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Guitarman

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  1. Rush and UFO. I was 16? Old Palmer auditorium.
  2. You mean IX? If there's an X, I'm pissed because I bought mine last week. But yeah Apple sucks
  3. Jesus that was heartbreaking to watch.
  4. Quite a diaspora of wealthy and educated Venezuelans have been flooding the Katy area for a few years. The brain drain is bad for that country. For us, we get beautiful women.
  5. Southwells was pretty awesome. Stanton and lankford. Christians in midtown is solid.
  6. Confirmation of his assholery and Vince hatred. We all knew it. Now everyone does.
  7. Just heard it on soundcloud. Nice job of being upbeat, funny. Shaggybevo came across like a wild frathouse, with tits, pranks, appropriate social justice and a finger at authority, especially our own Dean Wormer at the moment.
  8. I saw Battle of the Sexes this weekend. Damn good movie. About half of it was a lesbian love story. But there were no boobs so I can't give it 3 thumbs up. Emma Stone was good but Steve carell was spot on as Bobby Riggs and he stole the movie. Yeah I'm just old enough to remember Riggs. Interestingly they used the real Howard Cosell. I mean Carell and Stone did admiralble jobs of portraying their characters, but nobody could ever pull off Cosell except Cosell. So good choice. I have a thing for Sarah Silverman so I was happy to see her in the movie. Surprisingly she played a self professed Jew pretty well. Overall the movie did a great job of telling the story from that time period and making it resonate with today's issue of equal pay for female athletes. Think US women's soccer, or just recently when Martina Navratilova found out she was making less than John McEnroe for.commentating. The only flaw other than no nudity was actually pretty glaring and it went the heart of the mythic quality of the event. The problem with myths is of course the truth, the humdrum reality. I've often said there will never be a new religion now that we have cell phones. Just imagine a myth maker saying that Mohammed had ascended into the sky on his horse, only to have some smartass say, "No he didnt; he had a heart attack and fell off. I've already snap chatted it. " Here's the reality of that match: Riggs threw it. He had to pay off Santo Traffiante and Carlos Marcello, two of the biggest names in mafia history. ESPN had reported this in 2013. And the movie portrayed Riggs as an out of control gambler and hustler who was willing to bet on anything. So why did the makers of this movie gloss over this? The answer is obvious. They didn't want the truth. They wanted myth. Oh and the myth of that lesbian love storry soundracked to "Crimson and Clover"? It ended in real life as do most relationships: in litigation. The reality was that the match was a 1970s circus, like Evel Knievel, addressing important social in cartoon fashion with Howard Cosell as the carnival Barker. It was a show. Billie Jean King became a heroine. But Bobby took the money ran. The movie was good myth, though.
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