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Fayebella — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:29:49 GMT

If you have been wondering what will happen when Danny Glover is President of the USA the look no further than your local movie theatre.

I hate to spoil the movie, but if you guessed that it spells the End of Civilization, then you would be right. If you guessed Woody Harrelson is happy about it, then you would also be right.

Stop reading now to avoid the spoiler.

But not all civilization is destroyed. The Chinese build Arks. Russians save Our Hero.

And the only habitable land left on the planet?

:w00t:

Africa!

ZombieLand

SAMSON — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:12:55 GMT

I've adopted a much lower standard for movies after paying $$$ to see them with my slaves. Beginning with "Inglorius Basterds," and spiraling downward with "Jennifer's Body," I didn't expect much from ZombieLand.

BUT I was pleasently surprised that the dark humour of the hapless geek protagonist kept me awake and even mostly engaged throughout the film.

Heart Shaped Box: Halloween Reading

SAMSON — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:40:57 GMT

Because I'm skeptical that ANY other member reads much of what is posted in this forum, much less reads entire books, I'm just gonna post the linky [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Shaped-Box-Novel-Joe-Hill/dp/0061147931/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8031982-5066322?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189721438&sr=8-1"]To The Heart Shaped Box., [/URL]and [I][B]strongly recommend it for Halloween-mood reading[/B][/I]. It is written so that you WILL NOT WANT to put it down. Ok, I'll give you an idea why I liked it so much: The main character Jude Coyne is an 50-something Lead Vocalist of Heavy Metal Band "Jude's Hammer" who lives year to year with one hawt gawth chick after another until a ghost comes to live with him. A very very bad ghost. I'll not give away ANY more plot because it will ruin the story, and because I doubt anyone reading this will actually ever read the book.

Chasing Windmills

SAMSON — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:43:53 GMT

Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Just finished this book. I'm not going to write a plot review: I'll just let you know Why I liked It.

It had depth. This surprised me because the first chapter almost made me quit because it was written from the perspective of a 17 year old recluse, and sounded more than a little "Emo." But the story begins to fold in on itself with interesting...even SURPRISING... irony that you don't find much in today's fiction: No predictable INSANE KILLER scenes???!!! OMG!!

Obama is Spock: It's quite logical

Patrick — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:32:17 GMT

[url=http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2009/05/07/obama_spock/index.html]Obama is Spock: It's quite logical[/url] -link

[quote]
Our president bears a striking resemblance to the rational "Star Trek" Vulcan whose mixed race made him cultural translator to the universe.

By Jeff Greenwald
[/quote]

excerpt:

[quote]I am a first-generation 'Star Trek' fan, and I've long argued that many of my deepest political convictions emerged from my experience of watching the program as a young man growing up in Atlanta during the civil rights era," declares Henry Jenkins, co-director of the MIT comparative media studies program and author of "Convergence Culture." "In many ways, my commitment to social justice was shaped in reality by Martin Luther King and in fantasy by 'Star Trek.'”

Obama, Jenkins points out, positioned himself in the primaries as a man "at home with both blacks and whites, someone whose mixed racial background has forced him to become a cultural translator." In this sense Obama even surpasses Spock, whose struggle to reconcile his half-human, half-Vulcan genes is a continual source of inner conflict. In one episode, the entire Enterprise crew (except for Kirk) is infected by alien spores that turn them into doe-eyed flower children. The "cure" is anger -- thus Kirk is forced to provoke his first officer to rage. He succeeds, spectacularly, by insulting Spock’s racial pedigree: "All right, you mutinous half-breed! You’re an overgrown jackrabbit! An elf, with a hyperactive thyroid! A simpering, devil-eared freak whose father was a computer and his mother an encyclopedia!"
Quantcast

Confronted with a similar insult, Barack Obama would probably just laugh. "The Vulcan side of Obama, the core of his character, hasn't changed [since the election]," Jenkins believes. "He's tough, he’s cool and he’s rational." His appeal stems from the self-aware integration of all aspects of his personality: black and white, wonk and poet, athlete and aesthete.

