Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[bilmore]

Originally posted by mr. bob dobolina
There's no stealing going on here. The file owners are gratuitously sharing them in a voluntary manner. I own a file, I share a file.

You bought a license, dude.

The gels are obviously interfering with your analytical abilities.

[mr. bob dobolina]

Originally posted by evenodds
For his outburst, the boy was hit with a disorderly conduct rap, which was eventually amended to interfering with the staff, faculty, or students of an educational institutional. Faced with what he thought was a speech crime, Eric Vanatta, the teen's public defender, drafted the below motion to dismiss the misdemeanor charge.

This is ridiculous. The bottom line here is not only did this little cretin deserve a major league asswhuping, so do his retarded parents for letting him pursue this suit. Human waste product of the most fetid variety and the exact cause of the decline of American society, the dumbing down of its youth and the death of what our parents referred to as decency.

Given that his parents seem to be absent any sense of adult responsibility, the school would have been doing the kid a favor by beating him senseless as a lesson.

From my own youth, I can still recall the taste of the motor oil my mom made me wash my mouth out with when I inadvertantly called our priest a buttfucker at a CYO basketball game. The punishment for that oral faux pas was swift and meted out with extreme prejudice. Never used that charming phrase again.

[mr. bob dobolina]

Originally posted by bilmore
You bought a license, dude.

The gels are obviously interfering with your analytical abilities.

Sir, stop bogarting evenodd's bong.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Bell Biv Devo were somehow involved in shooting the Tsar.

Bell Biv Devo? That's a band I would pay to see. I'm hearing a medley of "Girl U Want" and "Poison."

It's also an interesting juxtaposition between "They tell us that we've lost our tails" and "Never trust a big butt and a smile."

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by mr. bob dobolina
This is ridiculous.

It is, I'm surprised the lawyer didn't spend time discussing the use of the word fag too, that would have been good.

As to pride festivals, if someone had showed up nude we would have thrown him out and he would have been arrested. There was a guy in a gstring but everyone looked at him strangely.

Different cities, different festivals.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I will readily agree that the chick in "Cradle of Love" was very tasty indeed. However, the intervening use of Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone in "Crazy" would give it a run for its money.* And the coeds in their underwear in that Jimmy Eat World vid were nice, too, and almost made the song tolerable.

I'll have to LaunchCast "Stacy's Mom" at home.

*Defenders of ZZ Top trashy makeup girls and Adam Ant/Brian Ferry glammy makeup girls might offer their own views. De gustibus etc.

Are these rap videos?

Thurgreed(so confused)Marshall

[mr. bob dobolina]

Originally posted by leagleaze
It is, I'm surprised the lawyer didn't spend time discussing the use of the word fag too, that would have been good.

Agreed. Deplorable and I for one blame the parents first, the kid second and the lawyer third. I'd like to have five minutes alone with the whole lot of em in the woodshed behind my stepfather's farmhouse. With a nice sturdy fagot. applied injudiciously to their backsides. That'd learn em.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Are you saying that current fat aged Jack is nasty, or do you mean Jack through the ages?

If you mean Jack through the ages has always been nasty, you're fucking nuts. Hell, I'd fuck Jack circa Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces.

Repulsive through the ages. Smarmy, leering, ugly, smug--the Bruce Willis syndrome of thinking he is thousands of times more attractive than he actually is. Actually, when Christian Slater went into his Jack Nicholson phase is when I started to find him unappealing too--a damned waste of good noir eye candy.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I've never chimed in on a substantive discussion before (unless you consider 'what's the best reality tv show of all time' discussion substative), so please cut me some slack. But . . .

SD, your argument appears to be that the record industry is inefficient. And yet, here's an industry in which barriers to entry are substantial, but not obviously more so than in many other consumer-based industries -- food products, for example. If there really was a way to distribute CDs better and cheaper, eliminating the middle man, someone would have started such a distributor by now, and artists would flock to that label in order to get a bigger share of the pie. The fact that nobody has done so cannot purely be explained by the "they're a greedy oligopoly" argument.

Perhaps the level of e-commerce will evolve to the point that artists can "directly" release their music to the public in a profitable way, thus cutting out all the levels of distribution. But record companies also play a huge role in funding and promoting records, and it's not clear who will fill that void under this new paradigm.

