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The Boy Who Could Explode is in the store. Matt requested that the others not be circulated on the NF store. And now people that usually capture them have changed their minds, so tough luck getting them, especially Vancouver National Anthem.

We have the same things in Virginia, US, especially on big movie releases. In addition to the people checking your ticket and ripping the extra piece off before entering the concessions/cinema area, they will have guards in front of theatres checking your ticket AGAIN to make sure you're not switching sittings and sometimes checking your bags. So true. What's funny is that I carry a knife around all the time - not too big, about 3 inches. I recently went to DC to 3 museums and had by bag checked. They don't check worth shit, and I could be in there fucking up their art/dinosaur bones (whether or not they are art prints or fake bones, they're still valuable museum property..), let alone slashing people. ;)

Your PA? I think they meant that Matt took it down due to the fact that someone "stole" (as in recorded) it, but while that may or may not be untrue (he could be putting them up for a limited amount of time and taking them down for the reason everyone is suggesting - keeping material fresh for record sales), are you sure Matt has only known about people recording them since "Fought to Fight it"? I remember he used to have streaming audio of Comfortable Criminals and other songs on the site a few years ago, and people obviously yanked 'em before Comfortable Criminals came out on the compilation CD.

I totally agree with you that you can do practically anything when you stack the courts. The Judicial Branch is probably the strongest branch of government if you make it in your image, let alone the fact that they have the final say on practically every issue (recounts and abortion, to name a few). I also agree that the policies may not make leaps and bounds, but they will certainly take on a more youthful form than Hilary's. I find that most people in power, from governors to representatives all the way down to town mayors, are on average 30 to 50 years older than the people whose policies they are voting on. That makes the government inherently backward, and provides for little change. If the gap between the old and the young lessens with progressive attitudes under Obama's administration, coupled with the rise of technological advancement in the future, the U.S. will certainly experience more poignant changes.

THEY LOOK SO OLD NOW!

Indeed, but it's also kind of funny in a sad way, because he's still running and it's mathematically impossible for him to win now that Romney practically handed all of his delegates to McCain. Maybe it was the Colbert bumb that kept Huckabee afloat? OR GOD POWER?!

Looking back on it (aside from having either a. a bad hair day or b. being an older gentleman in a horrible position as a city cop where he thus becomes a complete douche), it sort of seems like the cop was asking for a fight - asking for the kid to talk back. When he walks up, you can already tell he's going to let them have it and he starts insulting the kid's parents saying that his dad should have disciplined him more and stuff. When you proceed to insult someone's parents (whether or not they actually have them), you're totally asking for it. This makes me think... could a cop go in there and be verbally abusive with someone to the point that they'd retaliate, attempting to get him into trouble and knowing the whole time what he was doing? Interesting..

I'd have to say that yes, the fact that the bar missed the lung is somewhat unrealistic, because your lungs take up a pretty honking part of that area (along with other organs!); it's simple math. But honestly, I said I didn't like it, I gave some reasons why I didn't like it (and why I do like other giant monster movies), so I don't think you have a right to attack my view (or to suggest that I dislike the genre). I'm not going out of my way to argue with anyone else's interpretations of the movie; I'm just presenting and defending my own. I know a lot of people like it, it has gotten some rave reviews from critics large to small, but I just don't think it was the bees knees. I mean, sure, the movie was graphically pretty. It was exciting. But I would only give it a 3 out of 5. It just doesn't have enough content for ME. Maybe part of the reason I don't like it is also the fact that while the characters succeeded in getting her out of the building (the driving force for going out by the monster in the first place instead of doing what normal people would do), one thing lead to another and it didn't even matter by the end of it because they kicked the bucket. I'm not saying that I'd rather them have lived in the end (OHHH NO), but I would rather have had her be dead and then something else interesting happen. Something to further the plot along other than just disaster after disaster. I don't think that as a plot technique it's credible as something "artistic." Anybody could think that up. Anyway, I thought that we were supposed to talk about what we thought about the movie, not get all up in arms about what other people might think...

Not with you around. ;) But someone on his site seems to be suggesting that he didn't take it down because he didn't want it up anymore: (revisited) "Umm

LOL. Sending off the crazy war-monger only worked with 2 tries for Napoleon... but maybe, just maybe, somebody can get it right this time. ;) As for the song.... I hate how these are up for like 2 seconds! Gah, I bite Matthew Good's dust once again. *shake fist* I'll get you someday!

