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1: Films/DVD Asylum, Quite different (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2024-04-16, 15:27:19 (75.83.146.225)
The book has been made into a few movies. This is the latest adaptation of the story. The Matt Damon/Jude Law version was good but not at all like this one. For one, this has 8 episodes, so almost 8 h .......
2: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: 'Rippley' on Netflix (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2024-04-08, 10:26:03 (75.83.146.225)
I am a huge fan of the Ripley series of books by Patricia Highsmith. I read all 5 long ago, and have reread a couple. I have seen a couple of the movie adaptations, notably the one with Jude Law, whic .......
3: Films/DVD Asylum, "lives on context" and on sound design (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2024-03-27, 14:04:19 (75.83.146.225)
The constant background of industrialized human torture and slaughter. I found this both remarkable and also depressing, the husband shopping for an improved crematorium while his wife tends the garde .......
4: Films/DVD Asylum, Bloated (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-12-18, 14:57:05 (75.83.146.225)
Both were pretty good. Both were ridiculously overlong. Better effects and a more thoughtful subject in Oppenheimer. But both DeNiro and DiCaprio were at the top of their game in Flower Moon. My vote .......
5: Music Lane, RE: Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-12-04, 18:32:46 (75.83.146.225)
If you did not click on link from aclearspot, it is a duet of the two. Really great. .......
6: Music Lane, Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-12-04, 14:44:39 (75.83.146.225)
Before the Pogues, there was Planxty. A true super group. I listened to their albums incessantly. I was primed for the energy of the Pogues when it showed up, punk and Irish music just fit together. T .......
7: Music Lane, Shane MacGowan R.I.P. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-11-30, 09:25:38 (75.83.146.225)
I still listen to the Pogues. When Rum Sodomy and the Lash came out, I bought the LP and played it on repeat and I still love it, every song. Every Christmas, Fairy Tale of New York plays and I never .......
8: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Current tv series, "Justified: City Primeval" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-08-24, 10:21:02 (75.83.146.225)
My friend was hyped up for this as she has the whole 6 seasons on dvd and watched them multiple times, So I checked it out. I kind of liked this new season so I got her dvds and started working throug .......
9: General Asylum, Music from Big Pink (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-08-10, 10:52:42 (75.83.146.225)
My first musical hero was Dylan. The words. Nobody wrote words like Mr. Tambourine Man, Desolation Row, Gates of Eden, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowland. So I knew The Band were Dylan's crew and I got this .......
10: General Asylum, Not during my demo... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-06-18, 21:17:14 (75.83.146.225)
For whatever reason it was all turntable. Maybe I'm just a sucker but I really enjoyed it. A system made up of mostly their own stuff, except for turntable and a few other pieces I forget...brought up .......
11: General Asylum, A few peak moments for me... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-06-11, 20:57:21 (75.83.146.225)
The Acora loudspeakers in one of the big downstairs rooms...Johnny Cash just voice and guitar with in-the-room presence. The Graham speakers in another downstairs room...guy next to me asked is this s .......
12: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: How are you ranking the Academy Award Nominated films (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-03-01, 16:16:30 (75.83.146.225)
For me, among the list of nominees, the one I liked all around was Tar, but I love classical music and it is rare to see it treated so seriously in a movie. I was surprised how much I liked Top Gun, a .......
13: Critic's Corner, Very common scam... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-02-06, 10:38:05 (75.83.146.225)
Something I quite enjoy is watching the scam busters on youtube, such as a guy called kitboga. He calls these people in India with voice modified and computer locked down, then pretends to be a really .......
14: Films/DVD Asylum, Is there an echo in here? NT (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-02-04, 10:42:13 (75.83.146.225)
NT .......
15: Critic's Corner, RE: And today.................... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-02-02, 22:44:40 (75.83.146.225)
Oh ok I just looked and sure enough I got the 2nd email today too. I had already checked accounts to see if I had a penny charge somewhere. Not a big deal at all, but I get those scams all the time sa .......
16: Critic's Corner, Stereophile order email- what order? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-01-31, 17:34:55 (75.83.146.225)
So I got an email saying thank you for your stereophile order. Seems to be legit from Stereophile. And I've been a loyal subscriber for decades. But I haven't placed an order. But if it's a scam, it's .......
17: Rocky Road, RE: RIP Tom Verlaine (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-01-30, 17:58:08 (75.83.146.225)
Yes, Marquee Moon was a big part of those years for me as well. The guitar and the lyrics and the vocals...it all came together. Not so long ago, I read Richard Hell's memoir of those days, his up and .......
18: Films/DVD Asylum, I thought it was a hoot (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-01-28, 16:24:37 (75.83.146.225)
his sense of humor is dry and he sent up the art world and its pretension in his last movie The Square...and I thought he was equally on target here with his over-the-top exaggerations of the ultra-ri .......
19: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Is there an echo in here? Nt (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-01-27, 13:05:33 (75.83.146.225)
No. The word waterfront is not the word water. Now water you complaining about? .......
20: Films/DVD Asylum, On the Water Front (NT) (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-01-26, 10:59:42 (75.83.146.225)
NT .......
21: Films/DVD Asylum, It never makes much sense but it's OK (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-01-24, 18:01:30 (75.83.146.225)
I almost never think any of the best picture nominees are actually "best" movie during my year...but I enjoy the hoopla anyway. I did not warm much to Everything All at Once, I loved Avatar but strict .......
22: Films/DVD Asylum, Avatar Way of Water in Imax 3d (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2023-01-03, 11:02:12 (75.83.146.225)
I saw the first Avater in Imax 3d long ago. I remember it as a remarkable experience, simply for the visuals. I've never been sure I would even enjoy it without those amazing visuals. So of course, I .......
23: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Variety top 100 movies of all time, you'll never guess what's no. 1 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-12-21, 09:50:49 (75.83.146.225)
All such lists are interesting but don't mean much unless they point you to things you haven't heard about...this is not like that. A few discoveries I suppose, but I've seen most of this list. I like .......
24: Films/DVD Asylum, The Banshees of Inisherin (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-12-19, 10:35:26 (75.83.146.225)
Just saw this...since knew it was of interest to me, I read nothing of it, and went in blind. And I would recommend that as well, and will try to reveal no spoilers. It starts as a fairly familiar typ .......
25: Films/DVD Asylum, Watched a couple more of his movies... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-09-20, 13:45:17 (75.83.146.225)
I was not really up on his massive output. I've seen Breathless, and thought it was quite good, I'm sure at the time it was revolutionary...and I'm a big fan of Alphaville, which I've watched a few ti .......
26: Films/DVD Asylum, Severance on Apple TV (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-09-05, 11:11:23 (75.83.146.225)
It seems nobody has mentioned this series, which is probably my own favorite of the year. It comes from Ben Stiller, which made me wary that it might be a silly comedy. But it is a very original sci-f .......
27: Films/DVD Asylum, I am not so sure about that (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-08-20, 11:08:44 (75.83.146.225)
Then again how can anyone be sure of anything? Most everyone is dead now, but since everyone is a robot, death is just another part of life. Caleb's daughter might not be a robot, and might be alive. .......
28: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: The Rescue was interesting as well, BUT... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-08-08, 16:27:26 (75.83.146.225)
You know I did not mean to disparage the new version. By reviews it is quite well done. I guess since I know the details, I feel less need to revisit it. Of course a reenactment can take the viewer pl .......
29: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Which Windows Media Player? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-08-07, 15:11:29 (75.83.146.225)
If you are talking music foobar2000 is great. You can easily control it with phone or tablet and I have an app named monkeymote which lets me stream it over Wi-Fi to my iPad. .......
30: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Watched Thirteen Lives last night.... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-08-07, 11:56:19 (75.83.146.225)
Have not seen it. I was completely engrossed by The Rescue, the documentary that was made on this incident, the British introverted cave divers, the Aussie doctor who came up with the risky scheme, al .......
31: Films/DVD Asylum, Only Murders in the Building (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-07-26, 10:15:46 (75.83.146.225)
I thought I would give a shout-out to this Hulu show. It's in its second season, and it kind of crept up on my list. It stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as 3 residents of a very ritz .......
32: Films/DVD Asylum, I find these recaps helpful (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-07-18, 17:09:07 (75.83.146.225)
Actually essential. .......
33: Films/DVD Asylum, I thought it might get clearer (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-07-18, 10:41:01 (75.83.146.225)
But no of course not. By episode 4 we are mixed up in parallel universes and time shifts that may be time travel, why not? A character finds they are a robot, kind of to be expected anyway, but the c .......
34: General Asylum, standard geezer nostalgia (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-07-11, 17:05:33 (75.83.146.225)
I wonder why I expected any different. It's the same old "good old days" rant that makes up 90% of the geezer's conversation. Not much to say, but I'm an old guy and I read Mojo every month and I foll .......
35: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: I see that one of my replies has been nipped from my Westworld thread too (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-07-10, 20:36:48 (75.83.146.225)
Just for the record, this whole site was completely down for awhile. I assume that data had to be restored from the most recent backup, and anything later than that was lost. .......
36: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Hard to believe this film is 50 years old.... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-07-08, 12:48:35 (75.83.146.225)
Cabaret is indeed a great musical and was also a turning point for me. As a child, the musicals I knew were Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. So as I got older, I thought musicals were cheesy and s .......
37: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Anyone watch Westworld (Season 4, Episode 1) last night? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-06-28, 16:12:38 (75.83.146.225)
It has been a mess. Starting from an intriguing premise, it went completely off the rails. Big reveals followed one another, changing everything, seemingly at random. I gave up trying to make sense of .......
38: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Are there advantages to using a gaming computer for non gaming? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-06-26, 16:33:13 (75.83.146.225)
Depends how you define gaming computer. I always go for processor speed, memory, and general high performance. But the part of gaming I do not play is highest speed graphic cards which are super expen .......
39: General Asylum, RE: Jeez.... Nothing from THE Show? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-06-15, 19:42:39 (75.83.146.225)
I go every year. But I missed this year. Picked up a nasty virus (not covid) and could not face any activity. I went last year, the first tentative step out of pandemic shutdowns, and it was a shadow .......
40: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Have you seen The Offer... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-05-18, 15:14:47 (75.83.146.225)
Have not seen this...reviews quite mixed. But I will say, there are new 50th anniversary releases of Godfather series, and I watched the first two...and there are commentaries by Francis Ford Coppola .......
41: Films/DVD Asylum, Not those i have seen...- (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-05-16, 22:58:53 (75.83.146.225)
Namely la times and New York Times. So I checked rotten tomatoes and see an 89% aggregate. All in all, I will definitely get to it soon. .......
42: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: 'Tokyo Vice' on HBO Max (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-05-02, 10:00:14 (75.83.146.225)
Liked the Tokyo setting, the music, the visuals. A bit less enamored with the story. Drug gangs fighting for territory- seen that countless times. A few too many personal dramas, some of which go nowh .......
43: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Russian Doll S2 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-05-01, 13:45:04 (75.83.146.225)
Here is what I thought. I saw season 1 so long ago I barely remember it. I remember liking it. So I watched season 2. And I really loved it. Although it is short, I did not binge it. I just revel in t .......
44: Films/DVD Asylum, Back to the movie theater to see Nic Cage (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-04-29, 17:47:59 (75.83.146.225)
The last movie I saw in a theater was Little Women, New Year's Eve as 2020 was starting. In a few months, businesses closed and I never got back until today. The movie is The Unbearable Weight of Mass .......
45: Films/DVD Asylum, Well done and boring (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-04-26, 23:27:25 (75.83.146.225)
Yes it is dark. It always rains in Gotham. The visuals are great. But 3 hours. I had to stop twice and get a nights sleep, it just made me tired. John Turturro is good as always but his role in the Ap .......
46: Films/DVD Asylum, Catching up with CODA (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-03-21, 21:40:01 (75.83.146.225)
So every year I look at critic's lists from place like Sight and Sound, New York Times, the New Yorker. Looking for things that might be interesting. And I look at Oscar nominations, but with less int .......
47: Films/DVD Asylum, sorry... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-02-06, 13:17:53 (75.83.146.225)
yes I was a bit grumpy when I wrote that...I actually like lists...although there are many many lists...here is another from last year for your consideration. .......
48: Films/DVD Asylum, algorithm (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-02-05, 21:25:24 (75.83.146.225)
So they combine imdb rankings, which are based on votes of registered users there, and some combination of rottentomatoes critic rankings and audience reviews. What a mess. This ranking by averaging a .......
49: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Nightmare Alley... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-02-03, 15:46:43 (75.83.146.225)
The book is one of my favorite old noirs and I've read it twice. A movie can simply not contain the richness of the book. And I like the old 1947 movie. It makes some decent choices in boiling down th .......
50: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Well, see if your connection can get you to a viewing of (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-01-05, 07:14:08 (75.83.146.225)
Thanks did a quick check online and these are older movies, so these would not be available in screener versions. Elephant is widely available to rent on streaming services. So will check it out. The .......
51: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: How did you manage to see it? Streaming? Theater? nt (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-01-03, 10:42:51 (75.83.146.225)
Oh I live in California and a close relative is in the business...award season...sorry not available yet in US but will be soon I think. .......
52: Films/DVD Asylum, art film... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2022-01-02, 10:52:11 (75.83.146.225)
What does it mean? Well, Drive my Car is a movie about words. Consequently, it is built on conversation. Not as explicitly as My Dinner with Andre, but probably far too much for the average moviegoer. .......
53: Films/DVD Asylum, The French Dispatch (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-12-21, 10:17:46 (75.83.146.225)
Wes Anderson inspires mixed feelings in me. His movies are in fact an odd mixture of extraordinary skill in cinematic art and silliness. And this describes, for me, this most Wes Anderson-ish of creat .......
54: Films/DVD Asylum, a chacun son gout (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-12-15, 11:13:09 (75.83.146.225)
Obviously. As a reference, other TV shows I found witty were Seinfeld and Veep. Of course I could list numerous movies, but let me just mention Double Indemnity, original story by the great James Cain .......
55: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: "Succession:" how good can it get? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-12-14, 16:23:11 (75.83.146.225)
I love this show. I was anxiously awaiting a new season and was not disappointed. You probably know Brian Cox was a notable King Lear in the UK theater and even wrote a book about playing King Lear. S .......
56: Films/DVD Asylum, Not for me...- (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-12-12, 14:35:51 (75.83.146.225)
I found it extraordinary. No spoilers, but it is quite rare that characters surprise me in the way they did here. Depths were revealed slowly in the two main characters, hinting at further depths that .......
57: Films/DVD Asylum, here are the numbers (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-10-07, 10:35:37 (75.83.146.225)
A nice article about why ota is less compressed than cable. .......
58: Films/DVD Asylum, I have heard for a long time that over-the-air.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-10-06, 19:35:18 (75.83.146.225)
using an antenna provides the best picture quality. Now of course, this is all relative...there are all these side channels now, like 7.2, 7.3, etc. and many of those are bit starved and look terrible .......
59: Films/DVD Asylum, There is no answer to this (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-10-06, 18:59:33 (75.83.146.225)
because quite simply, streams vary greatly in their compression, and the less compression, the better they look. Every streaming service has to compress, just like cable TV channels have to compress. .......
60: Films/DVD Asylum, Maybe it wasn't for you... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-09-20, 18:42:48 (75.83.146.225)
I take the murder of robots in my stride. It's a kind of dark world being portrayed, where people are able to engage their worst instincts in an artificial world. I took this fantasy world as a fantas .......
61: Films/DVD Asylum, I'm a fan... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-08-15, 17:45:54 (75.83.146.225)
he's Jed Mercurio and while sometimes I roll my eyes, I like his style. I was more than a little disappointed with the past season of Line of Duty, however, I think it may have run its course. ::: TOP .......
62: Films/DVD Asylum, Only 1 season so far... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-08-15, 15:35:45 (75.83.146.225)
You got me to check...yes there will be a 2nd season, supposed to be in 2022. This is executive produced by the guy who made Line of Duty (6 seasons I think) and Bodyguard. Like Bloodlands, those have .......
