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The Boosh is absolute bollocks. Look Howard, MONKEYS! wearing TROUSERS! Haha, they jusxtaposed two unrelated ideas and mentioned animals again. The smug cunts.

I decided to re-read 'Words' and 'Nausea' by Sartre in order to get me back into the existentialist mood neccesary to start on his Roads to Freedom trilogy today or tomorrow or whenever. A friend tells me they're not particularly well written, but then again I'm genuinely more appreciative of JPS' writing style than he is. For anyone looking for a gentler introducting into existentialism, I'd check out Camus' absurdist works, probably the Stranger, the Outsider and the Plague over everything else. I'm going to knock off the Stranger whenever I can get around to it, although I'm pressed for time at the moment. My mom, who had never read anything much besides chic lit, enjoyed the Stranger and the Plague a lot upon reading them, so I guess they're pretty accessible, and the former also fairly short. Before the school holiday I started to read War and Peace, and got a few hundred pages into it. I'll probably resume it when I go back in September. It's decent enough at the moment, but I imagine it'll get better when it isn't primarily focussing on the ins and outs of tawdry Russian aristocratic affairs. A bit dull so far to be honest. Found out the school library is quite well-stocked. Was going to start 'If On a Winter's Night...', but this version has a massive introduction I can't quite summon myself to either undertake or dismiss entirely, so I don't know if I'll bother with this or not. Also tried to start Aurelius' 'Meditations', but, like a lot of pre-Renaissance philosophy it is in places either completely irrelevent or horribly obscure or both. It's also written in that annoying 'numbered propositions' form, which was unwieldy if understandable when used by Wittgenstein, and at least I cared about what he was saying. To prepare for A2 English I have to read Stoker's Dracula, which I'm doing now, and some stuff by Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter. Bleh. Finally, I'm going to try and squeeze in some Dostoyevsky short stories and, now that I've finally got a copy, Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience/Walden'. Should keep me busy for a while.

Steven Speilberg - Schindler's List, but Saving Private Ryan if you won't go with the former. Alfred Hitchcock - Difficult to choose. I'd probably second North by Northwest though. Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver. More interesting as a character study than Goodfellas, both rather similar films though. Oliver Stone - Wouldn't bother. Platoon is alright, nothing special. His body of work other than that is solid but generally indifferent. Woody Allen - Annie Hall or Manhattan. Flip for it. Quentin Tarantino - Maybe Pulp Fiction but probably wouldn't bother with anything. Except PF he hasn't really done much. FF Coppolla - The Godfather or the Conversation. The former probably pips it, but they're both top five all time films for me. Akira Kurosawa - One from Ran, Rashomon or Samurai. Flip a three sided coin. Orson Welles - The Third Man shades Citizen Kane for me. Sergio Leone- Il Buono! Il Brutto! Il Cattivo! Never seen the un-hacked to bits version of OUaTiA, so I can't say for sure though. Show the Bicycle Thief and Ben-Hur as well as an assistant director master class. They're as good as any of the films he directed. Luc Besson - Nope... Stanley Kubrick - Hit and miss body of work. FMJ, Clockwork Orange and The Shining are all bollocks. Show 2001 or Dr Strangelove, preferably the latter, which is the only time Kubrick got his anti-war message really correct, even if he did take the ending from Spike Milligan. What no...? Billy Wilder - Chrissakes! Show Double Idemnity or Sunset Blvd., probably the latter. Roman Polanski - Chinatown. Mel Brooks - The Producers or Blazing Saddles. Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times, City Lights, The Great Dictator. Ingmar Bergman - Wild Strawberries or Fanny and Alexander. Seven Seals might (does) just look a little odd these days. Still good though. I guess you could do Solaris (Tarkovsky rather than Soderbergh, obviously), but they'd mob you. Probably deservedly.

They're all cunts again. HAY ENDEMOLS THANKS 4 DA GAY STEROTYPES! NEVA GETS OLD!!! Best of the Worst: Derrek and Science.

Loves Suicides Bit of Googling unearthed that. And, for more by the same author. Sorry, I know I'm dragging up a very old thread here, but there seemed to be interest in this, and I have no idea where else to put it.

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OOTP7 is coming in the Autumn, so I'd say it's your call...

