david bowie

[professor puke]

yeah hey i've got a cd recommendation for any interested parties:

the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars

it's david bowie when he was actually still talented. i just picked it up and i'm loving it a lot. speaking of fallen stars, did anybody catch lou reed on letterman the other day? whoa, years of drink and drug abuse has apparently ravaged his musical abilities entirely

also i got some dvds this week:

full metal jacket (which is great)
eyes wide shut (which is kinda crappy)
rush(which is great)
shadow of the vampire (which is great)

[dontpanic]

if you like bowie, you should check out the duram anthology. most likely the only song on it you will know will be space oddity, but it is a really early (and different) version of that one, too. these are from when he was really young. by the way, i still think bowie's new stuff rocks.

oh, and full metal jacket is a great movie. my little brother refers to it as THE movie.

[Anonymous]

i saw full metal jacket for the first time when i was about 11 or so, and the bathroom scene...freaked me out. which you know...is supposed to happen. i now love the movie, of course.

[Anonymous]

ouch, you watched it when you were 11? i mean, i saw some freaky movies when i was a kid, but that movie could have messed a kid up for life.

speaking of scary movies from childhood...i saw darby o'gill and the little people when i was very young. now, this is a disny movie, and it isn't supposed to be scary. but sheesh...i had a banshee complex for a long time after seeing that.

[dontpanic]

:sign3:

that was me with the banshee issues. of course, the movie did star a young sean connery. :smt050

[professor puke]

i'm usually don't like anthology stuff... but i heard elastica's label is making a best of against the band's will with songs featuring the dreamy damon albarn

did anybody see the changling? that movie creeped me out when i sall it. actually the never ending story creeped me out more. and i don't think it's gay to have a man-crush on damon albarn

[dontpanic]

well, this is different than what you might consider to be typical anthology stuff. i mean, it certainly isn't a greatest hits album. this is mostly stuff from ages before ziggy stardust. hey, you might end up not liking it at all, but i still recommend that you at least listen to it through if you get the chance. then again, my musical tastes vary a lot. yesterday, i bought a CD of this guy playing classical songs and christmas carols on water glasses. the CD is great!

[imported_shiola]

Having a man-crush on Damon Albarn is not as gay as having a man-crush on Richard Simmons singing YMCA whilst wearing pink lycra....but, yeah, it's still pretty gay.

The scariest film I remember from my youth was one called 'Stage Fright'. That scared the living shit out of me. I saw part of it again about 8 yearsago and it really is the biggest pile of shit ever.

[professor puke]

i think every heterosexual guy is entitled to a certain amount of non-sexual-man-love

actually i probably would have sex with him if the opportunity arose, but i doubt i'd enjoy it on a sexual level. i guess it would be a true test for me. i've considered myself straight hitherto, but you've got me wondering. 100,000 prepubescent girls can't be wrong

[imported_shiola]

Something to tell the grandkids I suppose.

[Tiptoedhands]

ouch, you watched it when you were 11? i mean, i saw some freaky movies when i was a kid, but that movie could have messed a kid up for life.


yep, saw it at my grandpa's house.

[imported_shiola]

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger right? Your grandad was just toughening you up, none of this nancy, PC bollocks.

Maybe if every 11 year old watched FMJacket, Platoon, Band of Brothers, Private Ryan and other films that DON'T glorify war, then maybe there'd be a generation of people less inclined to actually start them.

[dontpanic]

i suppose y'all are right. my mom took me to see The Color Purple, which isn't exactly a kids movie, when i was 8 because she didn't want to go alone and she thought I was mature enough to understand it. I can't remember seeing too many war movies when I was a kid; then again, almost every male relative of mine was in the military, so I knew all about it anyway.

My grandpa just taught me dirty limericks.