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I like Gogol Bordello as much as the next guy, but that shit is bananas.

Bantam Rooster. Good stuff if you like blues punk. Sounds like the missing link between Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and White Stripes.

In my favourite top 10 films of all time and a family "must watch" every christmas. One of Richard Curtis's finest moments. Hey, I'll stick up for Love Actually too. Lols... it's one of the few movies my wife breaks out when it's her turn to pick that doesn't make me die inside. I mean, it's a rom-com, so guys aren't supposed to like it, but it does have some pretty hilarious moments in it. Would I rather watch Memento or something? Sure, but if I have to watch a rom-com, it'd be that one before anything else. You want to talk about an entire genre of film that is at least 99% shite? Rom-coms. American action movies are a close second.

I think a big reason comic book people regard it as "the best comic EVAR!!!" has a lot to do with when it was released. Having been a kid of the 80's, Watchmen was the first comic to ever really explore the characters and their motivations for being superheroes or costumed adventurers or whatever. Up to that point, it was all, "Huh. I can fly/ shoot lasers from my eyes/ have claws/ etc. I better go stop that bank robbery!" Or conversely, if they were a villan, sub in, "I should go start a bank robbery." Now that we've had 20 years of comics that aren't cookie-cutter hero vs. villans and less black and white, good vs. evil movies like Pulp Fiction, it doesn't seem as groundbreaking or original, but at the time, my God! It's sorta like when I hear kids today say they don't get why Nirvana was so big in the early 90's. It wasn't so much their music or whatever, it was because before them, all you ever heard on the radio and saw on MTV was Paula Abdul or Motley Crue. Or, going further back, the Ramones- why does everyone say they're so important? Because they played punk music when disco ruled and somehow survived! I still think it's a great book, don't get me wrong- I'm not trying to take anything away from the actual story, but if Moore wrote it last year instead of 1986, I doubt it would've gotten the respect that Watchmen enjoys today.

maybe you have not known it but this was announced when he first signed with the gals. Oh my bad. Article I read that in made it sound like it was some big secret.

This made me lol. Back on topic, who all will be back for this game? Anyone have an idea for the XI? Owen? Nolan? When the hell is Beye due back? Barton? Guthrie? I've seen news sites mention that we'll have Owen back for the Hull game, but no official mention of it?? So who knows. Fingers crossed! (I've got a sneaking suspicion he won't, otherwise we'd be hearing Hughton pronouncing it to the world.) News reports mention that Habib will be back for the Arsenal game. Looking forward to having him there with Bassong (Where Arsène will have a chance for a close look at his new signing. ) Nolan's out for this one (the last of the three match ban) and will return against Arsenal, too. Apparently Barton and Guthrie are both 'nearing fitness'. We'll see? Good news: Duff and Butt will be back for Hull! By the way: From the Telegraph. Maybe Owen is ready to play but we're being all tactical like and want to catch that headset wearing manager of theirs off guard!

It is, he's been lucky to pull it off though, he should have gone straight to Italy instead of the USA and saved everyone the trouble. Well, for what it's worth, he sold a lot of jerseys for AEG. Truthfully, I think if they would've built a decent squad around him instead of it being just him and Landon Donovan, he probably would've stayed in LA. He says when he's done playing, he's going to start his own MLS team. Some unknown-until-now clause in his contract.

This made me lol. Back on topic, who all will be back for this game? Anyone have an idea for the XI? Owen? Nolan? When the hell is Beye due back? Barton? Guthrie? Xisco?

