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Good lord is that how we treat potential suicide victims, detaining them and charging them out the ass? Some morale booster. But I'm glad you hesitated and can at least confide in us in some way.

I've heard VRchat can be pretty effective place for therapy or just talking shit out, whatever you wanna call it. I've never done VR but I imagine it's got potential to be a bit more genuine than some hotline worker on an hourly wage
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Gotta vote for Killing of a Sacred Deer, one I've been meaning to watch for a while. I'll get to In Bruges later today.

As for consistently funny movies I think plenty are never transcendentally hilarious but consistently hit their mark. Raising Arizona is solidly funny all the way through. Black Dynamite, Austin Powers, Airplane!, and Loaded Weapon 1 are pitch-perfect spoofs, and I think the Adam West Batman gets funnier with every new gritty iteration of the character. Dr. Strangelove and The Apartment have consistently effective black comedy but aren't necessarily laugh-out-loud funny. Swiss Army Man is just a giant fart joke but it had me laughing most of the time (which maybe says more about me but damnit it was a well-executed fart joke)

The unfunniest comedy that comes to mind is Police Academy and it blows my mind they made seven of those sons of bitches. People were just gobbling that shit up in the 80's!
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Uglyface2 posted...

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

Mint Condition - Pretty Brown Eyes
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I don't mind the idea of an American Hall of Fame with figures like Jonas Salk, Chief Joseph, Duke Ellington, or Norman Rockwell but it seems redundant to include politicians and especially former Presidents that already have their faces carved into a fucking mountainside
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I'd still take Rivers over Brees right now
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Tom Brady is lucky as hell man if the Packers let him waltz into the Superbowl again I swear to god I'll send a Terminator back in time to kill his mom
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Duke Ellington - Fleurette Africaine
Marcy Playground - Ancient Walls of Flowers
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Jake Gyllenhall
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Psycho. There's three direct sequels but people are barely aware they exist.

And yeah Advance Wars was released a day before 9/11 in North America, after shit went down the Japan release got shelved until 2004
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Inviso posted...

Just like to point out that conservatives complaining about identity politics and "losing the culture war" loses a lot of its validity when you remember that they trot out "the war on Christmas" every year, despite Christmas being like, the biggest goddamn holiday in America.

Not fucking cool bro Dan Crenshaw lost his eye in the War on Christmas
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Menji posted...

Foreigner - Cold As Ice

Pink Floyd - The Thin Ice
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Yeah okay American Sniper and Call of Duty are liberal
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Yeah I still think highly of 7/10s, it's not necessarily a c minus grade. I might have sounded flippant in my review but I should admit that it had me shedding a tear at one point

1. Knives Out
2. Arrival
3. In Bruges

Just voting for the ones I haven't seen yet
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Just how many of these Qanon jokers are in congress now?
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Sound of Metal

I have never actually seen The Sound of Music so I don't know if there are supposed to be any references but I'm pretty sure the guy did spin around in the grass once

From the first scene I figured this would be Whiplash for metal, turns out it's a cautionary tale about earplugs and hearing aids. I don't think I saw this guy using earplugs at all, even the Whiplash kid had them! And then of course the ironic twist, the sound of metal is the hearing aids which apparently make the world sound like a robot factory. I know the doctor halfheartedly explained that the implant wasn't so perfect early on and Ruben didn't want to hear it (ba dum ch) but you'd think the deaf community leader would have been even more direct about how disappointing the results are considering he was trying to dissuade Ruben from the procedure. It's like he forgot the strongest argument against them is that they fucking suck.

I couldn't tell what the movie was really saying about religion. The deaf community is associated with the christian church early on but the leader teaches what seems like more of a buddhist nirvana lesson. Ruben makes clear that he wants nothing to do with organized religion, and then at the end what finally prompts his acceptance of stillness is the awful clanging of the church's metal bell through metal ears, the mocking crash cymbal of institutional worship splintered by instruments of institutional transhumanist grifting from which the only salvation is sweet silence

I didn't have problems with the pacing but I can see how it would have been nice to show more of a struggle to integrate and learn sign language, there's a not-quite-montage where he does the alphabet a couple times and makes a solid joke at dinner and all the sudden he's the most popular guy. But I think the movie hit all its emotional beats well and in that sense I liked that it shifted into a genuine feel-good mode instead of languishing in the agony of deafness for too long. Pairing him with the kids early worked well since their cheery attitudes could immediately humble the specific despair of being youthfully deaf. Riz Ahmed did a good job showing the character changes. Lots of good feels from the community aspect

Overall would not want to lose hearing and I hope those implants are at least forward-compatible 7/10
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David Lynch - In Heaven
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a lot can happen in a mooch and a half
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Blade Runner 2049
Sound of Metal
Portrait of a Lady On Fire
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kateee posted...

Bacchus is a very popular energy drink in small glass bottles but there's also a darker connotation involving elderly prostitutes in South Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_Ladies
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27189951

I think you may be on to something with this - if you read down the article a little there's a paragraph that potentially ties it right back to acupuncture - "Inside those bags the Bacchus Ladies carry is the source of a hidden epidemic: a special injection supposed to help older men achieve erections - delivered directly into the vein. Dr Lee confirms that the needles aren't disposed of afterwards, but used again - 10 or 20 times."

