Well it was a live album released in 2006, and he had two studio albums (i think) before that. I haven't heard anything after 'desireless,' i was just reading up on him while rediscovering the album. 1998 was just an incredible year for music. There are a few albums I haven't really stopped listening to from that year, mostly Canadian releases. 'Clayton Park' by Thrush Hermit, 'Silent Radar' by The Watchmen, 'Navy Blues' by Sloan... man I love the late 90's.

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Interesting find. I listened to this album again a month ago, there are a few great songs there. He did release a couple albums since then, including his most recent release in 2006, of live material.


he released an album in 2006?was it any good?i loved his earlier stuff..downtempo and chill.

I'm late to this best of party, and I haven't seen 'In the Loop', 'Moon' and a few others that people have included in their lists, but here goes....

Best (in no particular order):

-Inglorious Basterds
-Where the Wild Things Are
-Watchmen
-Yeardly
-District 9
-Up in the Air
-Mr. Fantastic Fox
-The Hangover
-Capitalism (Not Moore's best, but any film that attempts to make honest discussion of capitalism less taboo in American culture earns my respect. Despite a meandering structure and the inclusion of youtube videos on the big screen, there is plenty to like here.)

Worst (It's pretty easy to avoid bad movies these days, but I managed to see a few)

-Antichrist - I usually like movies by Lars, but he seems to have purposely made this ode to genital mutilation to be unlikable/unwatchable, which must make its inclusion in my list a badge of honor. Well done, you sick pretentious fuck.
-Paranormal Activity - At 90 minutes, this over-hyped D grade student film was 70 minutes too long, with across the board failings in direction, acting and writing categories..... but still infinitely better than....
-2012 - One of the worst films I've ever seen. Mind bogglingly dumb, boring and entirely too long. Even the elaborate, expensive CGI/action sequences were lifeless, dull and uninspired. Zero entertainment value. When you can't make the destruction of the Earth even vaguely entertaining, you should probably stop making movies.

Thank you sir, the sentiment is appreciated. I'm also Rorschach in the Watchmen, the V in for Vendetta, and Jules motherfucking Winnfield from Pulp Fiction!

...and about 6 Tim Roth characters!

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thinking of you sweetie!
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>> ^qualm:
gwizz: "Who watches the watchmen?"
Probably some chubby guy from Denmark.


Haha, keep carrying the torch. It's alright I forgive you for loving me and everything I do.

gwizz: "Who watches the watchmen?"

Probably some chubby guy from Denmark.

Who watches the watchmen?

THE CLIPS:
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Babylon A.D.
Knowing
Sherlock Holmes
Death Race
The Uninvited
Max Payne
Fast & Furious
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Midnight Meat Train
Quarantine
2012
Ninja Assassin
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Whiteout
The Final Destination
Daybreakers
Race to Witch Mounta More..in
Moon
Inglourious Basterds
The Box
Obsessed
Friday the 13th
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Watchmen
Dragonball
The Spirit
Carriers
Bangkok Dangerous
District 9
Surrogates
The Book of Eli
Mirrors
The Happening
Wanted
(some Russian title)
Sorority Row
Fighting
The Road
Angels & Demons
Jennifer's Body
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Pineapple Express
The Last House on the Left
The Haunting in Connecticut
Shutter Island

THE MUSIC:

AudioMachine - Akkadian Empire
Groove Addicts - Zero Hour
Audio Network - Mars
AudioMachine - Lachrimae (VadoskiN DNB mix)
Wild Rumpus Music - Blame It on the Falling Sky 2.0
John Murphy - The Last House On The Left SCORE

No shit BF, the best character in Watchmen. Practical, efficient, caring and considerate, and tenacious.

I'm still reading American Sphinx when I have time, which hasn't been too often these past couple of weeks. Next I'm reading Watchmen and Philosophy which should be a fun read. After that, I've never read Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and Common Sense, so those will be next most likely.

No, not me. I'll be over here NOT buying it. I never wanted it to be made in the first place, and aside from accurately re-creating a number of the comic panels, I didn't really care for the way the adaptation turned out, at all. To me Watchmen is the one comic that should have just been left alone, allowed to remain perfect and untainted as it was. Pure, if you will.

