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#31 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Chinese Democracy (song) » 219 weeks ago
I think he felt it was the best radio track (that & Better) so was trying to make it a YCBM when there really wasn't a whole lot there.
#32 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Chinese Democracy (song) » 219 weeks ago
Yeah, I think 'trying to turn it into an epic that wasn't there' is about right. A song like Semi Charmed Life or The Killers When You Were Young is basically what it should be. A great rock song, just that. Spending years on it is, well, just that. Spending years on it. Either make it raw like an In Utero track, or 3EB/The Killers stuff.
I do like the punch of the drums, and the guitar riff tho.
#33 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 219 weeks ago
Yeah, Cosby got fucked over (in regards to his constitutional rights) and that's why he's out of jail. I think he's guilty of all those horrible things but he has fifth amendment rights too. And there was clearly a deal with the prosecutor at the time.
The trial was 2 or 3 years ago, and I admit I had issues with prosecuting 20 years old cases based on testimony. However, do you recall, did he dope them, like dropping it in their drink like a Roofie, without telling them? Or was this a 'Hey, let's get whacked and party" situation, like Motley Crue giving groupies cocaine backstage then banging them an hour later?
I heard they were 'downers' but for some reason did make you want to fuck.
#34 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 219 weeks ago
James wrote:I wanted to post something but doesn't really need its own thread....
Remember that obscure actress I used to rave about on the old site, Rona De Ricci?
Found out last night that she killed herself last year.
It really threw me for a loop. Took me a few hours to get to sleep.
Out of the blue, she wrote her memoirs last year right before she killed herself. I bought it. Since watching The Pit and the Pendulum on HBO when I was 16, always wondered what happened to her. This book tells you.... apparently she was up for the female role in Steven Seagal's Under Siege, he wanted to fuck her, she refused, didn't get the role, was essentially blacklisted, and she became so jaded she walked away from the industry and spent her life in a shitty, dysfunctional marriage, dealt with severe depression (obviously), and her kids even turned on her.
She posted her suicide note on Instagram. Only had 37 followers.
The fact no news outlets picked up on this story really shows how obscure she really is.
I'm no longer putting off reading it.
She was only in two films.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Penitent...an obscure 1988 film out of print and no trailer on YouTube. I saw it back in 97. Not very good but she was great in her small role.
RIP Rona
You obviously had talent and it's unfortunate how what should've been an exciting time when your career was just starting to blossom had to be ruined like that.
I finished this book last night.
This is the most disturbing and depressing book I have ever read...and I've read some fucked up shit.
I cried while reading the last couple chapters...she just flat out says she's going to kill herself...and was speechless afterwards.
It's not a normal biography. There is no drugs...no sex...no scandal...no crazy adventures....
The reader gets to witness the isolation and desperation as a woman goes through the dysfunctional breakdown of her family which leads to the imminent destruction of her own life.
It's not easy to describe. As I was reading it I felt like I was invading her privacy. This isn't meant for public consumption. While not written like a diary, it sure as shit feels like one.
I'm not gonna lie.... it's boring in many places. She doesn't attempt to dress it up.... it's warts and all.
This is what helps make it so uncomfortable...this could be any woman dealing with this. Anything resembling a glamorous actress was gone decades ago.
I feel really sorry for her. You can tell she was a great person who sacrificed her life on the altar of her (ex)husband and then her children...who thank her for that sacrifice by shitting on her and then literally abandoning her.
I started crying when she came to the realization that she had wasted her life and was now too old to make anything of herself. Since the only thing she loved(her sons) now hated her, it was time to end it all.
This book clearly wasn't written for me or any other fan from long ago. It's not written for other women to learn from her mistakes neither.
I think it was written for two reasons....
- To rub her ex husband and sons noses in shit....
- I think she believed that thanks to her brief fame 30 years ago, her suicide would cause her story and this book to go viral...and her sons could make some money from it.
It's just an awful story all around. I never would have imagined this would be her fate.
Edit
Another thing....
As I was reading the last half of her life, I was shocked that a massive drug addiction or deep dive into a bottomless bottle wasn't her next step.
The progression of her story begs for such a detour but it never comes.