63: Films/DVD Asylum, agree, I find it diverting... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-07-24, 10:03:41 (75.83.146.225)
but hardly exciting. A bunch of people with various problems at a beautiful resort...a few minor laughs here and there, no real drama so far, some good character actors being eccentric...light summer .......
64: Films/DVD Asylum, very much enjoyed this overstuffed noir... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-07-08, 18:53:36 (75.83.146.225)
I mean everything but the kitchen sink...marital infidelity in two marriages, serious consequences in both cases, everybody backstabbing everybody else, government racist policies, corporate espionage .......
65: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Well I admit that I have seen more than 4..... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-07-08, 17:55:56 (75.83.146.225)
"agree that it was compiled by an idiot" Well as I wrote below it was "compiled" by an algorithm. 1. Filter the rotten tomatoes database of movies and keep the set of movies that have 40 or more criti .......
66: Films/DVD Asylum, I wondered whether this was real... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-07-07, 13:29:47 (75.83.146.225)
as this sort of clickbait is often questionable. But I did find this: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/ which more or less confirms the list, and importantly, tells how it originated. These .......
67: Films/DVD Asylum, looking forward to this one... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-06-20, 15:31:38 (75.83.146.225)
The precursor to reality TV was An American Family on PBS in the early 70s. I vaguely recall the kids listening to Sparks. My first actual exposure. Later in the decade, I moved to LA, where Sparks we .......
68: General Asylum, RE: Moving Vinyl Collection (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-06-09, 18:15:06 (75.83.146.225)
A few thoughts. I personally would not trust anything of value that can be easily damaged to movers. If you have some particularly valuable or irreplaceable records, I would carry those with you at le .......
69: Films/DVD Asylum, I thought it was enormously entertaining... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-06-08, 19:00:27 (75.83.146.225)
Nutty and over the top and it is left to the viewer to figure out what it all might mean or whether is means anything...but I appreciate the complete anarchic imagination. It's a love it or hate it... .......
70: Films/DVD Asylum, spoilers inside: good but not great (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-06-03, 18:19:00 (75.83.146.225)
I'm a sucker for these kind of atmospheric crime dramas. I thought the atmosphere was beautifully done, filmed on location, and the actors went to great efforts to get the local accents right, as note .......
71: Films/DVD Asylum, 2 favorite Chloe Sevigny... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-05-20, 15:32:04 (75.83.146.225)
are Kids and The Last Days of Disco. My favorite Sarah Polley movie, by a mile, is Existenz. It does not seem to get much respect in the Cronenberg canon, but it's my personal favorite. .......
72: Films/DVD Asylum, I am on the other side of that fence... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-05-20, 15:28:02 (75.83.146.225)
I thought Burning was really great and his character in that one was much more sinister and interesting than the one he played in Minari. I thought Minari was a decent watch, but I'll watch Burning ag .......
73: Films/DVD Asylum, I'm not sure you need to get it (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-04-17, 11:05:13 (75.83.146.225)
As long as I've been watching movies, the "road movie" has been a genre. And these are not generally plot driven. Most often, they have young protagonists who hit the road, meet people, have some adve .......
74: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Early review of Netflix's, "The Serpent." This film very (too?) realistically (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-04-10, 21:11:05 (75.83.146.225)
Decades ago I read the book written about Charles Sobrhaj called Serpentine, which was great. All this time later, I only dimly recalled his actions. I did enjoy this series. I also thought there was .......
75: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: And he will again in 7 years? nt (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-01-12, 14:04:48 (75.83.146.225)
No of course not...it's over...if you saw the last one, the ending was anticipated. Age is catching up to all of them. .......
76: Films/DVD Asylum, the astonishing "up" series... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-01-10, 16:10:41 (75.83.146.225)
following the same group of people from age 7, in 1964, to age 63, in 2019, revisiting them every 7 years. And now it is over. .......
77: Films/DVD Asylum, Bacurau (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2021-01-05, 10:01:12 (75.83.146.225)
Been looking into 2020 lists and Bacurau has shown up on a few. Released in 2019 in Brazil but 2020 in the US. It is on Criterion channel so I checked it out. Bacurau is a small village in a very rura .......
78: Films/DVD Asylum, I think it is something to do with scripts (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-30, 13:49:52 (75.83.146.225)
Did not work for me on firefox, but I use noscript. Once I enabled scripting on the website it did work. .......
79: Rocky Road, RE: date I saw Mountain was Dec. 6, 1971... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-23, 22:12:09 (75.83.146.225)
I am pretty sure Mulligan has nothing to do with the Cult. They have left few traces. But I did find a numero group compilation called local customs cavern sound. The notes state " Not quite hell, but .......
80: Rocky Road, date I saw Mountain was Dec. 6, 1971... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-23, 20:05:58 (75.83.146.225)
in Topkea, KS, Municipal Auditorium, with Black Oak Arkansas, which I dimly remember seeing and Mulligan, who is lost to any memory. The Internet is amazing. .......
81: Rocky Road, the first real concert I ever saw was Mountain... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-23, 17:16:31 (75.83.146.225)
I was a big fan of the first albums and saw them live I'm thinking 1971. I lost touch with his music ages ago, but will listen to some tonight. Another old friend gone. .......
82: Films/DVD Asylum, Homecoming- hmmm... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-21, 09:21:34 (75.83.146.225)
I just watched The Homecoming on Criterion. I was both intrigued and irritated. My first exposure to Pinter. Early on, I saw that this is one of those movies where people don't talk like people but li .......
83: Films/DVD Asylum, liked it as well... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-15, 14:04:51 (75.83.146.225)
I had doubts...the story of the writing of Citizen Kane seemed like a very slim thread for a 2 hour movie. But I found it quite fascinating. Names from the past...I had no clue how L.B. Mayer and Will .......
84: Films/DVD Asylum, Liked it well enough.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-10, 18:33:54 (75.83.146.225)
It kept me interested enough to look forward to each episode. As a sort of cultural anthropology look at the extreme upper class lifestyle of pre-pandemic NYC, it's pretty great. Fantastic photography .......
85: Films/DVD Asylum, Tenet (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-08, 14:10:40 (75.83.146.225)
This is a mess ssem a si siht. I finally caught up with this on a home screen. I am amazed and actually a bit gratified that this much skill and spectacle has been lavished on such a cockeyed premise. .......
86: Films/DVD Asylum, pandemic and finale- spoilers (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-12-02, 10:02:34 (75.83.146.225)
I was fully into this season and looked quite forward to the final episode. I expected it might be long...but it was short, only 38 minutes. I remembered reading that this show was shut down by the pa .......
87: Films/DVD Asylum, the current season (4) rocks IMHO (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-11-23, 09:46:50 (75.83.146.225)
This is the show that I currently like the most. As I write, I just finished last night's episode 10, with only 1 left. I was a little uncertain at the start, yet another gangster war, with Chris Rock .......
88: Inmate Central, Time the Revelator (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-11-20, 09:18:50 (75.83.146.225)
One of those timeless albums that puts me in a sort of trance. View YouTube Video .......
89: Inmate Central, a memory test (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-11-19, 09:38:20 (75.83.146.225)
If you care to mess with it, try memtest86. It's a little executable to burn to a flash drive, then you boot up off of that drive from BIOS. It does a variety of memory patterns. Takes 15 minutes more .......
90: Inmate Central, cold water swimming (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-11-10, 17:40:31 (75.83.146.225)
My gym pool is open but the number of swimmers is restricted so there is usually a wait and a time limit. It is kept around a comfortable 80 degrees. But I've taken to using my friend's backyard pool, .......
91: Films/DVD Asylum, Possessor from Brandon Cronenberg (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-11-04, 09:19:22 (75.83.146.225)
I saw the name of the director and had to check...yes this is David Cronenberg's son. Since I am a pretty huge fan of elder Cronenberg, I had to check this out. The apple has not fallen far from the t .......
92: Films/DVD Asylum, Appropriate ending...spoiler (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-10-20, 22:42:14 (75.83.146.225)
It seemed oddly appropriate that the teenage girl pulled her sleeve back to show, for no apparent reason, a strong new robotic arm and to violently and bloodily kill the very white villain as her new .......
93: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Lovecraft Country... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-10-06, 22:17:30 (75.83.146.225)
"silly and bordering on inchoherence"...yes indeed. It is IMO a total mess. One week it is an Indiana Jones quest. Another week it is a Green Book type drama on mid-20th century racism. Every once in .......
94: Tubes Asylum, schematics (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-10-02, 17:01:09 (75.83.146.225)
I very much appreciate your advice. I went to the Audio Research site and could not find any download for my preamp. So I dug around the Internet for a while. On the site I linked below, there are 2 p .......
95: Tubes Asylum, Thanks all- some comments... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-09-29, 15:52:32 (75.83.146.225)
yes I kind of thought the power system might have gone haywire. It's convenient not to worry about sending a loud pulse through your amp, but it's more complex than a simple switch. I couldn't and can .......
96: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Most underrated Hollywood actor? Robert Mitchum, I'd say, (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-09-29, 15:40:01 (75.83.146.225)
I don't know a huge hell of a lot about Mitchum's movies, but I've seen Out of the Past a half dozen times. It's noir at its most perfect, embodied in smart snappy dialogue throughout. It contains a l .......
97: Tubes Asylum, Audio research preamp broken (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-09-28, 17:40:48 (75.83.146.225)
So I bought the Reference One preamp new about 20 years ago and it has just worked. But yesterday it broke in a very weird way. It was powered off but I looked over and saw a number of lights on. The .......
98: Films/DVD Asylum, Reaction - Spoilers (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-07-21, 08:57:30 (75.83.146.225)
Note this includes a massive spoiler that covers the whole series. At the very end, the time travel paradox could not be sidestepped. Two people whose very existence was due to a car crash came back a .......
99: Films/DVD Asylum, yes it does...depends on the individual library's agreement... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-07-15, 10:50:52 (75.83.146.225)
and undoubtedly some sort of financial deal. .......
100: Films/DVD Asylum, Dark season 3 study suggestion (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-07-10, 15:31:21 (75.83.146.225)
A few weeks ago the third season of this netflix series showed up. Although it has not been that long since I watched the first 2 seasons, I realized quickly that I was lost and getting maybe 20% of w .......
101: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Hamilton on Disney+ (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-07-06, 10:02:33 (75.83.146.225)
I saw Hamilton In Los Angeles, a rare (for me) professional musical theater experience. Pretty much loved it. It's such an odd duck, a musical version of American history with lots of rapping. But the .......
102: Films/DVD Asylum, So far, generic noir...but that's OK with me... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-06-26, 16:14:49 (75.83.146.225)
Tuned in just for curiosity...this is just a sort of mashup of Chandler, Hammett, etc. And Perry Mason is just any poor detective stuck in a corrupt world, and since it's 2020, a world where people cu .......
103: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Dones anybody use a VPN to watch offshore movies? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-06-07, 18:32:42 (75.83.146.225)
I don't do this myself but I became curious because I am quite aware that other countries have different netflix programs. I found this write-up...it says netflix keeps lists of vpn addresses to stop .......
104: Rocky Road, BBC documentary on youtube (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-05-09, 13:42:30 (75.83.146.225)
Excellent BBC documentary from 2013. I found it on youtube. .......
105: Rocky Road, Kraftwerk was essential... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-05-06, 14:44:02 (75.83.146.225)
Absolutely essential to me. Let me elucidate a little. In college a friend of mine played Autobahn for me and I was unimpressed. A few years later, a college DJ on the university station was one of my .......
106: General Asylum, elvis costello (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-04-10, 09:13:04 (75.83.146.225)
So I also have a history with this musician. I moved to southern California in 1978, I had a real job for the first time and I started really collecting records. I got very heavily into the excitement .......
107: General Asylum, John Prine (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-04-09, 13:16:16 (75.83.146.225)
Way back when his first LP came out, I think it was 1973, buying an album was a big splurge for me. But I read reviews and still enjoyed taking a chance on a "new Dylan." So I bought his first album w .......
108: General Asylum, Only "knew" him from here... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-04-09, 13:06:36 (75.83.146.225)
but I always enjoyed my interactions with him. When I saw his interactions on the non-audio side, I stayed far away. I have wondered what might have happened to him, as I wonder about some others from .......
109: Films/DVD Asylum, not sure why this comparison is relevant... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-03-25, 10:19:31 (75.83.146.225)
since they are two quite different types of movies in pretty much every aspect and I found both of them extremely well done. I liked Parasite more in terms of surprising and entertaining me all the wa .......
110: Films/DVD Asylum, Many years ago I watched Berlin Alexanderplatz on PBS... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-03-08, 11:45:49 (75.83.146.225)
and even recorded it on old VHS tape. I liked it a great deal at the time, but remember little of it. What stuck with me was the name, as my friend started using it for restaurant reservations all the .......
111: Films/DVD Asylum, Boulevard... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-02-15, 18:23:59 (75.83.146.225)
a buddy of mine from college visited Germany and came back with the hare brained scheme to start a brewery. I was invited to invest, but I had no money back then, and it seemed risky to boot. Now it i .......
112: Films/DVD Asylum, there is a third season (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-02-09, 22:29:23 (75.83.146.225)
This was on in the uk from 2013 to 2015, 3 seasons. I watched most of it on YouTube a long time ago. If a streaming service picked it up, it's probably no longer on YouTube. But anyway there is a thir .......
113: Films/DVD Asylum, He is almost a lock to win but... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-02-04, 09:40:11 (75.83.146.225)
check out his BAFTA speech from last weekend if you can find it...it's a rant about the film industry lack of diversity and need to change. Nothing wrong with the points being made for me, but a bit p .......
114: Films/DVD Asylum, Spotless one big problem - spoiler (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-02-01, 09:11:39 (75.83.146.225)
Finished the 10 episodes. Nothing really resolved. It is set up to continue on. But it will never continue. Apparently the plans for another season were a victim of the demise of the Esquire network, .......
115: Films/DVD Asylum, Update 3 episodes in.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-01-29, 16:58:42 (75.83.146.225)
Did not quite expect the notes of humor. Thugs arguing about the old Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? Tarantino redux. But I'm into the main story line. Enjoying it. .......
116: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Goofy Brit humor . . . Yes (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-01-29, 16:54:52 (75.83.146.225)
As a fan of Sherlock this was exactly what I expected. A classic novel reframed as a bunch of smart aleck bantering. I was not at all disappointed, this was a good natured romp, but I did feel it had .......
117: Music Lane, yes (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-01-27, 15:44:20 (75.83.146.225)
I always watch them. As always, some parts I liked, others not so much. For me surprisingly great stuff from Tyler the creator and Tanya Tucker, neither of whom I cared much about before hand. Rosalia .......
118: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Do you lke Brit Crime? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-01-27, 09:41:05 (75.83.146.225)
Yes I am a sucker for both Brit crime and Scandinavian crime. I will definitely check out this one. Good reviews. I just watched a Swedish NF called Quicksand- about a girl accused in a school shootin .......
119: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: 2020 Oscars Thread (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-01-18, 10:02:02 (75.83.146.225)
I've seen 7 of the nominees. I avoided Joker because I avoid comic book movies, but when I saw it, it was only very tangentially a comic book movie, much more an homage to Taxi Driver and King of Com .......
120: Films/DVD Asylum, Little Women- surprisingly great (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2020-01-03, 10:24:39 (75.83.146.225)
Visiting family on a holiday trip. My choice would have been Uncut Gems but the consensus choice was Little Women, which I somehow dreaded. Unfamiliar with the book or previous movie versions, I just .......
121: Films/DVD Asylum, Cats reviews (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-12-21, 10:48:03 (75.83.146.225)
The movie critic on NPR yesterday called the new Cats musical a Christmas gift for movie critics. She also said (paraphrasing from memory) that it is so terrible on so many levels that of course you s .......
122: Films/DVD Asylum, They are making a third and final season... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-12-15, 10:37:45 (75.83.146.225)
so I finished season 2 and there are some surprising revelations. But the knots only get more knotty as apocalypse day comes up and it becomes even more impossible to see any way out. I am very curiou .......
