Already sung "Friday" by Rebecca Black to my kids, right into "Friday I'm in Love" by the Cure as we all got ready to leave the house this morning for school. So, yes. I'm with you on this one. It is definitely Friday.
Savage Garden. Extreme actually had a very prominent amount of their five-album repertoire dedicated to shredding and fast-tempo hard rock, including Nuno Bettencourt's "Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee" off Extreme II, which riffed off of the famous string work by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Extreme's attempt to break into the hard rock market was thwarted when they composed a one-off acoustic duet entitled "More than Words", which was an uncharacteristically romantic and lighthearted, but immensely popular. Record companies then released "Hole Hearted" off the same album to capitalize on "More than Words'" success. The only truly fast-tempo song to reach popularity by Extreme was "Rest in Peace", which featured one of my favorite guitar solos of the early 90's hair metal period. Fact is, Nuno Bettencourt was an amazing guitarist, and played some of the most melodic hard rock guitar for his time period.
I'm down here, mom! No! Down in the basement on the computer! Are my pizza rolls burning in the toaster oven?!?
Here, huckabeast. Here's a concrete example:
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By the way, when searching for this movie, I couldn't remember the title, so I tried to search for Donald Sutherland, only I couldn't remember his name either, and kept wanting to Google search Frank Lloyd Wrong.
No, The Justice League are DC, but Forge was a character from Marvel comics. He shot the X-man Storm with a ray gun inspired my the one used by ROM: Spaceknight and took away her powers for a time in the mid-80's.
I'll go back to the basement in a minute, mom! Where are my pizza rolls?!?!?
Don't be fooled! It looks like a camel turd, but tastes delicious! My kids love these things, and we can't keep them in the house when we buy them they get eaten so fast. Also, my kids are 81, 83 and 85 years old.
No, I totally remember that. I also remember the kids who dropped shit off an overpass like in Beavis and Butthead... or was that The Good Son? The 90's, guys!
As a CT Cultural Ambassador (that's a real thing that I am - my wife signed me up), I heartily encourage you all to visit the Mystic Aquarium if you're on your way to the casinos so you can see this beluga in person. In fact, I'll make sure to get a piano quintet to play Schubert's "Trout" quintet while you visit.
I am not, however, saying that I was right in thinking any of those things. I was excited by a progressive push in politics, and naive to think that things could swing so far to the right so quickly.
When I was living in New York, this idea actually did come up - especially among the Nader voters in order to justify the argument that Bush could legitimately win because Nader was splitting the progressives in the Democratic party. I was among those Nader supporters who really and honestly thought Gore and Bush were the equally terrible choices for the country, and would echo the sentiment that it was good if Bush won - that it would teach the country a lesson and things would correct themselves in 2004.
Hey, kids. Way back in 2000, a bunch of people in certain liberal circles thought it would really teach everyone a lesson if George W. Bush were elected because he was clearly an idiot, and if we let the dummies have this one election, the nation would never elect another idiot to office again. Heck, certain people even thought that electing an idiot like Bush would galvanize liberals and strengthen the Democratic party. Plus, since Clinton left the country on strong fiscal footing, four years of a bozo in office couldn't hurt the country THAT MUCH, could it?
I guess I'm just saying "please be careful what you joke about doing when you joke about voting Bachmann into office". I will never, EVER, take the position again that "it can't get much worse" after enduring the past twelve years of politics.
When you reference yellow journalism to demonstrate a consistent trend in the press that extends to gossip columns in the L.A. Times, I have to log in to upvote you. Herstorygum. Upvotes forever.
For a second I thought the Iron Lady was a sequel to the Iron Giant, and imagined the Iron Giant's mom coming to Earth to pick him up and apologizing for being late because she got tied up at the plumbing supply store.
So far all I made of these trailers is that the only three plots in Hollywood right now are "teens in love", "conservative women" and "fighting".
Can we put those three things together and make a movie about conservative women fighting teens in love?
I hate the name - "Pottermore". How hard was that to come up with in the board room? "We want more Potter! I know! Potter, but more! Pottermore!"
Ugh. This can have all my ughs.
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