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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: John Junk 2.0 on April 09, 2008, 07:45:39 PM
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Crystal Castles. I don't get it.
Is Karen O getting assaulted against the side of a Donkey Kong machine? Is that what I'm hearing?
Now you!
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I don't get making a dramatization of "The King of Kong." You can't do better than the real Billy Mitchell.
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How is Facebook fun, again? I just signed up, and it's like a Busy Box for adults. You know the little panels with loads of buttons, knobs and buzzers that don't do anything? You sit a baby in front of it and they click and button push happily for hours? If that baby was "poking" and Zombie Fighting with no one, it would be Facebook.
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amy winehouse
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Radiohead
Lost
The saxophone
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The Cynics
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The Cynics
At risk of further ridicule, I don't get There Will Be Blood...
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Destroyer (the band/guy from New Pornographers, whom I do get).
McSweeney's
Why a diversity of movies aren't put out all year, rather than summer=blockbusters, fall=oscar time
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Nothing '08 about my "I Don't Get It". Just the same stuff that's bugged me for years.
MST3K -- Maybe I haven't seen enough to judge. What little I'd seen in the past wasn't funny. Should I give it another chance? Should I just move on?
Bubble Tea -- A caller to the show already summed up my feelings on this.
Wilco -- An ancient topic around here, but a lot of smart people I know seem to love 'em. Why? I like some alt-country but Wilco is so boring. There's no hooks and every song sounds equally forgettable.
Jim Gaffigan -- Seems like a good guy. I get his mainstream appeal, but no idea why he's championed by the alt-comedy crowd.
Physics -- Dropped out of high school physics class. To this day, I refuse to understand.
Religion -- What's the deal with that stuff?
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Jim Gaffigan -- Seems like a good guy. I get his mainstream appeal, but no idea why he's championed by the alt-comedy crowd.
I don't think we are supposed to reply to these, but I think it's because the alt-comedy crowd likes a well-written joke as much as anyone. That the alt-comedy crowd likes great comedians that aren't in that realm is much to their credit. There is already enough judgmental hipsterness in that crowd when someone who put some work into craft comes through.
But man am I with you when it comes to MST3K.
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- "ITunes Music", i.e. The Arcade Fire, Dan Deacon, Man Man, Vampire Weekend, The Kills...
- DVD collections
- Straight guys who know/ care about fashion
- Flash/Actionscript2.0 webpages
- graphic design trends in general
- Tattoo sleeves on 23 year olds (carryover from 2001-2007)
- Vlogs
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- Vlogs
Holy Smokes, you said it. I sincerely do not understand. Every time I encounter one of these my whole head turns into a giant one of these: ???
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Wilco -- An ancient topic around here, but a lot of smart people I know seem to love 'em. Why? I like some alt-country but Wilco is so boring. There's no hooks and every song sounds equally forgettable.
I liked it when they actually were alt-country. AM is a great album.
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Jim Gaffigan -- Seems like a good guy. I get his mainstream appeal, but no idea why he's championed by the alt-comedy crowd.
I don't think we are supposed to reply to these, but I think it's because the alt-comedy crowd likes a well-written joke as much as anyone. That the alt-comedy crowd likes great comedians that aren't in that realm is much to their credit. There is already enough judgmental hipsterness in that crowd when someone who put some work into craft comes through.
I get that. Funny is funny. I like any comedian that makes me laugh, even if unsanctioned by the AST tastemakers. I respect the guy and feel he's an amusing performer. It's just the material that doesn't do much for me.
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Sweeney Todd- The Movie
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I'd like to add:
-how anyone can still think that a pair of black plastic framed glasses gives them some sort of indie cred.
(http://kickthebobo.com//indie_5.gif)
-why the ladies (in my opinion) still get +4 sexy points for wearing them.
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absolutely!..."i dont get it". on (sort of) that same note, i dont get "indie" blockbusters: little miss sunshine, garden state, juno, across the universe-
im not against the movies per se, or the people who see them or enjoy them. i just dont get it.
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the tv program "lost" specifically - but i'm extending that to pretty much any serial-type show that requires weekly viewing. i don't think there's anything wrong with it/them - but i just don't get it..
i'm also going to second radiohead (someone mentioned them already.) cool enough band - seem like nice guys and all. or maybe not. i don't know them.. i liked when they made rock music ("the bends") as opposed to suicide-inducing disco music (every album after "the bends.") i think they're talented and i know people love 'em - but i don't get it.
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I Don't Get It (http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB38008CA2EB3585124D3CE7C5204790C6)
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Two and a Half Men. It's a show I expected to last five minutes that has become a primetime cornerstone. I've never watched it and really don't want to. Why does it exist? I don't get it?
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-Sleater-Kinney
-The Boondock Saints
-Little Miss Sunshine
-Japanese RPGs (the Final Fantasy series, et al)
-scotch
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How anyone can keep up with The Internet.
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-Sleater-Kinney
I only like 'The Woods', which is the least Sleater-Kinney-ey of all of them. It's the aural equivalent of 'Mission Impossible 3', which came out the same year, and I must say I very much enjoyed. All the pre-'Woods' stuff, though, I don't care for.
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-Sleater-Kinney
-The Boondock Saints
-Little Miss Sunshine
-Japanese RPGs (the Final Fantasy series, et al)
-scotch
There's nothing to get. Boondock Saints is a horrible movie. I don't often come right out and say a movie is across the board awful, but Boondock Saints is a bad, bad movie.
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How is Facebook fun, again? I just signed up, and it's like a Busy Box for adults. You know the little panels with loads of buttons, knobs and buzzers that don't do anything? You sit a baby in front of it and they click and button push happily for hours? If that baby was "poking" and Zombie Fighting with no one, it would be Facebook.
Secondededed.
Facebook or Myspace for people over the age of 25 who aren't selling and/or promoting something.
I don't get it.
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I don't get the New Pornographers either.
Wilco, I sort of get. But they just aren't all that.
I propose "________ isn't all that" as a variant on this topic. It's for artists/people/things that you sort of understand and respect ... but are they really deserving of the avalanche of veneration and awe and critical huzzahs?
Prime example: Bruce Springsteen. Very respectable career. Treats his fans well. But is he really all that?
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-Sleater-Kinney
-The Boondock Saints
-Little Miss Sunshine
-Japanese RPGs (the Final Fantasy series, et al)
-scotch
There's nothing to get. Boondock Saints is a horrible movie. I don't often come right out and say a movie is across the board awful, but Boondock Saints is a bad, bad movie.
Spoony, I was just getting ready to write that, word for word. Top ten WORST
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Has anyone heard that band Health? I saw them play earlier this year. I dont get them. For noise music, they are to the Boredoms what Sum 41 is to Bad Religion. What a bunch of twerps.