123: Films/DVD Asylum, Dark Netflix series (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-12-12, 10:04:20 (75.83.146.225)
I'd been putting this one off for awhile, I think the first season came out in 2017. It's German with English subtitles. It is not a spoiler to reveal that it is an exploration of the effects of time .......
124: Films/DVD Asylum, Mixed feelings... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-12-01, 10:49:55 (75.83.146.225)
I found the CGI effect off-putting. The younger versions seemed a bit cartoonish. From my rough calculation, Frank would have been early 30s in the late 50s, making him early 90s now. De Niro is prett .......
125: Films/DVD Asylum, Mr. Robot classic last season (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-11-19, 10:08:21 (75.83.146.225)
Like many, my interest had flagged and I thought the series was kind of meandering. Plus, it had been so long that I barely remembered where we were. But this last season is swinging for the fences an .......
126: Films/DVD Asylum, Not so bad...spoilers (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-10-13, 09:53:00 (75.83.146.225)
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Scene by scene, there is a lot of really great interaction. I particularly like the deep dive into Todd, the new age sensitive guy who sings along to soft rock and has a past .......
127: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: For fans of Mr. Robot (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-10-07, 22:50:08 (75.83.146.225)
It's been so long that I don't remember all the details of where we are. But that mattered less than being back in this world....the wide angle shots, overhead shots, the synthesizer washes and pulsin .......
128: Films/DVD Asylum, Cage is the greatest... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-09-06, 17:09:26 (75.83.146.225)
It was Vampire's Kiss that clued me into the crazy genius of Nic Cage. He is not afraid to go way out out a limb. And I still love this movie. I am linking to a fantastic interview from New York Times .......
129: Films/DVD Asylum, Spoilers-Thought provoking (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-09-04, 08:52:47 (75.83.146.225)
I find myself pondering many points that were made in this very interesting doc. I would recommend watching it before reading about it, that is why I titled this spoilers. The cultural divide is huge .......
130: Films/DVD Asylum, Index to criterion channel (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-08-21, 08:51:43 (75.83.146.225)
Like filmstruck before it, this service is rather poorly organized. I find this 3rd party list, updated frequently, to be of great use. I am enjoying the library there, but it can be frustrating. I tr .......
131: Inmate Central, It's a gas... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-07-05, 14:40:49 (75.83.146.225)
IIRC, this fine recording was on Absolute Sound's super disc list. View YouTube Video .......
132: Rocky Road, Me too. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-07-03, 15:46:33 (75.83.146.225)
I kind of wish they had shown longer clips of the dancing. The girls are filled with energy. Especially the singer. I knew exactly nothing about this group or this type of music but I came across it d .......
133: Music Lane, Cypress Hill went to Egypt (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-07-01, 08:34:49 (75.83.146.225)
and played with Egyptian musicians on their remarkable album from last year. I discovered I know a word in Arabic - "hashish." View YouTube Video .......
134: Rocky Road, Babymetal at Glastonbury (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-07-01, 08:29:04 (75.83.146.225)
Kawaii View YouTube Video .......
135: General Asylum, my impressions (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-06-10, 08:28:10 (75.83.146.225)
In short, I heard some great sounding systems and a variety of interesting music. While this show seemed about half the size of the Newport Beach show a few years ago, and while some of the old friend .......
136: Films/DVD Asylum, Sneaky Pete season 3 on amazon (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-05-12, 09:31:14 (75.83.146.225)
Since I posted mini-reviews of past seasons, I will just keep it going, although few others seem to be watching this. Season 3 showed up recently. The set-up for season 1 was Marius, a con man release .......
137: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: holy cow! so much Ozu! :) nt (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-04-09, 19:14:52 (75.83.146.225)
What seems to be missing, at least now, are the commentary tracks. On filmstruck, I listened to Roger Ebert's commentary on Floating Weeds and it really sharpened my appreciation of what was going on .......
138: Films/DVD Asylum, correction of above (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-04-08, 10:49:41 (75.83.146.225)
After doing a search, I found all the Ozu movies. They just were not in the top level collection "In Search of Ozu." So that problem turned out to be user error, not a small film inventory. ::: TOPIC: .......
139: Films/DVD Asylum, Criterion Channel streaming is live today (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-04-08, 10:44:10 (75.83.146.225)
Looks a lot like Filmstruck. So at first glance it is great. A collection of Columbia noir, and I've only seen one of those, so that's one I'm ready to dig into. OTOH, on filmstruck, I got into an Oz .......
140: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Evening with Zama (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-04-02, 13:03:09 (75.83.146.225)
Glad you enjoyed it. I used a neutral word interesting to describe it...scenery, setting, mood caught me up but I did not get any deeper connection. I will look up Passion in the Desert, I do not know .......
141: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: a few more on amazon from 2018 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-03-27, 21:25:08 (75.83.146.225)
I watched Burning twice. There is some ambiguity that I won't go into. I really really enjoyed 2nd time through. There is so much subtlety in the performances. Brilliant IMO. I have not seen Shoplifte .......
142: Films/DVD Asylum, a few more on amazon from 2018 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-03-27, 09:52:35 (75.83.146.225)
Zama is free on amazon prime. I found it very interesting. Two more of my favorites are not free but can be paid for. These are Burning from Korea an Shoplifters from Japan. Both are quite thought pro .......
143: Films/DVD Asylum, Cold War... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-03-26, 20:00:12 (75.83.146.225)
just showed up on Amazon Prime. I saw in a theater. My favorite of 2018. .......
144: Rocky Road, RIP Scott Walker (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-03-25, 21:16:22 (75.83.146.225)
I did not catch his 60s albums until they became a bit legendary in the 80s. I think it was Julian Cope's compilation that got my attention (The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker). But that's a long time .......
145: Films/DVD Asylum, probably when they don't make hundreds of millions of dollars... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-03-12, 19:50:08 (75.83.146.225)
as long as they are minting money, there will be more coming down the pike. I'm not exactly the target audience and I suspect nobody else posting here is either. I was a DC comics reader as a kid and .......
146: Films/DVD Asylum, typically long slog with a few high points (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-02-25, 09:34:45 (75.83.146.225)
My high points: The 3 women comedians at the start did a smart funny pitch perfect routine. Free Solo winning best doc and Alex up on stage. I doubt anyone can watch his superhuman, borderline insane, .......
147: Films/DVD Asylum, This was a big favorite of mine... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-02-17, 13:16:24 (75.83.146.225)
I remember seeing it when it came out and then going to see it again in a theater...a rare event but wanted to see it again after information revealed at the end changed perspective. I won't say much .......
148: Films/DVD Asylum, Have not seen Vice, Bohemian Rhapsody, or Green Book... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-02-16, 20:54:54 (75.83.146.225)
Out of the 5 others, I thought A Star is Born is not my cup of tea, although I know people who love it, and Black Panther is well made, but still comic book superheroes. Blackkklansman was surprisingl .......
149: Films/DVD Asylum, not yet (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-02-14, 10:48:02 (75.83.146.225)
For now only in theaters so unless you are in a bigger city, probably not playing. I'm sure it will be on amazon, as their name is on it, Just looked into it. Amazon prime availability on March 21. :: .......
150: Films/DVD Asylum, Cold War (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-02-13, 10:45:24 (75.83.146.225)
This is currently playing in theaters. The director is nominated for best director Oscar and the film for best foreign film. IMO, this is one of the best movies of last year. It is set in Poland and P .......
151: General Asylum, Great to see Kacey Musgraves win the big one... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-02-11, 20:12:16 (75.83.146.225)
I watch the Grammys every year, more out of long habit than actual enthusiasm. It's a long slog for a few high points. For me, one high point was the first performance (after the big Havana number), w .......
152: Films/DVD Asylum, Fully into it (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-02-05, 14:51:58 (75.83.146.225)
5 episodes in and probably wil finish tonight. It's not bloated, episodes only 24 minutes. It goes quickly and keeps me interested in this odd mystery. Sort of like a long twilight zone but full of sh .......
153: Films/DVD Asylum, One of my favorite movies of last year and director's commentary... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-01-19, 14:01:45 (75.83.146.225)
On the Blu-ray is not to be missed. Paul schrader has long wanted to try his hand at what he calls the transcendental style. He cited elements of Bresson, Bergman, and Dreyer, along with some of his o .......
154: Films/DVD Asylum, Seems like a remake of season 1 but thats ok... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-01-17, 09:43:23 (75.83.146.225)
I thought season 2 was really bad, verging on self parody and worst of all a bore that I only finished out of some sort of ocd. I was done with the show, But reviews of season 3 brought me cautiously .......
155: Films/DVD Asylum, Of course not (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-01-05, 21:33:04 (75.83.146.225)
Can you imagine the liability if they show the actual things and the entire viewing audience dies or goes insane? .......
156: Films/DVD Asylum, It is ok (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2019-01-04, 21:40:45 (75.83.146.225)
Some sort of strange beings cause people to become deadly to themself or others when they are viewed with the eyes. So people can safely go outside only with blindfolds. Of course this leads to many t .......
157: Films/DVD Asylum, A long time ago i wrote a mini review of the first season here.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-12-23, 13:58:41 (75.83.146.225)
But it attracted little interest so I did not mention the recent season 2. In short, season 2 is a continuation of season 1 so you need to watch season 1 to know what is going on in season 2. In seaso .......
158: Films/DVD Asylum, pretty bad (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-12-05, 13:50:09 (75.83.146.225)
Eight Grade at 7, First Reformed not on list at all. Nonsensical. Two New York Times critics put out lists today that are much meatier. .......
159: Films/DVD Asylum, I signed up too but.... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-11-30, 06:37:04 (75.83.146.225)
I cannot but think this is a step back. Same price for half the content. Well it was great while it lasted. My last filmstruck movie was In the Mood for Love, very fine to go out on. I started the com .......
160: Films/DVD Asylum, Documentary Deceptive Practice... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-11-26, 14:59:13 (75.83.146.225)
Came out a few years ago and it is a fantastic look at his life in magic. He was a true historian of entertainers at their most odd and extreme, as recounted in his book I bought decades ago, Learned .......
161: Films/DVD Asylum, I don't get it either... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-10-30, 22:45:11 (75.83.146.225)
I am not privy to at and t financials. I'm sure they want a Netflix with millions, probably tens of millions of paying subscribers and with filmstruck, they probably have thousands. Whether they make .......
162: Films/DVD Asylum, Filmstruck is shutting down Nov 29 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-10-26, 09:15:58 (75.83.146.225)
Just got the email this morning. Watched Dial M for Murder there last night...minor Hitchcock, but I'd never seen it. I made may discoveries there and saw things I'd known about but never actually had .......
163: Films/DVD Asylum, I did (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-10-09, 22:57:16 (75.83.146.225)
And I am enjoying it more all the time. I've had it about 9 months now. As I'm sure you know, they have expanded to include some classic hollywood like musicals. But in any case there is always someth .......
164: Films/DVD Asylum, I get where you are coming from... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-10-07, 11:43:43 (75.83.146.225)
You say rambling and disjointed, I said messy, yes all of that. And it took a while for me to finish, it did not draw me in episode to episode and I also thought about just giving up. But the episodes .......
165: Films/DVD Asylum, Maniac series on Netflix (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-10-07, 10:54:12 (75.83.146.225)
Ten part series with stars Jonah Hill and Emma Stone, along with others like Sally Field. Made by the guy who made the first season True Detective. This one is hard to summarize and I avoid spoilers. .......
166: Films/DVD Asylum, I finally saw Solaris... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-08-31, 14:10:20 (75.83.146.225)
On video and watched it and also watched it again with the excellent commentary track. It is a fine movie by a great director, yet I still like 2001 much more. When I first saw 2001, I did not appreci .......
167: General Asylum, Never ever discount youtube (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-07-19, 17:50:36 (75.83.146.225)
View YouTube Video .......
168: General Asylum, I know this is true for most.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-06-17, 11:14:34 (75.83.146.225)
But not for all. I still get the same thrill of discovery of new music that I got when i was a teen. I still explore the magazines, Mojo, The Wire, to name two. I know many old people who disparage wh .......
169: General Asylum, what an extraordinary reaction... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-06-06, 16:31:34 (75.83.146.225)
to someone else's enjoyment. I also attended the show and found it like any other except about 1/4 the size. There was the good, the mediocre, the bad, and the snake oil, just less of each. I am glad .......
170: General Asylum, I thought it was an OK mini show (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-06-03, 17:48:04 (75.83.146.225)
There was the good and the bad. A few things I found worthwhile: -the room with the VPI Prime Signature. They turned the lights out during each song, and stressed that only one seat in the room was go .......
171: General Asylum, RE: How Big Was the Show..... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-06-02, 06:22:30 (75.83.146.225)
Small. I counted somewhere around 30 rooms. Planned for 2 days but 1 was enough to visit all rooms and revisit the favorites. .......
172: General Asylum, RE: Actually, about 30 "primary" exhibitors so I expect that is the total room + booths (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-05-16, 21:03:18 (75.83.146.225)
I will see what is there on the first day. I'm not committing to all 3 days unless I see lots of rooms to explore. .......
173: General Asylum, RE: What happened to the DVD-A High-Rez forum? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-05-16, 21:00:52 (75.83.146.225)
Here is what I found. If you do a search from hirez forum it says you are in digital-sacd. There is another forum in the search options called digital-dvda. And this works, you can search for posts wh .......
174: General Asylum, Middius (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-05-09, 12:59:47 (75.83.146.225)
Kind of blows me away, his last post is May 4, 2018. Still at it. BTW, a quick look around and this forum does not seem to have anything to do with audio anymore. .......
175: General Asylum, Wow this takes me way back... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-05-08, 20:30:48 (75.83.146.225)
Before world wide web, I checked out usenet and the group rec.audio.opinion. This was my first introduction to the wild arguments that people loved to have online, complete with personal insults and e .......
176: Films/DVD Asylum, I am and it's ok (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-05-06, 10:09:04 (75.83.146.225)
It has some laughs like the very metrosexual Chechen criminal. All in all it's well written and lots of surprising twists but the acid test of s comedy is laughs. There are laugh out loud moments in v .......
177: General Asylum, This is a good clarification of a mysterious situation... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-05-04, 18:58:59 (75.83.146.225)
the email communicated the cancellation, a lot of deep seated personal pain, and nothing else. With its heavy religious orientation, it was bizarre and then there was the reference to Kendrick Lamar w .......
178: Films/DVD Asylum, I rewatched it a few weeks back... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-04-27, 18:44:31 (75.83.146.225)
I saw it when it came out and I remember it as one of the best comic book movies, which I generally find kind of boring. So I watched a bluray because it's been a long time. I think it's OK. Heath Led .......
179: Films/DVD Asylum, Trust is a great example... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-04-20, 09:33:09 (75.83.146.225)
I saw All the Money in the World when it came out last Christmas. Pretty interesting, pretty well done. I wondered if I needed to watch Trust when I already knew the story. But Trust is remarkable. Da .......
180: General Asylum, Totally confused now (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-04-16, 18:01:48 (75.83.146.225)
Two years ago was a fine 3 days in Irvine, the usual exhibitors, some of whom I've known for some time. Last year I managed a day near LAX, a lot less convenient for me, and it was OK, seemed a bit sm .......
181: Films/DVD Asylum, if you watch veep you know what to expect (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-04-01, 17:12:09 (75.83.146.225)
Veep on hbo is viciously satirical and all politicians are driven by base instincts of sex power fame and money. It is also rapid fire one liners, fast comic timing, and imho one of the best ever tv c .......
182: Music Lane, I'm a stay gettin money (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-29, 18:56:38 (75.83.146.225)
View YouTube Video .......
183: Music Lane, who ever would've thunk... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-29, 18:48:08 (75.83.146.225)
this guy would be on Taylor Swift's newest big hit. .......
184: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: No, I don't! (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-26, 12:47:37 (75.83.146.225)
I paid 100 dollars for a year, this includes the Criterion channel. In terms of foreign movies, that is more or less their calling card. Best to look at the link I enclosed and check out the list. ::: .......
