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(I used "conjecturing" twice because I'm super-smart with words and stuff)

Permalink for moonmaster's comment on New Radiohead - "These Are My Twisted Words" at August 13, 2009 6:39 AM
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Julian wakes and rises from his bed as he runs his left hand through his perfectly distressed hair while reaching for his cheetah print silk underwear. He feels the shag carpet in between his bare toes and smiles. Graciela raises her head from the pillow as he walks towards the solid gold dresser to grab his cigarettes and sunglasses. Out of the corner of his eye he catches his reflection in the full-length mirror and he whispers,

"Who do you think you are?"

He turns to Graciela as she brushes her hair and says,

"Julian Casablancas, bitch."

Permalink for Paper Werewolf's comment on Julian Casablancas Goes Solo With The Phrazes For The Young LP at July 15, 2009 12:01 AM
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I've put off asking long enough, moonmaster.
I must know where your avatar is from.
It's so inspiring; I nearly cry every time I see it.

Permalink for Lucretius's comment on Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, Hercules & Love Affair DJ 826NYC Prom at May 23, 2009 1:36 PM
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what is your avatar from????

Permalink for the third man's comment on Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, Hercules & Love Affair DJ 826NYC Prom at May 25, 2009 5:23 PM
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NMSATTISTWANMSTWIGITLWW FTW.

Permalink for Elvis vs. Shark's comment on Mew Are Back, Go Full Fiona Apple With This New Album Title at May 16, 2009 1:30 AM
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Booey Dibbard > Randy Madams

Permalink for deejaydoubleyou's comment on Ryan Adams & Mandy Moore Get Engaged at February 12, 2009 6:56 AM
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But things that would compare the other president, one mr. bush, to any number of fascist dictators is ok. Or would you balk at that as well?

Permalink for product tester at the laxative factory's comment on V: You Crazy For This One, Earthlings at November 4, 2009 9:50 PM
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a) FINE. i will.

b) your face should go be born in the middle ages.

Permalink for caringiscool's comment on V: You Crazy For This One, Earthlings at November 6, 2009 2:43 AM
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Yeah, David Icke. That was it. This guy was deadly serious, like "Did you know...Seriously!"

Permalink for Copperfeel-d's comment on V: You Crazy For This One, Earthlings at November 5, 2009 11:11 AM
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they don't wear shirts or long pants because they tend to run really hot because of their sexy animal inner fire. as you know. just reminding you.

Permalink for caringiscool's comment on Videogum's Teen Korner: Dreamboat Vampires Only Drive Volvos at November 5, 2009 3:16 AM
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That pretty much sums up my feelings toward new Weezer perfectly.

Permalink for hlebtastic's comment on The Weezer Snuggie Would Have Been A Lot Funnier A Year Ago at November 3, 2009 7:09 PM
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Not to belabor the point, but I think you should probably watch it before getting really upset at Haneke about it?

Permalink for The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 9:29 PM
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Well said, Moonmaster

Permalink for Steve Winwood's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 7:27 PM
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It's actually not "graphically violent" as the violence is mostly off camera.

Permalink for technojeremy's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 7:31 PM
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America is to Europe as Middle America is to the Coasts.

Permalink for whoa!'s comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 7:36 PM
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First off, you should check the film out.
Second, I think the film illustrates how susceptible and disturbed we can be by violence, no matter how desensitized American audiences claim to be. I think the amount of people that spit vitriol at this film(s) are far more sensistive to REAL violence— violence that takes place MOSTLY OFF-SCREEN— than they ever thought they were.
As long as the violence is glorious and the bad guys lose, everything is hunky dory for America. Git-R-Done. So it seems.

I haven't seen the original, and as much as I'm in the same camp as Gabe as far as not being anxious to watch these films again, I would like to watch the original now. Especially with the context of when it was made and where the U.S. was in 1997.

Permalink for KajusX's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 7:51 PM
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The thing is that every moment of the film takes away the thrill of a horror film. You don't see the gore and the violence, you see the emotional repercussions... It would be like if instead of seeing all of Michael Myers' murders, you just saw everyone reacting with honest agony over the death of their friends are loved ones... It's unrelenting in Funny Games. You aren't supposed to have fun watching it. It's not like they are exploiting violence to show that violence is bad... It's a much more subtle film than that. So I don't find the film hypocritical at all... There is none of that "Aww, YEAH! That Lady just got killed", and the one moment that you DO think you have that moment, when it seems one of the two kids have been murdered, Haneke takes it back from you.

I still think its a more interesting film than it is a good film, but its interesting enough to me that I definitely still like it. I like the issues it raises even if it doesn't make a solid point, I find it a fascinating exploration of how capable the film medium is of manipulating the audience.

Permalink for DrStrangefate's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 7:56 PM
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I feel like a moron commenting on a film I haven't seen either (TOO SCARY!), but I should point out that Funny Games is famously NOT, in fact, all that graphically violent. It is, as Gabe points out, "nearly bloodless"; only three characters die, all of them offscreen, but it's done in such a way that the audience still walks out feeling horrible. Compare that to any mainstream Hollywood picture, in which a dozen innocent people will routinely be murdered right on camera, to the indifference—or cheers—of the audience.

