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

Jack Manfred 4:39




Childhood
Cue Titlles to Vince Guaraldi - "Linus and Lucy."

Tracking Dolly Shot of YOUNG BOY in uniform walking up stairs to grade school to Pink Floyd - "The Wall."

TEN YEAR OLD BOY opens portable tape recorder and listens to Billy Joel - "All For Leyna" over and over again.

Puberty
Dawn. Close up of L.E.D. display on clock radio. Clock radio lights up. The Pretenders - "Brass in Pocket" plays. Chrissie Hynde sings, "Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs / Gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep / Gonna use my fingers, gonna use my, my, my imagination." Puberty begins.

The Police - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"

BARELY TEENAGE BOY walks across room to turn on television set. Changes channel to MTV. Video plays for Van Halen - "Hot For Teacher." Teenage boy sprwals in front of television set transfixed.

High School
Tracking Dolly Shot of dance in quad of high school while The B-52's - "Rock Lobster" plays.

Close up of tan bare thigh. Legs cross. Camera pans up leg and out to short, plaid, pleated skirt worn by ICY BLONDE TEENAGE GIRL. Cue Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died in Your Arms."

Tracking Shot of high school parking lot reveals red and white Volkswagen Cabriolets, Catholic schoolgirls. Cue INXS - "Need You Tonight."

U2 - "With or Without You"

Crowded House - "Into Temptation"

College
De La Soul - "Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)"

Trash Can Sinatras - "Obscurity Knocks"

Close up of COLLEGE STUDENT watching MTV to first two notes of Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Camera pulls out to roomful of college students on couches watching MTV to next bar of song. Camera quickly cuts to several dorm buildings and fraternity houses in sync. Camera then cuts to long shots of several colleges in sync with drum intro. Camera then cuts to overhead shots of suburbarn subdivisions. Grunge breaks.

Material Issue - "Valerie Loves Me"

Counting Crows - "Rain King"

Sting - "Mad About You"

Afghan Whigs - "Gentleman"

Love
Cowboy Junkies - "Come Calling (His Song)"

Massive Attack - "Protection"

Cassandra Wilson - "Love Is Blindness"

Jeff Buckley - "Grace"

Loss
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue over and over and over again until...

Law School
Tracking Dolly Shot of YOUNG MAN walking up stairs to law school to opening flourish of Eric Matthews - "Fanfare."

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Supergrass - "In It For The Money"

Lawyer
Pedro The Lion - "Penetration"

The Godfathers - "Birth, School, Work, Death"

Old Age
The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"

Death
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"

Christopher O'Riley - "Exit Music (For a Film)"

Or...for the Disney ending, skip Old Age and Death and cue The Sundays - "Here's Where the Story Ends"

Jack 5:20

BRC, please reconsider the Halloween contacts. They're not sufficiently regulated and can cause eye injury or infection. If you have to wear them to complete your costume, go through your eye doctor.

Fugee, Law & Order is unwatchable now that Elizabeth Rohm is second chair. She's just awful. I'm not asking that she be Claire Kincaid; that would be folly. She's just not a good actress. On some shows, an actress can be so hot that you don't care that she can't act. Certain shows hinge on this concept. But L&O is not that show, and Elizabeth Rohm is not that actress.

Str8, I wondered who dared drink the Orange Bang. Now put together a list of songs. I suspect you'd have some good selections.

mmmmBurger 8:59



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Originally posted by idle acts
Cannot believe that no one has mentioned Hotel California - not because it is great, so much as because other song choices lead me to believe that many posters are of the age to remember when the song was ubiquitous.



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For posters of what age was this song not ubiquitous? And The Joker?

Sebastian 9:04


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Originally posted by bridge of love
right now I'm listening to the Never Mind the Sex Pistol Here's the Tribute Album, and it is clear the Pistols, 20 years earlier were rawer and punkier edgier and better than the 17 new edgy punk bands theylined up for the tribute album in the late 90's. still it is one of the few good tribute albums (besides the Carpenters one).

