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    Yeah they seem to crop up at the end of each episode, Cornflake Girl too. That Hoobastank track, awful as it is, really got me and felt good, something about the context and that I haven't since whenever, sometime in the 90s I guess. Big nostalgia bombs.
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    With all the mayhem and tension ahead that the first episode seemed to hint at (and that Hoobastank track) it's gradually geared down and now gotten sort of middling here at episode 7. Hope things pick up and don't settle too much into melodrama
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    started Sopranos a couple weeks ago and been spending a hangover weekend binging, towards the end of season 3 now. Very solid and highly addictive stuff. The machismo guido sensibilities, which turned me off watching it back in the day, now feel pleasantly quaint and cozy.
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    Yeah, there's something really satisfying about it. Especially season one. Season two was good, but something about the way season one unfolds, characters unraveling and the way the music underlines and anticipates the drama and trajectory of the whole thing I found hugely satisfying and intriguing. Bartlett's character is a brilliant Basil Fawlty, and the ongoing skirmish between him and whatshisface (Plop from The Office) is so fuckin good. And again that theme tune ramping things up. There's also a tendency (in both seasons) to give the characters a nuanced personality. We're presented with a group of somewhat archetypal characters, then constantly thrown curveballs as their personalities and motives. You end up sympathizing with and resenting almost each character equally by the end of it and makes it feel like such a heady ride. And, I may be a softee here, but I found the son's story genuinely uplifting. When he fucks off from be relegated to living in the kitchenette and starts sleeping on the beach and with the canoe team and all? Good stuff. Looks like there's a third season on the (tropical) horizon. To be set in Thailand!
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    Just two episodes in so far you're average light hearted mid life crisis style comedy deal, but Bob Odenkirk's in it, so basically gotta check it out! Swarm surprised me, in a good way.
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    +1 on The North Water, Colin Farrel is a beast n goin from strength to strength these days. Currently watching Swarm and Lucky Hank
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    Watched The Night Of which was pretty good. It dragged sometimes and got close to being just another mediocre crime/courtroom drama, but good performances, especially from Turturro, make it enjoyable. Also cool to see the kid from Four Lions. Station Eleven was a bit convoluted in a kind of annoying, unnecessary way, but the good things definitely outweigh the bad. Loved the first airport episode, that Irish dude is very watchable. Currently watching Fleishman Is In Trouble, very good so far.
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    gender

    ooqpoo replied to luke viia's topic in General Banter

    It will be a long process before everyone's on board with this relatively new concept, hell there is racism abound even after all this time which is pretty crazy to think about actually. The internet has massively increased the speed at which niche groups can get together, which has been a double edged sword of course. And what quickly becomes the norm and an integrated part of reality for the group remains alien for those not part of it. All creating mass confusion and sometimes unnecessarily nasty confronations in the daylight of broad everyday reality, which itself seems to be in danger of cumbling sometimes. It might be easy to blame the internet for putting ideas into our heads, I mean just look at the variety of porn out there, jeez. But how about transgender kids? A four year old hasn't really been around enough to immerse themselves in outside ideas and notions, there was a really Louis Theroux episode on that topic, quite uplifting actually. But anyway, I don't know any trans people so just kinda theorizing out loud a bit here. I think at the end of day, despite whatever fashion, identity, religion or whatever other thing we choose to infuse ourselves with we still have plenty of common avenues to go down when being met with that which is new to us, and find common ground in the joy of discovery of a meaningful "infusion" even though it may vastly differ from our own. Acknowledging the differences without turning it into a war, us alongside them in unison with all the other us's and them's and not us against them basically, i think.
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    I found that episode to be quite warming. Sad, sure. But also sweet and uplifting. Wasn't expecting a storyline like that from this series. Episode 5 though was a bit of a downer.
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    Maybe it's cause I haven't watched anything in the genre since first season of Walking Dead, but I'm quite enjoying The Last of Us. Some impressive set pieces and (so far) the focus being more on thriller style tension over madcap action/gore.
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    I haven't seen House in ages, but I remember enjoying it. It one of the good ones in that genre like Terrorvision or Street Trash
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    My favorite is Amber. Inkoonaboola sounds a bit too much like Aphex Twin xD (444). Both albums cut from the same cloth really and kind of stand side by side because of it. Siblings born in the times of yore by a youthful 'chre. Amber never really ventures into choppier territory than its predecessor, but maybe refines and builds upon it like Evil Dead into Evil Dead II. Also, is the album cover of Incunabula actually a distorted image of the Amber cover? Cause that kind of fits with the rough n' raw vs. lush n' shiny deal.
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    White Lotus was something else, you're in for another awesome ride with season 2! On third episode of Search Party and so far so good. Reminded me a bit of Bored To Death, similar vibe, also recommended!
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    I got HBO max too mainly for the Qanon docu which wasn't on the 'bay at the time. I found Barry on there which was a blast! Watched a crime style docu called Mind over Murder which was ok. Now watching episodes of Painting With John which is just real cosy, shame it's a big loss for cinema that he seems to have quit doin films.
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    I normally find fringe groups/cults quite fascinating and thought I might me able to enjoy this but it's not going well at all. Forty minutes into the first episode and I'm already experiencing an unanticipated degree of agitation and disillusionment listening to these Qtips, it's very tough viewing.
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    Retro