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Spoony, I was just getting ready to write that, word for word. Top ten WORST
It means alot to hear that. Boondock fans tend to get a little aggressive and make you think that the problem is you.
"But what about Willam Dafoe?!?!" Yeah? What about him?
I love him, but he knows how to pick the shittiest movies. At least Nick Cage picks shitty movies that will pay him enough to not read his reviews. Does Dafoe have a sick compulsion to try to save the worst script that gets sent to him?
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I'm completely with you on Boondock Saints, fellas. Horrible horrible horrible.
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Boondock Saints is awful. The documentary Overnight, which shows Troy Duffy systematically torpedoing his career and life, is very enjoyable in a King of Kong-mutant parade kind of way.
You know the guy's a jerk when you find yourself rooting for Harvey Weinstein.
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I think most reasonable people hate Boondock Saints, right? I definitely do.
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I never saw Boondock Saints, but Carlito's Way was terrible. Does anyone like it? It seems popular, but maybe that's because it's a razzie.
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I think most reasonable people hate Boondock Saints, right? I definitely do.
can't recall one thing i even mildly liked about that film - and i LOVED "zardoz" - so it's obvious that i'm extremely forgiving when it comes to looking past a movie's shortcomings.
it definitely has it's supporters though, so there is some type of appeal there - but i don't get it..
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My roommate owns Boondock Saints. It's one of the things we don't talk about.
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-Sleater-Kinney
I only like 'The Woods', which is the least Sleater-Kinney-ey of all of them. It's the aural equivalent of 'Mission Impossible 3', which came out the same year, and I must say I very much enjoyed. All the pre-'Woods' stuff, though, I don't care for.
I think The Hot Rock and Dig me Out are great records.
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- Straight guys who know/ care about fashion
To care about people caring about it is to care about it.
An anti-fashion statement is still a fashion statement.
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Not only is Boondack Saints an incredibly stupid Tarantino knock-off, it's really homophobic and racist in a way that just makes it embarassing to watch--it thinks it's being edgy. I also know people who liked it, and they're all cine-dummies.
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Turbonegro. People rave about this bad and I really feel like they're the sort of thing I'd love. I have Ass Cobra and another one and I just don't get it.
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Turbonegro has worn out their welcome. I have a friend who loves them, and he's always singing the new album to me. That makes me very uncomfortable. I always thought of Turbonegro as Fat-Guy Punk.
Last thing I'm going to say on Boondock Saints.... and this goes back to what Mr. Tom has said about Juno... Pulp Fiction was fine and everything, but it spawned a decade of shitty shitty rip-offs. Tough-for-the-sake-of-tough crime flicks by indy directors who read the back of every film noir video cassette without actually watching the film. (Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead come to mind.) Cramming as much drugs and violence as you can into your movie doesn't make it edgy. Just lowest common denominator. Boondock Saints was the lowest of all of them.
That's My Word!
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Last thing I'm going to say on Boondock Saints.... and this goes back to what Mr. Tom has said about Juno... Pulp Fiction was fine and everything, but it spawned a decade of shitty shitty rip-offs. Tough-for-the-sake-of-tough crime flicks by indy directors who read the back of every film noir video cassette without actually watching the film. (Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead come to mind.) Cramming as much drugs and violence as you can into your movie doesn't make it edgy. Just lowest common denominator. Boondock Saints was the lowest of all of them.
Speaking of this, I saw the first shitty thing The Wire made popular that we will be seeing for the next few years in 'smart' indie thrillers: the idea that the city is a character.
I just saw Gone Baby Gone. I don't get it. A bunch of smart people are saying that its a good movie but its a standard noir. But Ben Affleck watched The Wire and decided to make Boston a character in the movie so there is all this unnecessary 'atmosphere' in the begining which takes up a bunch of time and then tons of plot is jammed into the last half of the movie so quickly that nothing makes much sense.
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- Straight guys who know/ care about fashion
To care about people caring about it is to care about it.
An anti-fashion statement is still a fashion statement.
Listen here, Siddhartha: what I meant was not so much fashion, as Haute Coutere. The fact that I even know the name Marc Jacobs irritates me to no end. How his name took up residence in synpase #4325B is anyone's guess, but I would rather have a tidbit about the War of 1812 in there instead (Is that when the Canucks burnt down the White House? gotta check Wikipedia on that). All I know is this: you ever catch me strollin' into the local Dunkin' Donuts looking like this, feel free to pop me in the breadbasket.
(http://kickthebobo.com//diesel.jpg)
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The guy who dressed up horses.
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- Straight guys who know/ care about fashion
To care about people caring about it is to care about it.
An anti-fashion statement is still a fashion statement.
Listen here, Siddhartha: what I meant was not so much fashion, as Haute Coutere. The fact that I even know the name Marc Jacobs irritates me to no end. How his name took up residence in synpase #4325B is anyone's guess, but I would rather have a tidbit about the War of 1812 in there instead (Is that when the Canucks burnt down the White House? gotta check Wikipedia on that). All I know is this: you ever catch me strollin' into the local Dunkin' Donuts looking like this, feel free to pop me in the breadbasket.
(http://kickthebobo.com//diesel.jpg)
First of all, "Listen here, Siddhartha:" = best opening line of a response to a post of mine I've ever gotten. Second, my point is just that you obviously DO care - you have opinions! Trust me - I'm with you on which tidbits of info I'd rather have clogging my synapses - but it is what it is - I just want you to be able to embrace your inner non-"straight"-ness.
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Turbonegro. People rave about this bad and I really feel like they're the sort of thing I'd love. I have Ass Cobra and another one and I just don't get it.
It really comes down to a really dumb idea of a joke and how long they can beat the dead horse of the concept.
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First of all, "Listen here, Siddhartha:" = best opening line of a response to a post of mine I've ever gotten.
I know! Wasn't that just beautiful? I loved it all the more because the Zenniness of your post had earlier caused me to chuckle.
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Second, my point is just that you obviously DO care - you have opinions! Trust me - I'm with you on which tidbits of info I'd rather have clogging my synapses - but it is what it is - I just want you to be able to embrace your inner non-"straight"-ness.
Ok, you got me on this one. What I SHOULD have wrote was:
I Don't Get It '08 - Whatever compels me to give a toss about the things I, and other people, wear (aka 'Fashion').
I did, after all, give TBSOWFMU listeners carte blanche to shoot me in the face if I ever tucked my t-shirt into shorts.
