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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Lord Chancellor johnd01 at May 04, 2017 11:24 AM (ukNFU)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:26 AM (PY9jH)
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Posted by: USMC8541 One Shot to Slay them All at May 04, 2017 11:26 AM (NmR1a)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 04, 2017 11:26 AM (zRZaJ)
Posted by: Dang at May 04, 2017 11:26 AM (8b+oT)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: _Jaybee_ at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (UPjj0)
Posted by: Yo! at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (GwIKd)
to the lovely and gracious Mrs. Muse. Yes, that's right, she has been
putting up with me for 32 years.
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Awww..... Happy Anniversary, you crazy kids.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (dFi94)
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (8zWAk)
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (sBOL1)
Except "Help!" I really like that one. Everything else they did? Total steaming garbage.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (u0s1P)
The look on Alec Guinness' face - What in the hell am I doing in this shit movie? Big paycheck, oh yeah that
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (493sH)
Posted by: _Jaybee_ at May 04, 2017 11:28 AM (UPjj0)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:28 AM (WUuhi)
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 11:28 AM (sBOL1)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2017 11:28 AM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Yo! at May 04, 2017 11:28 AM (GwIKd)
Except "Help!" I really like that one. Everything else they did? Total steaming garbage.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (u0s1P)
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Go to your room. Language like that, I will put up not with.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:28 AM (dFi94)
He hated the movie, hated its fans and their fannishness, hated everything about it, from what I've heard.
Takes all kinds, I guess.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (u0s1P)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 04, 2017 11:26 AM (zRZaJ)
D'oh Boy was raving about Rogue One, and asked me, "Do you remember going to see the first Star Wars?"
Me: "Barely. I do remember walking barefoot over dirt roads for miles to get to the theatre."
Should have told him to stay off our lawn.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: blaster at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (v9J1p)
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Dark Helmet at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (KeRkT)
Posted by: IC at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (u0s1P)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (WUuhi)
Congrats to you on your long and happy marriage, OM!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (zRZaJ)
Pence is really hard to believe, sometimes.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (0LDLp)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (dFi94)
Except "Help!" I really like that one. Everything else they did? Total steaming garbage.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (u0s1P)
William F. Buckley - The Beatles are not merely awful; I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are god awful.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (493sH)
grammie, I guess I need a time out too... really can't stand them.. Probably because they have been over played all these decades... I even saw them in person in my youth......
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (O2RFr)
You're on a hate roll this morning.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (WUuhi)
Sorry , you were talking about Alec.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (WUuhi)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Tami at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (Enq6K)
You know another great thing that happened on May 4th? My youngest
child was born. May 4th 1984. She lights up any room she walks into.
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (zRZaJ)
Awww....Happy Birthday to your lovely girl.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (IqV8l)
Naaaaah. Just a little hyperbole. Also, you forget (or never knew) that I have basically terrible taste in almost everything.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (u0s1P)
They're five NYC-based studio musicians who love The Beatles. It's not a cover show.
Here's a sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_E5sUttGE
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (SIY7D)
"Chip" on Fox News just told me that Ivanka supposebly had a line removed from the president's EO that would allow employers "discriminate" against homosexuals.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (0LDLp)
Takes all kinds, I guess.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (u0s1P)
The story is he asked for his character to be killed just to get out of it.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (493sH)
Spoiler: our government controls and profits at every turn form drug addiction and the drug trade.
These fuckers need to be drawn and quartered.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe, MGTOW at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (2qHjF)
Except "Help!" I really like that one. Everything else they did? Total steaming garbage.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (u0s1P)
Lennon was the King of all Hippies and McCartney wrote grandma music. I've always hated them, and always will.
Posted by: Chupacabra at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (Rppij)
Posted by: geoffb5 at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (d3wbb)
He hated the movie, hated its fans and their fannishness, hated everything about it, from what I've heard.
Takes all kinds, I guess.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (u0s1P)
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I saw an interview with Brian Blessed, who was friends (or at least friendly) with Guinness, and he said that Guinness was actually much less antipathetic towards Star Wars than many people assume.
Of course, that goes against Guinness' autobiography and Blessed could have just been doing the old British thing of making things nice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (/prE6)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:29 AM (u0s1P)
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I love everything Beatles, every single song, except that commie Utopia "Imagine". The rest - you may not speak against. I will say, I do think Lennon was overrated. Highly.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (dFi94)
"Chip" on Fox News also said this will be challenged on the grounds of the separation of church and state, which I find ironic.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:33 AM (0LDLp)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 04, 2017 11:33 AM (/prE6)
Oh, ok. I though you were referring to my analysis of Beowulf from the last thread; kind of forgot I posted about Sir Alec.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:33 AM (u0s1P)
Posted by: _Jaybee_ at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM (UPjj0)
You. My lawn. Off.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:33 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (o+pgY)
Posted by: Chupacabra at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (Rppij)
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You know that Gen. Mattis saying? Just hope I never enter your room.
Gotta go - don't want to have the 3 year old hitchin' a ride. BBL
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (dFi94)
Oh, God, the Beatles are overrated. Completely and totally awful dreck and crap.
Rap is so much better.
MoFo MoFo kill da police!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (IqV8l)
Later, when the sequel came out and there were lines around the outside of the theater, a kid I knew would call the number of the pay phone next to the line and say, "Darth Vader is Luke's dad" giving the poor slob that answered the phone a massive spoiler.
Posted by: Dang at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (0mRoj)
that commie Utopia "Imagine". The rest - you may not speak against. I
will say, I do think Lennon was overrated. Highly.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (dFi94)
Female Methodist minister led our foreign students in singing "Imagine." Husband and I looked at each other like, "Whuuut????"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: IC at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Krakenboner at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (b4Djo)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (dFi94)
The Ballad of John and Yoko is pure torture and typical of Lennon's self-serving, self aggrandizing crap
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (493sH)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (dFi94)
Well, fortunately, 'Imagine' is not a Beatles song.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (I/xun)
Posted by: Edwin at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (Djvrj)
The look on Alec Guinness' face - What in the hell am I doing in this shit movie? Big paycheck, oh yeah that
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"So, that chalet in Switzerland? How many bedrooms should I get? I don't want too many people coming to visit."
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (8zWAk)
Just flipped through all 3 cable fake news channels.
cnn: Trump Signs Controversial Religious Liberty Exec Order
fox news: Trump Signs Executive Order on Religious Liberty and Free Speech
msnbc: Trump Signs Controversial Religious Liberty Exec Order
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (0LDLp)
Oh, God, the Beatles are overrated. Completely and totally awful dreck and crap.
Rap is so much better.
MoFo MoFo kill da police!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Yeah the Beatles suck, cause music today is soooo great.
/sarc
Posted by: Rick in SK at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (WUuhi)
Just flipped through all 3 cable fake news channels.
cnn: Trump Signs Controversial Religious Liberty Exec Order
fox news: Trump Signs Executive Order on Religious Liberty and Free Speech
msnbc: Trump Signs Controversial Religious Liberty Exec Order
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (0LDLp)
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Isn't everything controversial to one degree or another?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (/prE6)
No more Star Bores, no more Beat Alls.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2017 11:31 AM (IqV8l)
Nice, but no, it's "Dianoga, Sewer Snake" and it's the trash compactor segment.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (I/xun)
that commie Utopia "Imagine". The rest - you may not speak against. I
will say, I do think Lennon was overrated. Highly.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (dFi94)
Female Methodist minister led our foreign students in singing "Imagine." Husband and I looked at each other like, "Whuuut????"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (PY9jH)
"Female Methodist minister" should have been a dead giveaway.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (qJhUV)
He claims to have told a young fan to never watch Star Wars again because it's awful.
Maybe he was just having a bad day, or he went through phases.
For a while, Leonard Nimoy (for example) distanced himself from Spock, but later accepted and embraced the role. So who knows?
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (u0s1P)
he liked to sip penis too
Posted by: Rick in SK at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (FZYNt)
When NY adopted gay marriage, the legislation included counter-balancing religious freedom provisions. No one would have to bake a cake.
This got followed by other states adopting gay marriage.
But it got circumvented when Judge Kennedy decided to legislate for all 57 states
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (0LDLp)
Fortunately "Imagine" isn't a Beatles song.
I did see a hilarious video over the weekend of someone driving through a large crowd of antifa while playing "Imagine" though.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (3J/LN)
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LOL.
My Mom used to say that she should have been in AR at a record company.
Hated the Beatles
Hated Elvis
Hated rock and roll.
They could have made billions by simply promoting everything she hated.
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (8zWAk)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (0LDLp)
Posted by: Tami at May 04, 2017 11:37 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Zombie Sir Alec Guinness at May 04, 2017 11:37 AM (suO/a)
fantasy cult . No different than sports fanatics except they have to
wait years between games. Has to be frustrating as hell.
Yup, especially now that Disney owns the franchise.
Prior to that sale, Lucas was very adept at monetizing the sh#t out of it via tv shows (cartoons), video games, and partnering with Legos. I was amazed at the how strong the cult of Star Wars was when the "Force Awakens" came out, because I couldn't imagine that many people of my generation had such strong feelings about the old movies. However, the yuuuge fanbase has been built on the current generation of kids (such as my niece) who have been involved in that universe for years via these non-movie products.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 11:37 AM (NOIQH)
He's probably on a golf course now. Or snuggling with some random guy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:37 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2017 11:37 AM (O2RFr)
He claims to have told a young fan to never watch Star Wars again because it's awful.
Maybe he was just having a bad day, or he went through phases.
For a while, Leonard Nimoy (for example) distanced himself from Spock, but later accepted and embraced the role. So who knows?
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (u0s1P)
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Well, the story is that the kid's mom told him, on the street, that the kid had seen Star Wars a few times (I think the number is around 12), and Guinness responded that he'd give the kid a signature if he promised to never watch it again.
