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  1. I thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday were waaaaay drawn out into weeks and maybe even the whole freakin’ month. The “deals” weren’t that good towards the end of this year. I managed to get better deals before Black Friday. The only saving grace was Barnes & Noble’s Criterion and Arrow video sales (50% off!). If you’re a film buff and collectr0, then you KNOW this is a sale to not be missed 🎉🇺🇸🎉

  2. The Taliban does like some types of music. If you listen to the spoken Quran at a mosque, it’s actually recited - kinda like a song. A society devoid of music is a dead one at its core. Thankfully, music exists everywhere, regardless of whether there are humans/intelligence to discern it and enjoy it.

  3. Anyone headed into the hospital for surgery , soon ?

    Doctor makes incision on wrong eyelid

    The Yomiuri Shimbun

    NAGOYA--An ophthalmologist in his 40s mistakenly cut a patient's right eyelid instead of the left eyelid while removing a tumor on June 27 at the National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center in Naka Ward, Nagoya.

    The doctor halted the operation, apologized to the patient's family and resumed the procedure.

    According to the medical center, the operation was to remove a benign tumor from behind the patient's left eye. The doctor noticed his mistake about one hour into the surgery after a five-centimeter incision had been made on the wrong eyelid.

    The doctor made the mistake when marking the place for the incision. Five surgical assistants and nurses who were in the operating room did not notice the mistake. The hospital said the patient's scar will be almost unnoticeable.

    (Jul. 6, 2005)

    Ooopsie :angel: That's not how it's supposed to look, folks. Sorry 'bout that :jester:

    How is the situation with malpractice lawsuits there in Japan?

  4. Soul Girl wrote:

    jeff buckley did millions of covers and made his own of every one - incredible!

    I tend to think the same thing about Bryan Ferry, David Sylvian, and Chris Isaak. At his last concert, Chris Isaak did a good rockabilly version of Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me" :guitar: Oh man. I wish I had that on cd :headphones:

  5. invisible_r wrote:

    guilty, i bought the scissor sister's album and the best of REM from hmv on sunday.

    One has to bear in mind that the cds from bands that appeared in the LIVE 8 gig were on sale though (in HMV at least); I'm sure that helped alot! pink floyd albums are normally ridiculously expensive

    Don't you guys have places that sell used cds? I haven't bought a new cd in a couple of years. I buy from Amazon vendors; there's also Amoeba in LA and Rasputin in NorCal :coolio: Some of their used cd prices are ridiculously low. I think the cheapest cd I bought was a Naked Soul e.p. which was out of print at the time... it cost me fitty cent :beatnik:

  6. Levis517 wrote:

    What I figure is, that if a song is really good, it shouldn't have to have barely clothed people in its video in order to sell. A good song would sell if it had a blank screen as a video. Most rock songs just use a shot of the band playing with maybe a mild sloryline thrown in. Hip-hop seems to need to resort to sex and sometimes even violence in order to sell.

    And after all that, they're still sampling rock songs.

    ... as opposed to Rock, Punk, Goth, Techno, Country, and Folk music?

    I was reading this topic and it made me think... "but the point of the show was to bring awareness to the plight of Africans living in poverty, not the bad-word count of each artist or if what they sing constitutes as 'music' (which it does)."

  7. La vie est un long fleuve tranquille (French film)

    Mon oncle d´Amérique (French film)

    Esperando la carroza (Argentinian film)

    We don't get to see many films from South America, with the exception of Brasil. They're the only rivals to Mexico when it comes to film and television (though Venezuela and Colombia make some good telenovelas :: ).

    French films started to get bad from about 1980 on. Once in a while there is something really good coming from France, but nowhere near as cool as the New Wave stuff from the late 50s and 60s, or the Eurotrash from the 70s :beatnik:

  8. Uuuh. If only I had all night to sit here and list them :jack:

    Here are some which have come to mind:

    Solaris (1972 version)

    The Seventh Seal

    Orpheus (1949 version)

    The Nights Of Cabiria

    Royal Space Force: The Wings Of Honneamise

    Taxi Driver

    The 400 Blows

    The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner

    These are cinematic perfection :beatnik:

  9. i was listening to "killing moon" by echo and the bunnymen. i love this song.. i was wondering whether any of their other stuff is any good

    Uh. Yeah? :beatnik: They also have a really good cover of The Doors' "People Are Strange" that was featured in The Lost Boys.

    I have most of their albums and I'd say their early stuff is what you're looking for. Their first four albums got high ratings on amg, if that means anything :headphones:

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    It's weird. On AMG, it doesn't mention anything if BOC sampled anything for the song, but Cabaret Voltaire has the same tune inserted in "Do The Mussolini (Headkick)" and so does the video game Splatterhouse. I guess it's kinda apropos that a horror video game should have a "reaper" song :: I thought maybe that little guitar solo was derived from some old song, but it was theirs all along :rockon:

  11. I always pulled for the Rockers. The Mods were these whiny middle class/suburban kids with nothing else going for them except their 20 mirrored Lambrettas. Suffice to say, I love the concept of orchestrating a whole score around the images like The Who did in Quadrophenia and Tommy.

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