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I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis She had a moist vagina she took the midnight train going anywhere I said train kept a-rollin' all night long Train kept a-rollin' all night long Train kept a-rollin' all night long Train kept a-rollin' all night long With a heave and a ho Well don't you know that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang Oh, Oh, these chains of love got a hold on me, yeah. One of these mornings the chain is gonna break Chain, chain, chain (Chain...chain...chain..) Chain of fools! Wise Men say only fools rush in You got no money, you got no car, you got no woman, and there you are Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line I don't get angry when my Mom smokes pot, Hits the bottle and goes right to the rock She's so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc or Aphrodite Dear mother can you hear me laughing? Mama, I just killed a man A bullet had found him, His blood ran as he cried, No money could save him , So he laid down and he died "Where'd ya get the gun, John?" Told him take off all his clothes and put your penis next to mine And the Bulge in my big big big big big big big big big big big big big big BIG

QUOTE (NIUSox @ Aug 27, 2012 -> 09:33 PM) My most quoted movie is probably The Big Lebowski. "Phone's ringing dude" "OVER THE LINE" "Donny you're out of your element" "The ringer must not look empty. It's my dirty undies, the whites." "You see what happens... you see what happens when you f*** a stranger in the ass" "That's a bummer man" "That rug really tied to the room together" "Obviously you're not a golfer" "They peed on your f***ing rug." "Shomer f***ing shabbos!" "Don't be fatuous Jeffrey." "Did you ever hear of "The Seattle Seven? That was me... and six other guys."

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 27, 2012 -> 03:42 PM) Aliens "We're dead! we're dog meat pal!" "They mostly come out at night... mostly." "You heard the man and know the drill. Assholes and elbows!" "THey're comin' outta the God damn walls!" "How could they cut the power MAN? They're animals!" A lot of them are Hudson, because he's classic. That's all I got off the top of my head. "Game over, Man! GAME OVER!!" Every line from Big Lebowski is quotable. "Nice marmot." "Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!"

QUOTE (zimne piwo @ Aug 27, 2012 -> 04:24 AM) I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis She had a moist vagina she took the midnight train going anywhere I said train kept a-rollin' all night long Train kept a-rollin' all night long Train kept a-rollin' all night long Train kept a-rollin' all night long With a heave and a ho Well don't you know that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang Oh, Oh, these chains of love got a hold on me, yeah.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 11:56 AM) ParaNorman was excellent, btw. I really enjoyed it and so did my daughter Took my family to see the film as well this Saturday. As a lifelong fan of stop-motion animation I can tell you that I thought it was really quite good. My son is a casual acquaintance (friend of a friend) of Tucker Albrizzi, the kid who provided the voice for Neil the fat friend. So it was an added bonus to see him enjoy his semi-brush with fame.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 4, 2012 -> 10:28 AM) I wonder if Jackman has already agreed to it Based on his barroom cameo in the first film I bet he has.

Days of Future Past is the next installment of the X-Men: First Class. This makes me happy. I assume at the very least they will have to pull Kitty and Logan in from the original film trilogy if they are going to nail core story elements from the comic. Hands-down this was my favorite Claremont/Byrne storyline, and I'm excited to see they are finally tackling a film adaptation.

Quite like Dr. Pepper, but pretty much cut it out with all the other sugary soft drinks. When I run into Diet Dr. Pepper at a restaurant I get it. Not as good as the real stuff but still tasty. Me starting up in a career of porn? Is there a big market for porn gag reels?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 12:01 PM) The Hobbit is now a trilogy! Dislike.

Excellent film. Wholly appropriate ending. And hopefully a big sales boost for Fernet Branca.

QUOTE (G&T @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 01:45 PM) Since this thread fell off the map, I started doing some writing on beer and the industry for madison beer review and will have an article on flapship (like everyone else around here!) soon. So if anyone is missing their finer things fix (and who isn't) hopefully this will be one way to pass the time. Also, if you can find New Belgium's Tart Lychee...yes. Very nice sour. Awesome! I know will be a regular reader. Funny thing about the Finer Things thread going into semi-hibernation. I blame my diet for cutting down but at least not entirely killing off my boozey ways. Happy to be ~ 40 pounds lighter than I was at the beginning of the year, but I feel like I have been sadly neglecting my vices.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 11:57 AM) Guardians of the Galaxy concept art I think a Guardians of the Galaxy movie could cost the Marvel movie franchises every bit of momentum they have built up over the last few years. I can't see any circumstances under which that film could be done well. I love some of the classic cosmic Marvel universe, but outside of the original Lee and Kirby canonical cosmic elements, I think only Roy Thomas and Jim Starlin did a very good job with the stuff. I thought the original Guardians of the Galaxy was probably the hokiest Marvel team ever. Even reading those stories at 8 or 10 years old, I couldn't get past the fact that two of the main main characters were supposed to be from Jupiter and Pluto which every 8 or 10 year old kid knows are either uninhabitable gas giants or uninhabitable ice balls. With an ENTIRE galaxy of hypothetical exotic planets of origin, Arnold Drake decides that Jupiter and Pluto are the best backstory for two of the main characters. Vance Astro was also a horrible character in all his incarnations. I really hope they don't waste their time on trying to put this mess or any other later versions of it on film.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 11:38 AM) I loved those books as a kid. Me too. Bummer.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jul 16, 2012 -> 03:36 PM) Jon Lord, 71...original keyboardist for Deep Purple lost his battle with cancer and is now Smoke on the Water. RIP Lord was a big part of the sound of the Deep Purple lineups through the mid-70s, and early on he was largely considered the leader of the group before Blackmore and Gillian took the band into a harder rock direction. RIP