That could be read as, "God I hate Star Wars," or it could be read as, "Jesus...move on and watch something else."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (/prE6)
Except "Help!" I really like that one. Everything else they did? Total steaming garbage.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:27 AM
"Imagine"...I hate nihilistic dreck with the white heat of a million suns.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (p+Wdc)
Harrison was a nice guy, typical hippie, typical trippy hippy songs for the few he would write. I always had a soft spot for Ringo - probably the weakest musician of the four, but the best personality, and he did some decent solo stuff later.
What was incredible about them, and hard to see from this distance of time, was how they changed their musical style every year for the entire decade, to keep with where the zeitgeist was moving. I can't think of any other musical group that has successfully pulled off a major stylistic change with almost every album they produced.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (KeRkT)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (7ZVPa)
Posted by: Edwin at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (Djvrj)
THAT was the theater I caught the BART train to see it at. Only it was Thursday, either opening day or the day after. Theater wasn't all that crowded, if I recall.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (I/xun)
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Will he wear a burka? Our viewers want to know!
-Rachel Maddow
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (8zWAk)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Krakenboner at May 04, 2017 11:39 AM (b4Djo)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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I'd imagine myself walking out.
Posted by: Dang at May 04, 2017 11:39 AM (8b+oT)
JJJJJJJJ Abrahamas took a shit on it and call it cake.
Fuck all of everyone.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 11:39 AM (GgzGa)
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 04, 2017 11:39 AM (tVWQB)
Posted by: Eromero at May 04, 2017 11:39 AM (zLDYs)
More accurately he was pretending to be a hippy/prog because he was chasing Yoko's tail.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (3J/LN)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (0LDLp)
From Catholic Vote:
A leaked draft of an excellent Executive Order was stymied, according to reports, by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump along with outside left-wing groups.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (493sH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CzbXA53I24
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM
Never. Not. Funny.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (e1mEI)
It's possible it's a legitimate generational thing. Since I wasn't around before the Beatles, I don't have a solid frame of reference for how revolutionary or whatever they were.
Like when I saw the first Die Hard for the first time. This was after I'd seen the 4th one in the theater, so while I liked it, it wasn't as shocking or exciting as if I hadn't seen all the imitators and followers.
There's a "Beatles Rap" by The Quarrymen that I enjoy, though. Dr. Demento would play it on his show sometimes.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (u0s1P)
John was the leader, especially in the early years, and was a great song writer.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Tom Waits at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (NBHj5)
May 4 85? I'd be in San Diego, sitting in Class for US Navy Satellite Communications... after my first Sea Tour, before transferring to Hawaii...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (O2RFr)
Hitler.
I mean it's not his birthday or an important day in the War, but I'm sure he did something on May 4th. Maybe he stubbed his toe and blamed the Jews.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (di1hb)
Ditto.
Tell me how the current progressive ideology varies from what that song promotes. It is *evil* when you really think about it, masquerading as a song about peace while promoting chaos.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (NOIQH)
A leaked draft of an excellent Executive Order
was stymied, according to reports, by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
along with outside left-wing groups.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (493sH)
Ok, I'm about done giving those two the benefit of the doubt. Da fuk?!
Posted by: Tami at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Stephen Stills at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (NBHj5)
More accurately he was pretending to be a hippy/prog because he was chasing Yoko's tail.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (3J/LN)
More accurately, he was a mental case because he was chasing Yoko's tail.
Posted by: josephistan at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (TwwWO)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (zRZaJ)
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (SIY7D) "
And Ringo was....well, a heck of a nice guy, and boy could he cook a steak.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (oZ6kz)
More accurately, he was a mental case because he was chasing Yoko's tail.
Posted by: josephistan at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (7HtZB)
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Embrace "and"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (/prE6)
Even if it's not true this time, I still can't stand Ivanka and Jared Kushner, son of a felon.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (0LDLp)
Posted by: IC at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (a0IVu)
grammie, I guess I need a time out too... really can't stand them.. Probably because they have been over played all these decades... I even saw them in person in my youth......
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2017 11:30 AM (O2RFr)
I went through a Beatles phase some years ago. Tried to figure out what the fuss was all about, and really, if you're oblivious to the hype, a lot of it is not bad music. Usually not great, but not bad either.
I just sorta assume they did what they did, and when their own success started to overwhelm them, they partially let it go to their heads, and partially decided to check out so as to avoid the increasingly loud voices inside their own heads telling them "NO! We're not what they want us to be!!"
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (WUuhi)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Toney Weiner at May 04, 2017 11:43 AM (UOJLJ)
Ditto.
Tell me how the current progressive ideology varies from what that song promotes. It is *evil* when you really think about it, masquerading as a song about peace while promoting chaos.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (NOIQH)
I love the scene in "Forrest Gump" when Forrest is on the Dick Cavet Show, describing how awful things are in Red China, and that inspires Lennon to write "Imagine."
Posted by: josephistan at May 04, 2017 11:43 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: josephistan at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM (7HtZB)
All I can think of is he must have been perpetually stoned to connect with that "thing."
Posted by: It's me donna at May 04, 2017 11:43 AM (O2RFr)
It's funny how alike my wife and I are. Neither of us particularly care for the Beatles. A couple songs, sure.
But in the age of .99 cent downloads, who would have bought their albums because every song was so great? Not me.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (HTdUD)
Ditto.
Tell
me how the current progressive ideology varies from what that song
promotes. It is *evil* when you really think about it, masquerading as a
song about peace while promoting chaos.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM
*fistbump*
Hmm...and I seem to have omitted a "that" in my post. *reaches for moar coffee*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (p+Wdc)
He was chasing a mental case.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 04, 2017 11:32 AM (dFi94)
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Wait, that was more commie than "Back In The USSR"?
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (Pqytn)
Jaybee the graybeard. Settle down gramps...
Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (XTiHL)
I saw Star Wars in the theatre, around November 1977 I think. It was still playing in the first-run theatres.
I wonder how bill Alec Guinness's paycheck could have been? I heard that the budget for Star Wars was 10 million. Not like the sequels where they could throw whatever money they wanted into it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM (MZcWR)
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 11:40 AM (SIY7D) "
And Ringo was....well, a heck of a nice guy, and boy could he cook a steak.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at May 04, 2017 11:42 AM (oZ6kz)
If you play "Octopus's Garden" backwards, you can hear Ringo say "thank Shiva these other guys are so talented"
Posted by: josephistan at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM (7HtZB)
May 4 85? I'd be in San Diego, sitting in Class for US Navy Satellite Communications... after my first Sea Tour, before transferring to Hawaii...
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Third year of prison.
Guard. '82-'86.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM (o+pgY)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM (0mRoj)
It's actually very nicely done.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM (tVWQB)
What was incredible about them, and hard to see
from this distance of time, was how they changed their musical style
every year for the entire decade, to keep with where the zeitgeist was
moving. I can't think of any other musical group that has successfully
pulled off a major stylistic change with almost every album they
produced. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 11:38 AM (KeRkT)
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Yeah, THIS^. My personal favorite is Abbey Road -- quirky.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (MIKMs)
Hitler.
I mean it's not his birthday or an important day in the War, but I'm sure he did something on May 4th. Maybe he stubbed his toe and blamed the Jews.
Posted by: broseidon
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He literally did something on the 4th of May, 1944.
1945, not so much.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (ZO497)
But what else would we have to sing at candlelight vigils after terrorist attacks?
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (qJhUV)
It's actually very nicely done.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM (tVWQB)
Is "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" in there?
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Chinchilla at May 04, 2017 11:47 AM (jcw3g)
Posted by: Paolo at May 04, 2017 11:47 AM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (ZO497) "
I'm sure he decomposed a bit that day.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at May 04, 2017 11:47 AM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 11:47 AM (KP5rU)
And in rebuttal...Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CzbXA53I24
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 11:36 AM (qJhUV)
Best Triumph ever. Nerds!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (HTdUD)
Of course, that's true of pretty much any group. How many vinyl albums or CDs do you think there are wherein EVERY song is good? Not many.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (I/xun)
Posted by: Zombie Vince Foster at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (di1hb)
Female Methodist minister led our foreign students in singing "Imagine." Husband and I looked at each other like, "Whuuut????"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:34 AM (PY9jH)
As a minister, did she not listen to the words, and think that perhaps, the part about "no religion too" meant that he wanted to do away with the practice of faith?
She's totally okay with that? As a minister?
Sometimes the cognitive dissonance is so strong it hurts.
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (V+V48)
Manamana
Do do doo doo
Manamana
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (o+pgY)
Posted by: Charles ManZod at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 11:49 AM (KP5rU)
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I dunno. If I could work up the heat of a couple of suns, I'd call it a day.
Posted by: Fred Nietzsche at May 04, 2017 11:49 AM (Pqytn)
My Star Wars pet peeve? All the incompetent gunnery and marksmanship.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
A-Team in Space
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2017 11:49 AM (IqV8l)
About time all churches have the same rights as black churches.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 11:49 AM (PY9jH)
1945, not so much.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (ZO497)
He had been on his crash weight loss program for a couple of weeks, I believe.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 11:49 AM (I/xun)
@Breaking911 4m
BREAKING: Pope Francis to receive Donald Trump on May 24, Vatican says - AFP
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (GgzGa)
But the band was still awful. And let's not even talk about McCartney's solo work.
Posted by: Chupacabra at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (Rppij)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM
Point taken. I still stand by my earlier comment re hating that nihilistic dreck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (p+Wdc)
It's actually very nicely done.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 04, 2017 11:45 AM (tVWQB)
Is "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" in there?
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (0mRoj)
Or "Why don't we do it in the road?" That's a classic. Perfect for a kids show.