I'll have to watch this movie. And that's a bizarre suicide note. Ashame, although, there probably are plenty of actresses and actors who bordered on success. Jennifer Anniston I think was in Ferris Buellers Day Off the TV show. Lasted like 13 episodes, (and Parker Lewis Can't Lose even mocked the show in an episode), Brad Pitt was in a Fox summer TV show I actually watched, was cancelled and 90210 replaced it. For each of those there's thousands of similar 'nearly touched fame' types. Part of the dream I'm sure.
Still, yeah not sure if she was a bit 'off', but it really seems she thought the book would be a viral tell-all sensation. Sad to see the IG post have only 40 likes and 6 comments.
#35 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Shackler’s Revenge » 220 weeks ago
Not my cup of tea...doesn’t even remotely sound like a Gnr song.
Same with me, I had to listen to it to even remember it. Still pretty awful imho. Axls "I don't believe there's a reason" is the only redeeming clips (solos etc aside maybe). That lyric should've been used in a diff song.
#36 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 221 weeks ago
Despite my bitching I managed to get a second shot today.
Very happy to be on the road to getting things normal, can't really rest until the rest of my family is eligible though. But it's a happy start.
Things are really starting to reopen here. Aside from supermarkets/grocery stores, no one really wears masks much & all is reopening. People still work from home alot, but it really went from 0-100. One thing thats a bit skeevy for me, is being indoors or among crowds again. I went down the shore & walked the boardwalk & it was a bit of a challenge, I spent a year alone & hardly seeing anyone, my antibodies for anything are quite virgin, I could tell my body/nose was having a challenge keeping up with regular old germs & people 
#37 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 221 weeks ago
Ten, Vs and Vitalogy are the holy trilogy of Pearl Jam albums. After that, they were a bit hit or miss with good and bad tracks. You could kinda hear that they were starting to run out of steam on some Vitalogy tracks, but overall, it’s still a great album. And I actually prefer Vs to Ten. Such a great album, front to back, with the band let off the leash, pun intended.
Yeah, I heard the next album skips (No Code, 1996), but the one after that was good again (Yield, 1998) but I never bought or got too into either. Vitalogy was great when it came out, but lingered for about a year before it kinda was a different era in music. The Whipping is a pretty cool song. Like you Metallix I liked Vs more than Ten, although Ten is legendary & great album. I think Vitalogy saw Eddie Vedders musical preference taking over and doing away with the long Hendrix style songs & solos, and injecting himself with his lofi & three chord rock. Kinda ruined a special thing. I should give Vitalogy a listen. I think Ten is a better 'summer album' and Vitalogy & especially Vs sound great in the Fall.
#38 Re: The Sunset Strip » Rolling Stones - No Huge, Iconic albums?!? » 221 weeks ago
PaSnow wrote:Discovered this song on the radio about 10 years ago. It's been tossed aside as 'album filler', as it's 'the long song' opposite Sympathy For The Devil, kindof a Dylan-esque attempt which, is pretty good. Goes to show you a band like RS can have this song completely buried & unheard of anymore.
Wow, thanks for posting. Didn't know they ever covered it. Great cover, pretty obscure Stones song for them to choose, although, I'd think they were big fans.
#39 Re: The Sunset Strip » Musical Instruments Thread » 222 weeks ago
Does anyone use an app for acoustic guitat? Kinda like for playing out but mostly for the lyrics. Having trouble with ultimate guitar and wondering what else is out there
#40 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 224 weeks ago
I love how the whole girls rock/girl power/riot grrl thing almost exploded into the stratosphere and changed the game.
Yeah, this was great & 'almost exploded' really summarizes it well. Around 95 they seemed unsure, trying. You had early alternative like L7, Sonic Youth, Pixies/The Breeders, and Four Non-Blondes etc. Also more underground like Liz Phair, Ani DiFranco, Juliana Hatfield maybe. So 95 it segues and pinnacles at Alanis Morrisette, along with less-riot grrl Jewel & Sheryl Crowe. Legitimate Musicians.. it waters down a bit into vanessa Carlton & Michelle Branch (I always mixed those two up lol), then MTV really shit things with the rise of BackStreet Boys & NSync. As great as MTV was in hindsight with 80s & 90s music, they effed it all up when they sold out there & TRL. Which led to, thru no fault of her own, Brittany Spears. She should've been kept to a side audience, or MTV try to better handle 'Rock' and 'Pop' (MTV/MTV2?). Instead they doubled down on a teen pop sensation, followed her up with Aguilerra & Jessica Simpson etc, and it was all over.
From L7 to Brittany Spears, sheeez.