185: Films/DVD Asylum, do you know about filmstruck? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-26, 09:26:28 (75.83.146.225)
Netflix is OK, but I am more and more enjoying filmstruck streaming. Here is a list from another website of their current selection (this list is updated as their titles change). .......
186: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: the cult needs jobs (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-22, 10:28:29 (75.83.146.225)
I recommended this series to a friend and she asked me where they got so much money. The 17 or 19 Rolls Royces are nothing compared to the obvious massive amount to build a city from scratch. I could .......
187: Films/DVD Asylum, Great (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-20, 18:11:08 (75.83.146.225)
Finished it yesterday. Reminded me a little of The Jinx doc on Robert Durst, in that the story twisted in most unpredictable ways. Really enjoyed learning about this strange slice of history. ::: TOPI .......
188: Films/DVD Asylum, Sneaky Pete season 2 on amazon (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-14, 09:29:14 (75.83.146.225)
A little over a year ago, the first season showed up. The set-up was a released convict named Marius, a con man in danger, who decided to pretend to be his prison cellmate, Pete. He showed up at Pete' .......
189: Films/DVD Asylum, yes, except for the sex... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-06, 13:12:32 (75.83.146.225)
I would recommend the unrated version, for the full detailed view of the proceedings. .......
190: Films/DVD Asylum, yes pretty dull and predictable... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-05, 18:18:08 (75.83.146.225)
I watch it out of long habit, and though I love movies, many of my favorite movies are not ever noticed by the Academy. I have listened to Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell countless times, and it is .......
191: Films/DVD Asylum, Unfilmable,,, (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-03-03, 10:49:12 (75.83.146.225)
I read the novel recently. I have no idea how this subjective interior account by the biologist can become a movie...i will give it a go, especially if vandermeer himself worked on the screenplay, but .......
192: Music Lane, RE: This brought back an AA memory... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-02-23, 14:26:33 (75.83.146.225)
As you recommended I ordered filosofem. So I know I listened to it at the time, but I get lots and lots of music and it is in some stack of CDs somewhere and I have long forgotten what it sounded like .......
193: Music Lane, This brought back an AA memory... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-02-22, 14:43:36 (75.83.146.225)
I remembered discussing black metal here a few years ago, and buying a Burzum CD at that time. I looked it up- you were also involved in that discussion. Here is the kicker- it was very close to 17 ye .......
194: Films/DVD Asylum, The Square - Swedish entrant for Academy Award (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-02-20, 12:40:23 (75.83.146.225)
Since "Body and Soul" is reviewed below, I thought I'd briefly discuss one of the other nominees in Foreign category. This is a sprawling 2 1/2 hour movie centering around the busy life of the manager .......
195: Films/DVD Asylum, I did read your political rant on this movie below.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-01-31, 19:24:25 (75.83.146.225)
Sorry for enjoying the movie. I guess that makes me an evil liberal or something. .......
196: Films/DVD Asylum, It is clearly based partly on that movie... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-01-31, 16:52:39 (75.83.146.225)
and I think the director even said that. As in Pacific Rim, he is not adverse to taking very old monster movies and recasting them. In this case, there are also elements of cold war spy movies, and of .......
197: General Asylum, RE: Grammies (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-01-29, 23:13:09 (75.83.146.225)
I always watch the Grammies. It's an old habit. What's more I listen in the car mostly to pop radio so I know all these artists and songs. Seems like most people here have complete contempt for pop mu .......
198: Films/DVD Asylum, I liked it... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-01-29, 09:34:37 (75.83.146.225)
I used to love National Lampoon back in the day. I have no idea how truthful this biopic is, but that's not the point anyway. It's a highly entertaining look at the behind the scenes. Quick note: ther .......
199: General Asylum, really sad (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-01-26, 18:43:55 (75.83.146.225)
I got the first album Live at the Witch Trials those many years ago. Who ever could've known that this one punk band among so many would be putting out music regularly for 40 years. I made no effort t .......
200: General Asylum, RE: Why is Modern Pop Music so Terrible? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-01-13, 22:47:35 (75.83.146.225)
I reject the thesis. I read monthly magazines Mojo, Uncut and The Wire (classical mags too but that's not relevant). I also check out reviews in The Guardian and other papers and check out a few websi .......
201: Rocky Road, Cattle in the Cane (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2018-01-13, 22:31:15 (75.83.146.225)
I was a huge fan of his early albums. My favorite pure hot guitar song from Home in Sulfur Springs is this one. Clean and fast. .......
202: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Mother... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-12-27, 12:39:23 (98.100.96.3)
My niece told me it was the worst movie ever. I waited until I could see it at home. I kind of loved it. There are laugh out loud moments, which is pretty rare. It is audacious and crazy and the only .......
203: Films/DVD Asylum, Terrific.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-12-26, 09:44:39 (12.16.176.34)
I have had big screen withdrawal and with the holiday I finally made it back. This was a wild mashup of classic 60s monster movie, Cold War thriller and love story. I could not have expected such a co .......
204: Films/DVD Asylum, Yes everything... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-12-22, 14:23:43 (75.83.146.225)
I went for a year for $100 that gives you both. They make it hard to do a count, but I just looked at Browse All under Criterion and there are actually quite a lot. I counted over 120 just starting wi .......
205: Films/DVD Asylum, Filmstruck streaming (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-12-22, 12:10:53 (75.83.146.225)
I have used both netflix and amazon prime, and I like the idea of streaming. Sometime earlier this year I read about filmstruck, the movie streaming service for "serious" film fans. It is apparently a .......
206: Critic's Corner, This is deeply saddening.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-11-29, 13:59:54 (75.83.146.225)
I always opened and read Charles' many posts. As a manufacturer of very fine products, I gave much weight to his opinions on this passion of reproduced music that we share. I will miss his voice very .......
207: General Asylum, RE: My Internet is my biggest bargain (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-11-23, 21:56:50 (75.83.146.225)
You write "But, Net Neutrality doesn't have anything to do with the ISP limiting data plans or increasing their rates." The problem is net neutrality is a term without a real definition, and I believe .......
208: General Asylum, My Internet is my biggest bargain (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-11-23, 11:42:52 (75.83.146.225)
Considering the usage I get from it, considering that almost all media comes through it, I have a cheap monthly price and no data limit. It is worth a lot to me and I'm sure my provider is chomping a .......
209: Rocky Road, Spokesmen Dawn of Correction (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-11-23, 10:43:01 (75.83.146.225)
The answer song to Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction. Don't forget the work of the United Nations! .......
210: Critic's Corner, They have already lost much relevance... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-11-21, 10:52:06 (75.83.146.225)
Since MP3 and Napster and all the descendants, music has become devalued financially. My own inexact analogy is that of people who had to buy bottled water, then got water taps installed in their hous .......
211: Films/DVD Asylum, Jim and Andy on netflix- making Man on the Moon (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-11-18, 16:14:29 (75.83.146.225)
Twenty some years ago I saw Man on the Moon, the biopic of Andy Kaufman. I remember liking it, but I've never thought much more about it. I was always a pretty big fan of Andy Kaufman's weird non-joke .......
212: Critic's Corner, Are there any publicly available MQA files? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-11-16, 20:56:18 (75.83.146.225)
MQA seems to have taken over this forum. In my simplistic understanding, there are two separable pieces to it. The first is a lossy compression that squeezes high bit rate PCM into lower bit rate PCM. .......
213: Films/DVD Asylum, Dont get your hopes up.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-10-21, 12:11:09 (75.83.146.225)
I am a big Nesbo fan...I've read all his mystery books over the years. So I was curious to see how Harry Hole would come to cinema. Well, I read 2 reviews, NY Times and LA Times and I heard 2 reviewer .......
214: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: A Ghost Story - the critics rave (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-10-06, 17:15:29 (75.83.146.225)
I thought I would provide a bit more detail. I saw this with absolutely no expectation, just a dim memory of a good review in the LA Times. So as it started, I was thinking it was some sort of version .......
215: Films/DVD Asylum, I liked it more than you to say the least (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-07-25, 13:43:56 (75.83.146.225)
I find Nolan to be inconsistent. I liked his first dark knight. I thought interstellar was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I thought his was a visceral and tightly constructed war movie. Yes, .......
216: Films/DVD Asylum, starts as sort of a musical, ends as something else (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-07-06, 14:49:42 (75.83.146.225)
As this director has done before, movie genres are indeed mashed up. What I thought was very clever was the beginning where a bank heist and a Fast and Furious car chase were choreographed to Jon Spen .......
217: Rocky Road, RE: Primitive...covered (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-07-05, 19:29:18 (75.83.146.225)
R.I.P. Lux Interior View YouTube Video .......
218: General Asylum, Wonder how it will go (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-06-06, 06:23:16 (75.83.146.225)
I went up to la for one day. Saw many of the same exhibitors as were in oc show. Apparently after the death of the man who put that on, 2 successors went in different directions. The exhibitors were g .......
219: Computer Audio Asylum, I was a google fanboy too (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-06-04, 17:00:30 (75.83.146.225)
But google failed me. One thing you don't think about when you spend lots of money on a new toy is what if it breaks. So I had the original nexus 7 and loved it. It broke, specifically the google boo .......
220: Computer Audio Asylum, I am in the odd position of defending ipad (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-06-04, 16:34:20 (75.83.146.225)
Odd because I hated this aspect of iOS from my first day using it. As a media device, I load the iPad with audio, video, books, pictures, which are all files. This is so trivial on android. On iOS, I .......
221: Computer Audio Asylum, I almost returned the iPad Pro for that reason... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-06-02, 22:10:58 (75.83.146.225)
A year ago I jumped into the Apple iOS world and I was horrified for the exact same reason you give. No user access to the file system. It took some time but I worked around it. The app called transfe .......
222: Films/DVD Asylum, it's on my list but... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-05-22, 19:10:47 (75.83.146.225)
I really wanted to see it in 3D. These people made Coraline, which I thought was one of the best 3D movies I've ever seen (along with Avatar on IMAX). Don't know how excited I am about the movie itsel .......
223: Critic's Corner, a different question... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-05-22, 19:03:59 (75.83.146.225)
Thanks for your clear explanation. I understand that the folding of high bit-rate files into lower bit-rate files is but one aspect of MQA- and it is not the one that interests me that much, because, .......
224: General Asylum, great question and timely.... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-05-22, 18:54:28 (75.83.146.225)
If those guys are reading, I really appreciated the fun times in their room the last 2 years at Orange County show. Light show and absinthe and good company and good music. LA show is just over a week .......
225: Music Lane, I've always enjoyed what's new... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-05-21, 10:56:04 (75.83.146.225)
And I know I'm a small minority. Most of my friends consider the music of their teenage years to be the absolute peak of all music. Well when I was a small kid I remember listening to a British Invasi .......
226: Rocky Road, RE: Today would have been Larry Roger's birthday (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-05-18, 20:15:54 (75.83.146.225)
It's such a strange thing. I interacted with a person through typed words, yet came to know more about him than many people I' know in real life. We shared a love for folky Celtic music. I'm sure he w .......
227: Rocky Road, RE: XTC, "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-05-18, 20:08:43 (75.83.146.225)
Nonsuch is about my 3rd favorite after Skylarking and Oranges and Lemons. But all their albums are good. I don't know if I ever heard this particular song on the radio, but I listened to their albums .......
228: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Really basic question about downloading cds onto computer. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-05-09, 19:00:03 (75.83.146.225)
Here is something you should know. If you use windows you will use eac. This program has a significant amount of configuration to do perfect rips. Make sure you set it up right. See link. Macs use xld .......
229: Computer Audio Asylum, what upload does it provide? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-04-28, 14:02:40 (75.83.146.225)
If I had the chance I'd do it too. There is never too much speed. A Gbyte in just over a minute seems pretty negligible, but a few seconds would be even better. .......
230: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: So, what do I have ????......................... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-04-27, 18:44:30 (75.83.146.225)
The kind of standard these days for big city cable connections is guaranteed 100 Mb per second download. I have that and it gives me solid 110 Mb per second consistently and I am pretty sure that's wh .......
231: Rocky Road, RE: albums (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-04-25, 20:36:30 (75.83.146.225)
Yes I checked you're right even though Television started in 74 their album did not come out until 77. A few years ago, I read the very interesting memoir of Richard Hell about starting the band with .......
232: Rocky Road, albums (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-04-24, 19:37:03 (75.83.146.225)
Did not listen to individual songs in those days. Television Marquee Moon Ramones Rocket to Russia (or any of their first 4) Fairport Convention Liege and Lief Roxy Music Siren (or again any of their .......
233: Inmate Central, Deepest condolences (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-04-02, 13:05:31 (75.83.146.225)
I've lost so many loved pets. It is so hard. A very bad part of life. She was a very lucky kitty. I'm sorry. .......
234: Rocky Road, RE: Thanks - But (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-03-13, 22:35:44 (75.83.146.225)
I am not sure exactly what you are looking for but YouTube has most everything. Here is a mix of about 1300 complete albums from that era. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVcWM0lqXE4XB2CPdNnF36 .......
235: Rocky Road, Lots of interesting things going on in the early 70s (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-03-12, 22:09:26 (75.83.146.225)
In popular music. Some names that mattered: New York Dolls, Can, Stooges, Ramones, Tom Waits, Television, Kraftwerk, Fairport Convention, David Bowie, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Leonard Cohen. I would advi .......
236: Films/DVD Asylum, Patriot on Amazon streaming- and now for something completely different (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-03-07, 16:52:20 (75.83.146.225)
The reference in my title is to Monty Python. And while this series is very different, it does share one common characteristic- silliness. This show is not afraid to get very silly. So it's ostensibly .......
237: Films/DVD Asylum, I feel bad for Beatty and dunaway (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-02-26, 22:04:06 (75.83.146.225)
As he briefly stated, the envelope had the best actress name and picture, Emma Stone and Lala Land. He was confused, handed the card to dunaway and she read the picture. They got the wrong card. And n .......
238: Films/DVD Asylum, 93 percent on rotten tomatoes (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-02-20, 13:32:52 (75.83.146.225)
So a bunch of critics like it. I liked it and so did the people I saw it with for whatever that's worth. I've seen 5 of the 9 best picture nominees and I'd put it up with Moonlight as easily outclassi .......
239: Films/DVD Asylum, i have a very mixed response (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-02-11, 10:23:56 (75.83.146.225)
It is very arty and a bit complex. I like that. What with flashbacks and hallucinations, this viewer struggled a bit keeping track of what is going on, but I like to work a little. On the other hand t .......
240: Films/DVD Asylum, Sneaky Pete on Amazon- successor to Breaking Bad (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-01-25, 10:22:00 (75.83.146.225)
I watched Breaking Bad in one long binge a couple years ago. It is one of my favorite TV series of all time. Better Call Saul is fine, but it is a lot lighter in tone and has not really settled into a .......
241: Films/DVD Asylum, I read he financed this himself for 9 million and it pulled 40 million first weekend (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-01-23, 21:03:39 (75.83.146.225)
so one hit makes up for lots of flops. .......
242: Films/DVD Asylum, I was drawn in by the review... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-01-23, 20:56:28 (75.83.146.225)
My local reviewer wrote that this was a surprising return to form, that he managed to pull off another surprise ending that recontextualizes the whole story, and that, in these social media days, you .......
243: Films/DVD Asylum, Saw it with low expectations, loved it... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-01-14, 21:09:41 (75.83.146.225)
So it got a lot of critical buzz, but I heard a critic I like say the leads have no chemistry, cannot sing or dance and the songs are forgettable. My experience was quite different. The songs are quit .......
244: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Would Google Chrome show a full page demand to upgrade now? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-01-10, 21:38:37 (75.83.146.225)
So I found a site that describes what you probably saw. I would not blame this on chrome or on your computer, it is an advertisement, but a deceptive one that is trying to get a naive user to install .......
