I've always preferred this version over the original. The orchestral coda (sadly truncated in this video) is one of the most beautiful and delicate pieces of music I've ever heard. You can hear it in full here: http://youtu.be/PJmVTJYFbHE (from 3:40) - bliss.

It was close. As a nice coda, Arizona just voted for medical marijuana.

Marijuana is bound to be RE-legalized in the next 5-10 years. Public opinion is rolling. Ha.

@Doc_M, I noticed you didn't take on my central point about loyalty. What you're talking about is actually something I have always believed -- there aren't really independents who are truly independent in any large number in America. Left-leaning independents vote for Democrats as often as self-identified Democrats, and right-leaning independents vote for Republicans as often as self-identified Republicans, and true independents make up a very small share of the electorate. There's actually data to back that up.

But I'm talking about something much deeper than voting patterns -- I'm talking about "epistemic closure." I'm referring to the way conservatives get all their "facts" these days only from a select number of outlets that distort, misrepresent, or outright fabricate facts to vindicate their ideology, and treat all sources with different views as "liberal", and therefore "ideological", and therefore equivalent enough to say "opinions on the shape of earth differ," when in truth the "facts" cooked up by the right-wing media empire often have little or no connection to reality.

My example was "tax cuts increase tax revenue." That has zero basis in fact. Zero. It's not "that's too complicated an issue for us to know who's really right and wrong", it's just plainly, demonstrably false. If you cut taxes, it adds to the deficit. It can produce a small stimulative effect on the economy as a whole, which makes them slightly less expensive than a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation would indicate, but it never raises growth so much that the net effect is an increase in revenue.

Not to cross too much into your back & forth with rougy, but I would definitely say that there is no left wing equivalent of the "far right" -- at best, there is an actual American Socialist party, but they don't really have a voice in the mainstream liberal movement, and they certainly don't have 1-hour opinion shows on cable news networks, and hundreds of radio shows across the country. The real problem the left has is that 90% of the Democratic party seems to be to the right of their base. People who're in line with the Democratic base (e.g. Sherrod Brown, Anthony Weiner) are perpetually labeled "far left", not just by Republicans, but by Democratic leadership.

As for the 9/11 thing, again, it's a big difference. You don't have Democratic politicians saying "9/11 was an inside job", you don't have left-wing columnists continuing to speculate publicly that 9/11 was an inside job, and certainly you don't see left-wing people who say that getting invited on Sunday talk shows to talk about foreign policy.

Our conspiracy theorists get systematically frozen out, while the Republicans are happy to repeat every crackpot conspiracy theory on the floor of Congress, including trivially disproven stuff like "Obama was really born in Kenya."

My take on the ending was the same as Sarzy's. What happened on the island really happened, and what happened in the alternate reality was not purgatory or punishment, it was more of a Coda. The love fest in the sanctuary at the end was way too happy and non-denominational to be mistaken for grim Catholic mythology.

In general, I found the show to be more of a wild, unpredictable ride than a tight believable narrative. At many points in the show, the writers were clearly making it up as they went, but because of the creativity of the writers and the strength of the characters, it worked just fine. Most of the unanswered questions probably had no real answers to begin with. The writers just thought it would be cool to put a four toed statue and a couple of polar bears* on the island. Fair enough, coolness is cool.

BSG, on the other hand, took it's story and characters much more seriously. The narrative was much tighter, making a satisfying ending that much more important to me and tougher for the writers - and boy did they fail badly.

Lost avoided those expectations. Lost managed to stretch my suspended disbelief so far (without alienating me), that they could have pretty much done whatever they wanted with the ending, as long as it was cool, exiting, suspenseful, weird or otherwise entertaining. So the ending didn't carry the same importance for me as it did for BSG.

Anyway, those hours watching Lost were well spent, and the finale was a nice way to say goodbye to the lovable and lovably hateable characters that brought this thing to life.

KP, you'd probably dig this show if you gave it a chance. I felt the same way that you did, but quickly changed my mind last august when it came to Netflix streaming. It's a very unique show that can't really be understood without jumping in feet first.

*Yes, I know they explained the polar bears**.
**They were used for experiments carried out by the Dharma initiative.

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>> ^Farhad2000:
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I thought their first album was All Is Violent, All Is Bright.


End of the beginning came our 3 years earlier and is quite good.

Coda.

And goodnight Rick Wright
(28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008)

Thank you! I fixed it.

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In reply to this comment by Crosswords:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Roy-Rogers-and-Dale-Evans-Happy-Trails-Show-Coda It's dead jim

http://www.videosift.com/video/Roy-Rogers-and-Dale-Evans-Happy-Trails-Show-Coda It's dead jim

Here's the lyrics and chords for you aspiring stans out there.

