Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[robustpuppy]

I just need to say that if there's one more post about the sure fire seduction effect of the Trinity Sessions, I am going to yak. No, no, no. For every woman who considered that the ultimate fucking, excuse me, lovemaking, music, there were one or two or three housemates who blasted other music to drown that shit out.

[NW Native]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Nope, just actually working for a change.

As for Kashmir, anyone who's ever seen Fast Times knows how well that worked, at least initially... For Chrissakes, Stacy slept with everyone BUT him.

Now, if you heard "Somebody's Baby" by Jackson Browne, you knew the guy was in...

Editted for stupidity

I've also found Kashmir useful. That was before the movie came out.

[NW Native]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I just need to say that if there's one more post about the sure fire seduction effect of the Trinity Sessions, I am going to yak.

What she said, squared.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by NW Native
Correction - Haven't watched FTRH in awhile but my memory is that Rat was the one recommending Kashmir and he was the one who got Stacy. So, even if it wasn't actually done to Kashmir, the connection is still correct.

I've also found Kashmir useful. That was before the movie came out.

Actually:

1. Damone recommends side 1 of Led Zeppelin IV to Rat.
2. Linda (Phoebe Cates) tells Stacy to run if a guy plays that on a date...
3. So, naturally, Rat plays "Kashmir", which is on Physical Graffiti.
4. Rat does eventually get Stacy, but not onscreen, thus the ending where it says they are still together but haven't done it... yet.
5. Everyone else gets Stacy onscreen (with Jackson Browne playing in the background).

Here endeth the lesson...

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Bill Frist?

You may be right.

Watch the news footage here: low resolution [12MB], medium resolution [18 MB], high resolution [23 MB]. [spree: QuickTime Movie (with AUDIO) of Daily Show segment]

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by evenodds
Since I no longer use the cd changer on the stereos, my "seduction album" is a long playlist including everything from D'Angelo and Sade to selections from India.Arie, Joss Stone, Bob Marley, Donny Hathaway, Brian McKnight, Bobby Caldwell, Erykah Badu, Donald Fagen, Charlie Hunter, Les Nubians, Los Lonely Boys, DJ Krush, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Faith No More, among others.

You miss the point of a seduction album.* If you're getting fucked to Bob Marley (!?) and Faith No More, you were going to get fucked anyway.

*This is probably because you are a woman, and accordingly get to decide when to do the sex.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I'm pretty sure I've expressed this opinion previously, but "Are You Being Served?" calls into serious question every other achievement of the English-speaking world.

It is enough to make one take up kayaking.

That is all.

Watch it. While I am no particular fan of Are You Being Served?, you are getting perilously close. One snide comment about the works of Rowan Atkinson (other than Mr. Bean) and we are going to have to throw down.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You miss the point of a seduction album.* If you're getting fucked to Bob Marley (!?) and Faith No More, you were going to get fucked anyway.

*This is probably because you are a woman, and accordingly get to decide when to do the sex.

You're a little more sensitive than a lot of us guys can pull off. for the majority of guys, Bloodhound Gang's "hurray for Boobies" might be a pretty straight forward way to get the point across. Oh, and play "Yummy down on this", you know:

Yummy down on yummy down on this down on
Yummy down on yummy down on this down on
Yummy down on yummy down on this down on
Yummy down on yummy down on this down on

Ouch it won't reach my mouth
If I could do it myself I'd probably never leave the house
But I can't so here's where you come in

Don't play "you're Pretty When I'm Drunk." That song can turn a girl off.

confidential to atticus: you can't seriously dismiss marley generically. He did some great seduction music, especially real early, before he got popular, and more political.

[Skeks in the city]

There's a movie called "The Gristle," the first SBA funded movie. I saw Michael Dorn in it, and I could just imagine Thurgreed dropping slang in a perfect baritone. As well as some Indie film comments here and there about race.