245: Films/DVD Asylum, I am so very sad to read this (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-01-05, 10:39:33 (75.83.146.225)
I return from vacation so I am late to this news. I was active on the sacd forum here after I got a player back in 2000. Patrick was always a genial and friendly voice and we interacted many times. Th .......
246: Films/DVD Asylum, I thought it was pretty bad (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2017-01-05, 10:32:54 (75.83.146.225)
I am a big fan of U.K. Apprentice with lord sugar. I gave up on u.s. Apprentice quite a while ago and I think Arnold is even worse than trump. U.K. version has real business oriented tasks involving c .......
247: Films/DVD Asylum, Very much liking it... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-11-21, 17:39:00 (47.137.206.2)
I don't keep track of such stuff but I read that HBO is desperate to find a replacement for Game of Thrones which will end soon. So this is a big budget production with a major cast...and apparently i .......
248: General Asylum, RE: less news = more music (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-11-21, 14:17:24 (47.137.206.2)
I'm with you. I found this a crazy interesting election season. I was compulsively looking at various points of view and the 538 blog. Now it's over and there are only going to be more huge arguments .......
249: General Asylum, RE: What.cd is dead (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-11-21, 08:58:24 (47.137.206.2)
Another. .......
250: Hi-Rez Highway, Has anyone bought an SACD player recently? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-11-16, 17:41:41 (47.137.206.2)
So I have the original Sony SCD-1, but it bit the dust a couple of years ago. I can play CDs on another player, but my SACD collection goes unplayed. I've moved on, as has the world, and most of my mu .......
251: Films/DVD Asylum, it was a Bollywod style extravaganza at the end... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-11-15, 08:42:44 (47.137.206.2)
As you know, they were attempting to communicate with aliens. Well, finally, they discovered that music is the universal language. So, of course, they turned to the greatest music known throughout the .......
252: Films/DVD Asylum, Liked the first two seasons (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-11-06, 15:17:49 (47.137.206.2)
But this one did not grab me at all. Slowness of pace is fine but this was glacial. i found the ending, no spoilers here,but it was just kind of convenient. I thought it was all a bit of a slog withou .......
253: Films/DVD Asylum, American Honey (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-10-20, 10:17:54 (47.137.206.2)
I really liked Fish Tank, an earlier work from this director. This one has a big similarity, in that it follows a fairly lost teenage girl from an impoverished environment. The earlier movie is in a B .......
254: Films/DVD Asylum, No easy answers, I liked that... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-09-15, 20:08:02 (47.137.206.2)
There is ambiguity all the way through and ambiguity left at the end. There are heroic and villainous qualities in all the main characters. Although one is left with a sort of answer at the end, this .......
255: General Asylum, deeply sad... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-08-24, 10:04:09 (71.165.66.119)
I joined AA in summer of 2000. That's (gulp) 16 years ago. My own postings have dropped to almost nothing long ago, but I've always kept on following the conversations. LWR was a big huge presence, a .......
256: Films/DVD Asylum, Minor effort enjoyable enough (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-08-17, 18:43:18 (71.165.66.119)
to sit through but kind of by the numbers woody. He hits every one of his usual marks but rather half heartedly and done much better in other movies. New York City as the best place? Check but see Man .......
257: Computer Audio Asylum, Tablets (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-08-17, 18:30:52 (71.165.66.119)
If you just want a tablet to control a player you can get the cheapest iPad or any cheap android. Or just use a smart phone. I've had quite a few tablets. The iPad Pro 9.7 currently leads the pack for .......
258: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Really enjoying this.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-07-31, 15:07:31 (71.165.66.119)
I watched all of Boardwalk Empire. And until now, I never realized that was the same actor from The Wire. Shows how observant I am. I guess I read an article cluing me in that it was him on this show. .......
259: Films/DVD Asylum, Really enjoying this.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-07-31, 14:21:21 (71.165.66.119)
So i read reviews and one of them said this was HBO atoning for season 2 of true detective. In any case, it is deeply involving. in one sense, it is a murder mystery, like a million others that come o .......
260: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Chord Mojo - anybody? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-07-29, 14:13:15 (71.165.66.119)
I'm not sure how much this will help you but I have one that I use to drive headphones primarily audeze lcd2s. And I just love what it does with those. I have not used this with speakers, I use the mi .......
261: General Asylum, random thoughts on Newport Beach T.H.E Show (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-06-06, 19:02:55 (71.165.66.119)
I've come to really enjoy this annual tradition. I went to all 3 days, going slowly room to room, lots of talking, and still never made it to 1/2 of the 10th floor. For one reason or another, I found .......
262: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: FLAC replay on portable device (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-06-01, 21:36:30 (71.165.66.119)
I have played a lot with flac on mobile devices. For Android, I did settle on Poweramp. In my trials 4 years ago, it was the only player that handled gapless flac audio without audible gaps. So I boug .......
263: Rocky Road, to be fair it's always been loud (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-05-04, 14:37:57 (71.165.66.119)
even Neil Young has played some loud concerts along with some acoustic guitar sets. It's too loud for me now. I wish I'd been smarter in the past. It was too loud then too. .......
264: Films/DVD Asylum, That seems somewhat arguable... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-04-25, 18:42:59 (71.165.66.119)
It is of course like saying someone is the best singer or the best painter...individual taste seems a big part of such a judgment. I love many of Hitchcock's great movies, but not all of them were gre .......
265: Computer Audio Asylum, if you want to stop all nags get GWX control panel.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-03-14, 13:07:38 (71.165.66.119)
the free program and its associated blog are the best, easiest method I have found to stomp out all traces of unwanted updated. When I saw Windows 10 as an optional update, conveniently checked for in .......
266: Computer Audio Asylum, In my limited experience, I would not get it yet... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-03-12, 20:03:58 (71.165.66.119)
I got Windows 7 on a computer just one year ago. It was already replaced at that time, but anyway I've been very happy with it. So I just got a chance to play with Windows 10. A friend of mine got a D .......
267: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: foobar2000 does (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-03-05, 20:04:53 (71.165.66.119)
In terms of rippers, you will not do better than EAC on Windows and XLD on the Mac. To do a perfect rip, you need to thoroughly and correctly set up the program (as in the linked guide). If you do thi .......
268: Computer Audio Asylum, foobar2000 does (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-03-04, 18:55:27 (71.165.66.119)
There is a foobar2000 controller that works on my Android phone and tablets and it makes life super convenient. I like vlc but foobar2000 is what most people seem to use for free windows music playbac .......
269: Computer Audio Asylum, Thanks for your response, but then... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-03-03, 09:57:04 (71.165.66.119)
given that in the scheme you elucidate, there must be DRM implementation on the playback side, what do you see as the point of this alleged watermarking? Certainly, if Apple watermarked an itunes file .......
270: Computer Audio Asylum, I am not sure this would accomplish anything (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-03-02, 18:22:34 (71.165.66.119)
I am not an expert but it seems to me a watermark would be used to identify a "pirate.". The only way this makes sense to me is to provide a personal code to every subscriber. With a CD nobody keeps t .......
271: Rocky Road, Heron Oblivion came out like last week... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-02-25, 10:20:49 (71.165.66.119)
and I'd listen to it way before any of the 5 on your "best of" the last 36 years. I'm not saying it's "better" but....if you really care about what is out there in new music, it's not so hard to find. .......
272: Rocky Road, I watched them in real time... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-02-17, 13:02:06 (71.165.66.119)
and I always have and always do, for as long as I remember. The Grammys represent only the tiniest sliver of music. These are almost all the ultra-successful, top 10 hitmakers. With a few exceptions h .......
273: Computer Audio Asylum, not exactly, according to the book... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-02-10, 10:39:07 (71.165.66.119)
the heavy lifting was done by Karlheinz Brandenburg, while at Fraunhofer Institute. This being month after month of listening tests using wide varieties of program material, narrowing down the various .......
274: Computer Audio Asylum, Some thoughts on MQA and mp3... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-02-09, 16:49:32 (71.165.66.119)
based on reading the recent book How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt. It is a fascinating book. Back in the prehistoric days of the early 90s, a CD might take an hour to stream (still does on my DSL), .......
275: Rocky Road, I was so totally anti Saturday Night Fever at the time... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-02-04, 10:14:59 (71.165.66.119)
and it was played at every party and every bar all the time...but still all these years later, I've gotta admit, every time I hear Stayin' Alive, I enjoy it and I see the young agile John Travolta and .......
276: Films/DVD Asylum, you should label you post with spoilers since you give away a big plot point (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-02-01, 10:37:03 (71.165.66.119)
But as to your opinion, I pretty much agree. I think that if I saw this completely cold, not knowing anything about it, there might have been a horror in figuring out what was happening. But since I d .......
277: Rocky Road, a long long time ago... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-01-28, 20:57:37 (71.165.66.119)
I listened to my college radio station and liked a show that played mostly ECM type of jazz. The DJ said here's something not like what I usually play...and he played Showroom Dummies by Kraftwerk. I .......
278: Films/DVD Asylum, Baskets new comedy series on FX (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-01-23, 20:00:01 (71.165.66.119)
All I knew about this is that Louis CK is involved. Well, it is weirdly wonderful. Zach Galifianakis, known to me only for his role in Hangover, plays a wannabe clown in a French clown school. Not ab .......
279: Films/DVD Asylum, I thought it was fascinating... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-01-17, 11:58:45 (71.165.66.119)
the two leads are called to communicate non-verbally most of the time. There is always an element of this in the craft of acting, but here the words are few, while the postures, gestures and expressio .......
280: Films/DVD Asylum, there's a lot to like... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-01-15, 10:38:09 (71.165.66.119)
it's pretty amazing in terms outdoor winter scenery. The action is choreographed with beauty and there is a lot of very violent action. If you take the story literally, it requires huge suspension of .......
281: Films/DVD Asylum, I've seen all the BP noms except for Room... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-01-15, 10:29:31 (71.165.66.119)
of course as it opens wider due to the publicity I will catch that. But out of the others, the one I most enjoyed, the one that moved me the most, is Brooklyn. There are positive things to be said abo .......
282: Rocky Road, David Bowie R.I.P. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2016-01-10, 23:20:17 (71.165.66.119)
News breaking. Death from cancer at age 69. In the early 70s one of my college friends introduced me to Hunky Dory. Then Ziggy Stardust came out and I played it for months. The Ziggy Stardust tour pla .......
283: Rocky Road, also ranked number 1 in Uncut... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-12-20, 10:49:14 (71.165.66.119)
number 2 in Q, and generally pretty high up in a bunch of year end lists. See link for many such lists. So what does this mean? Well, for me, at least, there is a flood of music coming out and I often .......
284: Films/DVD Asylum, a mistake IMO (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-12-05, 14:30:31 (71.165.66.119)
I really enjoyed season 1. It had some interesting characters, an interesting setting, and an atmosphere of deep secrets. I thought Matthew M.'s dialogue was also well done, although I could understan .......
285: Inmate Central, RE: Here you go ... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-15, 22:14:29 (71.165.66.119)
Just a very quick partial response. There is a community who takes accurate ripping of CDs very seriously. There are specific settings to do close to perfect ripping using eac on windows and xld on Ma .......
286: Inmate Central, see my answer above- it also got the toolbar icon off (NT) (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-15, 14:51:25 (71.165.66.119)
NT .......
287: Inmate Central, Here is how I got it back to normal (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-15, 14:50:23 (71.165.66.119)
There are apparently several updates that have been installed that "prepare" a computer for Windows 10. The only one I found on my list was KB3035583. I uninstalled it, but somehow it showed up on the .......
288: Inmate Central, I like linux and I have used it but... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-14, 19:52:44 (71.165.66.119)
Windows 7 is a sweet spot for me in terms of programs I like. Just for music, I can mention foobar2000 and EAC, neither or which has a Linux equivalent which I consider to be as nice. With foobar2000, .......
289: Inmate Central, If you don't want Windows 10 be careful with the updates (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-14, 16:10:25 (71.165.66.119)
So it's Tuesday and I checked my Windows Updates. I've set it for manual install, not automatic install. When I started off the process, I noticed there was 1 optional update included. Odd, I must hav .......
290: Films/DVD Asylum, The Walk (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-08, 16:12:39 (71.165.66.119)
I'm a big fan of Man on Wire. I have it on DVD and have watched it several times. The story of Phillippe Petit's crazy scheme to rig a wire between the World Trade Center twin towers, the actual carry .......
291: Isolation Ward, RE: The Double-Slit experiment (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-08, 15:54:37 (71.165.66.119)
Certainly coherence is a wave phenomena. Light certainly acts as a wave and was long visualized as a purely wave phenomena. The interaction of light with photosensitive metals led to a puzzle, the pho .......
292: Isolation Ward, RE: The Double-Slit experiment (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-08, 09:22:01 (71.165.66.119)
Well I know about quantum confinement and coherent light. This light exhibits quantization into photons which is the "particle" part of its quantum nature, just like any other light. When you state th .......
293: Isolation Ward, RE: The Double-Slit experiment (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-10-07, 14:53:41 (71.165.66.119)
Not following you. Yes photons at emitted. AFAIK these photons are exhibit the photoelectric effect as well as all the wave effects of light. This was the original effect that required a suggestion of .......
294: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: Mr Robot question . . . . (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-09-09, 17:50:43 (71.165.66.119)
I thought it was Swedish. Remember early on Elliott was hacking tyrells password and used something about Sweden. But the internet recaps of the last episode say that tyrells wife's mysterious phrase .......
295: Films/DVD Asylum, just a couple comments (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-09-05, 09:56:16 (71.165.66.119)
You did recognize White Rose as a man in the final scene after the credits I hope. This brings conspiracy against Evil Corp as a possible conspiracy by Evil Corp. Is Angela's quick ascent at Evil Corp .......
296: Inmate Central, Oliver Sacks rip (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-30, 12:01:49 (71.165.66.119)
Heard on the radio he died. Not a big surprise as he had written articles about the melanoma in his eye that was found a few months ago in his liver, leading to a terminal prognosis. I have read many .......
297: Films/DVD Asylum, it is a fine line with an unreliable narrator...spoilers (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-20, 17:53:26 (71.165.66.119)
it can lead to the Wizard of Oz ending, all just a dream. Which seemed to work for that movie, but would not in general be accepted. Well, it has been quite probable for a long time that Mr. Robot was .......
298: Isolation Ward, RE: The Double-Slit experiment (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-19, 15:12:19 (71.165.66.119)
I noticed this topic recently, as I do not hit this forum often. I know there is a long string of acrimony below, but I wanted to attempt a clear answer. The strange finding of quantum mechanics is th .......
299: General Asylum, because it's better at what it does... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-15, 17:39:25 (96.229.126.26)
I have 2 tablets and a new smart phone and I love these mobile devices. But I also have the Astell and Kern AK100, and I simply do not use the tablets or phone for music anymore. There is just no comp .......
300: Films/DVD Asylum, still my favorite show (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-15, 11:10:24 (96.229.126.26)
Last week there was a lower energy episode after the jailbreak and I thought this might be hitting a slow patch. But damn it came back stronger than ever. There is so much I like about this including .......
301: Rocky Road, Julian copes little book opened by ears (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-12, 14:44:16 (96.229.126.26)
To this world a couple of decades ago. His enthusiasm was contagious. I had to hunt down his 50 and found all but a few. The book is an expensive collectors item now. .......
302: Films/DVD Asylum, It was a tiny step up - spoiler alert (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-10, 10:14:27 (96.229.126.26)
from previous episodes, although it was still pretty bad. The murder mystery was pretty much figured out last week. This week, Ray just had to conveniently remember that the brother looked just like a .......
303: Films/DVD Asylum, that was grand (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-05, 12:47:51 (96.229.126.26)
Although I cannot help feeling like a very slow child in the face of this complexity. Can't wait for Mondays final summations. .......
304: Films/DVD Asylum, I was on board 3 episodes in as well (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-05, 12:44:46 (96.229.126.26)
but I'm off board now. And I loved series 1. I won't spoil anything but if you want to have the slightest chance of understanding all of this I would advise copious note taking. .......
