losthighway wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 7:33 pm

ErikG wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 6:47 pm
I'm also disappointed that no one has piled on the Bare Naked Ladies. Come on folks. Do better.

Oh God, yeah the Bare Naked Ladies are fucking awful.

Some good hate reading:

https://www.stereogum.com/2190488/the-n ... mber-ones/

After 25 years of listening, I'm still not sure if David Byrne wrote the most brutally satirical lyrics for the Talking Heads, or the most strangely earnest and naive. If the former is true his cultural criticism has some real zing and his love songs are vacant. If the latter his love songs are so ...

The other night I was at a trivia night benefit for a debate club. One of the categories was 'Over/Under', where they gave you a question and you had to say if the # was more or less. One of them was: "The tube in London is 100 miles long." I told my team I thought it was more, because &qu...

Dave N. wrote: Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:45 am “That was fun.” People still say that? What dull-ass planet are you from? We were so good!

Last Monday after I played an open mic set, one of the earlier performers said "that was fun" to me. Hey, thanks!

Some tracks from this new Cindy Lee album. It's fine, I don't dislike it. Reminds me of Deerhunter.

I think the New Radicals guy said he was just joking with the whole musicians diss lines towards the end, he didn't mean any ill will towards them.

Wood Goblin wrote: Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:31 pm
I will also cop to liking that New Radicals song, which also made his list and which I fully recognize is horrible.

I like that song too. Years ago during a book sale I got that album at my library for a buck. It's actually pretty good.

enframed wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:46 pm I got two books by Clarice Lispector this weekend. I am soooooo excited to read these. I don't recall how I heard about her but she and her books seem fascinating.

I found The Passion According to G.H. to be a slog. YMMV though.

penningtron wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:38 am In addition to that risk, I was under the impression that dishwashing knives makes them duller so I always wash them by hand (soap wand thing) with the blade facing away.

I hand wash the good knives that I use for meal prep. The dollar-store and Ikea steak knives go in the dishwasher.

Yeah I watched the first two at the cinema but by the third one my butt just couldn't face the 3 hour numbing. I like the first one a lot, and don't mind the others, but the very concept of the 'extended' versions was deranged. Yeah, you'd have to be a big fan of the books/films/lore to want more. ...