I really don't see how consumers who steal music (or movies or TV shows or books) electronically are doing anything at this point other than ensuring that 1) record distributors and sellers make less money; and 2) marginal artists' records don't get released (because for those artists, the analysis as to whether it makes economic sense for the distributor to develop and release their album tips from yay to nay).

Str8 Up Apologist for da man (NB: however, that my entertainment conglomerate employer does not (yet) have a music division)

1. The middle man is nearly impossible to remove. People need to create false barriers throughout industries to create "broker" income for themselves. The middle man adds no value to the equation. In some industries, like the market, you need highly skilled middle men. Music is not such an industry. The more middle men we put on the welfare line, the better. The perfect end result is all the useless promoters/distribution people being fired and the artist being able to record digitally for minimum cost and the music to be sold directly to consumers through a Napster like service. That day is coming quickly.

2. Nobody has implemented an artist-to-consumer model because it would wipe out thousands of middle men. Nobody is harder to remove in a downsizing than entrenched middle managment. They have college tuitions to pay for and no hope of alternative employment - they'll fight to the death to maintain status quo.

3. Initially, the effcet of the file sharing will be less marginally commercially viable bands will get released. However, as the industry radically downsizes and the cost of distribution comes down due to the thinning of human costs and attendant thinning of physical plant costs (files don't require expensive cd plants which are staffed by costly union workers), you'll see labels put more marginally commercially viable bands than ever because the cost will be so low. Also, bands may be able to put themselves out buy putting their tunes on the net, such as the fame Yankee Foxtrot debacle.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Repulsive through the ages. Smarmy, leering, ugly, smug--the Bruce Willis syndrome of thinking he is thousands of times more attractive than he actually is. Actually, when Christian Slater went into his Jack Nicholson phase is when I started to find him unappealing too--a damned waste of good noir eye candy.

Ok, so you wouldn't want to fuck Jack, but you gotta admit... Jack's a hell of an actor.

Christian Slater???? He hasn't done a good movie since Heathers, and he was playing a very bad caricature of Jack in that one. Slater's just plain awful, imitating Jack or not. He is not worthy to wash jack's jockstrap.

Jack is the Keith Richards of movies - a relatively normal guy with great talent and real everyday vices who excels at what he does because he really loves his work, rather than the usual queens in cinema who preen about fluffing their high school cheerleader egos and phoning in bad performances for cash. The thing that makes jack great is that he's probably a dick in real life, but not a prententious dick. He's probably just a depressed guy who'd spout out his gripes like the rest of us over a beer. He projects a pragmatic disgust at most everything around him, but at the same time, he recognizes the need to get his ya yas out and not take life too seriously. In many regards, he's the everyman's id.

Bruce Willis shouldn't even be allowed in the same room with Jack.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I think it depends on where you are and the fabric of which the suit is made. I think a white linen suit, worn with a white shirt and no tie would be kind of cool for daytime in South Beach, Puerto Rico or Hawaii. But the suit in that picture looks way too heavy. And the shirt puts it well over the international male threshhold.

TM

Please. The fact that a handsome, coiffed man is in the suit is what makes it TIM. Put Shaq in it and its fly.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by mr. bob dobolina
[blah blah blah...]Even worse, is that these would be cheese eaters are constantly bitching and moaning about how bad America is or how bad the rich are or how dum Bush is while without the America that patriots like Bush and his family created and that the wealthy support with the burden of income taxes and estate taxes and the like, these enterainment weasels wouldn't even have their social safety of government cheese.

Take it to politics, jackass.

TM

[i]Are there some I wish I didn't buy? Sure, .

Was Burger that annoying, pedantic law student who everyone thought would get an A in Crim Law first semester but then got a C? Probably. Can I ignore him? No.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Please. The fact that a handsome, coiffed man is in the suit is what makes it TIM. Put Shaq in it and its fly.

I think the whole outfit would be quite becoming on a gigolo. At least, there'd be no doubt what that handsome gentleman at the bar's occupation might be.

[ThrashersFan]

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/ar...px?news=129587

Apparently, Liza left him because he went on So Graham Norton and called her "hugely fat" during an "illness." First of all, she is a bit fat (although a hubby shouldn't say that -- especially on television). Second, do celebs really think that we buy the illness story when we know it is substance abuse and rehab?

If you have never had the pleasure of viewing Graham's show, I recommend giving it a go -- if they did a marathon of So I would likely become very fucking annoyed with Graham but I like him in half-hour doses a time or two each week.