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oSuJeff97

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I feel you. I had a chance to see Nirvana in OKC my sophomore year on the back end of the In Utero tour. Like a guy literally had a ticket and asked if I wanted to go. It was on a Tuesday or Wednesday night and I had a test the next day in some class so declined. My theory was I would catch them on their next tour. Nice move, young dipshit oSuJeff.
  4. New D1 Baseball poll out: #1 Texas #4 Oklahoma State #17 TCU #20 Texas Tech
  5. I've felt that way for a while. It was never my favorite. I will admit to bias in that a large part of this is that I've never liked "Everybody Hurts." I thought it was sappy and too on-the-nose when I was in high school, and it hasn't aged well, IMO. I just can't stand that song. There are other songs on the album I really like, but that one song just killed that album for me.
  6. Another great thing about it - fantastic album cover:
  7. Yeah and I’l say this - the remastered vinyl that I bought sounds FANTASTIC. It’s a great pressing. I love to turn it up to 11 on “So Fast, So Numb.”
  8. Same. It’s a fun record. The R.E.M. nerds don’t like it because it was a “sell out” record or whatever the fuck. I don’t understand how you can’t like Monster AND Murmur. Both are great records.
  9. LOL I get that, but it's not like New Adventures is their most recent. It was released in 1996 and they put out 6 more albums after it.
  10. Yeah agreed about long-term fans. I always liked R.E.M. and I had a buddy in high school who was super-fan who always talked about how much better their early stuff was and got me listening to Murmer, Lifes Rich Pageant, etc., which I did like more than the late 80s/early 90s stuff. I also did really dig "Monster" when it came out and then "New Adventures." I still do really like Monster, but I just think "New Adventures" is next level. I also just went down the rabbit hole of reading about the album and came across an old Grantland interview with Michael Stipe where he said that he thought "New Adventures" was their best album, which I thought was interesting, given that you can never get a straight answer on that from most artists.
  11. So yeah this is pretty random. I loved this R.E.M. album in college, but it's really one of those that really fell off my radar over the years. I've listened to it some here and there, but it's not something I've listened to a ton. When I want my R.E.M. fix, I've found myself going back to their earlier work; in particular "Lifes Rich Pageant" has always been my favorite. But recently I was in my local record store and saw a copy of the re-mastered "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" and decided to pick it up on a whim. I've been listening to it like crazy the past few weeks, and man... I forgot just how damn good this record is. Listening to it with almost "new ears" at this point, I feel like this album had a real influence/impact on 2000s alt-rock, with it's noisy weirdness and sprawl. It's kind of all of the place, which maybe turned people off originally, but I really enjoy. The album has probably two of their best pure pop songs ("Bittersweet Me" and "Electrolite"), as well as one of their best avant-garde efforts ("E-Bow the Letter") and then just a wild back-and-forth mix of sort-of-poppy but weird and disjointed numbers from "Undertow" to "Leave" to "Low Desert" and so on. Then there are several deep cut gems like "Wake-Up Bomb", "So Fast, So Numb", and "New Test Leper." Anyway - just a few thoughts... I really think this is a GREAT record... almost definitely their last great one. It's really my favorite record of theirs outside of the 80s. I really prefer it to "Automatic for the People" and certainly "Green."
  12. All we know is it's in between ROTS and ANH. My guess is that it's mostly the relatively early in that gap since Hayden Christensen is playing Vader in the series.
  13. Yeah this is a GREAT record. After listening to it all weekend, I think it’s up there with their best. It stands up well against Kill the Moonlight, Ga, and Gimmie Fiction, IMO.
  14. This is odd considering the episode the Rodriguez did in Mando season 2 was some of the best action in the Mando series. The fight up and down the hillside and the Boba stuff in that one were great.
