bmags

that's a shame, i've heard soldier field shows are kinda bleck. I don't think i want to go to arena like shows ever. i like the band right on top of me and then hanging out with them at the bar.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 12:14 PM) SPOILERS!!!!! Because it wasn't a kids movie. First, the director was drawing obvious parallels to today's world. Second, since this was an adult fantasy tale, the director’s job was to make the ADULTS fearful of the villain. Kids have no business watching this movie regardless of whether there is or isn’t violence in it. They wouldn’t even begin to understand what’s going on. And the director wasn’t working for that angle. The little kid was just a puppet for what he was really trying tell in his story. The torture scenes, when he smashes that innocent man in the face with a bottle, when his face is cut open, it was all absolutely necessary. The scenes drew out and created more fear for the adult audience to have and build from. Cut those scenes out and the dictator is nothing but a stereotype (something a kid would only understand). The lines, the dialogue, “When I get to this tool, I will believe anything you tell me,” they all add an immense amount of shading and depth to the Captain. They provide grounds for one of the final lines, and as far as the movies I’ve seen, one of the most memorable sequences in film history… “Tell my son what time I died. Tell him--” “NO. He will not even know your name.” And then a bullet goes through his cheek. If the director wanted to make this movie for children, I absolutely agree that the violence and blood was not necessary (I also don't think kids would have understood it either way). But since it was an adult fantasy, every bit of blood was needed. Think about it...what would any kid gain from this movie if they happened to see an edited, clean version of it? It didn't take on very many childlike themes. It wasn't your Harry Potter type story where we're talking about simple morals, good versus evil. It wasn't simple and plainly spelled out like Little Red Riding Hood. This movie took on some adult themes. Ain't no kids I know would have had a CLUE what to learn from Pan's Labyrinth. SPPPPOOOOIILLLERRRS thank you for elaborating BD, you hit on plot points i didn't. I was mainly so aware of Del Torro's visual mastery. Another thing to showing all that violence is just how good he is at ... not special effects but yeah special effects. The bullet wound, with the blood slowly dripping out the cheek. The sewing of the cheek and the alcohol slowly dripping out. the parallel of not just purely abiding by authority. God, awesome film.

haha, stadium arcadium up for best album of the year is so funny. My god, they could've at least shaved 1.5 albums off that thing. So much filler. And then just throwing up gnarls barkley just for the buzz created. "it's so weird!!! lol" jesus. Thing has 3 good songs.

god i hate the grammys. what a joke. "you won the best song of the year award!!!" ... rriiiiiggghhhttt.

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 11, 2007 -> 08:28 PM) I seen The Shins last night at the Congress.Absolutely stellar,I liked thier new album but these guys sound even better live,totally made my birthday. my friend's are going tonight! I don't think i'd travel a city over to see the shin's live but i still like 'em.

i haven't had anything to comment on recently.

haha, CHAOS ERUPTS!!!!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 06:11 PM) These 2 guys get some bonus points. Especially Flake. haha

Just saw pan's labyrinth last night. I completely disagree with lmb's assessment. The simple fact of making rating a genre repulses me in the first place. I realize studios go out to make pg13 horror movies for profit, but this was a real masterpiece by a director who finally put all three aspects together. The storytelling was magnificent, he interwove the two stories wonderfully, perhaps the best editing i've seen in years. He filmed it in such a way that you were always conscious of the mese en scene, when the little girl was in the labyrinth she seemed so small in the frame, seeing the world as large and wonderous. And the violence was real. It was real and terrifying and contradidcts what we felt as children, of the epitomy of fear being chased by a monster, but in reality, we can be much more terrifying. So many gorgeous shots, the ending scene of her at the feet of her palace was great. And the monster with eyes in his hands was so cool, M. Night Shamylanlmadingdong should take notice, Del Toro has mastered it much better than him. Graphically, Del Toro is the best in the business, his creatures are incredible. Del Toro really took you in Ophelia's world, everyone in the theatre was relieved when the *****SPPOOOOOOIIIIIILLLLLLEEEEERRRRRRR*****fawn came back to give her a second chance. This asks the audience to suspend disbelief, we all know this is in her head, so why wouldn't she create that? BUt I was so enthralled by the story, this poor girl had lost her dear mother, and was using this story to keep her optimistic. It took me back to being a child. Add that to the sequence of lines that are my favorite i've seen in a long time "Tell my son the time when I d..." "No" "He won't even know your name" BANG. Aesthetically gorgeous. Fantastic Storytelling. Wonderful Acting. first time i've felt this strongly about a movie in a long time. Why is it that foreign child actors always seem like much better actors than american. I would trade ophelia for that war of the worlds girl in a heartbeat.

