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Chrome, by a huge margin. It will be completely dominant once sites begin to fully support it.

The vinyl I've bought in the past month or so:

 

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion

Iron & Wine- The Shepherd's Dog

Man Man- Rabbit Habits

Blitzen Trapper- Furr

MGMT- Oracular Spectacular

Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run

Earth Wind & Fire- Gratitude

Animal Collective- Water Curses

The Tallest Man on Earth- Shallow Grave

of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Cream- Disreaeli Gears

Beatles- Abbey Road

Radiohead- In Rainbows

Flight of the Conchords- Flight of the Conchords

Juluka- Scatterlings

Ryan Adams- 29

Paul Simon- Graceland

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young- Deja Vu

Architecture in Helsinki- Places Like This

 

My top 15 of the year:

 

Milk

Frost/Nixon

The Wrestler

Doubt

Let The Right One In

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Class

Wall-E

I've Loved You So Long

The Dark Knight

Revolutionary Road

Waltz With Bashir

The Reader

Slumdog Millionaire

Rachel Getting Married

 

So, needless to say, I don't exactly agree with the Academy's choices.

Going to showing #2 at midnight. Saw it at a screening earlier today in the city. I've got showings 3 and 4 lineup up already (3 is with friends, 4 is at an IMAX).

If this is any shorter than 3 hours, they f*cked it up.

I don't know what was better: the movie, or the reaction of the people in the audience who thought this was a typical teen movie. A lot of disappointed faces walking out. Great.

QUOTE (thestand @ Feb 4 2007, 12:42 AM)

The ultimate thread kill- the goodbye. I'll see you all in a few months, probably.

Loved the last two, loved Unbreakable, Signs was pretty good, not a fan of Sixth Sense. Definitely looking forward to this.

Phil Lesh & Friends this Saturday. Very good chance Trey Anastasio will show up. It'll be my second time seeing Trey this year, even though he hasn't actually played a show Saw him guest with Dave Matthews Band as well this year.

This is easily one of the best years of music in recent memory.

 

Alphabetically, my list of albums that are great this year.

 

 

Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha

Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam

Arcade Fire- Neon Bible

Architecture in Helsinki- Places Like This

Band of Horses- Cease to Begin

Battles- Mirrored

Beastie Boys- The Mix Up

Beirut- The Flying Club Cup

Bjork- Volta

Blitzen Trapper- Wild Mountain Nation

Bruce Springsteen- Magic

Caribou- Andorra

Deerhoof- Friend Opportunity

Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone

Feist- The Reminder

The Good, The Bad, & The Queen- The Good, the Bad, & The Queen

Jens Lenkman- Night Falls Over Kortadela

John Butler Trio- Grand National

LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver

Menomena- Friend & Foe

Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

The National- Boxer

Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Panda Bear- Person Pitch

Parts & Labor- Mapmaker

Paul McCartney- Memory Almost Full

Polyphonic Spree- The Fragile Army

Portugal. The Man- Church Mouth

Radiohead- In Rainbows

Rush- Snakes and Arrows

Ryan Adams- Easy Tiger

Sea and Cake- Everybody

Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Stars- In Our Bedroom After the War

Taken By Trees- Open Field

Vietnam- Vietnam

White Stripes- Icky Thump

Wilco- Sky Blue Sky

!!!- Myth Takes

I saw it 4 times in the first 2 weeks. Pretty sad. But anything Apatow has his name on, I will see. And Michael Cera has been a favorite of mine for awhile, along with any other Freaks & Geeks alum.

Just updated. Full list-

 

Anathallo- Floating World

Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha

Animal Collective- Feels

Arcade Fire- Funeral

Arcade Fire- Neon Bible

Beck- Guero

Beck- The Information

Beck- Midnite Vultures

Beck- Odelay

Beck- Sea Change

Beck- Stereopathetic Soul Manure

Blues Magoos- Psychadelic Lollipop

Bob Dylan- Blond on Blond

Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks

Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan- Modern Times

Bruce Springsteen- The Essential Bruce Springsteen

Cake- Comfort Eagle

Cake- Fashion Nugget

Cake- Motorcade of Generosity

Cake- Prolonging the Magic

Can- Tago Mago

Cold War Kids- Mulberry Street EP

Cold War Kids- Robbers and Cowards

Dave Matthews Band- Before these Crowded Streets

Dave Matthews Band- Busted Stuff

Dave Matthews Band- Crash

Dave Matthews Band- Everyday

Dave Matthews Band- The Lillywhite Sessions

Dave Matthews Band- Remember Two Things

Dave Matthews Band- Stand Up

Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming

Death From Above 1979- You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Decemberists- Castaways and Cutouts

Decemberists- Crane Wife

Decemberists- Her Majesty the Decemberists

Decemberists- Picaresque

Dies Irae- First

Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone

Fatboy Slim- You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Flaming Lips- At War With The Mystics

Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletin

Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Flight of the Conchords- The BBC Radio Program

