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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 02/28/2007 : 10:06:11
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by Salopian
Thanks.
Well, I also agree.
Thanks.
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I also think my top seated Holiday Inn review could have gotten more votes, if people remembered that "to arrange" is also a musical term.
I've already voted for this - so you must have explained it before, as I don't know much about Holiday Inn and thus didn't know (until I checked just now) that it is a musical.  |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 02/28/2007 10:06:40 |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 03:14:17
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Well, here's one from my first two weeks on the site.
Bollocksed Pistol shoots horse-- for Sid & Nancy.
This references The Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols as well as heroin (horse). Then there is the extra reference to the movie 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'.
Guess there just are not enough punks on the site. |
Edited by - lemmycaution on 03/01/2007 03:16:40 |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 05:06:39
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Guess there just are not enough punks on the site.
I thought they were mostly dead |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 08:50:00
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Well, here's one from my first two weeks on the site.
Bollocksed Pistol shoots horse-- for Sid & Nancy.
This references The Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols as well as heroin (horse). Then there is the extra reference to the movie 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'.
Guess there just are not enough punks on the site.
Who you calling a punk, you punk?!  
Hey, Lemmy, dunno how I missed this gem with all the votes I've batted your way over the months! Fixed that now, tho
PS Is anyone else here old enuf to remember when 'punk' was another word for those sticks of incense we used to burn on summer nights to keep the mosquitos away? Anyone? Ah, well, I'll just keep a'setting here rockin' on the porch with my memories  
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 10:07:25
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
PS Is anyone else here old enuf to remember when 'punk' was another word for those sticks of incense we used to burn on summer nights to keep the mosquitos away? Anyone? Ah, well, I'll just keep a'setting here rockin' on the porch with my memories
Pass me the sasparilla, will ya, darlin'?
(Read: I'm old enough to remember that, too.)
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 12:49:06
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Well, here's one from my first two weeks on the site.
Bollocksed Pistol shoots horse-- for Sid & Nancy.
This references The Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols as well as heroin (horse). Then there is the extra reference to the movie 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'.
Guess there just are not enough punks on the site.
Who you calling a punk, you punk?!
Hey, Lemmy, dunno how I missed this gem with all the votes I've batted your way over the months! Fixed that now, tho
PS Is anyone else here old enuf to remember when 'punk' was another word for those sticks of incense we used to burn on summer nights to keep the mosquitos away? Anyone? Ah, well, I'll just keep a'setting here rockin' on the porch with my memories
When I was a kid we used a 'punk' to light firecrackers. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/01/2007 : 13:45:02
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Well, here's one from my first two weeks on the site.
Bollocksed Pistol shoots horse-- for Sid & Nancy.
This references The Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols as well as heroin (horse). Then there is the extra reference to the movie 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'.
Guess there just are not enough punks on the site.
Who you calling a punk, you punk?!
Hey, Lemmy, dunno how I missed this gem with all the votes I've batted your way over the months! Fixed that now, tho
PS Is anyone else here old enuf to remember when 'punk' was another word for those sticks of incense we used to burn on summer nights to keep the mosquitos away? Anyone? Ah, well, I'll just keep a'setting here rockin' on the porch with my memories
When I was a kid we used a 'punk' to light firecrackers.
And did you pay him the minimum wage?
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Koli 
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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Posted - 03/06/2007 : 13:53:56
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I thought I'd attract more votes for a few I did for the Admiral Dewey documentaries, which drew a parallel with the Dewey who invented the library classification system.
If you start here with Admiral Dewey you can follow a trail via the Salt of Salts accolade to the other ones.
PS I really must vote for Lemmy's Sid & Nancy review. I can't lay claim to having been a punk but I enjoyed the music. In fact I still play the Pistols (and Clash, Stranglers etc) occasionally now, 30 years later. |
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Koli
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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Posted - 03/06/2007 : 14:08:47
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Guess there just are not enough punks on the site.
I thought they were mostly dead
There seems to be a rule that at least one member of a (punk) rock band has to die young. I remember going through my all-time favourite bands a few years ago, to test the theory. Unfortunately it seems true of a lot on my list, including the Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Ramones, Sex Pistols [see above], Pretenders, Queen, Ian Dury & The Blockheads ... and many more! But I think I'm right in saying that all of the original members of some successful punk bands are still alive, including New York Dolls*, Clash**, Damned, Stranglers, Sham 69 and Undertones. Hence my revised hypothesis is that conventional rock and pop are more likely to result in an early death than punk rock.
I will check my facts when I get home. My memory isn't infallible (though that's nothing to do with shooting horse).
* Not only Johnny Thunders but Arthur Kane. Incidentally there's a theory that Thunders was murdered, but the police refused to treat his death as suspicious.
** How could I forget that Joe Strummer died in 2002 aged 50? |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/06/2007 : 16:23:59
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What do you define as "young"? Anyone below the average life expectancy? Sid Barrett was a middle-aged man when he finally got over The Wall.