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (V+V48)
The fab four were greater than the sum of their parts. Now, thats true. Not the fab three, or fab one. I'll sum all this with one word: WINGS.
Posted by: 13times at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (hB+8q)
#StarWars
Saw the first one in theaters. Amused by the super-modern-sfx applied to a cheesy old movie serial story. Amused that it picks up mid-story (ch IV)
Rented the next two from Blockbuster. Blockbuster. Hahahaha. Rented. VHS. Please Rewind. Hahhahaa.
Never really been tempted to see any of the rest.
Last night, we watched the Princess Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans first and second cuts. Yeah, clever adaptation of Sgt Pepper's -- maybe I'd be more appreciative if I cared about SW.
Posted by: mindful webworker - may the forte be with you at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (l/Pix)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:35 AM (493sH)
It's a good rock and roll song, if you don't take the lyrics seriously. And it has a good pun in it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2017 11:51 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
That's in almost every show or movie.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2017 11:51 AM (o+pgY)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 11:51 AM (KP5rU)
So the only conceivable way you can argue against this EO in the courts is to argue that it gives The People too much free speech and too much religious liberty.
There is no other argument.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:51 AM (0LDLp)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (I/xun)
The first six Black Sabbath albums.
Posted by: Chupacabra at May 04, 2017 11:51 AM (Rppij)
Hope this is a game changer. meanwhile F. the ACLU, which has said screw the first amendment when it comes ot faith based issues.
Posted by: vivi at May 04, 2017 11:51 AM (11H2y)
Someone's knockin' at the door/somebody's ringin' the bell/do me a favor, open the door/and shoot them in the face.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 11:52 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:52 AM (p+Wdc)
If it is I haven't seen it....
. That would be kind of a disturbing episode...Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 04, 2017 11:52 AM (tVWQB)
More importantly, he had capital-T Taste. He didn't insert himself into the songs unnecssarily, he played exactly what the songs demanded.
There's a great short video on YouTube of a bunch of modern name-brand drummers talking about how underrated Ringo is.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2017 11:53 AM (3J/LN)
She's totally okay with that? As a minister?
Sometimes the cognitive dissonance is so strong it hurts.
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (V+V4
I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:53 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: vivi at May 04, 2017 11:53 AM (11H2y)
'Cause, you know, $1.75 plus gas was up to around 79 cents a gallon or so by then.
I ended up doing that about 10 more times.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 11:53 AM (Jcg9Q)
You cannot argue this EO "discriminates" some and seek relief by discriminating other.
But that's exactly what the Left will do.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:53 AM (0LDLp)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
That was mine with The A-Team. Did they ever hit anything?
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 11:53 AM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
It seems the Imperial Navy never heard of directed battery fire.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 04, 2017 11:54 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Conic Dog at May 04, 2017 11:55 AM (vtcmf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (p+Wdc)
Oh I fucking HATE "Imagine." I just had to be all anal retentive about the correct attribution.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:55 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Billjeff at May 04, 2017 11:55 AM (UOJLJ)
Maybe we might have to revisit that theory.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:55 AM (WUuhi)
Beatles
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (8XRCm)
Fixed.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 11:55 AM (I/xun)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 04, 2017 11:33 AM (0LDLp)
Maybe someone should sue to ensure the state is separated from churches.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (bJ+bK)
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The White Album
Bostons First Album
Bad Company'sc Desolation Angels
Back In Black
Fleetwood Macs Rumours comes close.....Songbird sucks.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (8XRCm)
I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:53 AM (0mRoj)
I've worshiped in Baptist, Presbyterian, non-Denom, Messianic Jewish and Lutheran congregations. There's a reason Methodist isn't in the group.
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (V+V48)
Posted by: Sergeant Oddball at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (Pqytn)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004
Very few, a tiny percentage. Which is why .99 downloads have hit the music industry so hard.
My favorite musicians, say Pat Metheny or the Moody Blues -- that would be the toughest choice, per song, or album discount.
But the Beatles? Buy three .99 downloads. Put them on a flash drive with 500 other tunes, play in shuffle mode.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (HTdUD)
They're surprised by the size of the Death Star, not by its existence.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (MZcWR)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:52 AM (p+Wdc)
Shove it in the USB port and whisper "Go find AtC, my little pet," and wait. Hilarity will ensue.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (hLRSq)
Beatles Perfected.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 11:48 AM (8XRCm)
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I read the book Helter Skelter when I was a teenager and after that, I was kind of skeeved out by that album.
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 11:57 AM (sBOL1)
Imagine if George Lucas could write dialog
it's not that hard if you try
No made up words like younglings
making actual writers cry
Imagine all the audience, cheering even today
Imagine Yoda using prepositions
it isn't hard to do
no fractured sentence structures
no big empty spaces too
Imagine all the characters, talking like they were real
You may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
I hope some day they find a real writer
and the series might actually get fun.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 11:57 AM (KeRkT)
Awesome vocals, and bass playing was never the same afterward.
Posted by: goodluckduck at May 04, 2017 11:57 AM (yqvys)
Posted by: Conic Dog at May 04, 2017 11:57 AM (vtcmf)
Posted by: moki at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (V+V4
Heh. They've strayed just a wee bit from orthodoxy. Same with Episcopalians, PCUSA and some others. It's sad, really
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:57 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 11:46 AM (ZO497)
Like Beethoven, he was decomposing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Locke Common at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (dUbVu)
Wait, that was more commie than "Back In The USSR"?
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (Pqytn)
That wasn't really a commie song.He's just singing about Russian girls
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (lKyWE)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (KP5rU)
I was a Senior in High School... took a date to see Star Wars, and yes,, got lucky that night...
Gymnast Girl Friend... wow.... had not thought of her in YEARS....
Posted by: Don Q. at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (NgKpN)
Darth Vader: A henchman. A high ranking henchman, but still just a henchman, and now the entire universe revolves around him. Because toys.
Boba Fett: A hired thug. Nothing more, and the character was on screen for about two minutes total. Wildly popular because we don't know much about him, but now he somehow has really important connections to stormtroopers and clones and will get his own line of movies. Also because toys.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (fD1ST)
Posted by: 13times at May 04, 2017 11:50 AM (hB+8q)
Alan Partridge Who were Wings? Only the band the Beatles could have been
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 11:55 AM
Thank you for directing my hatred toward the parties responsible for that train wreck. I prefer it to be concentrated, and not wasted on the Beatles in general. Whom I also hate. Just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (NBHj5)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (KP5rU)
50% of the Country.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (WUuhi)
Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (1BQGO)
Father-in-law had a home security system installed days after finishing the book. I'll bet he was in good company.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:00 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Conic Dog at May 04, 2017 12:00 PM (vtcmf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (p+Wdc)
Helping people focus their hate. Just one of many useful services I provide.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:00 PM (0mRoj)
Somebody call me?
Jesus, it has been 40 years.... There are movies, then there is Star Wars! Dad made it a family movie event after the three-page review in Newsweek. It was the hot summer of 1977, and in North KY back then it was a 30-40 minute drive to the Showcase Cinema in Erlanger to see it. I was never the same afterwards.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 12:00 PM (Quwsn)
@Breaking911 4m
BREAKING: Pope Francis to receive Donald Trump on May 24, Vatican says - AFP
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LOL.
I think this is awesome.
"So Frank, like former President Obama, I admire the way that you've risen to a place of prominence, but you are aware that you're a brainwashed Muslim communist global warming elitist puppet, right?"
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:00 PM (8zWAk)
They're surprised by the size of the Death Star, not by its existence.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (MZcWR)
Yep... it was a used universe... things broke down... things were old...
And its only the very first movie that has that feeling really... after that its back to shiny ships, that always work...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Corona at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (OYxyz)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM
It's headed that way. Must've read your comment. Let's just sit back and wait for the fireworks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (Quwsn)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (PFlOK)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (WUuhi)
#TheBeatles
As decades have gone by, most of their stuff has held up pretty well, in my inarguable opinion.
Some I always hated ("Run for your Life" - great tune, but, abusive possessive lover theme).
Some were funny, but I wouldn't put them in the regular-listening playlists - you know, Octopus, Submarine, Act Naturally. (I think those are all Ringo. Class-A band drummer, but, um...)
Most of Paul's songs ("gramma music" someone said - heh) have aged less well. I just keep seeing his ginormous face on the big screen in the Let It Be movie. "Hey Jooooood..." What?
And that fat guy at Woodstock forever ruined A Little Help From My Friends for me.
Their "beatnik" releases had lots of great stuff (Rubber Soul/Revolver). There's obscure but great rockers like Hey Bulldog.
I still find She Loves You powerful, yeah yeah yeahs and all. Maybe You Had To Be There at the right age. Like Star Wars, which I wasn't.
What's most amazing is the genres they spanned.
It was all part of the times, too. They had fun. They grew and changed. We had fun growing up, changing, listening to them. (While lauging at the maniacs. Whut?)
Posted by: mindful webworker - i wanna hold yer haaaaand at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (l/Pix)
Posted by: Conic Dog at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (vtcmf)
I would be interested in a cartoon version of Rocky Raccoon meets Maxwell. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (NBHj5)
Or a cartoon version of Eleanor Rigby accidentally mixing up the face that she keeps in a jar by the door with the yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Phil Spector at May 04, 2017 12:02 PM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: Neergiveup at May 04, 2017 12:03 PM (KlI/a)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:03 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: wth at May 04, 2017 12:03 PM (HgMAr)
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Well, you know, it was the '70s.
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 12:03 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 04, 2017 12:03 PM (KlI/a)
Posted by: Locke Common at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (dUbVu)
Star Wars: Making Movies Great Again!
