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QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 29, 2009 -> 08:41 PM) 1979? No, I was referring specifically to the Siamese Dream sessions. Lots of later stuff - including the entire Chaimberlain-less Adore album, is full of drum machine.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 29, 2009 -> 03:30 PM) really? wikipedia says otherwise, but I wouldnt be surprised if it was wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smashing_pumpkins 9 Yeah, technically not stand-ins, but more like necessary inconveniences, at least as far as the studio side of things. Especially on Siamese Dream, Corgan was doing a lot of bass tracks and redubbing lot's of iha's guitar parts as well. Chamberlin's drumming was pretty indispansable, though, and even when he'd disappear for days at a time on drug benders during those sessions Billy never tried doing drums himself or going back to the drum machine.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 29, 2009 -> 10:31 AM) Yeah, an incredible homage to the old school horror movies. The only one you left out was the Fly/Cockroach scientist, And I thought Hugh Laurie was the perfect voice for that character, as well as Kiefer Sutherland being a great voice for the Warden/General. Insectasaurus was a pretty funny combination of Godzilla and Mothra, I liked how they got him from place to place with a giant halogen light hanging from a helicopter. Doctor Cockroach was brilliant -- right down to the pencil-thin Vincent Price mustache!! And the shot of Bob oozing out the double doors was right out of the original The Blob as well. Arrested Development fans should all get a kick out of Gob (as Link) doing the "Ca-CAW! Ca-CAWW!!" chicken call too. Kiefer Sutherland said he modeled General Monger's voice on a combination of the Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant and Yosemite Sam - and listening to the voice I think that was a pretty good assessment.

Monsters Vs. Aliens was top notch. great story, great animation, good 3D. And a lot like Pixar's Incredibles, lots of raised eyebrow nods to the various homages it hails from. The thrown giant syringe, ala' Amazing Colossal Man. . . Insectasaurus going through a Mothra-inspired metamorphosis . . Missing Link having a thing for co-ed bathing beauties the way Universal's Creature seemed to. . . Great stuff.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 10:54 AM) I almost bought some Shamwow's yesterday...but then I got my s*** together and walked away. But wait. . . There's MORE!!

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 10:38 AM) Are you going to see it in Imax 3D? I hadnt seen a 3D movie since I saw Captain Eo in disneyworld when i was a kid, I forgot how fun it is. People were "Oooing" and "Ahing" the entire time Digital 3D, but no Imax sadly. The last couple of years there have been some excellent digital 3D releases, including Chicken Little, Coroline, and even the 3D remaster of Nightmare Before Christmas. Definitely worth a few extra bucks to see it in 3D. There's only a handful of theaters set up for digital 3D in Florida and somehow we managed to get two of them very close to us.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Mar 22, 2009 -> 11:26 PM) The Catholic Church is really a mess. I'm still a Catholic and will remain one, faithfully, but the Catholic Church needs a lot of change. 99% of my extended Irish Catholic family has this mindset so I've learned to accept and respect it, but I honestly don't understand it. I see courage in members of denominations who recognize problems and try to effect change from withing (see the US Episcopal Church rift over gay ministers). In contrast, I see Catholic family and friends sort of personally assessing which Vatican edicts to accept and which ones to quietly dismiss (e.g., birth control).

She really is amazing and quite an inspirational parson. She's of Ashkenazi descent, so she's at a much higher risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, and thus higher risk of aggressive breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

QUOTE (T R U @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 05:41 AM) so i was tryin to pee in a bottle on the wqy home and i peed on mtyself, not quite peed in my pants but i did pee on my pants because of overflow The level of openness and candor in the drunk thread is quite high, isn't it?

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 27, 2009 -> 09:09 PM) I saw Monsters vs Aliens in Imax 3D today, it was awesome. The movie, and the 3D nature of the film. Going this afternoon after the kids are done with softball and football. Really looking forward to it. From the trailers, it looks like the most Pixar-like of Dreamworks films yet. I had to do a doubletake when I first saw the ad during the Super Bowl because it looked like Pixar was releasing two films this season.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Mar 27, 2009 -> 12:32 AM) I am sure that this has been discovered by many a soxtalker already, but I feel like a kid on Christmas all over again playing on my Commodore 64. Dutch-telnet-ascii-star-wars-madness. telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl Telnet to this dutch server, and star wars episode IV plays as an ascii movie. Is it the same animation as the one at asciimation.co.nz? Good stuff. . . created by bored people.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 05:20 PM) You are correct that they recycled the second half of ''hold that lion!'' which and made ''booty and the beast'' with it. But that is not what i was looking for. Curly would visit the set whenever he felt well enough to make it, one day it just so happened he was on one of his ''up'' days when he walked onto to the set in 1950 of spooks! 3-d. In spooks 3-d (released 1953) the stooges encounter a bat that looks like shemp, the bat gives off a ''woowoowoowoowoo''. Some think it was shemp who voiced it, but moe confirmed the contrary in his autobiography. Curly did indeed voiced it right then and there, they did not use a stock woowoowoowoowoo. Was kinda a trick question since it was a voice over cameo... but it is a cameo nonetheless. Now every time i see that short i look out for that bat, as it is the very last piece of curly to ever make the screen. Ha! That's great. I know that short and have it on a buried VHS tape somewhere, but I had never heard that story. Cool.

