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Some absolute cunt came into my garden and cut off this tree! I don't even know who it was!

You gotta lean the keyboard against the monitor in an upright position

I recently re-discovered ICO, never finished it for some reason, although I loved it. Maybe this time.

I had a chat the other day with a guy from Mexico (I think, I forgot) and he kept telling me how much he liked the United States when he was there, then he went on about how "the blacks there are different to the blacks here" (in Germany), but wasn't really able to explain to me what he meant by that. Eventually he started singing praises for his host family who were "real whites" as he put it, and I still didn't get what he was on about and thought he was making a joke. Friends told me later how much they disliked the guy because of his constant racist remarks and I felt like an idiot.

Even though I am on the exact same page and totally agree with Lump, Lyst, Candiru and Bordie, it's nice to see how this discussion is going rather maturely despite totally opposite viewpoints. It seems the opinion on the quality of an album is mostly just a matter of ones personal impression of the "artistic integrity" involved in the making. The question is ... is there someone who "got it right" or is this just a manifestation of different views on music and life in general, hence utterly subjective? I'm not sure. But still agree with the guys I mentioned.

I came here to be a spoilsport and say that I find T.H. hasn't aged well at all. The longer the break I take from it, the less I think of it the next time round. I've never really "enjoyed" the album in the first place, but I gave it a chance to grow on me, which it did, for a little bit. I guess it was mostly the BoC-Withdrawal speaking, I really wanted it to be good, but I think at this point it's safe to say that IMO it is their weakest release by far. It's also really the only album by them that from start to finish sounds like the kind of music that was made because someone wanted to make it, not because someone HAD to make it., if you know what I mean. And they have mentioned in interviews how they were going through "darker times" around the time Geogaddi was produced, which is a state of mind that I think either purposely and/or involuntarily found its way into the music they created then. Maybe T.H. is the result of them literary having "not much to say" at the moment. Could also be the reason for their total abscence in the years before. Which is fine really, it's a legitimate development, they're people, not the mystical figures some fans want them to be. Of course I'd never have said that before hearing T.H. as I am way too curious a person for that type of thing, but having properly digested T.H., I'd even go so far and say I kind of wish they didn't release that album in the first place. I can't imagine them being satisfied with the way it sounds. Then again, I reckon they're the type of artists who are never 100% satisfied with what they created, which is honorable. But some part of them must have told them, this isn't on the same level as some shit we did years ago. So I hope they wait until they're actually inspired until the next release, even if it takes them 20 years. And cut down all the marketing shenanigans and fan service. Just make the type of music you want to make. Maybe I'm completely off with my estimation and they are high-fiving each other about Tomorrow's Harvest every morning, but somehow I don't see that being the case. I mean, listen to Happy Cycling (MHTRT Version), that shit was raw and inspired, not polished and hollow. Okay watmm I'm out again for a bit. See you in some weeks probably!

I get THIS as an ad for Telecom, biggest phone company in the country - they can't be serious? Did Aphex hack Facebook-Ads as part of the campaign or what?

Oh man, we are oddly similar in a way. I thought this when reading your posts in the ganja thread and now you have the same nostalgic way of retelling your memories. I mean, I'm a 2 meter German dude, but still. Needless to say I also did that impression of the RDJ album at the same age (although later, I didn't consciously witness it being released). I would totally meet up with you, should I ever be in Tokyo. My friend (the non-BoC-fan-friend) keeps telling me how much fun it would be to be in Tokyo as a blond German guy, but then again, I'm not really interested in Japan or Japanese culture at all, ironically. So: Syro!

looks like the stencils were legit after all

Burger-People who also love habaneros and chili products, you have to get this sauce, it's fantastic: not as hot as most of Blairs Death Sauces but the flavor ...

All my lols at Snowpiercer aside - I thought it really was a terrible film. The set design was beautiful, very well done, so definite credit to those people. Not so much to the visual fx team, the cgi was rather outdated, but personally I do not mind that when more important things are done right - writing, acting, pacing, characters. I can watch a Lexx episode and take it seriously because they knew how to build up some tension even with Tomb Raider I style computer graphics. But Snowpiercer ... The setting and general idea is fine for a sci fi movie, although absolutely illogical as many have pointed out, but I think it is based on a comic book, so the filmmakers are not to credit for that. The writing and proceeding of the story we see in the film is a disaster, the actors are all shit (except Tilda Swindon who happens to be in this film because ... ?! - and not even she is doing an above-average job, also her scenes seem like she thought it was a dark comedy or something). Chris Evans I only knew from Sunshine where he's doing a superior job, all other films starring him are apparently some shit I don't watch like Transmorphozords or Fastastic Explosion League 3D.... which makes me think I'm not really the target audience for Snowpiercer either. But I'm still going to keep bashing it for insulting my intelligence. Every single action sequence seems to have been ripped straight off some other movie that was successful at some point in time. Like "Remember that cool bit from that one movie? Let's put that in also, even though we don't know how" ... I saw bits from The Matrix, then I believe that ear-ringing temporary deafness bit from Saving Private Ryan was in there, then another bit from some fighting sequence in Blade or something. But it looks like the early afternoon television version of a rip-off, not the "I see this at the cinema"-version. If they had at least done it right ... the story and limited set could have been a great place for creativity, like they used that one single room in Cube for a whole 90 minutes. But I never ever had a feeling of "wow they're moving on to the next section of the train", it was all fluent, but in a terrible, oblivious way. I'm usually not the kind of person who points out logical mistakes in a film, I mostly don't care when it serves the purpose of telling an exciting story, but Snowpiercing was almost insultingly stupid at times. Cannibalism is not worse than eating bugs because that's gross and what Asians do? Fuck off. Really, this film was one of the worst I've seen in recent history in comparison to its general rating. Positive reviews my ass - shit writing, shit pacing, shit characters nobody cares about, stupidity all over the place, shit predictable ending, shit movie all together.

Fell asleep last night, gonna finish Snowpiercer now .... I don't know why.

I saw the first hour-or-so of Snowpiercer, only to see what all the fuss was about, and

I thought it was nice! good use of it imo. yeah yeah the film had a good music selection throughout! I just laughed because I never imagined this Tommib track to be the soundtrack to a situation like the one from scene its used in! This probably only makes sense to German people: Stromberg: Der Film - This is the movie-version of the German "ripoff" of Ricky Gervais' The Office, the amazing thing is that it is superior to the original because it employed great actors to play more realistic characters, and Stromberg (the boss) is some kind of mix between Hitler and Larry David. Super hilarious show that I loved (I've seen The Office and I hate most German comedy, but this time they got it right), and the movie was pretty solid too. A little more over the top than the series, unrealistic, but the storyline was great and some scenes were brilliance, so it shall be forgiven.

Lost in Translation - never seen it before, A+ movie. LoL @ Squarepusher track in the film too