Garmanbozia
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I upvote you for Trail of Dead alone, a record that Pitchfork originally gave a perfect 10 to and now is... nowhere on the list. Okay, it may be on the list - I stopped looking.
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Never been a fan of Trent's music, sorry, but I dig where he's coming from with this rant. There is a place called the Well where you have to register with a credit card, and then the name on your card becomes your user name - there is no anonymity. I think teh webz could use a little less anonymity. That is why I must now admit, I am really David Bowie. Thank you.
on Trent Reznor Quits Web 2.0, Offers Cutting Advice To Haters at June 17, 2009 11:15 AMScore = 1
Team Coyne.
on Wayne Coyne Tears Arcade Fire A New Asshole at March 11, 2009 10:58 AMScore = 0
I love you, Karl.
In reply to karl's comment on Sonic Youth's The Eternal Album Art & Tracklist at February 16, 2009 11:05 PMScore = 0
He's being ironic, people! Don't take the bait!
In reply to Mirage's comment on Sonic Youth's The Eternal Album Art & Tracklist at February 16, 2009 11:04 PMScore = 6
good for Ryan, but please, dear God, do not let Mandy "contribute" guest "vocals" on any of Ryan's music.
on Ryan Adams & Mandy Moore Get Engaged at February 16, 2009 10:59 PMScore = 3
the Grammys ... more irrelevant than ever.
on Foo Fighters Cover Carly Simon At The Grammy Nomination special at December 5, 2008 2:15 AMScore = 0
Ryan is making me sad. He's not old enough to be playing this mellow dad-rock, and for someone who cites everyone from X to Black Flag to Gram Parsons as influences... Why not release that complete cover of The Strokes' first album that you made? Live, Ryan is one of the most enthralling performers I've ever seen, but he keeps churning out tepid albums. Venti fail.
on Premature Evaluation: Ryan Adams - Cardinology at October 19, 2008 2:14 AMScore = -1
I loved "Frailty."
In reply to brendan's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 4, 2009 3:29 AMScore = 1
Why not do one of those elephant-in-the-room horrible movies that we're all avoiding? Why not view one of those torture-porn films that no one loves? Or how about a film that really shoves down the viewer's throat what Heineke wanted to do? I would like to read Gabe's vivisection of the film and the entire genre and the society that pays for product like it.
I hereby nominate "Saw" and "Irreversible," but only with the stipulation that you skip "Irreversible" because it does plant some nightmare scenes on your eyeballs and your brain. Irreversible should have all copies collected and burned, including the negative. That film made me hurt. Anyway, there it is.
on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 4, 2009 3:28 AMScore = 0
sidebar question: do people elsewhere on the internet (teh internetz) do the onesclamation points joke, or it just here on videogum? I love it, but every time I've tried to use it outside of this lovely terrarium, nobody gets it. I'm talking about the imitation of a 13 year old so feverishly pounding their "!" key that they lose the "shift" key and start typing 1s instead of all !s.
In reply to Becca's comment on Keanu Reeves = Charlemagne (Because: Logic) at November 4, 2009 3:23 AMScore = 1
Another comment on Jeff Dunham: I went to high school in California but in a remote place indistinguishable from the midwest in many ways. We had farms and dairies, orchards, mintruck clubs, mostly white kids and nothing to do but hangout in parking lots.
Because this upbringing did not afford a lot of mixing with other viewpoints, races, religions etc., it was easy to hear people say really awful, offensive things because they never met a gay person, a jew, or whoever. They only had the stereotypes - we - only had the stereotypes to go on. That's also just being young and dumb, and when you leave the hick town and go out into the big world you quickly get disabused of those small town racist hick thoughts. But the problem is that a whole lot of people I knew never did leave that town, and they never did have their ideas challenged, and I think it's the same for Dunham fans.
Dunham allows you to stay ignorant because you have thousands of fellow travelers right there with you. We have got to get rid of this idea that America is for white Christians who love country music.
Maybe Godsauce is right in that there are many people in the Dunham camp who know, deep down, that something is very wrong with Dunhamania, but where will they get the courage or the knowledge to confound their own latent racism/homophobia/sexism/assholery? Dunham is on the TV, making the $, and there are millions of jackasses braying along with him - so this encourages them to stay stupid, not to enlighten themselves.
on What We Talk About When We Talk About Jeff Dunham at November 4, 2009 3:08 AMScore = 2
Why Torrance? I was born in Torrance.
Listen, gummers, I've been wading through the comments on this article and allowing the nutrients to soak into my skin. I liked reading that several of you are from Texas, Ohio, and other places that get co-opted by the Big Dumb America Concept expoused by Palin et al. I know better, but I still love knowing that people like you, people like ME, exist out there everywhere in America. We are on the right side of history. We will eventually win. I love you, videogummers.
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"Red lips, red dress, like 'em like a firetruck."
Ladies and gentlemen, 2009. Oh how our children are going to laugh at us.
on Duh Aficionado Magazine: Chris Brown Can Transform Ya, Ladies at October 29, 2009 5:45 PMScore = 0
"firetruck?"
In reply to Ron Jenkins's comment on Duh Aficionado Magazine: Chris Brown Can Transform Ya, Ladies at October 29, 2009 5:41 PMScore = 0
I've never heard the term "prostitots" before, so thank you for enlightening me. It's the perfect word to describe what the stage moms out here in Hollyweird are trying to turn their kids into. *applause*
In reply to sarcasticmeow's comment on Gossip Girl S03E07: I'm Dreaming Of A White Halloween at October 29, 2009 5:35 PMScore = 0
I don't like these DirecTV commercials because they are stupid, not because they might not be paying homage to some celebrity's "legacy." The Naomi Watts one was almost funny, though, because it was a shit commercial imitating a scene from a hugely shit movie.
As to whether this is insulting to the Farley legend, I'm going to rule in favor of Spade on this one. Farley was his BFF. I'm okay with Spade being the executor of the Farley commedy continuum, which, I have to confess, only consisted of "Tommy Boy" for me. I never liked Farley other than in this film. Sorry!
The Minutemen said it best: "Let the products sell themselves, fuck advertising and commercial psychology, psychological methods to sell should be destroyed."
on David Spade's Publicist Makes No Apologies For Disgraceful Farley Ad at October 29, 2009 5:19 PMScore = 1
LeahJoy seemed really nice when I gave her my credit card information.
In reply to Gabe's comment on That's Your Boyfriend: This Fucking Crybaby* at October 28, 2009 5:13 PMScore = 3
"I think teh webz could use a little less anonymity" says Garmanbozia with the Gwyneth Paltrow userpic. Heh. Just thought that was funny.
It's sad when fans expect artists' personal lives to mirror their art. Or expect an artist to stagnate for decades, just because they have.
Permalink for Christy's comment on Trent Reznor Quits Web 2.0, Offers Cutting Advice To Haters at June 19, 2009 7:15 PMScore = 0