The Critic

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[Will Farrell as Randy Graves on Weekend Update]: Dude, are you gay??? [/Will Farrell as Randy Graves, Weekend Update] EDIT to add link for context: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97lupdate.phtml

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 01:58 PM) we all listen to Chuck Berry and Elvis then, right? Nope. Don't like either one of 'em. I understand their place in rock history, but I don't enjoy their music.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 11:37 AM) This sounds almost exactly like what he told me. Who were they with that night? Wasnt it something like Alice n Chains? Mudhoney and Jawbreaker opened, and Bobcat Goldthwait also appeared, of all people! I only saw Alice In Chains on the Clash of the Titans tour in 1991, opening for Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. THAT was a fun show, too!

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 10:58 AM) My best friend was at that show, he still raves about it. I wasn't expecting much because I had read and heard that Kurt was kind of, not mailing it in, but focusing on lesser-known songs (which was fine by me) and playing mellower stuff (which wasn't, really), but they were ON that night. They even played "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which was becoming kind of a rare thing by that point. I wanted to hear it, since I liked that song a lot - it hasn't aged well, though, in my opinion. Sounds kind of dated by now. They were really, really good that night, though, and I was glad I saw them.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 10:32 AM) It's a pretty bad guess, am I mad I wasn't old enough to see guided by voices live or being able to anticipate a Beck or Flaming lips album before they cornered themselves, yeah, Am I mad I couldn't be at a nirvana concert in 93 with pissed off kids decrying corporate oppression with their right hand and grabbing a starbucks with their left, no, not really. I saw Nirvana in 1993 at the Aragon and they were really great. I passed on seeing them at the Metro in 1990, but my wife and I had just met and I chose to go up to Wisconsin and see her. Still the right move, 19 years later.

If you even SEE the outside of your hotel room, you're doing it wrong!

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 03:33 PM) Wow.. Im gonna miss Wiz personally, and I'm sure the other guys in that locker room will too. I honestly don't like the trade. EDIT: Kontiola is gone too.. but honestly he was gone anyway. Not diggin' the trade. Hopefully, this guy can turn around his bad +/- and win some key faceoffs for the Hawks.

Bruins pick up Mark Recchi. I still haven't seen anything about the Hawks getting Moore. Nothing yet on ESPN, TSN, THN, or the Hawks official site.

Maple Leafs pick up Martin Gerber off waivers. Also, they placed Vesa Toskala on injured reserve today with a "groin issue".

Calgary acquires Jordan Leopold and Olli Jokinen, http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3951292

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 09:22 AM) Faceoffs are a big thing to think about. If we are winning 45% of our draws in the playoffs, it is going to make it really tough to win a series against a team like DET or SJ. True. They'll be hard enough to beat anyway, you can't give them that much puck possession. Isn't Toews the only center with a winning faceoff % on the team (with significant numbers of faceoffs, I mean - if someone is 7 of 11 I don't care)?

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 09:09 AM) For who? Pascal Leclaire has been mentioned. Leclaire it is! from thn.com Leclaire to Ottawa 03.04.2009 / 10:03 AM The first deal of the day, according to TSN, is a pretty good one. Ottawa has moved forward Antoine Vermette to Columbus, in exchange for goalie Pascal Leclaire. Leclaire, who last his job when his injury allowed Steve Mason to emerge as the best young goalies in the game, will try to regain No. 1 status in Ottawa. The Senators thought they had a No. 1 in Martin Gerber this season, but he flamed out and has been put on waivers twice in 2009. Columbus GM Scott Howson has been looking for a center and Vermette could fit the bill. Vermette plays both center and wing, but is also a very good faceoff man. Columbus also sent a second-round pick to Ottawa, according to TSN Howson may still be in the market for a No. 1 center to play with Rick Nash. We'll have more details as they become available. --Shawn P. Roarke

