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they're performing on letterman all week. last night they played "breathe," one of the 3-4 songs on the album that i like. sounds a bit like the who.

well at least bishop knows what's up. sure, the riff is repetitive, but it's a pretty solid riff. that solo is also pretty killer. this song makes me sad that RHCP are the only band to have outlived the whole "funk-metal" thing, and look at what they're doing now. cunts. i like how the ad in this thread is for the commodores. is that the only all-black band google can think of?

really? maybe it was never big here in canada or something, because i hadn't heard it until recently.

i've heard his stuff before, but never really got into it. i'm more surprised that you listen to it, because all i remember about your tastes is that you mentioned liking steely dan. but yes, cool song. he sure is talented.... probably one of my favourite musicians.. but i think his newest album is a bit weak. i still like it, but his older stuff is much stronger. nice. i like tori amos' version of that song too. this is marissa nadler (she's not actually in the video). her forth album came out this week. go buy it. so good.

heard the radiohead cover album a few years back. i think it came out in 03 or 04? anyways, it was pretty good, but a bit of a novelty. if i want to hear "knives out," i'll just listen to it. his work is worth a listen though. he puts a lot of effort into his interpretations, and for the most part, they sound pretty decent.

what the hell is bleach? also, i've been meatspinning now for about 15 minutes.

these guys don't get enough attention here, or anywhere for that matter. one of the relics of "funk metal," and one of the first bands to play the lollapalooza circuit.

hahha no i haven't, but by this time i usually have something that i'm completely nuts about. yeah, achtung is a pretty good album.

thought i'd give them a chance. been listening to this record for a few days now... it's not half bad. better than anything they've done recently. i really like how it has more of an "arty" feel as opposed to a stadium rock one. these are definitely not anthemic. they're subtly shaking things up, and it's commendable. not an amazing record, it still has its fair share of nonstarters, but one of the few decent albums to have come out this year. discuss.

this statement is everything that's wrong with canadian television viewers. i havent seen the show, but it does not need to be validated by an american television for it to be good.

what a strange comparison. who cares if they fall off the charts? i didn't know that they'd been on the charts since they released "one week."

i thought we already had a BNL thread, because owen is a fan, but i searched and didn't find anything. anyways, steven page has left the band. they're going to continue without him and are headed into the studio.

yeah ,especially since i totally forgot about that alpha. next episode looks like a humdinger: lulz

haha thanks. how i let myself get away with writing that, i'll never know. EDIT: as of the second episode, i like how things are turning out, but there also some issues i'm beginning to be concerned about, and i'm wondering what others thought of them, or if you've picked up on the same things as well. i find it interesting that the only dolls that we've seen in action have been women. sure, we've now been introduced to alpha, but we haven't really seen him, and he also doesn't function within the limits of the dollhouse organization either, so i'm not going to include him. the fact that the women are dolls, and their handlers, or programmers are males, makes room for an interesting commentary on patriarchal society. actually, you could incorporate alpha into this scenario, in that, he is a male and capable of freeing himself from patriarchal control. it might be inevitable that echo will somehow be... 'let loose' or 'escape' from the dollhouse and am interested by how this could turn into a sort of feminist commentary on things. but i'm also worried that the whole "father/daughter" relationship between boyd and echo might turn into a kind of dependency thing and will diminish any societal criticisms that the show might have. on the bright side, we've already seen that the relationship between echo and boyd was formed through "meaningless rituals," like hand-holding and eye contact--- things that are negotiated by societal norms... and yet, their bond is much deeper than that. similarly, i think what topher said in the first episode, about him tempering his personality creations with "imperfections" or flaws is what makes them "real" or "believable," is going to be a governing rule in the dollhouse universe. i also think that it might cause a bit of an issue because of what "he" or the shows writers, seem to consider flaws. in the first episode, it was asthma attacks, and the spectre of a childhood rape that kept echo from succeeding, and while there was no mention of a flaw in the most recent episode, i've seen some production stills of an upcoming episode where echo is programmed to be blind. perhaps i'm reading too much into what topher has said, but it's just something i've been thinking about a lot while watching the show, and i think the way that the show interprets disability will prove to be interesting.

that was a much better episode than the first was. way more whedonesque, and not surprisingly, that episode had initially been intended as the first. i liked how the story was told more from boyd's perspective, and how we see his relationship with echo developing. most who spend time with her only do it for about a day or so, but he's inextricably bound to her as her protector, so i liked that the complications inherent in such a relationship (his focus on her, her obliviousness to him) were addressed. as for the story itself, i think we've all seen an episode of one show or another where the antagonist is a hunting enthusiast, chasing after the protagonist like sport.

yeah this looks pretty cheesy and a little too close to jumper for me. not that i saw that either.

my roomates used to open the page on each other's computers as a joke, so i'm desensitized as well.

i think that's a bit of an overstatement (and only because you don't really follow that comment up with any that support it). i think he was surrounded by a solid group of people who were willing to follow him, but who were also very intelligent in their own right. goebbels being a prime example, since his techniques of mass manipulation are de rigeur today. not all, though. i'm fairly certain that some of the information has not been released. the only information we've got from those tests is what the doctors who administered them had published, which is still a significant amount, but not all.

a little much.

now the thread has a rascal flatts ad. looks like they're neo-nazi's in hiding. or at least members of the k k k (if i dont put spacing i get some guy hugging a kitten ;)) i recently watched the first part of a bbc documentary entitled the century of the self which does a great job in creating a linear connection to freud's theories and psychoanalysis to edward bernays (freud's nephew) and his pioneering of public relations and use of advertisements to sell people things they don't need, to the mob mentality of germans as a result of nazi propaganda, to the US' policies post WWII and how they are used to manufacture consent. it's a really interesting film. i highly recommend it.

bahahaha serves you right. the song is catchy but it does get kindof old after awhile.

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i'm going to take a guess and blame that on the fact that fox made them re-write the entire episode. i also felt it was slow, especially for whedon, but i think that it followed the kind of pace you'd see in a CSI. i'm also going to point the finger at fox for this one. i think they wanted to make the show as conventional as possible, without throwing people for a loop. i would've liked some more humour as well, but i can see that the character topher (?), the yougn blonde one who runs the place, will possibly be a wealth of humour later on in the show, once things settle down a bit. right now i think they just wanted audiences to grasp the concept without second-guessing the sincerity of it. you're right about this... but when she was in "negotiator mode," i was believing her about 85% of the time. occasionally my mind would drift into "man she's hot" mode as it does with other bad, but pretty actresses like jessica alba, but i think dushku did a decent enough job that it really didn't ruin the show for me. i don't think whedon would've done this with her if he hadn't the utmost "faith" (rofl) in her ability to play a different person each and every show. as i said before, i think that eventually, a lot of echo will start to seep through into the character, and that will be a significant source of conflict... or i could be completely wrong and she's the lead because she's the producer of the show, and will see to it prevent anyone from actually taking this idea seriously. i kindof get what you're saying. especially when she was in her yoga outfit in the "dollhouse."

meg an lauren are super posters. i find i can only post in topics that interest me, or ones that outrage me completely but they post in everything. i also don't come around for weeks on end, so that might essplain why i don't have such high post counts.

did anyone watch this on friday? what do you think? it peaked my interests, but i'm really going to have to see how other episodes shape up before i can really make a decision. also, eliza dushku is hot.