lol it's just an obsession. mainly with planes.

compare the dogfights to any other film. top gun wins. it's not easy to put a high speed 3d dogfight on 2d film and have it still make sense.

oh yeah and there's meg ryan.

and it's perfectly paced, completely of its time but doesn't look as dated as all other films that tried to copy it.

don't get me started!

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“Not you too?
I really don't see the appeal

(my older brother nicknamed me Gus, he's the only one who calls me that.)

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“top gun is the best film of all time. so you know.””

woo! former RAF cadet wants to join airpr0n collective, invite please?

wow, thanks man. but i am still not sure that was it. the dukes of hazzard thing just rang a bell, and i seem to remember an english accent.

my brain = FUBAR


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“You might have seen it on taytv last december
http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/12/patton-oswald-on-bush.html



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“now i wish i could remember which comedian i heard doing that joke before.””

somebody never heard a gorgeous girl say "let's go home i want your cock inside me" in russian before

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“But why? It's ridiculously hard and horribly unromantic sounding.

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“I wish. It's top of the list if I ever take up another language. Mais je ne suis pas terrible avec francais.

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“Te russki shtoli?”””

thanks for the dylan moran

dude, you talk sense, don't stop. and karaldi obviously isn't a musician.

lol the "other guy" is a marxist isn't he?

paintings cannot express ideas as well as words? errr... ok! last time i checked, a picture was worth a thousand words.

I think that big record companies would LOVE to sell more music (i mean, make more profit) and wouldn't give a fuck what style it was, but in their ignorance/apathy/stupidity they churn out crap and put DRM on it. From my experience, the people working in record companies are pretty clueless, they flap about with their office renovations and their expense accounts and the company is so big it can't keep track of whose fault the whole mess is.

The root of the problem is that music is not a commodity, and is certainly now not protectable, but they try and sell it as such. There was that whole debate about 15 tracks on iTunes costing more than a CD, as if music should be sold by weight, like cheese. And the whole mp3 subscription thing hasn't really taken off has it? So music isn't even a service to be piped into your hard drive. That kills the magic. How do you make magic if you are talking about spreadsheets all the time?

Fetishism and rarity of (unduplicable) vinyl... that was what built the music industry. They're still trying to play the same game.

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“It's pretty obvious and more general than that. There's often a tradeoff between producing the best work and producing the most financially successful work. TV stations dumb down their programming to reach a larger audience. Cereal companies spend more money on package graphics and advertising than they spend on their actual product. Distributors of digital media use DRM that makes their product far less useful. The best writers, musicians, and artists produce whatever they want to produce without mitigation by finances or popular opinion. Most great thinkers in history were hated by many of their contemporaries, from Socrates to Dawkins.

Art rarely had much use value anyway because paintings cannot express ideas as well as words. The voiceover narrator is spouting a lot of Marxist Newspeak bullshit, but the other guy is interesting.”