For what it's worth, a friend of mine is a huge Dylan fan. Has been for at least 15 years (he's about my age so we're both too young to have caught him new). His wife bought tickets to Dylan this past May (I think- somewhere around start of last summer). He said it was the worst show he'd ever seen. Said Dylan only played for an hour and even the classics had been completely rearranged into re-imagined versions of the originals. My friend was terribly disappointed. Again, take it for what it's worth.

what i wrote on another forum: misanthropic, corny, trite, bafflingly boring - i couldn't quite believe and I can't really describe how bad it was. even the structure of the film was horrendous. the music was ridiculously misplaced and cheesy. the acting was terrible and multiple hand sex the only positive thing I can say is that choreography and the special effects are good. but they should be with a 120 million dollar budget. and I thought 300 was appalling... I've only seen the opening scene where the comedian gets murdered but I thought the use of Unforgetable playing during it was superb. wait till you get to possibly the worst sex scene of all time (complete with jet flame orgasm symbolism) with Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in the background Any sex scene where the girl leaves her thigh-high boots on by definition CANNOT be the worst sex scene of all time.

What ? Uh oh...

Unfortunately that conclusion has already been done in the Dallas shower scene. Wait, so Larry Hagman is Jacob??? Duh, duh, DUN!!!

Batman Begins is my fav Batman film of all time. Batman Begins was fucking well done.

A bunch of "costumed adventurers" are told to disband by the government, but when one of them is brutally murdered in his apartment, the group is re-formed to try and solve the mystery behind their former ally's death. ... more or less. Sorta like Scooby Doo on LSD? Yeah, but when they unmask the Swamp Monster, turns out it's them that done it- not Old Man Caruthers from the amusement park. Wait- do you mean the old Scooby Doo or the shite ones from the '80s with Scrappy Doo and Scooby Dumb? Cause it's nothing like the '80's one. Although it does take place in the '80s. No Harlem Globetrotters either. Oh, and Don Knotts walks around with a "The End Is Nigh" sign and throws grease in an inmate's face.

Ok, let's see... Blah, blah, blah, Frenchie, blah, blah, blah Newcastle United, blah, blah, my agent says this, blah, blah, blah, not happy with contract that doesn't exist yet, blah, blah, blah, Arsehole. Hmmm... Anyone else feel this is like deja vu all over again?

Well, the article's littered with truisms and cliches, isn't it? If someone had posted it on here they'd have had the piss ripped out of them. EXACTLY what I was thinking. Eventually, Ashley will realize that JK is a poor manager and he needs a better one if NUFC are to be sold for a real profit. Shortly thereafter, he will also realize he only finds horribly under qualified candidates for the job because of Wise, Llambias, at which point he'll finally fire those two. Around that time, everything falls into place, NUFC returns to form within a couple of seasons and Ashley finally sells for a tidy profit. How long it takes for all this to happen is anyone's guess though and that's the problem. I'd like to think the scales will fall from Ashley's eyes and he will realise he has to invest in real financial terms as well........but all you've got to do is have a look in one of his shops and you realise that his entire business ethos is based on doing things on the fuckin cheap I don't think it'll be a matter of the scales, it'll be a matter of the team sucks because the manager is shite, no good managers will turn up because the DoF is shite, and Ashley can't sell the whole mess until he sorts out the DoF. At the end of the day, Ashley is a businessman. I'm sure he digs NUFC as much as the next guy, but he bought the team to make money- either by massive sales of tickets and merch or by doing what he's done with his brands- improving them and then selling them off. That being said, I don't know- it seems so simple- just get rid of the front office. You get rid of them, you'll get some manager of note to turn up. Is it a tought gig? Sure, but at the same time NUFC has never been worse- if you're the manager who comes in and NUFC continues to suck, you've lost nothing really. However, if you're the guy that comes in and turns us around? Like makes us a top 5 side again? Christ, he'd never have to buy a drink in the North East again.