BTW I really don't believe you should be including the Clash in any lists of punk bands. Putting on spiked leather jackets and sporting mohawks didn't make them any more punk than hanging out at Studio 54 made the Stones a disco group. The Clash may have enjoyed making fun of the Stones and the other pop mega-groups, but they were far closer to them than they were to any punk bands. Punks bands just don't do stadium concerts...it's not about "selling out" (artists are allowed to be successful), it's a question of how accessable the musicians are to the audience. Part of what makes it "punk" is that it's almost impossible to tell the different between the musicians and the audience. |
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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 22:28:18
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Originally posted by Koli
PS I really must vote for Lemmy's Sid & Nancy review. I can't lay claim to having been a punk but I enjoyed the music. In fact I still play the Pistols (and Clash, Stranglers etc) occasionally now, 30 years later.
Yes, everyone should vote for it! I voted on it a while back and thought at the time it was underrated - but it's still the top review.... |
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 22:51:54
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Originally posted by Downtown
What do you define as "young"? Anyone below the average life expectancy? Sid Barrett was a middle-aged man when he finally got over The Wall.
Yes, but the poor bugger had gone 'to the other side' looooong before that. A musical genius that many latter day Floyd fans don't even know existed.
Inability to cope with genius and fame can kill musicians - Hendrix, Jones, Bonham, Carpenter, Cobain, Lynott, Moon, Parsons, Morrison, Presley and their like contributed to changing the face of music at various stages in history and were all beset with excessive attention or fame that went beyond the music.
Some of the others who died in later life of heart attacks and liver failure are on this list - luck and/or sobriety kept them alive for longer (Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Barrett). Yes, I realise the rock 'n' roll lifestyle kills many, including those of lesser talent (e.g. poor old Sid) ...but I'm talking about those people who were so musically gifted some of them lost the ability to make music because all the other crap got in the way, or could only continue to make music by being drunk or stoned all the time.
(By the way, wasn't Johnny Thunders with the New York Dolls? He overdosed at some point.)
Anyway, check this out, if you haven't heard of the '27 Club' before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/09/2007 : 12:42:30
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O.K., one more. This review and the explanation below contains a spoiler.
While not super-underappreciated, I think this is much better than all the other backward reviews for Memento, except the one that came up with the idea first.
Unlike most of them, it format is correct, because the placement of capitalisation and full stops is right. The ordering is also better than all the ones in reverse letter by letter. (The film is not played in rewind.)
However, the best thing about the review is its content. Spoiler: Its main grammatical sense is "Guy manipulated own memories" - this is what one finds out once one has got all the way back to the beginning, and thus this is the message given by the reverse order. However, the fractured presentation order gives "Memories own manipulated G/guy", i.e. as one watches the film in the order given, one sees the character dominated by the attempt to reaccess his memories and being manipulated by other people. |
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 03/10/2007 : 06:01:50
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I wasn't going to post on this but I have found that my two reviews for The Hillside Strangler (2004 with C Thomas Howell) are not votable. My reviews are the only ones on the site. They are both genuine critical reviews - of the acting and of the director Parello's voyeuristic style. The film revels in the cruel sadism of the serial killers, and offers no insight into their lives or motivations. However, I suspect you would have to see the film to vote on them.
http://fwfr.com/display.asp?id=17022 |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/11/2007 : 03:31:11
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Originally posted by Shiv
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Originally posted by Downtown
What do you define as "young"? Anyone below the average life expectancy? Sid Barrett was a middle-aged man when he finally got over The Wall.
Yes, but the poor bugger had gone 'to the other side' looooong before that. A musical genius that many latter day Floyd fans don't even know existed.
Inability to cope with genius and fame can kill musicians - Hendrix, Jones, Bonham, Carpenter, Cobain, Lynott, Moon, Parsons, Morrison, Presley and their like contributed to changing the face of music at various stages in history and were all beset with excessive attention or fame that went beyond the music.
Some of the others who died in later life of heart attacks and liver failure are on this list - luck and/or sobriety kept them alive for longer (Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Barrett). Yes, I realise the rock 'n' roll lifestyle kills many, including those of lesser talent (e.g. poor old Sid) ...but I'm talking about those people who were so musically gifted some of them lost the ability to make music because all the other crap got in the way, or could only continue to make music by being drunk or stoned all the time.
(By the way, wasn't Johnny Thunders with the New York Dolls? He overdosed at some point.)
Anyway, check this out, if you haven't heard of the '27 Club' before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Okay that's all mostly true...but I've always believed that Sid was really just a schizophrenic, and that what happened to him would have happened no matter what he did with his life. That's why I think it's really irresponsible when the media blames all his problems on drugs...but that's another discussion.
BTW I should have mentioned that I really like the Clash...I just don't think they're punk. |
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