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Post by screendump on Sept 29, 2017 22:02:52 GMT
Fat, Bald, Grey... but Cool:
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Post by hugofuguzev on Oct 23, 2017 5:11:47 GMT
His obsessions with children and Todd Rundgren are slightly disturbing, that's for sure.
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Post by antiram on Oct 23, 2017 20:10:44 GMT
Dr. Hipster offers tips on how to deal with the pesky problem of ear wax buildup. Never liked napkins. It muffles the sound too much, and tends to push the wax deeper into your ear canal. By the way, I clean the wax out of my ears with a mixture I learned from an ENT - a mixture of one part water, one part white vinegar and two parts hydrogen peroxide. I mix it in a bottle and warm it to body temperature, then pour it into one ear, wait five minutes as it bubbles, then wash it out with warm water. I usually get chunks of hard wax washed out into the sink. Some also recommend a drop or two of baby oil to soften wax. Don't do any of these things if you have a history of middle ear infections, swimmer's ear or a perforated ear drum. From a thread complaining that rock concerts are too loud (snicker...) forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/i-cant-enjoy-concerts-anymore-because-they-are-too-loud.703112/page-10For a forum full of people with "the ears", they sure have a lot of problems with theirs...
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Oct 24, 2017 3:47:28 GMT
That thread is so cute.
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Post by jeatletoes on Nov 12, 2017 14:35:55 GMT
Chris DeVoe and Brad Olson sound like the type of people that would do a C.K. on Kate Bush / Amy Grant.
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Post by Bellman cut on Nov 13, 2017 1:50:49 GMT
Chris DeVoe said: "I'm out eating Chinese at the moment, just posting to remember this thread. I'll be back." forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/getting-into-todd-rundgren-where-to-next.713266/Remember, when you're eating out, before leaving the restaurant you can put a placeholder post in any topic you are making sure to follow. It's especially important in a Kate Bush or Todd Rundgren thread to pre-announce that you will be making a valuable contribution to the discussion, just not immediately, so that no one misses it.
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Post by Bellman cut on Nov 13, 2017 2:07:22 GMT
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Nov 13, 2017 2:11:37 GMT
I bet he'd love to get into Todd, to wear him like a skin-suit.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Nov 13, 2017 5:48:08 GMT
Chris DeVoe and Brad Olson sound like the type of people that would do a Mark David Chapman on Kate Bush / Amy Grant. Fixed it for ya!
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Post by antiram on Nov 14, 2017 5:02:22 GMT
So I'm sure everyone wants to know what Chris poated once he digested that General Tso's Chicken and got down to business: Trying to figure out where to start... C'mon Chris...yer stallin' here. He never does deliver the grand soliloquy I was hoping for, although he did manage at one point to say this: Automation saved him a huge amount of tedious work To which I can only mutter were it only so easy for the listener, but I digress. FWIW, I always thought Rundgren's albums were so muddy sounding (probably due to their 50 to 60-minute running lengths) that even if there were good songs, who could hear them? But I digress again... But I guess he is living up to his claim of being "theoretically hip" by being a Runtard.
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Post by antiram on Dec 17, 2017 2:55:31 GMT
Don't knock the advantages of it. If you discover a band early in their career, if they make it big, you'll be an "insider". I know bands that I have only paid to see once - every time after that, I have been on the guest list - even at festivals. Also, you can have a disproportionate amount of impact on the direction of their career. Chris is the guy who advised Kate Bush to spend 20 years on her last album. Her manager, family, friends, and fans urged her to ignore whoever was sabotaging her career with terrible advice, but Chris had a disproportionate amount of impact.