305: Films/DVD Asylum, How bad is True Detective season 2? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-08-04, 20:39:07 (96.229.126.26)
There are lots of bad TV shows. But IMHO, True Detective season 2 is achieving world class awfulness. I'm talking Plan 9 from Outer Space type of awfulness, the type of show people will watch for deca .......
306: Films/DVD Asylum, another great episode (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-07-31, 12:59:08 (96.229.126.26)
I look forward to the show each Wednesday and I am yet to be even mildly let down. This was the classic dramatic device, the peril with the clock ticking, but much more going on as well. Vera spouts a .......
307: Music Lane, mad magazine flashed through my mind... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-07-27, 12:19:01 (96.229.126.26)
Ages ago, of course, they had a feature on deceptive record covers. In big letters JULIE, then in small letters smith and she comes from and then big letters LONDON. And of course there were others lo .......
308: Films/DVD Asylum, Mr. Robot at the halfway mark...favorite show this summer (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-07-27, 11:27:49 (96.229.126.26)
It was a post here that intrigued me enough to try out the USA network. I don't recall ever watching anything on that before. So my expectations were low. But wow, this has delivered big time for me. .......
309: Films/DVD Asylum, I am finding season 2 a crashing bore... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-07-20, 11:47:33 (96.229.126.26)
No big dividends for me. Just watched episode 5 this morning. So I found episode 4 extraordinarily dull, despite the action packed finale. And episode 5 is little better, although there was in fact on .......
310: Films/DVD Asylum, it's a strange one (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-07-04, 11:02:01 (96.229.126.26)
I sort of get it. The whole California noir was done to death long ago. This seems to be a valiant attempt to pay tribute to all the familiar tropes, but also to wink at the audience. Sometimes the wo .......
311: Rocky Road, well here's a good review... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-07-03, 18:28:56 (96.229.126.26)
Strangely enough, the endless GD series of concerts is completely uninteresting to me. But I did read this review and it piqued my interest- perhaps enough to eventually listen to a recording of the s .......
312: Films/DVD Asylum, it's what the movies are all about (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-05-27, 13:55:22 (96.229.126.26)
It's basically start to finish chasing. Doesn't sound like much. And yet, everything in it is first class and there is a ridiculous amount in it. All the crazy vehicles, there must be hundreds, all th .......
313: General Asylum, checked into a primary source (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-05-27, 07:56:35 (96.229.126.26)
You made some sweeping statements. I live in southern California and it does not seem to me that "live music" is very much reduced compared to the 1970s. Anyway, I can't check everything, but I though .......
314: General Asylum, music is still alive and I'm not sure the business is "destryed" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-05-26, 11:22:51 (96.229.126.26)
Seems like there is more music than ever in every genre. I know less CDs are being sold. But music seems very much alive and lotos of people seem to be making a good living. I know record company prof .......
315: Hi-Rez Highway, mine needs repair (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-01-21, 14:15:39 (71.108.129.170)
I bought it in July 2000. A few years later, it went back to Sony for the "no disk" problem. I used it quite a bit, eventually more for CDs than SACDs, but about a year or so ago, the "no disk" error .......
316: Inmate Central, RE: I have Windows 7, It is rather good IMO. (I liked XP too) (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-01-12, 18:47:42 (71.108.129.170)
I am the builder type but I have become too lazy. If I add up the price of the parts at newegg, the custom builder is only 5% more if I consider sales taxes. Since they have a good reputation I'm expe .......
317: Inmate Central, The stock market will drop... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-01-12, 16:52:15 (71.108.129.170)
eventually and inevitably. Nobody knows when and it may be double today's price when the drop comes. But drops of 30%, even 50%, have happened and will happen again. When someone predicts a 70% drop i .......
318: Inmate Central, RE: The woes of wanting a new computer/laptop whatever.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2015-01-12, 16:43:08 (71.108.129.170)
I was also waiting for Windows 10, but my desktop in in the process of failing. It's been faultless for 7 1/2 years, never even had to open the case. But it's also been heavily used and whether the ha .......
319: Inmate Central, my problem (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-11-14, 11:34:08 (71.108.129.170)
with Sheldrake has been the very loose experimentation. He is a scientist and he believes in experimentation, but I don't think he has presented any solid experimental evidence for his rather sweeping .......
320: Inmate Central, RE: Health; some good and not so good (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-11-12, 12:54:56 (71.108.129.170)
Good, sounds like you're very close to Dr. Fuhrman's ideas already. In very brief form, he wants you to eat a shitload of fresh vegetables and fruits, and a decent amount of nuts and seeds. Whole grai .......
321: Inmate Central, RE: Health; some good and not so good (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-11-12, 12:02:45 (71.108.129.170)
I am no kind of crusader. Everybody should do what they want. And there are about a million different diets out there. It sounds like you've been through the gamut, so you probably know this one. But .......
322: Critic's Corner, I first subscribed from issues 6 to 9 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-11-10, 21:05:36 (71.108.129.170)
It was the late 70s and I had shopped for my first modest stereo. Along the way, I had heard the Dahlquist DQ10 speakers in a shop where I saw the little magazine. The exotic items under review immedi .......
323: Inmate Central, thanks for the article.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-10-29, 17:32:12 (71.108.129.170)
it is in the long tradition of the New Yorker, which once had great long articles every week. Personally, I am very careful about food. But I don't pay much attention to fad diets, and gluten-free is .......
324: Films/DVD Asylum, great bbc series (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-10-19, 17:09:04 (71.108.129.170)
I watched both series through a couple of times. It's all very dry as these two celebs play strangely eccentric versions of themselves, but it is filled with wit and humor, impressions of both well-kn .......
325: Films/DVD Asylum, dark as a grave (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-08-26, 14:07:53 (71.108.134.181)
with some tiny glimpses of humor. Intelligent dialogue. Memorable characters. Stunning Irish location. And Gleason should at least be nominated for an Oscar, although I'm pretty sure he will not be. A .......
326: Inmate Central, an interesting and well written book.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-08-07, 20:26:32 (71.108.134.181)
is Farewell to Reality by Jim Baggott. His position, which was quite persuasive to me, is that there are a number of theories in physics today which are not testable and many of which may never be tes .......
327: Inmate Central, gorgeous but bittersweet (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-06-28, 20:11:22 (71.108.142.163)
I lost my beautiful orange tabby in late December to cancer. He looked very like your new cat. I hope yours turns out to be as sweet as mine. He was the best. Look up on youtube the story of a street .......
328: General Asylum, parking debacle (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-05-30, 22:04:58 (71.108.142.163)
Same here. Hilton referred me to Atrium. Atrium full. Hilton referred me to another place that had a sign "No Hilton Parking." They referred me to a parking garage down the street. They also had a sig .......
329: Films/DVD Asylum, I believe it was vocal skill... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-04-14, 09:48:01 (71.108.142.163)
I'm not sure what language it was, I think maybe Finnish. .......
330: Films/DVD Asylum, you missed the point (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-04-13, 14:56:03 (71.108.142.163)
Apparently you would suffer the fate of a working class Scot, given your apparent infatuation. And like them, you would deserve it. .......
331: Inmate Central, It is taking money from everyone... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-03-31, 15:58:33 (71.108.142.163)
If a mutual fund loses a few cents per share on a big trade during a day, then the closing price that day will be a little less because of the loss. Trade by trade, such losses seem very small, but ob .......
332: Inmate Central, RE: Anyone feel the earthquake in S.CA centered around La Habra? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-03-30, 09:56:41 (71.108.142.163)
Yes indeed. Down by the beach. It was a big rolling motion that seemed to go on for 30 seconds or longer. It was quite disorienting. As with all these things, there is a moment where you think either .......
333: Inmate Central, don't know- same boat (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-03-28, 10:09:32 (71.108.142.163)
I've been running my xp pro 24/7 since 2007. When I got it, Vista was available, but I passed and got the old OS. And it has been perfect for my needs. So I am overdue for a new computer, but I'm not .......
334: Films/DVD Asylum, Grand Budapest Hotel is not a crashing bore (NT) (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-03-17, 12:02:18 (71.108.142.163)
NT .......
335: Rocky Road, RE: Blank Realm- Review-"stoned psychedelic cloud-float echo laden sleaze rock" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-28, 18:41:10 (71.108.142.163)
Hope you enjoy it. I always hesitate to recommend music as tastes are so personal. That is why I put up yt samples. It is nice to be able to sample and pretty much everything seems to be on YouTube. : .......
336: Rocky Road, RE: Help with some album recommendations? I'm in a buying mood (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-28, 17:50:43 (71.108.142.163)
Blank Realm - these young Aussie's new album is to me a classic sort of power pop: Valerie June - Pushin Against a Stone. One of my favorites from 2013. Bill Callahan - Dream River - Mojo .......
337: Critic's Corner, I'd blame it mainly on Beethoven... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-21, 17:53:02 (71.108.142.163)
he made music an epic journey harmonically. Others were going that direction, but after Beethoven, everything became a journey from the home key into modulations and ending eventually back home. The p .......
338: Films/DVD Asylum, yellow king (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-21, 10:17:10 (71.108.142.163)
After this first aired, I wrote about it (it's just down the page). Five episodes in, I'm still loving it. Indeed, there is a lot of analysis of this show now. There are some depths to it beyond the s .......
339: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Remote playing of library with XP? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-16, 10:28:53 (71.108.142.163)
I keep it free and simple. I use foobar2000 as my music player on xp. I use foobar2000controller on an android tablet. This lets me do anything I want without going to the computer. .......
340: Inmate Central, love those winter sports (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-13, 14:33:18 (71.108.142.163)
because of the full on speed. Close to 100 mph on luge, sleds, skis. So I'd never heard of slopestyle, but now I've watched men and women on snowboards and women on skis and will watch men on skis. Fa .......
341: Inmate Central, RE: Where does it end?...a Bob Dylan Christmas Favorites album... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-03, 14:00:10 (71.108.142.163)
Of course you probably know about it, but it's not terrible. .......
342: Films/DVD Asylum, the novel was written by James M. Cain... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-02-01, 20:48:49 (71.108.142.163)
and it is a classic. One can read it in a couple of hours. I read it every couple of years. Camus cited it as a major influence on The Stranger. The movie script however, was not written by James M. C .......
343: Inmate Central, see my mini-review of the AK100 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-01-21, 12:26:02 (71.108.142.163)
I love it. .......
344: Films/DVD Asylum, True Detective on HBO (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-01-14, 11:49:16 (71.108.142.163)
This new series started on Sunday. It is some real dark noir, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, both top form. Lately MM really shined in Dallas Buyer's Club, here he is still very sou .......
345: Inmate Central, you either love the heat or you don't (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-01-10, 17:15:27 (71.108.142.163)
I've had Thai food in Thailand and the women who cooked it said that farang is eating food hotter than we would (this was translated for me by my Thai-speaking friend). There is food so hot that you n .......
346: Headphone Heights, RE: audeze plus astell and kern... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-01-10, 13:17:14 (71.108.142.163)
I've done some comparison between CD and 24/96 version, in particular Trouble Will Find Me by The National, a 2013 release by a band I like. In this case the 24/96 is clearly better. I have not done m .......
347: Inmate Central, I am with you... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-01-03, 17:08:05 (71.108.142.163)
On Saturday, I had to say goodbye to my orange tabby cat Osiris, who had been with me for 13 years. A kidney failure led to a cancer diagnosis, and within a week he was gone. It has been a long time s .......
348: Films/DVD Asylum, I heard he was loosely based on Dave Van Ronk (NT) (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2014-01-02, 17:35:23 (71.108.142.163)
NT .......
349: Films/DVD Asylum, I think it's a pretty silly point (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-30, 16:47:39 (71.108.142.163)
The article's writer was a victim of a crime and she is complaining that these kind of crimes should not be entertaining. But movies about criminals go back to the earliest days of the movies- and peo .......
350: Films/DVD Asylum, well made why did I not like it much? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-30, 10:04:14 (71.108.142.163)
Coens are real pros. They can recreate an era like no others. I was very much looking forward to this, because I love this era of music. And the music was really great. Even Justin Timberlake singing .......
351: Films/DVD Asylum, thought it was OK but... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-25, 11:13:09 (71.108.142.163)
there is an old movie formula where 2 partners with huge differences are paired, and this seemed a bit formulaic in that way. In this case, the crusty cynical reporter and the deeply innocent mother. .......
352: Inmate Central, I think you misunderstand... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-19, 17:49:08 (71.108.142.163)
It is like the old Bob Dylan song, where he sings "everybody must get stoned." Dylan is saying that people should have rocks thrown at them. .......
353: Headphone Heights, audeze plus astell and kern... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-17, 11:09:13 (71.108.142.163)
For many years I used a portable system- Sony diskman, Headroom amp, and Sennheiser HD600s. It was cool. As the ipod took over, I kept looking into digital players, but I never liked the apple/itunes .......
354: Films/DVD Asylum, To be fair, the actor who played him was an unknown... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-10, 10:23:11 (71.108.142.163)
I hear he has been in some British children's movies, but that's about it. .......
355: Films/DVD Asylum, not great but not bad... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-09, 10:19:06 (71.108.142.163)
I found it of interest, particularly as I have read all of these peoples' work, and have read of their lives as well. As a kind of origin story of the Beat Generation, this is not far from factual. I .......
356: Films/DVD Asylum, Nebraska (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-12-04, 11:30:33 (71.108.142.163)
In stark black-and-white, I found this movie absorbing in a way few others have been this year. There is an overwhelming sense of the places, Montana down to South Dakota, and of course small-town Neb .......
357: Films/DVD Asylum, These are different people with the same name (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-11-22, 10:45:35 (71.108.142.163)
Obviously, a person born in the 1850s is not alive today. However, this new series is about a person born recently with the same name. This is, after all, a very common name. .......
358: Rocky Road, a long long time ago... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-10-28, 10:21:07 (71.108.142.163)
when the FM band was sort of non-commercial and some stations started to play rock music on FM - "underground" it was called- and with the freedom they had, they played long songs often. And on the on .......
359: Critic's Corner, 2 years ago he used Rega... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-09-18, 08:35:39 (71.108.142.163)
"Rega Planar 3 turntable, and Rega Valve Isis CD player." Now, if you want to know, email him. .......
360: Critic's Corner, Kenny G? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-09-16, 16:54:15 (71.108.142.163)
Seriously. In the playlist I posted (which is from yesterday's show), HR played Melt Banana. This is about as polar opposite of Kenny G as it is possible to get. Anybody who plays Melt Banana on NPR i .......
361: Critic's Corner, listen to HRs radio show sometime (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-09-15, 16:29:00 (71.108.142.163)
on KCRW. He does not just listen to jazz. His tastes are catholic. Lots and lots of very rare old school punk of course. I'm not sure why you would bash somebody for listening to jazz anyway, but he l .......
362: Hi-Rez Highway, Astell and Kern AK100 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-09-10, 22:49:36 (71.108.142.163)
plays these formats, as do their more expensive AK120. I'm not sure, but I think the Hifiman portable players do too. Anyway, I use the AK100 daily and love it. .......
363: Films/DVD Asylum, the recent documentary "Side by Side" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-07-05, 13:44:14 (71.108.142.163)
explored film versus digital from the point of view of the film makers. There was a wide disparity. Some absolutely love the digital technology and believe it leads to a better film, for various reaso .......
364: Films/DVD Asylum, what I liked best was the documentary aspect... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-06-18, 14:22:52 (71.108.142.163)
one got to see the true personalities of some younger Hollywood stars and to see how they really behave together. Now that people see how Michael Cera behaves in real life, he may not get movie roles .......
365: Films/DVD Asylum, Frances Ha (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-06-12, 21:29:55 (71.108.142.163)
This is in glorious black and white. It centers on Frances, Greta Gerwig, who is 27 and barely surviving as an apprentice modern dancer. She lives with her best friend, with whom she is so close that .......
366: General Asylum, "Physical discs such as SACDs and DVD-Audios will eventually die" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-06-09, 12:43:43 (71.108.142.163)
So shall we all. Does that mean we should be replaced by computer files? .......
