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Post by zombie on Nov 1, 2016 14:38:19 GMT -5
Our culture is pop culture and media. So let's discuss the latest things we have watched, are watching, reading, and listening to. If you want give your opinions on the things and why you recommend it or not Last movie I saw was Keeping Up With The Joneses This movie is like if Mr. and Mrs. Smith was from the perspective of their neighbors. It is funny. I'm have currently caught up with Deadly Class It is about a guy that gets into a school of assassination in the late 80s. The story is great and there is a lot of action. It can get angsty at times since these are teenagers after all but they solve their problems through killing. It is good and the characters are great. Just don't get attached. Ahora tu!
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Post by Staff on Nov 1, 2016 14:55:18 GMT -5
Currently listening to a lot of: A friend introduced them to me. It's like "garage rock" I guess. And: Currently enjoying Twenty One Pilots as well. Currently reading: A very difficult book to explain in a sentence. It's effectively about the way in which an event is marked by the fact that nothing is the same afterward, and alters the way everything that came before is understood. Sounds simple? It's not. Very deep thinker. I'm going through it page by page and enjoying the depth of it. :-)
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Post by Ben-Stev on Nov 1, 2016 20:15:58 GMT -5
Elliot Smith - Either/Or. That's an amazing album in my opinion... Its songs kinda saved my life a couple of years ago. I was stuck in a bus for 2 days *straight* -- it was an university trip. I had never done a long trip like that before, so it was getting to a point that I was going insane lol. I don't like small places and too many people making noise when I'm trying to sleep or think to myself (yes, I'm that weird). Anyway, it's chill and rather depressing, but I love it. It's one of the really few albums which I listened entirely without skipping one single song. It sounds perfect imo. Every single time I feel the chill going down my body. Rose Parade is one of my all-time favorite songs. Any Nirvana album... My favorite band. I simply love their music and Kurt Cobain was fucking awesome and talented. I chose Seattle as Benny's hometown cause of Kurt, in fact, he was going to be my pic base choice, but it wouldn't fit. Silverchair - Frogstomp. I love this album as well... As you could notice by now, I usually choose chill genres of music. Grunge is my favorite. Frogstomp is amazing, and the Silverchair lads are damn talented. A fact, that album was recorded when they were teens. That masterpiece was recorded by teens, folks. Brilliant. Another album that I listened to entirely without skipping a song. Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog. This album is a masterpiece... It's incredible. Just no words to describe it, I strongly recommend you to listen to it. Anyway, I listen to all kinds of genres. Grunge, hip hop, heavy metal, black metal, vaporwave, stoner rock and progressive house music and so on... I just listen to good music.
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Post by Anastasia Hayden on Nov 3, 2016 3:49:04 GMT -5
Ever since I saw "Green Room", I've been really getting into the hardcore, underground punk scene. For the moment, I've just been listening to older, mid-2000s bands who are pretty much all broken up by now. The pure hardcore lifestyle of a band can't sustain as long as a melodic hardcore like Bad Religion or Misfits. But the stuff I do find goes pretty hard and that's rad. I'll just toss out two albums that I've listened to all the way through and have on repeat. The album "Cave" by Mind Eraser is currently my favorite album at the moment. It's such a great blend of having melodies and then going straight into violent thrashing. I love it. I even use "Internal Dialogue" off this album for Ana's theme. Probably my favorite song next to "Thawed Out". Just a slow build that just constantly builds up and does not stop. Layers on top of layers. "Confined" by Coke Bust is another favorite of mine, clocking in at barely 9 minutes with 9 songs. Just a lot of raw energy and it goes hard. "Red Line" and "Sent in Circles" fight for my favorite song off the record. The calm breakdown only to go extremely hard and then finding a happy medium in "Red Line" is pretty great. Outside of the punk scene, I've just been going back and listening to some of my favorite rap albums. SOMEONE got me back on to listening through Madvillainy lately and I've also been listening to "Tetsuo & Youth" by Lupe Fiasco, which was like my favorite album from last year pretty much.