*CAPO 3rd FRET*

(Original Key: G)

Intro:
Em B7/Eb D A7 (x2), C

Verse 1:
G D
Pangs, Of silence,
Em D
From the room upstairs.
C G
Hows the view there?
G
Do you read what they're,
D
Saying about you?

Verse 2:

G D
That youre no fun,
Em D
Since the war was won.
C G
In fact, you have become,
G D
All of the things,
You've always...
Am C
Run away from.

Chorus 1:

Em
The ascent of Stan,
B7/Eb D A7
Textbook hippie man.
Em B7/Eb D A7
Get rest while you can.

Verse 3:

G D
So where'd the years go?
Em D
All the time we had?
C G
Being poor was,
G D
Not such a drag,
In hindsight.

G D
And you wonder,
Em D
Why your father,
C G
Was so re-signed.
G D
Now you dont wonder,
Am C
Any more.

Chorus 2:

Em
The ascent of Stan,
B7/Eb D A7
Textbook hippie man.
Em B7/Eb D
Textbook hippie man,
A7 (C)
Get rest while you can.

Bridge 1:

C D G
(Sta...n):
Once you wanted,
C
Revolution,
D G
(Sta...n):
Now you're the,
C
Institution.
D G
(Sta...n):
Hows it feel,
C D G
To be the man?
Its no fun,
To be the man.

Interlude:

Em B7/Eb D A7,
C G,
F#7 Bsus4 B

Break:

G D
La...da da,
Em D
Da da, da da,
C G
Da da da.
G D
La da da da da, da da,
Am C
La...
Am
And now,
C
Watch it all go down.

Chorus 3:

Em
The ascent of Stan,
B7/Eb D A7
Textbook hippie man.
Em
(Stan),
Em B7/Eb D
Textbook hippie man,

A7 (C)
Get rest while you can.

Bridge 2:

C D G
(Sta...n):
Once you wanted,
C
Revolution,
D G
(Sta...n):
Now you're the,
C
Institution.
D G
(Sta...n):
Hows it feel,
C D G
To be the man?
Its no fun,
To be the man.

Coda:

G
Its no fun to be the man.

CODA SHIILOL (LONGCAT'S SONG) LYRICS
Wishing on a dream that seems far off
Hoping it will come today

Into the starlit night...
Foolish dreamers turn their gaze
Waiting on a shooting star....

But..., what if that star is not to come?
Will their dreams fade to nothing?
When the horizon darkens most
We all need to believe there is hope

Is an angel watching closely over me?
Can there be a guiding light I've yet to see?
I know my heart should guide me but,
There's a hole within my soul

What will fill this emptiness inside of me?
Am I to be satisfied without knowing?

I wish, then, for a chance to see
Now all I need (desperately....)

Is my...star to come?

ma prima devo aderire a un collective, vero?
mica posso mettere il tag di 1 collective se non ne faccio parte, vero?
mh..mi sembra tutto troppo complicato x la mia mente semplice, e tremendamente gerarchico...bo, magari provo con un collective, si aderisco prima?

In reply to your comment:
“sì (che carina).

deve arrivare a 3 voti in 24 ore, e poi a 10 voti in 4 giorni, altrimenti viene scartato.

se vuoi posso salvarlo (ovvero farlo tornare in coda per altri 4 giorni), ma dato che aveva solamente 3 voti anche se lo faccio ci sono scarse possibilità che passi.

anche perché senza collective prendono molti meno voti, in genere, dunque ti conviene postare qualcosa che possa associare a un collective

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In reply to your comment:
“ah! ma il mio video dei dEUS é sparito..??? boh? forse se sta tanti gg con pochi voti si autodistrugge?
”

sì (che carina).

deve arrivare a 3 voti in 24 ore, e poi a 10 voti in 4 giorni, altrimenti viene scartato.

se vuoi posso salvarlo (ovvero farlo tornare in coda per altri 4 giorni), ma dato che aveva solamente 3 voti anche se lo faccio ci sono scarse possibilità che passi.

anche perché senza collective prendono molti meno voti, in genere, dunque ti conviene postare qualcosa che possa associare a un collective

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In reply to your comment:
“ah! ma il mio video dei dEUS é sparito..??? boh? forse se sta tanti gg con pochi voti si autodistrugge?

The coda makes it. Is this the director's cut?

It's not the Nazis. It's the Yanquis. Dos Yanquis! Dos? Dos Yanquis!!?? Si, Senor, *banditos Yanquis!


Link whoring:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Butch-Cassidy-and-the-Sundance-Kid-Coda