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This is true. World Cups are the worst for people like me. I just don't understand. I mean, it's obviously making people happy and excited, so it's a good thing. I just feel alien during them. As a kid I was confused as to why sport would take up the last 1/3 of a news paper but never movies or music or something.

I think the important thing to remember is that all sport is awful, an opinion I've held since I tried to tape Dawn of the Dead off of the TV and missed the last 30 minutes because the BBC deemed fucking snooker more important than Tom Savini running around a shopping centre jamming machetes in the heads of undead smurfs in plaid shirts. EDIT: I guess my pet hate is sport because I'm an unfit, 90-pound weakling? EDIT: Basically, I'm like The Punisher, but instead of taking revenge on the scum that murdered my family (i.e, made me miss the last half hour of Dawn of the Dead), I sit in bars nervously sipping my pint afraid of all the people enjoying football matches around me wondering why we're not all watching Ghostbusters instead.

[sOUND OF DOOR CLOSING] Man: That's me finished clearing out the lesser barn, love. I'll get Jethro to help me start on the greater barn tomorrow. [pause] Woman: That's great, dear [exagerated sound of glass being placed on table]. I prepared some port for you. [gulps] [pause] Man: Ah! [pause] Did you phone Sir Professor Captain about the drainage?

This is such a cool endeavour. Restores my faith in this city

My dog's purpose is staring at me when I'm trying to have a French Fancy. YOU CANNOT HAVE A FRENCH FANCY. YOU ARE A DOG. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FRANCE IS! (edit: that's actually a sweet story :O)

The only Dragonforce I've heard was clearly a pretty thin joke, but that's the biggest problem with them. Metal isn't the most serious form of music. It delights in being silly, can be fun when its silly and looks pretty stupid when it's serious (chubby teenagers gurning to 'Nothing Else Matters' on a dance floor, no-marks with wiry goatees advertisng their signature BC Rich model in the backpages of Total Guitar, for example). Metal doesn't NEED Jack Black or Guitar Hero or Dethklok or Dragonforce to tell us it can both be fun and funny, and having the point driven home by some tit talking about the 'legions of metal' and widdling some nonsense on their fretboard is just irritating.

Liquid Lives is kind of incredible, but other than that... yeah, maybe.

Maybe they should return to their old logo?

Yeah, it's VERY John Carpenter inspired. No shit, John Carpenter's squealchy synth bass is incredible. I also hear a bit of Vangelis in there, some cool swooping pitch-bends.

I always found that people's problem with them was that the WERE cool in a hipstery sort of way, which I guess made them uncool or something. Ultimately, I don't care. I've been listening to their album since launch day and I'm not bored of it. Not even a little. I grin like a maniac when they do that whole broken Nintendo thing. Rabston: A friend of mine who has a breakcore project recommended Venetian Snares to me, but the only albums I've ever found by him have had covers that would get me put on the Sex Offenders Register. Again. It's a little off-putting, but I guess the internet is there to prevent me being beaten by record shop staff.

They get a lot of shit, and both members are by all accounts arseholes, but I can't stop listening to their album. I love it and I'm sorry. No. I'm not sorry. I just love it. It's fast, distorted, glitchy, bassy, thick, sick, neighbour-annoying. It's the album all my years listening to punk, industrial, electroclash, house and indie were leading up to. It's the terminal record. What do I do now?

I'm reading that right now. Nicely played.

Don't scratch it. It won't load properly, especially on XBOX. (Loving ME2, by the way)

Joss Whedon.

Foul Shitty, my friend.

Really pleased to see Life Without Buildings get some attention in here. I always forget they're from Glasgow because of Sue Tompkin's accent, though!

Published works by Dr Martin Fradley include... (I'm right, aren't I?) (Am I?) Guy was ace, he was getting paid to pretty much troll people and most of them fell for it every time. One of the best lecturers I had. Loads of folk hated him, but he always seemed open to people calling him on what he said if they could support their arguments intelligently. A subject like film studies shouldn't be about getting the 'right' answers, but developing the critical faculties to make informed reading of texts, not making inflexible statements like 'the shark's mouth in Jaws IS a vagina' that make you look like a tit, but saying 'from perspective (, the shark's mouth in Jaws could be read as a vagina because...'

Look, it goes: Peaches > Uffie > Ke$ha

Sandy Barclay of the same organisation is ace too.

Guy's a hero. (The Parole Officer was iffy, though) Steve Coogan | DVD | Interview | The A.V. Club

That sounds pretty healthy to me Genunine thanks for the civil reply.

I think it's interesting you used the phrase 'hidden meanings'. I don't really agree that anyone's hiding anything. There's no cheat code that gets you infinte critical ammo and infinite lives or something. I also don't think that just because an author doesn't intended something to be in their work that it's invalid for it to be there, not to mention it's really good fun examining these ideas, even if they don't always stand up to scrutiny. People stake their own claims to work once it's open to the public; the validity of their reading depends on how well researched, thought out and supported it is. I agree pretension is really awful though, but I still think inverse-pretension is even more sickening. A pretentious arsehole still has something to say, even if it's laughable. What does someone who blatantly refuses to engage with a piece of work have to say? One thing that strikes me about inverse-pretention is that while pretentious people often pretend to be more educated than they really are, inverse-pretentious people pretend to be under-educated and 'common-as-muck', as if being uneducated and close-minded is some kind of romantic ideal, which is kind of offensive in some ways. Hmm... EDIT: For the benefit of Original Spies : I hate when someone uses a broken cash machine, then refuses to tell everyone queing behind them it's broken. Saying 'it's broken' takes a fucking second. ARRRTGJDHQKWIHD!

Yeah, but the snake is a pretty loaded symbol: Perhaps the most salient meaning for an American, Christian audience would be that of the snake as a corrupting figure, a'la the Biblical serpent. It's no accident that these snakes are on a PLANE, the very device that took America's 'innocence' and cast the nation out of its very own garden of Eden and into a world of unpalatable truths and pain in September 2001. It's particulary interesting that the character chosen to fend off these snakes and become the flights very own St. Patrick is Samuel L. Jackson, a man known for playing psuedo-religious, vengeful figures (Jules in Pulp Fiction, Mace Windu, to name but two). It seems it takes Christian anger to return America to the Christian womb. It would be remiss of any viewer to overlook the obvious phallic symbols that abound in SoaP. The plane which penetrates the air, the snakes themselves that are seen attacking genitles at least twice throughout the film. If a flight is a limbo of sorts (a trope seen in works including The Langoliers and The Twighlight Zone, not to mention repeated myths regarding the Bermuda Triangle), then it becomes a zone where one must be cleansed of sin in SoaP, an airboune Purgatory, if one will.

You're justified in calling me out on that, but I personally tend to hear more meat-and-potatoes rock fans calling out electronic music rather than the other way around, especially online. I was writing from the perspective of my own subjective pet hates, but you speak the truth.

Sure, but not necessarily in an "ooh, that's pretty way". I'm sure plenty of paintings are made at least partially to provoke or frighten or repulse. Since this is a music forum, isn't music the same? I don't even mean avant-garde composing; pop music runs the gamut from Springsteen to Suicide. Just because Suicide are unpleasant to listen to, that doesn't make them bad. I don't want to dance to Suicide, I don't want to hum their songs. Audiences would literally attack them, but that doesn't mean I don't like or enjoy them on some level.