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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Pop Music Addictive For Our Young |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2012, 9:13 pm
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Replies: 48
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| I dunno, this all sounds like a slight variation on what I was hearing when I was 12 years old, the Beatles came along and the sky was falling. They probably didn't use the word "addictive" back then because addiction wasn't nearly as public as it is now... but... well, if the Beatles weren't the gr... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Does anyone else find it hard to read fiction? |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2012, 8:25 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 7,063
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| I went through a long spell where I couldn't get through a fiction book, but then I took a college course in American Fiction Since 1960, and what I got out of that was that fiction is a way writers express "how we should live." In a way, it's a peek into the NT world (at least once it's been filter... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Home Improvement |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2012, 1:39 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I disliked Home Improvement quite a bit because it seemed to me like it was all about the wife pointing out how stupid the men on the show were. I get enough of that in real life. MWC, on the other hand, I really liked. Partly because every now and then, Al actually would have something go right for... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Joe Arpiao a Fascist? discussion and poll. |
| charles52 |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2012, 11:26 am
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,847
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| I think fascist is too strong a word; his position as sheriff gives him a lot of influence over some people's lives, and I'm sure there are those who would use that word to describe hm, just as there are people here in Phoenix who consider him to be the person who is working hard to keep Phoenix a s... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: What movies have you seen recently? |
| charles52 |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2012, 8:04 am
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Replies: 20,602
Views: 1,277,597
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| Just finished watching "God Bless America" on netflix - sort of a serial killer comedy / road movie. The main character seems very Aspie-like, and Tara Lynne Barr was certainly enjoyable to watch, as well... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Headphones, or Stereo |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2012, 7:55 am
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Replies: 10
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| From my Aspie perspective, I much prefer listening on headphones because then I'm not infringing on anybody else's sound space, and it makes it easier for me to listen to the music and ignore (many) interruptions. It also means that nobody else is going to be listening to the music I like and making... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: About Pet Rocks---Poem |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2012, 8:10 am
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Replies: 3
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| Well, "pet rock" is a pretty dated image, and if you're really only 29, one that's way before your time. It may be a perfect metaphor for what you're trying to say here (if I'm reading it right," but it's still pretty dated. Maybe this would work better in third person; tell us a story about somebod... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: What do you consider the best movies ever... |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2012, 10:27 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,225
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| I made a top ten list several years ago; one thing I noticed about these movies is that every one of them was something I'd seen in a theatre first Not necessarily in order, except the first two: Little Darlings Graffiti Bridge (Prince, sort of a more metaphorical retelling of Purple Rain) Spinal Ta... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Characters you don't like. |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2012, 3:58 pm
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Replies: 364
Views: 69,125
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| The wife on the Tim Allen show that wrapped around Tool Time... Home Improvement. It just seemed to me like the whole "joke" of that show was how incompetent men in general are, and the wife pretty much made it her mission in life to keep reminding him of that. Also, Ally MacBeal, or maybe it was so... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Name An Artist/Band You Could Listen To Hours On End |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2012, 5:35 pm
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Replies: 57
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| Can and have listened to the Grateful Dead for hours at a time - did a six hour drive to Las Vegas last month and pretty much had the Sirius XM Grateful Dead channel on the whole way both ways. Deadheads are pretty obsessive about keeping setlists, trading tapes, listening to songs from various conc... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Why is it so hard? D: |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2012, 8:46 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Just another thought - go ahead and make that main character like you. That's who you know best, that will be the way to get some honest detail into the story. When you're done, THEN if it doesn't seem like there are enough clues, you can look for ways to make the character more obvious, but you may... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Top 10 Films Yet To Be Released On Blu-Ray |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2012, 9:58 am
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Replies: 25
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| Well, since they never got around to releasing "Little Darlings" on DVD, maybe it's time to do that one... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: favorite photographers/photography websites? |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2012, 9:56 am
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Replies: 5
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| Well, Annie Leibovitz is certainly worth a look, her stuff is pretty amazing if you're thinking in terms of portraits. You might also websearch "yyelowbird" who has photos on many different sites - it's the sort of thing you'll really like if you like that sort of thing. There are lots of photograph... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: What is the most disturbing movie you've see |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2012, 8:45 am
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Replies: 150
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| Recently, Hard Candy. When I lived in Berkeley (late '70s), the UC Theatre on University (gone now) showed different movies every night and had midnight movies on the weekend... just watching Eraserhead was pretty disturbing, but then walking home through downtown Berkeley at 2 in the morning afterw... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The demise of Men? |
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Posted: 16 Jul 2012, 8:56 am
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Replies: 121
Views: 11,407
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| Thanks to all for keeping replies to my earlier post polite, especially to nominalist, who I can tell doesn't agree with me :D For the record, I don't think I'm a "conservative" (the last time I voted Republican was 1972), and in terms of "patriarchy," the point I was trying to make was that for a l... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The demise of Men? |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2012, 10:15 pm
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Replies: 121
Views: 11,407
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| Haven't read the original article yet, and this is surely politically incorrect, but if men in general are "in decline" or "in demise" perhaps one of the things we should look back at is "women's lib." As a male who accepted the idea of women's lib when it became big sometime in the 1970s... part of... |
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