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I hope that was sarcasm. You can definitely hear their hardcore leanings.

 

and IMHO if I really wanted to listen to poly-rhythms, I'd rather listen to technical death metal. Which brings to the point that technical death metal is actually the closest thing metal has to freeform jazz.

Finally got around to watching the Christmas Special (thank you Swedish video pirates!) and I must say I'm pretty underwhelmed. Gotta give it to Morrisey, his acting was spot on midway through it (slightly before the reveal but late enough that everyone with an IQ over 100 got it), but the ending was, as per the general opinion, bleh. It wasn't so much the giant steampunk mecha that killed it for me; rather it was the whole bit with the brats that did it. And the Dalek warp thingy. And the cybermen getting nuked by a mind blast from a hooker. Who really didn't have that much of a reason to do it, since she was already collaborating with them pre-conversion.

 

Again, classic Russell T Davies. Thank God we won't be seeing too much of him on 2010.

Master Of Puppets, which is easily my favourite Metallica album.

 

True dat, also it's one of the greatest metal albums evah. Haven't done shit since*. Metallica died with Cliff Burton, rest his soul.

 

thirded

 

negative one'd. Ride the Lightning is still the better Metallica album for me.

 

Madvayne are definitely WWE Rape Rock.

Hey! I'm getting an ear for this after all.

 

Mark: TIA!

 

LOLz good for you. And yes, it's ok to like a crappy band, we've all been there. Kinda like that rush you get from watching a bad roadside accident.

 

As for Dilinger Escape Plan, aren't they post-hardcore leaning slightly to the screamo side?

 

After months of procrastination, I finally hooked up our wireless router so that my brother and I can go online without bothering the old man. And my bro is finally getting his PS3's intarwebz feet wet.

the old Davros wasn't all that good

 

I don't know about that, Genesis is pretty much the high point of the character, not quite the ranting nutter he'd become later, he's almost rather subtle in that one, have you watched the whole story?

 

Also, apart from the obvious improvements in special effects, the 'old' Davros pretty much made it into new Who without drastic reinvention, the guy behind the mask playing it pretty faithfully really.

 

can't really watch the whole thing, since Doctor Who has virtually no fanbase in the Philippines. Managed to just catch a few clips on youtube, where he went from creepy baritone monster to fullblown loony begging for mercy at the hands, er, the johnplungers of his omnicidal creations. It was actually that scene that kinda turned me off to that Davros. I guess the new makeup just allows the current actor to project his emotions more clearly.

 

As for the music, I really didn't find it as obtrusive as, say, The Matrix Reloaded, which I find so annoying that I'd rather watch it with no sound. Or better yet, not at all.

 

When are they releasing The Next Doctor on DVD?

*Scratch 'The Sound Of Drums' if you're not as keen on it as I am - even the shorter 'Human Nature'-'Utopia' run is better than anything else done since the show came back.

I actually prefer The Sound of Drums to Utopia. True, Derek Jacobi's brilliance saved Utopia, but the whole mess with the "futurekind" left such a bad taste, even moreso than the Dalek-wannabe Toclafane.

 

None of the modern aliens have grabbed my attention like the old, except maybe that Family hunting the doctor. Oh, and the Statues. And the Library. lol. OK, so maybe that is wrong too.

Which kinda makes the point that the best new aliens are those made by Moffat and Cornell, which hopefully means 2010 will be a good year for the Doctor.

 

Apart from the fact that a lot of them were better scripted and didn't dribble off into witless deus ex machina anticlimaxes, yes.

I think the main problem here is that the man responsible for said witless anticlimaxes is usually RTD, who seems to enjoy closing up any previous plotholes by forcibly injecting them into the final two episodes of the season. Seriously, despite Tennant leaving the show, I think RTD leaving as well more than makes up for that loss.

 

The current series has an advantage in its single episode format, which plays to the young people and their short attention spans.

Er, don't you need a longer attention span to watch a one hour episode versus a 30 minute one?

 

There are plenty of bad things to be said about RTD's Who, and they're all said loudly and frequently by a lot of people

The one criticism of RTD Who I don't get is why people are so pissed off with the score.

 

Oh, and as for the old series, managed to watch a few clips of Genesis of the Daleks on youtube. My impression? FX were hideous except for the Daleks, the old Davros wasn't all that good, and Tom Baker really is one of the better Doctors, although a bit dry for my tastes(loved the scene where he was experiencing a moral dilemma over his attempt at massacring the Daleks, something that both the Eccleston and Tennant Doctors seem to have completely forgot.)