i find it funny these girls think they can talk!! har har, they should just interview posters of them and giggle.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 06:27 PM) I still don't get how some kid took it all upon themselves to not stand. I mean if everyone in the class is always standing, how did some kid just come in one day and decide to buck the trend and see what happens. That's a ballsy little kid. or perhaps the epitomy of laziness.

well, i think the consensus on this board was "meh" however, the new arcade fire leaked and i find it absolutely wonderful. Also new andrew bird has leaked and also a great listen. that's about it, i've been listening to Chris Clark a lot and Gza, i just got a new job for this summer so that's taken over most things. edit: in that first sentence i'm referring to what follows in my post, not discussion above me.

well live aid really accomplishes a lot

i thought this was the funniest episode i've seen. The fact that michael can pull those emotions from me without being obsessively vulgar like borat makes me think its genius.Despite doing all these things its coming from a very childish and honest place. I think he's a very developed character, and this 'over the top' michael doesn't seem that over the top to me, it seems like michael.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 02:31 PM) I enjoyed the episode. Of course as usual it opened more questions while simultaniously answering others. The interesting thing was finding out that Alex was Ben's kid. That begs the question, is Ben the leader who is impregnating lots of women, for whatever reason, or was it a consentual thing? Also it will be interesting to see what happens now with Juliet (will she get off the Island?) Could Jack be her replacement as the new Doctor? Will Ben survive the surgery/tumor? Will the "others" go back after Kate/Sawyer and Carl? Damn, I still love this show. i personally think that ben is not actually her father, she is just told that since she was taken away at birth.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 03:57 AM) On another note, Charles Manson is up for parole this year. maybe the band will get back together.

um, i thought it was a great episode. You don't care about juliets past? Really? I'd like to know how these others came to be there, more than that, you now know that they are also captive! And kate and sawyer got off the island, russo's daughter has a father that's here? Or is that just what they told her? Jack might be forced to be the next juliet. Soon looks like there'll be a siege. Great episode.

guitars in general are phallic symbols.

i should've known, nobody talks to the cashiers!

also, it helps to look up what kind of tech prospective colleges you are looking at prefer. Apples at mizzou are great for the learning process, the iLife sweet has allowed the school to cool activities like iLife and podcasts.

that was a very good start.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 7, 2007 -> 12:38 AM) In some ways, yes, it is quite different from what we see in the ocean. Specifically, isotopically it is very light. Through a process we call Rayleigh distillation, the snow that falls at the poles has a much lower concentration of heavy isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen in it than the rain that falls at the equator or the water in the oceans. When ice caps form, this water locked up at the poles is actually so different isotopically that the isotopic composition of the normal ocean water changes in the opposite direction (The ice caps are very light, and as they get bigger, the ocean itself gets heavier). This produces one of the signals we see in the ice cores; as the isotopic composition of the oceans varies, the isotopic composition of the snow falling at the poles also is changed, and we can use these trends in the ice cores to track the waxing and waning of the ice caps. We can also confirm these signals with a variety of other proxies (none of which give the nearly annual resolution of ice cores), but anything which interacts with water and produces a preservable signal may well also show a similar pattern (a good example is microfossils that form from life in the ocean...you can take cores of oceanic sediments and see the same patterns you see in the ice cores. In fact, that is how the glacial cycles were identified before the ice cores were available.) danke.

science question... is the water making up the ice caps ... different.

is this a joke movie like starsky and hutch?

but seriously...kate and sawyer really need to make it back to the other island if they want me to keep watching. If they end it on a cliffhanger of "will they make it" i'll be pissed