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4 eps into Love and surprised it's actually pretty good. Precious sure, but seems to pick up mood-wise where Freaks and Geeks left off. Fans of that show should be pleased. Laugh quotient not relentless but I buy these characters and the best jokes land somewhere near the sternum.
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Binged The Sopranos for the first time in years compliments of Amazon Prime. Lots of fluff, holes, and one-dimensional tertiary characters, but remains one of the tube's richest offerings of daunting breadth. Love how each episode is both self-contained and of-a-piece. Gandolfini is fascinating as an anti-hero and carries the entire show.

Then watched two eps of Catfish, the MTV show. Pretty good. Now I'm depressed.

I'm going to stop watching TV shows for a while. 
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Sonic Youth are neither as great and important or as bad as polarities might suggest. While I do think they're tremendously overrated, Confusion is Sex, Bad Moon Rising, Daydream Nation and Sister are excellent records. Their self-titled is pretty much a retread of bands they were inspired by that were far more interesting. They have their moments on later releases, but I think their catalog is probably about three quarters dispensable.
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Guy Piccioto can suck it too. Produced the Blood Brothers, nice contribution.
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Fugazi is an insufferable snooze, as overrated as Sonic Youth. Sure they have some alright tunes, but they did nothing significant. Bands like Minutemen rendered them irrelevant. A single Minor Threat song destroys their entire meandering catalog. And it don't help that MackAye is a self-important hack. Fuck that band.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Punk Trips
« on: February 24, 2016, 03:37:37 PM »
Punkest trip I ever took was to Orlando. Man, that place is PUNK.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Social Justice Thread
« on: February 24, 2016, 02:58:45 PM »
i dont know why you people even waste the time interacting with this turd.

Hey, contrary to mr. Pro-life I never asked to be born and don't think life has some impermeable sanctity not to be wasted.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Social Justice Thread
« on: February 24, 2016, 01:43:17 PM »
I've seen his methodology too and I can't say I buy it. I'm not incredulous that someone who collects and sells records is a staunch armchair conservative; after all, they habitually claim to stand for small businesses. I also don't mind having the discussion, even in the abstract.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Social Justice Thread
« on: February 24, 2016, 01:31:34 PM »
Obviously it's a good point that even bringing a baby (that you will never see again) to term is a hardship; and a good point about "which" babies are highest on the list. However, I don't believe babies of any color remain un-adopted - there's a waiting list for any adoptable babies as far as I know. Regardless, I just needed to clarify a point. Clearly Leech is a troll who may or may not believe the shit he spews. I think everyone else is in agreement here.

Is the going rate for a blue eyed white baby still $4000?

Why do people think he's a troll? The fact is the constituency he represents is alive and well and kickin' ardently at the door of personal liberty, while claiming to defend it. It's a seething hypocrisy that persecutes women essentially just for being fertile. Because of this dipshit Kasich and his surrogates, some waif in rural Ohio has no liberty because they were born economically underprivileged or below the age of consent.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Social Justice Thread
« on: February 24, 2016, 01:26:30 PM »
@ Giant Leech: A woman's authority over her own body takes precedence over the life sustained within. I don't deny that it's an innocent human life, but it's essentially a parasite until it can sustain itself. Someone should put a baby in your uterus, see how you like it. Either way, the debate is over. The position you stand for is patently sexist, and has no pragmatic or ethical basis outside the officious moralizing of the average nonsecular yokel. You want small government that dictates what is moral? See the conflict there? To beleaguer a woman for making this difficult choice is more disgusting than Unc Sam roughing you up and taking your tax dollars by force. As a citizen of a society of laws, you are duly obligated to contribute to the integrity of the social compact. Why? Because a government is indebted to the citizens that make up their economy. See how this circle works? No? Well, good thing we have the Supreme Court to override your stupidity. It's there to keep the tyranny of a potential majority at bay by protecting the interests of the potential minority. Goddamn, when is the wrong side of history gonna drop off already?
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Social Justice Thread
« on: February 23, 2016, 04:13:11 PM »
Mr Small Government, the only thing more sacred than your womb is his wallet.