367: General Asylum, RE: No Mention of THE Show 2013............ (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-06-02, 16:54:04 (71.108.142.163)
Here is my very quick and dirty review. I missed this last year, so it's been 2 years for me. The big change that struck me is that computer audio has become the default. Only a handful of rooms lacke .......
368: Hip Pop Stop, train song 82 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-24, 17:35:01 (71.108.142.163)
A dark one from Steve Reich. .......
369: General Asylum, some years ago, writers at Absolute Sound loved Kraftwerk... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-19, 16:34:45 (71.108.142.163)
and I loved Kraftwerk long before that. Electronica has thus come very naturally to me as it has progressed through seemingly hundreds of sub-genres. And I love to listen to it on good audio equipment .......
370: Hip Pop Stop, train song 29 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-17, 11:25:41 (71.108.142.163)
the incomparable Kraftwerk live in Feb, 2013 .......
371: Hip Pop Stop, train song 28 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-17, 11:18:08 (71.108.142.163)
Asleep at the wheel live .......
372: Hip Pop Stop, train song 27 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-17, 11:02:11 (71.108.142.163)
Bhi Bhiman .......
373: Inmate Central, It was so fast that something seems up... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-09, 15:15:11 (71.108.142.163)
I normally scoff at conspiracy theorists. But....now maybe I join their ranks. I spent most time at WC. I checked into Outside to observe arguments, but had no desire to participate. Much of the back- .......
374: Water Cooler, One door closes another one opens... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-07, 10:50:39 (71.108.142.163)
as posted on Outside: http://forums.meter.com/ See y'all around in a different font. .......
375: Water Cooler, I for one will miss this place (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-06, 18:16:31 (71.108.142.163)
Started out on AA in 2000 to talk about SACD. What was surprising was the extreme level of vitriol between the 2 then-opposing camps, SACD and DVD-A. Anyway, I moved on. Somehow got interested in what .......
376: Water Cooler, incorrect (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-05, 20:38:14 (71.108.142.163)
You state that if a person's lack of belief in gods is based on faith, he is not an atheist. He is. you claim, an anti-theist. This is incorrect, in terms of the English language. There are, again, de .......
377: Water Cooler, Hinduism may be 6000 years old (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-05, 11:56:42 (71.108.142.163)
Not sure what that's got to do with much however. The word "atheist" has a definition, and by that definition, atheists do exist. You can't redefine words at will. It is "a person who denies or disbe .......
378: Water Cooler, 2 Democratic presidents since Carter... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-04, 17:23:12 (71.108.142.163)
since you are diehard Republican, and any Republican would be considered (by you) superior to any Democrat, "worst president since Carter" just translates to "worse than Clinton." I might even agree w .......
379: Films/DVD Asylum, very sad today, R.I.P Roger Ebert (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-04-04, 16:16:45 (71.108.142.163)
I watched Siskel and Ebert from the days of PBS. It was just a short weekly show that kept me up to date on new movies. They were criticized for dumbing down movie criticism and the up-down thumbs bei .......
380: Water Cooler, OJ Simpson? LIndsey Lohan? nt (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-31, 13:42:57 (24.136.93.19)
nt .......
381: Water Cooler, wouldn't worry much (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-30, 20:29:06 (71.108.142.163)
I used to go to library sales with a friend of mine who was a serious collector and small dealer of books. I met some bigger dealers, some of whom actually made their livings this way. A library sale .......
382: Water Cooler, as the Man said, (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-30, 17:53:25 (71.108.142.163)
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." .......
383: Water Cooler, chihuahua (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-29, 11:12:48 (71.108.142.163)
I was fortunate enough to rescue a chihuahua who was a stray 3 years ago. He is an alpha male, but at 5 pounds, nobody gets scared. He is also a great little guy, smart and sweet. I have known a numbe .......
384: Water Cooler, Eat leaves, bark, and dirt... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-29, 11:02:09 (71.108.142.163)
stay healthy with a natural diet. Leave the GMO vegetables to risk takers like me. Bon appetit! .......
385: Films/DVD Asylum, Stoker (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-28, 18:05:16 (71.108.142.163)
I am surprised nobody has mentioned this one yet. This is the first American film from Chan-wook Park, well known for Oldboy. I went in knowing very little about it other than that. This is a family s .......
386: Water Cooler, math (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-27, 14:29:43 (71.108.142.163)
$900 to $1600 is a $700 gain per ounce, making it a 78% return on the $900, not a 2600% return. It's a fine return for the time period, but of course, indicates absolutely nothing about the future. :: .......
387: Water Cooler, and if you bought in 1980, (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-24, 17:37:55 (71.108.142.163)
you'd probably be pretty damn unhappy. But cherry-picking timing decisions from the past is pretty futile. As AC said, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Good luck with your strategy. :: .......
388: Water Cooler, you are more or less correct... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-24, 10:56:01 (71.108.142.163)
Gold and silver tend to move up with inflation. That is a poor return. Most investors try to do better than match the rate of inflation. Very few people, if any, have gotten rich by buying gold or sil .......
389: Water Cooler, Yes I lived back then (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-22, 10:44:46 (71.108.142.163)
In 1933, I was 20 years old. How do you know I wasn't? .......
390: Water Cooler, Yeah I remember a time when a black person... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-21, 19:35:42 (71.108.142.163)
walking down the street would be called a F* n****r and might even get his ass kicked. Or maybe even killed. And now they are even voting. Those were the good old days, shore enough. .......
391: Water Cooler, Things were worse in the 1930s... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-21, 18:39:50 (71.108.142.163)
and in the Middle Ages, and as far as I'm concerned, things were much worse before 2000. There are estimated 1 billion people in this world that make less than 1 dollar a day, and you whine about the .......
392: Water Cooler, why should you matter? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-21, 15:04:49 (71.108.142.163)
Do individual bees matter to the beekeeper? Why should they? They are fungible and easily replaced by new, equally capable workers. Same with people. They just need to be adequately controlled using T .......
393: Water Cooler, same as it ever was (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-21, 15:00:59 (71.108.142.163)
"people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money..." etc. Why do you seriously think people are more this way now than they were in Roman days or the Middle Ages? Just a gut feeling that it's all .......
394: Water Cooler, What is the source of your Rothschild quote? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-19, 12:07:49 (71.108.142.163)
Yes it is on many websites, but is it real? Why do you believe it to be real? .......
395: Water Cooler, No (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-18, 12:11:26 (71.108.142.163)
A singularity on a curved surface is not like that. Think again of the North Pole. One moves due north. At the instant one crosses the singularity, one is moving south. There is nothing north of the s .......
396: Water Cooler, why did it "have to be preceded by something?" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-18, 10:01:53 (71.108.142.163)
Hawking suggested that maybe the big bang is just a point on a curved spacetime. Maybe going past the beginning of time is like going north of the North Pole. Maybe it just looks linear in our very li .......
397: Water Cooler, not exactly... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-18, 09:57:06 (71.108.142.163)
here is probably the simplest way to see it. Let N = 0.9999.... Then 10*N = 9.9999.... Subtract 10*N - N = 9*N = 9.999...-0.9999.... = 9 Since 9 * N = 9 then N = 1. You have subtracted out those pesk .......
398: Water Cooler, the limit equals one... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-17, 22:47:38 (71.108.142.163)
and "0.999..." is defined as a limit in math. That's what the three dots at the end mean. And a limit has a precise definition. It's got nothing to do with God. .......
399: Water Cooler, RE: on getting ahead financially, I ask you affluent WC posters how? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-14, 17:32:25 (71.108.142.163)
Many years ago I read a short book called How to Get Rich and Stay Rich by Fred Young. Having money, he wrote, means either: 1. Inheriting it. 2. Marrying into it. 3. Saving more than you earn and inv .......
400: Water Cooler, The US Senate was never intended to be elected by the voters... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-13, 21:15:59 (71.108.142.163)
Senators were appointed by state legislatures. Only in 1913 was this changed to direct election by the public in each state. However, this is not the way it was designed to work originally. ::: TOPIC .......
401: Water Cooler, "it could be in our lifetime" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-12, 15:24:18 (71.108.142.163)
"I believe our economy will crash. It won't be tomorrow, but it could be in our lifetime" You know you could go into a middle school class and say I predict everyone in this class is going to die. You .......
402: Water Cooler, and then imagine how much better we'd be if Gore beat Bush... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-12, 15:19:48 (71.108.142.163)
without all this war, we'd be a trillion dollars richer. Pointless exercise to play the what-if game, however. Reality is what we have to live with, not hypothetical changes in the unchangeable past. .......
403: Water Cooler, time to reboot... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-11, 11:18:35 (71.108.142.163)
think back on your stated New Year's resolution. Stay positive...there were some nice things you posted. This isn't funny, and it's just preaching to the choir. Yeah, you hate Obama, what else is new. .......
404: Water Cooler, I have reported you to law enforcement... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-07, 16:06:59 (71.108.142.163)
It says clearly at the end: "Any review, transmission, dissemination or other use, or taking of any action in reliance upon this message by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is pro .......
405: Water Cooler, I can better use the money for myself... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-05, 15:24:19 (71.108.142.163)
than to give it to the government and get back a tiny portion in benefits. I pay as few taxes as legally possible. I suppose that makes me a conservative or something. Then again, I enjoy having a gov .......
406: Water Cooler, well, I listed four... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-04, 14:29:09 (71.108.142.163)
and I could keep going. But I get it. This is all just light entertainment for the "America is headed down into the cesspool" crowd. It's one liners sort of like those redneck jokes that that comedian .......
407: Water Cooler, people get arrested every day for being in the country illegally... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-03-04, 12:10:07 (71.108.142.163)
so the first sentence is just flat out wrong. A little farther down you state "children of addicts are left in filth and drug infested "homes."" What is your basis for this claim? You state "hosting a .......
408: Water Cooler, you live in Michigan I think (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-28, 22:37:23 (71.108.142.163)
You have the 6th highest gas taxes in the U.S. Your governor wants an increase to give you the highest. So maybe you ought to worry about what's happening in your state. .......
409: Water Cooler, great reading list for 1895 ... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-25, 18:02:03 (71.108.142.163)
worthless garbage in the 21st century. .......
410: Films/DVD Asylum, RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-25, 14:38:14 (71.108.142.163)
Kind of a dull show. An interminable back and forth between host Seth McFarlaine and Shatner to start it off. Not very funny or entertaining. Seth tried hard, but never delivered much. A few though- h .......
411: Water Cooler, I'm not Wang... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-19, 12:07:25 (71.108.142.163)
but my addiction is capsaicin and the related compounds in chili peppers. I'm not sure how that fits into the libertarian narrative, so you can figure that part out. .......
412: Water Cooler, stocks go up and they go down... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-19, 11:56:26 (71.108.142.163)
And I never attribute short term swings to anything except mass emotion. Although it feels good to look and see a larger number, although Barron's did a cover story a few weeks ago saying the stock ma .......
413: Water Cooler, he only said he could see your nuts... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-14, 13:38:52 (71.108.142.163)
I'm pretty sure it was a joke and a pretty decent one at that. IMO, if people want to handle snakes, as long as the snakes are cared for humanely, who cares. .......
414: Water Cooler, but he gains fame and a measure of immortality... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-14, 13:36:27 (71.108.142.163)
which is all any of us can aspire to in the end. Well played, Dornan. .......
415: Water Cooler, killing people gets attention... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-13, 18:20:32 (71.108.142.163)
by my count, he killed 4, and he'll be remembered for a few years. He wanted to kill many more. If he killed 10,000, he probably would be in history books. People know how this works, and some people .......
416: Films/DVD Asylum, opinions....yet more spoilage... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-13, 15:09:48 (71.108.142.163)
I really hope nobody who has not seen this is reading this discussion. Nonetheless...here are my takeaways on your quiestions: Second one first- doctor played by Zeta Jones is shown being arrested fo .......
417: Films/DVD Asylum, Yet more spoiler type discussion (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-13, 11:34:36 (71.108.142.163)
The scheme was riaky to a lunatic degree that makes sense only probably in a movie. The idea to stab someone and then manipulate the facts in order to blame the drug, to be so successful that a murder .......
418: Water Cooler, Dorner seems to be dead now... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-12, 17:48:04 (71.108.142.163)
His cabin hideout is burning. My friend told me today that I should read his manifesto, and I did. I was surprised. The guy seemed like a fairly thoughtful and intelligent guy and much of his writings .......
419: Water Cooler, Only to massage their own egos.... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-12, 17:43:46 (71.108.142.163)
that seems to be the main activity in Internet chat, going back to 90s usenet. Everyone wants to show how much smarter and cooler they are than the rest of the people. This post is of course an exampl .......
420: Films/DVD Asylum, fantastic and no spoilers here... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-12, 17:41:25 (71.108.142.163)
I respected the first line of the newspaper review saying the less you know, the better. I read no further and enjoyed the ride. I really love movies that play with the viewer's perceptions, as this d .......
421: Films/DVD Asylum, response- spoilers (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-12, 17:38:42 (71.108.142.163)
"Why kill him-Divorce is easier" Stock manipulation was a big huge part of the whole plan and divorce would not have accomplished that. .......
422: Water Cooler, the supposition that "liberals" blindly support everything... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-11, 11:11:46 (71.108.142.163)
done by Obama is incorrect. Some of the strongest criticism of the drone attack program is from the Left, including the ACLU and such voices as Robert Scheer. Breaking everything into liberal/conserva .......
423: Water Cooler, seriously dude (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-10, 19:44:33 (71.108.142.163)
I don't care what you believe about global warming and I would not expect you to care about what I might believe. There is a seemingly infinite amount of writing out there on this subject, so I don't .......
424: Water Cooler, don't worry about the recommended dosage, it's time now (NT) (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-10, 18:07:09 (71.108.142.163)
NT .......
425: Water Cooler, take some more of your stuff... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-10, 17:28:44 (71.108.142.163)
you're starting to lose it again. .......
426: Water Cooler, I recently read the book Sun in a Bottle... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-05, 18:40:50 (71.108.142.163)
which chronicles the history of attempts to use fusion energy for power. To briefly summarize, since fusion was successfully weaponized in the 1950s, various people have been very optimistic about its .......
427: Water Cooler, great video... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-04, 10:27:54 (71.108.142.163)
Put all your money into gold. Good luck. .......
428: Water Cooler, own it (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-02-01, 14:49:05 (71.108.142.163)
You posted this "information." Not your friend. You posted the website link. Not your friend. Out of many emails you get daily, you chose this one to post to audio asylum. So you found some value in i .......
429: Water Cooler, another great website (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-31, 16:49:08 (71.108.142.163)
So I went to the front page of your "Bellarmine Report." Sheldon Adelson is called "Jew Zionist Sheldon Adelson." Henry Kissinger is called "Jew Kissinger." There is an article that states "The Holoca .......
430: Water Cooler, There is some precedent for limiting the use of government subsidy... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-27, 10:41:35 (71.108.142.163)
in the food stamp program. Food stamps could only be used for food, hot or cold, nothing else. But these were different than regular money. As long as people are given regular money, I'm pretty sure l .......
431: Water Cooler, I looked up toll road interstates... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-23, 13:33:08 (71.108.142.163)
and this is what I found. Kind of complicated story, but it boils down to a decision in 1956 that some existing toll roads could be included in the interstate system to ensure connectivity, while rema .......
432: Water Cooler, when you cut and paste without attribution, the sense is lost... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-23, 11:08:23 (71.108.142.163)
along with context. You cut and pasted "davidmhoffer"'s comment regarding a discussion of a specific climate model. In isolation, the comment does seem absurd. In context, it is sensible, but hardly i .......
433: Water Cooler, I've worked on government projects as well... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-22, 15:13:44 (71.108.142.163)
and I find your distinction to be somewhat arguable. "Government doesn't create jobs, it funds projects." This is sort of like saying, a government does no work, individual people do work. One might a .......
434: Water Cooler, So you believe everything he has said since November has been the truth? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-22, 15:03:56 (71.108.142.163)
I guess one lie every few months ain't so bad. .......
