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#251 Re: The Sunset Strip » Jeff Beck Dead at 78 » 166 weeks ago
This fucking sucks. I'll have to listen to Blow by Blow.
#252 Re: The Garden » NFL 2022/23 season » 166 weeks ago
I'll give quick predicitons and maybe some analysis.
Chargers over Jags; not sure about this one. Chargers have a big ability to shit the bed. But they SHOULD win.
49ers over Seattle. Seattle was lucky to get in and the 49ers are rolling and will run over SEA.
Buff over Miami. Biggest mismatch this weekend. Dolphins starting a backup and they have a bad defense and are going to Buffalo
Bengals over Ravens : CIN is a legit SB contender and BAL may be starting Huntley again
Giants over MIN: MIN is a fraud and haven't really beaten any good teams outside of the fluky BUF win
TB over DAL: had trouble with this one but went with Brady at home and McCarthy has been a shit head coach for years
#253 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 167 weeks ago
I watched 12 Monkeys last year or so, as part of a Bruce Willis marathon. Always liked it but was surprised how good it really is. For a standalone, not very long movie, it is very profound and perfectly made. Everything, every scene just works in it. Gilliam's best film by far I would say.
I don't know if Bruce Willis was just incredibly fortunate or incredibly shrewd. His filmography is so diverse and he played in so many classics. This from a "Stallone type" actor with limited range.
It's probably a bit of both. Look at his 90s stuff, it's not really filled with blockbusters/typical action there's a lot of different genres.
The Black Phone is on Amazon Prime.
I really need to watch that.
I hate how I go through phases of watching new or old movies. I'm in my phase of watching old movies and TV shows. I had a pretty good run last year of watching newer movies.
I've seen it. It's pretty good and nails the retro vibe pretty well. I got creeped out a few times.
I go through genres more than years, of course most of the stuff I watch tends to be old. I do like tossing something totally different on once a week to break out of the mold otherwise I could go weeks watching stuff from one genre.
Steel and Lace; some B level movie in the 1990s that was a cross between a revenge film and a sci fi film. Not bad at all. The kills are interesting.
Office Space: pretty funny. There are some great jokes (shots on Michael Bolton), the beatdown on the copier. And some stuff millenials would not get like floppy disks etc. There is an undercurrent of the truth in this film though. Also, Jennifer Aninston was very hot as she plays this girl next door type love interest.
#254 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rolling Stone: The Search for Guns N’ Roses’ Lost Masterpiece » 168 weeks ago
I won’t read the article but it’s fair to say we are all pathetic.
I read the article and came away embarrassed and ashamed to be a GNR fan. And yes, I knew most of this stuff beforehand. Yikes.
#255 Re: The Garden » Merry Christmas » 168 weeks ago
I didn't do shit and took a few naps. I just felt tired. As you age, you realize it's just another day. Christmas means more for kids.
For those who are batting illness, I hope you guys get better.
#256 Re: Guns N' Roses » Merry Christmas! » 168 weeks ago
I hate Christmas.
Never had children so I never had an incentive to really get into the Christmas spirit. As Paulie says on The Sopranos....
Fuck Santa Claus.
Loved it as a kid though. I'll never forget the Christmas of 85. Literally mountains of presents....they wouldn't even all fit under the tree or in the living room. Had to be stuffed in closets. Our stockings were overloaded. Not with crap either... cassette tapes, cologne, shit like that.
Had some other great Christmas but that was the big one. When anyone in my family looks back on holidays of yesteryear...that's the one they mention.
It was also the last year everyone in my family was alive. My grandpa (on mom's side) died in 86.
While my mom and dad's big gift for me was an expensive skateboard (don't remember the brand name), my favorite gift in 85 was bought by my grandma....
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I screamed when I opened it.
It only came with the Road Warriors but thankfully my aunt Lynn bought me wrestlers to go with it.
Great story and memory. Mine's is this. We had a shitty plastic tree. It was 86 or 87. I was probably getting some lame gift or cash. My cousin comes by and on Christmas or close to it, brings several presents for us. Mine was the largest. It was this fucking large rectangluar box.
I open it on Christmas and it's some giant GI JOE helicoptor. I didn't really like GI JOE that much. But on that Christmas it didn't fucking matter. Also , I don't think my cousin had any idea how his act of kindness made me happy.
#257 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash Says Guns N’ Roses Have a ‘Couple of Epic’ Songs to Release » 171 weeks ago
You've described a majority of the audience at concerts for major acts.
The audience is 99.9% casual fans and people there for the event itself. These huge bands like Metallica, Stones, GNR, Fleetwood Mac, etc are not bands anymore...they are a "brand".
People go because it's GNR...they don't give a flying fuck about all the lineups or the history. They'll buy shitty merch by the truckload not knowing or caring that it's shitty merch. It says GNR...that's all that matters.
They want to hear Jungle or another huge hit while taking a selfie and post it on Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok so their friends/followers can see they went to the GNR show in town.
People like us are in the 0.1% of the crowd...and the number probably isn't even that high.
This is what concerts are in the 21st century...and it's not going to get better. It'll get worse...and the price will go up.
This reminds me of reading a post about a recent Skid Row concert. Some people in the crowd wondered where Baz was.
Baz hasn't been in the band since 1996....yet people bought tickets not knowing that. They just wanted to hear 18 & Life and I'll Remember You and pretend it's 1989 again for 5 minutes.
Then there's people who will go to a RATT show and the only song they know is Round and Round...
Reading this just depressed the shit out of me. It's fucking true and I'm not surprised with the current "me generation". But it just gives me of those, in the old days...people actually cared about the music/songs moment.
#258 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 172 weeks ago
Hackers. The 1995 film w/Jolie and Johnny Lee Miller I found really corny and cheesy, and really dated. I'd seen it once before and found this on ok. But on this viewing it just grated on me. I think the fact that all the characters are in HS made it worse. You just have a lot of those teen type corny jokes that just made it worse for me. Some of the acting was pretty off too. The only good thing was the soundtrack. This is one film I'm not going to revisit any time soon.
#259 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N’ Roses 2022 Australia & New Zealand Tour » 172 weeks ago
Yeah...I'm too old and broke down for that shit now.
Years ago....it was my completely shot hearing that caused me to have to cherry pick who I was willing to see.
Now...it's my body starting to break down. Not walking with a cane yet...but within 5-10 years I probably will be.
Happened to my uncle in his 50s on my dad's side...and I took more dope than he ever did.
Yeah, I got some of the same problems. And to be honest, you get tired a whole fucking shit ton faster in general. I got the ringing in the ears (tinnitus) and that pretty much sucks. It's kind of hard to explain but yeah the body and mind aren't willing /motivated to do things now as in before (younger self).
Also joint pain sucks, especially if it's near your hips and shit.
#260 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 173 weeks ago
You guys are asking for a Christmas miracle. I'd find Santa Claus before GNR functions as a well run and normal band. Ain't gonna happen. When they release new music (this I believe) it will be haphazzard and out of the blue.
