General Chat 13

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

They're nice and mindless to watch over lunch and not really have to pay attention if something else is going on. I've never been a religious watcher.

Originally posted by wtshnnfb01:[..]

I tend to go with serious cop dramas, and the discovery/history/national geo channels.

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

Watched a couple episodes of Planet Earth (the Sigourney Weaver-narrated one) the other night...absolutely captivating. I feel like I NEED the Blu-Ray, but watching it on Discovery does fine for me as long as its in HD. I watched one on the Polar Regions and a little bit of Rainforests.

Originally posted by wtshnnfb01:[..]

My main show on Discovery is Deadliest Catch.


The only sitcoms I really like, are Frasier, and the early seasons of MASH.

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

I watch Deadliest Catch occasionally with my parents- its one of their favorites as well.

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Cheer up! If life were all about exams I'd have hopped aboard the Claw and headed for space lonnng ago

Originally posted by nickbibby:Hi guys,

I know I've asked these questions before (about a year ago), but no-one seemed to have an answer, so I'm asking again in the hope someone will have come across what I'm looking for.

1 - I have in the past heard a version of 40 that Bono introduces as "when were getting thrown out of the studio while recording our album War we came up with this song. It took 10 minutes to write, 10 to record, 10 to mix and 10 minutes to play back, and that has absolutely nothing to do why it's called 40". Anyone know which show this is from?

2 - One of my favourite performances of UF is where Bono sings the second chorus in the first chorus by mistake. Anyone heard this one too and know what show it's from?

I'll keep downloading and listening to shows, but ISHFWILF!!!

Lester Bangs' Basement
Music and movie fans of a certain age and a certain bent have strong visceral responses to this issue of availability. We grew up in an age of excited, roiling change in the music and film worlds, but the vicissitudes of the technologies and industries involved made the logistics of merely keeping up—much less being an expert—a time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes impossible chore. I won't bore you with the details, but let me tell you—it was a drag.

Actually, I will bore you with the details. The music you wanted to hear wasn't played on the radio and you couldn't find the records you wanted to buy. You couldn't even find the magazines that told you what records you should want to buy. It was almost impossible to see filmed footage of the artists you wanted to see. And movie fans? We scurried like rats after what could be, for all we knew, once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunities to see this or that film at movie theaters or in unexpected showings on television.

Fast forward a few decades, and we're approaching a singularity of sorts—one in which the digital convergence, in a gradual warm flash, is nearly complete. If you were born to this it's an unshakeable, seemingly permanent feature of the world. The rest of us marvel that a significant part of everything out there that should be digitized and made available has. And once it's out there, getting your hands on it is a fairly simple process. The concept of "rarity" has become obsolete. A previously "rare" CD or movie, once it's in the iTunes store or on the torrent networks, is, in theory, just as available as the biggest single in the world. (In practice, there are marginal differences, like having to do a few extra searches or wait a bit for a download, but that's a big difference from, say, driving across town to a Tower Records to find that they don't have a CD in stock.)

A rarity might be less popular; it might be less interesting. But it's no longer less available the way it once was. If you have a decent Internet connection and a slight cast of amorality in your character, there's very little out there you might want that you can't find. Does the end of rarity change in any fundamental way, our understanding of, attraction to, or enjoyment of pop culture and high art?

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

I know the answer to the first question! 1987-04-29: Rosemont, IL. One of the best U2 shows out there- have a great listen, and I'm glad I could be of some help!

Originally posted by nickbibby:[..]

You are fabulous,

Thank you