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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Richard_From_CHI on March 22, 2007, 10:33:59 PM
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Harry Shearer is an f-ing pompus jackass and should be run over by a bus.
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My loathing for the band name "DC Snipers" was only heightened when one of them called in to state that they don't come from DC and also hate DC.
It's either a lame generic anti-establishment metaphor or something chosen simply because it appeals to the worst in people.
At the very best, it's 20 years too soon.
This is for non-musical and non-personal reasons. I've heard very little, know nothing about them, and never ever will.
I don't want a better-informed opinion!
Hating the DC Snipers only for their name feels just and true. I'll never let it go.
Come on, guys.
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Tom's evisceration of the then-new Brian Wilson record spoke to me - few things are more depressing than Beach Boys nostalgia.
I'm no fan of Stevie Malkmus, self-mythologizing New Yorkers or bad guys in general
~EmD
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Todd Solondz. Storytelling, Happiness and Welcome to the Dollhouse were all hilarious. It's like with Tarantino- I hate the guy and his ego, but I find the movies very entertaining.
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I think the most hilarious part of Happiness is the child molestation.
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For me the funniest was the Russian cabbie character.
-Don't you miss Russia?
-F*** the c*** of Russia!
Just hilarious.
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I think the most hilarious part of Happiness is the child molestation.
That may be the worst movie in the history of all movies. I was forced to sit through that horrible piece of crap in a theater. Ugh.
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I loved it.
Did anyone else find themselves sympathizing with the paedophile?
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I did sympathize- more at his foolishness rather than at his getting caught.
Those son & dad conversations were extremely disgusting but at the same time the funniest thing also. The only other movie scene that I can think of that matches that level of sickness and hilarity is the "squeal like a pig" scene from Deliverance. Anyways, Happiness wasn't as hilarious the second time I watched it. Dollhouse is easily my favorite. It's very sweet and it's still funny after several viewings.
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I liked Happiness & Storytelling. Hopefully, Solandz will continue to deliver the goods with his latest misantropic offering:
(http://www.kickthebobo.com/eatthesuburbs.jpg)
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I hated Storytelling, except for the American Beauty bit but I loved Palindromes.
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Woah, KTB you blow my mind. "Helloo Tom"
I actually liked "Happiness" and "Dollhouse" but Dollhouse freaked me out a little because of the very accurate New Jerseyness of it. It's a pretty good crystallization of the shit-house that is public middle school. However, the kidnapper thing was dumb. I actually did kinda sympathize with the child molester which was a weird fucked up thing and I thought the father/son conversations were just disturbing and fucked up and not in any way funny. The ending of the movie was stupid, but I thought it was good. However, after that I swore off Todd Solondz forever.
To me, Napolean Dynamite was in a way more cynical thann Dollhouse because it just took the trappings of contemporary lower-middle-class pathos that Solondz developed and just made them props for meaningless comedy.
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I hated Storytelling, except for the American Beauty bit but I loved Palindromes.
I only pump gas in palindromes.
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I just watched most of an episode of SNL for the first time in... a long time.
That show was, uh, as they say in the industry, not good.
(Weekend Update excepted, actually).
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HOWEVER, I am unapologetically psyched for this: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2390834.ece
...provided it's not just an abridged version of stuff already in The Silmarillion.
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i really like the movie Evolution and I'm not ashamed. "It's awful in here!" (when orlando jones enters the giant alien butt hole) and "There's always time for lubricant!" (after an alien enters orlando jones' butt hole & needs to be removed) are hilarious lines. that movie cracks me up every time. i'm laughing now just thinking about it. it's not just one big head & shoulders commercial and its not just butt jokes with orlando jones, it's a great movie. i just wanted to say that.
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Though I am unmoved by the news that The Lord of the Rings is soon to become a tetralogy, I was startled by this teaser on the page of the article to which you linked, TL: "Britain's only gay bookshop faces threat of closure."
I had no idea that Britain's gay bookshop industry was so ripe for exploitation. Sure, this one is failing, but who knows what opportunities lurk in the far-flung corners of the UK?