435: Water Cooler, I think you've got him confused with David Duke... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-22, 09:28:55 (71.108.142.163)
as far as I can tell, these KKK things don't apply to Alex Jones. Alex is just selling his wares to the gullible to make himself rich, in the great huckster tradition. I don't think he's pushing racis .......
436: Water Cooler, RE: Investments (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-21, 14:35:48 (71.108.142.163)
A government can reasonably invest in projects that are large and seemingly of benefit to society. One example would be the interstate highway system. Another would be the space program of the 60s. Ob .......
437: Water Cooler, The Founders were armed insurrectionists... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-17, 15:34:00 (71.108.142.163)
that is a lot different than whining. Hindsight is 20/20, so 240 years later, most of us can look at their actions as a success. But the key is that they actually took action. They did not just bitch .......
438: Water Cooler, thanks, really really good... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-17, 12:04:42 (71.108.142.163)
Did not care so much for the music but the cinematography is spectacular. There seems to be a new wave of nature documentaries using high-tech cameras. Very very impressive- such as Frozen Planet seri .......
439: Films/DVD Asylum, I couldn't be disappointed because my expectations were low... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-17, 11:55:34 (71.108.142.163)
family wanted to see it so I went. After all, I like music, I like movies, and I'd seen the promo a few times, so why not. And I thought it was pretty awful, almost laughably over the top. The promo m .......
440: Water Cooler, I'll split one... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-17, 10:11:52 (71.108.142.163)
Obama won the election. He's the President of the United States. All the whining in the world won't change that. So whine away. .......
441: Water Cooler, Here is why nobody will answer... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-14, 10:52:46 (71.108.142.163)
because your response will then be an insult. So who wants that? .......
442: Films/DVD Asylum, Loved the XD theater... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-10, 10:59:15 (71.108.142.163)
Sort of a mini-IMAX. Where I live, CA, the price was over $15 and this was for an early matinee. Despite that, I would choose to see any movie on a big sharp screen like this. As far as the movie, it .......
443: Water Cooler, conspiracy theories have been popular for a long long time.. (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-10, 10:47:07 (71.108.142.163)
and in the 19th century it was the Catholics that were said to be pulling the strings and controlling everything. I'm not sure where you get the idea that conspiracy theories are more popular now than .......
444: Water Cooler, I used to be into some dark things... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-10, 10:42:05 (71.108.142.163)
necrophilia, bestiality, and flagellation. Then I found out I was beating a dead horse. .......
445: Water Cooler, scattershot whining... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-07, 12:50:26 (71.108.142.163)
Your focus seems to be somewhat lacking. Given that all your whining about Moo Bama was a failure, and he defeated your guy resoundingly, you seem to be floundering and desperately seeking a new topic .......
446: Water Cooler, such a bill has been introduced 14 times since 1991 (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-06, 16:19:14 (71.108.142.163)
by various congressmen, and has never once in that time made it out of committee. So there is nothing new here. Apparently, 7 congressmen in the last 23 years thought this was a good idea. And they ca .......
447: Water Cooler, what do you see when you look in a mirror? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-04, 18:30:14 (71.108.142.163)
You seem to find a lot of faults in others, I wonder if you see any in yourself. What could possibly be more prudish than writing f*ck instead of fuck? .......
448: Water Cooler, the curve is probably complex... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-04, 11:52:05 (71.108.142.163)
There is an article by Martin Gardner discussing this. At 0 percent, the government gets 0 taxes. At 100%, nobody will work, the government gets 0 taxes. If there is a smooth curve, there is some maxi .......
449: Water Cooler, we should offer bounties for their scalps (NT) (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-04, 10:52:26 (71.108.142.163)
NT .......
450: Water Cooler, I honestly could not care less about Romney's taxes... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-03, 18:05:56 (71.108.142.163)
I'm sure he paid what he was obligated to pay, I'm sure he had excellent tax lawyers, and that's the system, and I would do the same. So would almost everyone. There were a number of substantive posit .......
451: Water Cooler, No I did not...for whatever that is worth... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-03, 18:01:46 (71.108.142.163)
I guess you are making an implication that I am just a dumb liberal who is not capable of understanding your wise words...or something. Again, I don't really understand your point. But if you do not w .......
452: Water Cooler, this is an unclear story... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2013-01-03, 17:55:05 (71.108.142.163)
Your friend seems to have stated 3 things: -his employees get low pay -if he raises their pay, his products will become unwanted in the competitive marketplace -he believes taxes should go up to reduc .......
453: Water Cooler, more bad news for criminals... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-23, 10:54:52 (71.108.142.163)
Of course, criminals hate to be watched by law enforcement and utilities. Normal people are happy to have another tool to eliminate the bad guys. Good for Verizon for technology that will help monitor .......
454: Films/DVD Asylum, I was completely underwhelmed (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-18, 17:18:11 (71.108.142.163)
It has all the right ingredients and some fine actors. But good dark movies, going back to 40s noir, up to Tarantino, are about great sharp dialogue. There are conversations that try to be sharp and w .......
455: Water Cooler, there is a good documentary (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-10, 17:40:47 (71.108.142.163)
on DMT called The Spirit Molecule. It is intriguing. Nevertheless, I find David Icke to be something like low quality science fiction. Not entertaining and certainly not believable. Psychedelic revela .......
456: Water Cooler, "good arguments.." (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-09, 22:15:08 (71.108.142.163)
"... that the bloodlines of the illuminati are connected in a way to extra-dimensional reptilian beings." Indeed. I'm sure these are extremely good arguments. Dude you might want to investigate Scient .......
457: Water Cooler, my civic duty is simple... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-03, 17:27:46 (71.108.142.163)
I'm the garbageman. You ain't no punk, you punk... .......
458: Films/DVD Asylum, Life of Pi (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-03, 17:20:49 (71.108.142.163)
I've not seen this mentioned here. There is a framing device, a wide-eyed questioner hearing the events recounted by the main character, Pi. The framing device allows a certain amount of ambiguity (g .......
459: Water Cooler, quick recap (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-03, 17:05:02 (71.108.142.163)
So, your first argument was that "united states are 50 states" so the federal government has to follow the clause applying to states. After learning that this argument is fallacious, you have postulat .......
460: Water Cooler, therefore, the U.S. government cannot "coin money" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-03, 08:50:37 (98.112.97.165)
Since the clause you cite applies to states and your interpretation is that it then applies to the federal government (because "united states are 50 states"), it then follows that the federal governme .......
461: Water Cooler, I'll be quite happy with imaginary worldwide peace and security... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-12-02, 14:49:49 (71.108.142.163)
that's more than good enough for me. .......
462: Water Cooler, the theory of evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-30, 13:12:05 (71.108.142.163)
"I don't accept theories that claim evolution explains the origin of life on Earth, nor the origin of the Universe." This is not the area covered by the theory of evolution. Evolution concerns descent .......
463: Water Cooler, These monitors will soon be injected under the skin... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-23, 17:54:55 (71.108.142.163)
for all citizens. Tampering or removing your device will be punishable by execution. This is a good thing. The crime rate will finally decrease to almost nothing. When these proposals are brought up, .......
464: Water Cooler, bfd (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-18, 18:20:59 (71.108.142.163)
I'm not interested in fighting crowds to try to save some money, so I don't go shopping that day. If people want to try to save money, who cares? If merchants want to try to make money with special de .......
465: Water Cooler, never had one... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-14, 21:18:04 (71.108.142.163)
Almost all "major investment firms" represent a conflict of interest. Claiming to be working for your benefit, to make you money, but really trying to take as much of your money as possible. Only a co .......
466: Water Cooler, Don't let the door hit 'em on the way out... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-13, 15:37:56 (71.108.142.163)
good riddance. .......
467: Water Cooler, this is but one doomsday scenario of many... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-08, 18:05:54 (71.108.142.163)
the same old hyperinflation rant. I'd take it more seriously had I not been hearing it for decades. It could happen. But it never has. You seem very sure it will happen. But it very well might not hap .......
468: Water Cooler, OK, let's bet (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-08, 14:20:24 (71.108.142.163)
"People think this stuff won't happen. Wanna bet?" Specify an event (for example North America and Europe under a single government), specify a date by which this is to happen, and specify an amount o .......
469: Water Cooler, that's the bright side... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-07, 14:34:25 (71.108.142.163)
God has given us apocalypse to help us grow. Well, there's another bright side. You get to do 4 more years of youtube research on how much of a monster is Moobama. Idle hands are the devil's playgroun .......
470: Water Cooler, sheesh (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-07, 06:36:14 (71.108.142.163)
In 2010, the Tea Party types were so ecstatic. People hated socialist Obama so much, it was said, that no Democrat would ever be elected again. Now, 2 years, 1 election later, and "When the Republican .......
471: Water Cooler, You do not burn down a house just to get rid of ants NT (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-04, 17:38:04 (24.136.93.19)
NT .......
472: Water Cooler, No youtube video... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-02, 16:27:35 (71.108.142.163)
to ignore. You're slipping. .......
473: Water Cooler, I don't know and neither does anyone else... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-02, 13:32:19 (71.108.142.163)
Anybody who claims to know the future price of commodities is a scammer. There are far too many variables and unpredictable events to come. Anyone can speculate, so I will speculate. To see a decline .......
474: Water Cooler, this will make it easy to keep up your ranting if Obama wins... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-02, 13:23:58 (71.108.142.163)
you've already got your dumb excuses and you've already made sure your CAPS LOCK is working so you can put in many messages every day decrying FRAUD and THEFT and COMING COLLAPSE. Somehow I doubt anyo .......
475: Water Cooler, RE: Here's a book for you... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-01, 20:13:16 (71.108.142.163)
In my humble opinion, if you want your money to grow over time, you should always have some exposure to the stock market, based entirely on your tolerance for the inherent risks, which are substantial .......
476: Water Cooler, Here's a book for you... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-11-01, 18:42:36 (71.108.142.163)
any day now...any day... .......
477: Water Cooler, it's just a risk I will have to take I guess... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-27, 21:59:31 (71.108.142.163)
"Remeber if you still choose to vote for Obama again you'll have no one, but yourself to blame when it all comes crashing down!!!!" I guess if a bunch of innocent folks need to die to achieve the nobl .......
478: Water Cooler, one thing I am learning... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-23, 18:58:26 (71.108.142.163)
particularly from Master of the Senate, which I am 1/2 way through now, is that 1930s, 40s and 50s saw deep deep divisions, particularly based upon the subject of segregation. The battle lines were no .......
479: Water Cooler, well... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-23, 18:41:42 (71.108.142.163)
Robert Caro has not written that book yet. It was Vietnam of course. It took a heavy toll on LBJ. Just in physical appearance, he grew haggard. It is only speculation of course, but Obama seems a lot .......
480: Water Cooler, I don't think you understand the urge for power... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-23, 17:50:05 (71.108.142.163)
I recently read Robert Caro's most recent book on LBJ and now I am going through his previous volume. LBJ had an absolute lust for power. It was in him from his early years. I don't think anyone can b .......
481: Water Cooler, Guess the guy didn't "prep" for everything... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-22, 16:25:48 (71.108.142.163)
who cares anyway? These preppers are clinically insane. He probably should not be allowed on flights on general principles. These guys usually buy lots of weapons as a result of their paranoid ideatio .......
482: Water Cooler, Here are all his 2012 predictions from last January... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-21, 08:54:14 (71.108.142.163)
A little over 2 months to go of 2012. Almost none of these have come true. The guy's a football tout in Vegas, not exactly an "oddsmaker." .......
483: Water Cooler, RE: right (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-20, 21:43:45 (71.108.142.163)
I don't know if there is a moral. I used to take vitamins. Now I eat a big salad every day with tomatoes, and I eat a lot of fruits, especially pineapple. And I don't spend any money on vitamins. I fe .......
484: Water Cooler, If "most food is trash" what are your supplements? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-20, 21:16:11 (71.108.142.163)
What kind of places make them? What are the ingredients? Why are you sure that the food products you find to be "trash" are not also the same food products that are used to create your supplements? Or .......
485: Films/DVD Asylum, Remarkable achievement of versimillitude... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-19, 16:31:24 (71.108.142.163)
as demonstrated proudly in the pictures over the closing credits, showing real scenes from the events against the movie scenes. Really well done. Strong characters throughout. Indeed there are a few t .......
486: Water Cooler, Wayne Allyn Root - Las Vegas oddsmaker? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-17, 18:15:12 (71.108.142.163)
Or scam artist? "Root is spokesman, board member and Senior Economic Adviser to Wealth Masters International ("WMI"), a global financial services and education company based in Houston, Texas.[10][11] .......
487: Water Cooler, There are different "Democrats" and always have been... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-12, 16:08:53 (71.108.142.163)
Back in the mid-1900s, Republicans could not win in the South. The Southern Democrats represented the constituency of the South. Generally, blacks were not allowed to vote, and the voting populace was .......
488: Films/DVD Asylum, "without much in the way of unexplainable paradoxes" SPOILERS (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-06, 18:15:34 (71.108.142.163)
Well, no. It was doing OK in this department until the end. The end turned it into the same old time travel paradox. The final act of violence made the whole movie, from the entrance of Old Dude, dis .......
489: Water Cooler, before there was world wide web, (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-02, 21:36:31 (71.108.142.163)
there was usenet, text message. Back in those early days, I explored newsgroup rec.audio.opinion. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a war zone. There was objectivists and subjectivists, and the regula .......
490: Water Cooler, bring back the 17th century... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-02, 17:11:29 (71.108.142.163)
those glorious days before fractional reserve banking and the horrors of life in our terrible times. Good old 1600s, that's what we want back. .......
491: Water Cooler, he supports the Buddhists... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-02, 09:06:13 (71.108.142.163)
see what he has done for Myanmar. His preference for Buddhism as the one world religion is clear. .......
492: Water Cooler, he is a paranoid (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-10-02, 08:57:16 (71.108.142.163)
"Perot's paranoia is pretty well known, due to his announcement in 1992 that he was quitting the presidential race (in which he was a very strong contender) because Republican's were planning to disru .......
493: Water Cooler, ludicrous (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-28, 18:55:17 (71.108.142.163)
I could understand judging the attractiveness of a group of people by looking at a selection of models, actors or athletes. Congresswomen? Really? So the "representative" in "representative government .......
494: Water Cooler, it's very simple really... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-20, 20:57:05 (71.108.142.163)
you guys who want radical change are the small minority. Most people are happy with their lives in America. Not everyone, not in every way- but it's a big majority AGAINST the radical changes you guys .......
495: Water Cooler, cellophane flowers of yellow and green (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-19, 19:54:20 (71.108.142.163)
No surprise that Aldous "Doors of Perception" Huxley suffered from mental illness and paranoid hallucinations due to his massive drug abuse. Entertaining as his paranoid rants may be, but one should n .......
496: Water Cooler, where did morality come from? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-19, 09:05:19 (71.108.142.163)
This is of course a big question and one that cannot be definitively answered. My own speculation would be that "morality" as discussed here is a characteristic of the human brain. I would note that i .......
497: Water Cooler, what is the basis for the Atheist's morality? (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-18, 20:54:35 (71.108.142.163)
The basis is empathy with the happiness and suffering of other sentient creatures. This discussion is old. The link covers the answer in some detail. .......
498: Water Cooler, Here is the solution to the problem (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-17, 15:36:16 (71.108.142.163)
Obama signs an executive order implementing certain aspects of sharia law. We all know this will happen soon anyway, so it might as well be now. The "film maker" is taken to a public square and behead .......
499: Water Cooler, please provide full details... (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-16, 10:45:05 (71.108.142.163)
descriptions of the sexual encounters in complete detail, including where the ejaculate landed. What body parts went where. Your story is incomplete and not fully satisfying. .......
500: Water Cooler, "I'll have to live with their name-calling" (0.00)
Posted by tunenut on 2012-09-12, 15:27:54 (71.108.142.163)
Damn right, tube snake 666. .......
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