it's not good, but Apatow didn't direct that, David Gordon Green did
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
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, 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.
xp
― 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
Lennon's solo material basically = "Imagine" in the popular consciousness, and there's been a huge amount of backlash to that song
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Lennon has become the Lennon Legend/Greatest Hits artist that McCartney was for a long time, rightly or wrongly
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
wrongly, mostly
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
"Imagine" def. one of the most insufferably covered songs that shouldn't really be covered, let alone as much as it's been covered.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
How's Beck holding up?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Lennon has also been low-key CANCELLED by some millennials because spousal abuse.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
I feel like if he had survived into the 80s and had a chance to do some shitty new wave/synthy albums his stock would be higher with millennials these days
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
Lennon's legacy for many also been reduced down to inspirational quote memes.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
--Bob Marley
xxp new wave Lennon would have probably ruled, IMO
― Auld Drink of Misery (zchyrs), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
feel like he's the type whose politics would have really gotten bad with age
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
At least he died before he got to collaborate with Jeff Lynne
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
also this is hopefully the wisdom of age but i used to be impressed with him in interviews when i was a kid like oh what a provocative smart guy now he just seems like a dumbo combative dickhead complete so far up his own butt
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
idk, would've depended on whether he and Yoko stayed together imo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
But would Ono be Ono if Lennon had lived? I mean, getting together with him sidetracked her career in a pretty major way. If he'd stuck around, he might have overshadowed her even more than he did by dying (the whole professional-widow/keeper-of-the-legacy thing).
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Lennon would've been fascinating to follow politically. I can't imagine he'd ever be a Republican given his experience getting citizenship, but he'd 100% be the first Beatle to go on Joe Rogan, InfoWars, Howard obviously (maybe even in the 80s), Coast to Coast, anything conspiracy related.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
lennon go on ch
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
I wish we had some signs of experimentation and crazy/weird/noise music from the '79-'80 batch of songs. I remember reading an anecdote from some guy that worked in a music store in Manhattan when Lennon came in circa '78 and bought a fancy ass new synth because he was excited about new wave.
xp exactly
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Some weird takes here.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Lennon probably would have had a good Twitter account
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
getting together with him sidetracked her career in a pretty major way.
lol waht this is completely wrong
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
I'll just note that Paul's reputation had nowhere to go but up because so many Wings albums were OPP.
The same sympathy for poor Paul albums hasn't extended to George's miserable Ford-era albums
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Beatles narrative is so tight and self-contained at this point. No reunions (really), no US albums or Beatles Ballads type comps, nothing left in the vaults really. No reason to dig beyond the non-canon stuff for most people, where there's so much Phantom Menace.
― bendy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Lennon was a spousal abuser?
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
have you heard the song Getting Better
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
I dunno, supposedly he beat Cynthia up.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
When I hear about it, it's just "he abused women, man..."
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
Beatles always had a bit of a reactionary streak in them. “Taxman” and “Revolution” being the most obvious examples
― Vape Store (crüt), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
his abuse of Cynthia is pretty well documented, by Lennon himself
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
in his 1980 interview with Playboy...He admits to hitting women—"any woman"—and explains, "That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
It seems he maybe at least “evolved” away from that, but did he ever repent?
― Vape Store (crüt), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
uh, yeah
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Here's the full quote from that interview:
PLAYBOY: "'Getting Better.'"LENNON: "It is a diary form of writing. All that 'I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved' was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically... any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster."
LENNON: "It is a diary form of writing. All that 'I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved' was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically... any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster."
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
he also expressed regret in his last radio interview about beating to a pulp a dude at Paul's 21st birthday party who intimated he was a homosexual.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
― Vape Store (crüt), Tuesday, August 13, 2019 2:18 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I always found it amusing that George, the most 'enlightened' Beatle, was the one that sang about money the most
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpSiB4-og_o
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
yeah, doesn't seem likely to me either, he was not a conspiracy nut
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
considering he was spied on and followed by the US & UK govt I can't imagine he wouldn't at least be a 'skeptic'Don't think he had a Morrissey heel turn in him tho
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link