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Darktremor's bone to pick with "Scaruffi-ism"

Don't you guys realize by now that we are completely and utterly hopeless, and only involve ourselves in music that sounds like garbage trucks and chainsaws and wailing hyenas?

Sarcasm noted, but still. That sounds like the most awesome album ever. I would so listen to that in a goddamn heartbeat.

5/30/2008 View
Darktremor's bone to pick with "Scaruffi-ism"

Presumably because there's a lot of people on the Internets with nothing to do and much rage to work out.

Hey jim, is there any way a spam filter can be set up that would automatically nullify any post involving the words "Beatles," "influence" and/or "Scaruffi"?

5/29/2008 View
The Beer Log - 2008

So the Lucky Kat's good, eh? That's cool, since it's replacing the Fat Angel, a beer I never had much use for. I think this means that, for the first time in a couple of years, I'm interested in trying a new Magic Hat beer.

5/20/2008 View
100 Greatest Paintings of All Time (pics)

You mean... you're from THE FUTURE???? :-)

5/20/2008 View
2008 films ranked

Dude. Your review of VIVA for Slant, for me, pushed that film from "Gee, that sounds interesting" to "God, I wanna see that right fucking NOW."

Also jesus is SMILEY FACE ever not funny. But you can't blame Ms. Faris, who gives her all.

5/13/2008 View
Best Movies Ever (according to me)

If Suicide were a film, it would probably be Combat Shock.

The first film that comes to mind for Twin Infinitives is Robert Frank's Cocksucker Blues, with all the positives and negatives that implies.

Also, it's probably cheating to pair Nail with Richard Kern's The Manhattan Love Suicides, but there it is.

Lastly: I haven't heard it, but your description of The Ascension sounds like pretty much anything Bresson made. Especially The Trial of Joan of Arc. Or, barring that, Reygadas's Silent Light.

5/10/2008 View
Album Log 2008

If you like that album, you'll go nuts for their other stuff. Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy is especially worth your time. ("I Hate Jimmy Page" is probably still their best song.)

5/7/2008 View
Album Log 2008

Would this be your first Mindless album?

5/6/2008 View
The '08 Movie Hierarchy

They're both pretty awesome, Silent Light in particular.

4/27/2008 View
Best Movies Ever (according to me)

No, no, no, that there Gehr flick is astonishing. Movement, man, movement.

4/24/2008 View
Vote on the Best Band ever

Whoa. Calm down, dude. I think it's pretty well documented that funk metal was already a thriving genre by the time of RATM's debut in 1992. Faith No More, Fishbone, the Red Hot Chili Peppers (back in their listenable days) and Mike Muir (with his side project the Infectious Grooves), among others, are the ones who cracked that fusion open. And that's not even getting into Funkadelic, who were there before anyone else.

Also, if you want to point to the band that, for all intents and purposes, invented and broke rap-metal, the name you're looking for is Anthrax.

4/23/2008 View
Holy-Grail Movies

I haven't. Thanks for the tip.

3/28/2008 View
Holy-Grail Movies

And I got a lot of those already. Found several others that are still on this list as well, but seeing as how a lot of stuff on eMule is unsubtitled and I don't speak Swedish/French/Spanish/etc., they're not going to help me out much.

3/23/2008 View
Holy-Grail Movies

What makes you think I haven't tried?

3/22/2008 View
Holy-Grail Movies

I'll find out eventually, won't I though?

3/21/2008 View