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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 00:06
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

Originally posted by Tsevir Leirbag Tsevir Leirbag wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

I'm good! Just tried to order two Fish albums, but my order wouldn't go through Was putting in the wrong credit card expiry date.

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 When will you get some avant-garde? WinkTongue

Do you know of any websites that are similar to PA except avant-garde only?
I Hate Music is the only dedicated avant forum I can think of, but you know how they are taste wise. Although some of them are pretty awesome, a guy mailed me some piezo discs for free!

The couple of songs on Youtube from Three of a Perfect Pair are surprisingly good, I just wish they were shorter. It's more poppy than even most Crimson, but it's not annoying because it's honest about being poppy, and is sorry about that and gives me some dissonance to make up for it.

Also, the sax on Red is dreadful.

I have never really been put off by KC poppier material, unless ITCOCK counts.
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Caprica is getting to be pretty cyberpunk.
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The thing is that something like I Talk to the Wind or Book of Saturday is just a straight pop song with no apologies because interspersing your good stuff with pop was and still often is standard practice for prog. '80s Crimson was actively subverting pop.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

The thing is that something like I Talk to the Wind or Book of Saturday is just a straight pop song with no apologies because interspersing your good stuff with pop was and still often is standard practice for prog. '80s Crimson was actively subverting pop.

If it is pop, it has some impressive musicianship. I like how they don't even pretend the lyrics have a lot of meaning.
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I haven't heard 80s KC beyond Discipline.  I keep planning to get the other two albums, but then something else more interesting pops up.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 00:43
I have heard the song "Three of a Perfect Pair". It was good IIRC. I think I need that and Thrak.
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Yeah.  I need more movies.
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Yeah.  I need more movies.

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Meh.  I am with movies like I am with music, I like to own what I watch.  Thankfully I've got a friend here at school who has exceptionally good taste in movies, so I borrow some from him to check out (like Synecdoche, New York).  
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I almost never watch a movie more than twice, so owning DVDs is very pointless for me. Music is different, but if I want to watch a movie again I just Netflix it again.

I think you're being influenced by our culture of consumption Salty.
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mmm, consumption.
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I watch movies more than once, so I like owning them. There are some movies that I have seen more than once that I shouldn't have(Transformers) but some are worth watching now and again(2001).
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I almost never watch a movie more than twice, so owning DVDs is very pointless for me. Music is different, but if I want to watch a movie again I just Netflix it again.

I think you're being influenced by our culture of consumption Salty.

It's more of a case of wanting to be able to watch it when I want to watch it, rather than planning it out, queuing it up and waiting for it to arrive.  Most of what I'd be interested in most likely isn't available to stream or whatnot.
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Movies are like albums. Even in the most slickly produced movie there is something to like. Terminator Salvation sucked - but it was shot SOOOOOO beautifully.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 01:12
I think that impulsivity is also a part of our culture. ;-)

Maybe if I had something to do it would be a problem, but a movie is just a substitution for something else in my free time, not taking up the only free time I have. But even still, DVDs are too damn expensive for me to buy many of them.
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Yeah, some of them are unreasonably overpriced (especially Criterion collection stuff, which unfortunately for me is where I've been finding a lot of movies I enjoy), but between what I said and what Matt said about liking to watch a lot of movies more than twice, I usually don't have too much of a problem buying them.  I don't drink, I don't smoke, etc, so movies/music/books are what I spend all of my extra cash on.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 01:19
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Yeah, some of them are unreasonably overpriced (especially Criterion collection stuff, which unfortunately for me is where I've been finding a lot of movies I enjoy), but between what I said and what Matt said about liking to watch a lot of movies more than twice, I usually don't have too much of a problem buying them.  I don't drink, I don't smoke, etc, so movies/music/books/games that I can't get free are what I spend all of my extra cash on.

Me too.
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I rarely even buy games anymore, unless it seems to be a good deal for a game with a lot of replay value.  I'm sort of floating farther and farther away from gaming, because the majority of the new games they're making just aren't all that fun IMO.  I'm going to keep up with the classic series (Zelda, Mario and such) but other than that my game buying will be few and far between.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 01:28
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

I rarely even buy games anymore, unless it seems to be a good deal for a game with a lot of replay value.  I'm sort of floating farther and farther away from gaming, because the majority of the new games they're making just aren't all that fun IMO.  I'm going to keep up with the classic series (Zelda, Mario and such) but other than that my game buying will be few and far between.

That is why I said can't get free, although I probably should have included renting.


LOL Bruce Campbell just did a Grissom one liner, complete with glasses. He was even posing as a crime scene tech.


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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 01:32
Have you seen My Name is Bruce?  It's really his baby, and they're making a sequel.  He uses just about every catchphrase he ever had in any of the Evil Dead trilogy, plus some from other movies.  I thought it was a funny movie, especially for fans of his other work.
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