Also, my apologies to any 'straight' or 'non-straight' or 'somewhere in-between' folks out there: It was dumb of me to somehow associate high fashion with non-straightness. This is a stereotype, and as You Can't Do That On Television taught me many years ago: Stereotypes Are Wrong. I'm sure there are as many men, both gay, straight and in-between that are kickin' the sweatpants and BIG DOGZ t-shirt look.
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Sidenote here, which I found interesting. I was gonna post a pic of one of those Big Dogz t-shirts, but then I thought that maybe a good anti-fashion combo would be sweatpants and a 'Remember 9/11" type shirt, so I did a google image search for "9/11 t-shirt".
(http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS264&q=9%2F11+t-shirt&btnG=Search+Images)
Almost all of the results are 9/11 CONSPIRACY t-shirts! Wow, it's amazing how much things have changed in the past 7 years. It's sorta like Google Image Search is the new Zogby Poll.
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-Sleater-Kinney
I only like 'The Woods', which is the least Sleater-Kinney-ey of all of them. It's the aural equivalent of 'Mission Impossible 3', which came out the same year, and I must say I very much enjoyed. All the pre-'Woods' stuff, though, I don't care for.
I think The Hot Rock and Dig me Out are great records.
amen - though "the woods" in no slouch either. they're maybe the best example i can think of regarding a band that others tell me they don't get and i can totally understand why.
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Second, my point is just that you obviously DO care - you have opinions! Trust me - I'm with you on which tidbits of info I'd rather have clogging my synapses - but it is what it is - I just want you to be able to embrace your inner non-"straight"-ness.
Ok, you got me on this one. What I SHOULD have wrote was:
I Don't Get It '08 - Whatever compels me to give a toss about the things I, and other people, wear (aka 'Fashion').
I did, after all, give TBSOWFMU listeners carte blanche to shoot me in the face if I ever tucked my t-shirt into shorts.
Also, my apologies to any 'straight' or 'non-straight' or 'somewhere in-between' folks out there: It was dumb of me to somehow associate high fashion with non-straightness. This is a stereotype, and as You Can't Do That On Television taught me many years ago: Stereotypes Are Wrong. I'm sure there are as many men, both gay, straight and in-between that are kickin' the sweatpants and BIG DOGZ t-shirt look.
Stereotypes are wrong*, but you, KTB, are right!
*but not necessarily not funny
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Hey, TL, do rock stars get lots of free records?
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Hey, TL, do rock stars get lots of free records?
Stop that.
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Hey, TL, do rock stars get lots of free records?
Stop that.
Seriously Dave, let's try to keep this thread on topic.
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bluetooth in your car
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Bobo, where did you find that picture of me?
I gotta say: Judd Apatow. People I generally agree with love him, and I actually watched The 40-Year-Old Virgin twice just to make sure, but I came away from it even more convinced that it was a big piece of crap-ola. Apparently he's a really nice guy or something, because everyone seems to like him. And no, I haven't seen Freaks and Geeks yet. It's somewhere on my Netflix queue.
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Judd's been running his cred engine off the goodwill from Freaks and Geeks for years now. But that shit's not a renewable resource. I thought knocked up was okay but 40y.o.v. stank. Superbad was better, but Seth Rogan wrote that, Judd Apatow mostly produced it and acted like a guiding light. To me, I see these Sarah Marshall ads and my goodwill towards Apatow starts thinkin' about shopping for a coffin. I'm beginning to think Freaks and Geeks' awesomeness has more to do with the other writers and co-producers of the show, and that Apatow had a really great year of casting in him that he's been living off ever since. That one guy from Freaks in this Sarah Marshall movie, though, ---this guy canNOT carry a film. sawry!
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This reminds me of a funny story: my good friend Danny*, who is a big-faced, happy, ruddy Irish guy, got snapped up for an outstanding bench warrant and was taken to the tombs for the weekend (he's fine). He said his nickname in the clink was "That Seth Rogan N****." It's funnier out loud, especially when he says it.
*Ex-Batistick roommate, JJ
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Two and a Half Men. It's a show I expected to last five minutes that has become a primetime cornerstone. I've never watched it and really don't want to. Why does it exist? I don't get it?
OMG, Yes. My parents love that show. Although they are pretty prim and proper, they get all giddy when masturbatory jokes are featured. The theme for the show is Bobby McFerrin 2.0 and makes me cringe. But if Tony Coulter looped it, I would probably love it. I don't get it, and don't want to get it.
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-Sleater-Kinney
I only like 'The Woods', which is the least Sleater-Kinney-ey of all of them. It's the aural equivalent of 'Mission Impossible 3', which came out the same year, and I must say I very much enjoyed. All the pre-'Woods' stuff, though, I don't care for.
I think The Hot Rock and Dig me Out are great records.
amen - though "the woods" in no slouch either. they're maybe the best example i can think of regarding a band that others tell me they don't get and i can totally understand why.
One Beat is in the top 10 of the 00's in my opinion. That said, I'm not a huge fan of the rest of their stuff. I didn't like The Woods at all and The Hot Rock and Dig Me Out are just ok. I don't know why One Beat is so different for me.
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Hey, TL, do rock stars get lots of free records?
Define "records."
That is to say, at my level, you tend to get a lot of demos, if you know what I'm sayin'...
But free "records?" I'll ask Eddie Vedder for you.
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Judd's been running his cred engine off the goodwill from Freaks and Geeks for years now. But that shit's not a renewable resource.
Paul Feig is responsible for the bulk of F&G's awesomeness. My favorite Apatow-related film is The Cable Guy.
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Judd's been running his cred engine off the goodwill from Freaks and Geeks for years now. But that shit's not a renewable resource.
Paul Feig is responsible for the bulk of F&G's awesomeness. My favorite Apatow-related film is The Cable Guy.
BUT, I was just re-watching a bunch of Larry Sanders episodes the other day and was surprised to see Judd Apatow's name - I never realized he was involved in that (and that does, indeed, get him some renewable cred points).
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Whole Foods.
Actually I understand why Whole Foods is popular; I just don't get why I feel the need to dress up nice to pay way too much for lettuce.
Also I don't get giant SUV-sized baby-strollers. In my day we had two umbrella sticks with wheels and it worked just fine!
TL, the fact that someone on this board stood up for Hot Rock warms my heart. Start Together was my comeback anthem for '99 (as Sons of Cain was in '07).
I actually get Destroyer more than The New Pornographers. Give me Rubies, sir, and you can have your Challengers!
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Judd's been running his cred engine off the goodwill from Freaks and Geeks for years now. But that shit's not a renewable resource.
Paul Feig is responsible for the bulk of F&G's awesomeness. My favorite Apatow-related film is The Cable Guy.