While I'm commenting, I'll mention something everybody seems to be wondering about, which is why does this American remake even exist. The answer, of course, is $$$$$ (dollars). The story I heard is that somebody owned the rights to produce an American remake of this movie, Haneke lacked the clout to stop them, and so—envisioning a standard-issue Hollywood horror remake, which would've defeated his whole point in making the movie in the first place—he offered to direct film himself and then created an exact copy of the original.

Permalink for Cultural Underpinnings Face King's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 8:07 PM
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Am I not supposed to be aware of this? Did Haneke think that we were all sitting here with no awareness of this fact

It is good that, like probably 90% of the Videogum community, you were already aware of that. But do you honestly think most of America is aware of that?

And I would argue that most of the films you, I and everyone in this Monster's Ball enjoy have pretty simple premises. District 9 = racism is bad. But it was still done in a clever way.

Permalink for The New Sound's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 9:35 PM
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You are the moon master!

Permalink for DS3M's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 3, 2009 12:34 AM
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I love Gandolfini, his crazay eyes, and also this comment.

Permalink for mjwalrus's comment on I Wish James Gandolfini Was My Dad at November 2, 2009 9:33 PM
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Towards the end I thought it might be a Joe Pesci animatronic... I kept waiting for him to break into "The Bare Necessities".

Permalink for petepetepete's comment on This Is Your Music Video: Joe Pesci's "Wiseguy" at October 28, 2009 4:58 PM
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The director wisely told Mr. Pesci, "The less movement, the better," after Joe showed a few steps he had picked up from watching the kids on MTV.

Permalink for Dish's comment on This Is Your Music Video: Joe Pesci's "Wiseguy" at October 28, 2009 5:47 PM
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Sorry to hear that, moonmaster. I hope your dad's doing well, and that you yourself feel better.

Also, I wanted to join the chorus and say this was a great Videogum week, and that Gabe needs massive props for being ON FUCKING FIRE I've been so busy lately, and one of the first things I do when I have a second to breathe is hang out here.

On the flip-side of this feelgoodery, the Jeff Dunham post made me realize that it's more than a little depressing to think that the likes of him, Leno, and McFarlane are some of the most successful names in comedy while there are so many people here that are infinitely funnier. Never mind the fact that Leno has five hours a week to bring the funny, while hlebtastic only needs a few sentences to trump those five hours.

Let that sink in for a minute while I sneak all of the bullets from the guns you purchased specifically to put an end to this madness.

Permalink for That One's comment on Monsters' Ball: The Week's Best Comments at October 23, 2009 7:28 PM
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Moonmaster, we could not be any more in the same boat if we tried {iiiii... think I fucked that up}. I hope you [and your da!] feel/are feeling better.
It sucks being sick. - Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Sucky week all around fer me. I'm failing math and just got dumped by my boyfriend and am probably falling into another bout of mental illness.

....LET'S GET TO KITTY PICTURES!!!

This is my baby, Cheyenne.

Permalink for Napoleon Complex's comment on Monsters' Ball: The Week's Best Comments at October 23, 2009 9:03 PM
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Recents Comments from moonmaster

"Can't two grown men pee in the same toilet at the same time?"

on Flaming Lips & Deerhunter Lock Horns Backstage (Plus Pictures From The Lips' Naked Bicyclist Video Set) at September 24, 2009 4:07 PM
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This album is excellent. The best they've done in years.

on New Flaming Lips Video - "I Can Be A Frog" at September 22, 2009 3:03 PM
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This has quickly turned into my favorite album of the year.

on Premature Evaluation: Atlas Sound - Logos at September 2, 2009 5:45 PM
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"Who's Elvis Costello?"

Man, Joe is too good for these people.

Breakfast at Sulimay's starring Joe and those other two.

on Old Folks Review Radiohead at August 26, 2009 5:58 PM
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(I used "conjecturing" twice because I'm super-smart with words and stuff)

In reply to moonmaster's comment on New Radiohead - "These Are My Twisted Words" at August 13, 2009 6:39 AM
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Folks at atease are now conjecturing that this is one of two things:

1. An unreleased demo, put out discreetly as a big fuck you to EMI, who may be planning to release a rarities/demos box set to further capitalize off of all the Radiohead stuff they've got the rights to.

