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My local karaoke bar this Sunday is doing a Break Up Song contest. Best performance gets good stuff. Help me get good stuff. I don't have the broadest range in the world, and I have trouble performing at a high vocal register - mid-range...
I have learned so much from music. p-L0NpaErkk Exactly how bad is "the east side of Chicago"? What spurned Al Capone into declaring war on the city? Why is it all those pussies always say he got caught for tax evasion when this song makes it...
There's a two minute clip from the upcoming film adaptation making the rounds: F7cS2L0iN0s
Sort of inspired by the Singin' in the Rain discussion here. For the purposes of this thread, we are discussing both stage and film musicals. In general, I don't like them. I especially don't like the musicals most numbers bring the plot to a...
I'm not sure I have one very very favorite. It might be Anne of Green Gables, though. Definitely a top contender.
So, I'm watching Blue Bloods. Fairly good, though quite predictable and very, very American. I've had a few reactions previously, but this one really killed it for me. <spoiler space, dunno if necessary> . . . . . . .
Elizabeth Taylor, aged 79, and winner of two Oscars has died. She was one of the most beautiful actresses to grace the screen and had a tempestuous off-screen life as well. She will be missed.
These are all songs I'm subjected to at work, and since it was a quiet night tonight, I was inspired to start this thread. Right now I'm pretty sick of Augustana's "Boston", where the singer says that he thinks he'll go to Boston where "no one...
Yes, the 1959 forgotten Disney classic that includes a singing Sean Connery and the enchanting Janet Munro who died far too young. If you have never seen this and have kids, you should really rent it. If you have seen it you should watch it...
Up against two of the great human contestants. Anybody gonna watch? Predictions?
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Good evening friends, Tonight, I am drinking Coppola's Rosso, which is a blend of 48% Zinfandel, 27% Syrah and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon I generally avoid blends, but this particular wine is a rather nice table wine considering the $9.00 (USD)...
It's a drizzly, gray, hot-cocoa sort of day over here. The perfect time to curl up with a good book. For me, these kinds of days go perfectly with Sherlock Holmes stories, or mysteries in general. What books are you drawn to on rainy days?
Warner Brothers are looking to make a sequel of what is considered one of the finest, if not the finest, sci-fi film of all time. The good news is that they are not looking to make a direct sequel of the book, if only because Harrison Ford might...
I'm already rooting for the cowboys to win. Most of the teams seem like they'll be fun to see again. Not so sure about Luke and his mother! They kind of annoyed me. And the goths, too. My one hope is that they've all figured out how to...
I was thinking Gandalf might be the most interesting figure of the adviser/mentor types. His back story is probably even odder than Merlin's. He has strong parallels to Odin without being a jerk. He has one of the great and most oft repeated...
http://gizmodo.com/#!5773531/china-just-won-simcity-with-censorship+bypassing-3d-baidu-maps China has repeatedly prevented Google Maps from providing maps of China because the government would like the right to censor landmarks and locations....
Yup, Hollywood's current trend of cannabalising itself continues with a remake of The Bodyguard which did star Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. I'll be honest, this film is one of my guilty pleasures, despite it being real popcorn fodder. But I...
Has anyone read this, or at least heard of it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29 I need to read this.
I'm all obsessed with books lately. Yesterday I got the following books on my nook: First, on a recommendation from my mother: Second, because I just watched The Shawshank Redemption and wondered to myself why I'd never read the story:
Inspired by some of the posts in this thread, I'm wondering...is there a book that really crystallized your personal philosophy or make you look at the world a different way? I don't think I have any one book...I sort of "became"...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12549622 May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest; and when they appear, may they all be wearing eye patches.
Anyone planning to watch?
We all know the Elvis version of Suspicious Minds but it was originally recorded by Mark James XlKmvy6LX5Q The very different original version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. mrrQT4WkbNE The Tide Is High was a hit for Blondie but a lot of...
As if they hadn't murdered the memory of enough 80's cartoons and resurrected the zombie remains, here comes the Thundercats back to remind us what true cheesy cartoons were all about. Cartoon Network have rebooted the franchise I bet you...