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:03 PM (I/xun)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 11:59 AM (NBHj5)
Mediocre gunfighter vs. hammer-wielding serial killer. Could be interesting.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:04 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Billjeff at May 04, 2017 11:55 AM (UOJLJ)
Thus cometh my first out loud laugh of the day.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:04 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: JAS at May 04, 2017 12:04 PM (EX4Wr)
Posted by: Paladin at May 04, 2017 12:04 PM (4kpbt)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:05 PM (8XRCm)
See... a true genius
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 04, 2017 12:05 PM (J+eG2)
♥ Happy Anniversary to the Muses, O & Mrs. ♥
* throws rice *
⚅ ⚅
* uh, sorry, all we had was cooked rice *
Posted by: mindful webworker - did not throw box at least at May 04, 2017 12:05 PM (l/Pix)
They're surprised by the size of the Death Star, not by its existence.
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This is true. Star Wars was not Earth-based, so there was no "gee whiz future stuff" aspect. Aliens, robots, spaceships, all part of the accepted world view.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 12:06 PM (Quwsn)
Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2017 12:06 PM (r/0kC)
Discus..
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Stones.
No contest.
/but then, I like my men on the bad side...
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:06 PM (8zWAk)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:07 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (lKyWE)
Also a spoof on the Beach Boys and Chuck Berry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2017 12:07 PM (0deF2)
Posted by: Zombie Elvis at May 04, 2017 12:07 PM (UOJLJ)
Easy. Stones have a body-count & Sympathy for the Devil. Beatles have appalling rates of casualty and attrition & I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2017 12:07 PM (TwwWO)
Saw the first one.
/I land in the "Star Trek" camp
Posted by: shibumi
Yeah, me too. I saw Star Wars when it came out (age 9, nearly 10) and it was pretty good. Not worth seeing again and again. I liked ESB but the rest lost me and it was all downhill from ESB.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 04, 2017 12:07 PM (dZ756)
like alec guiness they said, irritated, "it's a kids movie!" what they didn't see was the return to adventure and pure entertainment and story-telling, all pretty much gone from the screen by the 70's.
thing is, we were both right!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 04, 2017 12:07 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (Jcg9Q)
when movies would be fun again instead of containing some grand message."
There was *supposed* to be a grand message.
Lucas conceived of the struggles of the rebels against the Empire as an homage to the plucky Vietnamese communists seeing off the evil imperialist Americans.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (qJjMA)
Posted by: Corona at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (OYxyz)
The Beatles were perhaps the only group at the time who actually played their own instruments on their own albums. Cue "The Wrecking Crew" documentary on the guys and gals who *were* playing on all those records.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (3J/LN)
I never take offense to people's taste in music. After all it's your taste.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (WUuhi)
Posted by: fish...the lowercaseone at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (BD4FR)
Peter Sellers version of She Loves You is hysterical. Done in a German accent - She's not the hurting kind, but I am!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (493sH)
And things are different now because...
Happy day to you and the Missus Muse!Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (hvf9s)
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From your keyboard to God's ears.
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (8zWAk)
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 11:44 AM (Pqytn)
That wasn't really a commie song.He's just singing about Russian girls
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (lKyWE)
I could be wrong, but if you listen to the song, it sounds rather "American" in its tone, and in a way it seemed to be mimicking other stuff others were doing at the time. So I wonder if maybe they just put "USSR" in there because it fit the meter better, and maybe to take a piss on things a bit.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (Pz4pT)
It's often mentioned that he actually copied the song's title from Chuck Berry's 1959 hit, "Back in the USA".
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (KeRkT)
I read the book Helter Skelter when I was a teenager and after that, I was kind of skeeved out by that album. Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 11:57 AM (sBOL1)
I grew up just below the Santa Susana Pass where the Spahn Movie Ranch was located.I was to young to understand what was going on but remember my mother being completely freaked out about the whole thing
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (zRZaJ)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 04, 2017 12:10 PM (WTSFk)
The Eagles.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 04, 2017 12:10 PM (HTdUD)
Posted by: Beach Boys at May 04, 2017 12:10 PM (UOJLJ)
I was just thinking about the French runoff election to be held this coming week. By the leftists own rules, shouldn't they be all-in for Le Pen ? After, all she is a she. And if they are against her, it must be because she has a vagina.
Posted by: Sphynx at May 04, 2017 12:10 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (lKyWE)
I could be wrong, but if you listen to the song, it sounds rather "American" in its tone, and in a way it seemed to be mimicking other stuff others were doing at the time. So I wonder if maybe they just put "USSR" in there because it fit the meter better, and maybe to take a piss on things a bit.
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Next time, I'll put a /s tag on my comment.
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 12:10 PM (Pqytn)
I could be wrong, but if you listen to the song, it sounds rather "American" in its tone, and in a way it seemed to be mimicking other stuff others were doing at the time. So I wonder if maybe they just put "USSR" in there because it fit the meter better, and maybe to take a piss on things a bit.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (Pz4pT)
Oh, and now that I listen to it, I didn't remember it had that whole Beach Boys thing going right there in the middle.
Yeah, it was a joke. Sort of a gentle "F you" to America and American bands.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:11 PM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:11 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:06 PM (8zWAk)
Have you heard the most recent Stones album, "Blue and Lonesome". Mick and the boys get back to their blues roots. Well worth listening to cranked up.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:11 PM (I/xun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 12:11 PM (hvf9s)
Side 1 is great too, but Sir Paul's "cut the good parts from a buncha songs and paste 'em together" pop symphony on Side 2 really floats my boat. It really shouldn't work. On paper, it doesn't. But on album it does.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 04, 2017 12:11 PM (s/EUv)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (Pz4pT)
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Another song that is widely misinterpreted is "Revolution".
Lennon was being fairly critical of the far left at the time.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (8XRCm)
Mick and Keith only started writing songs when they saw how easy it was for John and Paul to write "I Wanna Be Your Man" for them.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM
Gah. Another "can't we all get along" song that devolves into a hymn to Krishna.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (lKyWE)
I could be wrong, but if you listen to the song, it sounds rather "American" in its tone, and in a way it seemed to be mimicking other stuff others were doing at the time. So I wonder if maybe they just put "USSR" in there because it fit the meter better, and maybe to take a piss on things a bit.
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Next time, I'll put a /s tag on my comment.
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 12:10 PM (Pqytn)
What would be the fun in that.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: torquewrench at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (qJjMA)
That was more Return of the Jedi than A New Hope. The Ewoks stood in for the VC.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (0mRoj)
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what's most amazing is their career was only 7 years long. So much music so fast
Posted by: The Dragon at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:11 PM (0mRoj)
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And THAT officer.... is when the punches were thrown.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Locke Common at May 04, 2017 11:58 AM (dUbVu)
Star Wars: Making Movies Great Again!
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True, and would that George Lucas remembered that with the prequels, but what can you do? The good guys were good, the bad guys were bad, you didn't need to understand why because the opening scenes on the blockade runner did so.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (Quwsn)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (Jcg9Q)
.............
I thought he liked LePen and LePhone.
Posted by: wth at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (HgMAr)
And things are different now because...
Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (hvf9s)
Most of my hair is gone and what little I have left has retreated to my nose and ears.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (I/xun)
Posted by: Insomniac
Too true. But Paint it Black is awesome.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (GgzGa)
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:14 PM (UmSfZ)
Yeah, it works waaay better than it has any right to.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2017 12:14 PM (3J/LN)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (GgzGa)
I will admit that's a good song.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:15 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 12:15 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:15 PM (UmSfZ)
And possibly, LeCock.
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 12:15 PM (qJhUV)
In the back of a LeCar.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:15 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (p+Wdc)
Exactly. The switch from "Alleluia" to "Hare Krishna" is deviously clever.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (I/xun)
There are a lot of good Stones songs. Some shitty ones too. Just can't watch Mick prancing around while singing.
Posted by: Sphynx at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (OZmbA)
If all Beatles were added up, probably #1.
http://classicbands.com/bestsellers.html
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (HTdUD)
i'm on a real stones jag, c. 1965. amazing songs and surprisingly s country sound, like an electric reverb rockabilly sound.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (WTSFk)
through Exile (1972), with an echo with Some Girls (197.
The Stones loved American roots music (blues and country, especially, and some R&B and soul), and made it into a stew of their own.
Charlie was really a jazz drummer, and gave them some swing. During their peak, Nicky Hopkins on piano (best rock pianist ever!) and Bobby Keys on sax and Jim Price on trumpet were integral parts of the band. Mick was a great front man, could sing Black, and often a good lyricist.
But the hear of the band was Keith, who was the best riff master in rock.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (Pqytn)
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I'll check it out, it might be OK. Although honestly, new music from classic bands usually disappoints me.
RE: Stones vs. Beatles, I think that their early stuff is kind of telling. Beatles have lots of pop-ish love songs like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "Can't Buy Me Love" while the stones have "Satisfaction" and "19th Nervous Breakdown."
Totally different vibe.
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (8zWAk)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (r/0kC)
It's often mentioned that he actually copied the song's title from Chuck Berry's 1959 hit, "Back in the USA".
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (KeRkT)
Well there you go, then.
A bit more unkind than I would have thought. I figured it was just a gentle "F you," but it doesn't sound very gentle at all.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:17 PM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:17 PM (UmSfZ)
Posted by: torquewrench at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (qJjMA)
That was more Return of the Jedi than A New Hope. The Ewoks stood in for the VC.
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I have never really accepted it, Word of God or not. (TV trope!) I think Lucas only said that later on to get Lefty Street Cred and get all the snooty parlor pinks who had dissed his fun movies as mere popular escapism to like him and accept him into the Hollywood Cultural Elite. It's the sort of thing that undid many of the otherwise successful and popular filmmakers of his time.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 12:17 PM (Quwsn)
That's easy.
