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    Laserface1242Caitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:19am

    There are these two movies that I can’t recall the name of and am positive both of them are real:

    One had Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick in it and it was basically Brando reprising his role in The Godfather.

    The other had a similar premise to Stranger Than Fiction except the protagonist was aware of the audience watching the movie and everyone else thought he was crazy. Also there was an antagonist who was also aware of the audience and he wanted to steal it from the protagonist. Again this is a movie I think I saw.

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      Billy MadisonLaserface1242
      2/21/18 11:20am

      The first one is The Freshman!

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      Coati TuesdayBilly Madison
      2/21/18 11:29am

      Yeah, I’ve seen The Freshman - it was amusing throughout, I recall.

      The other one I can’t figure out. Sounds like it was either really good or ridiculous..

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    Ugh.Caitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:13am

    REVELATION: I need to become more physically active than “not at all.” Metabolism has served me well, but my body is starting to feel that bone-deep shittiness that comes from being too sedentary for too long.

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      Ob-La-Di HellUgh.
      2/21/18 11:30am

      I used to be very fit and very active. It never got fun, I never felt refreshed, and it was the easiest thing in the world to stop doing.

      It’s been well over 10 years since I did any form of voluntary exercise. I know I need to start again. I’m past the point probably of it helping me live longer, it’d just be to make the remaining years less shitty. But the prospect of trading a constant state of generalized shittiness for frequent bouts of intense (if brief) shittiness hasn’t grown any more appealing the older and shittier I feel.

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      Mexican Blade RunnerUgh.
      2/21/18 11:51am

      I suggest starting with a bicycle. Buy a nice used bike and just ride around casually. That’s a start and it’s kind of fun. If you start out too aggressive you may hurt yourself (both mentally and physically.)  

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    Sardonicuss EvocatusCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:10am

    Re-watching ER has become like some herculean task that one takes on, not realizing how impossible it is until it is too late.

    Characters disappear and new ones pop up that you had entirely forgotten existed. After watching seemingly thousands of hours you look up and the episode count still says “291 un watched”.

    Your children grow up and leave, your beard grows long and mountains crumble into the sea - yet you can’t stop. Mark just got his brain tumor.

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      Noisy PipSardonicuss Evocatus
      2/21/18 11:20am

      I was thrilled the day I saw it was streaming. Halfway through the first season, I had the same realization you articulated so well. I haven’t made it out of Season 1 and yet, I never tell myself I am giving up.

      I remember so many great episodes and I want to get to them, but I never allow myself the luxury of skipping around. Ewan McGregor’s guest star, Chloe having her baby, both the one where Carter and Lucy are attacked and the follow up to it, Carrie and her fling with The Kurgan, Mark’s final episode, the introduction of Luka! I will find my courage and attention span and get back to it soon.

      Congratulations, you are nearly halfway there.

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      Sardonicuss EvocatusNoisy Pip
      2/21/18 11:29am

      If you watch it long enough, you will eventually see every actor that ever appeared on any format - ever.

      They bring in some child and you go - Hey wait..is that Kirston Dunst?

      Also, watching the entire series should count as at least one year of med school.

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    Bart FargoCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 2:49pm

    I have a confession to make: I just snapped and lost it on another forum over this school shooting. There was this brigade of mouthbreathers calling them “crisis actors” and “leftist stooges” and a bunch of other horrifying things, and I fucking lost it. I fell for it hard and wrote horrible things back, about how the people attacking these kids were human garbage and that I hope they died miserable, lonely deaths.

    I feel terrible because I stooped to their level. And I clearly need to reduce my internet time, as I obviously have anxiety issues that only get aggravated by all the hatred that’s out there.

    Thanks for letting me vent.

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      The Artist Formerly Known as YBart Fargo
      2/21/18 3:49pm

      Oh you should never ever read the comments, once you can see where the discussion is going, and you should never ever respond. And never ever in rage.

      That said—and I really hate to spend brain power on this, because there’s no logical answer, of course—is it really so crazy that real people are fed up with all the school shootings and so they’re organizing a protest? How is “the left is paying people to say they want gun control” a more believable explanation than “these people want gun control now that they’ve experienced a mass shooting”? It’s just such a childish way of avoiding the issue at hand. I’d say it was desperate if it didn’t seem to work so well on such a huge number of people.