Like Spock, part of what makes Obama so appealing is the fact that although he’s an outsider -- "proudly alien," as Leonard Nimoy once put it -- he uses that distance to cultivate a sense of perspective. And while we're drawn to Spock's exotic traits -- the pointy ears, green blood and weird mating rituals -- we take comfort in his soothing baritone, prominent nose and ordinary teeth.[/quote]

This article is so retarded on so many levels it is difficult to pick where to start to unravel the lunatic fantasies of fanboi Greenwald, though a good place to start would probably be to look at Obama's judicial philosophy as noted in this [url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/05/10/lady_justices_blindfold/]recent article by Jeff Jacoby[/url]:

[quote]Time and again, Obama has called for judges who do not put their private political views aside when deciding cases. In choosing a replacement for Justice David Souter, the president says, he will seek not just "excellence and integrity," but a justice whose [b]"quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles,"[/b] would be "an essential ingredient" in his jurisprudence. In an interview last year, he said he would look for judges "sympathetic" to those "on the outside, those who are vulnerable, those who are powerless."

When he voted against the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005, Obama declared that the "truly difficult" cases that come before the Supreme Court can be decided only with reference to "the depth and breadth of one's empathy," and that "[b]the critical ingredient is supplied by what is in the judge's heart."[/b]

But such cardiac justice is precisely what judges "do solemnly swear" to renounce. Sympathy for others is an admirable virtue. But a judge's private commiserations are not relevant to the law he is expected to apply.[/quote]

Sure sounds like a Spock to me! :hehe:

Dedicated to No Brakes!

Dick Tator — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:34:36 GMT

[youtube]8NOZH0y7VxE[/youtube]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOZH0y7VxE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NOZH0y7VxE[/url]

lol jk, you know I love you, Sweety! ;)

I miss the Boogie Woogie Wonderland

CounterCounterCulture — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:46:51 GMT

...And we lack rocking smilies. :crazy:

"Lies" by Naked Aggression (guitar cover)

Maggot — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:29:09 GMT

I'm not wearing a mask in this one because I was in a hurry to get this cover done and and my grandpa was just getting off work.

[youtube]J9prUUjrRvk[/youtube]

"Hungry Hungry Models" by The Network (guitar cover)

Maggot — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:16:44 GMT

I hate New Wave, but The Network's songs are pretty funny in a sick sort of way.

[youtube]WHif9I4AJNw[/youtube]

Here's their video for the song itself so you can understand the lyrics better.

[youtube]QKUT59h3vMw[/youtube]

Nitro Circus

Tally — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:28:07 GMT

I love this show!!! Just an eclectic bunch of dudes (and one girl) doing crazy and often funny stunts on everything from plastic Big Wheels to dirt bikes to trucks! Sometimes their antics don't involve vehicles at all (except for a rubber inner tube or a surf board or a slip n' slide). Fun shit! :p

Kris Allen

BridgieBridge — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:58:26 GMT

Yes he won! I was so surprised, i thought Adam had it in the bag even though i really did want Kris to win. Kris stayed true to himself throughout the whole thing, it was never an act just him raw on stage, and i like his voice and melodies.

FAKE ECONOMY MINDFUCK - from 08 07 07

Maggot — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:58:42 GMT

More vintage goodness from Deek Jackson's old YouTube account.

[youtube]4Zy8LYMQjbo[/youtube]

eurovision song contest, this saturday!

oki — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:36:25 GMT

[yt]vnXO9YX5ppU[/yt]

thats teh dutch song, lol. tonight they have to get though they semi-final, and then saturday the final.
most predict that our song will not even get to the finals. because it sucks lol. allthough it grows on you i guess, and you never know what kind of retarded songs europe likes. i cant imagine that this is the worst of all.

"Linoleum" by NOFX (bass cover)

Maggot — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:04:10 GMT

This is a bass cover of NOFX's "Linoleum" off of their [I]Punk in Drublic[/I] album. Unfortunately, the sound quality is bad in this video too.