Zeppelin.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:17 PM (UmSfZ)
So much this.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Some moron at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (DdGS0)
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (8zWAk)
Ah, yes, top of the list of Beatles songs I could go the rest of my life never hearing or thinking about again.
I get but do not like quirky dark British humour.
Posted by: mindful webworker - then it's far too late when they pass away ay ay at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (l/Pix)
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:17 PM (UmSfZ)
So much this.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (0mRoj)
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I like Zep. ZOFO is my favorite album.
But they are NOT better than the Stones.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM
Gah. Another "can't we all get along" song that devolves into a hymn to Krishna.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 12:12 PM (p+Wdc)
Still. Catchy
Imagine is not catchy to me. I'm a music guy and not a lyric guy.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM (WUuhi)
That's easy.
Zeppelin.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:17 PM (UmSfZ)
So much this
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Umm.. sure, I can get on board with that.
/going to put on Zep I in my car... "How Many More Times," awesome track.
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM (8zWAk)
"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every
minute of it. . . . They were Commies . . . red sons-of-bitches who should have died long ago. . . ."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM (VdICR)
Oh, and now that I listen to it, I didn't remember it had that whole Beach Boys thing going right there in the middle. Yeah, it was a joke. Sort of a gentle "F you" to America and American bands.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:11 PM (Pz4pT)
I always assumed it was a spoof on the Beach Boys California Girls.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM (lKyWE)
Happy Anniversay to the Muses... Dogdaddy and I celebrated our 9th anniversary on May Day :-)
Posted by: DogMom29 at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM (WcUup)
Posted by: Some moron at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (DdGS0)
I would settle for the pressurized tube transportation system from The Jetsons, but NOOOOO, we can't even have that!
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM (0mRoj)
Zeppelin.
Posted by: IP
Have you seen the masturbatory documentary called 'It might get loud'?
It's kind of cool. Jimmy Page, Jack White, and 'The' Edge jam session.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:20 PM (GgzGa)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:20 PM (KP5rU)
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Star Trek transporters.
A big "screw you" to the airlines. And the car companies.
Want. NOW!!!
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:20 PM (8zWAk)
But zep always felt very artistic to me - a lot going on in their stuff.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2017 12:21 PM (TwwWO)
But what I do have to give Jagger credit for was that he recognized this well was about to run dry, and the made a resolution that he and his bandmates would first have to learn to read music, and then they would have to figure out how to compose music on their own. Because there was just way too much money rolling in for them to let the gravy train stop! They did that sometime around 1970 or so, and they pulled it off. And the rest is musical history.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:21 PM (KeRkT)
Posted by: phineas gage at May 04, 2017 12:21 PM (XsVWn)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 04, 2017 12:21 PM (+UYrK)
Posted by: Some moron
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I hope you're a better shot than the Imperial Storm Troopers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: JoshO at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (rwkGj)
But they are NOT better than the Stones.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (8XRCm)
So is your tone-deafness congenital or the result of physical trauma?
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (+UYrK)
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (SIY7D)
That's easy.
Zeppelin.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:17 PM (UmSfZ)
So much this.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:18 PM (0mRoj)
Never cared for any of them, but in my world Zep's Achilles last stand crushes anything from the other 2. That bass drum gallop was ahead of its time.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Some moron
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I hope you're a better shot than the Imperial Storm Troopers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (ZO497)
Everyone's a better shot than Imperial Stormtroopers.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:13 PM (I/xun)
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Mine seems to also have gone South to party on my lower back
Posted by: Uber Lyft Driver at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (+1FpW)
Posted by: Chris M at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (eAZVt)
It's often mentioned that he actually copied the song's title from Chuck Berry's 1959 hit, "Back in the USA".
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:09 PM (KeRkT)
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The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, and Ray Charles.
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: phineas gage
The Who has too many pedophiles.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (GgzGa)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (8XRCm)
A big "screw you" to the airlines. And the car companies.
Want. NOW!!!
Posted by: shibumi at May 04, 2017 12:20 PM (8zWAk)
Not to mention pizza delivery. Also grocery stores. Post office. Screw 'em all!
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (I/xun)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (fJ5wU)
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (SIY7D)
Perhaps, but "The Lemon Song" is one of those I can just never play loud enough.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:24 PM (Jcg9Q)
Zep is altogether different. But zep always felt very artistic to me - a lot going on in their stuff. Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2017 12:21 PM (TwwWO)
This is correct.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:24 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Chris M at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (eAZVt)
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Ummm....... my lawn?
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:24 PM (8XRCm)
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I think we need to discuss what 'old timey' means...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:24 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:01 PM
Gah. Another "can't we all get along" song that devolves into a hymn to Krishna.
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and then he shoot Greedo
Posted by: The Dragon at May 04, 2017 12:24 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:25 PM (WUuhi)
Now THERE is an overrated band.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (8XRCm)
*glares*
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:25 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:26 PM (KeRkT)
Amen. Freddy Mercury pranced around, too, and even in the fancy-pants bodysuit he looked less like a fag than Jagger.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:26 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: washrivergal at May 04, 2017 12:26 PM (/xKV7)
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 12:26 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:24 PM (ZO497)
Ha, my attempt at facetiousness. I miss those theaters though.
Posted by: DogMom29 at May 04, 2017 12:27 PM (WcUup)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2017 12:27 PM (TwwWO)
Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2017 12:27 PM (XTiHL)
Posted by: Slim Whitman at May 04, 2017 12:27 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 04, 2017 12:27 PM (8qFZP)
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 12:16 PM (Pqytn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAzbB_kvJ7Y
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (ujg0T)
I don't know why I did that. I just did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (KeRkT)
Posted by: Jack Sock
I'm secure enough in my personhood to admit that the first time I heard that song was in Wayne's World.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (GgzGa)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:25 PM (Jcg9Q)
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You glare.... because your retorts would fall flat....
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (8XRCm)
Now THERE is an overrated band.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (8XRCm)
Maybe, but 'Eminence Front' is a great song.
Posted by: troyriser at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (Fw5cQ)
I like a lot of Zeppelin, but let's just say I don't give them points for Originality
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 04, 2017 12:22 PM (SIY7D)
Much of their catalog are covers
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (lKyWE)
Imagine is not catchy to me. I'm a music guy and not a lyric guy.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 12:19 PM
I'll grant that it's catchy. So's Spirit in the Sky, but the lyrics tend to want to make me stick ice picks in my ears.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 12:29 PM (p+Wdc)
Cost him a lotta money.
Posted by: tu3031 at May 04, 2017 12:29 PM (qJhUV)
Like Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, U2 and, oh, One Direction.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 04, 2017 12:29 PM (PFy0L)
The Who.
Now THERE is an overrated band.
Posted by: fixerupper
Let's agree to disagree
before I stab you
Posted by: Rick in SK at May 04, 2017 12:29 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (+UYrK)
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:23 PM (0mRoj)
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I haven't shot in 25 years and I'm a better shot than Imperial Stormtroopers.
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (GgzGa)
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*facepalm*
Mrs Fixer loves to tell the story about her students tallking about Waynes World and how they all loved that "new" song in it.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (8XRCm)
Including "bismillah," I presume...
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: steevy at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: Spirit at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (fJ5wU)
Posted by: troyriser at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (Fw5cQ)
THAT'S the only one you can come up with????
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:31 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Ignoramus
Never cared for that 'Lola' song. Hits too close to home.
Posted by: Bruce Jenner at May 04, 2017 12:31 PM (HTdUD)
said she was amazed to find that I turned her into the coolest kid in
her class when I forced her to memorize all the words to Bohemian
Rhapsody and repeat them back.
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Laughing because I woke up my dorm floor in the middle of the night, called the radio station, and made them replay it and yelled at everyone to listen to it. 75-76? Something like that.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2017 12:31 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: troyriser at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (Fw5cQ)
THAT'S the only one you can come up with????
Posted by: Country Boy
Yeah by that time, post Moon, they weren't really The Who anymore
Posted by: Rick in SK at May 04, 2017 12:31 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:26 PM (KeRkT)
I've listened to their stuff. It's awesome.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:32 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Jack Sock
I'm secure enough in my personhood to admit that the first time I heard that song was in Wayne's World.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (GgzGa)
Are you 29 too?
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:32 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (sBOL1)
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https://youtu.be/k3zLiaVhu8M
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:32 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Roland THTG at May 04, 2017 12:32 PM (QM5S2)
Posted by: General Zod
Toot, toot, tooooooot~!
Posted by: Jethro Tull at May 04, 2017 12:32 PM (GgzGa)
Including "bismillah," I presume...
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM (Bdeb0)
Scaramouche scaramouche
Will you do the fandango?
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:32 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 04, 2017 11:41 AM
Stormtroopers can't hit the broad side of a Banth from 3 paces.
And yet, the red shirt always dies.
This is why, sadly, Star Wars is superior to Star Trek.
Posted by: Fleas, Ticks, and Tapeworms at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (DMUuz)
British woman apparently.I look forward to plenty of muslim actors and
openly gay characters too.
Haven't seen "Rogue One" yet?
OK, maybe not openly gay, but the two jedi ninja dudes have some moments where it seems fairly obvious what they're telegraphing. Then there's the muslim actor in it who has already said that not casting enough muslims actors helps ISIS....Ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:31 PM (Jcg9Q)
No, but it's representative of their best work. When I was a kid, I listened to 'Tommy' until it was scratched smooth.
Posted by: troyriser at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (Fw5cQ)
X actually had one of the best guitar players, Billy Zoom, in punk rock.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Jack Sock
I'm secure enough in my personhood to admit that the first time I heard that song was in Wayne's World.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (GgzGa)
That's the interesting thing about all this discussion of who was good and who wasn't. In order to be part of the discussion you have to somehow separate out the event at the time from any objective standard of the music.
And that's really not possible.