Playing Diana Prince will be Adrianne Palicki, who was great as Tyra on Friday Night Lights. Not usually my genre of show, but I think this could be awesome.
The English dominate this. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens English 1859 over 200 million The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien English 1954–1955 150 million The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien English 1937 over 100 million 红楼梦 (Dream...
I loved her in the old musicals with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, and of course she's known to my generation as Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family and Mrs. Babish on Laverne & Shirley. A fine comedic actress and singer, I was sad to hear the news...
I have a book recommendation for you. I think there are a few Anne fans here, I don't know about Betsy~Tacy, but anyway, the author of the B~T books, Maud Hart Lovelace, wrote 3 additional books that focus on other characters in Deep Valley. I...
So, I just saw a new show pop up that I'm gonna give a shot. Anyone else think this sounds cool? It's a group of settlers who are settling on a new planet to make their own. A BBC miniseries, after the considerable success of their last...
Gary Moore has died suddenly aged 58. Known, not only, for playing with Thin Lizzy but also for a myraid of solo albums, the world has just lost one of its best guitarists. R.I.P.
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A controversial TV movie showing the murder of Meredith Kercher is due to be released in the USA shortly. The problem is that Amanda Knox, the convicted murderer, is currently going through the appeal process. I'm actually finding this movie...
Turns out those amazingly accurate spoilers you might have read on survivorsucks.com were fed to the poster by none other than Russell Hantz (allegedly), who competed in those two seasons. While this doesn't exactly shock me, what's really...
They are pretty awesome, considering how easy they are. Works like this: 1) Heat a skillet with about an inch of vegetable oil. (Not super hot.) 2) Open biscuits. Poke hole in each one with your finger. 3) Put about 4 biscuits at a...
I'm not an awards-show watcher, but after all the talk about Ricky Gervais hosting the Golden Globes, I watched a rerun of it on Bravo. Seriously, famous rich people, get a grip. He was funny. He poked fun at you. Boo hoo hoo. If he'd made...
For those unaware, John Barry was the man who made James Bond sound cool having worked on 11 of them He also had five Academy Awards for films such as "Dances With Wolves", "Out of Africa" and "Born Free". There is every chance you will have...
Although this has a political component I put it here as it is related to aesthetics. Political Murals of Northern Ireland There is a rich tradition on both sides of the divide in Northern Ireland of painting political murals. As far as I...
This is pretty troubling. Great work, though.
Has anyone else here read it? If so, what's your opinion?
This video contains a lot of NSFW language and Not Safe for Sanity imagery. It's also apparently not done yet, as illustrated by the watermarks that haven't been removed from some of the pictures. Keep in mind the single was actually released for...
As discussed on the current whatcha reading thread, there are several posters here who have reread Lord of the Rings over and over again. It made me wonder...anyone else have any other books that they keep going back to? For me it's the Anne of...
I've become ever more fascinated by the anti-vaccine movement, and to my delight, there are two new books dealing with this subject. Currently, I'm reading The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin. He gets into how panics like this are started and...
I think everybody gets what a "trope" is by this point, but what about things that go beyond even that? There are common things that might show up in TV shows and books, and then there are things that are apparently required to be central to the...
OK, so I was watching the final 10 countdown of THE MOST SHOCKING MOMENTS IN MUSIC HISTORY, which was on some cable channel. MTV? E? VH1? I don't know, one of them anyway. What would your guess be for THE MOST SHOCKING MOMENT IN MUSIC HISTORY...
I am almost finished with the first season. I do not understand this show at all. It is on 100 kinds of crack and every character is a shrieking lunatic, and there's a lot more crazed love-polygon nonsense than I usually go for. Also Bill Compton...
For his next movie after Avatar, James Cameron is filming "Ghosts of the Abyss", which apparently involve sending people filming to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. No-one has been down there since 1960, but that's not going to stop the...
A cretinous superentity has engineered for you to only be able to listen to one Beatles song ever again. You may listen to it as many times as you like but the rest of their oeuvre is out of bounds in perpetuity. What song do you pick? Ok I'm gonna...
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