  15. I may give that spin today. Love to crank it up to 11 on "Bullet the Blue Sky."
  16. Yeah I'm with you. Wilco, Spoon and Old 97's have been consistently my three favorite bands for two decades now, which is crazy to think about. I get that Old 97's aren't on the same creative plane as the former two, but I will just always love them. I still do really like the newest Wilco stuff, but it's much more subdued and introspective than their earlier work. I know a lot of Wilco fans don't much like their stuff after A Ghost is Born, but Wilco (The Album) aside, I've really enjoyed most of it and think there are several great albums in there. But then there's Wilco (The Album), which is almost completely forgettable (Bull Black Nova, notwithstanding). To Spoon's credit, I don't think they've ever put out an album like that. I even really enjoyed their detor into dance/electronic with They Want my Soul and Hot Thoughts. As it were, I'm halfway through Lucifer on the Sofa and yeah... it's fucking GREAT. I don't know if it's up there with Ga, Gimme Fiction or Kill the Moonlight, but damn if it's not close. Need to listen to it like 25 more times, lol. Can't wait for my vinyl to get here... (not arriving until next Thursday)
  17. Not sure I agree with this. Movies work just fine if you have (a) the right story and (b) the right people telling it. Look at Rogue One. It's exactly what a standalone Star Wars film should be - take part of the SW lore and flesh it out with (mostly) new and interesting characters Disagree about Solo to a certain extent. At the time, I thought it was a bad idea because I thought it would be impossible to properly capture the charisma of a young Harrison Ford. While that was certainly the case, if you can get past that, I really do feel like that movie has aged well. I've re-watched it 2-3 times in the past several months and it's really a lot of fun. In particular, Woody is fantastic as Beckett and Donald Glover is super as young Lando. The Crimson Dawn stuff was great, too. Whenever Filoni/Faverau decide to dip their toes into making a Star Wars feature film, I have no doubt it will kick ass.
  18. Yeah every single album has been legit good. Even a band like, say, Wilco, has put out records that the fans/critics are kind of "meh" on... I feel like every Spoon record the fans and critics all are like, "Yep... another great Spoon record..." Got my shipping notification on orange/black (Go Pokes!) vinyl. Can't wait to spin this.
  19. Don't think so. It's only 6 episodes, and Deborah Chow is directing all 6 and show-running. She previously directed two episodes of Mandalorian Season 1: Chapter 3 (The Sin) and Chapter 7 (The Reckoning).
  20. Watched the finale last night. It was fun. Rampaging Rancor was great. The Boba-Cad faceoff was great, too. Wondering if Cad is dead? His little chest-light do-dad was still blinking when Boba walked off. My take on the whole Boba series is that it could have maybe been a bit better, but it was still mostly fun. Not everything Star Wars has to be amaze-balls. It kind of reminded me of The Bad Batch series. Not the best effort of the Filoniverse, but had some fun highs and was still worth a watch. And you know a lot of these story points will continue to play out with future Filoniverse shows. Only 3 short months until Obi-Wan! Woot!
  21. Letts is amazing. I love in the "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" episode with JLD when she points out to Jerry that Letts ("the guy who won a Pulitzer for August: Osage County!") was in that episode and Jerry was totally unware, lol.
  22. Fantastic. Also - a (relatively) young Tracy Letts as the guy from the off-track betting place which was Elaine's go-to fake number. "What about Charlie? He's a man."
  23. I don't know if they are "better" than Nolan's but they are quite good. I'd actually consider them "underrated" at this point just because Nolan's films sucked all of the air out of the "Batman movie" zeitgeist. Batman and Batman Returns are fantastic and I'll always love them. Burton did a tremendous job of essentially making a live action comic book (versus Nolan, whose inspiration was more urban crime dramas/mob movies), and the casting of Michael Keaton, Nicholson, DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer was perfect.
  24. He's great. Another one of my all-time favorites and just absolutely inspired casting was James Spader as "the step skipper." "I'm so sorry George. I'm sorry I didn't want your rather bulbous head stretching out the normal-sized neck hole of my finely knitted sweater..."
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