OT: Art, Music, Literature, Media, and More! Part 1

StojkoVrankovic · RIP texas celtic, 12/10/14 - 12/10/14

andy582 wrote:Amy Schumer's show on Comedy Central is the funniest thing on TV right now, FWIW..

Silicon Valley has something to say about this

truth18 · Post #82 » by **truth18** » Thu May 21, 2015 5:43 am

Good idea, JMR. I'll bump your thoughts.

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Art by Zdzislaw Beksinki

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Ulrich Schnauss. Good intrumental electronic.

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Lou

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Herb

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15th overall · Post #83 » by **15th overall** » Thu May 21, 2015 7:04 am

Anybody check out Modest Mouse's new album yet? I plan to at some point but heard one of the singles off it and felt no need to rush out and get it just yet. My favorite track by them:

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I've always found North Korea fascinating, such a weird place... There's a pretty good documentary called Crossing the Line about a few US soldiers that defected to the DPRK back in the 60's. A British film crew went over there and interviewed one of them about it, may be worth a watch if documentaries are your kind of thing.

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I'm sure everyone's already seen this at some point, but I stumbled across a 1080p version of Big Trouble in Little China on youtube and felt compelled to post it. John Carpenter + Kurt Russell make for a hell of a combo.

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Pacino62 · Post #84 » by **Pacino62** » Thu May 21, 2015 9:08 am

andy582 wrote:Amy Schumer's show on Comedy Central is the funniest thing on TV right now, FWIW..

Love it and can't wait to see her new movie Trainwreck with Bill Hader. Looks great

Pacino62 · Post #85 » by **Pacino62** » Thu May 21, 2015 9:15 am

15th overall wrote:Anybody check out Modest Mouse's new album yet? I plan to at some point but heard one of the singles off it and felt no need to rush out and get it just yet. My favorite track by them:

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1bi4emEkk[/youtube]

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I've always found North Korea fascinating, such a weird place... There's a pretty good documentary called Crossing the Line about a few US soldiers that defected to the DPRK back in the 60's. A British film crew went over there and interviewed one of them about it, may be worth a watch if documentaries are your kind of thing.

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY0Wlk1BtXA[/youtube]

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I'm sure everyone's already seen this at some point, but I stumbled across a 1080p version of Big Trouble in Little China on youtube and felt compelled to post it. John Carpenter + Kurt Russell make for a hell of a combo.

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFtYrgh70A[/youtube]

Big Trouble in Little China is one of the greatest of all time. Carpenter was so great back then. The original Halloween actually holds up well. The Thing is still one of the best "monster movies". Escape From New York and Assault on Precint 13 were great as well. Unfortunately, since Big Trouble, he's done nothing worth noting. In fact, he's done some real dog sh$&.

truth18 · Post #86 » by **truth18** » Mon Jun 1, 2015 3:23 pm

Love BTILC as well.

Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James, Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, and T Bone Burnett (production) covering a Dylan song, really, really well.

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Hmm link won't work embedded so here's a direct one:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYSxkbgW-M

Not even a big fan of any of those guys other than T Bone and Costello. Great tune though.

jmr07019 · Post #87 » by **jmr07019** » Mon Jun 1, 2015 5:35 pm

StojkoVrankovic wrote:
andy582 wrote:Amy Schumer's show on Comedy Central is the funniest thing on TV right now, FWIW..

Silicon Valley has something to say about this

Haven't seen either one of those but big time in hollywood florida has me in stitches.

15th overall · Post #88 » by **15th overall** » Mon Jun 1, 2015 6:47 pm

I saw Mad Max: Fury Road over the weekend and you guys weren't kidding. One of those rare movies that not only lives up to the hype, but actually surpasses it too.

Just found out they're remaking The Raid with the guy who played "John Carter." I'm expecting it to be awful.

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t18, you gotta swap out the "m" for mobile with a "www" in order to embed that. They're very particular with the format for these things... like if you try to embed a tweet that has "/statuses/" instead of "/status/," it won't work.

Pacino62 · Post #89 » by **Pacino62** » Mon Jun 1, 2015 8:10 pm

15th overall wrote:I saw Mad Max: Fury Road over the weekend and you guys weren't kidding. One of those rare movies that not only lives up to the hype, but actually surpasses it too.

Just found out they're remaking The Raid with the guy who played "John Carter." I'm expecting it to be awful.

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t18, you gotta swap out the "m" for mobile with a "www" in order to embed that. They're very particular with the format for these things... like if you try to embed a tweet that has "/statuses/" instead of "/status/," it won't work.

I actually saw it a second time. I hardly ever do that.

Taylor Kitsh (excuse the spelling) is going to be in The Raid remake??? Ugh...What a nightmare. Although, he is going to be in the new season of True Detective, so maybe he's making better career choices. Season one was some of the best television of all time.

Side note...watched Memories of Murder (thanks again). I wasn't expecting it to be as funny (darkly) as it was. Well worth the watch for fans of foreign Thrillers. Thanks for the rec.

Side note...was bored late Saturday afternoon and threw on Cabin in the Woods...Everyone who is a fan of the horror genre (think Evil Dead) needs to check it out

gammajamma · Post #90 » by **gammajamma** » Mon Jun 1, 2015 8:41 pm

I just can't wait for Rick and Morty to come back in july. WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!

truth18 · Post #91 » by **truth18** » Mon Jun 1, 2015 11:05 pm

gammajamma wrote:I just can't wait for Rick and Morty to come back in july. WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!

Great show, very funny and intelligent writing. I'm also a big China, IL fan.

On True Detective: that first season was basically the best written TV I've seen since the Wire (and it was arguably better written than that). Right before the show came out I read this comic called "The Invisibles" that inspired A LOT of stuff in the show. The writer of True Detective directly said that actually. I'm not a big comic guy other than the Walking Dead, but this is must read level stuff for anyone:

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I still don't know how you follow season one. I cant help but think season two will inherently be worse because season one was basically the best thing ever.

