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That's so cute about the friend, E. I imagine her seeing Tweedy in a magazine or something and going, "Wow, I knew your boyfriend was in a band, but I had no idea he was so famous!"

This reminds me I should make a trip to the bait shop some time soon. Need some nightcrawlers.

It's not just the guys, Donna!

See- Clive Owen, no shirt, a bit sweaty, on horseback, reading the back of a paint can (aggressively)...

I thought it was pretty melodramatic and highly...supernatural? Supersitious? in a way I didn't care for. It wasn't my bag, and neither is Morrison's writing style.

 

That being said, I was also peeved that I could only picture Sethe as Oprah, and picturing her will ruin just about anything for me.

Ditto all of this.

Hated Beloved. Had to read it 3 times in college for 3 separate classes. Toni Morrison is my homegirl, though. She’s from Lorain, OH. I LOVED Sula, though.

 

Other books that sucked: (for me)

A Separate Peace. I had to read it in 9th grade and then had to teach it when I was student teaching.

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I liked the short stories, but the overall story was dumb.

A Catcher in the Rye. The Holden character was a self absorbed, hypocritical sad sack. Maybe it’s because I’m a female that I don’t like it? Maybe because the ass that killed Lennon idolized it?

I didn’t like The Lovely Bones. I think it was the ending.

 

Simone DeBeauviore bores me. I read collection of short stories called The Woman Destroyed. Ugh.

I disliked Beloved too. It was a million years ago that I read it, but I remember complaining about it.

As a chick, I thoroughly enjoyed Catcher in the Rye but I think that has something to do with my being a bit of a self-absorbed, hypocritical, sad sack sometimes.

I briefly saw an ad for his show on tv and my first thought was, "Isn't that the guy from the car commercials like 15 years ago?" I've never really seen his routine and if it's just ventriloracism, I'm glad I haven't. Also, I don't find Sarah Silverman funny either, but I haven't seen much of her stuff. I did enjoy the "F*cking Matt Damon" bit, but I think it was Matt Damon's enthusiastic delivery that I enjoyed there.

List some books that suck!

 

I got sucked into the Arthur C Clarke "Rendezvous With Rama" series and really enjoyed it until I got to "Bright Messengers" which is where Clarke stopped being a part of it and Gentry Lee did the writing all by his lonesome. "Bright Messengers" was the crappiest book I've ever read, absolute drivel. What is the crappiest book you've ever read?

Though there are about a million and one stylistic differences between Sarah Silverman and Dunham, she also works with stereotypes, but her tone is much more mocking, and, and this is a big and, she’s got really fucking bodacious ta-tas.

"Psychedelic" is a pretty hard term to define anymore. It looks like the teacher went with the most generic possible definition. It's still a lot cooler than anything I ever encountered in school though. The closest I came was having a music teacher who sang "Michelle My Belle" all of the time and seemed appalled when we didn't know what he was on about.

It's late, I should be in bed but first...

Morrissey's crow's feet have killed me.

 

This thread is crazy old but so is Moz, so there...

Vampyrrre! She's got her "I vaaant to suck your bloood!" down and everything.

 

Who has some kid-friendly costume ideas? We've already done "Movie Theatre Floor" (Smashed drink cup and movie-sized empty candy boxes glued to black sweats and headband, also popcorn attached everywhere including hair) and "Kid Without Health Care" (homemade crutch, various poorly-healing and not-so-well-dressed wounds, arm in a homemade sling, strange colorful rash on face that would easily be cured with a $5 tube of ointment, if the child had health coverage...but costs $350 without...you get the idea!)

 

Need something original! Ideas?

I remember your "Kid Without Health Care!" It was a great one! I printed the pic off and showed it to one of my college profs who had been talking a lot about health care that semester. He loved it. I've got no advice on what to do for this year. I'm sure you'll come up with something awesome though and I hope you post it when you do!

I might pick the tomato wedges off of the platter and eat those but everything else is totally freaking me out.

I can't believe nobody said "Blonde On Blonde" in the original discussion. "You don't have it? That is perverse. Don't tell anybody you don't own f%*king Blonde on Blonde!"

I was sleepy when I opened this thread...now I'm officially asleep...zzzzzzzzzzz.

I tried this Avett stuff, but I really just don't feel them. It's kind of like making out with a wall -it's not as gross as making out with your uncle but it's not exactly going to turn you on either.

Were Nirvana really all that big of a deal before Cobain died? I'm not denying that they were, it's just that I didn't hear of them until after the fact. I'm sincerely curious about this. Granted, I was in junior high and listening almost exclusively to rap/hippity-hop in the early nineties so there were a lot of musical things going on that I didn't notice. It may just be that I wasn't hanging out with "Nirvana fan type people" until after 1994.

Of the bands mentioned thus far, Sonic Youth is the only name that made me think, "Hmmmm...that might be correct." It doesn't really mean anything though. I think they just jumped out as being really prolific and more interesting than most. If I had to choose the catalog of only one of the bands mentioned to live on a desert island with, I'd probably go with Beastie Boys. I'm not sure I really understand the question...

I'm spooky now. Loretta wants to feeeeeed on yoooooou!

Somebody got off the potty and found a hottie.

Yup, I posted a link to that Soul Asylum on my Facebook. There are several "covers."

I definitely don't have a favorite album. I usually just build a little playlist of my favorite songs from all of them and listen to that.

I've been thinking about going as a Merlotte's waitress from True Blood. You can get the t-shirts and a bottle of blood online, put some fake bloody hole in your neck and call yourself a "fang-banger" but I'm afraid that might not be clever enough. My daughter is going to be a vampire and she's pretty psyched about it and has suggested I should be her vampire mom, so I'll probably just be a generic old vampire which will still be fun.

Their first album is the first thing I ever purchased from Amazon back in 2001. I liked (still do) Del so I got excited about the Gorillaz thing.

For combination dancing/house cleaning.

Sure, I've got nothing to hide.

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