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      CalebrosBart Fargo
      2/21/18 4:25pm

      I just can’t even engage with these people at all anymore, for the sake of my own mental health. Knowing that so many people out there are so callous and have such an astounding lack of basic human empathy is very disheartening to me. The fact that there are so many of them makes me think our country (the US) is genuinely screwed in the long term. I have very little hope for the future. 

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    Raymond Luxury-YachtCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:05am

    the almighty shuffle

    Depeche Mode — Ice Machine (live bootleg from 1981)
    The Stanley Brothers — If That’s The Way You Feel
    Wire — Pink Flag
    Joe Jackson — Right and Wrong
    Bill Monroe — Blue Moon of Kentucky
    The Homosexuals — The Birds Have Risen
    Depeche Mode — Macro
    Mercury Rev — Hudson Line
    Bruce Springsteen — She’s The One
    Erasure — Drama

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      CalebrosRaymond Luxury-Yacht
      2/21/18 11:37am

      A DM song I’ve never heard! Does that one appear on any of their albums? I can’t seem to find it.

      Bryan Ferry - Slave to Love

      Ultravox - Hymn

      Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

      XTC - The Mayor of Simpleton

      Simple Minds - Promised You a Miracle

      Talk Talk - Such a Shame

      Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way

      OMD - La Mitrailleuse

      Big Star - Kangaroo

      Gene Loves Jezebel - Bruises

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      Raymond Luxury-YachtCalebros
      2/21/18 12:37pm

      First, that’s just the best Soft Cell song, and second, glad to see that someone else liked the new OMD albu.

      But to your question — which one?

      “Macro” is an album track from Playing The Angel. Later-period DM, from the album that had the song “Precious” which did hit the radio a tad.

      “Ice Machine” is not on an album save some re-releases of Speak and Spell. It’s a Vince Clark song, originally the b-side of “Dreaming of Me” and it’s really good, darker than one normally expects from Vince Clark. The version I shuffled is from a very early bootlegged concert I found back in the Kazaa days — interesting as a historical document, but they do sounds very awkward. I also have a live version of the song that I think was from the Blasphemous Rumours 12" that’s probably the best one I’ve heard:

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    Cooking with CranstonCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:05am

    I regret condensing my 3 daily meals into lunch and then washing my regrets down with coffee and cake.

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      Mexican Blade RunnerCooking with Cranston
      2/21/18 11:48am

      No regrets. Ever.

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    BrickstarterCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:30am

    What’s the deal with grape nuts?  Neither a grape nor a nut.  Discuss.

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      Ob-La-Di HellBrickstarter
      2/21/18 11:35am

      *Whistles through cracked tooth*

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      EvanrudeJohnsonBrickstarter
      2/21/18 11:40am

      Grape Nuts was the answer on a Jeopardy question that I watched last night. It was on my DVR, so it was probably from a couple days ago. No one got it right.

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    NoOnesPostCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:13am

    Has anyone seen The Night Manager? I’m finally getting around to it on Prime... and it’s really good!

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      Coati TuesdayNoOnesPost
      2/21/18 11:32am

      Oh, The Night Manager is great...! I especially liked the casting (Laurie and Hiddleston could have easily switched roles but I love Laurie as the bad guy). It’s one of LeCarre’s books I haven’t read, but I think they adapted the whole thing... and apparently are planning a “season two” nonetheless.

      Which I will watch because that world was so intelligently portrayed and the series was so damn riveting.

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      NoOnesPostCoati Tuesday
      2/21/18 11:33am

      You should read the book, it’s really good and there’s a lot that didn’t make it into the miniseries.

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    Murry ChangCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:16am

    Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

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    Ob-La-Di HellCaitlin PenzeyMoog
    2/21/18 11:43am

    I just finished reading a book called “Voices from Chernobyl,” and it is the most haunting thing I have ever read.

    So I guess that counts as a recommendation, if you’re a certain kind of person.

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