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Jackson has the worst tone. Damn yankees played jacksons. Nickleback play Jacksons. jacksons suck. ugly, sound like **** and endorsed by boring wanky/useless players. Avoid man, avoid.

I swear up and down by the Fender Telecaster. Used to play a 1980 Les Paul standard...but was stolen out of my car in terre haute, IN. A town that can go straight to hell. Anyway I took the insurance money and went in another direction with the Tele. Amazing guitar with a beautiful warm tone.

I don't agree with the Edwards part, at all, but the rest is more or less what I've been thinking. Remove penalties and stupidity from last season and the Bills are a 9-10 win team. You get a leader behind center, draft well, and have a human coaching staff and Buffalo is a pretty strong team. As for our division: The Fins are very beatable, Pats are very beatable, Jets could be a force. I think there is cause for some optimism....but I would really love to hear of some action in FA. Bills desperately need a QB mentor, I really hope Nix/Chan go for a vet as well as draft Lefevour

Mark Linkous, one of my musical heroes, chose to end his life last night. He recorded four albums of a sort of avant-folk under the name of Sparklehorse and released one collaboration with Dangermouse and David Lynch called Dark Night of the Soul. In the late 90s he became partially paralyzed after an accidental overdose left him unconscious in an odd position. I was fortunate enough to see one of his first shows after learning to walk again (with the aid of leg braces). To this day one of the most devastating and haunting experiences of my life. here's a link to one of his songs. He wasn't a writer of singles, so it appear comes across as underwhelming. But the video is directed by my favorite film director Guy Maddin. for the record, I am getting tired of my heroes killing themselves.

very few things in this world beat Pete and Pete. That episode where Little Pete forms that band in order to duplicate the perfect song? The best, most realistic, depiction of being in a band I have ever seen. When he nails the tune? Tears in eyes every single time.

And Buffalo has done nothing. Awesome. And Cromartie is now a Jet. Awesome.

Here's a fun fact, Sean Penn went method when making Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He demanded everyone call him Spicolli and never broke character. Now I have no real opinion on Sean Penn--but the thought of him thinking he was doing something so important on Fast Times....I just have these images in my head of him yelling at the craft services guy as Spicolli. Cracks me up every time I watch that movie.

At the very least we need a veteran QB to show our scrubs how to play the game. I have not heard anything about Nix and crew looking at any of the newly free QBs. I was very optimistic with the Nix hire, but I'm beginning to get nervous. Especially now that half of the Redskins are on the market? Now it is my opinion that the Bills have not actually lost out on anyone yet. That deal with Peppers is (if history is any indication) not going to end well. And obviously Ralph isn't going to pony up $92 million for a DT. But things have been way too quiet.

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Benched Trent. 7th thing done right

ah see, that's the thing. The movies I can watch over and over again on tv are the ones I've either memorized, are too stupid to care about, or one the censors unintentionally make hilarious with their cuss word substitutions (so many "mugger flippers" in Goodfellas).

I think Lee Van Cleef physically changed so much over the course of his career a lot of people just lost track of him. In many noir he was this thin weaselly guy, in spaghetti westerns this bald tough guy with a bushy mustache. it literally took me ten years to realize the Lee Van Cleef from kansas City Confidential was the same guy who was in The Octagon. I think people recognize him, but I do wonder if they are able to connect the name to the face. But I could be wrong--I tend to get horribly confused about what's popular and what isn't. For a good time try to hunt down a song by King Stitt called The Ugly One (aka Lee Van Cleef). It's this crazy reggae song from the early 70s about how much Lee Van Cleef is a badass.

....except throw the ball forward

Red Dawn. Since like 1986 I have watched that movie every single time it has shown up on tv. I must have seen it like 500 times by now since it's always on. Such a stupid reactionary paranoid movie, but I love it so much. Same with Road House.

three great calls. I'll add to my massive tally: Ned Sparks Elisha Cook Jr John Cazale Paul Naschy Rainbeaux Smith Warren Oates Sid Haig Neville Brand Lee Van Cleef Jack Elam John Payne PJ Soles William Finley

That's part of the reason why I love the show. I don't think most people could comfortably lump themselves as fully liberal or conservative. South Park goes after hypocrisy and ignorance more than they flog a particular agenda. And it is an important show. It's a piece of intelligent satire that is watched by a couple million people. It's not curing cancer, but it does inspire thought. Since the last (check that: first, last and only) episode of television's most popular comedy (Two and a Half Men) I saw involved Charlie Sheen vomiting on a baby, I'm going to come out and say any show with intelligence and balls, regardless of politics, gets to be called important. Charlie Sheen vomiting on a baby. people seem to love it......