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20 games in with my Red Sox in Dynasty Mode, on Pro level. Record is something like 15-5, so I'm thinking its getting a bit easy right now. I might play some exhibition games on All Star, and tweak the sliders to make it more challenging. Then again, I'm not really blowing teams out, so I don't know... Had real problems hitting home runs when I first got the game. I'm getting better, but I still pop up a fair few when I try to hit out. Also, I keep trying to hit homers with my power guys, and their averages suffer as a result. Manny has 7 HRs so far, but is batting at something like a .260 clip. Also, I'm not giving up too many runs, even with Pitch Meter difficulty up to 50 and control down to -50. Should get better when I move up to Allstar. My starters are all doing really well. Clement, Schilling and Wells all have ERAs between 2.50 and 3, which is good and realistic. Wakefield and Arroyo are both coming in under 2 though, which is a bit weird. Again, should get better results when I move up a level. Big stars for me so far have been Varitek (.380, 4HR) and Mueller (.350ish, 4HR). Haven't even been trying to hit homers with Mueller, he just keeps depositing balls over the monster. Big busts so far are Renteria (.250, 2HR), Bellhorn (.230ish, 2HR) and Millar (.240ish, 3HR). Ortiz got injured running into second on a line drive a few games ago, and will miss six weeks. Billy McMillon is his replacement in the majors, and Doug Mirabelli will take over as DH (he was doing great as a pinch-hitter and catcher for Wakefield, but has being horrible since starting to play every day). Bullpen has been pretty bipolar -- Timlin, Mantei and Foulke are sure-things (all ERA under 2, Foulke has four saves) but Embree has been streaky (4.4ish ERA) and Koch (I signed him to flesh out the middle relief corps), has given up a ton of hits and HRs, and has an ERA just under nine. Highlight of the season so far for me: Drilling Kazmir with a line-drive on the inside of the leg and then later getting the news that he'd been placed on the sixty-day DL. All in all, an excellent game. Pretty realistic even when you play out games, and really captures the feel of the game well. Oh, and everyone should lower Melvin Mora's stats (Power in particular). He's getting ridiculous in my dynasty -- on pace to hit 80HRs, at a .390 BA.

Oh get off your fucking high horse ←

You need Fugazi's 'The Argument' and '13 Songs' as well. Those two albums are absolutely excellent, most of the rest of their discography is very good also.

Stiff Little Fingers are really good. Inflammable Material is one of my favourite albums, and they have a couple of good live albums as well. It's a shame they never really matched Inflammable, although Nobody's Heroes is a pretty good album as well. They reformed and toured Britain last year, I think it was, with Foxton from the Jam on guitar. I would've gone but it was pretty expensive for a bunch of fourty year olds.

AC/DC - Only work as a joke. Slayer - Never Heard. Metallica - Never Heard. Megadeth - I've heard one of their songs and it was just poo metal. Pantera - Never Heard. Iron Maiden - Never Heard. Def Leppard - Never Heard. Led Zeppelin - Ace, especially the self titled albums. The Beatles - Very, very good with one of the most consistent catalogues around. The Who - Good band, hit and miss discography. Elvis Presley - Don't care. Papa Roach - Shit nu-metal. Limp Bizkit - Worse nu-metal. Linkin Park - Shit popified nu-metal. Korn - Shit nu-metal. Deftones - Occassionally decent, Street Carp is ace. Meat Loaf - Don't care. Arch Enemy - Never Heard of Them. In Flames - Never Heard. Soilwork - Never Heard of Them. Opeth - Never Heard. Distillers - Average punk rock band with a hot lead singer. Meshuggah - Never Heard. Dillinger Escape Plan - Never Heard. Fear Factory - Scifi metal crap crap crap. Tool - Never Heard. A Perfect Circle - Never Heard. Massive Attack - Never Heard. Chemichal Brothers - Decent, but completely outside what I would normally listen to. Van Halen - Never Heard. REM - Very good, especially their earlier stuff. Nirvana - Excellent band. Current fashion is to call them overrated, which may be right, but you're supposed to look at bands independently of what the media tells you to think about them. RHCP - Pretty good, never really got into them on any album. Constant line-up changes hurt them. Soundgarden - Pretty good from what I've heard, which is not much. Alice In Chains - Crappy from what I've heard. Manowar - Never Heard. Pearl Jam - Mostly utter shite. Smashing Pumpkins - Good from what I've heard. Mastodon - Never Heard of Them. Audioslave - Utter shite. Guns And Roses - Stole everything they ever did, but they have a few good songs. Velvet Revolver - Never Heard. Muse - Decent, underwhelming. Ash - Sketchy discography, but they've been one of the best British pop bands of the last decade. The Killers - Quickly got tired of them. Badly want to be the new Queen, the album is half decent and half dreck. Machine Head - Never Heard of Them. Marilyn Manson - Meh. Emperor - Never Heard. Sepultura - Never Heard. Faith No More - Not a big Patton fan, but they're pretty good I guess. U2 - Bit of guilty pleasure, they're okay even if they are twats. Libertines - Very strong first album, dull second album. System Of A Down - Pretty good, like their more outlandish stuff like Johnny and Sugar. Joy Division - Pretty good, but I'm mostly underwhelmed by them. Indie gods, but I'm not that Indie. The Smiths - Ace. Which may make my last assertion seem erroneous, but the Smiths are of a different class. The Streets - Still making my mind up. He'll survive as a relic of Kev culture mostly, I expect. Morrissey - Good, but not the Smiths. Foo Fighters - Decent, the occassional really strong song, often fairly dull but Grohl is a lovely man. Mars Volta - Very good from what I've heard. ATD-I were better for me, I prefer neither the jam band excesses of Volta or the bland emo of Sparta. Snoop Dogg - Rap? Who cares? Eminem - Comedy Rap? Who cares? Ja Rule - R? WC? Jay-Z - R? WC? Tupac - Okay, Tupac is cool. Eric Clapton - Liked his work with the Yardbirds, very little else. Norah Jones - Don't care. Bob Dylan - Ace. Ace. Ace. Except the one or two albums that sucked. Nine Inch Nails - Don't care. David Gray - Dull indie shit. Jeff Buckley - RIP, dude. Really cool, the lead guitarist in my band reminds me of Buckley sometimes. Tom Waits - Same old act is getting tired. Don't care. Depche Mode - Never Heard. Nightwish - Never Heard of Them. Lacuna Coil - Never Heard. New Order - Eh. Indie. And stuff. Pretty good I guess. My Dying Bride - Never Heard of Them. Coldplay - Indie dross dreck shit. Keane - Indie dross dreck shit. Stone Temple Pilots - Never Heard. Bush - Haven't heard much. HIM - Never Heard. Slipknot - Shit. The Clash - Favourite band. London Calling, Give 'em Enough Rope and self titled are near-perfect albums, and Sandinista! has its moments too. Shame they fucked it up at the end there, but still...what can I say? Amazing. The Sex Pistols - Decent for what they were. Neccesary. Green Day - Dukie good, rest meh, now nauseating. NOFX - Mediocre. Rancid - Shitty dreivative punk, good live. Beastie Boys - Very good from what I've heard. Notorious B.I.G - R? WC? RATM - Eh. Hate their style of politicisation and I've never been huge into the FunkRock thing. Gang of Four came twenty years earlier with more insightful lyrics and better music. 36 Crazyfists - Never Heard. Killswitch Engage - Never Heard.