BUT, I was just re-watching a bunch of Larry Sanders episodes the other day and was surprised to see Judd Apatow's name - I never realized he was involved in that (and that does, indeed, get him some renewable cred points).
Indeed.
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BUT, I was just re-watching a bunch of Larry Sanders episodes the other day and was surprised to see Judd Apatow's name - I never realized he was involved in that (and that does, indeed, get him some renewable cred points).
I was watching an episode of "The Critic" a couple of days ago and saw both Judd Apatow and Brad Bird's names. Two big surprises for me there.
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Apatow was also involved in Anchorman, yes? That should also get him some points. For the record, I loved 40 Year-Old Virgin.
He deserves to be severely flogged for Walk Hard, though. Ew buoy.
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Whole Foods.
Actually I understand why Whole Foods is popular; I just don't get why I feel the need to dress up nice to pay way too much for lettuce.
uh huh..
honestly - if you're into the whole organic/fair trade/locally grown foodstuffs thing (like the wifey and i are) - chances are there's a decent co-op market round your way to satisfy all of your healthy chow needs (minus the isle-blocking, oblivious money-havin' folks you find at WF paying their super high prices.) and if you don't live in a major metro - there's still a lot of family farms out there with the same good stuff that's probably only a short drive away (we have a lot of great amish and mennonite farm pads here in PA.) i agree with a lot of what WF is all about - but i feel like quality, environmentally-responsible food shouldn't be only accessible to those with major bucks. whole foods - i like it (mostly) - but i don't get it (mostly.)
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I know a guy who is a raw vegan and who worked the meat counter at Whole Foods for about a year. People would always ask him how to cook the stuff they were buying and he (who hadn't eaten meat in about 8 years) would be like, "just keep an eye on it."
Um, anyway. Carry on.
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Hee hee. Thanks, Emma.
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I like to add useful things to the conversation!
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-Sleater-Kinney
I only like 'The Woods', which is the least Sleater-Kinney-ey of all of them. It's the aural equivalent of 'Mission Impossible 3', which came out the same year, and I must say I very much enjoyed. All the pre-'Woods' stuff, though, I don't care for.
I think The Hot Rock and Dig me Out are great records.
amen - though "the woods" in no slouch either. they're maybe the best example i can think of regarding a band that others tell me they don't get and i can totally understand why.
One Beat is in the top 10 of the 00's in my opinion. That said, I'm not a huge fan of the rest of their stuff. I didn't like The Woods at all and The Hot Rock and Dig Me Out are just ok. I don't know why One Beat is so different for me.
I lurve Sleater-Kinney, missteps and all. If they ever release their final show on dvd look for me wearing a Scharpling Landscaping t-shirt.
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Whole Foods.
Actually I understand why Whole Foods is popular; I just don't get why I feel the need to dress up nice to pay way too much for lettuce.
uh huh..
honestly - if you're into the whole organic/fair trade/locally grown foodstuffs thing (like the wifey and i are) - chances are there's a decent co-op market round your way to satisfy all of your healthy chow needs (minus the isle-blocking, oblivious money-havin' folks you find at WF paying their super high prices.) and if you don't live in a major metro - there's still a lot of family farms out there with the same good stuff that's probably only a short drive away (we have a lot of great amish and mennonite farm pads here in PA.) i agree with a lot of what WF is all about - but i feel like quality, environmentally-responsible food shouldn't be only accessible to those with major bucks. whole foods - i like it (mostly) - but i don't get it (mostly.)
Andrew,
Yes exactly! This year we're going to take part in a local crop share available in Providence where you pay up front and receive a weekly pick-up of local produce. Hopefully more and more people will find their way to this (even if it's only during the summer months) and away from mega-organic produce from who-know's-where.
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Other people have mentioned The New Pornographers, but I'll throw them into the fray officially. I'm a big fan of poppy indie rock, but this is just... too much. They're the aural equivalent of snorting a Pixie Stick.
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Whole Foods.
Actually I understand why Whole Foods is popular; I just don't get why I feel the need to dress up nice to pay way too much for lettuce.
uh huh..
honestly - if you're into the whole organic/fair trade/locally grown foodstuffs thing (like the wifey and i are) - chances are there's a decent co-op market round your way to satisfy all of your healthy chow needs (minus the isle-blocking, oblivious money-havin' folks you find at WF paying their super high prices.) and if you don't live in a major metro - there's still a lot of family farms out there with the same good stuff that's probably only a short drive away (we have a lot of great amish and mennonite farm pads here in PA.) i agree with a lot of what WF is all about - but i feel like quality, environmentally-responsible food shouldn't be only accessible to those with major bucks. whole foods - i like it (mostly) - but i don't get it (mostly.)
Andrew,
Yes exactly! This year we're going to take part in a local crop share available in Providence where you pay up front and receive a weekly pick-up of local produce. Hopefully more and more people will find their way to this (even if it's only during the summer months) and away from mega-organic produce from who-know's-where.
that's the way to go..
a factory farm is a factory farm - no matter what the heck they're growing.
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i'd like to throw high def TVs into the i don't get it zone - or maybe just gingerly place them there. they're pretty $$ and i don't want to have to foot the bill if one breaks.
i guess i could see the point of wanting to see every detail of everything if you watch exhaustive amounts of television - but the few shows i like look just fine the way they are. a mega detailed jerry orbach (r.i.p.) is a tough pill to swallow.
it always irked when i'd mention something about the simpsons and some snob would shoot back with a very superior "i don't watch tv!" i'm not that full of myself, but if it all went away tomorrow, i could give a fluff. i got a decent sized/priced tele for movie/phillies game watching and that's fine by me. spending several grand to have an opportunity to play connect the craters on some weird o' wood has been's aging face (not a veiled jerry orbach reference - him i love and could gaze at all day) is too much for me. i don't get it..
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BUT, I was just re-watching a bunch of Larry Sanders episodes the other day and was surprised to see Judd Apatow's name - I never realized he was involved in that (and that does, indeed, get him some renewable cred points).
Aw! I saw Janeane Garofalo do an hour of stand-up tonight. She was very funny, but toward the end I became a bit, uh... wistful? I realized I wasn't 16 anymore, that I no longer had a crush on Paula from The Larry Sanders Show, and that no TV comedy has quite measured up since.
Good thing all 89 episodes are up on youtube!
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Oops I got off-topic.
I don't get guys who cut their own hair.
Wow, really you cut that yourself, huh? Well nice work, it looks horrifying.
What are you gonna do with that extra twelve dollars?
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I don't get guys who cut their own hair.
Wow, really you cut that yourself, huh? Well nice work, it looks horrifying.
What are you gonna do with that extra twelve dollars?
I whole-heartedly agree. I had a roommate who was always flaunting about how he cuts his own hair and how he only takes cold showers- another thing just I don't get.
