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Not to be, or maybe, just to be a self-righteous A-Hole...I have had some very cultural influential mediums come screaming at me recently...along with andrewmiller's '07 recommendations I have stumbled upon some really good movies and music recently; and, I want to share them with y'all:

  1.  Once...great movie about two singer/songwriters' in destitute Dublin
  2.  Day and Nightdriving- Seven Mary Three...new album available on ITunes for only 10 bux by the most under-rated band EVER...this time around they are very Springsteen/storytelling/romantic-ish...I've had it a day and listened to it 3! times...check it or their previous under-rated albums out...Economy of Sound is my fav
  3.  No Country for Old Men...read the book and couldn't believe the movie pulled it off...but, then again, it was Joel and Ethan Coen
  4.  2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck...very wierd book about the Mayan calander and the prophecy of the "end date" of December 21, 2012...can't help but think its a possibility in today's world
  5.  Bright Eyes- Cassadaga...wow!...the song Soul Singer in a Session Band just floors me...if there ever was a Bob Dylan Torch this hombre is carrying it
ok, just offering up some suggestions...peace out brothas

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heartily agree
or at least 1, 3, and 5.  Haven't heard or read the other two.

I think the lead singer or one of the band members of seven mary three is from salina, ks (or at least his cousin is.)  

I hadn't heard much about that 2012 end of the world date for a while, but your post conjured up an awesome memory of this rather amusing article:

http://deadspin.com/sports/darren-daulton/darren-daulton-has-gone-plum-damn-crazy-155506.php

I assume it's just the PEDs talking...

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by marbotty on Feb 2, 2008 2:21 AM EST reply actions  

ah yes...
the ever popular character assassination
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by PhattStairs on Feb 2, 2008 11:30 AM EST up reply actions  

Once
Haven't gotten a chance to see the movie yet, but the soundtrack is great.
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by Rowyal on Feb 2, 2008 2:26 AM EST reply actions  

most of my mind-broadening things
recently, have been pretty academic... ohh neat, the Connecticut Historical Society's Library has some papers from the 1780s from this guy I'm trying to figure out about..

For fun I've been reading an old spy novel from the 30s... sorta cool I guess, but so incredibly unrealistic (the main good guy and bad guy have already met face to face 4 times by chapter 10... I mean, this isn't actually Pacino and de neiro in Heat either)

Has anybody been watching Monster Quest on the History channel? Its been a guilty pleasure of mine, although its also depressing, because by the end of each episode I'm fairly convinced the monster no way exists...

by Freneau on Feb 2, 2008 5:18 PM EST reply actions  

Bright Eyes
That guy, Conor Oberst, is some kind of talent.  Really inspiring/relaxing when I'm in the right mood.
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by Royals Nation on Feb 2, 2008 5:52 PM EST reply actions  

I hear you
Once is a fantastic film.  Ever since seeing it I have been going back and buying albums of Glen Hansard's band The Frames.  Good Stuff.

Bright Eyes - what can you say.  This is the third in a row with Lifted, Wide Awake It's Morning and now Cassadaga.  IMO, the weakest of the three, but there are still killer songs like Soul Singer, Classic Cars, Brakeman Turns my Way.  

No Country For Old Men - I am dying to see.  I live in rural USA, so finding a film with intelligence, even limited intelligence is rare.  Last two weeks examples: Alvin and the Chipmunks, National Treasure 2.  Thanks, I'll stay home.  However, a couple of weekends ago, we were out of town and saw Juno.  Fun film very clever script.  

by lordbyronk on Feb 3, 2008 8:51 AM EST reply actions  

that gives me an idea
See... it's this animated feature, where these three...squirrels... discover that the Magna Carta is actually a treasure map.    

But first they'll need to steal Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son , because he hid a clue in it about the secret location of Magellan's sextant, but the clue can only be discovered through the use of a magnetic resonance imaging, which Da Vinci invented while on vacation in Crete.  So they're forced to enter a nearby spanish hospital dressed as medicos, hoping to find an MRI machine big enough to accomodate the painting.  

Of course, hilarity ensues when the three chipmunks are mistaken as real surgeons and have to perform an emergency atrial fibrillation on the President of Europe, who is visiting Madrid from Europe City, the capital.  See it's hilarious because they're not really doctors, and they don't speak Spanish, and the President of Europe is super important and wears a monocle and has a billowy mustache and an accent of indistinguishable origin.   Oh, and also because nobody notices that they're squirrels.

After they've saved the President's life through a series of madcap coincidences, (they confuse the word "see" with the spanish word "si", for example), they find the location of the buried sextant on Mactau Island, underneath an old abandoned church.  Upon retreiving the sextant, they realize that it is more than a navigational device:  it acts as a cypher needed to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, which they'll discover contains a hidden message describing the location of Moses's tomb, which was where 2nd century pirates hid millions of dollars worth of... well, I don't want to ruin the ending for you, but let's just say things turned out pretty "golden" for our furry little friends.  Let's also say, they'll never have to worry about finding money to buy "golden grahams" again.      

Oh, and I also don't want to spoil whether or not the nerdy squirrel, Arvid, is finally able to draw up the courage to ask out Tatyana, the beautiful Russian heiress who dropped out of the world of modelling to pursue her dream of being a cartographer, and with whom he's harboured a secret crush that was evident to everyone but to Tatyana herself, who has also just discovered that Nikos, her seemingly perfect Greek fiance, Formula One Champion and millionaire playboy, was all wrong for her because he didn't understand her career, acted rudely to a waiter in scene four, and whom she found out was secretly trying to undermine the squirrels' efforts to find Magellan's sextant.    

And I definitely don't want to share where the whole group ended up and how many pina coladas the fat squirrel orders from the beachside cabana boy.  Cuz who even says the end up at a beach?  Those cabana boys could be anywhere.

..

Anyway, when do I get my million dollars for this?

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by marbotty on Feb 3, 2008 3:01 PM EST up reply actions  

Good One
sounds like the blockbuster summer hit of 2010!  Let the casting begin.

by lordbyronk on Feb 3, 2008 3:41 PM EST up reply actions  

just remember
to leave your brain outside the theater
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by marbotty on Feb 7, 2008 8:57 AM EST up reply actions  

Bravo...
well done
Don't be lonesome for your heroes. Be your own hero.

by PhattStairs on Feb 6, 2008 2:25 PM EST up reply actions  

I saw
"Hot Fuzz" and "The Hunting Party" this weekend. I thought both were pretty good, although Hot Fuzz was obviously way funnier.

I really want to see No Country as well There Will be Blood, although I've heard both have pretty unsatisfying endings.

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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 3, 2008 2:07 PM EST reply actions  

unsatisfying endings are always...
satifying to me...No Country follows the book...the ending amazingly sums everything all up...its just that the modern pop culture can't possible understand an ending void of certainty

thats why they show the whole movie in the preview these days...thru ingenious marketing (a la the McDonald Effect)...they found that people want to know what they are buying before they buy it

Don't be lonesome for your heroes. Be your own hero.

by PhattStairs on Feb 6, 2008 12:40 PM EST up reply actions  

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