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#211 Re: The Garden » NFL 2022/23 season » 126 weeks ago
Vikings-Broncos 98. I would have liked to have seen Broncos try to slow down Moss. And it would have been cool to see Cunningham in a super bowl after all the PHI playoff chokes/bad losses in the early 90s.
And this is a personal pick for me Oilers-Cowboys in one of those 90s years. Moon was a choker and they would have did their thing where they led for a while before self destructing and Warren throwing a clutch int.
49ers Steelers would have been interesting in the Young SB year. Although no one was beating SF that year, they were fucking LOADED in 94.
Chargers-Bears in 2006. Assume that SD doesn't choke against NE and beats IND, we got that loaded Bears D and ST that was scoring all over the place vs the Chargers who had 6 all pros that year. You have Marty Schotenheimer finally in a super bowl after all those bad losses. Bears still had Grossman as Qb. I think they still lose but who knows.
#212 Re: Guns N' Roses » SOG single coming? » 127 weeks ago
It is what it is. They don't function as a band that releases stuff and placates their (shrinking) hardcore fan base. They are a for profit organization. Even some of those has been 80s hair bands who had one or two hits have released new material lately. Think about that for a minute.
What he (Axl) doesn't want to admit is that the creative well dry decades ago. Releasing new "material" (and I'm using this term loosely and giving them the benefit of the doubt) is secondary to them, from getting more suckers (sorry, harsh here) to the concerts/shows. I'm sure they have one or two songs mastered/finished that are new. They just don't want to release it and it's been that way for a long time. I'm not justifying their bullshit either. I just have zero expectation of them releasing and/or functioning like a normal band. This way I don't get disappointed when they inevitably when "deadlines" come and go.
#213 Re: The Garden » NFL 2022/23 season » 127 weeks ago
Bengals-Bills Bengals but this one is probably the best game of the weekend.
Jags-Chiefs: KC. Jags ain't playing the choking Chargers anymore. They get destroyed if Lawrence stinks in the first half again
Giants-Eagles: I have a hard time w/this one. PHI should win but I wouldn't be surprised if this thing is close and NYG pull it off
49ers vs Cowboys: 49ers but Purdy can't be missing open WR like he did last week vs Seattle. Still Dallas is playing well
#214 Re: The Sunset Strip » Jeff Beck Dead at 78 » 128 weeks ago
This fucking sucks. I'll have to listen to Blow by Blow.
#215 Re: The Garden » NFL 2022/23 season » 128 weeks ago
I'll give quick predicitons and maybe some analysis.
Chargers over Jags; not sure about this one. Chargers have a big ability to shit the bed. But they SHOULD win.
49ers over Seattle. Seattle was lucky to get in and the 49ers are rolling and will run over SEA.
Buff over Miami. Biggest mismatch this weekend. Dolphins starting a backup and they have a bad defense and are going to Buffalo
Bengals over Ravens : CIN is a legit SB contender and BAL may be starting Huntley again
Giants over MIN: MIN is a fraud and haven't really beaten any good teams outside of the fluky BUF win
TB over DAL: had trouble with this one but went with Brady at home and McCarthy has been a shit head coach for years
#216 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 128 weeks ago
I watched 12 Monkeys last year or so, as part of a Bruce Willis marathon. Always liked it but was surprised how good it really is. For a standalone, not very long movie, it is very profound and perfectly made. Everything, every scene just works in it. Gilliam's best film by far I would say.
I don't know if Bruce Willis was just incredibly fortunate or incredibly shrewd. His filmography is so diverse and he played in so many classics. This from a "Stallone type" actor with limited range.
It's probably a bit of both. Look at his 90s stuff, it's not really filled with blockbusters/typical action there's a lot of different genres.
The Black Phone is on Amazon Prime.
I really need to watch that.
I hate how I go through phases of watching new or old movies. I'm in my phase of watching old movies and TV shows. I had a pretty good run last year of watching newer movies.
