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Everything posted by Beltmann
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Not long ago I read that she prefaced a recent performance of "Smile" by confessing she has grown tired of the song. Perhaps she's been tossed into the limelight without being prepared for the rigors of touring, interviews, etc.?
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You bet. Welcome to VC! If your love for Wilco, your articulate opinions, and your impeccable grammar are any indication, you'll fit right in. As for Wilco fans having adventurous ears, I think your initial assumption was correct. Let me direct you to here.
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I'm disappointed that you have chosen to write off an entire community based on the comments of a few members. If you poked around more, you'd notice that SBS has, by and large, been embraced by this community.
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Sounds about right.
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One of my former students--otherwise a bright, nice kid--was recently jailed for heroin and forced into a rehab program. His parents were grateful for the arrest and said it was the best possible thing for him.
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Like movies, some music is violent, while other music is about violence. (Deciding which is which isn't always simple, though.)
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All of this makes me want to revisit Bamboozled, which confronted these same issues--especially the free pass given to toxic hip-hop--some time back. It's flawed, but at the time I thought it was an important movie.
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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
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First albums, both on vinyl: I honestly can't remember my first concert, but it was probably some aging doo-wop band--like the Four Tops--that my dad wanted to see. And I probably had a great time.
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"Plasticities." Perfect choice, I think.
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Yeah, I liked that, too. Reminded me of Funny Games, where the bad guys keep winking at the audience.
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I liked the first 20 minutes or so of Planet Terror, but then I grew weary... the experience as a whole never lived up to the highs of a few select fragments or gags. The problem I have with Rodriguez is that while he has boundless enthusiasm for the nuts-and-bolts of filmmaking, he's just not a very strong storyteller. All of Planet Terror is told at precisely the same pitch, and for me that grew repetitive. The fact that he's reviving old junk tropes doesn't forgive it, either, especially in light of how Tarantino, by contrast, skillfully avoided the pitfall of producing juvenile crap whe
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Albert Hammond, Jr. - Yours To Keep (2007)
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True to form, Rodriguez bored me while Tarantino mesmerized me.
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Were both pieces written by the same writer?
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I can't believe I never noticed that. Damn.
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Hiya Tristan! Hope it's a beautiful b-day!
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Fricke looks just like Nate, one of my best pals from college--including the big teeth.
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FYI: She's scheduled to appear on Leno this Wednesday, April 11.
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Good story! Jeff's music definitely speaks for itself.
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I've been listening to this a lot over the last few weeks. I think it's terrific.
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Gotcha... and yeah, I think Freaks was indeed set in the early 80s, not the 70s.