If you didn't live through the ear you have to WANT to go back and find as much of the time/place of the music as you can to appreciate what it was. Otherwise, it's just the sound, and really, none of the history of rock and roll is just about the sound.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (TwwWO)
Posted by: mrp at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 04, 2017 12:28 PM (ujg0T)
Holy crap. That's a pretty funny parody of those old Beatles cartoons.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (I/xun)
And that's not even a slam against 'Awakens' or 'Rogue,' which were both solid stories.
Posted by: Christian Toto at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (eTv0F)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:34 PM (GgzGa)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 04, 2017 12:35 PM (fJ5wU)
It's "bismillah, NO! we will not let you go! LET ME GO!"
oy, just hearing that word the whole track starts running in my head and I can't stop it. I loved Wayne's world, and was also embarrassed about it - at age 18, I WAS Wayne.
Before I saw that movie, I never realized anybody else used to go park their cars off the ends of airport runways just so they could be blown away when the planes came in. Like I did a lot back then.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:35 PM (KeRkT)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:32 PM (8XRCm)
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That's funny. I've never seen it before.
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (sBOL1)
X actually had one of the best guitar players, Billy Zoom, in punk rock.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (Bdeb0)
I think they put out, or are putting out a new album. As is Jesus and Mary Chain.
Well... as they say, you can't go back home again.
I am looking forward to the new Slowdive album though. I half expect them to pull it off. This after My Bloody Valentine released an album a few years ago that was just meh. And after Mission of Burma started trying to do new stuff.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (Pz4pT)
"A Lick of Larceny"
Those who've read my rough drafts, does this seem to fit?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (cGJ7O)
Freddie ran wild all over that side. The creativity was off the charts.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (s/EUv)
my teenage girls know of the Beatles and Queen and Rush. And some deeper tracks too. Death on Two Legs, Between the Sun and Moon
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
A theater that actually has a big screen and could hold a thousand people, give or take a baker's dozen.
All those big, beautiful theaters of my youth (remember Cinerama?) are all gone.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....Grate American cheese again! at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:33 PM (Pz4pT)
Nicely said. I can see the low slung bell bottom Levi cords, the muscle cars. The 8 track playing. Crager rims. Long hair, OP shirts.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (Ri/rl)
Does Kirk ever call for a medevac/beam-up of Ensign Redshirt's body, or do they just leave him lying there on the planet, chest filled with poisonous flower-darts, to decay?
Also, did the redshirts ever contemplate a mutiny? They could hardly be blamed, serving as they did a completely incompetent, accident-prone skipper...
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (Bdeb0)
Oh, and he threatened to beat the hell out of us if we didn't sit quietly through the movie. Family outings were such fun.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 04, 2017 12:37 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: torquewrench at May 04, 2017 12:08 PM (qJjMA)
Is that right? I would believe it.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's apprentice at May 04, 2017 12:37 PM (s/yC1)
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 12:30 PM
Holding the Transcendent Art of Yoko(tm) in your heart enables many things.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 04, 2017 12:37 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:35 PM (KeRkT)
You are all children.
I'm 29 but you guys are babies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:38 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: Christian Toto
They're ok for Disney Princess stories.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:38 PM (GgzGa)
Freddie ran wild all over that side. The creativity was off the charts.
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We need "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" on an Art Thread!
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:38 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (sBOL1)
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"But you're closer to the target than I am."
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:38 PM (8XRCm)
my teenage girls know of the Beatles and Queen and Rush. And some deeper tracks too. Death on Two Legs, Between the Sun and Moon
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (h/uSM)
LOL.... was driving somewhere with Son and his two friends... they were about 14 at the time...
Jethro Tull Aqualung was on the stereo...
One of his friends said 'wow... who is that! must be brand new!"
Me and Son looked at each other, and rolled our eyes...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 04, 2017 12:39 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:39 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 04, 2017 12:39 PM (YEelc)
Texas Democrats Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa issued the following statement:
I'm proud to announce that today that SB 4, which will ban the dangerous practice of sanctuary cities, is on its way to the governor's desk for his signature,...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mbhs737
Posted by: gNewt...always late at May 04, 2017 12:39 PM (ZLlh9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:35 PM (KeRkT)
You are all children.
I'm 29 but you guys are babies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:38 PM (Ri/rl)
Ah.... so it was YOU and Vic who were parked at the end of the strip at Kittyhawk?
Posted by: Wilbur Writght at May 04, 2017 12:40 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 04, 2017 12:40 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 04, 2017 12:40 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:39 PM (KP5rU)
Tie your mother down.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:40 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2017 12:40 PM (cGJ7O)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....Grate American cheese again! at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (RFeQD)
Like...tears in the rain.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
That's in almost every show or movie.
Try "Appaloosa" 2008. The sheriff (Ed Harris) and his deputy (Viggo Mortonson) go to call out the hired guns. Gunfight lasts 5 seconds tops. As they are lying on the ground: "Well, that didn't take long." "That's what happens with people who know how to shoot."
Sorry "Spoiler Alert". I blew snot I laughed so hard.
Posted by: Paladin at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (4kpbt)
Get off my sand lawn...
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (uhftQ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (Ri/rl)
I may or may not admit to driving a 1968 GTO with cragers with my long hair and RUSH farewell to kings blaring from the 8 track with the matchbook shim.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (aMlLZ)
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Sister had Sheer Heart attack LP and we played the hell out of side one. Was decades before i realized side 2 was every bit as good.
Then went back and listened to first 2 albums. loved them just as much.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (KP5rU)
I saw That Band X open for The Band Perry in Nashville last year.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2017 12:42 PM (p+Wdc)
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Saw Star Wars with a group -- we were rowdy and cheering. Of course, we were also dancing in the aisles for Blues Bros. I think a lot of the group came from the midnight Rocky Horror show tradition.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 04, 2017 12:42 PM (MIKMs)
I'm 29 but you guys are babies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:38 PM (Ri/rl)
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As I've told TheJM, I'm old enough to be his mother's much younger friend.
Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2017 12:42 PM (sBOL1)
else used to go park their cars off the ends of airport runways just so
they could be blown away when the planes came in. Like I did a lot back
then.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:35 PM (KeRkT)
Holy crap!We used to do that all the time.ABQ was perfect, because the west end of the main runway was out in the middle of noplace.Except we would walk until we got to the black marks, then go back a couple hundred feet.
Posted by: Roland THTG at May 04, 2017 12:42 PM (baYK5)
I am so old, I saw Star Wars in the movie theater when it first came out.
Get off my sand lawn...
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (uhftQ)
*fist bump*
Posted by: Tami at May 04, 2017 12:42 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:43 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:44 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's apprentice at May 04, 2017 12:37 PM (s/yC1)
No, he didn't.
All Lucas wanted to do was a "Saturday afternoon serial" type movie, like, perhaps, Flash Gordon. Just entertainment. Mark Hamell said in an interview later on that they thought they'd be doing OK if the movie might perhaps make $25 million. Their expectations were very low.
And then it just took off on them.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:44 PM (I/xun)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (aMlLZ)
The music makes me nostalgic. Also, Pendletons were cool too. We wore skin tight dittos.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:44 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
A theater that actually has a big screen and could hold a thousand people, give or take a baker's dozen.
All those big, beautiful theaters of my youth (remember Cinerama?) are all gone.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.
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Well, I had in mind the days when there was an organ player to accompany the 'movie'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:44 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: josephistan at May 04, 2017 12:44 PM (7HtZB)
I am so old, I saw Star Wars in the movie theater when it first came out.
Get off my sand lawn...
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (uhftQ)
*fist bump*
Posted by: Tami at May 04, 2017 12:42 PM (Enq6K)
BEST of the BEST though... was about 1 year after it first came out, and it was playing at the Drive In for a month or so....
Posted by: Don Q. at May 04, 2017 12:45 PM (NgKpN)
Get off my sand lawn...
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (uhftQ)
I saw it as a 9 year old. And yes, it blew us all away.
And after a decade of cynical anti-heroes and apocalyptic doom and gloom, it was a throwback to ww2-ish Good Vs. Evil, yet sent in outer space.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 04, 2017 12:45 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:45 PM (Ri/rl)
Same here. Glad I'm not the only one hah!
*scamps off the Horde's lawns*
Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 12:45 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2017 12:38 PM (GgzGa)
Holy crap.
You're right.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 04, 2017 12:45 PM (fD1ST)
Yeah.... I turned my kids on to Boston, ACDC, The Stones, The GUESS Who, Queen, REO Speedwagon, Lynard Skynard....etc etc etc
.... but they turned me on to Hoobastank, Rev Theory, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Seether, Halestorm, Death Punch, Shinedown.... (Brent Smith has a serious set of pipes.
Win Win
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:45 PM (8XRCm)
Oh, and he threatened to beat the hell out of us if we didn't sit quietly through the movie. Family outings were such fun.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 04, 2017 12:37 PM (YEelc)
I, as a 16 year old, offered to load my 4 little brothers and sisters in the station wagon and go to Star Wars and give my mom the afternoon off if she'd pay for it, that's how bad I wanted to see it again.
I think she was digging thru the couches to find enough money for an afternoon of quiet.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 04, 2017 12:45 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: washrivergal at May 04, 2017 12:46 PM (/xKV7)
my teenage girls know of the Beatles and Queen and Rush. And some deeper tracks too. Death on Two Legs, Between the Sun and Moon
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (h/uSM)
My music major daughter loves the old groups. She says the groups today don't do 4-part harmonies like in the old days.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 04, 2017 12:46 PM (I/xun)
We saw it in the theater too. I think I was going into sixth grade. We watched it 20 times during the summer. Or that's what I remember. I may be wrong.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:47 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 04, 2017 12:47 PM (fJ5wU)
Posted by: Javems at May 04, 2017 12:47 PM (yOqwj)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
not unless your here to mow it, Chavo
Posted by: Rick in SK at May 04, 2017 12:48 PM (FZYNt)
Ok, I'm looking on Amazon, and don't see a new album from them. I could have sworn I saw they were coming out with one.