Wow Qwerty, I'm impressed by your knowledge base on all that Stooge history, by your uncle's passion and collection, and by your continued devotion to the old comedy shorts. I still definitely love them as well. ''Hold hands, you lovebirds''. Classic! That's actually inscribed on Emil Sitka's tombstone. And the story is that short was one that slipped into the public domain and was shown on TV so much that's why ''Hold hands, you lovebirds'' became the catchphase he was best known for. Sitka, of course, was the official 7th Stooge. He was asked to join the team in 1974, and then Moe died in 1975 before they filmed anything together. Seeing Shemp and Besser together onscreen is neat, and I'm sure it was tough for Besser to replace his good friend in the Stooges lineup. The Curly cameos question is a good one, and I think I know the answer. I think they actually recycled the Hold That Lion footage and used it in one of the later shorts - not sure which one. Budget cuts had forced them to reuse a lot of older stock shots by the mid 50s, and i know that's how they handled the "Fake Shemp" Palma stuff - reusing Shemp footage as much as they can and finishing it off with new shots of the back of Palma's head and such.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 03:09 PM) I don't know. I respect the imagination of spike jonze so much that the thought of him being able to work with the greatest children's book of all time thrills me. Even though he may not deliver, we shouldn't hold ourselves back from ambitious projects like that. I think there are few directors who could've done WTWTA: Spike Jonze Michael Gondry Charlie Kauffman Guillermo Del Toro Tim burton But Gondry cannot reel himself in, Kauffman is too inexperienced, Del Toro and Burton too dark. Jonze is the only one whose creative mind has been able to think clearly and push boundaries without watering down his work. QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 03:10 PM) I will go ahead and add that Rob Reiner could make a fun WTWTA movie, but no where near the scope visually that the other directors could take it. Terry Gilliam doesn't make the cut, huh? I think visually he'd do a better job than most of the folks on your list. I think his animation style back even to Beware of Elephants days is actually pretty evocative of Sendak. And I think the monster he put together for Jabberwocky was sort of a scarier Muppets-on-acid version of the sorts of things he could do on a Wild Things. Best not to distract the man though I guess, or he'll never get around to finishing Good Omens.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 02:12 PM) Damn. Stooge-nerd. Pretty much. You can guess the crap I take from the wife for it.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 07:52 PM) LOL, thats not what she just said after we watched the trailer. She just told me "I know that book, its about the kid who imagines things". Thats funny that you say that though, because the film was redone after a test screening went bad and kids started screaming and stuff. On principal, I absolutely hate the idea of a Where the Wild Things Are film, but Sendak is involved (Producer) so I guess I have to respect his decision to take the property in this direction. The guy who did some of the anamatronics for Hellboy II is doing animatronics in this one, so visually it will probably be enngaging. But that is such a sacred children's book I'm hesitant about screwing around with it too much.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 01:47 PM) Joe Palma, the "fake Shemp". Great guess, and I made sure to say "official" Stooge to disqualify Palma's body double stint as "fake Shemp" after Shemp died. The 7th official Stooge was asked by Moe to be a Stooge several years later to replace Larry after he died. Here he is:

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 01:30 PM) The big 4 of the Stooges is Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp. Everyone after that is inferior. Quite right. Joe Besser was quite an established and respected solo comic act before his short Stooge stint, but his wimpy persona ("Not so haaard!") and refusal to take the brunt of most physical slapstick kept him from ever meshing well at all with Moe and Larry. Besser also was known by kids of my generation addicted to Saturday morning Hanna-Barbara cartoon fare as the voice of Babu the Genie in the cartoon adaptation of I dream of Genie. More of the useless trivia clogging my brain. It's hard to say anything nice about Curly Joe. Trivia Time: There was actually a 7th official Stooge in the Three Stooges roster. Name him. (Mega cool points if anybody can do it without using teh Google).

Oh my, this product really exists. And they have a wonderful graphic on the web showing how the product works: I love the arrows indicating where "stench" enters and is efficiently trapped.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 10:14 AM) I don't get, at all, how anybody could possibly see anything good coming out of a new Stooges flick, especially one with a cast such as that. I mean, people had a problem back then when Curly was replaced, and they replaced him with the original guy! Now we have a new film, with people playing the parts of the real people, and this is a good idea!?! Crazy man...absolutely crazy. Shemp was totally brilliant, and anybody who thinks of him as a lesser Stooge can pick two of these [holds up hand, gets ready to gives 'em a Two-fingered Moe to the eyeballs]. Now, Joe Besser and Curly Joe Derita, on the other hand. . . Those were some crappy Stooges.

Somebody help me out. Is the new Stooges film is going to be a documentary or just a straight-up comedy in which modern movie makers with no original ideas rape the bones of the original Stooges to make a buck? If it's the former, then ok, I guess there's a point to the film which may or may not end up being any good. If it's just a comedy remake ala' cinematic failures like the atrocious Little Rascals and Beverly Hillbillies remakes, then there is a 95% probability it will suck ass no mater who they cast.

Seen/Experienced: 1. Birth of My Kids 2. 2,000-ft+ submersible dive, Jamaica 3. Ireland/England 4. Great Barrier Reef/Australia 5. White Sox World Series Champs Want: 1. Equatorial ocean crossing 2. New Zealand 3. American western desert and mountains 4. Belgian beer tour 5. Japan * Bonus, another couple Sox WS rings!

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 08:17 AM) The Chicagoland area might get some accumulating snow on Saturday. Kill Me now. Don't you guys think you're taking this whole winter thing to extremes, now. Come on, it's almost April!

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Mar 26, 2009 -> 12:01 AM) The Beverly Arts Center should actually have booths set up discussing who St. Patrick was, why anyone gives a s***, and perhaps throw in other items relating to the culture. Well, then everybody will learn that St. Patrick wasn't even Irish, there never were any darn sankes, etc., etc., and it'll be such a downer for the part-time Irish that nobody will be able to stomach a green Natty Light ever again.