I quote like Hardschool. The vocal line is pretty good and the guitar elevates it from the messy demo imo. I think it's better than Slither which was VR's best song and actually most of CD too.

Absurd is also an improvement over Silkworms. Not a great track but good. Something along the lines of Shotgun Blues for me.

If they ever release more I'm kinda excited to hear it.

The reason I like this channel is because he's very good at laying the story out in an entertaining way, and he finds stories that may not be spectacular, but unique and interesting in their own way. A typical story he does is "teen gets electrocuted while drunk". You read that in the paper and you think "whatever", but he manages to turn it into a ten minute video where he keeps you on the edge of your seat because of the presentation.

I think that's why he blew up. He's got that little bit of extra that separates him from the pack. Like all these interrogation videos that are copying JCL.

The other channel I really like is Historia Civilis. He only uploads every 3 months or so, but if you like history he presents it in an amazing way. I've read a bunch of books about Caesar but it was not until seeing his videos that I got to see the army movements in a clear way. You read a book and you hear all these place names and you don't know where they are, and it's hard to get a picture in your mind about what is happening.

If they employed these techniques in school, learning would go through the roof.

Conspiracy documentaries were much better when they were funded by the CIA.

Terminator 2

When I was a kid this was the holy grail of action movies. Now I see a lot of weaknesses which are present in everything James Cameron makes. He does not respect his audience and he isn't making movies for himself. It is strictly a matter of entertaining you. This inevitably results in overly dumb plotting and cliches, because cliches are cliches for a reason, they always work. Avatar he wasn't even trying to hide it.

Being preoccupied with entertainment he neglects drama because drama is boring. He never developed his craft in that area and the result is boredom. Writing good drama is the hardest thing to do in cinema. He wasn't very good at it then and he isn't very good at it now. This movie is an empty shell propped up by special effects. Admittedly they are still great.

A contrast to Cameron is George Lucas. They both work in the same field, breaking records at the box office with huge action movies and sequels. In a JC movie the best scenes will always be action or special effects oriented, while in a George Lucas movie you can have bare boned drama scenes which are just as good as the action set pieces. Take Luke surrendering himself to his father in Return of the Jedi and that scene is as good as anything else in that movie.

If they ever release this new album we might get something like that. Did they record new rhythm tracks for Absurd and Hard Skool?

In the reviews people always say that the band is great but the vocals are not what they used to be.

Certainly there is no arguing with the last part, but I feel the same is equally true of "the band" (ie. Slash). Dude has lost it imo. When you listen to Angus Young play you are impressed with the clarity in his playing and the way it still sounds completely old school.

Slash on the other hand has degenerated into complacent noodling. Maybe it got to his head and he thinks he can get away with doing whatever? Or maybe he just doesn't care? The guy used to be a master soloist and now he can't even get the tone right for his own hits. Unforgivable imo. At least Axl is trying.