I've seen The Host, Snowpiercer, and Parasite before but this was my first viewing of Mother. 9/10!

I think Hitchcock would be impressed, this is a tight noir with well-executed tonal variety and substance. Unreliable protagonists keep us guessing and the twists never feel cheap. Joon-Ho's sense of dark humor always shines in perfectly placed moments. It doesn't hurt that the orchestral score was taking cues from Bernard Hermann's style at times!

I like how the real motive traces back to Momma's orders - retaliate against anyone who insults you. Although I guess it's technically involuntary manslaughter and not murder so idk if 'motive' is the right term. And that whole reveal with the guy being indecisive with the phone was great, rode the line of creepy and funny but shows he *almost* consciously turned himself in (and instead leaves her on the roof to be found). It was a very Bojack Horseman moment.

One common thread between the Bong Joon-Ho movies I've seen is he likes the tension of someone having to sneak out of a room without waking someone else up. In Host it's the little girl and the monster, in this it comes after the closet voyeurism (another noir trope) with the young couple. In Parasite this goes even further with an entire family sneaking out from under a coffee table while the rich sleep on the couch. It's an effective formula.

Someone else said it but the bookend shots are fantastic, it really ties it together and leaves you on a high note. I was reminded of the danse macabre scene that concludes The Seventh Seal, although I kinda doubt it was referencing that intentionally. It just looked similar with the dancers silhouetted. And it was just shot with such style, great little moment of passion to cap it off.
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Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
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Kelis - Bless the Telephone
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I have pretty typical American taste, I dig lots of Lynch and The Coens and Kubrick

1. Predator
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Mirror
4. Eraserhead
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Mulholland Drive
9. The Shining
10. A Serious Man

No letterboxed but I do keep a criticker account - https://www.criticker.com/profile/Hawkins/
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There's almost no reason to buy a metronome, you can just google one! (some people do swear by the visual indication of the pendulum but at the early stages of learning piano you'll probably benefit more from looking at your hands)

But keeping count is important in any case, at first it will seem unnatural and probably force you to think/play slowly but after a while it becomes second nature
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In the name of fun I will also vote for Machete and Hot Fuzz
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Portrait of a Lady On Fire
The Lighthouse
Eraserhead
Mother
Dr. Strangelove
August Rush
Three Identical Strangers

It occurs to me that Portrait of a Lady on Fire was the last thing I saw in theaters, really cool experience

But I'm down to watch any of the nominations as long as I can reasonably find it somewhere
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Wow damn a legend has passed
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I'm down for that, would already vote for The Lighthouse

Lost Highway
Raising Arizona
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Sure I got a whole list - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Seginustemple/sonic-harvest-2020

Might do a topic with writeups soon, there was a ton of good shit this year
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Vulfpeck - Game Winner
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
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The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes
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In the cityyyyyyyyyy

city of compton
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Cool Hand Luke
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Chamillionaire - Ridin'
Ludacris - Roll Out
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Phantogram - Fall In Love
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While You Were Sleeping...the romcom with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman
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The Utility Man posted...

Douglas Seale in Ernest Saves Christmas.

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tall enough to drop full throttle's brain stem into his fucking spinal column if he keeps trying to collect people's data
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damn it's still Tickle Me Elmo
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William Shatner - Rocket Man
Gregory Porter - Concorde
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House of Pain - Jump
Viper - You Wanna See Me Dead Cause Of My Hops
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Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack
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Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
Atoms For Peace - Reverse Running
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Corrik7 posted...

Hmm the chicken marsala looks good. I think I am gonna do some meth with that. Anyone else want some meth to go with dinner? Hell yeahz

You gotta think of it from the logic of someone who does meth not from the logic of someone who likes mediocre Italian food
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There is no one that is doing meth at the Olive Garden with family just once in a while over garlic bread. These are two different classes of vices.

Idk I think you may be underestimating how many people in the average Olive Garden are on meth
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Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
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Heatwave - Boogie Nights
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Neil Young - Heart of Gold
Phil Collins - You'll Be In My Heart
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Hiatus Kaiyote - Breathing Underwater
The Decemberists - Summersong

Lots of good ones come to mind for water...hm to Jacob Collier's galaxy brain arrangement of Moon River
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3. Professional Expert First Reactions - Oh you're a 40-year old vocal coach and this is your first time hearing Bohemian Rhapsody? I call bullshit.

2. British Accent Bias - People with a soft british voice have +15 IQ and instant credibility on any topic they decide to talk about.This works on any American even when we're aware of it. That's some bullshit.

1. Hand-Built Dirt Mansions - This has got to be the bullshittiest bullshit the bull ever shit, a painfully suburban fantasy that a single magical bushman would be able to dig an underground swimming pool in a month with naught but his iron hands and deep connection to mother earth. They are pretty cool though

what's your favorite youtube bullshit?
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