[youtube]nSC8c8sREgI[/youtube]

"Lullaby" by Voting With Bullets (lead guitar cover)

Maggot — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:01:22 GMT

This here is a lead guitar cover of a song called "Lullaby" by Voting With Bullets, a band from Apple Valley, California. Apologies for the bad sound quality.

[youtube]g2PHTD8Oi6g[/youtube]

Subliminal Cut

Maggot — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:22:21 GMT

Ads are everywhere... even in your video games.

[youtube]3NCJdm07t44[/youtube]

Kissing Monkeys

taru — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:13:28 GMT

[yt]ApVg9lRs7JY[/yt]

:w00t: :hehe:

Teen Fiction Addiction

Fayebelle — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:27:33 GMT

It's true. I have a problem. I thought it was over when I finished the Twilight series but noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Now it's the Blue Blood series- the LUXE series and NOW one of my fave addictions from high school has gone and started adding to THOSE series!

I mean REALLY- how can they not be roping us in coming back after about a decade of not writing - psssst Sam- you'd love the Vampire Diaries http://www.ljanesmith.net/booklist.php GREAT GUILTY PLEASURE :)

"TV Party" by Black Flag (guitar cover)

Maggot — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:26:22 GMT

In this video, I did a guitar cover of "TV Party" by Black Flag off of the TV Party EP. This is the most annoying video I ever uploaded because the first time I uploaded it, it cut out at 2:57, so I had to delete it and start all over. This take that you see before you is a lot better than that last one. So, without further delay, here's my guitar cover of "TV Party".

[youtube]LGhQ5QEEGPk[/youtube]

"Pay to Play" by Nirvana (guitar cover)

Maggot — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:26:30 GMT

God damn it, Kurt? Why'd you have to change the lyrics in this song? :(

[youtube]AGP6NAAkn3k[/youtube]

Steve-O's Demise and Rise

Fayebelle — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:02:39 GMT

What an OUTSTANDING show. MTV is kind enough to play it back to back so we're watching a second time now.

"Last Caress" by The Misfits (guitar cover)

Maggot — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:38:22 GMT

This is me playing "Last Caress" by The Misfits on my B.C. Rich Warlock guitar. When my band finally gets enough members, maybe we'll cover this song live. ;)

[youtube]ePgAzF1w67Q[/youtube]

Foamy - Fashions

Maggot — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:57:38 GMT

A rant about styles and image for the independent-minded.

[youtube]Qpj51fYE9T4[/youtube]

"Who Spilt My Beer?" by The Adicts (guitar cover)

Maggot — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:01:10 GMT

[youtube]12zfz6xIOfQ[/youtube]

This video cuts out in the end, so don't go crying to me because there's not a damn thing I can do to fix it.

Oh Dear Sam

Fayebelle — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:23:03 GMT

A new Star Trek

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6105262.ece

"Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath (bass cover)

Maggot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:58:38 GMT

I know there's some Black Sabbath fans out there!

[youtube]V2YoaCMLV8I&feature=channel[/youtube]

"Frustration (Purple Hearts cover)" by The Maxies (guitar cover)

Maggot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:54:06 GMT

This one was played on a Fender Stratocaster that my grandparents gave me when I was 11 years old. This video came out pretty good, but cuts out in the end. And this was also when I found out that there was an extra outlet on the floor to plug my amp closer to the computer. All my guitar covers are played through a Crate GLX65 electric guitar amplifier.

[youtube]o7IX78vA4iw&feature=related[/youtube]

"Danny Bonaduce" by The Walking Toxins (guitar cover)

Maggot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:11:29 GMT

This one was rather irritating to pull off.

[youtube]LpoS8jd28WM&feature=channel[/youtube]

Don't worry, my fellow droogies! There will be more to come soon!

"Idaho" by The Ditch Bank Okies (guitar cover)

Maggot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:05:49 GMT

For those of ya who are a little bit country, here's some cowpunk for ya.