Pacino62 · Post #92 » by **Pacino62** » Tue Jun 2, 2015 8:50 am

truth18 wrote:
gammajamma wrote:I just can't wait for Rick and Morty to come back in july. WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!

Great show, very funny and intelligent writing. I'm also a big China, IL fan.

On True Detective: that first season was basically the best written TV I've seen since the Wire (and it was arguably better written than that). Right before the show came out I read this comic called "The Invisibles" that inspired A LOT of stuff in the show. The writer of True Detective directly said that actually. I'm not a big comic guy other than the Walking Dead, but this is must read level stuff for anyone:

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I still don't know how you follow season one. I cant help but think season two will inherently be worse because season one was basically the best thing ever.

Never been into any comics. I do love The Walking Dead series though and I'm looking forward to the spinoff as well. However, I'm going to give The Invisibles a try based on what you just wrote.

The six minute single shot in "The Raid" episode is hands down the best scene of any show ever put on the small screen from a filmmaking perspective. Just incredible what they did with that. You felt like you were a neighbor watching the entire thing unfold. All great shows can get by with two out of three things (great acting, great cinematography, great writing). True Detective was that rare show that had all three.

I hold out high hopes for season 2. I'm a huge Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn guy. I also love me some Rachel McAdams. No way it lives up to season 1 though.

Pacino62 · Post #93 » by **Pacino62** » Tue Jun 2, 2015 9:34 am

Not sure if anyone has heard if Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, but they are pretty solid if you like jazz infused hip hop. Sunday Candy, Familiar and Slip Slide will give you a good idea for the style.

15th overall · Post #94 » by **15th overall** » Tue Jun 2, 2015 5:11 pm

Expectations wise, we're probably all better off if we consider this season of True Detective an entirely different show, which pretty much seems impossible but that's how I'm going to at least try to approach it.

re: horror:
If you've never seen it, The Descent is a lost gem IMO. It's got an all female cast which is pretty unique... I didn't realize how odd it would be to see a movie with all broads that is neither super sexualized nor a chick flick, but they pulled it off and without any traces of it having some kind of women's lib-type agenda. Don't wanna oversell it--- it's not breathtaking or anything, but a pretty cool under the radar horror movie that strays a bit from the norm.

Synopsis: bunch of chicks go spelunking and then isht goes down.

Here's a 720p copy of it. It'll automatically start off in 240p, so you have to manually change it to 720p.

Avoid the sequel at all costs.

Pacino62 · Post #95 » by **Pacino62** » Tue Jun 2, 2015 5:52 pm

15th overall wrote:Expectations wise, we're probably all better off if we consider this season of True Detective an entirely different show, which pretty much seems impossible but that's how I'm going to at least try to approach it.

re: horror:
If you've never seen it, The Descent is a lost gem IMO. It's got an all female cast which is pretty unique... I didn't realize how odd it would be to see a movie with all broads that is neither super sexualized nor a chick flick, but they pulled it off and without any traces of it having some kind of women's lib-type agenda. Don't wanna oversell it--- it's not breathtaking or anything, but a pretty cool under the radar horror movie that strays a bit from the norm.

Synopsis: bunch of chicks go spelunking and then isht goes down.

Here's a 720p copy of it. It'll automatically start off in 240p, so you have to manually change it to 720p.

Avoid the sequel at all costs.

That movie was so claustrophobic...LOL

And you aren't kidding about Sh$% going down. Movie was intense with great effects. Sequel sucked royally. Unfortunately, the director went on 2 direct 2 dogs (Doomsday and Centurion) after that gem as well as a promising one before it (Dog Soldiers)

15th overall · Post #96 » by **15th overall** » Tue Jun 2, 2015 8:52 pm

I really liked Dog Soldiers, a bit closer to the cheesy side of horror but not in a bad way. Multiple Games of Thrones actors too (or at least one off the top of my head, Stannis' 2nd in command).

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Doomsday really bummed me out.. the fact that Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell had to whore themselves out to that kind of garbage is unsettling. It was like one of those movies that The Asylum squats out every other month--- pure cashgrab.

Never saw Centurion... didn't want to cheapen my opinion of The Fassbender, as I assumed it would be complete trash.

Pacino62 · Post #97 » by **Pacino62** » Wed Jun 3, 2015 9:42 am

Speaking of Fass...check out Shame and Hunger if you haven't seen them. Based on your knowledge of movies 15th, I'd bet you've seen or at least heard of them.

Ed Pinkney · Post #98 » by **Ed Pinkney** » Wed Jun 3, 2015 10:42 am

For any metal heads, whilst driving to and from work over the last week or two I have been shuffling through a playlist on my iPod of Tesseract, Devin Townsend, Meshuggah and Alchemist.

Tesseract

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Devin Townsend

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Meshuggah

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Alchemist - Australian metal gods from my hometown of Canberra.

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truth18 · Post #99 » by **truth18** » Thu Jun 4, 2015 12:39 am

Not a huge metal fan but Meshuggah, Tool, UFOMAMMUT, Electric Wizard (more stoner rock) and Animals as Leaders (this band would be absolutely huge worldwide if they picked a better name) are **** awesome. Seen all of them live too

15th: The Descent was CRAZY. I don't really watch movies for some reason (made an exception for Mad Max and glad I did), so its cool you guys are recommending some solid stuff. Thanks for the recommendation.

Random Dinosaur Jr. song (they are from Amherst/NE). Great tune/band.

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Curmudgeon · Post #100 » by **Curmudgeon** » Thu Jun 4, 2015 1:05 am

What, no In Flames fans here?