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Post by blahdiofile on Dec 17, 2017 5:44:23 GMT
Disproportionate amount of influence. Jesus. So many bands just take career advice from fucking nobodies with video cameras.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jan 1, 2018 2:31:29 GMT
Any of you catch the thread over there with DeVoe bitching about reserved ticketing for movie theaters? Just when you think the SHites can't get any more pendantic, they find something new to complain about (with emphasis on the word new). I hate reserved seats in movie theaters, and actively avoid going to places that have that policy. The only people who seem to like it are people who want to show up at the last minute, and frankly they don't deserve to get exactly the seats they want if they aren't willing to commit the time. Why should those of us who are willing to show up early give up our freedom of choice to make things better for you? The "cost" is getting there early and watching those commercials. We consider the trailers a benefit, not a problem. Fortunately, the reserved seating nonsense seems to be limited to "luxury" or "dine in" theaters, both of which neither Vickie or I have any interest in. It's as if they decided "hmm...phones aren't enough of a distraction...what if we serve them liquor and dinner!" Reserved seating makes moving to a different seat much more difficult. Vickie and I see more movies than most people here (Vickie especially) and we've never had a problem getting exactly the seats we want. Unlike some here, we view the "pre show" material as a bearable distraction, and the trailers as a wonderful thing - we want to know about upcoming movies. We've never found the regular seats uncomfortable, and "luxury recliners" just increase the possibility that someone in the theater will nod off and start snoring. We used to love the AMC River East 21, but lately we've switched to the AMC Galewood 14 - which they've seemingly re-branded as "Classic", which presumably means they are not going to put in recliners. Fine by me as the Galewood 14's evening ticket price is $6.49. I'm dead serious! Star Wars: The Last Jedi at 7:30 PM Friday night is $6.49. Dolby surround sound, first run films, 4K Sony projection. Keep your reserved seats, annoying wait staff and recliners, I'll go see films in a real theater, not a rec room. Don't you know? Every thread about the movies is required, by law, to have at least one post by someone about how they never go to the theater any more. Luckily, I managed to get an admendment to that law enabling me to mention my wife, who has seen more than 460 films in the theater this year, and who wonders just what sort of neighborhood these people live in, as she has rarely run into that sort of behavior. "Sold out" has never meant "every single seat filled" - it's always been 80% - 90%. The only time I've been in a completely filled theater has been screenings, and inevitably there were employees cajoling people to shift over one or two seats. Reserved seating has nothing to do with it. Before computerized ticketing, they used to have rolls of sequentially numbered paper tickets, and would note the starting number and add the number of seats to that number. Even though I hate Oatsdead, I will give him props for this: You're the only person here who views getting to movies an hour early and sitting in crappy, uncomfortable seats as some form of badge of honor! You need to start prefacing your comments with "kids these days don't know what it was like - I used to walk 40 miles in the snow to see a movie, and I'd end up having to sit on some fat guy's lap the whole time - and that's the way movies are supposed to be!!!" :laugh: You have such an active and fulfilling fantasy life, don't you? Who said anything about an hour early? Vickie and I get there before the scheduled start time, usually during the "pre-show" because we actually like seeing the trailers (aka ads for upcoming movies.) I'm an old fart and saw four films yesterday. Reserved seating is a "solution" to a non-problem. I live in two cities - Kansas City and Chicago, and it's a solution to a nonexistent problem in both of those towns. I suppose it might appear better to those people who see only a couple of films a year, but for those of us who see a hundred or so, it's a cure worse than the disease. I suspect there is a high overlap between those who like reserved seating and the patrons of ticket "brokers". All of DeVoe's screed is a load of crap, but comparing people who like reserved seating to patrons of ticket brokers really is asinine.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 1, 2018 2:46:24 GMT
Fucking why?
It's not like it's a Kate Bush gig.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 1, 2018 2:47:30 GMT
I've now read this thread thrice over, and I can't figure out what the actual issue with reserved seats is.
The theater near me (with those wonderful reclining seats, perfect for dozing off in) apparently has started doing reserved seating at some if not all showings. I know this because my friend was complaining to me about it. I don't think I understood what the problem was then either.
But what do I know? I never go to the movies anymore. (Actually, I go about once a year. I saw Logan and I almost gave enough fucks to go see Ingrid Goes West, mainly because of all the ads I got for it via social media and the added bonus of Aubrey Plaza. It was even playing at the theater a few blocks from me but they don't show anything for very long. I'm told that it was at one time a porno theater and that on a cold wintry night, the cops would go in there to stay warm, but they'd leave their flashlights outside so that later on when their higher up would check on them, he'd feel that their flashlight was cold and believe that they had been outside on their beat.)
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