a personal hero. In college I was in a hardcore punk band called Lemmy Caution. Needless to say I'm a fan

ah, George Sanders. I used to have an unhealthy obsession with his brother, Tom Conway--the king of Val Lewton productions. Sydney Greenstreet was amazing too. The greatest laugh in film. Can't go wrong with Ricky Jay either. My favorite interpreter of Mamet's writing. I'm going to add Chris Eigeman and Eddie Constantine to my list

Damn straight. Money ruined movies. When you have to recoup $80 million you have to make a film that is bland and homogeneous enough to appeal/not offend as many people as possible. You know the original Planet of the Apes movies cost less than $2mil each to make? Not saying they are the peak of cinematic achievement, but you can make something as crazy as Conquest of the Planet of the Apes when you know (and more importantly the accountants know) you are making that money back. Meanwhile Tim Burton's $100million+ abortion of a remake did little outside of annoying anyone who bothered to watch it. These huge budgets are a pretty recent phenomena and are absolutely sucking the soul out of film.

Crispin Glover Timothy Carey Harry Dean Stanton Jackie Earle Haley JK Simmons

Nobody says that

I think the "surprise ending" isn't the twist, but Leo's final line of dialog. That line throws huge chunks of the film into flux. Not just his mental state, but how Shutter Island (the place) can be considered...more specifically the parallels between the hospital and the death camp. It's a film that demands a lot of discussion and thought, but I think a lot of people are getting distracted by the "twist" (which I feel is little more than a Macguffan). In a weird way it reminds of the classic slasher film "Sleepaway Camp." During that movie you think you are watching a trashy slasher flick, but the last shot shows we've been watching this whole different animal the entire time.

I can not +1 enough. Everything here makes all the sense in the world. Trent is a mess. once a year he craps out a competent game--at no point has he shown the leadership or (to be uncouth) the balls to lead a professional football team. Brohm I have no real opinion on. Fitz is exciting at best and terrible at worst. he provides a spark but no consistency. He should be kept as our #2. It's pretty obvious that Chan needs to build an offense around the specific skills of the long term solution behind center. They going to create an offense that demands Freddy to run the last 20 yards 3-4 times a game? Trent has long outlived his usefulness,

I love the effects in the original. Ray Harryhausen is one of the reasons why I got into movies. All that stop motion stuff is great...cgi has no soul, no personality. Cats like Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien and Jack Pierce are as important as the directors they worked with. That being said I am looking forward to the remake. Hopefully now featuring 100% less Harry Hamlin

I did see Infernal Affairs and did enjoy it a lot more than Departed. problem with Departed, to me, was it was assembled as a Scorcese greatest hits. Most egregious was the use of Jumping Jack Flash for the fifth time. And seeing Nicholson on screen these days is always irritating. he's been "Nicholson" since The Shining. The whole thing felt cheap and easy to me. tarantino's nasty comments about Scorcese really stems from his repeating himself with the Departed. That genre of film needs to be rethought. It's been 50% Scorcese 50% Hong Kong for 20 years now. I'm looking forward to a director coming out and making a cops and gangsters movies that does not involve slow motion gun play. I've been thinking recently about who could be Sinatra. As a rule I hate musical biopics. If you've even seen "Walk Hard" you know why. That movie's genius was in being exactly right. The turnaround reveals, the 40 year old men playing high schoolers, the basic plot structure of famous scene-drug use-famous scene-nearly die-famous scene-redemption....rarely ever works. Now I love Sinatra, love him. The thought of seeing reenactments of famous concerts and movies just holds no appeal to me at all. That being said it was a fascinating life so maybe this will be the exception to the rule. I don't know who could play him, people don't carry themselves like him anymore. Jon Hamm would be great if he looked totally different. I think Bradley Cooper has the look but am not sure he can channel an inner Don Draper. Here's a sad fun fact. I was reading something about Kate Beckinsale. In the article she said she had to gain 20 pounds to play Ava Gardner in "The Aviator." 20 pounds, can you believe that? That standard for sexy and healthy has dropped 20 pounds since Ava? Modern Hollywood man.