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Post by zombie on Nov 3, 2016 22:01:51 GMT -5
Some great music choices here that I will need to check out. I just finished this and I keep watching clips of scenes on youtube: Peaky Blinders This is the BBC show that is almost like Boardwalk Empire. Cillian Murphy plays the head of a gypsy crime family and has to balance his growing criminal empire, his family, and political threats. The latest season on Netflix has more of Tom Hardy playing Jewish gangster Alfie Solomons and he is great to watch. My favorite show of all time that I rewatch at least once a year is Deadwood: It is about the frontier camp during a gold rush as it tries to develop into a proper town. The three seasons have a great story, good character development, and the best dialogue. They tried to take the dirty talk of the Wild West and modernize it. So there is a mix of colorful cursing and Shakespearean monologues. It's great.
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Post by coreysanders on Nov 5, 2016 3:44:56 GMT -5
I've been listening to a lot of Girls' Generation (don't judge).
i recently just got into watching Skylanders Academy on Netflix along with Quantico and Supergirl (Finished both season ones)
i also watch all of the power ranger shows on Netflix
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Post by sinisterminister on Nov 6, 2016 13:05:39 GMT -5
Go Cubs Go!
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Post by dom on Nov 6, 2016 18:40:26 GMT -5
"Blessed & Posessed" by Powerwolf is an album I listen to fairly regularly when I'm in the gym. I dabble in most genres, I'm actually pretty into a band called Blackberry Smoke
Watching Wise, I've been so wrapped up in Sports (tis the season) that I haven't even finished Mr. Robot Season 2. If you've never seen it I highly suggest it.
On the book front, I go on audible a lot while I'm at work and a couple of the ones I've listened to lately are:
United States of Apocalypse by Mark Tufo -world war 3 breaks out. Hell breaks loose. It's fun
Not Cool by Greg Gutfeld
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline -best nerd book ever.
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Post by Colgate Carnage on Nov 15, 2016 1:48:12 GMT -5
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Post by Bindy Trent on Nov 21, 2016 14:48:00 GMT -5
I don't go out to the movies much because it's just way, way, waaaay too expensive but recently I purchased Lights Out, and Krampus. Lights Out was sufficiently spooky and I definitely got the heebie jeebies from it a few times, Krampus I'm holding on to watching until after Thanksgiving because I want to kick off the Christmas season right. I've been listening to some old school punk/pop, a lot of Say Anything's earlier albums. Then when I work out I've been putting on mid-90's jams. Here Comes The Hot Stepper is in regular rotation on my MP3 players. And as for reading ... uh, I'm pretty guilty of not doing much of that in forever. I have The Disaster Artist, a first hand account of the filming of the infamously bad movie "The Room" on my night stand, I've read it before but occasionally if I can't sleep I open it up and just start reading until I drift off.
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Post by zombie on Jan 17, 2017 14:39:35 GMT -5
Last movie I've seen is Hell or High Water It's a good heist movie but set in rural texas where everyone has a gun. Ben Foster is in it so it's good. On the comic front I've added Old Man Logan to my list I don't know how it fits into the canon story since it deals with a future where the villains win and then goes into another timeline but I like it.
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Post by Hubert Smalls on Jan 17, 2017 15:13:31 GMT -5
I'll preface this by saying I wear visors often and am a financial advisor. I've been into chaotic hardcore (or "skram") since I was about 18...have played in and consequently toured a few times with different bands over the years. Still keep up with new stuff that's coming out and I recently have been listening to this jam: thetruthaboutdreaming.bandcamp.com/These guys are also pretty rad: aspine.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2016I haven't been much on TV lately with the exception of getting caught up on Shameless. I am patiently awaiting the new seasons of Last Man On Earth and Stranger Things, though... And reading...uh...do roleplays count?
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Post by zombie on Jan 17, 2017 21:39:21 GMT -5
Yes. They are as high brow as you can get in literature.
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Post by Hubert Smalls on Jan 20, 2017 0:38:04 GMT -5
Yes. They are as high brow as you can get in literature. Sideways Stories from Wayside School is my favorite novel of all time.
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Post by Bindy Trent on Jan 20, 2017 2:01:04 GMT -5
Sideways Stories from Wayside School is my favorite novel of all time. THANK YOU! I was trying to think of the name of these books the other day and I couldn't even begin to get close. Like the best I could describe it to someone was, "Don't you remember? The one kid's dad let him get a tattoo over summer and he got a tattoo of potato!" And they looked at me with the exact sort of look you deserve for saying that.
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