Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Some kids books no one has mentioned (I think):

The House With The Clock In Its Walls, and others, by John Bellairs (?)

Half-Magic, and others, by Edward Something-beginning-with-E

[mmm3587]

I'll post about my "first orgasm" experience because I find it so amusing now, looking back:

I had just turned 16. I had looked at pictures of naked girls, and like the way that girls smelled and felt and looked, but I had been a little sheltered, and just had never really thought about the act of sex much. I knew that you had sex by inserting that into there, but I didn't really get how it ended. Looking back, I'm amazed by how clueless I was.

I was making out with my first real girlfriend (in that, she was the first girl with whom things were being touched and fondled), and we started, for lack of a better term, "dry humping." It ended with me having an orgasm, and I was very surprised, and shocked. It felt good, but it felt like I had a lot of cleaning up to do. She explained it to me, and thus began my travel down a long, winding road of debauchery.

[mmm3587]

I have DirecTV with TiVO. It's great. For comparable programming, it's about the same price as digital cable. But the picture and sounds, in my experience, are better.

You don't have to have it hooked up to a phone line. But it will give you daily messages reminding you to do so if you don't. But you don't have to read them.

There are still ways to get all the programming for free with an illegal access card, in which case you can't hook your shit up to a phone line. But you can get all the stuff.

And, maybe this makes me a legal timmy, and the economist in me comes through ("tragedy of the commons" and all that), but fuck you. Pay for it, asshole. Providers like DirecTV are the reason that the cable industry doesn't have the stranglehold they used to over tv. They're the reason that these assholes are innovating a little bit. They're the ones driving cable providers to have more HDTV available now. Because cable has been spanked by the flood to satellite tv.

So, fuck you, pay for it. You're a lawyer, you can afford it.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by mmm3587
And, maybe this makes me a legal timmy, and the economist in me comes through ("tragedy of the commons" and all that), but fuck you. Pay for it, asshole. Providers like DirecTV are the reason that the cable industry doesn't have the stranglehold they used to over tv. They're the reason that these assholes are innovating a little bit. They're the ones driving cable providers to have more HDTV available now. Because cable has been spanked by the flood to satellite tv.

So, fuck you, pay for it. You're a lawyer, you can afford it.

Aww, it ain't Friday, but kiss my ass anyway. You want to know why someone's innovating mr. self-proclaimed economist? Because there is money to be made. They teach you that in economist kindygarden? You wanna make more? Innovate more.

Besides, what am I stealing? Some satellite signal that you are pumping into my home anyway? Fuck you.

Oh, I'm not using your machine the way you wanted me to when you made me buy it? Fuck you.

And how do you figure cable doesn't have the stranglehold they used to? What kinda cable bill you paying there? Mine is about twice as much as it was 6 or 7 years ago. Granted, Chicago has a fucked up cable system, but I had the illegal hookups when I had cable too. Consider me a tax on your system.

Hello

[Fugee]

A recent Law & Order episode had a character like that crusading reverend. If you watched it, was the characterization pretty spot on? Ugly, hateful stuff.

Oddly enough watching the show made me want to go to a gay event where those people are demonstrating and just stand (not by them) and pray -- I guess to try to counteract some of the poison with God's love.

Originally posted by leagleaze
Hooooboy. Aren't you the lucky ones. You're gonna get to see signs reading things you never thought of before. You're gonna get to hear chants that will require you to cover your children's ears.

In short, it will be a blast.

[fufu]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
DirecTV, HDTV

I've had DirecTV for three years and love it. The company is very responsive when I've called. I have a dual LNB so that I can watch MI-5 in one room and Mr. FuFu can watch rugby, MTV, Paris Hilton antics on the other TV.

[SlaveNoMore]

ThurgreedMarshall
Interesting. Is this a hint?

Even if it is, I'll answer anyway.



From your list, it looks like you dig offbeat stuff -- creativity with the samples and different musical influences. Cool enough.

You would like Outkast, most likely. E/O will be the expert on Outkast, being that they're from south of Staten Island. But you'd probably dig ATLatiens and Stankonia. I haven't bought their newest yet.

As for Tribe, I would recommend Midnight Marauders (one of my favorites) as well as Low End Theory, but you have the Greatest Hits, so you might not want to buy the others. However, both of the albums I just mentioned are fantastic.

Looks like you dig De La too. You should search for an MP3 of "Fallin'," a track they did with Teenage Fanclub on the soundtrack for Judgment Night. Great song.

For the newer, creative stuff, Missy Elliott's Under Construction is fantastic. One of my favorites. Her producer/partner in crime, Timbaland has a very unique, distinctive sound. Lots of different influences (including a lot of old school hip hop that you probably won't recognize).

You should buy all of Eminem's stuff, homophobia and misogyny notwithstanding. He's a genius.

Ludacris is doing some interesting stuff. I like the first single (Stand Up) off of his new album (Chicken & Beer).

Do yourself a favor. If you're not going to buy all his stuff, at least buy 2Pac's Greatest Hits. He's one of the last rappers with something to say.

I feel the same about Biggie on the skills tip. He didn't have much to say, but he said it better than anyone in my opinion. I would buy Ready to Die and Life After Death (the two albums he made while alive -- it's amazing how much stuff Pac and Biggie recorded, because they keep coming out with albums long after they're dead).