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Oops I got off-topic.
I don't get guys who cut their own hair.
Wow, really you cut that yourself, huh? Well nice work, it looks horrifying.
What are you gonna do with that extra twelve dollars?
what about letting it grow out for about 4 months and then shaving it all down to nothing and starting all over again - does that qualify?
the barber i went to for the first 20 or so years of my life retired and i never found another one worthy of trimming my locks - or a better system of hair management..
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I like that system, andrew. I'd adopt it myself if I had the guts.
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What are you gonna do with that extra twelve dollars?
Buy a hat?
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But you don't have to buy a hat month after month. Those twelve dollarses would mount up pretty impressively over the course of time.
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Very true, Sarah.
After only 500 years one would have the down payment on a house.
Who's laughing now, well-groomed apartment dwellers?
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After a year and a half I have yet to have a decent haircut in the US.
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After a year and a half I have yet to have a decent haircut in the US.
love it or leave it.
(http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/pictures/hacksaw4.jpg)
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It's really tough to find a good barber. The places I go are either chop-shops or they're run by people that would clearly rather be making a lot more money cutting or dying girl hair.
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every barber I go to manages to botch it in one way or another. Tries to make me too pretty or makes me like I'm twelve. It ends with me going at it with a set of clippers. I've got it down to a presentable art.
THANK GOD I'll be bald in a couple of years and I can put all of this behind me.
SOB
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After a year and a half I have yet to have a decent haircut in the US.
I love my totally old school blue liquid in a jar barber.
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Looked through the FOTchan and have to agree with several posters.
The malicious, anonymous, cowardly, unfunny hating on the FOTchan.
I don't get it.
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Oops I got off-topic.
I don't get guys who cut their own hair.
Wow, really you cut that yourself, huh? Well nice work, it looks horrifying.
What are you gonna do with that extra twelve dollars?
It's time for a counter-point here. I'll fess up. I shave my own head. But I am bald on the top and it takes about ten minutes. I mean, why would I have someone else do it? I don't have someone else shave my face. If I'm a q-ball and it'll take the same amount of time as shaving my face, why don't I just do it?
Plus, the 12 saved dollars can go toward my subscription to Cheap Bastards Monthly.
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Plus, the 12 saved dollars can go toward my subscription to Cheap Bastards Monthly.
I usually just flip through Cheap Bastards Monthly at the newsstand.
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The fatal flaw in that plan: if the guy who owns the newsstand is a subscriber, you know he's gonna see you and make you pay for it.
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Wii, and Wii parties. I hate all videogames anyway, but this is too much. No, I don't want to go over the your house to play Wii tennis...but I do want to play tennis. There's an empty park next door. Let's play!
Hey, you know what sounds like more fun than going over to your apartment to play Wii bowling? Actually going bowling. I'll drive.
I had to add this too: any guy (or girl, I guess) whose idea of a fun date is to invite you over to watch him (or her) play Guitar Hero, Rock Band, or any variation thereof. I hate you. What were you thinking?
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My 13 year-old nephew came over this weekend. I can add something else to the list -- Ultimate Fighting.
Horrr-ifying.
I felt like Tipper Gore being forced to listen to NWA.
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Wii, and Wii parties. I hate all videogames anyway, but this is too much. No, I don't want to go over the your house to play Wii tennis...but I do want to play tennis. There's an empty park next door. Let's play!
Hey, you know what sounds like more fun than going over to your apartment to play Wii bowling? Actually going bowling. I'll drive.
I had to add this too: any guy (or girl, I guess) whose idea of a fun date is to invite you over to watch him (or her) play Guitar Hero, Rock Band, or any variation thereof. I hate you. What were you thinking?
And why play chess when you can start real wars?
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Hey, you know what sounds like more fun than going over to your apartment to play Wii bowling? Actually going bowling. I'll drive.
so sad that some people can't appreciate the charm that stale beer, $2 nachos, plumes of cigarette smoke, and rented footwear have to offer. video bowling can't replicate any of these wonders and I wouldn't do it for all the change in the bowling alley bathroom condom machine..
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I love my totally old school blue liquid in a jar barber.
the name for that junk? barbicide.
(http://www.cachebeauty.com/wholsale/barbicide_21oz.gif)
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Hey, you know what sounds like more fun than going over to your apartment to play Wii bowling? Actually going bowling. I'll drive.
so sad that some people can't appreciate the charm that stale beer, $2 nachos, plumes of cigarette smoke, and rented footwear have to offer. video bowling can't replicate any of these wonders and I wouldn't do it for all the change in the bowling alley bathroom condom machine..
So what are the upper class activities you are doing? The only shitty part of that is the second-hand cigarette smoke (which if you live in a state where that is legal, good luck going to any place with alcohol, even your precious chardonnay, and not being surrounded by smoke).
Bowling is fun. You should loosen your ascot and enjoy fun stuff or go shop for a coffin.
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Hey, you know what sounds like more fun than going over to your apartment to play Wii bowling? Actually going bowling. I'll drive.
so sad that some people can't appreciate the charm that stale beer, $2 nachos, plumes of cigarette smoke, and rented footwear have to offer. video bowling can't replicate any of these wonders and I wouldn't do it for all the change in the bowling alley bathroom condom machine..
So what are the upper class activities you are doing? The only shitty part of that is the second-hand cigarette smoke (which if you live in a state where that is legal, good luck going to any place with alcohol, even your precious chardonnay, and not being surrounded by smoke).
Bowling is fun. You should loosen your ascot and enjoy fun stuff or go shop for a coffin.
luxurious one,
i pretty much knew the second i hit "post" that someone would take that wrong way. there's really no accounting for tone or sarcasm on message boards.
what's that old proverb? oh, yeah: "judge me not lest ye lived a month in my bowling alley.." or something like that.
my point was that stale beer, nachos, rented shoes and, to some extent, cigarette smoke are the things i LIKE about going bowling. by that i mean they're the little magic touches that can't be replicated by some weird video game. it's all part of the experience. without it - it ain't bowling. i also like coming up with a funny name for myself to appear on the score viewer thing. oh, and the crane machine - that's pretty happening too.
i don't know anything about chardonnay, or what constitutes an "upper class activity" (burning money for kicks, caviar eating contests, hunting the poor for sport?) - but the ascot comment made me chuckle.
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I'm in Vegas.
I don't get Hummer limos. They're like a big fuck you to everyone - poor people, people with smaller cars, environmentalists... just horrible.
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I'm in Vegas.
I don't get Hummer limos. They're like a big fuck you to everyone - poor people, people with smaller cars, environmentalists... just horrible.
exactly. they just took a thing and made it worse.
