economy, such as it was, became ever more pegged to the Pentagon and base building and the defense industry, the white liberal hero felt (more) tumescent. It might be interesting to track the rise of MMA contests and its inter-relationship with DC and Marvell comics franchises. Hyper violent unmediated blood sport, and the new barely mediated vigilante fascism. In fact, it’s interesting to clock the entire recent Batman franchise.

    The Natural, 1984, Dr. Robert Redford

    The Natural, 1984, Dr. Robert Redford

    The Tim Burton Batman film, with Michael Keaton came out in 1989, the follow up a couple years later. Following on this came installments by Joel Schumacher, and eventually Chris Nolan. The Burton films, however, marked the liberal sensibility’s entree into the hyper-reactionary world of Bruce Wayne, billionaire vigilante. Burton, himself a sort of irony laden art school hipster, found a seamless meeting of liberal style and fascist content. In fact, I suppose the liberal codes were barely there, even in that original Keaton version. Still, they retained a sense of humor, and seemed pitched clearly at a youth market. Schumacher, another Hollywood liberal, followed the same formula, basically, with less energy, and then with Nolan, something shifted, as if the studio understood an era of Redford soft paternalism was over. Nolan was the new cruise missile left, a Clinton era filmmaker now expressing the Bush era War on Terror moral vacuity. Nolan’s Batman was more jingoistic, more racist, and more militarist. Each subsequent installment of the series felt more sadistic, and more nihilistic. But its nihilism was the negation of life, not an expression of anguish. It WAS nihilistic. They were also humorless, and they seemed to target an adult demographic (well, as if this culture has any adults left in it). They were portentious self important fascist storytelling made by a self important director (son of an ad copy writer for a marketing firm…same as Guy Ritchie, interestingly) with grand Wellesian delusions.

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    At the same time as the Burton Batman, the first MMA contests were being staged and getting cable deals — the era of the Gracie family momentary monopoly. Previously, violence in sport had had to mediated, even if barely, as in boxing. The full on embrace of pure punishment coincided, I think, with liberalism’s strategy of layering its apologia for violence with a recipe of ironic codes. If art school far-out-ness, complete with funny eye glass frames, could create openly fascist entertainments, then why not relax all the nozzle settings for sublimation. David Lynch (who in his spare time owns and runs very profitable business schools in Europe) was the exemplar of the faux liberal, serving undergraduate taste perfectly. I will say,Mulholland Drive did contain enough of anti-Hollywood feeling to rise to the level of genuine auteur work. Lynch was never about much to begin with, from Eraserhead to Blue Velvet, this was the work of a middle brow conformist who gave educated liberal college kids a safe sort of protest to their parents digging on Brubaker.

  • The sadness will last forever.
    nomb
  • The sadness will last forever.
    fustrating
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I thought Tim Burton's Batman was pretty good
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Burton, himself a sort of irony laden art school hipster

    This might be the only true thing in the article.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    off to work I go

    fighting crime
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis

    I thought Tim Burton's Batman was pretty good

    The first one?

    It was decent. I don't think Jack Nicholson was that great of a Joker, but he was alright. 

    Batman Returns is pretty horrendously bad and bizarre on re-watches.
  • edited 2013-06-01 15:19:37

    there is something wrong with my headphone jack or my sound card causing it to produce distortion on low frequencies, and i cannot find my spare USB one


    (*irritatedness*)
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    To be fair to Nicholson, there probably wasn't much great reference material on how to be a good joker at the time. The Killing Joke probably came out some time during production and I'm not sure if anyone had done anything that interesting with him before Moore.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    OK, actually The Dark Knight Returns came out well before the movie. Not Joker at his best, but a better Joker than Nicholson.

    Plus if memory serves, Joker in TAS was based on some comics that came out before TDKR anyways. So I retract my earlier statement.

    Though, Burton has said that he "doesn't read comics" so it could be less Nicholson's fault and more Burton's. 
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    An overweight zombie is pregnant with a famous violinist. A Chinese room is tied to the track. Do you kill the zombie to derail the trolly?
  • Odradek said:

    An overweight zombie is pregnant with a famous violinist. A Chinese room is tied to the track. Do you kill the zombie to derail the trolly?

    pfffffffffft

  • i feel like Naney would like this
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Things that feel good: waking up dreading going to school and/or work, then remembering it's Saturday

    Still as sweet now as it was in elementary school
  • edited 2013-06-01 16:11:40

    Ah, the good progressive trance group.

    I'd heard of them, not listened until now.
  • Things that feel good: waking up dreading going to school and/or work, then remembering it's Saturday

    Still as sweet now as it was in elementary school

    Ah yes.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    That has never, ever happened to me

    And I hope it never does
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Doing stuff for my cousin's graduation party. Need to find a clean shirt that doesn't have long sleeves and a bathing suit. This is more complicated than it sounds.

    Bluh, bleh.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Naney said:

    I'm sort of disappointed that Death Grips don't do more slithery, sardonic tracks like this one. I think that they go over better than a lot of their angrier material, which while very enjoyable can get very repetitive very quickly if one is not struck by the proper mood—and then it's less the sounds that feel the same than the tone and attack.

    There is something to be said for being able to pick apart stuff that you like.
  • edited 2013-06-01 18:26:40
    Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

    Greed

  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu


    Lust

  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

    Sloth

  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

    Gluttony

  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

    Pride

  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

    Envy

  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

    Wrath

  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    To be honest, the only one of those that actually fits the sin it represents is The Sampling Paradise
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    There's absolutely nothing wrong with being any of those things. There's nothing wrong with wanting your partner to wear a furry tail, either.

    If you spend a large amount of time watching young children's cartoons about ponies (or playing video games for that matter, but this is worse) you must have some kind of developmental regression.

    Yeah, I'm this controversial. I'm saying that if you chose to major in fucking media studies, then you're made some very unfortunate choices during your short stay on this earth. Likewise, if you chose to play video games or watch TV 5 hours a day, you're a bad person. And if you spend a significant amount of time watching children's cartoons about ponies, you sure as shit are a bad person (and you may end up damaging your brain to the point where you become like jbenuniv).

  • edited 2013-06-01 19:07:41
    READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Being "controversial" sort of requires people actually caring about what you have to say.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    who is jbenuniv

    and who is this guy you're quoting
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Ugh

    I slept way too late again
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I figured you were asleep...

    So basically I've come to the conclusion that by the end there was really no reason for Plymouth to exist, despite Chrysler's intention to save the brand with the Prowler and PT Cruiser...
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Yeah...unfortunately. :(n
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