Wall of Mouths

soul doubt wrote:

Wow, nice DVD collection you’ve got there!! I bet you spend a lot of time/money in MediaMarkt? :-D

Actually, I’ve never bought a single DVD there. Plenty of stuff from the bargain bins though (5 for €10, or even 5 for €5), and I’ve been buying DVD’s since mid ‘99 so my collection keeps growing gradually.

The only real collecting I’m into is music, and band shirts. I’m not paying insane amounts of money for 2nd hand items though, but when certain bands (T? included) release something new I generally buy it. So I have several T? CD singles, as well as several Iron Maiden picture discs.

Other than that, I have an extensive DVD collection, with my Anchor Bay titles (the limited editions of The Evil Dead (book of the dead), Evil Dead 2 (tin box), Army of Darkness (first 2 disc release) and Bad Taste) being my pride and joy.

http://www.delphidude.com/personal/ <- complete lists of vinyl, CD, DVD and VHS tapes in my possession

I bet Chuck Norris has the entire Metallica catalogue, and listens to it exactly 666 times.

His movies are still shite though.

The first Matrix movie was good. The 2nd decent. The 3rd pretty much showed they had no idea how to tie up the story. Was it pants? Was it ever.

As for Indiana Jones, Star Wars etc. I think the backlash for the most part was due to the unreasonably high expectations. Most people saw the original films when they were younger, and have fond memories of them (I saw Indy 2 when I was a mere 11 years old), and they go in either expecting too much, or expecting to be disappointed, ie, a self-fullfilling prophecy.

Having said that, the “actors” that played Anakin were annoying (the youngest) or simply crap (the younger). However, I did like the 2nd half of Ep 2, and most of Ep 3, as the early signs of the empire popped up (stormtroopers, star destroyers etc.).

Die Hard 4 I did like, as it was good old fashioned over the top action, and Rambo 4 was rubbish.

Hold on, I though priests were supposed to be celibate, and not do the whole marriage thing and whatnot…

But congratulations to the happy couple, and all the best of luck for the future.

Offer albums for sale without DRM, in FLAC format with and high resolution artwork (300dpi minimum), and at a reasonable price (less than the album would cost in the shops, ie, with regular printed artwork and pressed CD) and I might consider buying music online.

Other than that, I’ll stick to regular CD’s.

Van harte gefeliciteerd Andy.

I went to Occultfest this weekend - with metal, more metal and the odd bit of rock. ‘twas fun, even though some of the bands were a bit meh, and the singer from Martyr being an attention whore.

Muskeg wrote:

VAMPIRE WEEKEND TAKE THE CROWN AS WORST BAND IN HISTORY. How anyone saw them live and went :eek: MUST SIGN ! must have been high.

Not possible - forever slave is undoubtedly at lot worse. Imagine the sound of a cat being skinned alive. Then imagine the sound of nails on a blackboard. Then imagine the mutant offspring if those sounds could mate. Then imagine somebody who attempts to sing (and I’m being very kind here) and yet sounds worse than the aforementioned mutant offspring.

I’ve seen my share of crap bands, some of them plain sucking (chillburn) or knowing they suck but try to distract the audience by having scantily clad women spray the audience with fake champagne (yes yobbo - I’m looking at you lot!), but none were as horrendous as forever slave.

And the worst part of it all? You may think you have a good understanding of just how bad they are, but it’s far, far, far worse than that.

Dennis wrote:

Way back when blank cassettes first came on the market, apparently there was talk of a tax added to the price to compensate copyright owners for loss of revenue, so maybe they could introduce a similar tax elsewhere - for example all music downloads could be free but broadband connection would be taxed to make up the shortfall, or blank CD’s could cost more, or manufacturers of computers and/ or iPod/ MP3 devices could be charged a certain fee (which of course would be passed onto us!)

I do believe that artists (and by extension record companies) should be compensated for their work, but this tax idea is a bit off. For instance, if I never download and/or copy music, why should I pay extra for blank media, a broadband connection or harddisks? I have nearly 1.8 terabyte worth of external harddisks, and hundreds of DVD+R’s, all filled with backups of my photos. If I were to be taxed (and I already am on the DVD+R’s) just for the privilege of making backups of important files, where is my cut?

Well, I’d rather have a hooded sweater with very simple artwork, or a polo shirt which just says “Therapy?” on the left hand side in a small font. And what would be really great would be a “worker shirt”* like Autumn did some years ago.

* Fairly thick fabric, with pockets on the left and right hand chest and/or sleeves. It’s both stylish and usefull (a place to keep your keys / wallet, or in my case CF cards and battery packs).

Genesis - The lamb lies down on Broadway

It is prog rock, it is a concept album, it is now ;-)

Kreator - Live kreation
Electric eel shock - Bastard (CDS)
Electric eel shock - Transworld ultra rock
Electric eel shock - Big mistake (CDS)

I actually know somebody who likes Metallica. He also likes Manowar and Helloween. Not that I’m implying anything…

You know what I find so interesting about those secret societies that are behind everything that happens everywhere? That despite being secret, people always claim to know about them.

Fo shizzle ma nizzle

Well, they’re coming to the UK (although I more inclined to believe they mean “England” by that) according to their site:

http://www.focustheband.com/

And if it’s still dry and not too friggin’ hot tomorrow I just might pop off to Belgium to see them.

Saw them a couple of times already - excellent live band, even without Jan “massive ego” Akkerman.

And yes, they still play Hocus Pocus. :D

I’m not saying anything, no sirree… ;-)

Agreed - they should make the album they want to make. If the fans like it, so much the better, but writing the songs people want you to write is generally never a good idea. Unless you like the sort of bland, inoffensive excuse for music put out by, say, Within Temptation.*

* for illustration purposes only, lest people think it’s personal

Endless re-runs of the A team. And programs not on Discovery channel (all hail Kari Byron!).

Being the optimist that I am I hope Holland will quickly exit the championship, preferrably after the 1st round. That way things will go back to “normal” round these parts, and people will stop acting like complete asshats. Nothing is more annoying that a bunch of inbred yokels buying insane amounts of orange coloured crap and go on and on about soddin’ football.

The Auto Surgeon wrote:

Mobile Armoured Strike Kommand!!!!
The bike that turned into a copter etc. And the son that had that robot companion who turned into a scooter (amoungst other things).

Nah never heard of it!! :-D :-D

When you say robot companion, you mean R2D2 minus any significant budget for the animators? I remember that as well.

The one thing I remember watching as a kid was He-Man. Including the ever annoying public service announcement tacked to the end of each episode. Oddly enough there never was one encouraging kids to go outside and play soccer or something as opposed to watching crap cartoons.

For those who were in Eindhoven (and those who weren’t as well):

http://www.erikschepers.nl/music/presidents_of_the_usa/2008_04_10/

My guilty pleasures include Phil Collins, Space Precinct, Battlestar Galactica (not that new fangled crap), Buck Rogers and Italian cannibal movies.

And I own the Simpsons Sing the Blues and the Dame Edna Party Experience CD.

I bought one (along with some buttons) during the High Anxiety tour. It is now proudly stuck on the case of one my PC’s. With loads of other stickers obviously.

What about Jordan’s boobs?

The Obligatory Self-titled Album

That wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Of course, the accompanying should be made by Aardman animation studios.

The Host was in fact quite good. At sucking that is.

I prefer the original (ie, Japanese) Godzilla movies myself, even though there’s a few crap ones as well (particularly the kiddie one starring Godzilla junior). Nothing says Godzilla like the roar, the music whenever the Japanese army drives towards whatever coastal city Godzilla will appear at. With the laser cannons obviously, lest there be any mistake.