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Quote from: 5laky on January 16, 2009, 12:04:41 PMQuote from: williams on January 16, 2009, 11:54:50 AMQuote from: Oleg on January 16, 2009, 10:33:27 AM
Arguing about REM vs The Jam is splitting hairs.
This.
And this...
http://www.concert.tv/artist/r.e.m./#/video/1182
So if we can't argue about REM vs the Jam, who can we argue about?
Quote from: Oleg on January 16, 2009, 10:33:27 AM
Arguing about REM vs The Jam is splitting hairs.
Quote from: Fork on January 15, 2009, 01:10:10 PMQuote from: 5laky on January 15, 2009, 12:59:13 PMQuote from: Eli on January 15, 2009, 12:51:15 PMQuote from: 5laky on January 15, 2009, 12:00:42 PMQuote from: Eli on January 15, 2009, 10:58:28 AMQuote from: Oleg on January 15, 2009, 10:08:01 AM
If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.
This.
I guess I hate music. Ugh, what is this noise coming out of my speakers. It's so irritating!
Vampire Weekend, it sounds like.
You know me so well. Worst band ever.
It's not like I hate REM. I know Radio Free Europe, but I never got into any of their older stuff at all. As in, never listened to it.
There's a huge difference in hating a band and just not being familiar with or indifferent to their catalog. I can say, without a doubt, that I have absolutely no interest in listening to any REM from the 90s and beyond.
I always found their stuff to be kind of dull, repetitive and self-important. Almost like if Sting were from Georgia.
As for any great run REM had, best runs by artists that far exceed REM start with: Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan to Blonde on Blonde), Beatles (A Hard Day's Night to Sgt. Pepper), Beach Boys (Everything up to the "Good Vibrations" single), The Jam (All Mod Cons through Sound Affects), and Stevie Wonder (Fulfillingness' First Finale through Songs In The Key Of Life).
There are others, but I don't have all day.
Quote from: Gil Gunderson on September 27, 2007, 12:38:19 AM
Outstanding show, bought the DVD's. Spot on with the "Arrested" comparison, as I think "Sunny" can assuredly hold its own. Has anyone taken the time to watch the commentaries?
Quote from: Indolent Reader on September 13, 2007, 10:41:18 AM
So this Big Ten Network thing has me really pissed at Comcast and I'm thinking of making the switch to either of the satellites (I'm leaning toward Dish because of the free HD DVR/6 months), but I swear by my Tivo Series Two/Tivo to go. Does anyone here have a satellite with Tivo series two? If so, does it work it well?
Quote from: ~Apex on April 02, 2007, 09:27:57 AM
It's the one race of people that makes Hoosiers feel "superior." Kentuckians, bless their hearts, are really all we've got. When I was a kid, some people from Kentucky moved in on our street and I thought, "Aw, hell there goes the neighborhood." But they were alright. I was shocked to find out that in Kentucky, they don't make jokes about Hoosiers the way we're constantly shitting on them. I asked them, who they made fun of all the time, and they responded, "Why, the niggers, stupid. Who else?"*
* Just kidding. They didn't say that. They said they made jokes about people from Tennessee. And I thought back then, that of all the f@#$ed up places in the entire world, Tennessee must be the worst off by far. I haven't spent much time there but I haven't seen much by way of diaspora or television footage to dispute that early notion of mine either.
Quote from: cubbiebluestew on March 30, 2007, 03:19:07 PMQuote from: Down In Front on March 30, 2007, 01:50:16 PM
Marathon was great, BTW. The only time I got up from the couch was when Andy Richter's show inexplicably came on during the 8:30-9:00 slot.
The Richter show was inspired genius. Harve Presnell had a good baritone voice in the 60's and 70's and was a Broadway leading man. He now plays a retired tough-guy private detective who is a loose canon and is likely to beat up or shoot innocent bystanders who don't have the right answers to his non-sensical questions. However, he has an irrational fear of chickens and the sight of them will totally paralyze him. Richter, the CPA/private detective, has two more sidekicks. A Pakistani restaurant owner and the misfit who played the youngest brother in "Arrested Development". This is not a show that can be ignored.
Quote from: Andy on September 29, 2006, 08:58:36 AM
What I know about this season is boiling down to a Stamford-Scranton merger, or at the very least the closing of the Stamford branch altogether. Steve Carrell talked about how during the season Andy (Ed Helms) and Michael "get along famously." It's also been written that Helms and Rashida Jones (the one who sits behind Jim in Stamford) have been signed for the entire season, and that at some point, Jim and Rashida (I forget what her character's name is) will date. I like how the show throws in little things to make us realize that for all of his weird and awkward mannerisms, Michael's actually a pretty good salesman. He closed the account with the count last year at Chili's and apparently last night he and some mid-level Hammermill guy pounded out an agreement to let Dunder Mifflin sell their paper. If I had to guess, I'd say the Scranton branch costs less to run than the Stamford one does, and probably has a bigger share of a smaller market, leading to Dunder closing Stamford and sending some of those employees out to other branches. Just a guess, though.
Quote from: KD on August 18, 2006, 05:01:32 AM
This is one of the funniest things I've seen tonight:
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1704331/
It reminds of Dwight's speech to his fellow salesmen ... women.
It also reminds of the Burroughs cut-up technique -- is using those words in, y'know, the right order? And the random baby crying and train whistle blowing just add to this oddity. Well worth a watch.