Nas has a few fantastic albums and is widely recognized as a rapper who won't sell out and has a huge underground (and I guess, now, mainstream) following. Illmatic blew people's minds and Stillmatic wasn't bad either and has One Mic, which is a great song.

Jay Z is widely respected and is considered one of the greatest lyricists in history and I dig his stuff, but I don't own much of it.

Mos Def and Talib Kweli are my current favorites. From when they were together (Blackstar) to their solo efforts (Mos Def's Black on Both Sides and Talib Kweli's Quality are both good), they bring new flavor to hip hop with a tip of the cap to the old school. I love Kweli's song, Get By.

Obviously you know about Lauren Hill and the Fugees.

You asked about Cypress Hill. If you're not a stoner (is it a coincidence you can't spell "spliff" without "P" "L" "F"?), I would recommend only buying their first two joints: Their self-titled first album is a must-have and Black Sunday is good. But after those, I lost interest.

I would recommend some Wu, but based on your list, I doubt you'd like it (although, you do like Public Enemy, so it's possible).

You would like Black Eyed Peas' first, Behind the Front. Sorry to say I haven't bought any of their others.

That should get you started, though. I'll be interested to read other responses.

TM

You forgot Black Sheep and 3rd Bass' "The Cactus Album"

[fufu]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
DirecTV, HDTV

We have had DirecTV for three years and love it. We decided to have it installed in response to the pathetic cable company raising its prices yet again. Satellite picture quality is excellent - far superior to what we had with cable. DirecTV has been very responsive on the odd occasion we've called. We have have a dual LNB so that I can watch MI-5 in one room and Mr. FuFu can watch rugby, MTV, Paris Hilton antics, etc. on the other TV. We also have the additional co-ax so that I can TiVo a program and watch another program simulateously on the same TV. The only time we have problems with the picture is if there is a sudden downpour of rain, but seeing as Maison de FuFu is on the left coast, this really isn't much of a problem. We didn't notice any loss of picture during the recent sun spot episode.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Interestingly enough, someone from another board just linked to this fascinating article on the stories that homeless kids in Miami tell each other. Horrific and gruesome, but also hopeful. I think it's a very well written article.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/...5/feature.html

Holy shit, dude. Joss Whedon should sign over all of his checks to the Miami-Dade homeless shelters. Maybe this article just put me in a foul mood, but right now I'm thinking that no one in the U.S. should be happy or well-fed as long as there are still pre-teen kids who have to believe this shit to explain their fucked-up world.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Fugee
A recent Law & Order episode had a character like that crusading reverend. If you watched it, was the characterization pretty spot on? Ugly, hateful stuff.

Oddly enough watching the show made me want to go to a gay event where those people are demonstrating and just stand (not by them) and pray -- I guess to try to counteract some of the poison with God's love.

I didn't see it. Tell me what they had him doing and I will be better able to respond. My guess is probably it was. Just look at www.godhatesfags.com. That is pretty standard, though he is particularly bad.

I'd be happy to give you more specific stuff off board, mainly cause I doubt everyone here wants to hear about my adventures in activism. Actually, I have a video tape of some of our home grown protestors I need to make copies of anyway. I'd be happy to send you one.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Aww, it ain't Friday, but kiss my ass anyway. You want to know why someone's innovating mr. self-proclaimed economist? Because there is money to be made. They teach you that in economist kindygarden? You wanna make more? Innovate more.

Let me round a hearty "Fuck You" right back at'cha, Mr. Ruining It for the Rest of Us. You're saying the Free Rider problem isn't really a problem because they should have better security? Your completely amoral justifications for your behavior are the reasons why companies disable features to curtail abuses and intentionally limit functionality just to address piracy concerns. Do you write viruses in your spare time because it's Microsoft's responsibility to write programs to stop them? Do you plug your leaf blower into your neighbor's socket? Asshole.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I didn't see it. Tell me what they had him doing and I will be better able to respond. My guess is probably it was. Just look at www.godhatesfags.com. That is pretty standard, though he is particularly bad.

I'd be happy to give you more specific stuff off board, mainly cause I doubt everyone here wants to hear about my adventures in activism. Actually, I have a video tape of some of our home grown protestors I need to make copies of anyway. I'd be happy to send you one.

From the website:

"[Sodomites] produce by their very presence in society a kind of mass intoxication from their wine made from grapes of gall from the vine of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah . . . "

How 'bout hookin' me up? Can't a lizard get a drink around here?

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
From the website:

"[Sodomites] produce by their very presence in society a kind of mass intoxication from their wine made from grapes of gall from the vine of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah . . . "

How 'bout hookin' me up? Can't a lizard get a drink around here?

Sure, come to Harrisburg, I'll show you around our very own Sodom and Gomorrah known as the Pink Lizard. (That would be the local lesbian bar.)

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Sure, come to Harrisburg, I'll show you around our very own Sodom and Gomorrah known as the Pink Lizard. (That would be the local lesbian bar.)

Sounds like Shifter would fit right in...

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
First, women responded. Men did not. Men are shy.

I'm not shy. Everything I know about sex, I learned from Google.