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"Do you have a moment to jump on a quick call?"

No. Learn reading comprehension and don't waste my time.

The quick, brown Laura jumped on the lazy call.

"Do you have a moment to jump on a quick call?"

No. Learn reading comprehension and don't waste my time.

Something about a meat hat is just funny to me. Especially when a fruit hat is considered normal. 

..."normal" where? I've never seen anybody that wasn't Carmen Miranda wearing a fruit hat in my life.

(Not counting carnival costumes, of course.)

While I haven't seen many in reality, I've seen lots of comedies and cartoons featuring old women wearing them.

Oh, in cartoons sure! Reminds me of when I was little and thought that robbers always wore eye masks and striped sweaters

Something about a meat hat is just funny to me. Especially when a fruit hat is considered normal. 

..."normal" where? I've never seen anybody that wasn't Carmen Miranda wearing a fruit hat in my life.

(Not counting carnival costumes, of course.)

Tideland?

That was fast! Yes!

A movie I didn't like when I first saw it when it first came out but somehow has stuck with me to this day.

That little psychopath especially!

(I should give it another try I think.)

It really is an extremely unsettling movie. I'd also like to give it a rewatch sometime.

Tideland?

That was fast! Yes!

Next:

Yes! You were really quick!

Hahah my uncle on my mom's side was REALLY into 70's prog rock, stuff like Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, EL&P etc. Most of it didn't really rub off on me, but I did enjoy the weirder stuff, and the "Tommy" movie was just insane

I'll look for something to post tomorrow morning!

Tommy?

I was a fan back when it was called "An Estuary" and didn't even have subtitles. The guy sold out.

I've been a big fan of Madrugada almost since the startâ€"I remember eagerly awaiting the New Depression EPâ€"but I missed them at the Quart Festival back in 2000, and so never saw them live until the reunion this January.

Ha, it was the other way around for me: the first thing I heard from them was "Look away Lucifer" and I went backwards from there.

It's surprising to know about the scale of the production in other places, in Berlin they gave a pretty stripped down show on a small-ish stage (see the pic below), with just some fancy lights now and then and a glitter cannon (just one! Ghost had TWO!) during... "Norwegian Hammerworks Corp", I think? In any case, hearing Industrial Silence in its entirety made me very very happy so I can't really complain about the dearth of tracks from other albums

BTW, thanks for the Lana del Rey pick. I've never really cared for her music, but that was quite an earworm.

Happy to hear! It really is a wonderful song.

What I'm literally listening to right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5kjOanGxs

!!!

I love Madrugada to bits (their reunion tour absolutely slayed, never thought I would have the chance to hear those songs live), but I always found Hoyem's solo albums to be kind of ehhhhh whatever. This is a very nice track though! Makes me want to check out the album to see if there's anything else I might have missed

These days I've been trying to get into the new Chelsea Wolfe album, but it's been a huge disappointment. The songs she shared in advance were all stunning, but when the album finally came out, it was clear that they were actually the only decent tracks on it. It's not that it's BAD, it's just... boring. Dull. Uninspired. Droning. Songs meld into one another and after a while of listening to it I inevitably find myself zoning out and coming back to it two tracks later like "huh? What was I listening to? What time is it?"

Anyway, here goes what is probably my favourite song from the album. The video is crappy but the song is very pretty. Side effects might include stopping whatever you are doing, contemplating the ceiling pensively, and thinking back on somebody you hurt at some point:

That smugness. Ick.

In the case of The Wall, he makes a point that he would have preferred to learn more about the grotesque characters in the animations (in an amazing sequence that must have cost quite a bit).

Oops, missed this one.

All the metaphors and characters are absolutely straightforward to decipher (the loss of his father in the war when he was a child, the memories of air raid sirens and bombings, a disintegrating marriage, a controlling mother, abusive teachers, etc). If I was able to understand the whole movie without anybody explaining anything to me at the age of 15, I would assume a supposed film critic should too

(Or maybe we were just smarter then because we didn't have recaps and youtube videos explaining things to us? *Old Aunt Yells At Cloud To Get Off Her Lawn Because Kids These Days*)

Circling back to this, I just learned today that he's actually made a full-album-length "parody" of The Wall (how did he get Rob Scallon to take part in this abomination?), and both the album and the video are being shred to pieces left and right (even Fantano, whom I'm not a fan of, gave it a beating yesterday). Call it schadenfreude, but yeah, glad to see I wasn't the only one to acknowledge its awfulness

(ok, sorry for the interruption, back to you LimpingFish!)

(Since there is no "The existential dread pictures thread"...)

Does either of those films share an actor with Dazed & Confused?

Pitch Black does.

Waaaaiiiiit I was joking, but could it actually be Pitch Black?

Pitch Black.

The Dark Tower.

Don't be afraid of the Dark.

Alone in the Dark.

Fifty Shades Darker.

30 Days of Night.

I can go on...

That smugness. Ick.

In the case of The Wall, he makes a point that he would have preferred to learn more about the grotesque characters in the animations (in an amazing sequence that must have cost quite a bit).

Oops, missed this one.

All the metaphors and characters are absolutely straightforward to decipher (the loss of his father in the war when he was a child, the memories of air raid sirens and bombings, a disintegrating marriage, a controlling mother, abusive teachers, etc). If I was able to understand the whole movie without anybody explaining anything to me at the age of 15, I would assume a supposed film critic should too

(Or maybe we were just smarter then because we didn't have recaps and youtube videos explaining things to us? *Old Aunt Yells At Cloud To Get Off Her Lawn Because Kids These Days*)