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ah...the it in the sentence 'video bowling can't replicate these wonders and I wouldn't do it for all the change...' I thought refered to actual bowling rather than video bowling. once it was clarified, it was obvious. someone made fun of me on a fotchan thread about taking things too seriously. they was right.
I don't get it:
- How political punditry becomes political fact. Some idiots say their opinions about stuff that actually happened and repeat eachother's opinions and somehow the event is colored in a certain way or we have a new made-up fact. Whether its Howard Dean's not-real scream or the Jeremiah Wright episode or '00 election or the way the war happened, it just doesn't make any sense to me.
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ah...the it in the sentence 'video bowling can't replicate these wonders and I wouldn't do it for all the change...' I thought refered to actual bowling rather than video bowling. once it was clarified, it was obvious. someone made fun of me on a fotchan thread about taking things too seriously. they was right.
it was actually pretty funny. it made me think of the scene in "the godfather" where sonny is in the kitchen with his wife and the screaming baby - and you can just see all the twitchy rage in him he's trying so hard to contain (but failing.) then he gets the call from connie that carlo's been smacking her and all heck breaks loose..
please keep taking things entirely too seriously. i'm sure there's a constructive or, at the very least, funny way to put all that name-calling to good use. the chardonnay and ascot stuff still has me laughing. cheers.
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Puffy sleeves winning Project Runway and Richard mixing white chocolate with wasabi on Top Chef.
Wussup, Bravo? I don't get it!!!
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I love my totally old school blue liquid in a jar barber.
the name for that junk? barbicide.
(http://www.cachebeauty.com/wholsale/barbicide_21oz.gif)
Every time I see stuff, that I always think it sounds like something manufactured to kill barbers.
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Puffy sleeves winning Project Runway and Richard mixing white chocolate with wasabi on Top Chef.
Wussup, Bravo? I don't get it!!!
Awww, I like Christian Siriano.
I'm not sure how I would like white chocolate and wasabi. It could be one of those crazy flavor combinations that surprisingly works. I've had weirder flavor combinations.
I love chocolate sauces and reductions in savory dishes, but those usually have high cacao content with a bitter edge. White chocolate is pure sugar, no bite, no edge. Just sweet. I like sweet and spicy and sweet and salty, but I'm not sold on that flavor combination.
My favorite restaurant (http://www.michaelsgenuine.com/) has a crispy beef cheek dish on the menu that comes with whipped celeriac, celery salad, and a chocolate reduction. I've eaten a little bit of the salad off of my friend's plate last week, and it was fabulous. I would be all over that if I ate red meat, but I've found it repulsive since birth!
If you're ever in Miami, come to Michael's Genuine Food & Drink and eat the kimchi. I'm a kimchi convert. It's addictive.
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Christian came to my office with a couple other Project Runway people last week. Victorya and Jack specifically. Christian seemed a lot more down to earth and normal in person. Victorya also, but Jack was totally annoying.
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Victorya came off as a humorless bitch. Even Heidi thought so.
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Victorya came off as a humorless bitch. Even Heidi thought so.
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I'm not sure how I would like white chocolate and wasabi. It could be one of those crazy flavor combinations that surprisingly works. I've had weirder flavor combinations.
me too. in fact, wasnt there someone last season who mixed chili pepper with chocolate (during the bacardi quickfire challenge).
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Turbonegro. People rave about this bad and I really feel like they're the sort of thing I'd love. I have Ass Cobra and another one and I just don't get it.
It depends on which record "the other one" is. Their next record, Apocalypse Dudes, is to my mind the best rock record of the 1990s. Their other records range in quality from "sucks on hot ice" to "meh."
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Chocolate and chili pepper have been combined forever (double the endorphins, double the fun); wasabi would perform the same role as chili pepper. It's the fact that pretentious Blais used white chocolate that is so puzzling, as Laurie noted.
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An ice cream place here locally has a flavor called Queen City Cayenne that combines milk chocolate, cayenne, and cinnamon and it is delicious.
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An ice cream place here locally has a flavor called Queen City Cayenne that combines milk chocolate, cayenne, and cinnamon and it is delicious.
Mmmm that sounds like a "Mexican Hot Chocolate"
Num!
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Tamarind candy I don't get. Those things are like giant beanpods. Also they taste gross. Never should've been made into candy! I don't get it!
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Cah Tawk. I can't stand their New England cackle or their sense of "humor". Now this:
PBS Greenlights 'Car Talk' Television Series (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-11-2007/0004623954&EDATE=)
(http://www.current.org/prog/prog0713cartalk.jpg)
First-Ever Animated Primetime Series for PBS to Launch in Summer 2008
TV Series Titling Contest Open to Fans
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Start your
engines! PBS is bringing Tom and Ray Magliozzi, of CAR TALK, to TV. Based
on the hit NPR radio show, the as-yet-untitled animated sitcom will launch
with ten 30-minute episodes targeted for summer 2008. Fans will be invited
to submit title suggestions for the television show.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070711/DCW076 )
The fast-paced series will take off where the radio series ends,
focusing on the adventures of Click and Clack and their crew of mechanics
and co- workers. Based largely in Tom and Ray's fictional garage, the show
will focus on the "off-air" escapades of Tom and Ray Magliozzi ("known to
their listeners as Click and Clack," the Tappet brothers) as they try to
fix cars, fend off disgruntled customers and seek out ways to do less and
less work.
"We want to apologize in advance to Jim Lehrer, Bill Moyers, the folks
at FRONTLINE, NOVA and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE for the damage we are about to
do to your network's reputation," said Tom and Ray Magliozzi, who will
provide the voices for their own animated characters. "Oh, and Big Bird,
too. Sorry, pal."
"Tom and Ray are larger than life characters, and the only way to keep
them larger than life, and not diminish them on TV, is through animation,"
said creator and executive producer Howard K. Grossman. "We've brought on a
world-class animation team, and I'm confident the series will rank among
the best anywhere."
"Unlikely!" said Tom.
"We're looking forward to bringing Tom and Ray to television, with new
characters and stories that capture the humor of the radio series and take
it even further," said John Boland, PBS chief content officer. "Through
animation and fresh content, we anticipate the show will be a hit among
current fans of the radio show and new audiences. PBS has long been a
leader in creating animated, educational programming for children, but,
with CAR TALK, we will present our first primetime animated series for a
general audience."
The animated series takes place at Car Talk Plaza, a fictional building
which houses their radio studio and their famed garage in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in Harvard Square. Along with "Click and Clack," the cast of
characters includes:
-- Fidel -- A mechanic with a cleanliness obsession, who insists on
wearing Armani suits while working on cars. He can sense car problems
through smell and touch.
