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[môrgondír]

Someone really doesn't like having their toys insulted ... there are definitely some pretty thin-skinned defenders of shovelware who think that they can comment on threads surreptitiously in other threads

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not sure if my life was made better or worse for seeing that. Well, today I learned...

You’re unfamiliar with the genius of Electric Six’ “Gay Bar”? Worthy of a YouTube search!

 

[overgeeked]

I have an autographed copy of the original book somewhere in a box. I hope he's able to do something great with the property. Can you imagine? Making something cool, it hitting big, then being locked out of using it for 35 years. What a terrible system.

 

[Ryujin]

I've always liked that quote about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire... Everyone talks about what a great dancer he was, but she did everything he did, only backwards, and in heels...
Sometimes they just don't get that we live in a right-handed world, and have to learn to do everything they do, but with our off hand... Ask a right-handed person to do anything with their left hand, and...

I'm old enough that I was one of those lefties who was smacked on the back of the hand every time that I picked up a pen in my left hand. As a result I'm a terrible right-handed writer and have a mix of things that I do right or left handed. I didn't get the ambidextrous perk.

 

[TiQuinn]

Grumpy rant for the morning - yes, I know I’m in a grumpy mood: It sucks when a thread gets derailed because everyone starts responding to the one person who being overridingly negative, despite you having blocked that person. Like, you don’t see their posts but you know who it is because you can simply tell by the responses of others. Positive comments get maybe 10% of the traction that negative comments get.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I'm old enough that I was one of those lefties who was smacked on the back of the hand every time that I picked up a pen in my left hand. As a result I'm a terrible right-handed writer and have a mix of things that I do right or left handed. I didn't get the ambidextrous perk.

I had my hand tied to my chair in kindergarten back in the late '70's... My buddy at work went to a Catholic elementary school in Rhode Island, and they literally strapped his arm to his body like a medical patient to keep him from writing left handed. He's only 34...

 

[Ryujin]

I had my hand tied to my chair in kindergarten back in the late '70's... My buddy at work went to a Catholic elementary school in Rhode Island, and they literally strapped his arm to his body like a medical patient to keep him from writing left handed. He's only 34...

For me it was public school around '66/'67. I then became the Judas goat for another kid, who was a leftie.

I didn't think that there were morons around today who still did that crap.

 

[Mannahnin]

I saw Deliver Me From Nowhere (I think they changed it to add "Springsteen" to the title just before release) last night.

I am a fan of Springsteen. Not a die-hard like some folks I know who have seen him in concert some ridiculous number of times (I've seen him twice) and listens to bootleg concerts and stuff, but he has several albums I would put up there with any I love (and that I own in more than one format - usually a sign I love something if I have the vinyl and a CD).

Nebraska, which is the album Springsteen is writing and recording (with bits of Born in the USA) in the film, is my favorite Springsteen record. It is sometimes referred to as the Springsteen album for people who don't like Springsteen, but I love Springsteen and I love that record.

Anyway, if you know me, you know I am not a huge fan of movies these days and I rarely go to them, and I wasn't sure how I felt about the film while I was watching it. Parts felt repetitive and too "explainy," but ruminating it on it over night I find myself increasingly open to its approach.

It just strikes me as such an interesting choice to take an energetic music artist known for his long, loud, and crowd-pleasing shows, and focus on one of his low points dealing with depression and trying to get this VERY dark record made right on the cusp of his explosion into the mainstream. What I like about it is that it doesn't go for the tired music biopic trope of the triumphant moment of performance (like that execrable Queen movie) but remains quiet and basically comes down to the point that maybe you should get some therapy before you harm yourself and continue to hurt the people around you.

It feels perfectly fitting for a movie built around Nebraska and for Springsteen's soft spoken vibe that belies the energy of his music and performance.

I wasn't sure where else to post this. . . so there ya have it.

I liked it quite a bit, but yes, there were parts of the dialogue which felt like they were explaining things a little TOO directly.

That was a pretty f-ing amazing episode of television.

It was a real roller coaster. You get the rising tension broken up by "and here's yet another big guest star!" and then the explosive finale. I was exhausted afterwards.

I had the "enhancement" of watching with my brother, while my ex-partner who was deeply dramatic and traumatic was expecting me to call her as soon as the episode was over ...and my brother and I didn't notice initially that it was a double-length episode. So I got an extra dose in reality afterward.

I've always liked that quote about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire... Everyone talks about what a great dancer he was, but she did everything he did, only backwards, and in heels...
Sometimes they just don't get that we live in a right-handed world, and have to learn to do everything they do, but with our off hand... Ask a right-handed person to do anything with their left hand, and...

My mother's a lefty and so I learned to do a number of things that way. Frisbee-throwing is I think the only one that really stuck, but I'm ok with my left hand for a number of tasks. And when I was younger made a point of working to become so.

 

[overgeeked]

I'm old enough that I was one of those lefties who was smacked on the back of the hand every time that I picked up a pen in my left hand. As a result I'm a terrible right-handed writer and have a mix of things that I do right or left handed. I didn't get the ambidextrous perk.

I had my hand tied to my chair in kindergarten back in the late '70's... My buddy at work went to a Catholic elementary school in Rhode Island, and they literally strapped his arm to his body like a medical patient to keep him from writing left handed. He's only 34...

My dad was a lefty, too, and he had teachers doing that crap to him back in the 50s. His mom showed up at school and threatened to beat the teachers if it continued. They left him alone after that.

 

[el-remmen]

There's that one person (well, more than one) that just posts sooooo much that even if you block them, their absence makes reading/understanding threads a little screwy.