Anyway, I don't agree they were overrated. I don't love them, but they were pretty awesome, for their time and place. And it's hard to call someone overrated when most people have no idea they ever existed.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:48 PM (Pz4pT)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:48 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Farmer at May 04, 2017 12:48 PM (4bBUU)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....Grate American cheese again! at May 04, 2017 12:36 PM (RFeQD)
Honest to goodness movie palace still up and running in Ogden Utah, Peery's Egyptian. All fake egyptian deco prettiness. Has a Wurlitzer organ and they have people plays songs before the shows start, and there are like 5 curtains that part before the screen is revealed. Ceiling painted to look like sky and lights twinkle like stars while the movie plays. Magic. Cannot be many of those left.
Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 12:48 PM (hvf9s)
More #TheBeatles
The Beatles never said they were bigger than God, or whatever people thought and the media misreported. John had disdained fandom by noting how, among modern pop audiences, the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. He wasn't saying it was a good thing. And John really mangled the later "apology/explanation." Too little too late to stop the tide of fervent religious indignation. For that ill-stated truth, preachers led album-burnings. Oh, those valuable, precious LPs!!
Poor ol' John was a sad seeker of truth. He tried on lots of isms, none fit him well. He did not Jimi-Janis-Jim himself to death, despite giving it a good try; I credit him for his recovery. His best achievement was sobering up and hanging up his guitar and holing up at home to raise his (latter) kid.
What John never found was a solid personal theology. That's a tragedy, but, in that way, he represents a whole generation - or five - of folks, so many of whom didn't find soul satisfaction in old systems, and were seeking something they knew not what, and as such often falling into the clutches of pilgrim-robbers.
If John had lived and found Jesus...
...would he still let Yoko sing on the albums?
I'll submit to Ace, if he wants to post it, my thesis, "Imagine: Misinterpreted by Everybody Except Me".
Posted by: mindful webworker - imagine there's no biased mainstream media/ it's easy if you try at May 04, 2017 12:48 PM (l/Pix)
but they turned me on to Hoobastank, Rev Theory, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Seether, Halestorm, Death Punch, Shinedown.... (Brent Smith has a serious set of pipes.
Shinedown does a good cover of Skynard's Simple Man
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 12:49 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 04, 2017 12:49 PM (TwwWO)
When you were flash robbed by the underprivileged youths, did you apologize for your white privilege?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 04, 2017 12:49 PM (vRcUp)
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My Fairy King?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:44 PM (h/uSM)
I forgot about that song. My older brothers were the ones that had all the albums. Or it could have been my older sister.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:50 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:43 PM (KP5rU)
Yes, yes it was. The 8 track, what a complete assholic piece of technology that was. I guess it was something when it came out, but never a bigger miserable piece of shit existed. I'm glad I was only a year or so away from widespread cassettes when I got my license.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:50 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2017 12:14 PM (UmSfZ)
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I was in an APC patrolling the border fence along the Fulda Gap in Germany.
Posted by: Soona at May 04, 2017 12:51 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at May 04, 2017 12:49 PM (lKyWE)
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Yes.... its pretty good. Im usually not a fan of covers, but I also like Death Punches "Bad Company". I think they did it better than Bad Company.
I also like Disturbs "Land of Confusion".
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:51 PM (8XRCm)
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and you knew it was special in the first 30 seconds. For us kids who grew up on B&W B scifi movies it was astonishing.
Movies like Star Wars, Saving Private Ryan took their genres to another level.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:51 PM (h/uSM)
Honest to goodness movie palace still up and
running in Ogden Utah, Peery's Egyptian. All fake egyptian deco
prettiness. Has a Wurlitzer organ and they have people plays songs
before the shows start, and there are like 5 curtains that part before
the screen is revealed. Ceiling painted to look like sky and lights
twinkle like stars while the movie plays. Magic. Cannot be many of those
left.
Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 12:48 PM (hvf9s)
There used to be/still is? a drive-in theatre in Atlanta. There is also one in Jesup, GA (south GA).
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 12:51 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: washrivergal at May 04, 2017 12:46 PM (/xKV7)
And the smoking section!!
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:52 PM (aMlLZ)
Get off my sand lawn...
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I am certain a lot of members here did that, regardless of age bracket!
I was not quite 8 years old then. Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 12:52 PM (Quwsn)
Posted by: The A-Team at May 04, 2017 12:52 PM (+aCe4)
Thank you President Trump for supporting religious liberty in our nation! (referring to today's EO)
Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2017 12:52 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: washrivergal at May 04, 2017 12:46 PM (/xKV7)
And the smoking section!!
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:52 PM (aMlLZ)
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....and Ushers.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:52 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (fD1ST)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:50 PM (aMlLZ)
Did you get the requisite pioneer cassette? Or something more fancy like kenwood?
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (Ri/rl)
The prequels don't exist in my mind.
Posted by: gewa76 at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (f4GSC)
They're surprised by the size of the Death Star, not by its existence.
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You may have a good point. The crew of the cruiser C-57D, in Forbidden Planet, were used to star travel as an everyday thing . . . but not what they found on that planet. Maybe you're right.
The original SW films had all sort of details, power cords snaking across hangar floors, damaged and weathered spacecrafts, so that Lucas's universe looked lived-in. That was a good part of its charm.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (PFlOK)
Old theaters were wonderful. The ladies' room were carpeted, had heavy
velvet drapes, velveteen couches and seats before gold painted framed
mirrors. Pure gaudiness and a pleasure to experience.
Posted by: washrivergal at May 04, 2017 12:46 PM (/xKV7)
The old St. James theatre in NYC is lovely and as you describe.
As you're entering the ladies' room, a sign happily tells you the facility is welcoming to "all genders." *sigh*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (PY9jH)
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everyone is tranny-ing these days.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (h/uSM)
The Kinks are way underrated. Lots of range
Posted by: Ignoramus
Sleepwalker. One of their best, and a very complex and complicated song ro perform. Really shows that they were actual musicians and not just a bunch of drug adled 3-chord wonders like alot of their contemporaries.
Posted by: agent cooper at May 04, 2017 12:54 PM (cB6N/)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 04, 2017 12:54 PM (sEDyY)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:54 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: josephistan at May 04, 2017 12:54 PM (7HtZB)
(and the entire issue in Texas is actually a dick-swinging contest between the Texas Lege and the Travis County and City of Austin govmt's , who had sworn to make Austin a sanctuary city just to piss off the Republican legislature that is seated there. After many skirmishes on many topics over the last 20 years or so, the Lege has sworn that it's finally going to show them who's really boss here, and they appear to have put together the political support (finally!) to do it.
This is also some payback for that ridiculous prosecution of Rick Perry that Travis County tried to pull off a couple years back. That's why they included the part about being able to jail anyone who doesn't obey this statute - because Travis County started all this "we're gonna put our political enemies in jail!" bullshit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:54 PM (KeRkT)
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (Ri/rl)
All hail the Pioneer super tuner!
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (aMlLZ)
But were the Beatles clever enough to synchronize Sgt. Pepper to the actual movie so that the rythm and lyrics of the songs corresponded to the visuals in Star Wars? If not, they are bourgeois shite.
Posted by: Roger Waters at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (vRcUp)
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waiting to see a movie where someone hides behind and empty oil drum and someone just shoots him through it....and calls him an idiot
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (h/uSM)
Da da da da da da da da da da da da
BOHICA!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: dagny at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (Mc+44)
Posted by: Tom Waits
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Me too!
Posted by: Stephen Stills at May 04, 2017
For them what care, listen to Never Ending Love be Delaney and Bonnie. It's my go-to happy song.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (fD1ST)
I was more partial to See How We Are.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (Pz4pT)
All hail the Pioneer super tuner!
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (aMlLZ)
You made me smile, it's as if we all went to high school together.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (Ri/rl)
The old St. James theatre in NYC is lovely and as you describe.
As you're entering the ladies' room, a sign happily tells you the facility is welcoming to "all genders." *sigh*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (PY9jH)
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That sign would prevent me from ever entering. How far down we have fallen.
Posted by: washrivergal at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (/xKV7)
Posted by: kallisto
Unfortunately, it is only an EO and can be rescinded in four years.
Also unfortunately, without a republican majority in the House and Senate, it could never become law. What's that?
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (HTdUD)
Posted by: LizLem
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Fox Theater in Atlanta. Sounds identical. Off the scale architecture.
http://tinyurl.com/mypjuyt
http://tinyurl.com/m3r8ybn
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (ZO497)
So perhaps he took that kind of attitude to his movies. The best stuff is the stuff the people have been using and tinkering with.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (eytER)
Heh, same with mine. My teen son derisively refers to a lot of current bands (you know, the ones where the lead singer sounds like a super-whiney 15 year old) as 'college bands' since we hear them a lot on a local radio station. Ugh, don't get him started on how much 21 Pilots suuuuucks
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (NOIQH)
The prequels don't exist in my mind.
Posted by: gewa76 at May 04, 2017 12:53 PM (f4GSC)
Read an article about Star Wars in China, and the guy said that 1-3 are MUCH more popular there than 4-6. But yes, let's let China take over Hollywood. Sigh.
(Though Hollywood is doing such a good job of dumbing things down and CGI'ing everything to death, by the time the Chinese take over there might not be much left to ruin)
Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Frau Merkel, Die Führerin des Viertereich at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (rUIbB)
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Since she deserves to spend a couple of decades in prison.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (aMlLZ)
You made me smile, it's as if we all went to high school together.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (Ri/rl)
I think back in that time we basically did.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (aMlLZ)
Get off my sand lawn...