The Good, the Bad, & The Queen- The Good, The Bad, & The Queen

Grateful Dead- Anthem of the Sun

Grateful Dead- Aoxomoxoa

Grizzly Bear- Yellow House

Hold Steady- Boys and Girls in America

John Butler Trio- Grand National

LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver

Les Claypool- Of Whales and Woe

Leviathan- Leviathan

Menomena- Friend & Foe

Minus the Bear- Highly Refined Pirates

Minus the Bear- Menos El Oso

Moby- Hotel

Moby- Play

Moby- 18

moe.- Dither

Muse- Black Holes and Revalations

Muse- Origins of Symmetry

National- Alligator

National- Boxer

Neil Young- Greatest Hits

Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Oysterhead- Grand Pecking Order

Panda Bear- Person Pitch

Paul Simon- Graceland

Paul Simon- The Paul Simon Collection

Peter Bjorn & John- Writer's Block

Phish- Billy Breathes

Phish- Farmhouse

Phish- Lawn Boy

Phish- Picture of Nectar

Phish- Story of the Ghost

Pink Floyd- Animals

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd- Wall

Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here

Police- Ghost in the Machine

Police- Reggatta de Blanc

Police- Synchronicity

Police- Zenyatta Mondatta

Primus- Brown Album

Primus- Frizzle Fry

Primus- Pork Soda

Primus- Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Primus- Tails from the Punchbowl

Queen- Greatest Hits

Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers

Radiohead- Amnesiac

Radiohead- Bends

Radiohead- Hail to the Thief

Radiohead- Kid A

Radiohead- OK Computer

Radiohead- Pablo Honey

Rage Against the Machine- Battle of Los Angeles

Rage Against the Machine- Evil Empire

Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine

Ram- Where? In Conclusion

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Greatest Hits

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium

Rush- Caress of Steel

Rush- Counterparts

Rush- Farewell To Kings

Rush- Fly By Night

Rush- Grace Under Pressure

Rush- Hemispheres

Rush- Hold Your Fire

Rush- Moving Pictures

Rush- Permanent Waves

Rush- Power Windows

Rush- Presto

Rush- Roll the Bones

Rush- Rush

Rush- Signals

Rush- Snakes and Arrows

Rush- Test for Echo

Rush- Vapor Trails

Rush- 2112

Sea and Cake- Everybody

Sea and Cake- Sea and Cake

Steamhammer- Junior's Wailing

Steamhammer- Speech

Stoneground- Stoneground

Sufjan Stevens- Illinois

Tapes 'n Tapes- Loon

Thom Yorke- Eraser

White Stripes- De Stijl

White Stripes- Elephant

White Stripes- Get Behind Me Satan

White Stripes- Icky Thump

White Stripes- White Blood Cells

White Stripes- White Stripes

Widespread Panic- Earth to America

Wilco- Sky Blue Sky

Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Xavier Rudd- Solace

Xavier Rudd- White Moth

Zarathustra- Zarathustra

!!!- Myth Takes

 

This is studio only. Live albums would take forever.

I saw Pirates as well. I was high out of my mind, though, so I can't give it a fair review. I'm sure it won't be as good the second time around.

Blades of Glory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pleasantly surprised with this one. After Anchorman came Talladega Nights, which was a big leap down. So I wasn't expecting much from this. But really, it wasn't half bad. I've found any role Nick Swardson takes, no matter how little screen-time he gets, he steals the scene. And he's no different in this, playing John Heder's creepy stalker. Great role for him

 

As with other Ferrell movies, there's a number of great one-liners. As for the best scene, it's a tossup between the first pair-skate scene, or the "chase" scene between Ferrell and Arnett. From beginning to end, that could be the funniest chase scene ever.

 

Overall, it's what you'd expect from a nearly-summer comedy. No brilliance, but enough laughs for your buck.

 

7/10.

Easily the best Todd line-

 

"Wait, so he can call you Smelliot but I can't call you Vaginaface???"

 

"Not the same thing, Todd!"

Nader.

I appreciate Funeral, but am meh towards NB.

Dave was good. It's funny that his three acting rolls so far haven't... well, haven't been the most intelligent of people (he was pretty backwoods-ish in Where the Red Fern Grows, and he was fairly slow in Because of Winn Dixie). He's got two movies coming out this summer, so it should be interesting.

I could vomit a better sitcom outline. Actually, a sitcom about vomiting could actually be better.

The ultimate thread kill- the goodbye.

 

I'll see you all in a few months, probably.

Way too cold here.

Haven't read any since the 4th one, but I do plan on continuing.

 

Though there are some seriously immature grown men in this thread. And I'm not talking about the ones that read the book.

I only put full albums on. I'll transfer my stats over, as top of my head isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Feb 3 2007, 01:15 PM)

Those are great! When does that episode air? I forgot what you said.

Thought you guys would like to see some promo shots from the Dave Matthews episode-

 

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