    ooqpoo replied to marf's topic in General Banter

    I remember buying a (new) shirt in the mid to late 90s with 60s psychedelic patterns that resembled the carpet/wallpaper in Alex's room in Clockwork Orange. It was my coolest shirt by far at the time! While not massively widespread, I think retro was definetly a thing in the 90s. A kind of fetishisme for kitschy things, i.e stuff in classic 60s & 70s style. There were also things around that never went out of style like vinyl records and various iconic furniture such as the 'egg' chair and stuff like that
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    a damload of digital flies
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    0:00-04:15 all stations manned. Preliminary preparations successfully completed. Smooth sailing on the interplanetary vessel. 04:16-06:00 Ghostly signal picked up on radar manifesting as a female sprite, appearing in beguiling flashes around the windows of the vessel, which gradually drifts off course in tune to the alluring dance of the space seductress. 06:00-08:28 The nature of the sprite is revealed, seen only as flashes of fantastically bright colors reflecting in the protective goggles of the crew, now losing control of the vessel as its levers and panels go haywire. 08:28-11:41 As the vessel fully disintegrates, the crew join the sprite in her euphoric star dervish, leaving behind them deranged and beautiful constellations in the night sky on their eternal frolic through the heavens.
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    Soft & Quiet. The dialogue and vibe of the first quarter or so of the film was really well done, loved the one take feel and the ominous tone of the meeting. After that though it pretty quickly escalated into something a bit too manic (and squawky) for my blood.
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    I enjoyed it. Found it quite easy to disengage it from Kubrick's and just enjoy its fantasy haunted house vibe, which it did well. Good Halloween flick!
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    autechre dream! It was me and my brother seeing Sean play in some small residential garden setting. Small crowd. A large focus was on how my brother was reacting, since he's always been quite averse to the 'techre. I was pleased he had come along with me to this, Sean's garden party improv, and was really hoping he would enjoy it. As Sean revved things and blew life into the crowd, people started becoming rowdy and suddenly Sean (now with huge glowing white sunglasses on and some kind of multicoloured morphing t-shirt) was in the crowd, berating someone for talking too loudly, which I thought was kind of cool but so out of character for him. My brother seemed to be enjoying it and Sean was back grooving all was good. The weirdness in music was increasing and in line with that, the crowd seem to becoming odder, older and quite ominous. Now Rob had showed up, seemingly to pick up Sean, and as the crowd dispersed Rob homed in on me and in his subdued way let me know that him and Sean wanted me and my brother to show them a night on the town. I become very nervous and excited all at the same time. Where the hell should I take them? I don't know any places or people really, I never go out on the town myself. It all seems hopeless. We end up roaming around awkwardly, me trying to big up some local beer we're forlornly sipping on and Sean is looking through my brothers phone music collection giggling that there's Smash Mouth on there.
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    loved every second of this. Made me wish Trier had just spent his entire career doing Rigets
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    Seen autechre three times, the best of which hands down was Grafenhainichen in '15 where they played at a beach party area where Modeselektor also played. Seen Radiohead a few times over the years, first time was late nineties on their Big tent top tour together with Sigur Ros which was so good. None of us knew Sigur Ros and arriving to that sweeping sound, four young bucks lathered up on cheap vodka, was fucking amazing, you could hear that angel sound reverberating miles off. Arcade Fire twice. Good times. Red Hot Chili Peppers also late 90s were a blast, extra bonus getting to see Iggy Pop warm up for the Chilis. Got to see Godspeed you black emperor in 2001, very special night. Most others had really dressed up for the occasion in archaic black attire and I felt kinda underdressed in comparison, nursing a pint in my battered Reeboks. The Beta Band around the same time, one of the most fun stage shows I've seen at a show for sure! Portishead, not till '08 or so, but was amazing to finally see them. This was the first concert I'd been to where the general consensus seemed to be that smoking doobies and Cigs at shows was now uncool, times were changing and we had become the old fools. One guy I would give my left nut to see though is Tom Waits. In Tom Waits land, smoking will always be cool.
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