I would pick Problems over bodies though.
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I agree 100%. I've listened to loads of old punk and hardcore in my day, and it seems to me that everything is derivative of three bands - the Pistols, the Ramones and Black Flag. Of course, the case can be made that those three are derivative of the Stooges and MC5...

MC5 is horrendously overrated. "Kick Out the Jams," an alleged classic, is one of the shittiest live albums ever. I think critics love MC5 because of their balls out political stances, because no one with a good ear could say they were a good live band.


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My thoughts on Thursday nite NBC

Friends - Really laboring. They took one idea that should have lasted for 6-7 minutes and stretched it out for the whole show. The writing just isn't there.

Scrubs - Very funny. Although more needs to be done with Dr. Cox and the other old cremudgeon[sp?]. Their acts are getting old. Fast.

Will and Grace - Mira Sorvino is scary thin. I almost did not recognize her. She was funny. Much more so than Grace.

ER - No idea. Saw the previews. Something about war and Dr. Carter. Looked silly.

Extreme Makeoever - O.K. I know its not on NBC, but I like seeing these people get chopped up and redone. Some of the "afters" are pretty amazing. The most disturbing thing was a preview of one of the upcoming makeovers. A guy lost 200? 300? pounds. They show him running. He looks like he is wearing a baggy skin suit. It was very gross. I can't wait to see the show.

aV

Sebastian 9:24



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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Been lurking for a few weeks and nothing has compelled me to chime in - until today.

First the silly Fishbone comment...

McNabb IS totally fucking overrated. He has never won a big game for the Eagles - Ty Detmer and AJ Feeley [for fuck sake] rode the defense to the NFC championship for the Birds last year. McNabb came back and they lost.

And in a League that deliberately puts race at the forefront by fining teams for not interviewing a set number of "minority" coaches for openings to serve some random quota, it is extremely hypocritical for bringing down the hammer on someone who mentions race considerations in the NFL. Regardless of whether one agrees with his opinion.

And what the pile-on artists like Wes (still not a registered Democrat) Clark and Jesse Jackson forget, is that piling on Limbaugh will only arose the ire of those "red state" Dittohead voters in the next election, and not gain them a nickel. Dumb politics.

Slave(someone please fight tomorrow - it is friday you know)4ever
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1. McNabb is NOT overrated. He's never been rated all that high. He's considered good, but not a fucking great quarterback. That's why Rush's comment is so stupid - it challenges an alleged position which was never taken.

2. You're right - the NFL preoccupation with race makes no sense. But that same shit occurs in college football. If I had to see another assjack interviewer ask Willingham what it was like to be a black man coaching at ND, I was going to puke. Who fucking cares what color he is? What we really want to know is why that team gets a free top 15 pre-season rank every year no matter how bad they are.

3. "Dittoheads" are idiots. Dumb manipulated hicks who think the estate tax will affect them and 70% of their tax dollars go to minority welfare queens. Clark loses no steam casting them to the side because he never had a chance with them anyway.

4. Whether or not the Peppers stole their sound, its fact that Fishbone was never ask good as the Peppers.

5. Rush deserves everything he gets, and I think his undoing is the beginning of a mini-revolution against the right. The worm appears to be turning a bit as moderates in both parties seem to be waking up finally and saying "Hey, what the fuck are we spending all this dough for?" and "Hey, who put all this white trash in charge?" And its about time. Tom DeLay is the sort of man who should be servicing the lawns of voters, not dictating policy to the house. And these Ashcroft type people with their evangelical fervor... hell, you can't let these sorts have the keys to the jail. They're bible thumpers, for crissakes.

S(Drop the white trash and bring back days of the Kennedy Democrats versus the Rockefeller Republicans)D

Shape Shifter 9:31


I adopt the soundtrack from 24 Hour Party People. But I would select different remixes of Voodoo Ray and Pacific State and remove the Marshall Jefferson song altogether. Can I do that?

Even Odds 9:38



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Originally posted by andViolins
My thoughts on Thursday nite NBC

Friends - Really laboring. They took one idea that should have lasted for 6-7 minutes and stretched it out for the whole show. The writing just isn't there.

