Joe Meek Till Brooklyn
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"Evacuate in our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances."
That's the first thing I remember seeing him in, and he's such a wholesome doofus. That kinda established his whole actor persona.
"Nowhere Fast" and "Tonight is What it Means to Be Young" by Ellen Aim and the Attackers / Streets of Fire.
Also, "I Can Dream About You" by the Sorels / Streets of Fire.
"Jailhouse Rock" by the Blues Brothers and the entire cast and crew of the movie.
I think the Decider is still a worse president than Trump, if only because he had two terms to do damage and Little Donny Naptime didn't start any forever wars.
CNN is Diet Fox, but the stipulations that there won't be an audience to scream over Biden and cheer for Little Donnie Naptime and also that mikes get cut at the end of speaking time means that it's going to be an absolute debacle for Trump. Even if he shows up and doesn't literally shit his pants.
Well, then, there are really a lot of incentives for the Dems to do ANYTHING that their constituents want, aren't there?
It's always been really ironic that the people who railed against Dungeons and Dragons for 35 years can't tell that they're LARPing their own careers.
Have you seen Ravenous? Period piece horror with an absurdly overqualified cast.
Post a picture from your camera roll of you and your best friends!
This is the center-left version of "Why are young people not going to my church any more?" and the answer for that one is "Because they think Black people and anyone on the LGBT spectrum is human, and you don't". Ironically the church people are just as fuck-awful at implementing working solutions.
Back when even the ripoffs were aiming higher. Which is how you get a film that's simultaneously a remake of Star Wars / Seven Samurai.
Also probably important: John Sayles writing the screenplay.
If the left started shooting back randomly, we'd have the Troubles in the USA for a decade or two. On the other hand we'd also scare the living shit out of Nazis who think they can get away with this indefinitely.
UNC Chapel Hill, you say?
Inside UNC's outrageous academic scandal: athletes took fake classes for 18 years - Vox
"We WILL have unity and togetherness, or the campus police will crack your fucking skull for you."
When David Zaslav finally dies, he's going to get mocked even more than he already does.
The many fond tributes to Roger Corman are a good reminder that it is a much better legacy to be remembered as someone who helped artists by exposing their work to the world than to be remembered as someone who buried their work for a tax write-off.
Hey, if you really want to hurt your own feelings, there's a book by Edwin Black called "War Against the Weak". It's a history of the eugenics movement in the USA and how it also inspired laws in Nazi Germany.
Why yes, I *am* familiar with the sacred texts.
I just wanted to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
A fond farewell to Roger Corman, who was and will be the best talent scout Hollywood ever had. I don't know if *anyone's* seen everything he had a hand in making or releasing.
I've never seen it, for a buck twenty-five I couldn't pass it up.
I *have* seen the bad Suicide Squad, and this is the extended edition. It's a bad choice. But it, too, was a buck twenty-five.
God DAMN.
If I lost to the host of Celebrity Apprentice I might think about Pokémon Going Away Forever.
Yeah, the more I learn about our political elite class, the more I think they'd be fine pushing the button as long as they were 10,000 percent sure they'd never face personal consequences for it.
Some of the best nuclear-nightmare visions of the 80s, a decade that had a lot of them. FOR SOME REASON.
This joke is from the Snagglepuss comic; that's the woman trying to make sure gay panthers can't have a career writing plays. I'm pretty sure the Venn diagram of people who read the comic and got the joke is me and, like, four other people.
Well, if the Monkees, Devo, and Joe Meek get in next year we'll know who the problem was.
How about the entirety of Dante's Inferno? Hey there, guy I didn't like who is in Hell, wading in shit! How do you like wading in shit there?
Siri, what is the truest statement currently available?
The trouble with writing rock history is that a lot of people would prefer rock to have mythology
How much more famous do the Monkees have to be, man? I knew about them LONG before I knew about damn near any other band.
...True confession time: I'm a big fan of John Mellencamp. I also have no idea if he ever got inducted, so I really haven't been following this issue very closely.
It's the Hall of Fame, not the Hall of Awesome. So I'm okay that they never inducted Joe Meek.
God DAMN.
RFK is the only candidate who believes in lobal worming
Correct protesting just like Dr. King did, right? Whatever happened to him?
As always, if you see someone stealing baby formula or food or other necessities, NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T.
It's always, always worth noting that the stuff stores lock up--the stuff people allegedly steal the most--is necessities. Baby formula. Toothpaste. Toilet paper.
The shoplifting--which isn't occurring anyway, but if it were--is not the main problem in this scenario.
God DAMN.
tired: brain worms jokes
wired: acknowledging RFK Jr.'s serious and sober dedication to the family legacy of having his political career ended by missing brain matter
Oddly enough, the National Review also saw its mission as stopping the progress of history that they didn't like. In their case, the history they wanted to stop was treating Black people like human beings and American citizens.