Project 1950? ←

Gang of Four just brought back their original line-up (they've been going twenty-six years now), but they changed quite a bit throughout the eighties and early nineties and were dead from 1996-2004. However, three of their members were constant from 1979 and 'Entertainment!' through to Shrinkwrapped in 1995 (sixteen years).

Julia from Million Dead because she's hot.

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The Bravery, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs and Nine Black Alps. Maybe Million Dead's new album will skyrocket them to superstar status, but it's unlikely.

I only really know him from I'm Not Rappaport, but he was great in that. RIP.

Pixies and Foo Fighters are the best 'main' bands. The rest of the headliners are just stodge: Velvet Revolver, Iron Maiden, QOTSA, Muse. However, the support is mostly good -- Bloc Party and Mars Volta are both very good and I think Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs and Babyshambles (with their grand total of two songs) would be worth seeing. I've seen Elbow live before (supporting Muse) and they're actually pretty good if a little...laid back (their big, fat lead singer sits in a big chair) and bland. Don't know much about Killing Joke, Hot Hot Heat or the Bravery. This looks like a 'maybe', but I'd definately go if maybe QOTSA, Maiden or Revolver dropped out and they added a good headline band (I dunno...Franz, Snow Patrol...uh...) to replace them.

Man, this thread is bringing back so many memories. The first console I ever had was a Master System, with Sonic the Hedgehog built in, and...some other games. I remember playing some really crappy football game on (I think) the Master System, but it might've been the Mega Drive. I think it was for Euro '92 though, so I guess it was the Master System. That sucked hard, and I found it impossible to score. On the Mega Drive, I remember a bunch of these games. Pete Samprass Tennis was all kinds of ace, Brian Lara Cricket was cool too. Plus, I got my first FIFA ('94) then and it seemed amazing. Comix Zone was cool (I got it on the PC later) but the scorpions scared me . Other random games I remember: The three-pack with Italia '90, Super Hang-on and Columns and the one with Shinobi, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage (STREETS OF RAGE!), Animaniacs (never completed it though), Aladdin, EA Hockey and WWF Wrestlemania. Then I got a Sega Saturn ...

D? Let's see. The Damned, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, Deftones (they're oooook. Street Carp alone takes them up a notch), Delta 5, Descendents, The Dictators, The Dismemberment Plan, The Distillers (Brodie is hot), The Dwarves. 10. So far, it's S > M > D for me. Also, I think I forgot to add My Bloody Valentine to my 'M' list. SUE MY CHIN!

Bands with M: Magnapop, Man...or Astroman?, Manic Street Preachers (some of their stuff is good, most is bland shit), MC5, The Mekons, Milemarker, Millencolin, MILLION DEAD, Minor Threat, Minutement, Mission of Burma, Mott the Hoople, Mudhoney, Muse. (Marley, Bob? Murvin, Junior?) That's 14 good bands for M. But, let's look at S. Screaming Trees, Scritti Politti, Selby Tigers, Sex Pistols, The Shadow of Knight, Sham 69, Shudder to Think, The Silver Jews, Skatenigs, Small Faces, The Smiths, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, The Sonics, Sparta, The Specials, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stooges, The Stranglers, Sublime, Sunny Day Real Estate, System of a Down (at times they're good). Total for S: 22. S wins Music! But M probably wins films (Magnolia, Memento, Mullholland Drive, M, Maltese Falcon off the top of my head).