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Post by 3onthetree on Dec 9, 2006 8:23:56 GMT -4
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3851426890212250833Let's face it, our culture is dying, our music just isn't what it used to be and our Movies are all pyrotechnics and CGI. All we really want is for the Neocons and mainstream media to put something back on Television. Ps. Anyone with any evidence of good music and or movies give me a pointer please.
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Post by scooter on Dec 9, 2006 10:15:34 GMT -4
What is this "neocon" thing, and how are they determining what we watch and listen to? Last I checked, Hollywood and the networks make the movies and TV shows, and then market them to make folks think they need to see them. It's just business and marketing. And there's plenty of good music out there...depending on your tastes. The Bomb Iran song is an oldie from the 80s..., back in the early Ayatolla days, so they have been a concern for quite a long time.
If you let others choose your viewing and listening habits, you can only blame yourself for what you get. You don't have to watch or listen to what everyone else does.
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Post by Jason on Dec 9, 2006 12:22:19 GMT -4
I liked the new Bond film.
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Post by spongebob on Dec 9, 2006 15:26:28 GMT -4
The Bomb Iran song is an oldie from the 80s..., back in the early Ayatolla days, so they have been a concern for quite a long time. Indeed, that's why we sold Saddam Hussein all of his weapons.
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Post by reynoldbot on Dec 9, 2006 18:32:17 GMT -4
United 93 was an excellent movie in my opinion. The new Muse album is also pretty good in my opinion. I could name some others if you'd like.
People every decade complain of the same thing, "this decade is the worst ever and the world is going to hell."
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Post by echnaton on Dec 9, 2006 19:51:35 GMT -4
The Bomb Iran song is an oldie from the 80s..., back in the early Ayatolla days, so they have been a concern for quite a long time.By a local Houston novelty band even. Vince Vance and the Valiants
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Post by echnaton on Dec 9, 2006 20:12:00 GMT -4
Anyone with any evidence of good music and or movies give me a pointer please.Good music also seems to be more pervasive during times where people feel constrained and are breaking free through creativity. In the U.S. today, there are few constraints on what you can do with music so instead of creativity we get marketing and vulgarity. Still in any time really good music is generally hard to find among all the schlock. But there are always creative people that have regard for music and hard work. You just have to tune out Clear Channel and look elsewhere. Go to a record store, chat with some employees and ask them who the good bands are. Then buy a CD on their recommendation. One of my favorites is Trey Gunn who plays Warr touch guitars. Go to his web site and listen to some clips. He also plays with a variety of other musicians, if you like Gunn’s music chances are there will be something interesting among those he admires enough to play with.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 9, 2006 20:39:00 GMT -4
Indeed, that's why we sold Saddam Hussein all of his weapons.
You from France, or Germany? Russia? China?
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Post by 3onthetree on Dec 9, 2006 20:50:59 GMT -4
That's what I was trying to say, thanks. English is only my first language. I'll have a look.
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Post by gillianren on Dec 13, 2006 22:42:59 GMT -4
Dar Williams has a new album out in which she does a duet of "Comfortably Numb" with Ani DiFranco. As to movies . . . well, click the little "my website" thingy next to my post (it's the one shaped like a house).
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Post by james on Jan 1, 2007 8:16:39 GMT -4
The new Muse album is also pretty good in my opinion. Been listening to Muse a lot lately. A very good band. I really like the newest album too. The latest movie I saw was the new Bond film. I thought it was great. And I thought the previous one was really bad, with all the over-the-top gadgets and crap like that. An Austin Martin that can shoot guns, rockets and tons of other things and also go invisible? I was surprised there was room for an engine in that car. It was too ridiculous. But the new film has none of that. Bond had to rely on himself to get out of tough spots instead of some magical gadgets, which I find more exciting and entertaining.
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Post by 3onthetree on Jan 1, 2007 19:47:38 GMT -4
Dar Williams has a new album out in which she does a duet of "Comfortably Numb" with Ani DiFranco. As to movies . . . well, click the little "my website" thingy next to my post (it's the one shaped like a house). I like the Rotten Tomatoes site. I wish I had read a review on Wolf Creek before I started watching it, It's the first movie to ever make me disgusted enough to turn the Tele off. Read the review, don't watch it. I had no idea what it was about.
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Post by dwight on Jan 1, 2007 20:35:12 GMT -4
Let's see some one using a sh*te cover version of a cover version of a cool song is whinging about lack of originality? Can you anti everything folk just once maybe construct an arguement that in some microscopic measurement relates to something concise and relevant?
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Jan 1, 2007 21:05:05 GMT -4
I brought home "Barnyard" and "Cars" for the kids the other night.
"Cars" is good - it's a Pixar film, the production value is high, and I liked the story. The filmmakers obviously cared about the subject matter - old cars, race cars, Route 66 and the small town along it . . . I thought from the previews it would be creepy (anthropomorphic cars), but it's really cute and sweet. Good values lessons for the kids.
"Barnyard," on the other hand, offended me before 4 minutes had passed. Bulls with udders, just to start with. It's everything "Chicken Run" wasn't - witless, mindless, pointless, bad art, bad values messages (the bulls with udders steal a car and go joyriding, getting wacky while drinking a six-pack of milk), any number of complaints. I took it straight back to the RedBox machine, but kept Cars for another couple of watchings.
NeoCons, by the way, have nothing to do with media.
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Post by gillianren on Jan 2, 2007 1:44:31 GMT -4
Every time I see the ads for Barnyard, I have to be calmed down again because of the bulls-with-udders thing.
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