- most of us weren't actually calling them metal.

Ah, that'd be due to my laziness. Didn't read through all 13 pages obviously.

 

 

I'm not over-keen on Accept or Megadeth myself (just not really my thing), but the other bands you mention are all gold.

Which is weird, considering that all early Metallica stuff was partly written by Megadeth's Dave Mustaine. Honestly though, Megadeth's an acquired taste; acclimatization is necessary for one to totally disregard Mustaine's whiny vocals and concentrate fully on the guitartistry.

 

The same could be said of Accept, although I firmly believe that it's Udo's balls-to-the-shredder voice that makes it all better. It sounds like Bon Scott undergoing sexual assault.

 

I'll agree that a lot of the bands who claim to have been influenced by Nirvana suck

Doesn't mean a lot, really. Influence doesn't allow a band to play better. Hell, look at Black Sabbath; those Brummies are almost always listed as influences by every band and their respective grandmothers, hasn't really made half the bands out there listenable.

So far not loving Morrisey's "Doctor" based on the 2 minute trailer I've seen. His performance smacks of forced/faked pomposity, as if he was trying to be the Doctor and not simply being the Doctor. Which IMHO reinforces the rumors that he's a fake Doctor.

 

Unfortunately for me, Doctor Who isn't exactly broadcast here, so I'll have to wait till some kind soul uploads the upcoming Christmas special on torrent or something.

 

Oh, and I only started watching Doctor who this year, after stumbling upon a copy at the local pirate DVD shop. Suffice to say I fell in love. And we're talking the Martha Jones season here, not exactly the best of the batch (except for Blink, all hail Steven Moffat). Quickly went on to acquire all four of the revived series' seasons, and have now progressed to scouring the Internet for as many Doctor Who related resources as I could. Even watched that crappy Scream of Shalka one.

 

Wish I could get my hands on the original series though, as most online commentary from ye stodgy Brits is "old Doctor Who good, RTD Who bad". Although you have to admit, some of the non-RTD written stuff is gold, and at least one RTD written episode is very good (Midnight).

Cool, metal discussion.

 

Funny that several bands are included here that while necessarily heavy and hard-driving, aren't really considered metal (no, and I'm not talking about non-usage of spandex pants). Namely, the following bands aren't really metal:

 

Clutch (who I absolutely adore, but consider a Stoner/Southern rock band. Emphasis on _stoner_. I mean, can anyone make any sense of Neil Fallon's lyrics from Blast Tyrant onwards?)

Ministry (industrial)

Aerosmith (early era would be rock/funk, later works are just crap that had to be boosted by Liv Tyler's hot ass).

ALL GRUNGE BANDS (good to listen to when you're angry, drunk, and dosed, but just really hard rock by guys in longjohns and flannel shirts)

 

As for my personal fave metal bands, (in no particular order) I'd say:

 

Sabbath, Ozzy-era

Metallica, up until Master of Puppets only

Melechesh, preferrably Djinn onwards

Megadeth, Rust in Peace

Accept (who can't love that little German midget?)

Carcass, melodeath era

Behemoth, from Satanica to Demigod only (recent albums are crappy)

 

 

 

 

Er... Nite Owl's supposed to be the Blue Beetle analog, not the Batman analog. At least they got the other ones mostly right.

YEAH I AGREE LOL!

Hey Ade, looks like someone hacked your account.

 

Hey, respect the admin. It's his website and he can do whatever the hell he likes with it.

To be honest, I just plain don't like Zack Snyder. I hate the fact that he made 300, which aside from the fact that it kicked copious amounts of arse and was undeniably visually stunning, was essentially a mediocre flick with lackluster performances, rubbish dialogue and a predictably plot (yes, aside from the fact that its based on a historical event I already knew about). All that would have been alright if that was it, I just resent the fact that the masses turned out to be so thick as to hail it as a rousing epic and a cinematic gem, and I’ve focused all the hard feelings on the director.

 

So the reason I was so damn pessimistic was because of 300, and the fact that I'm a petty, petty person.

 

You do know that it's based off the comic book by Frank Miller, right? Which, truth be told, contained just about as much rubbish dialogue as the movie did.

 

I honestly don't get all the 300 hate. Was it inaccurate? Yes. Did it incorrectly portray Greeks as tall leather-brief-wearing Germanics as opposed to swarthy little men with a penchant for olive oil and young boys? Yes. Did it unjustly portray Asians as mindless, ugly, mutated slaves? Yes. But who's to blame for that? Frank Miller, baby, not Zack.