She's an a-lot-of-things-HEAD.

That cop is a fucking asshole. Those kids didn't do anything (and did not say anything, especially anything out of place for their generation). Not only is it untrue that they can't skate "anywhere," but I'd say he unlawfully handled the boy when he took him to the ground, let alone taking the skateboard. I do love how at the end the cop is worrying that he'll be on YouTube, and he totally is. Maybe that's some payback... but I'm sure these kids had to go through much more of this awkward berating from the cop. A similar thing happened to two of my friends. They were outside a 24hour Walgreens at about 11pm and they found that the large poles at the end of parking spaces that prevent you from driving into the store had covers on them. They thought that was pretty cool so they took the plastic piece off and hit each other with it for a few seconds, then put them back as they realized they probably shouldn't be doing that. Then a cop pulls up and arrests them for "attempted vandalism" yelling at them in much the same fashion about how they are going to get 120 hours of community service and go to court and have this on their record. He made them call home and had their parents pick them up. He said wait 2 weeks for a subpoena. Nothing happened. This is because cops have no jurisdiction on the private property of a business if the business owner declines to press charges - the manager didn't give a shit. The cop was just being an ass. Unfortunately both of my friends got punished by their parents for this bullshit, one of them for 2 months which included his birthday. >.< Cops have way to much liberty/authority to fuck with people, in my opinion. If they're having a bad day, they can find something wrong in whatever you're doing, even when no cop in his right mind would normally try to arrest you. Now, I know this isn't true for a majority of cops (I have the utmost respect for those cops, keeping the laws in tact; one of my martial arts instructors is a cop), but it's completely unnerving when I continually hear stories of police brutality. Oh, and for the record, I wasn't raised with a foot in or out of my ass. I was ignored. ;)

Have you guys ever seen the movie Running Fence? In the '70s a formally schooled artist Christo and his wife set up a MILES long fence across Sonoma and Marin counties in California. It made it to the ocean across rolling hills, and dipped into the water. The fence was made of large poles and cloth that ebbed and flowed with the wind, and shimmered with the sunlight. There was enormous consternation had by the people of the counties as many did not want it to go up and legal battles ensued. In the end, the judge didn't care that he take it down immediately because it was only a 2 week installation anyway. Through all of their trials, though, in town hall meetings and frantic workers setting it up, Christo said that all of them were involved in his art - they were the process. Now, it doesn't seem like a lot of installations (tv sets, blocks of lard, whatever they may be) are really art, but to the artist they meant something. I think you shouldn't question whether or not it is art, because if it's art to them, you just have to accept it. Obviously there are other things besides installations which are considered not art because the artist isn't formally trained, they use spray paint (graffiti) to make paintings, etc., but to me.. it's all art. Anyone can make it if he has the idea and he has the willpower to carry it out. Despite my broad view of art as "HUMAN EXPRESSION," I really don't like a lot of art. I myself draw and do some functional art (crafts), someday hoping to paint, but when I go to galleries only a few of the pieces really catch my eye and hold my attention. They all may be art, but I'm selective when it comes to which ART I like.

I'm an Obama fan too, and I'm glad you guys are. I know it's a little early and apparently "Hilary still has some fight in her"/"She's gearing up for Texas, Pennsylvania,..." I think Obama has the nomination. On all of the New stations and websites they have his picture up with McCain's, as if it's been decided and they're running against each other finally. If hella face time and Barack-o-Mentum are good for nothing, I'll eat my shirt.

Is Alexisonfire emo? I have never heard them. Did they not used to be emo and then turn emo or something? I always assumed with a name like that they were metal-esque.

We've got a regular Anti-Amy Winehouse Brigade going on here!

That's what I'm talking about!! Trust me, I did not want to go. I just think it tried to make itself too serious, you know? Like Godzilla movies are OBVIOUS camp, and that's why they're fun to watch. This tried to be realistic and failed.