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I saw the show late after a night out on the town -- and watching the most thrilling almost comeback in college football at the bar of an elegant restaurant, when guests left their tables for 15 minutes to watch in joy, then shock, then horror as Miami drove back down the field to defeat the hapless Mountaineers.

Now I wouldn't expect friends to match the elation and devestation of an exciting football game, but I would expect it to hold my sober interest as I checked email. I had to rewind the end twice because I was convinced the dvr had cut off early missing huge chunks of narrative. Apparently it was the writers, not the dvr.

notcasesensitive 9:53



So I caught this show last night when nothing else was on and it has basically turned into an ad for ABC shows. Kind of weird - out of 3 stories, 2 were aimed at increasing viewership of other ABC shows. First there was an indepth look at the people who apply to be on Extreme Makeovers and the last story was an interview with Wayne Brady, who became famous on Whose Line Is It Anyway. I guess the whole attempt to look like a serious news show has been played out. Poor Sam Donaldson.

I also saw the last half hour of Survivor and much of the Jenna Jameson True Hollywood Story. Exciting night.

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notcasesensitive 9:53



So I caught this show last night when nothing else was on and it has basically turned into an ad for ABC shows. Kind of weird - out of 3 stories, 2 were aimed at increasing viewership of other ABC shows.

Mmmm Burger 9:58




Shameful, isn't it?

But all the "news" shows are like that now. Every interview ends with a "you can see the full interview tonight on [name of network's pseudo-news show]"

For me, it's a helpful summary that means I don't have to watch the longer show, because I realize what a waste of time that would be. Except for the For Love or Money previews--because that bachelor's mellifluous voice and captivating intonation just made me realize I couldn't get enough.

Even Odds 10:05



This re line is driving me crazy.

A club I frequented in my single days played "Let Me Clear My Throat" at least once a night for years.

I can smell the stale cigarette smoke and the spilled crown from across the years.

Edited to add to the soundtrack of my life: DJ Kool and David Allan Coe's "You Never Even Call Me By My Name" from my barhopping days. The Coppertank used to play the song every night and everyone would just stand around and sing. Good times.

Bad Rich Chic 10:14



So, I saw this Geico ad on TV last night, where their little gekko was being praised for bringing "a reptilian sense of balance to our business that was missing from our warm blooded employees."

And I laughed, and the Mr. asked why since the ad was stupid. It was because I thought of you. Just thought I'd let you know.


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Purse Junkie 10:31



http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...eeding_frenzy/

(Spree: cannibal/carnivore minks rampage)

I'm sure the chewed-up Labrador was really glad these little guys were freed to let 'em be their true selves. Maybe they could consult the hapless terrorized local wildlife first next time?


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Greedy 10:32




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So, I saw this Geico ad on TV last night, where their little gekko was being praised for bringing "a reptilian sense of balance to our business that was missing from our warm blooded employees."

And I laughed, and the Mr. asked why since the ad was stupid. It was because I thought of you. Just thought I'd let you know.
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So you haven't told the Mr. about Shape Shifter, aye? Bad BAD Rich Chic!

Aloha 10:34




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Originally posted by evenodds
I saw the show late after a night out on the town -- and watching the most thrilling almost comeback in college football at the bar of an elegant restaurant, when guests left their tables for 15 minutes to watch in joy, then shock, then horror as Miami drove back down the field to defeat the hapless Mountaineers.

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I tuned in to the last 3 minutes of that game, and was transfixed. One of the best endings to a game I can remember seeing... Check out SportsCenter if you haven't seen it.

Great subplot for Chicagoans, as the sons of legendary '85 Super Bowl Champ Bears Otis Wilson and Walter Payton slugged it out.

Wilson's kid scored one of the best TD's you'll ever see on a screen, breaking 3 or 4 tackles and hitting a Miami safety head-on and knocking him on his ass about 3 yards back...

Miami then drove down to win the game on a last-second FG, saved only by an amazing over-the-shoulder fully laid-out catch by Kellen Winslow Jr. on 4th and 13.

WV played their guts out. Miami was lucky, as it seemed like they were planning their trip to Tallahassee a week early...