My partner teaches high school English, and one of her students is into Beefheart...but I think they may be the only student at the school who does.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 July 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
Which Beefheart do you mean
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 19 July 2019 05:39 (four years ago) link
Everyone still loves Elliott Smith.
― Simon H., Friday, 19 July 2019 06:06 (four years ago) link
Yeah, everyone absolutely still loves Elliott Smith. His legacy is pretty much static. No posthumous additions to catalogue in years. No massive new book or documentary (I mean there was a book and a documentary but there was nothing revelatory). He'll always be adored by anyone who likes acoustic guitars and songwriting.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 19 July 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah, he's got a very hardcore fanbase, and swathes of youngsters discovering him every year still.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 19 July 2019 08:21 (four years ago) link
i honestly can't be 100% sure this isn't correct
If Frank Zappa were alive today he'd be a Ben Shapiro stan— The Give Smart Guy (@BobbyBigWheel) December 13, 2018
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
flamboyant goon tie included at 12:39 19 Jul 19Which Beefheart do you meanLieutenant Colonel Beefheart
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
xpost You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a classical liberal.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
I kinda feel like he'd hate Trump though, just how dumb and full of shit he is
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
wow, i've never watched "this is 40" but for a movie released this decade it sounds like it's aged incredibly poorly
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
would def hate trump
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
I wonder how the whole PMRC thing would be perceived if it happened today?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
oh you rich musicians whining about freedom of speech wah wah wah
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
but then you've got the party of Family Values waddling around in "Fuck Your Feelings" t shirts so
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
zappa 100% would be a Facts and Logic guy now
― Simon H., Friday, 19 July 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
maybe he'd be more a sam harris guy than fucking shapiro (if for no other reason than ben is so shrill and agitating) but yeah def on that facts and logic tip
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
No effing way would Zappa stan for a guy who wrote a book called Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
xp
And who bros down with David Horowitz
A Bill Maher guy or something, maybe
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
yep. don't really see him being down with Shapiro but him & Maher definitely seem like they'd be buds, smirking at everything through eternity
― frogbs, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
that makes sense. doesn’t seem like there a whole lot of distinction between Harris’ and Maher’s worldview
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
Can you imagine how insufferable the Marc Maron and Joe Rogan interviews with Zappa would be?
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
girl you thought he was maher, but he was rogan
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Zappa would have been a pretty old dude by now, he may have ended up just chilling in the Canyon.
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, July 19, 2019 9:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
It was garbage when it was released, and I can't remember when it was released, and I'd forgotten the movie even existed until yesterday. Albert Brooks is the only watchable element of the film, and Melissa McCarthy also had a funny second or two, but christ, it was insufferable.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
It was def a big letdown after Knocked Up. The scenes with John Lithgow are good, and I find Jason Segal’s creepy chick-magnet character to be kinda funny. It’s an ok movie to half-watch on tv when it comes on now.
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
this is 40 was where it became evident that apatow didnt think his shit stank
― hollow your fart (m bison), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
^totally agree
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
(though points off for grossness, lol)
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
I'd argue that happened with Funny People. When James Taylor has the only funny line in a movie, there's a problem.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
was it worse than Pineapple Express? Because yuck, that's one of the few films I've ever walked out of
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
xp lol i got those two mixed up.
― hollow your fart (m bison), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
"alexa, find that apatow movie about men figuring out fatherhood and marriage where his wife plays the lead actress role and his kids are in it"
*alexa melts from overheating*
― hollow your fart (m bison), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
apatow: stock down
seth rogen's line from knocked up "steely dan gargles my balls": stock down
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Stock down: West LA / BrentwoodStock up: Neighborhoods east of Hollywood
― stan by me (morrisp), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
feel like LCD's music was designed to have this ephemeral feeling to it, half their songs are about getting older and "the last party" and not being cool anymore so yeah I kinda figured they'd fall by the wayside once the moment was over. I know the reunion album was a big deal but people stopped talking about it pretty much immediately after its release and I never heard any of the songs anywhere
― frogbs, 18. juli 2019 00:06 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Late response, but Oh Baby was in Booksmart, and in a pretty prominent position. Made me feel quite old, but I was also literally the second oldest man at the press screening.
― Frederik B, Friday, 19 July 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
was it worse than Pineapple Express?
it's not good, but Apatow didn't direct that, David Gordon Green did
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 July 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
I think the only thing I've seen actually directed by Apatow in the last decade was Trainwreck because a friend wanted to go to the movies and it was playing. It was more boring than anything?
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 19 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
he didn't write it either
(also it is funny iirc)
Trainwreck def boring
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, July 19, 2019 8:02 AM (two hours ago)
yeah funny people was garbage and were i got off the apatow train
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
was it worse than Pineapple Express? Because yuck, that's one of the few films I've ever walked out of― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, July 19, 2019 3:02 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, July 19, 2019 3:02 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Really? I just watched this again last year and it's still pretty damn funny.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
I like Pineapple Express
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
speaking of which, how is Huey Lewis faring these days?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
he's been doing better ever since it became hip to be square
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
I heard that “working for a living” song in a big record/cd store the other day
― brimstead, Friday, 19 July 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Funny People is def Apatow’s shark-jumping moment
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 July 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
It's in the first episode of the new season of Stranger Things.
Fun fact: it didn't even make the top 40! Its highest chart position was #41 in 1982.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
this sounds weird in a way because I feel like the Beatles legacy is still huge
but John Lennon as a solo artist I feel like isn't nearly as well regarded or talked about? (whereas there's been a reappraisal of McCartney, esp McCartney II)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Haha. I was just thinking about John Lennon in regards to this topic and CTRL+F'd "Lennon" before I even read this latest reply.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link