[youtube]B8a36F-4W6E&feature=channel[/youtube]

"Fed Up" by Naked Aggression (guitar cover)

Maggot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:48:26 GMT

Droogies, I give you my first installment of random guitar covers. This one I did when I found out that with my new eMac, I can do Quick Capture videos on YouTube. This one's a little too quiet because my amplifier was plugged near the kitchen.

What? I was learning!

[youtube]8VyQMML8krk[/youtube]

B.C. Rich Warlocks FTW!

Slipknot - Sulfur

Maggot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:38:18 GMT

Their next single off their current album "All Hope Is Gone". Enjoy.

[youtube]0922eB_Fpjg[/youtube]

Foamy - Muffin Massacre

Maggot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:11:28 GMT

Pilz-E returns... with a muffin!

[youtube]pCJhzH1hQT0[/youtube]

Obama Nation

SAMSON — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:17:27 GMT

[URL="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Nation-Leftist-Politics-Personality/dp/1416598065/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237645512&sr=8-1"]Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality[/URL]byJerome Corsi Just finished listening to Jerome Corsi read his book about Barak Hussein, Jr. and explain how vulnerable a candidate he would be to easily defeat in the 2008 presidential elections. ***Maggot, Dicky T, FM.......he wrote the book BEFORE the elections, m'k?*** I found the book very illuminating, not because of the astonishing volume of ammunition that it carried against Barak Hussein, Jr., but because how little of it was ever fired at him. Now I understand why McCain lost: His campaign had smaller balls than Hillary Clinton's. Yeah, now DngrMse is gonna show up to explain that "The Media" was on Barak Hussein, Jr.'s side. For christssake, stop making excuses. Did "The Media" also force McCain to roll over in each debate? Another interesting point of Corsi's book is something I think should be detailed in more depth now that the Republicans have been so incredibly defeated: Restructuring (or preferably disbanding) the Republican Party. He explains that the Democrat's Primary system, unlike the Republican's Primary system, allows little known candidates the chance to win the nomination. This can, obviously be a good thing, as in the case of Barak Hussein, Jr., and a Bad thing as in the case of McCain. He notes that the Republican Primaries are a "Winner take all," i.e. if a candidate wins a state's Republican primary, ALL that state's delegates are his, regardless of how slim a margin. Democrats split the delegates according to the proportion of how many votes a candidate receives. IMHO, the Republicans would have a much better chance of winning (or to be more precise, keeping the GOP from disintegrating into two parties) in 2012 if they adopted the Democrat's delegate ratio method. At any rate, the book's an amusing excersise in examining Republican Overconfidance in the 2008 election.

Taken

BridgieBridge — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:17:16 GMT

Ooh-wee it's chocked full of goodness!Darn i have yet to find a good trailer..............It is so darn good!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BridgieBridge — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:16:53 GMT

[url=http://www.benjaminbutton.com/]The Curious Case of Benjamin Button[/url]I liked it. Rather long....3 hrs.....but good.

Why We Suck

Bear Stories — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:15:39 GMT

Denis Leary, in addition to being the angriest man on the Planet, is one of the funniest. That is all.

Interesting Movie Fact Of The Day.....

Tally — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:14:24 GMT

Did you know that Sylvester Stallon's first movie was a porno called "Party at Kitty and Stud's" ? I must see it!!! :runsmile:

The One Sentence Movie Review Thread

boedicca — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:12:12 GMT

"Quantum of Solace" should have been titled "Quantity of Broken Glass".

Has anyone seen "W"?

Ghost — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:12:07 GMT

I have been trying to find it on ARES.VikingHow was it?

Appaloosa

SAMSON — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:11:55 GMT

A western, so I had to see it. The beginning was promising because one of the main characters had an 8 gage shotgun, and I really was hoping to see what would happen during the rest of the film if he used it. Then Renee Zellwigger magically materialized and became the love intertest of the Main Character, The New Law in Town. Now I'm not saying that Zellwigger is Ugly: [IMG]http://www.canmag.com/images/front/people2/reneezellweger.jpg[/IMG] But the movie seemed to do its best trying to make her look as bad as it could. Anyway, No one ever got blown away with the 8 gage, and I thought the film sucked.