Happy Birthday to a fellow SoxTalk Old Fart!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 1, 2012 -> 05:42 PM) Chronicle - I rented this via Redbox in bluray. I don't even have words - you should see this movie. It was really, really good and clearly had a much larger budget than I realized. Seriously, if you have any sense of adventure, scifi, or enjoying "superpowers" - my God was that movie incredible. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Chronicle. It didn't even bother me that there was no attempt to explain how a big glowing underground rock could convey superpowers because it was just a vehicle to give the characters their powers so so they could get on with making a visually stellar film.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 05:50 PM) Just saw it in IMAX 3D. Holy crap. Awesome to look at. I was fine with it. I'm not an Alien/Scifi guy like a lot of guys here, but I enjoyed for standing along. Was the only real connection to Alien the very end or was their more outside of the timeline and planets? For me, there was quite a bit of connection. The life cycles of the proto-xeomorphs—their need to infect host bodies to get to the next stage of the life cycle—was totally and Alien fingerprint regardless of the specifics of what the different life forms looked like. The thematic continuity of the 'artificial humans' — Ash from the first Alien film, Bishop from Aliens, and David from Prometheus. Their motives and directives are never entirely known to the audience. Are they working for the Corporation, do they have pre-directives that really explain what the missions are about, and do they care at all about the human crew are themes common to all three films. Oh yeah, and they all get their heads ripped off and 'live' to tell the tale. Little things like the acid blood of the penis worms being essentially the same as the Alien xenomorphs. HR Giger's visuals setting the tone for all the films is certainly a unifying thread. And the extreme manifestation of that in Prometheus was having the last surviving engineer go all Space Jockey for us all to see and finally understand what that entity first seen in the original Alien really was.

FINALLY got out to see Prometheus today. I am a huge fan of Alien/Aliens and try hard to like the rest of the franchise. I thought this film was excellent, and already want to see it again before it leaves the theaters. I am a confused as hell about some of the same things that have come up in this thread, and as a biologist I totally agree that the biologist character was entirely too lacking in curiosity about everything he was seeing right up until he fell in love with the arm-breaking snake. A theme I thought would have been central to the film that really wasn't was the notion that the cave drawing maps for humans to eventually find their way to LV-223 were more of a warning device for the Engineers than a sincere invitation to humanity to come meet its maker. My working hypothesis is that the Engineers made sure similar imagery was placed on all of the planets where they bioengineered life. Any future progeny from that bioengineering that ended up advancing to the point where they could make the trip to find their creators would have been deemed by the Engineers as too advanced to be allowed to survive and would thus be targeted for elimination. Apparently, the Engineers were jumping the gun and getting ready to off humanity a couple thousand years before we actually made contact before something obviously webt very wrong with one of their WMDs. FWIW, I don't think the xenomorph at the end is THE same xenomorph type from the Alien franchise. Rather, it was something in the ballpark to make us lifelong franchise fans happy and to show how the Alien-type xenomorphs could have arisen under similar circumstances elsewhere in the galaxy.

Lonesome Geoge, the last of the saddleback Pinta Galapagos tortoises :-( RIP Lonesome George

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Jun 19, 2012 -> 02:23 PM) Finally, a new Fiona Apple CD is out today. Yes it is a guilty pleasure, but I love her voice and always dig the music. Is the title of this one less than 90 words?

Make it a Good One!

I wish she would have been technically correct and referred to her uterus as the focus of the legislation being considered and not vagina. Anti-abortion laws are aimed at controlling what goes on in the uterus, not the vagina.

QUOTE (juddling @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 08:29 PM) Well...OF COURSE the orginal Green Lantern is gay. I mean he's a super hero who's powered by flame, cannot abide by the tacky color yellow and he's vulnerable to wood. Pretty obvious to me Alan Scott/Earth 2 Green Lantern's vulnerability was not to the color yellow. Ironically, his vulnerability was to. . . wood!!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 18, 2012 -> 11:36 PM) I love Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It has been on HBO a lot lately and every opportunity I get I watch it. Just out of curiosity, in the original is Charlton Hestons ship named the Icarus? I noticed towards the end of RotPotA, they show the ship taking off and tv, and then when the apes escape and they go through the neighborhood where the kids are delivering newspapers, the headline on the newspaper is "Lost in Space?". I am very much looking forward to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Although the name "Icarus" was never used in any of the original movies, yes, that was the name that was later given to the ship in franchise merchandise like toys and comic book treatments. Absolutely, the tv snippet of the spaceship expedition and the "Lost in Space?" newspaper headlines are setting up the Astronaut Taylor storyline very nicely. I loved the original 1968 film. I didn't hate the Burton reboot as much as most people did, but obviously that was going to be a one shot deal. I really like what has been done so far in the new franchise with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and I think the screenwriters have done a good job tying together the plot elements of the original "Conquest of. . ." and "Battle for. . ." Apes films while avoiding the flimsy time paradoxes of the original series. At the same time, having Caesar be a chemically created super ape, as opposed to being the offspring of Cornelius and Zera sent back in time, is kind of a letdown for the lifelong fans of the cheesy original franchise like me.