-- Crusty -- A former Harvard professor who was tossed out of the nearby
academic institution and now turns a wrench, while thinking deep
thoughts, for Tom and Ray.
-- Stash -- A gruff, Eastern bloc escapee who can manufacture anything out
of anything.
-- Sal (short for Sally) -- The veteran Bostonian garage receptionist who
handles insiders and outsiders with the same lack of etiquette.
-- Beth -- Their young, eager radio producer who desperately wants to
improve their show and make it more professional to please the network
higher ups.
In conjunction with the series, an innovative partnership brokered by
executive producer Howard K. Grossman with The American Association of
Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), whose membership includes all state
motor vehicle agencies (DMVs) in the United States and Canada, will feature
a public safety campaign, with the cartoon versions of Tom and Ray
dispensing safe driving tips and other useful information to drivers
renewing their licenses in person at participating state DMVs, and online,
as well as other educational materials.
The titling contest will be announced on the CAR TALK radio program and
will allow listeners to submit their own suggestions for the television
program title. More details regarding the titling contest will be available
soon.
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Car Tawk. I can't stand their New England cackle or their sense of "humor".
Those guys are the worst. Thank you Josh. I would rather drive in silence than listen to those two unfunny bozos.
When I'm on weekend trips, either Car Talk or Prairie Home Companion tend to be on the radio. This is why I support WFMU but not my local NPR station. Drop the cornball humor, guys.
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I can handle Car Talk, but Prairie Home Companion feels like a fundamentalist cult brainwash-ritual. NPR has good news shows like Brian Lehrer and--I know Tom was busting on it a few weeks ago, but still--This American Life is cool. Cool I say!!
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Every time I hear Brian Lehrer's voice I want to throw him out a window. I also hear from people that play work softball with WNYC that he's a whiny bad sport, but that's hearsay.
I never understand what the hell they're talking about on Prairie Home Companion, but I do know that on long van rides with my Midwestern in-laws, it's reassuring and easy to fall asleep to, and a decent alternative to three hours of small talk.
I listened to Car Talk once in 2005, when I was just checking out the top ten list of iTunes podcasts, and erased every memory of it. I am pretty sure I didn't like it.
This American Life is OK. I listen to it during the school year, when I have to commute, but it doesn't make the cut over the summer, when I actually have to devote time in order to keep up with talk radio. The only four talk shows I stick with all year round are Democracy Now, KCRW's The Business, 7SD, and some show involving mirth, music and mayhem.
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Prairie Home Companion = awful. My folks and their friends seem to find it funny, but I'll never know why. Then again, they probably wouldn't find Andy Breckman as funny as I do.
As for other shows I like, I've only recently subscribed to the podcast of KCRW's The Treatment, but I like what I've heard.
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The Treatment is pretty great. I stopped listening recently to make room for more WFMU podcasts, and also because I noticed I had stopped reading and wanted to start again, but I think about resubscribing all the time. Bookworm on KCRW also has great guests, but Michael Silverblatt's voice takes a lot of getting used to. I used to sort of hate him, but then I felt bad because he seems like this incredibly kind little book-loving gnome.
Wait, this isn't the podcast thread, we already have like 12 of those! Sorry!
I don't get Takashi Murakami. How is his stuff different from Manga again? Is it just recontextualized, like a visually assaulting, infantile, Japanese version of a readymade?
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I don't get Takashi Murakami. How is his stuff different from Manga again? Is it just recontextualized, like a visually assaulting, infantile, Japanese version of a readymade?
Pretty much. I think you do get it, sadly. Also, he's popular because people who don't usually go for art "understand" it. Because they also "understand" buying shit at The Disney Store.
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I don't get Takashi Murakami. How is his stuff different from Manga again? Is it just recontextualized, like a visually assaulting, infantile, Japanese version of a readymade?
Pretty much. I think you do get it, sadly. Also, he's popular because people who don't usually go for art "understand" it. Because they also "understand" buying shit at The Disney Store.
Here we go again (http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,1517.0.html)...
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I'll echo FOTChan . I don't mind it really but I don't get how all of these people came out of the woodwork because they get to be anonymous. Do we have a community of deviants hiding from the FBI? Or are the regular forum FOTs taking on alter egos? Or, are we seeing the people who think they're more important than they really are and need to remain nameless? I don't get it. I don't mind it... I just don't understand.
I also don't get most of the records being critically acclaimed this year.
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Wii, and Wii parties. I hate all videogames anyway, but this is too much. No, I don't want to go over the your house to play Wii tennis...but I do want to play tennis. There's an empty park next door. Let's play!
Hey, you know what sounds like more fun than going over to your apartment to play Wii bowling? Actually going bowling. I'll drive.
Bowling? Tennis? Let's go. We could reenact Billie Jean King versus Bobby Riggs.
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Public rehab stints (e.g., Celebrity Rehab).
It seems counterproductive to be proud of showing off your shortcomings or to be regaining fame from them.
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Other things I don't get:
- Pizza Hut Orea Pizza thing
- The Gloucester Pregnancy Pact - especially sleeping with the homeless, no matter how handsome they are.
- Santagold
- NYPD starting salary being $22,750/year
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If one's sole aim is to get pregnant, with no eye to health concerns or help with child rearing, etc., then it doesn't really matter whether one's partner is homeless, I would think.
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Or, are we seeing the people who think they're more important than they really are and need to remain nameless?
I really don't think it's an issue of anybody at all thinking they're more important or better than anybody. It's just a fun way to communicate, no holds barred. It has NOTHING to do with thinking you're cooler than others, otherwise wouldn't people be attaching their names to it?
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Nothing '08 about my "I Don't Get It". Just the same stuff that's bugged me for years.
MST3K -- Maybe I haven't seen enough to judge. What little I'd seen in the past wasn't funny. Should I give it another chance? Should I just move on?
You'd best be joking
ALSO
rifftrax.com
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Other things I don't get:
- Pizza Hut Orea Pizza thing
Taco Bell + Pizza Hut in the same building. There's just something so unappetizing and weird about cramming the two together.
Not to mention, remember when Pizza Hut was still at least sort of a restaurant? Now it shares real estate with Taco Bell. Ick.
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I used to think pretty highly of all the FOTs. Now I know that I'm surrounded by fucking DIRTBAGS... I'm just not sure who they are, because they're so fucking PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE that they need a blind forum to let their scummy, nerdy little selves flourish.
FOTs are essentially a bunch of strangers. I don't need the anonymity of FOTchan because I'm anonymous right now.
I'd recommend not projecting positive or negative traits upon people you don't know. You'll wind up less disappointed in the end. People are what they are, good and not as good. ;)
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You're right, of course, angstrom. I just needed the release.
