HAVE AT THEE!!

[Tripp]

Kenneth Brannagh directing the THOR movie?

[Bizarro]

Here's a link to MTV.com's non-password-protected version of the same story:

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/09/29/kenneth-branagh-director-of-thor/

[Bizarro]

Anybody else listening to Fleet Foxes? I kept hearing that name everywhere so I tracked 'em down and gave 'em a spin.

So far, I'm liking it.

Multi-part harmonies that sometimes evoke the Beach boys and sometimes evoke "close-singing" old school country. or maybe that's all I can compare them to since that's the only heavily harmonized singing I listen to. Either way, there's a lot of sangin'.

The music is in the vein of the Shins or some of MMJ's more atmospheric stuff, but kinda spare at the same time. I dunno.

[Tripp]

haven't heard that one

[Bizarro]

Try "White Winter Hymnal" from here:
http://hypem.com/artist/fleet+foxes

Or grab the 2 disc version of their record here:

Code:

link moved to Hey I Wanna Play You Something Isle

[Bizarro]

The Onion nails it again:

Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy
BOSTON—According to an eye-opening report released Tuesday, 60 million people whom you would never talk to, would never be in a position to talk to, and wouldn't even be able to talk to if you tried will be voting for the other candidate in this year's presidential election, and there is nothing you can do about it.

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The 110-page document reveals that these strangers share a fundamental vision of our nation's future, a vision that shockingly runs completely counter to your own and is furthermore embodied by the candidate whom you could not in a million years fathom being the leader of the free world. Even more frightening, the report says, is that their votes count just as much as yours.

Just by looking at them, it's clear to you that your guy is the only sane choice.

"While you are 100 percent certain that your preferred candidate's stance on issues such as foreign policy and the economy would appeal to any human being with half a brain, there is, in this very same country, an equally large voting bloc which believes that you and your candidate of choice are absolutely insane," the report's co-author Dr. Mark Grier said during a press conference. "Every single thing you love about your candidate's personality, vice presidential pick, and family, 60 million other registered voters absolutely deplore."

"What you consider to be this country's ruin," Grier added, "these other people actually consider to be this country's savior."

The report also confirmed that even if you were able to communicate with these other citizens, your passion and conviction would never be enough to convince them not to vote for their candidate, just as they would never be able to convince you not to vote for your candidate, and just as nobody can convince anybody else that what they believe to be right is wrong, regardless of how clear the evidence to the contrary may be.

The report maintained that, during your purely hypothetical discussion, both of you would come off as smug, narrow-minded, or downright ignorant if you tried to criticize the other candidate's positions on key issues such as abortion and gay rights. The ensuing argument would only further cement both of your feelings of disgust toward the other candidate.

And yet incredibly, sources said, neither one of you would technically be wrong.

Because—and this is reportedly the most maddening part—even though these people's unwavering support for their candidate completely dumbfounds you, you cannot even get angry at them, since they are not voting for him because they are idiots or because they want to spite you, but rather because they actually believe that he is the better choice to run our nation.

The study, which comes as a result of 20 years of research conducted in America's cities, suburbs, and rural towns, indicates that residents living in places you "wouldn't be caught dead in" have never even once considered voting for your candidate at any point during the campaign, and never will, and this is just the way it is always going to be.

The report confirms that this frustrates you.

"The mere fact that you and these 60 million strangers actually live in the same country and salute the same flag seems to defy all reality, yet it's completely true," University of Pennsylvania sociology professor Dr. Marie Stratton said. "And what's even more incredible, there is no indication that you will ever talk to these people about your differences, because you prefer conversing with those who validate your opinions and give you a sense of self-satisfaction."

According to the report, based on the social and cultural trends in the nation, over the next 20 years the number of people with whom you would never speak is only expected to increase. By the 2032 election, there will be an astonishing 150 million people you will never meet who will hate you and your candidate with the same fervent passion with which you will hate them and their candidate.

"I'm voting for [the other guy] all the way," Ohio resident Ethan Washburn said in a statement Monday. "I think that when it comes to foreign and domestic issues, he is best suited for the job. And anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot."

"I'm voting for [the candidate opposite of Washburn] all the way," Florida resident Tom Redman said in a statement Monday. "I think that when it comes to foreign and domestic issues, he is best suited for the job. And anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot."

Remarkably, the one thing you do have in common with these 60 million other people is that you both know several assholes who are actually planning to vote for a third-party candidate, if you can believe that shit.
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[bebopbalogna]

anyody watch the season premier of dexter last night?  good stuff.    if you haven't been watching the past 2 seasons, i strongly urge you to catch up.

[Doctor Rock]

I don't quite agree with that Onion satire.  By any objective assessment, Dumbya is a terrible president.  And he is a republican.  Therefore, anyone who votes for the repugnicans after 8 years of Dumbya has to be be either stupid, deluded or both.

[Tripp]

Stupid, deluded or complicit.

Or all three.

[Doctor Rock]

However, I can hear the little voice of the cynic in me going: "those who sincerely expect the democrats to be a great improvement over the republicans also suffer form idiocy, delusion, etc."

[Just Some Girl]

anyody watch the season premier of dexter last night?  good stuff.    if you haven't been watching the past 2 seasons, i strongly urge you to catch up.

I don't have the pay channels (that would allow me to start season 3), but just finished season 1, and have season 2 discs queued up through zip (like Canadian netflix). yay!

I am hott for Dexter, for some reason. I think it's all the killing.


I do not know the Fleet Foxes.


I am rabidly hungover. I blame society.

[Tripp]

However, I can hear the little voice of the cynic in me going: "those who sincerely expect the democrats to be a great improvement over the republicans also suffer form idiocy, delusion, etc."

 

[bebopbalogna]

However, I can hear the little voice of the cynic in me going: "those who sincerely expect the democrats to be a great improvement over the republicans also suffer form idiocy, delusion, etc."

improvement is a given.  how great, hopefully we have a chance to find out.

[bebopbalogna]

anyody watch the season premier of dexter last night?  good stuff.    if you haven't been watching the past 2 seasons, i strongly urge you to catch up.

I don't have the pay channels (that would allow me to start season 3), but just finished season 1, and have season 2 discs queued up through zip (like Canadian netflix). yay!

season 2 is when the shit gets really good. i wish i woulda had the discs.  probably the first show that i honestly couldn't wait until next week.

[Just Some Girl]

yeah, we were watching in batches of 3 it was so alluring...! hoping the season 2 stuff's in my mailbox as we speak (write).

Dan's "inner cynic" sounds like Matt's "inner cynic." Me? I'm just tired of the whole thing already.

Alrighty, back to my desk now. toodles!