ErikG wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:11 pm

zircona1 wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:00 am

enframed wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:49 am Identikit, aka, The Driver's Seat, starring Elizabeth Taylor.

Oh. So Radiohead didn't make that word up.

I wonder if most of their good ideas weren't borrowed/stolen.

It's always seemed that way to me.

Radiohead MASSIVELY OVERRATED

Churchill. JFK. Yeah, I used to read a lot of Christopher Hitchens

losthighway wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:21 pm I think identikit is an anglicism we call police sketches in the U.S. Burning Airlines also used the term for their first album. Easy to imagine a rock song or a noir movie called Mugshot, but I digress.

Yes. You're right. Just after I moved to Wales (late 87) the news here showed three identikit pictures of men wanted for an armed robbery. But these guys had taken precautions, so we got three ski-masked faces of slightly different sizes

The Office, the American one.

Everything….everything now sucks. So while yr clever ass is stuck on wanting to recalibrate Bowie’s legacy, or worried that Radiohead is being pretentious again, we’re being given
Mumford & Sons ft. Pharell, so please get yr priorities straight.

Oscar Wilde. When he's firing on all 4 cylinders he can be really good, but most of the time reading his works is a chore. I get it. You've described the curtains to the subatomic level. Can you try putting a story together now?

ErickC wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:46 am Oscar Wilde. When he's firing on all 4 cylinders he can be really good, but most of the time reading his works is a chore. I get it. You've described the curtains to the subatomic level. Can you try putting a story together now?

See also: Proust.

I remember finishing The Importance of Being Earnest and thinking, “That’s it?!?!” I have liked other Wilde, however.

I’ll throw Truman Capote on my overrated list. Sometimes good, sometimes just awful, and fundamentally not interesting as a cultural figure. It boggles my mind that so many people care about court gossip among New York’s boring socialite class.

Harper Lee supposedly wrote or re-wrote much of In Cold Blood. I wouldn’t want my name on that corny, condescending bullshit either.

losthighway wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:21 pm Burning Airlines also used the term for their first album.

2nd album

I'm trying to resist a nihilistic "every thing is crap" response even though I do feel that way most days. I'm just going with It's Me, Not You World. If people get excited for Taylor Swift or the NFL or reunion concerts then I'm happy for them.

tonyballzee wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:57 pm The Office, the American one.

It started good but quickly went from somewhat of a mockumentary to a typical American sitcom.

Football...both of 'em