Can principled people on both sides of the abortion debate not simply concede that a society in which no one needs to have an abortion (ie access to birth control, sex education and decent social support for mothers-- oh, hi Planned Parenthood!) would be fine, but since people will end up having them anyway in the meantime, it's better to keep them safe, subsidised medical procedures tied to education, and not simply desperate transactions with criminals and opportunists? That sounds like a much more consistent, realistic and pragmatic (you know, 'conservative' in the best sense of the term) approach than kneejerk moralising that wins votes from idiots like Giant Douche but does nothing at all to address the issue.

This is the kind of logical thinking that is held up by facts, and is even heralded by one of my more favorite conservative voices, David Frum (a voice that was silenced and fired from the AEI for, well, telling the truth...)

An older article but worth a read* - http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/opinion/frum-abortion-reality/

"If you're serious about reducing abortion, the most important issue is not which abortions to ban. The most important issue is how will you support women to have the babies they want.

As a general rule, societies that do the most to support mothers and child-bearing have the fewest abortions. Societies that do the least to support mothers and child-bearing have more abortions."


*There was a much longer piece he did citing multiple studies on FrumForum.com, but that's long gone*

The problem with letting the restrictions go in America is the loss of that anger from the R base, which means they'll have to find some other foul way to make them turnout.

And I wish conversations about abortion services were a moot point, but they are not, and they are dangerous and loaded enough that it drives people to kill other people in the name of life... It angers me how regressive this country is, fighting battles that should have been resolved in the 60s**, imagine adding up all the money spent lobbying on both sides of the aisle, you've got yourselves a few couple billion right there for education and roads, that's where money should be going, not fighting tooth and nail (and losing!) to keep the status quo.

**As much as the right argues that the Supreme Court shouldn't be activist in making decisions like upholding the PPACA, their main stated goal is to get Roe overturned, period. Google Roe overturned and you'll see every moron running for President states this clearly, as well as almost every current R Govenor. Its only activist if its something I don't like!**

Yep. There's some pragmatism with your ethics. It's as if people like Giant Leech could use a moral calculus over a broken compass. The suggestion that poor women should be forced to procreate against their will is barbaric and inhumane. That they should be subjected to the merest inconvenience or moral persecution, both of which are all to normal, by having PP gutted, their accessibility to consults and care undermined, plus their decision condescended to at every juncture is dehumanizing and actually hypocritically officious "big government."

I wonder how many like-minded men would be up in arms if they had wombs.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Social Justice Thread
« on: February 23, 2016, 12:27:30 PM »
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching
« on: February 22, 2016, 07:41:08 PM »
Saw The Witch. Best horror movie I've seen in some time. A lingerer for sure.
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Fuck Judd Apatow. Thanks for making the safest, most suburban hacky emo twee Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah fuckin comedy movies. Dude is like Svengali, if Svengali was some minivan-driving dad who cracks a decent joke now and then. Yeah he's had his hands in OK stuff but that's cuz of the talent, so maybe he's good at spotting talent. His movies are awful and he seems like a fuckin herb. Freaks and Geeks is pretty good, but that was a long time ago (also let's blame him for James Franco).

The male character on Love is so unbearable I wanted to slit my own throat. Shit is whiter than a jumbo-zise jar of mayo.

Fuck Judd Apatow.

Yup. Funny People - has there ever been an unfunnier movie? Knocked Up is embarrassing. Here are the good movies he's had his hand in, excluding Freaks and Geeks: The 40Y/O Virgin, Trainwreck. That's it.

He's also peripheral to good ones like Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
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I wasn't by any means "there" but I agree with OP. Mama Womb Womb is a terrific record. Also think Cows are tops. The name Amphetamine Reptile Records seems pretty tongue-in-cheek on arrival. I like the joke.
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