1. The original Eagleman commercial was better than the "sequel" with the horrible, horrible Mancow. You know, if you get in an accident, your sunglasses will go sideways on your face! WACKY! and 2. The commercials for Ben's Auto Sales with former local wrestling promoter Bob Luce were cringe-worthy. 100 times worse than Eagleman. At least Eagleman had some production values - they were terrible, but they were there.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 03:00 PM) Chris Cornell's new album is available for streaming on his myspace page. link As with everything else he does, I think it's terrific. However, I'm in love with everything Chris Cornell produces. Timbaland's influence on the album only makes it better as well. My wife loves Chris Cornell, but she was very disappointed when I played the songs for her. She said it sounded like a Justin Timberlake CD. It's actually got her a little bummed out about seeing him in concert next month. I've never been that much of a Cornell fan so my reaction was not as severe. I thought the music didn't fit his voice that well, but it was interesting to hear him branch out and try something new.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 11:22 AM) I agree with you on both counts, I've also liked the progression of Walker who I thought wouldnt last very long at this level. Overall we probably need one more good defensive minded D-man to be a real good team on the back end. I'm actually stunned at how well Walker has played. I thought they were getting nothing when they signed him, and he's turned out to be really steady back there.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 09:17 AM) I agree if not Nirvana, it would have been someone else. The historic fact remains that it was Nirvana that sped the demise. Right place right time. The Beach Boys/Beatles situation is similar. By late 1963/early 1964, the Beach Boys sound was largely played out, and a post-JFK assassination America was ready for a new direction. It could have and would have been some lesser band, but fortunately for music it was the Beatles. They were astounding and fresh and different, but there certainly is a right time/right place component there as well. Oh yeah, I agree completely. A lesser band (or album) wouldn't have caused the same stir, but sooner than later another band or album would have captured the attention of music fans who were fed up with hair metal. My main point, I guess, is that I place more blame on bad hair metal causing its own demise than I give credit to Nirvana for being the next band to hit big and therefore "kill hair metal". I liked Nirvana a lot, and I still think Nevermind is a really good album, but I don't buy the idea that hair metal would have dominated the charts for any longer had Nirvana never happened. People were tiring of that crap anyway.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 08:17 AM) Holy crap, Intermittent Explosive Disorder isnt a WWE creation I had no idea, it sounds fake It still sounds like Orton suffers from unexpected violent diarrhea, though.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) Sure, but you're arguing two sides of the same coin. Without something. . . anything better than the hair band drek, that's what the labels would have kept signing and ramming down people's throats for as long as they could have gotten away with it. The Beach Boys could have put it on autopilot and mailed it in for several more years if the Beatles hadn't come along when they did and give pop music an alternative. No, I'm saying that if Nirvana hadn't come along, someone else would have "killed hair metal". That crap had run its course, so Nirvana didn't kill it, Nirvana was just the next band people took to. There are still bands out there playing that hair metal drivel for 50 people in barns and "spectaculars" like Rocklahoma, but I'm talking about mainstream acceptance. That s*** was so awful and played out that it was bound to fade away, it was just a matter of who got latched onto next.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 07:30 AM) You have to realize that at that time there was no internet, no itunes, no myspace, no youtube or anything. Independent music was a whole lot harder to find back then. You had the radio and MTV. Nirvana pretty much single handedly saved popular rock music from the hair metal bands. You guys may not like them, but you have plenty to thank them for. I know this has become the accepted theory, but I do not subscribe to it. The way I see it, the s***ty hair bands created the need for a Nirvana (or someone like them) to come along. The hair scene was becoming more and more horrible, and there was a real sense of disgust among the people I knew who loved heavy metal that hair metal was being seen as passing for heavy metal. When you had s***ty bands like Mr. Big, Firehouse, and f***ing Nelson passing for metal, it was only a matter of time until something different - anything different - was going to come along and grab the attention of the mall-shopping music fans. The real fans of metal had ditched those bands, or never got into them in the first place, so all that was left was to take away the MTV kids. Nirvana had just recorded a glossy, poppy album and the time was right. It was "rock enough" to appeal to fans of heavier rock, but not so heavy as to scare the "casual fan" away. Cobain claimed to hate the production of that album, and basically said that Nevermind wasn't a true reflection of Nirvana's music. Give them credit for being in the right place at the right time, but they didn't kill hair metal. If anything, it was assisted suicide.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 08:32 PM) That Maryse woman is something else. Wow, she's gorgeous... There are some enjoyable photos of her out there on The_Web if you look hard enough.

I'm more worried about Paulie's hip.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 09:46 PM) Who? Yes.

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) OK since no one cares except for critic,its pink (pepto bismo pink). Which I dont really see how that has any type of calming effect on anyone. If I felt like I was losing my mind I would feel pretty uneasy being put in a room that is anything other than white. I would be asking myself,"Is this room really pink? Or am i seeing things?". For most it would be the first all pepto bismo pink room they have ever been in. lol "no one cares, so let me go into detail...." fwiw, pink would have been my "serious" guess. A pink room wouldn't calm me down, though...ha.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Mar 1, 2009 -> 10:21 PM) And that has over 7 million in cap space available, want a defensman that is s*** defensively(sort of important)has been on 3 teams in 2 seasons, and now apparently is getting fed up with a very well respected coach. I'm sure teams will be knocking down Tallon's door. It only takes one. Tallon can't be the only guy who overvalued him. Let's play the "change of scenery" card - that has legs.