Preview for The Gristle

The plot revolves around mistaken identity in two illicit exchanges arranged at the same motel. Two black orderlies from a hospital are trying to drop off a pair of kidneys for $75,000. Michael Dorn and a white compadre are trying to drop off uncut cocaine for $350,000. Two Cubans are trying to buy the cocaine. Two white guys are trying to buy the kidneys for a racist Senator.

Big bad Thurgreed, out of his Star Trek costume:

[NW Native]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand

Here endeth the lesson...

Thank you sir! May I have another.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Adder
One snide comment about the works of Rowan Atkinson (other than Mr. Bean) and we are going to have to throw down.

The "works" of Rowan Atkinson? You mean like "Rat Race," and "Johnny English," and "Scooby-Doo," and "Hot Shots! Part Deux"? I'll give you "Four Weddings," but he didn't carry much of that picture. Perhaps we should leave his movie career aside; he's batting under .250.*

Mr. Bean --- not the movie --- stands up to repeated watching. It might even go down in history as the best physical comedy ever performed by an Englishman. However --- and you might want to sit down for this --- Blackadder does not. Blackadder was hilarious the first time I saw it, but no subsequent times. I think it might be the "Better Off Dead" of britcoms. I say that with a heavy heart, as I know my credibility will suffer among comedy dorks.

*I have not seen "Love Actually." Maybe this redeems his movie career. I think I'm the only person in the room who's seen "The Tall Guy," a rental that remains the most inexpensive way to see Emma Thompson's tits.

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It doesn't have the same zing as "Why does the drive-thru ATM have braille keys?" but it'll do in a pinch.

I believe it is the Rehab Act (or in the case of ATMs at Government sites, Section 508) requires, among other things, braille/raised keys and ATM manufacturers seek to use common components across all items in the product lines (including the drive-thru aisle) to capture economies of scale . . .

K(king of useless trivia)E

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You miss the point of a seduction album.* If you're getting fucked to Bob Marley (!?) and Faith No More, you were going to get fucked anyway.

*This is probably because you are a woman, and accordingly get to decide when to do the sex.

The Bob Marley song is "Turn Your Lights Down Low" and the FNM song is "Easy Like Sunday Morning."

It's not like our NIN songs made it onto the list or anything.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I think it might be the "Better Off Dead" of britcoms. I say that with a heavy heart, as I know my credibility will suffer among comedy dorks.

Sigh. You wound me.

"You ski the K-12 dude, and girls will go sterile just looking at you!"

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Atticus, after giving your replacement seduction album question some more thought, the CD changer should contain the following:
Dido, No Angel (Had to look up the title, but all American women 24-34 own this album.)
Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (all women 29-39 have this album.)

Originally posted by evenodds
Jack, you are so very wrong.

I fall into your stated demo on both albums and I have neither. (Dido? Seriously?)

More importantly, the best seduction album ever is D'Angelo's VooDoo. Sade's Lover's Rock would have to make the top five.

e/o, I was being a little sarcastic (and a little manipulative) by including Dido and Sarah McLachlan in the list. I was being sarcastic about all women having those albums (but a lot of women own them). Owning Dido would be a little manipulative because it's not a great album, and you'd only have it around for the attempt. You'd have it because she would have it.

e/o, quite frankly your taste in music is too broad and nuanced to be a guide for most women. I like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. I've seen them in concert. I'd never put them on in a "come up to my place" situation. I'd probably want something that they've heard on the radio station with the 18-35 year old female demographic. Now if you've brought e/o up to your place, that's not going to cut it. Then you have to be Nick Hornby/Jon Cusack and come up with something surprising and wonderful and perfect.

We might be talking about two slightly different categories of albums. There's the before and the during. Sade falls into the latter category. Same as Al Green or Barry White. I was thinking of albums for a man to play during dinner/drinks/conversation. Sade at that stage would be overplaying your hand. That list is a whole 'nother thing.

And Atticus, to compare Better Off Dead with Are You Being Served? should be a felony offense.