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« Reply #90 on: March 21, 2005, 06:53:29 pm » |
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It's immensely scary that you should say that, Matt. Really.
About 4 hours ago, I watched the show Gilmore Girls for the very first time in my life and what you just said is more or less exactly what I thought. If the conversations between the mother and daughter always go like that, I'd say the show needs to end with both of them ending up in a mental institution. Or an acting class.
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<j_orlove> the half that tells me how to live my life
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« Reply #91 on: March 22, 2005, 02:17:17 am » |
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People just randomly dropping in witty references to Wittgenstein and junk like that. And not, like, in the middle of a philosophy conference, but just like while discussing last night's burrito. No one is that prepared when they speak. In real life people stop to ponder, to think of how best to put things, no one comes equipped with all the witticisms and answers. Well, all I can say is, why should art imitate life?  I love fast-paced, witty, completely unrealistic dialogue, and in White Noise, there are plenty of reasons why nothing in the book is intended to be naturalistic. It sounds like we just have different taste, basically. I actually have seen the Gilmore Girls. When the dialogue is really on, I love it, but the writing isn't consistently good enough for it to be worth watching for me. What's your feeling on, say, Aaron Sorkin's stuff? West Wing, Sports Night, etc? I think he writes (wrote) the best dialogue on television. |
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« Reply #92 on: March 24, 2005, 11:30:58 am » |
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hmmm... Bram's profile reads like a Ben Folds song.
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« Reply #93 on: March 24, 2005, 11:35:13 am » |
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hmmm... Bram's profile reads like a Ben Folds song. I was with you all the way up to 'hmmm'. Wow. Seriously, I have no idea whatsoever what that means  |
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<j_orlove> I am semi-religious
<BR4M> I like that. which half of god do you believe in?
<j_orlove> the half that tells me how to live my life
<j_orlove> but not the half that tells me how others should live theirs
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« Reply #94 on: March 24, 2005, 11:43:13 am » |
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You sing about bullshit / like you're from the streets
Say 'YO!' to your friends / and everyone that you meet
Like you're from the city / well I laugh at you all
'Cause you're from the suburbs / and you work at the mall - HAHAHAHA!
let me tell ya'll what it's like
being male, middle class and white
it's a bitch, if you don't believe
listen up to my new cd
sham on
i got shit running through my brain
so intense that i can't explain
all alone in my white boy pain
shake your booty while the band complains
i'm rocking the suburbs / just like michael jackson did
i'm rocking the suburbs / except that he was talented
i'm rocking the suburbs / i take the checks and face the facts
that some producer with computers
fixes all my shitty tracks
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« Reply #95 on: March 24, 2005, 12:18:27 pm » |
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Damn, that looks pretty amazing. Must...check....that band....out!
<3 William Shatnerspeak
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« Reply #96 on: March 24, 2005, 12:42:53 pm » |
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Does Shatnerspeak imply sarcasm, or are you overexaggerating your desire to listen to Ben Folds Five? :lol:
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« Reply #97 on: March 24, 2005, 12:51:27 pm » |
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Neither. Based upon what you posted, I'd really like to hear their stuff.
And regarding shatnerspeak: I....just.....like.....to do that.
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« Reply #98 on: March 24, 2005, 02:25:31 pm » |
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well, I'm pretty sure I don't have to tell anyone these days where to get music but if you end up liking their sound, check out Beck. Better to listen to, but not as funny. This thread ever gonna reach the length of the last one? |
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« Reply #99 on: March 24, 2005, 02:29:26 pm » |
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Well, all I can say is, why should art imitate life? Oh it doesn't NEED to but they dis-imitate it in a particularly annoying way. I mean, if you read a Discworld novel, the characters there are just as snappy and "on"...but it's not annoying, largely because it's a comic work and the author isn't trying to get the reader to take it seriously. White Noise isn't (unless the second half of the book has a lot of surprises in store for me). Also, it seems like Delillo is just trying to impress me with all his cleverness, as opposed to just sneaking it and waiting for me to discover it. What's your feeling on, say, Aaron Sorkin's stuff? West Wing, Sports Night, etc? I think he writes (wrote) the best dialogue on television. I haven't seen Sports Night, except one time late at night when I was hell of bored. It was on Comedy Central, which seemed to me to be a huge misfiling, because it wasn't funny at ALL. I think I've seen West Wing maybe once. It was the one where Rob Lowe and Martin Sheen keep playing chess. Unless they do that a lot. I don't remember the dialogue. I actually watch only about 45 minutes of TV per day, and I'm usually doing something else and the TV is just a background noise. |
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« Reply #100 on: March 24, 2005, 04:04:18 pm » |
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I actually watch only about 45 minutes of TV per day, and I'm usually doing something else and the TV is just a background noise. We have different tastes when it comes to dialogue, but I'll second that notion. Every so often I'll find a show I actually like enough to follow, but most of the time... meh. TV is for the occasional spectacular series, and sports. Hey, did anyone see my 'Sixers beat the everloving crap out of Detroit last night? <3 Oh, and Bram, was the Shatnerspeak a purposeful reference to the William Shatner/Ben Folds album that's coming out, or was that just incredibly serendipitous wit? |
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« Reply #101 on: March 24, 2005, 04:31:40 pm » |
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but if you end up liking their sound, check out Beck. Oh, Beck I already know and love. And come to think of it, I think I own one Ben Felds song on some random soundtrack (though I seem to remember it saying Ben Folds Five or something?) Oh, and Bram, was the Shatnerspeak a purposeful reference to the William Shatner/Ben Folds album that's coming out, or was that just incredibly serendipitous wit? What? Do the two really have something to do with one another?! That's incredibly weird if it's true. The Shatner thing just randomly came to my mind as I was typing out that phrase. Oh man, maybe I'm psychic after all. Holy crap. |
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<j_orlove> the half that tells me how to live my life
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« Reply #102 on: March 24, 2005, 05:09:25 pm » |
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That's twice in one week! I'd find a costume and a super hero identity.
