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#1 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 6 days ago
Been continuing my speed run of Dallas.
I'm on the final season.
The quality nosedived and it's brutal at this point. Too many cast changes, shitty plots, and the vibe is completely different. It's Dallas in name only at this point.
I have to finish it though.
To anyone who wished The Sopranos had continued....
Be glad that it didn't. It would've turned into this.
#2 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 6 days ago
On the other hand the 90s still had some music. The present does not. Perhaps our age should be called "post musical". It is the only time in history where music has been completely subsumed by commercial and political forces. The fringe, independent stuff doesn't count in this regard, and is also bad. With the exception of a few old timers who are still trucking there is absolutely nothing going on with music anymore. It is as if our very minds have been affected somehow, rendering us incapable of real creativity. It's very strange and I don't know how to explain it. Perhaps artistry has simply been dulled by excessive statism and political correctness. There is no room for maneuvering anymore, no leeway. The mind doesn't know how to run because it has never walked.
It blows me away how in the past 10-15 years or so and all the insane changes, there's never been a musical movement spawned from it.
To me it's a sign of the horrifying dystopia we're in, we're never coming out of it, and our society is pretty much entering its final chapters.
How did some sort of punk movement not come out of the Bush-war- economic meltdown years?
It's just bland sterile pop, rap that's really just noise pollution, bro country or whatever they call it now, along with an ocean of crap that nobody cares about.
We're never getting any more Tom Pettys or Otis Reddings or Mick Jaggers or Madonnas. We're never getting any more Al Pacinos or Clint Eastwoods or Coppolas.
The talent level simply isn't there anymore and never will be.
While I don't agree with that album being the best of the 90s, you make a good point about the sunshine and lollipops vibe of the decade with a doom and gloom culture surrounding it.
It's fascinating.
Similar with the 1980s....the dark, final chapter of the Cold War and the prospect of nuclear annihilation hanging over our heads surrounded by a nonstop cheese fest.
#3 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Official Website » 2 weeks ago
Whatever it is...it's too little, too late.
Axl/GNR have a history of official sites popping up and then either disappearing or just sitting there idle and dead for years.
It having some link to Live Nation doesn't really make it any better.
It's probably just another half assed attempt by Team Brazil to make a few extra bucks on the side.
I'd wager it fades from existence in the near future.
We'll see....
#4 Re: Guns N' Roses » T-Rex cover with Axl, Slash, Duff confirmed » 2 weeks ago
Makes me think what a missed opportunity it was to not do a AC/DC album.
It's too bad Axl/DC couldn't have happened like 10 years earlier. He might have ditched the Chinese saga and went all in on AC/DC.
He does everything too late.
#5 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 2 weeks ago
Rumours might be the second greatest album ever made.
The only weak song on it is Oh Daddy...should've been ditched and they could've used Planets of the Universe, Think About It, or Silver Springs. Unfortunately they wouldn't allow Stevie to have one more song on the album.
Not a big fan of Songbird but I can see why they kept it.
Yeah their greatest hits...while packed full of hits....is a mess. It's missing too many good songs. They're a band like Floyd, Stones, etc....too many great songs for a regular compilation.
You should give Tusk a chance....the follow up to Rumours. It was way too ambitious, too long...but there's some really good songs there.
#6 Re: The Sunset Strip » Metallica covers Elton John » 2 weeks ago
Yeah that's not too shabby.
Time for one more Garage Days?
#7 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 4 weeks ago
Soaps are easy to like if you just get into them. Now I'm mostly too old and set in my ways to watch that type of stuff. .
I noticed this while watching it. It's a huge investment of time because some storylines are drug out for literally multiple seasons.
Want to find out if Cliff is gonna get revenge on JR for screwing him out of that deal? You've got two seasons to find out.
If I couldn't marathon seasons on Amazon, no way in hell would I ever bother watching it or any of the other shows.
#8 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 4 weeks ago
"Who shot JR?' was MASSIVE.
I was in kindergarten and we were speculating about it on the playground. Everyone from great grannies to preschoolers were watching this show.
That level of impact can never happen again. We live in an era of internet, smartphones, a thousand cable channels, and short attention spans.
That many people from all demographics will never watch the same show at the same time again.
I could never get into Dynasty. Maybe I should give it a chance.
I'm on season one....really a 5 episode miniseries. They didn't know yet it was going to become a phenomenon.
It's beautiful....as most 70s film is. I LOVE the original Southfork...I had forgotten how they changed it later on.
#9 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 4 weeks ago
Just finished season 10. This is the brick wall.
They just ruined the show. They've lost Ewing Oil, JR is powerless, Pam in the horrific car wreck due to Principal leaving the show, the new characters....
The show should've ended at season 8.
Gonna start at the beginning tonight and watch up until season 3.
It really was an amazing show for awhile. Must see TV.
#10 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 4 weeks ago
I'm calling it now, Trump will win...again. Yipee...
The only thing that might stop Trump at this point is some shocking October surprise....but thanks to the media constantly feigning outrage at everything he does from taking a drink of water to walking up a flight of stairs, no one will care.
They did it to themselves.