2. Through some conjecturing in regards to the nfo file provided, this is a new track from an EP titled "Wall of Ice", to be released next Monday.

on New Radiohead - "These Are My Twisted Words" at August 13, 2009 6:38 AM
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Very sad to hear. Get well soon, Adam.

on MCA Has Cancer, Beastie Boys Taking Time Off at July 20, 2009 4:13 PM
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CITIES WILL RISE AND FALL. PEOPLE WILL LIVE AND LOVE. UNIVERSES WILL BE BORN AND DIE. THE FOUNDATION OF REALITY ITSELF WILL BE SHAKEN BY THESE GLIDING SYNTHS AND TRIUMPHANT BEATS. THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER

BY THE JULIAN CASABLANCAS SOLO ALBUM.

on Julian Casablancas Goes Solo With The Phrazes For The Young LP at July 14, 2009 4:57 PM
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They did a free show at my college a few months back with Crystal Castles. I went for them, and didn't actually stay for Crystal Castles, but because they were only opening and were barely mentioned in most of the promotion for the show, most people there either hadn't heard of them or didn't care. Then they played "Nothing Ever Happened" and within about four minutes, the crowd went completely nuts. The doors opened at one point, the crowd parted, and people started booing, and I only realized later that it was because the cops had apparently been called and had busted in.

After Deerhunter left the stage, one of the MCs entered frantically and warned us that if people didn't calm down, the cops were going to shut them down. Bradford ran up on stage and told us to "break all the fucking windows". Everyone cheered and he added "Just kidding, guys! Vote McCain!" and scampered off. When I left I saw that there were indeed about a dozen grim looking cops stationed outside the doors.

I really love this band.

In reply to SubSickAlien's comment on Bradford Cox's Thoughts On Atlas Sound's Logos at July 10, 2009 1:54 AM
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This does not look like anyone's prom, ever. I don't think I even saw any teenagers. Just a lot of middle-aged men.

on Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, Hercules & Love Affair DJ 826NYC Prom at May 22, 2009 4:23 PM
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My favorite part was the alien ninjas.

The V's are expert practitioners of Varate and Vu Vitsu.

on V: You Crazy For This One, Earthlings at November 4, 2009 4:55 PM
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Well, the viewpoint that the show seems to be metaphorically pushing is that Barack Obama is some kind of sinister figure using false promises of "hope" and "change" to brainwash American youth and take over the world or something.

Yes, I understand why this is an acceptable and civil argument for a tv show to be making.

In reply to product tester at the laxative factory's comment on V: You Crazy For This One, Earthlings at November 4, 2009 4:52 PM
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I hate the way it's naturally assumed that the world is currently an unbearably awful place. The gap between the first world and the third is certainly growing and there are parts of the world where that disparity is making things really, really bad for people, but I'd say the world is probably, generally, a nicer place to be born into than it ever has at any point in human history.

You want to complain, go live in the middle ages or something.

In reply to women be photoshoppin''s comment on V: You Crazy For This One, Earthlings at November 4, 2009 4:44 PM
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I kept wondering what David Icke's reaction to the V's arrival would be.

In reply to Copperfeel-d's comment on V: You Crazy For This One, Earthlings at November 4, 2009 4:37 PM
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A truly dedicated jokester would have bought all the horses in the race and assured that they all have comically suggestive names.

"Big and Hard coming up from behind, That's What She Said catching up..."

on The TWSS Archives: The TWSS Race Horse at November 4, 2009 3:57 PM
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I hope the heated seats can keep my werewolf boyfriend warm, as he will not be wearing a shirt.

on Videogum's Teen Korner: Dreamboat Vampires Only Drive Volvos at November 3, 2009 6:06 PM
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On a sidenote, remember when joking about the Snuggie was still funny? I'm pretty sure the first time I saw it referenced outside of my circle of friends and family was when I saw Tim and Eric in January and DJ Douggpound mixed samples from the commercials into his set. Great lols were had by all.

on The Weezer Snuggie Would Have Been A Lot Funnier A Year Ago at November 3, 2009 5:57 PM
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I have reached the acceptance stage of my mourning of Weezer. I understand that they no longer take themselves at all seriously. Thanks to this acceptance, I actually enjoyed the new album. That being said, they are totally lame dads.

on The Weezer Snuggie Would Have Been A Lot Funnier A Year Ago at November 3, 2009 5:55 PM
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"Alternative rock" is a bs term made up by record labels in the 90s to market every bland new band as the next Nirvana or Radiohead. Like Muse. I can understand why you might find Grizzly Bear or Dirty Projectors to be boring, but the idea that a band like Muse is keeping alive some sort of cool punk rock attitude kind of boggles my mind. There are plenty of cool, not-vanilla rock bands out there. Muse is not really one of them.

In reply to Elvis vs. Shark's comment on How Much Garbage Can You Spot In The New Muse Video? at November 3, 2009 5:36 PM
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Okay, I was wrong about the violence, but I still feel like the whole premise is silly.

I love horror movies and have probably seen thousands of horny teenage girls murdered on screen but I am fully aware that actual violence is really, really bad and gross in infinite ways. I do think about violence in film and how it affects me and others and about desensitization. I'm sure there are some people too dumb to understand this stuff, but as has been pointed out, they probably won't watch this movie. The fact that Haneke feels he needs to explain all this to people strikes me as condescending.

(And hello Strangefate. INTERNET WORLDS COLLIDING.)

In reply to DrStrangefate's comment on The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games at November 2, 2009 8:37 PM
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