>> ^blankfist:
Anyone else buying this?

I could just send you the clips with the blue guys junk and save you some cash?

If you have a large TV and get digital copies, you can watch them using a WD HD TV Player as it plays those files. And its cheap!

Watchmen was... a stuffy film I must say. I kept wondering why wouldn't anyone make this. And this director needs to stop using slow mo all the time.

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>> ^jerryku:
I'm not surprised that so few are Republican (Einstein was a Communist, and many of Oppenheimer's relatives were, too), but I wonder how many today are Libertarian-types, since so many identify as independents?
And how many are pro-democracy? I would argue that science and democracy don't really work together well. For one thing, scientists are very smart, while the majority of the human race is probably embarrassingly foolish in their eyes. So are scientists (elite eggheads) really in favor of having the unwashed masses rule the world? I gotta wonder.
A scientist libertarian party guy makes sense to me though. Free market stuff is like a form of social darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Evolution. Science. Brutal, cold, efficient, and without any silly Bible or Quran to teach hippie whatever egalitarian "love your neighbor" principles that are in there.
A scientist fascist makes sense to me, too.
I guess a scientist Communist (which was VERY popular in the past) actually makes the least amount of sense to me. The only part that makes sense is the tenet of Communism that opposes faith in God. If high #s of scientists are not religious, then I can see the appeal of Communism. But all the other aspects of Communism, which is really based on the idea of majority rule ("The People!"), seems to go against what scientists would favor. Then again, I guess convincing the world that there was no afterlife after a nuclear world-destroying war.. would be the most important thing to do for the time being. Kinda like an Ozzymandias from The Watchmen type thing.




Maybe scientists are elite egg heads, but you know who else were also elite eggheads? Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Thomas Edison, Dr. Salk, Neil Armstrong. It was American eggheads that led the way to map the human genome. Nearly everyone on tonight’s shuttle launch is a science/math geek, and all but two are American. I for one am proud that my country has produced so many eggheads.

Science has done very well under democracy, and amazingly well under American democracy. In our brief history, American scientists (or at least scientists that came to and did their best work while in America [i.e. Nikola Tesla, Alexander Bell, Wernher von Braun]) have given the world the greatest number of advances in science, medicine and technology of the modern era. It makes totally sense; a free society, where ideas and information can be easily exchanged, coupled with a healthy amount of capital from the private sector to fund research is the best environment for scientific advances.

Just because a person is not religious does not mean they would automatically find communism attractive. If everyone that didn’t believe in a god were also a communist, communism would be a lot more successful than it is. I would venture to say that a disbelief in a god is more likely to happen in the above-mentioned free and open societies as opposed to one where everyone are told what to think. Communism (at least as in the form of China, Cuba, North Korea and the USSR) is not a “majority rule” government, but one where a small, self appointed, insular group at the very top controls everything. Majority rule is, however, a tenet of democracy.

I'm not surprised that so few are Republican (Einstein was a Communist, and many of Oppenheimer's relatives were, too), but I wonder how many today are Libertarian-types, since so many identify as independents?

And how many are pro-democracy? I would argue that science and democracy don't really work together well. For one thing, scientists are very smart, while the majority of the human race is probably embarrassingly foolish in their eyes. So are scientists (elite eggheads) really in favor of having the unwashed masses rule the world? I gotta wonder.

A scientist libertarian party guy makes sense to me though. Free market stuff is like a form of social darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Evolution. Science. Brutal, cold, efficient, and without any silly Bible or Quran to teach hippie whatever egalitarian "love your neighbor" principles that are in there.

A scientist fascist makes sense to me, too.

I guess a scientist Communist (which was VERY popular in the past) actually makes the least amount of sense to me. The only part that makes sense is the tenet of Communism that opposes faith in God. If high #s of scientists are not religious, then I can see the appeal of Communism. But all the other aspects of Communism, which is really based on the idea of majority rule ("The People!"), seems to go against what scientists would favor. Then again, I guess convincing the world that there was no afterlife after a nuclear world-destroying war.. would be the most important thing to do for the time being. Kinda like an Ozzymandias from The Watchmen type thing.