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Brought to you live from a cozy trailer (Ballin!) just down the street from Hollygrove.

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Over the course of Ramadan, your boy has generally abstained from all of his vices (I had premarital sex, but I did get stoned afterwards so I'm forgiven now), but the wonderful events of last night (My boy's 21st birthday: dinner and open bar at a fancy restaurant where I was seated at a table with some dude whose woman I stuck up in the guts), I've realized that it's pointless for me to be a nice boy who goes out to be social amongst his friends and doesn't empty his wallet down his throat and doesn't shamelessly attempt to fornicate with anyone.

The game isn't too interesting so far. The horrifying details of cellular biochemistry and neuroscience aren't, either, so to entertain myself I have no choice but to attempt to entertain you - losers and people from time zones that I've never traveled to.

This thread will be generally directionless.
 
#1:

TV on the Radio pretty much has the rock album of the year (Return to Cookie Mountain, in stores now). If you disagree for whatever reason, I don't know. Go away.

Here they are, performing "Wolf Like Me" on Letterman:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=73qBnuzrjx0

You can listen to the studio version of the song here (I'm too lazy to upload an mp3 myself, and I'm not going to fuck over some poor website by directly linking to the goods):
http://www.hip2besquare.net/index.php?itemid=28

Listen to the studio version first.
 
i Thinnnnnnnnnnnnnk that you made 2 topics the same


and indeed rgis thread is directionless, i feel sleepy i'll come back to it tomorrow after i've had some sleep


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#2:

I treat bitches like bitches.

#3:

I enjoy learning concepts, applying them in different contexts, and seeing what happens.

#4:

I treat bitches like bitches.

#5:

I like Malcolm Gladwell's writing. I don't entirely agree with his books, but he's great at taking academic material and making it readable and enjoyable. Secretly, I've used his articles as a weapon for years.

I just found out he has a website. It has an archive of his New Yorker articles. This one's a few months old. It's about the host of "Dog Whisperer":
http://gladwell.com/2006/2006_05_22_a_dog.html
 
#7:

If I bought people useful gifts, this would be up there: http://theoriginalsushipillow.com . I mean, I know a few people who might like something like this. And I know a couple of unassuming motherfuckers who would just adopt it for use just like any other pillow.

#8:

Oh!

#9:

Originally, I had written about the choice of music in car commercials, hell, lots of commercials. I couldn't figure out what angle I wanted to take it, though - did I want to rant about the former college newspaper music critic who got a job at an ad agency, or did I want to fantasize about what's going on inside the head of the poor alternative musician whose most lucrative career moment is having his art turned into a jingle?

#10:

This was also going to be a rant about pop culture whores who watch more VH1 than TiVo watches the rest of TV, and how when they talk about sports (especially baseball), I just want to kill myself and renounce any association I've ever had with anything that could be thrown for the sake of amusement.
 
roaches! flavor flav! i've missed you. tell me, what's your next career move?


#1
fuck yes. they make me happy in special places.
i wouldn't say they had the best album of the year; i just don't believe in any bests or greatest or favorites. so limiting. but i'll say it was money well spent.

i'm pretty pleased with the indie/ rock scene at the moment. i listened to tons of bands over the summer and really most of the artists i've listened to in the past two years, so very few came to disappoint. (a silver mt. zion, wolfmother, cold war kids, horse the band, le tigre, peaches, giant drag, forward! russia, cansei de ser sexy, femme generation, clinic, black eyes, the long blondes, kaiser chiefs, olympus mons, the presets, babyshambles, nouvelle vague, the sounds, the sugars, eagles of death metal, death from above 1979, editors, the dandy warhols, rocknroll soldiers, arctic monkeys, dirty pretty things, i could go on and on and on. all worthwhile stuff imo)

1 word though: Amputechture. if you haven't heard the new album by the mars volta yet, there's something not right here. two more words: viscera eyes.

#2
in my spare time, i turn tricks and bake cookies. made for each other? yes we are.

#3
i enjoy learning new sexual positions, testing them out in different environments, and seeing what happens.

#5
i'll look into him. but while we're running in literary circles...i've recently gotten through all or most of ayn rand's works. are you familiar with her? took a page out of dostoyevsky's realm; he really pioneered the philosophy. very few are in the know about this. i mean really, does everyone think the woman woke up one morning with all those masterful concepts in her head?

i recommend Atlas Shrugged. choose to read it; it'll be the best decision of your life.
her objectivist philosophy, her vision of existence, her "philosophy of reason," basically introduces a brand new concept of egoism, which states that the pursuit of his or her own rational self-interest is every individual's highest moral obligation. i could talk about her for days.
 
#6
i completely agree with that sentiment. if we could just see things for what they are. if somebody could just talk about the fuckin music, which on its own should stand, and not allude to social needs and problems.

#7
i don't understand people who tell me not to get them anything for their birthday. especially when i hear this from best friends. especially when i make the offer, or the unselfish extension. motherfuck do you expect me to believe you when you tell me you don't want anything? it's almost rude in a way. and there are some people who won't even accept the gift once it's handed to them. it's borderline disrespectful.

#8
see #10

#9
tivo

#10
can't have a rant about pop culture without ranting about the excesses of modern technology.
i actually came across an old clip of dylan performing "the times they are a-changin" for some canadian talk show back in the day. and as i was watching it, i'm thinking, that's all everyone's doing... just watching. this man accomplished so much, and what are we doing? just sitting around watching. it'll be our ruin. everything's handed to us, everything we want, not a problem we can't solve.
it's all going to blow up in our face one day -- literally blow up our face, i'm sure everything will be embedded in our skin. but we'll all be robots by then.

and i can't stand vh1's "best week ever" show. as if we don't get enough pop culture thrown in our face everyday. now we have a weekly recap show that highlights and is dedicated to covering every absurd news headline about every celebrity in the world of pop. fuckin shoot me in the ass.
 
I find it disgusting that I'm here on a second consecutive Saturday. I missed both my homecoming game and Voodoofest to study all day today, take a break, and then study some more tomorrow. But yo - Saints tickets! I'll gladly miss the chance to get some knowledge from an alumnus's daughter to hop on America's favorite bandwagon tomorrow.

First off:
* I don't like the Mars Volta. I liked their first EP, their first LP, and "The Widow", but everything else is just them trying to drown out the sound of Dave Chappelle's wrap it up music, imo. I'll be first in line next time they're at the House of Blues, though.
* I don't like Ayn Rand that much either. It's interesting stuff, but I spent middle school and high school surrounded by pseudointellectuals who thought rationalizing being a typical selfish self-absorbed teenager was a lot cooler than it actually is.

can't have a rant about pop culture without ranting about the excesses of modern technology.
i actually came across an old clip of dylan performing "the times they are a-changin" for some canadian talk show back in the day. and as i was watching it, i'm thinking, that's all everyone's doing... just watching. this man accomplished so much, and what are we doing? just sitting around watching. it'll be our ruin. everything's handed to us, everything we want, not a problem we can't solve.
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I don't get it. Are you angry that Bob Dylan started playing the electric guitar? What does this have to do with technology?

I love technology, personally. I helped my boy set up his home theater the other day. 92 inches in HD = better than real life.

i can't wait until this movie comes out.
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I'm excited, too. They were handing out sneak preview passes at happy hour yesterday for anyone who could do a decent impression. If only I found out a few rounds earlier.

#11 (THE REAL #11):

I gotta study, motherfucker, I don't have time for this shit anymore.
 
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