I've seen it. It's pretty good and nails the retro vibe pretty well. I got creeped out a few times.
I go through genres more than years, of course most of the stuff I watch tends to be old. I do like tossing something totally different on once a week to break out of the mold otherwise I could go weeks watching stuff from one genre.
Steel and Lace; some B level movie in the 1990s that was a cross between a revenge film and a sci fi film. Not bad at all. The kills are interesting.
Office Space: pretty funny. There are some great jokes (shots on Michael Bolton), the beatdown on the copier. And some stuff millenials would not get like floppy disks etc. There is an undercurrent of the truth in this film though. Also, Jennifer Aninston was very hot as she plays this girl next door type love interest.
#217 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rolling Stone: The Search for Guns N’ Roses’ Lost Masterpiece » 130 weeks ago
I won’t read the article but it’s fair to say we are all pathetic.
I read the article and came away embarrassed and ashamed to be a GNR fan. And yes, I knew most of this stuff beforehand. Yikes.
#218 Re: The Garden » Merry Christmas » 130 weeks ago
I didn't do shit and took a few naps. I just felt tired. As you age, you realize it's just another day. Christmas means more for kids.
For those who are batting illness, I hope you guys get better.
#219 Re: Guns N' Roses » Merry Christmas! » 130 weeks ago
I hate Christmas.
Never had children so I never had an incentive to really get into the Christmas spirit. As Paulie says on The Sopranos....
Fuck Santa Claus.
Loved it as a kid though. I'll never forget the Christmas of 85. Literally mountains of presents....they wouldn't even all fit under the tree or in the living room. Had to be stuffed in closets. Our stockings were overloaded. Not with crap either... cassette tapes, cologne, shit like that.
Had some other great Christmas but that was the big one. When anyone in my family looks back on holidays of yesteryear...that's the one they mention.
It was also the last year everyone in my family was alive. My grandpa (on mom's side) died in 86.
While my mom and dad's big gift for me was an expensive skateboard (don't remember the brand name), my favorite gift in 85 was bought by my grandma....
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I screamed when I opened it.
It only came with the Road Warriors but thankfully my aunt Lynn bought me wrestlers to go with it.
Great story and memory. Mine's is this. We had a shitty plastic tree. It was 86 or 87. I was probably getting some lame gift or cash. My cousin comes by and on Christmas or close to it, brings several presents for us. Mine was the largest. It was this fucking large rectangluar box.
I open it on Christmas and it's some giant GI JOE helicoptor. I didn't really like GI JOE that much. But on that Christmas it didn't fucking matter. Also , I don't think my cousin had any idea how his act of kindness made me happy.
#220 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash Says Guns N’ Roses Have a ‘Couple of Epic’ Songs to Release » 133 weeks ago
You've described a majority of the audience at concerts for major acts.
The audience is 99.9% casual fans and people there for the event itself. These huge bands like Metallica, Stones, GNR, Fleetwood Mac, etc are not bands anymore...they are a "brand".
People go because it's GNR...they don't give a flying fuck about all the lineups or the history. They'll buy shitty merch by the truckload not knowing or caring that it's shitty merch. It says GNR...that's all that matters.
They want to hear Jungle or another huge hit while taking a selfie and post it on Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok so their friends/followers can see they went to the GNR show in town.
People like us are in the 0.1% of the crowd...and the number probably isn't even that high.
This is what concerts are in the 21st century...and it's not going to get better. It'll get worse...and the price will go up.
This reminds me of reading a post about a recent Skid Row concert. Some people in the crowd wondered where Baz was.
Baz hasn't been in the band since 1996....yet people bought tickets not knowing that. They just wanted to hear 18 & Life and I'll Remember You and pretend it's 1989 again for 5 minutes.
Then there's people who will go to a RATT show and the only song they know is Round and Round...
Reading this just depressed the shit out of me. It's fucking true and I'm not surprised with the current "me generation". But it just gives me of those, in the old days...people actually cared about the music/songs moment.