Ok, so I listened to the song and I deem it to be okay, but then again it's a demo and not really a demo at that if it's a joke song. The guitar is pretty cool; I like how it intros. I didn't like all the echoing done with Matt's voice on this one, and of course the lyrics aren't really top notch except for a few choice lines. I also think it's kind of long in correlation to the lack of depth in the lyrics - I don't wanna hear the same thing over and over for 4:56. I don't think I'll listen to it again, but it doesn't mean Matt has lost his style, is writing songs to sell, needs to get over it, is turning emo or anything many people seem to be suggesting. So yeah, let's all just leave it at that. :angry: Whoever it was [;)], I'd wager she was a bad penny anyway.

I third that motion! Her lyrics are mundane, she sounds like a man when says "no no no/go go go," she spews out "Blake" lyrics for her man all the time, the background music (while quite jazzerous) is not very intricate, and she is a horror to look at (THE TEETH!). I guess it just goes to illustrate that our society (the AngloSphere)prides itself in idolizing people who won't go to rehab.

Thanks, I'll check back there often. ;)(It says TBA still.)

I don't know how the Juno's are, but with the Grammy's in the U.S. recently, there was a huge surprise. The winner of Album of the Year was a jazz cd and it beat out Amy Winehouse and Kanye and all of them. I don't know if that means something cool could happen for the Juno's, but my spidey sense says Finger 11 has it in the bag. >.< What's worse than that, though, is having to hear some wacko on American Idol sing it (Paralyzer)...

So it's down to McCain and Huckabee for Republicans, with no chance of Huckabee winning the nomination. For Democrats, Obama and Hilary are duking it out, Obama slightly ahead after the Chesapeake/Potomac/Crabcake primaries. Who do you support?

I didn't particularly like this movie. While the monster was cool (reminded me of Sin from Final Fantasy X if anyone knows that game) with the little creatures flying off of it (OOOH AND TANKS), it was unrealistic and the dialogue was horrible. People don't just stand there when they see rats running away from something behind them in the dark. People (I don't care how much they love someone) are not going to run past a monster and then jump from crumbling building to crumbling building in order to retrieve someone. The person they "save," after being POLED in the chest and having it ripped out of them, is not going to be able to escape the downward sloping crumbling building, run, etc. Also, even the fact that the dumb shit was carrying the camera isn't plausible. If you're running for your life from a monster, are you going to bother with recording shit? Additionally, while I did not see MONSTER (another large creature disaster movie), Cloverfield has the exact same premise (shaky camera and all) and is thus a copy. As for the sequel, there is going to be one. The end of this movie has a hidden part in it, when it cuts back to the previously recorded outing of the girl and the boy at an amusement park. Something is falling into the water behind them and different sources state that it is either a. the monster falling from space b. a satellite from the Japanese firm the boy is about to work at, which in its fall arouses the monster from the ocean (which has a huge back story about different companies making shit which provokes the monster, so says producers and the like). There is also hidden dialogue at the end: the audio from the video camera says, "Help us!". But when played backwards, it says, "It's still alive!" Despite all of that seemingly interesting stuff with the Japanese company and the fact that Cloverfield is a military codename for the video found in Central Park, the director's vision for the sequel (obviously pushed back from the Writer's Strike) is just to have it told from a different perspective of people in the city. Nothing new there...

I thought it was really cool how they had practically every character in the movie, like the GlobeTrotters, Al Gore, Santa. I thought it was pretty cute (especially for the possibility of a Fry/Leela relationship), but the fact that it is a movie and not a series of episodes makes it a lot better and easier to understand. If anyone here likes math you should also check out the math lecture on the dvd - it's MATHY! To answer people's questions, they were supposed to have episodes (I remember because I still have a newspaper clipping from 2006 saying they'd air on Comedy Central in early 2008) but instead they are making 4 movies, each at about 90 minutes length. I am assuming since Comedy Central bought the rights to air Futurama episodes they are going to air the movies (possibly in episode form) after all of them are out. I don't think Futurama is going to go the way of the Simpsons because as you probably know Groening barely works on the Simpsons anymore, whereas he was totally involved with this movie and will be with the next ones. Anything further probably depends on the commercial success of these dvds, but at least we got something... and the comics.

Unfortunately that is like a friggin Thursday... Maybe I can get my boyfriend to skip class and drive me.. O.o What time to the shows begin? 7-8ish?