See, I think it's some of that and also some of the "anti-hype" machine. Watchmen has been so steadily hyped for what, 6-8 months, that some people are just so sick of hearing about it, they've decided to hate it. Or they just want to be that guy that didn't like something just because everyone else did. I don't know. Again, take it for what it's worth because I'm a fan of the comic or whatever, but I really, really liked it. I thought it was really well done.

what i wrote on another forum: misanthropic, corny, trite, bafflingly boring - i couldn't quite believe and I can't really describe how bad it was. even the structure of the film was horrendous. the music was ridiculously misplaced and cheesy. the acting was terrible and multiple hand sex the only positive thing I can say is that choreography and the special effects are good. but they should be with a 120 million dollar budget. and I thought 300 was appalling... See, I didn't really like 300 either. I mean, I wouldn't go so far as to call it appaling, but I didn't go nuts over it the way everyone else did. I didn't buy the DVD, let's put it that way. Misanthropic? Well, yeah. I mean, that's sort of the whole point, innit? That we're so fucked up we have to be tricked into not killing ourselves? Dunno if that really counts though-, y'know? To me, that's like saying Reznor makes depressing music or seeing Lord of the Rings and calling it a fantasy. Corny, trite, and boring? I don't know, man. Maybe I got old or something. I just didn't see it as that at all.

Yeah, I don't really get that- Time magazine and everybody else seems to think the Watchmen graphic novel was super great- puts it on some kind of "Most Important Literature" list. Zach Snyder makes a movie that's exactly like the graphic novel (as much as time allows in a nearly 3-hour movie) (Some) Movie reviewers say only fans of the comic would like the movie. ??? For what it's worth, my wife thought the movie was great and she's not a comic book person. At all.

Well, the article's littered with truisms and cliches, isn't it? If someone had posted it on here they'd have had the piss ripped out of them. EXACTLY what I was thinking. Eventually, Ashley will realize that JK is a poor manager and he needs a better one if NUFC are to be sold for a real profit. Shortly thereafter, he will also realize he only finds horribly under qualified candidates for the job because of Wise, Llambias, at which point he'll finally fire those two. Around that time, everything falls into place, NUFC returns to form within a couple of seasons and Ashley finally sells for a tidy profit. How long it takes for all this to happen is anyone's guess though and that's the problem.

Just open the word doc, copy the text, then paste it into the comment field. If it's too long for that, can you not attach .doc files on this messageboard? Most you can it seems like.

You should check out some of the early Leonard Cohen if you dig Dylan. Seems like every Dylan fan I know (I mean real Dylan fans- not people like me who are sort of, "Yeah, he's aiight.") also digs Leonard Cohen. Death of a Ladies Man and Songs from a Room are both pretty good in my opinion.

A bunch of "costumed adventurers" are told to disband by the government, but when one of them is brutally murdered in his apartment, the group is re-formed to try and solve the mystery behind their former ally's death. ... more or less.

Ok, I am one of those people who has read the graphic novel like 100 times. Just so you know. I loved it. It's basically just like the GN. The ending is slightly different as are a few parts here and there, but 98% of the movie is straight from the comic, one way or another (shots are at the same angles, dialogue is the same, etc.). As far as the ending goes, it's the same ending effectively, it's just "blamed" differently. So, it isn't much of a surprise that I liked it, but what did kind of surprise me is that my wife really liked it too. She's not a comic fan at all, and when I started hearing it was almost three hours long I really started to worry that she'd be able to hang, but she loved it too. As for the folks who couldn't follow it- I'm curious to hear what was so confusing about it. I mean, no, it wasn't Transformers- there actually was a plot, and a relatively deep one at that, but she had absolutely no trouble following along and understanding the plot. I loved it. Somebody finally made a comic book movie that they didn't fuck around with and just actually made the damn comic book. Sloop- how could you say this was the worst movie since Wanted? Wanted was a half-baked Fight Club wannabe that survived solely on the idea that even if you're some cubicle-dwelling dumbass, you can still be a superhero! Oh- and if you're not into that, here's U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie in an outfit making sexy faces! It was totally made and marketed to the lowest common denominator (and completely unlike the comic which I thought sucked as well, but not as bad as the movie).

If you were Australian I could forgive this post, but it's the wrong way ffs!! Put a mirror under it, lazy bastard.