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 04, 2017 12:41 PM (uhftQ)
I saw it as a 9 year old. And yes, it blew us all away.
And after a decade of cynical anti-heroes and apocalyptic doom and gloom, it was a throwback to ww2-ish Good Vs. Evil, yet sent in outer space.
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Yeah, in the decade before SW we had 2001 The Space Acid Trip and "Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!" and Sean Connery in a mankini. (The last one was a real low blow, ugh.) Then long ago, in a galaxy far, far, away... Fast spaceship!! Blasters that looked and acted like buns! Light sabers! Multiple planets and a moon-sized space station! And the majestic orchestral soundtrack of John Williams underneath it all.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 12:58 PM (Quwsn)
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:58 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:55 PM (aMlLZ)
You made me smile, it's as if we all went to high school together.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (Ri/rl)
I think back in that time we basically did.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (aMlLZ)
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If Dazed and Confused describes your High School Experience..... raise your hand!!!
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:58 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 12:59 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 12:54 PM (KeRkT)
Austin city council member got actually jailed for messing with the governor's office.
It's been fun times recently.
Posted by: TexasDan at May 04, 2017 12:59 PM (yL25O)
She deserves to spend a couple of decades in the Seventies.
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 12:59 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 12:57 PM (NOIQH)
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The male leads all sound like they have a stuffed-up sinus condition.
Posted by: washrivergal at May 04, 2017 12:59 PM (/xKV7)
Turns out to be a horse.
I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Force.
Whooaa whooaa whooaa.
Posted by: Roger Waters at May 04, 2017 01:00 PM (vRcUp)
Only one minor quibble with that movie--everyone smoked joints or bongs; no one had a 'one-hitter,' aka 'dugout.'
Posted by: General Zod at May 04, 2017 01:00 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
A theater that actually has a big screen and could hold a thousand people, give or take a baker's dozen.
All those big, beautiful theaters of my youth (remember Cinerama?) are all gone.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.
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Saw The Ten Commandments and also Ben Hur at the OKC Cinerama. The big-theater experience was grand. I loved it. Too bad it's gone. Time marches on.
Posted by: Soona at May 04, 2017 01:00 PM (Fmupd)
hair and RUSH farewell to kings blaring from the 8 track with the
matchbook shim."
damn, I always wanted a 1968 GTO!
I had to settle for a 1971 Torino. At least it had the 302.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 01:01 PM (KeRkT)
Posted by: Zombie Sir Alec Guinness at May 04, 2017 01:01 PM (suO/a)
Posted by: Princess Leia at May 04, 2017 01:01 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Berserker
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I had a Sparkomatic, $29.95 from J.C. Whitney
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 01:02 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:58 PM (8XRCm)
Not mine, but I witnessed it. I graduated in 82.
My brothers graduated 79, 76, and my sister in 71 I think.
I can totally relate. The first time I saw a bong I was about 7 (it was my brother's), I turned it over and spilled the water all over the shag carpeting. They must've went surfing and forgot their bong.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 04, 2017 01:03 PM (Ri/rl)
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HOnestly speaking, the stormtroopers kick ass when they take down the Tantive IV. Their blaster carbines are MP-40/AK-47 level, point an spray down the ship crew who are not their equals in terms of equipment or aversion to fire. Rogue ONe to its credit remembers that stormtroopers can and will hit a target that lasts long enough for them to gt multiple shots...or throw a grenade.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 01:03 PM (Quwsn)
Does Kirk ever call for a medevac/beam-up of Ensign Redshirt's body, or do they just leave him lying there on the planet, chest filled with poisonous flower-darts, to decay?
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In the story about the salt-monster, I think, Kirk tells the transporter chief that Lt. So-and-So is "down there" (i.e., on the planet), and the chief says somberly, "We'll bring him home, sir." That sort of moment disappeared as the show went on, but it and ones like it really made the early shows great.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 04, 2017 01:04 PM (PFlOK)
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Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at May 04, 2017 01:04 PM (Nwg0u)
Good. And fuck 6th Street as well.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2017 01:05 PM (o+pgY)
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Hairstyles looked like buns too!
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Wouldyou believe I sometimes get paid to type?
It should have been "guns"...sigh....Posted by: exdem13 at May 04, 2017 01:05 PM (Quwsn)
May 4 is also kent state shootings date. A coming off age experience for me a few years later was watching news coverage of the memorial getting fixated and my dad saying to the TV "the plaque should day that was the day the nonsense stopped. "
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 04, 2017 01:06 PM (CWCUh)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 04, 2017 01:07 PM (CWCUh)
hair and RUSH farewell to kings blaring from the 8 track with the
matchbook shim."
damn, I always wanted a 1968 GTO!
I had to settle for a 1971 Torino. At least it had the 302.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 01:01 PM (KeRkT)
Sadly the GTO got totaled. I got T boned in an intersection by one of those period correct stoner driven pimp vans. I was pissed, but I moved on to a 1970 Roadrunner though, so not all was bad.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 04, 2017 01:07 PM (aMlLZ)
The Storm Trooper nunchucks in TFA didn't work for me, really. Stick to blasters.
Posted by: V the K at May 04, 2017 01:07 PM (O7MnT)
The local old theater here had a art nouveaux - green fairy absinthe motif. It was remodeled fifteen years ago, but due to budget constraints the balcony and overall size of the seating was reduced. The figurel artwork remains.
Posted by: 13times at May 04, 2017 01:08 PM (WHVu+)
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Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (ZO497)
Ohhhhhh, so beautiful!! What a huge theatre, that would be an experience.
Some pics of Peery's Egyptian:
http://tinyurl.com/mq8drxv
http://tinyurl.com/kq22gsy
http://tinyurl.com/k7qntyl
Went to a movie at Grauman's Chinese in LA once, that was also fun. Felt old Hollywood enough to add to the trip.
Posted by: LizLem at May 04, 2017 01:08 PM (hvf9s)
The sensitivity on the tuner was so good, I could pull in pretty distant FM stations -- but the farther ones would only come in with mono, not stereo. Then I'd round a curve and the signal would suddenly blast in stereo. Weird.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 04, 2017 01:08 PM (PFlOK)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 01:09 PM (WUuhi)
I think I've solved it. The Chinese hate the Japanese for WWII so any movie with Darth Vader would freak them out, because his mask is based on a samurai battle mask.
My mother is a slant eyed yellow devil, so I consider myself qualified to speak upon these matters.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 04, 2017 01:11 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 04, 2017 01:11 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 01:11 PM (WUuhi)
Only one minor quibble with that movie--everyone smoked joints or bongs; no one had a 'one-hitter,' aka 'dugout.'"
Heck I went to highschool in the 90s in a small town and it wasn't too far off. I don't see how anyone who can't recognize some of their fun weekends in that more can properly call themselves American.
Posted by: JoshO at May 04, 2017 01:12 PM (rwkGj)
Posted by: JoshO at May 04, 2017 01:13 PM (rwkGj)
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 04, 2017 12:56 PM (HTdUD)
It's encouragement for the faithful, individually and institutionally - who have been under siege during the reign of Obamunism. Religious organizations such as Little Sisters of the Poor can breathe easy now knowing they won't have to defend their decisions not to fund abortifacients on moral grounds. Private organizations such as Hobby Lobby will also be able to operate according to their conscience without harassment from the federales.
Some of us believe that a nation cannot be truly blessed unless its leaders at least demonstrate some respect for the Lord. (or a Higher Power, whatever one's spiritual practice honors).
The event I attended was interdenominational. The public prayers were initiated by a call of the shofar. Apologies to friends of the Jewish faith if I got the nomenclature wrong.
Christians also believe that prayer changes earthly reality. The fact of a GOP congress is meaningless if they're outside the scope of the Lord. What if God has it in mind to place the motivation of religious liberty - as indicated by the 1st amendment - in the hearts of democrat legislators?
Our human minds are so limited we tend to shoehorn God's will into our own tunnel-visioned perspective. Again, I extend thanks to our President Trump for being faithful to our founding documents. Atheists and agnostics should celebrate his action on libertarian grounds, if nothing else.
Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2017 01:14 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 04, 2017 01:15 PM (WUuhi)
framing houses while rocking Creedence and Zepellin in Houston
plugging a trickle charger into the t-pole next to the compressor to keep the car battery charged
in the summer of 1980 we had 21 straight days breaking 100 degrees, hah!
Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2017 01:16 PM (XTiHL)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 01:18 PM (KP5rU)
I think most GTO's ended up that way, big reason they're kind of rare now.
I remember one of the saddest sights in front of a neighbors house, he had a 1970 SS El Camino with the 402 that I coveted mightily, in beautiful shape. (Chevelle front half and drivetrain) Came out one day and there it was, with a telephone pole shaped hole right in the middle of the front bumper, deep enough to knock the engine off its mounts. That one was worth crying over.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 04, 2017 01:19 PM (KeRkT)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 04, 2017 12:58 PM (8XRCm)"
My kids saw that movie, looked at the pictures on the wall and wondered if the movie was about me. Yikes!
Posted by: DanMan at May 04, 2017 01:20 PM (XTiHL)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 04, 2017 01:20 PM (7ZVPa)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 04, 2017 01:21 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Hosts the Are We There Yet? Political Party at May 04, 2017 11:56 AM (hLRSq)
.I admire your moxy...Also, this is funny as all hell.
Posted by: browndog at May 04, 2017 01:43 PM (bGMOs)
Posted by: Frank Waturi - Advertising Dept: American Panoscope at May 04, 2017 01:49 PM (jjNBN)
Posted by: David Gilmour at May 04, 2017 03:31 PM (vRcUp)
At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge. The revenge of the Fifth.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at May 04, 2017 03:46 PM (1hM1d)
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