I always put Pizza Hut on the same level as Wendy's: Not quite a real resturaunt, but does have carpet. Now it might as well be Sbarro.
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Also, the brilliant new Weezer album.
The only person I've heard say anything good about the new Weezer album was DeRogatis. That being said, I definitely don't get the new My Morning Jacket album, man there are some just awful tracks on that one.
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F-O-T-Chan. I don't get it. And that's... [pant]... that's cool. Nothing's forcing me to look at it, except my own less admirable qualities.
But if I posted that video of the guy blasting Merzbow at his kid under my own name, you would all think I was some sort of horrible person.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahNLU0Ipdl4[/youtube]
This one too:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJ2SegGWyc[/youtube]
So Twix is some kind of new date-rape drug, then?
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Emerson - Did you ever consider the possibility that the posts you've read that have angered you on FOTchan are most likely ONE OR TWO PEOPLE, not an ENTIRE board? :)
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You're right, of course, angstrom. I just needed the release.
Yeah, that's cool.
Thing that always fascinates me about the internet, having met internet people in person before: the internet invariably throws off the wrong vibes about people pretty much all the time. I once got into this big feud with a guy on the internet (over politics, doh) and when we met in person, I figured it might turn into a fist fight or something, but it didn't. We totally became real life pals.
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Swiss - You're right. I freaked out and ranted about something relatively innocuous. I've had some rather tubular experiences that have made me way too touchy about online anonymity. I hereby ease off the gas pedal.
angstrom - I've been told that something like 94% of human communication is nonverbal. Based on my encounters with people I thought I knew online, that sounds accurate.
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I don't get it when people have some beef that the discourse on a message board about a comedy show is "mediocre". What exactly were you hoping for?
I think the next Carl's Jr. ad is going to be someone sitting on the toilet in cold sweats, hocking loogies between his legs, wincing at his own stench, and you'll hear a constant stream of fart and shit-hitting-the-water sounds and it'll say "Bacon Beef Chili Jalapeno Corn Chowder Burgers: Back at Carl's Jr."
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i didn't notice thread existed before. huh.
i don't get life in general, so that applies to almost everything about it.
i do get Crystal Castles, tho. probably because i was actually aware of the chiptune community years ago, unlike the band or most of its fans.
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I don't get how people can criticize FOTchan with no repercussions, but when I did it, I got banned for a week.
I don't get the appeal of Jack Johnson.
I don't get around much anymore.
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I don't get how people can criticize Chinatown with no repercussions, but when I did it, I got banned for a week.
I don't get the appeal of Jack Johnson.
I don't get around much anymore.
That's 'cause you did it IN fotchan, in the first days of the New Regime. They made an example out of you!
I don't get why people occasionally pick on Dave From Knoxville in fotchan. I guess I get it, but I think it stinks. Cowards.
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I don't get why people still insist that Fibromyalgia isn't real.
http://blogs.clevescene.com/cnotes/2008/01/todays_sign_that_were_all_fed_1.php
This is so nauseating. I can't believe that the legitimacy of Fibromyalgia is still being questioned. And that the people who have it are portrayed so negatively.
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OK MAGAZINE
IN TOUCH
US WEEKLY
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I don't get the appeal of Jack Johnson.
You should read the new issue of Rolling Stone, Dave. There's a four- or five-page article about this year's Bonnaroo festival, which featured Jack Johnson as a headliner; they got a quote from one guy that went something like, "Jack Johnson is my least-favorite dude on the planet, but the shrooms I took made his concert a little more intense."
On second thought, don't read the new issue of Rolling Stone. That was the only good part.
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I don't care for Jack Johnson too much, but his track on Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People is amazing. Much like I don't care for the album as a whole too much.
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Actually, Dave, you shouldn't pick up the latest RS. Matt Taibbi does a long feature on FOT-chan and kinda goes off on you. Personally, I think he's being a little harsh.
Also, Emerson, what Swiss didn't tell you is that the two people were her and me.
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Also, Emerson, what Swiss didn't tell you is that the two people were her and me.
Really? I could've sworn I smelled totep's cologne over there. And railing on newbs for not getting the "totally tubular" thing... I can't picture anyone but Liz Noise doing that. Now I can't even trust myself.
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Really? What does my cologne smell like?
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Musky, obviously.
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Oh. That's not cologne.
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Actually, Dave, you shouldn't pick up the latest RS. Matt Taibbi does a long feature on FOT-chan and kinda goes off on you. Personally, I think he's being a little harsh.
I can take it. Wait; he doesn't say I'm fat does he? Or unloved?
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJ2SegGWyc[/youtube]
So Twix is some kind of new date-rape drug, then?
Yes, except instead of knocking out the victim it works to help the rapist access his inner dark triad.
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Actually, Dave, you shouldn't pick up the latest RS. Matt Taibbi does a long feature on FOT-chan and kinda goes off on you. Personally, I think he's being a little harsh.
I can take it. Wait; he doesn't say I'm fat does he? Or unloved?
OK, brace yourself, Dave:
Dave from Knoxville... you really have to see this guy to believe him. His public speaking method is something truly awesome to behold. Imagine a Mummenschanz dancer trying to pass a drunk test after downing a bottle of strychnine, and you've got DFK explaining himself to his class. He waves his hands and head spasmodically as he talks, and sometimes actually adds words to match his twitches and gestures that make no sense and do not necessarily relate to the subject at hand.
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His public speaking method is something truly awesome to behold. Imagine a Mummenschanz dancer trying to pass a drunk test after downing a bottle of strychnine, and you've got DFK explaining himself to his class.
That's so harsh!
I'm sure it's more like half a bottle, really.
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This one too:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJ2SegGWyc[/youtube]
So Twix is some kind of new date-rape drug, then?
I don't get "let's go back to my apartment so we can blog," even as a pretext. Did they just dust off an unused script from the 80s and insert "blogging" somewhere?
edit: I know where apostrophes belong, I really do.
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This one too:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJ2SegGWyc[/youtube]
So Twix is some kind of new date-rape drug, then?
I don't get "le'ts go back to my apartment so we can blog," even as a pretext. Did they just dust off an unused script from the 80s and insert "blogging" somewhere?
I can answer this one:
Yes.
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This seems like an awesome Chinatown thread in the making: something like, insert 21st century tech language into a 20th century context. Like: "hey baby, want to come back to my place and snort some blogs?"
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http://www.scharplingandwurster.com/?p=118#more-118
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http://www.scharplingandwurster.com/?p=118#more-118
Heh heh heh.
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Click & Clack as the wrench turns is on now. wow. wtf. wow. WTF? get off my pbs!