 

Now I myself have misgivings about the Watchmen project, but not necessarily because it's Zack Snyder; rather, because I'm not too confident of the cast, and I believe Watchmen is not easy to dramatize. I can't even imagine them trying to squeeze in Tales from the Black Freighter or Doc Manhattan's time-crazy Martian introspection without the movie becoming dull and dragging. It works in comics, but I doubt it would work in film.

 

Of course, the best we can hope for is that Zack does to this project what Peter Jackson did for The Lord of the Rings: a great piece of work that does not wholly capture the book page-by-page, but maintains the spirit of the original.

 

This of course won't change the fact that Alan Moore will still feel like his little baby's been buggered over a barrel.

I think "rosebed" is something else entirely, XXII.

D'oh!

 

Hell, "u" and "e" are nowhere near each other.

I really should start looking while typing.

 

Maybe you were thinking of Bon Jovi or something.

 

 

And as for my comment, sorry, i thought we were all well-informed geeks here. Myself, nothing can spoil a movie for me. If it's well made, a scene will always have the same impact no matter how many times I watch it. Case in point:

 

 

The line in spoiler tags is from a famous movie, and part of a plot twist. And yet after watching it time and again, I still can't help but feel awe at the precise moment this scene happens.

I'd rather keep my hopes for this movie to be lower than a rat's tail; that way, in case it gets slightly interesting, then I'll end up enjoying it.

meh. Hollywood adaptation=crap. And they probably wouldn't get the point of the anime as well, and fuck everything up, just to pander to their target demographic.

 

I've checked iMDB, and this Ruari guy only has two movies to his directorial credit: The Silent City and Fifty Percent Grey.

 

Anyone seen these films? And should we be expecting another blockbuster of a travesty?

Consider my pants soiled!!!!!

Well consider this movie well spoiled.

It's not like we didn't know SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER did we?

 

Want to tell us who Rosebud is as well? :icon_mad:

It's the sled!!!

 

Edited for spoilers. -James

Next week, it's Clutch.

 

Ohh, you bastard. I am Mark's seething jealousy.

Fuckin' Clutch. I sympathize with Mark's seething jealousy.

and it has the exact same effect on Bill Clinton.

Well well one more each from Michigan and London. What is it about those places that turns people into fans of Hellblazer?

 

We already live in Hell?

 

I actually went on a date with a girl from Hell once. It's about halfway between Ann Arbor and Lansing. She was pretty obnoxious and I agreed to the date just so I could tell "girl from Hell" jokes.

Hell is in Norway. I've been there:

 

 

You're both right. Hell can be accessed via Michigan and Norway. And George Bush's commode.

Remembered an old friend raving about Coheed and Cambria, so I tried listening to it.

 

Had to stop after about 5 songs, since I drank last night and was afraid the songs would make me vomit.

 

Honestly, how can someone call this stuff progressive? The Mars Volta is progressive, Dream Theatre is progressive. Led Zep, Pink Floyd. Queensryche. A band isn't progressive just because it uses the occasional polyrhythm, rips off some Maiden twin-harmony leads, and uses some emo-nerdish backstory in a concept album.

 

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll have to purge my ears with some Sabbath and Deep Purple.

If you want to know what I look like:

 

Here are two pictures I took after rehearsal this evening, since I was looking unusually feminine and (!) you can see a bit of my legs. (Usually my hair is pulled back and pinned up, and I'm wearing pinstriped trousers). Flash photography usually overexposes due to my pallor and my dark red bedroom. I need to use a long exposure time instead, which means slight blurring and not even being able to tell that my eyes are blue, goddamnit. Oh, well. It's a new camera; I'm learning.

 

Anyhow, now you have a general idea of what I look like in human form. . . .

 

(Click the thumbnails to open the full images off-site.)

 

 

And I breathe a sigh of relief, seeing as you don't have the Innsmouth look. yet.

 

:p

 

Honestly (and seriously, of course) lovely, lovely pics. I can see that you can actually back up your statement about the legs.

http://truckbearingkibble.com/

 

reminds me of perry bible fellowship

 

I totally loved this, especially Purple Ninja vs. Hantavirus.

You know you've had a bad day when you not only burn the chicken, but also wreck your pan's nice glass lid in an effort to snuff out the fire dancing happily on your stovetop.

Could have been worse. It wasn't a brilliant day for the chicken.

Oh, it was worse. turns out I didn't get that job I applied for.

 

BTW, was I the only person who didn't see that as "burn" on the first read?

 

Bum the chicken? Don't exactly live next to a farm.