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I Don't Wanna Die (In the Hospital) is pretty good. Didn't like the live version(s) much at all. Overall, I give this record a 4 out 5. That is an 8 out of 10. An 80 of 100. Best thing he has done since Digital Ash and/or Lifted, depending on whether or not style plays a role in my preference.

I thought the Pitchfork review was pretty dead on. Fate does not work for me. We All Belong is a much stronger affair.

Maybe somebody already said this, but I don't understand why there is such a big load of shit surrounding climate change. Real or not (it is real, for the record), what harm does it do to be a little bit better to the earth? Eat peanut butter and jelly every once in awhile, buy an economical/environmentally friendly vehicle if you can afford to, etc. Plant a tree. That doesn't hurt anybody. The other thing, the fearmongering, kills bunches and bunches of people.

Available separately now in novella form under the title Pafko at the Wall. Underworld can be too daunting to even look at. But I agree, hugely recommended.

I tended to think he had no goat singing on Cassadaga, but maybe I don't listen to it enough to remember.

Listening now for the first time on something other than my shitty laptop speakers. The songs are pretty good (maybe even really good), but yeah, he seems to have regressed as a singer on a couple of these tracks. I'm fine with that, but I can imagine some people won't be.

I'm not a moron. I got that, obviously. It just seemed like a cheap and unrealistic way for Nolan to show it. It was like the end of Ghostbusters 2 where all of the New Yorkers have to sing and be merry to break the slime off the museum. If Nolan was going to use this ending and make it work, he needed to at least hint at throughout the film and he didn't. For instance, (SPOILER) when the Joker announces that everybody needs to leave the city by nightfall if they want to escape his wrath, people freak. Where were those reactions when the Joker later tells people they're going to die? They s

I don't understand what there is to clarify. I liked/loved the movie, but think that a particular scene, as detailed above (both which scene and why), didn't work.

Nolan uses the non-panic as a plot device to end his movie. It is cheap and pretty lame, and the characters on the boat aren't consistent with what we've seen in the last two hours. That is my point.

I understand that any comic book movie is unrealistic, but the part that typically should not be unrealistic, the reaction of the world surrounding whatever is going on, fails, in the last section of the film, to be convincing. You can only suspend so much disbelief, and the citizens sitting around twiddling thumbs crosses that gap for me. The movie lives or dies on the premise that it is real, that causes have effects and consequences. That's the whole point. If it wasn't, I wouldn't give a shit about anything that happened and either would you.

I warmed to Cassadaga a bit, but yeah, that record was half trash so it doesn't take a whole lot. So far, I think this is okay. Maybe a little underwhelming after the bootlegs, but still good. And my favorite song from the live shows (Smoke Signals) didn't make it on here, so that bothers me.

SPOILERRRRRRRR, SPOILLLERRR I think you are missing the point. I don't think you need to expect everybody on the boat to go out of their mind screaming and fighting and jumping out the window (which, by the way, everybody had an hour to do and nobody did it). The problem here is that it was unrealistic. The people showed more fear and panic trying to escape from the city than they did once they sat on the boat and were told they were going to die. Somebody, or a handful of people, would have taken charge and blown the other boat up. Instead they all sit idly by and calmly stuff their vote i

I certainly agree with this. Not a perfect movie and not, probably, as good as a lot of people said it was or I wanted it to be, but I was still very happy with it. A very, very good first half.....a bit of a let-down but still awesome because of Heath Ledger second half. And a spoiler, so don't read below: You kind of have to wonder if, since the Joker does not die, they intended to bring him into the next film to finish some things. It seemed, and maybe this is just wishful thinking because the end kind of sucked (I can't decide how I feel about it), that the Joker probably still ha

How does Dan Brown get on a list of classics? That is like putting N'Sync at #93 of a best bands list.

I did the same thing. I got even more excited when I figured out what it really was......

I haven't seen the movie, but from what I've read, that is a portion of the point. Can't wait to get to this tonight.

Dag, yo. I never got huge into Stage Names, as some people around here probably know, but this is way, way better. I can't find a single bad song, to be honest.

This guy is a huge douche.

Good, good. I expect to feel the same way.

I thought this was what Republicans did.

Same. Here's to hoping it is better than the last one. Lost Coastlines is sounding pretty good.

I think, after the whole "I'm coming back.....wait....I'm not anymore" thing a month after he retired, the Packers are doing what they have to do. How do they know this time will be any different? And really, how long can they put up with his shit? I love him as a Packers fan, but how many years does the team have to wait around for Brett and his spectacle to settle themselves before they can just play football?

The point of my argument was to say that I can't afford it. So what is the harm in starting now to make sure we're both covered when things get worse than they are right now from an oil price standpoint? I don't begrudge you the ability to drive wherever you want to go, but I do think you need to accept that that isn't going to be a feasible way of life for everyone.

That sounds about right. And the other people care about dying on piles of money, surrounded by hot chicks in bikinis, all of which they are happily married to.