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    Post Your Most Recent Burger

    in General Banter

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    I wish Umami's burgers were like 15 % bigger because I always need slightly more than one.

    Granted, I haven't dipped into any pork belly. I probably couldn't eat more than one of those.

    That's why u get the truffle cheese fries my friend ;)

    What is your favorite 80s album?

    in Music Discussion

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    Scary Monsters should be credited as a Bowie and Fripp album imo as Robert's performance is jaw-dropping.

     

    A 10/10 album for sure.

    I'm always blown away by the solos on that LP.

    Another thing about it, does anyone else think it is Bowie's best vocal album? The shit he does is insane, especially considering how his other albums are. It's like he really is pushing himself to his most expressive extreme, vocally. I was just listening to it again yesterday and after listening to the end of Teenage Wildlife, I thought "Thank god for the miracle of recording equipment". To think that performance actually happened in a studio (or anywhere else), to me, is mind blowing.

    Classical Music

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    I've been mostly listening to the JS Bach pandora station lately. It's great. Bach in general is unbelievable.

    I also like Couperin. I find I usually dig other Baroque composers. it mellows me out.

    What is your favorite 80s album?

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by jefferoo

    David Bowie-Scary Monsters

     

     

    ...Graceland..love the guitar rhythms and that hard 80s snaredrum!!

     

    I know I originally nominated Scary Monsters (1980) and went with Doolittle as my FAVORITE but if I was going to have to go with what was the BEST or MOST IMPORTANT, I'd probably go with Scary Monsters.

    That album was basically a template that almost every album in the early half of the 80s followed in some respect.

    Even seeing it next to Graceland... I LOVE Graceland. It is no doubt a perfect record. In some ways, it's a better "album" than Scary Monsters, but fuck me if it would exist as it does without it.

    I know Bowie did some high-gated drums on Breaking Glass off Low and a lot of music nerds and famous musicians like Depeche Mode and Gary Numan say Low is kinda the mark of what they were striving for (so in a way Low might ironically be the best 80s album :wtf: ), but I always still listen to Scary Monsters and think "this is what the 80s sound is in its purest state".

     

    I'm my opinion, from a macro view of his career, Bowie shot his load with that one and it was all downhill after it... although (I think) my actual fave of his is Station To Station. I'm a Bowie fanatic, btw. Surprise.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I forgot to also nominate Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis soundtrack.

     

    Holy fuck. It doesn't get more 80s than that.

    What is your favorite 80s album?

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    public enemy - fear of a black planet

     

    1990, isn't it? Technically, considering there is no year zero in our calendear, 1990 is the last year of the 80s. :happy:

     

    I take it back.

    I thought i remembered that it came out in the 80s. That and the House Party soundtrack.

    That was also in 90. My bad.

     

    I definitely disqualified a few because they were in 90. I don't believe 1990 counts as the 80s.

    What is your favorite 80s album?

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by J3FF3R00

    mbv - isn't anything

    faith no more - introduce yourself

    gnr -appetite for destruction

    metallica - master of puppets

    public enemy - it takes a nation of millions

    david bowie - scary monsters

    pixies - doolittle

    janes addiction - nothings shocking

    paul simon - graceland 

    inxs - kick

     

     

    ALIEN / PROMETHEUS / COVENANT - SPOILERS INBOUND!!

    in General Banter

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    Very disappointed with Prometheus. Looked amazing & Fassbender was excellent as David. But everything else didn't really cut it. Okay, so the thing in the chair from Alien is a big blue humanoid dude. That's kind of disappointing enough in itself. But apart from that pivotal question being answered all this movie really delivered ........ is a shit load of more questions. That's what happens when you have Damon 'Lost' Lindelof as your writing partner!! Lost turned out to be total gob shite & sadly Prometheus hasn't faired much better after Lindelof's meddling.

     

    Empire review pretty much sums it up for me;

    http://www.empireonl....asp?FID=137119

     

    ........ and Hitler doesn't like it either;

     

    That hitler vid was pretty spot on.

     

    Characters didn't make any sense. The religious stuff was nonsense. It felt like a rough cut.

    The only things I have to add are that some of it looked super "video-y" and they should have cut the whole Weyland sub-plot entirely. Btw, wtf. Guy Pierce? Come on. That makeup was atrocious. The story was way too over complicated.

     

    DEVO

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by jefferoo

    Something For Everybody was a pleasant surprise too, nothing groundbreaking but still better than everything they released after (and including) Shout

    Yeah. Not bad. I remember hearing the album previews when they let their fans pick the tracks. Cool idea, IMO.

    At least Mark has made a solid reputation for himself as a film composer. His edge adds so much to Wes Anderson's stuff.

     

    I've missed out on a few opportunities to catch Devo live. Even their dress show at the NYC summer stage. I don't know what my problem is.

     

     

    Also, this is for you Neil Young fans ...

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSAz1Vc4U34&feature=youtube_gdata_player

     

    ... from Neil's film "Human Highway". Devo stars in it. It's one of the craziest movies ever.

     

    DEVO

    in Music Discussion

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    Little know facts about DEVO.

     

    They are all approximately the same height, weight, hair color, eye color and shoe size.

     

    A lot of that has to do with the fact that they are 2 sets of brothers.

     

    I wish my brother was cool enough to start a band with me like DEVO.

    Spam

    in General Banter

    Posted

    A few weeks back, I was at a party and some girl made masubi. It was the first time I had tried spam.

     

    Holy shit.

     

    So good.

     

    SpamMusubi.jpg

     

     

    Basically, it's a large sushi roll with sandwich of rice and pan-seared spam in the middle. I think there may have been a slight teriyaki glaze on the ones I had.

     

    If I wasn't married, I'd marry that girl right then and there... that's how got those things were.

    DEVO

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by jefferoo

    One of the greats. I'm a potato, for sure.

     

    My cousin was obsessed with them in the late 70s.

    He passed the spud torch to me and I carry it proudly. When i was really litlle, in the early 80s, he would sit me down and show me old DEVO videos. He still is a rabid fan and actually has an ongoing relationship with the band and caters for them when they are in town.

     

    If you are a new fan (or even an old one) and haven't heard it yet, try to hunt down DEVO Hardcore Vol 1.

    The stuff on that is DEVO in their purest state. It is so raw and mind blowing.

     

    Skip to 2:30 to hear one of the best songs you'll ever hear in your life...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCv3uHB3EkI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

     

     

    After that, Q/A is my fave. Hardcore Vol 2, New Traditionalists, Duty Now For The Future, Freedom of Choice and Oh No! It's DEVO! are all fucking top-notch.

     

    Also, check out their film The Truth About De-Evolution.

    Post Your Most Recent Burger

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by jefferoo

    Which Umami restuarant is that, Jefferoo? I don't remember seeing the manly burger at the last one I went to. I think they all have slightly different menus.

     

    Yeah. Their menus are all a bit different.

    This was the one on Sunset and Cahuenga by Amoeba. I washed it down with some truffle cheese fries :wub:

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