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oSuJeff97

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  1. Yeah Kareem was a known asshole for quite a while. I haven't read the book, but I've read some articles that talk about the show, and apparently the stuff about West was straight from the book -- he apparently was a total manic lunatic back then. And speaking of the book, I read that the current series is only going to get through the 1979-80 season and even though it was initially billed as a "limited series" there are likely multiple seasons in the works. They are apparently already working on season 2. There is a thought that they will eventually get all the way through the Shaq/Kobe Lakers, based on Pearlman's follow-up book about those years. I can't imagine how difficult it will be to cast Shaq, lol
  2. Man what an impossible question to answer. I may go with 1991-2001. You get all of the great grunge stuff, tons of great hip hop and some early aughts alt-rock, including all of the early alt-country stuff, early Radiohead, etc.
  3. Yeah not would I would expect, but I think he's always solid so looking forward to it.
  4. Really enjoyed the first episode. Yeah Reiley stole the show as Buss. The stuff with Kareem was also great...looking forward to more of him. "Fuck off kid." LOL The casting of the Magic and Kareem was great. Talk about a difficult casting assignment... holy cow. But one episode in I think they nailed it. More great casting head - I believe Jason Segal is playing Paul Westhead and Adrian Brody is Pat Riley.
  5. LOL always. Two easiest bets in the Josh Holiday era: beating OU just about every time; losing mid-week games to ORU just about every time.
  6. I like both UP and Reveal OK. I don't listen to the two full albums that often, but they do have two of my favorite late-career R.E.M. songs - "Daysleeper" and "Imitation of Life."
  7. Yeah as a completely casual fan, I don't have any idea what (if any?) of the DC films are supposed to be in the "same universe." It seems they just make one-off Batman films that don't have any connection and I know there were those Justice League films and then also the two Suicide Squad movies and the other Harely Quinn one. I have no idea which are connected and which aren't lol.
  8. Yep. Our non-conference schedule this year is fantastic. In addition to those mentioned, we also have a weekend series at BYU, a home series against Seton Hall and then mid-week games against DBU (2x), ORU (2x), Missouri State, and Wichita State (2x). Yeah the RPI should be quite strong if we take care of business.
  9. Nice couple of wins in the desert. Should be a fun series against Gonzaga this weekend at O'Brate.
  10. I have and I strongly disagree. There's no fucking nipples on the bat suit or gratuitous shots of Batman's ass; there also aren't cheeseball villains prancing around and making stupid jokey jokes all the way through the movie. Everybody calls those first two films "campy" just because they aren't (more or less) grounded in reality like the Nolan films. Here's the thing - they weren't *trying* to be realistic. Burton was trying to make a live action version of a comic book, and he achieved that brilliantly. Some of the VFX don't hold up super well because they were late 80s/early 90s vintage, but otherwise the visual fabric, themes, cinematography, fantastic score and great cast hold up very well in both films. The Schumaker films are candy-coated, campy pieces of shit and shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as the Burton films. Go re-watch Batman & Robin and then watch Batman Returns right after and tell me if the two are even in the same fucking zip code. They are completely different in almost every way except for the fact that they are both "Batman" films.
  11. Sorry I don't watch stupid videos made by douchebags who weren't born when Burton's Batman films were released.
  12. The hell you say. The Joel Schumacher ones are shit. BATMAN and BATMAN RETURNS are great.
  13. Oh I agree. My thing with that song is that it was just inescapable for several years... MTV, radio, TV shows, movies....you couldn't avoid it if you tried... so much so that it went from being a song that didn't care for to one that I actively loathed. And so now if I play Automatic for the People I still just cringe when that song comes on.
  14. I almost don't count Zither as a song.. it's more like an instrumental interlude. "Low Desert" sounds like R.E.M.'s attempt to make a great grunge song. I freaking love "So Fast, So Numb." Yeah Lifes Rich Pageant is also my favorite... I love most of Automatic for the People, but like I said upthread, "Everybody Hurts" just kills that album for me. I can't stand that song... it's a good song in a vacuum, but man did it ever get driven into the ground by MTV and FM radio back in the day. Then it became sort of a parody of itself... so much so that I still can't stand it to this day.
  15. Yeah I know what you mean, re: bluetooth, but just FYI you can get a bluetooth receiver for fairly cheap that you can just run into one of the line inputs on the back. Something like this. It's not going to be audiophile quality, but it gets the job done if you just want to play your iPhone/iPad/whatever through your receiver. I use something like this for when we are entertaining and I don't want to get up and flip records every 10-15 minutes.
  16. Oh yeah agreed. They could certainly re-make it along those lines, but my point was there were tons of jokes in the original that would in no way, shape or form fly today.
  17. Awesome. Yeah I love it, too. I bought it when I first got back into vinyl and looking for a dedicated stereo receiver. I couldn't be more happy with it. And thanks for the link!
  18. 1. I think we have the exact same receiver. Is that the Yamaha R-S500? 2. I love that "Now Spinning" display. Did you make that or buy it somewhere?
  19. Yes very cool. According to the sleeve on my recent vinyl purchase, it broke down like this: Recorded in-studio in Seattle: How the West was Won New Test Leper E-Bow the Letter Be Mine Recorded during various soundchecks on the Monster tour: The Wake-up Bomb (Charleston) Undertow (Boston) Leave (Atlanta) Departure (Detroit) Bittersweet Me (Memphis) Blinky the Doormat (Phoenix) So Fast, So Numb (Orlando) Low Desert (Atlanta) Electrolite (Phoenix) And finally "Zither" was recorded in their dressing room in Philly.
  20. LOL Revenge of the Nerds is the first one I thought of. Tons of casual racism, homophobia along with some light sexual assault.
  21. I mean I hate defending OUsucks, but if you start the season in the top 5-10 and lose in the national title game or CFP I'm not sure I would put that in the same "overrated" camp as the teams being discussed here.
  22. Yeah that's pretty pricy. I mean The Athletic is like $8 a month for extensive coverage of NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, College football, college basketball, etc. If they bumped theirs down to like $5 a month I'd probably jump on it.
  23. Negative here. I've thought about it a few times, but they do provide a fair amount of free content, plus both Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt are pretty active on Twitter discussing their views. Fitt tweeted a ton about the OSU-Vandy series.
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