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« Reply #103 on: March 24, 2005, 05:36:42 pm » |
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We have different tastes when it comes to dialogue, but I'll second that notion. Every so often I'll find a show I actually like enough to follow, but most of the time... meh. TV is for the occasional spectacular series, and sports.
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« Reply #104 on: March 24, 2005, 05:42:22 pm » |
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no South Park?
I'm trying to think of other reasons to watch tv and coming up short
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« Reply #105 on: March 25, 2005, 01:28:20 pm » |
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What? Do the two really have something to do with one another?! That's incredibly weird if it's true. The Shatner thing just randomly came to my mind as I was typing out that phrase. Oh man, maybe I'm psychic after all. Holy crap. You, my friend, are a bona fide paranormal phenomenon! Ben Folds produced and performed on Shatner's latest album. "Ben Folds played on and produced the record, creating rich, melodic, and varied pop musical backgrounds to Shatner's world-weary, boozy-suave yet thoroughly impassioned delivery." |
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« Reply #106 on: March 25, 2005, 01:54:56 pm » |
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Oh, Beck I already know and love. And come to think of it, I think I own one Ben Felds song on some random soundtrack (though I seem to remember it saying Ben Folds Five or something?)
Ben Folds Five was a group that included Ben Folds, Robert Sledge, and (I think) Darren Jesse. They broke up a while ago and Folds has since done some solo work. Though in some of his "solo" stuff the other members have credits for instruments. Ben Folds is the awesome. |
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« Reply #107 on: March 25, 2005, 02:46:12 pm » |
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Being psychic is cool. I've been trying it all day. Apparently, it only works on stuff that is of absolotely no consequence to anyone.
It kind of reminds me of the guy from Mystery Men that turned invisible whenever noone was looking at him.
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« Reply #108 on: March 25, 2005, 03:35:12 pm » |
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« Reply #109 on: March 26, 2005, 11:18:51 am » |
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Currently, Matt, I live with my parents and we get the full digital package. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 channels. And you aren't missing anything - I watch about a half hour of TV a day. Waste of money, if you ask me.
While on the cable subject, a friend of mine recently discovered something about his VCR hookup. He and his brother decided to cancel their cable box (thus just getting the basics), which was hooked up first through the VCR and then into the TV. Day comes, cable gets canceled. I walk in and turn on the set and start watching normal channels, not realizing that what's on TV shouldn't be there.
The VCR's programming had, albeit unintentionally, been programmed to memorize the channels and actually access them.
Bram, if anyone was ever psychic when it mattered, would good or bad come of it? While not on superhero power levels (BR4M MAN!), psychic powers are nothing to shrug off.
EDIT: Remind me to get new friends. I get 5 hours of sleep last night from driving home late from Lansing, and what do I get when I lay down? Friend from Chicago calling just to ramble drunkenly and cry at me before I get the sense to hang up on her. And an hour and 15 minutes later? The slightly more sober "apology call." {SIGH}
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« Reply #110 on: March 28, 2005, 09:08:43 pm » |
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heh anyone ever heard of these?
Super Eurobeat Volume 29.
Some guy walked into our shop and sold it to us for $2. I'm sitting here after hours at work with the volume turned waaaay up. The crackhouses down the street are probably calling the police to make noise complaints - I like it that much.
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« Reply #111 on: March 30, 2005, 11:42:43 am » |
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What French people are we talking about? Are we talking about those from Quebec or the Acadians living from New Brunswick? Are we talking about those living in France? You have to be more precise in order for someone to make a proper decision! Didn’t the French give us Poutine? Doesn’t that mean we have to love them? |
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« Reply #112 on: April 04, 2005, 09:43:49 am » |
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We talk about real French , those who lives in France If you never met them , we are here (French community of TMD) to give you informations. But, if you know them, let's talk about them (us, me). And, of course you have to love them  |
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We talk about real French , those who lives in France If you never met them , we are here (French community of TMD) to give you informations. But, if you know them, let's talk about them (us, me). And, of course you have to love them "real" french! o la la ... I knew a few people from France ... They were very nice people, and I was very glad I had the opportunity to meet them. |
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« Reply #114 on: April 04, 2005, 10:33:12 am » |
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Of course they are ! I know there are assholes everywhere and in France too but we are gentle I dont say that people who live in Quebec are not "real french" but France is France and it's the only one ! |
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I've been to Berlin last week and I must say: Paris > Berlin. At least, at some points because the women in Berlin (overall and percentage wise, don't hit me Brit!) are clearly better looking than those in Paris. For comparison: I could count those in Paris but in Berlin it must have been 200+. The downside of Berlin is that it's one big stinking ghetto with the exception of 1 street which is awesome, where all the good looking girls hang out and where all the expensive shops like Gucci are.
Paris looks better, is historically better, is not a complete ghetto and.. well it's French.. And the French pwn ze Germans.
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Omg , Kas, i'm upset , yeah the French own the german !
And it may have some good looking girls in Paris , you didn't look at the right place ...
France, France, France !
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And it may have some good looking girls in Paris , you didn't look at the right place ... From own experience? Girl on girl action! I looked at that LaFayette I told you earlier of but probably spelled wrong again. |
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