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UTCzech III

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  1. Not sure how to embed, but similar to the series they did on Gus Fring's tips for being a good employee, now we get Mike's security tips. https://www.amc.com/shows/better-call-saul-employee-training/season-2/episode-01-employee-accountability
  2. Obviously these guys (head German for sure) have done these kinds of jobs before, do the work, shut your mouth, get paid, leave and never mention it to anyone. I do have a feeling that Kai is going to get a little too drunk/mouthy at some point and he will not be making it back home.
  3. Goddam edit clock. To add to that, my wife and I binged BCS this summer because she had never seen it and I wanted her to watch it. There were was definitely language in the Netflix version that was censored when it was originally broadcast.
  4. I only watched Breaking Bad on Netflix (never got into it originally, binged it last summer), and there was a lot of language/nudity that was probably blurred out or "silenced" when it was on AMC. I know the scene with Jesse at the strip club in one of the first seasons had a ton of boobage in it, that I am sure was cut out when it was on cable.
  5. That's actually AKHorn(something) who's doing some nice subtle trolling over there, going right over mofo's head.
  6. Enough with the goddamn Ed Helms cell phone commercial already.
  7. No context, just a little kiddie singalong. I'll just say, the bear was bigger, and ol' Daniel ended up in a tree.
  8. Oh, and there was a certain variation to the "Daniel Boone was a man" song" that may have been a tad racist...
  9. Yeah, some nice subtle shade being thrown over there, of course none of the other bumfucks get it.
  10. Heard all the ones brisket mentioned. Heard brazil nuts called n-toes. These here were n-titties...
  11. Slightly off topic, but I grabbed a bunch of CDs this morning (I know, right?) to listen to at work, happened to include 2 CDs worth of 1977 demos (the Complete Zero demos, fyi). Incredible, basically has songs from every VH album from I to 1984 (and even the "new" one that came out a few years ago), it's crazy how many musical ideas Eddie already had before they even recorded their first album. It's a virtual "name that tune", lots of songs have different lyrics, then stuff like one tune has is basically Mean Streets, but has the end of Hot for Teacher tacked onto it. Another is House of Pain, but has the instrumental breakdown from the middle of Mean Streets stuck into it. Supposedly Gene Simmons is going to release these at some point (I thought I heard that a couple of months ago...). Would be nice to get a sonic upgrade, but these'll do for now.
  12. Damn damn damn. TCM better have a damn Burt marathon sometime soon. This probably won't make it, not a huge hit, but one of my favorites, it still cracks me up. Appropriately, The End.
  13. There was one guy in that "phone selling" montage that looked a lot like Skinny Pete. And I was surprised Jimmy got rolled so easily by those kids, I kept expecting the bikers to circle back and whip their asses.
  14. OK a little tldr here... I've been on a kick lately, converting all our cassettes to digital and getting rid of the tapes/clutter. My wife is the "new" country fan (unlike "old" country, which is me), so I've been transferring all her tapes first just to get them out of the way. (Not just country btw, sitting through 3 Bryan Adams tapes and Miami Sound Machine will make just about anybodyslit their writsts...). Skipping the whole cosmopolitan,urbanization phase (which was mainly older artists trying to stay relevant, Ray Price, Oak Ridge Boys, etc...), the mid to late 80's was actually a pretty decent period, a lot of new traditionalists like Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, k.d. lang, Lyle Lovett, Clint Black. Ricky Skaggs, Patty Loveless, Suzy Bogguss, Hal Ketchum. Some of them may have pushed the boundaries, but in a good way (jazz, punk even a little, but it was pure). Even Garth's first (technically 2nd) album was pretty neo-trad. But going through all my wife's tapes, it's pretty obvious to me when the shift occurred. Musically, 2 songs I think turned "country" music toward where it is now - "The Thunder Rolls" and Shania's "Any Man of Mine", 2 horrible rock songs masquerading as country. Lyrically, it seems like in the mid late 80's, country music began softening, less getting drunk or getting divorced, more I got a good woman, working on a family, lots of "Amen"s and God start popping up in lyrics. Again with Garth, though, I think it was "Friends in Low Places". That set the bar, let's just party and have a good time. Then you had Rodeo, American Honky-Tonk Bar Assoc, Ain't Goin Down till the Sun Comes Up and all that other bullshit, and it's off to the races. That's about the time I was done with country. I'll go see the Derailers or Dale Watson if I need a live fix, otherwise it's just vinyl and CDs for me. Couldn't tell you a thing about anybody nowadays, well, except this douche. He played at our annual company party in February, the only way he got people on the floor was when he did an Ac/DC cover, I assume he's the epitome of all the modern bullshit. Chas.... Christ.
  15. I think it's probably some buddy of Fuck Kevin Morgan's, or maybe Fuck Kevin Morgan himself, who imagines himself a football expert. I can guarantee badmofo doesn't know jack shit about sports (look at his few replies to the 2 or 3 semi-active threads there in the past 3 months), and I doubt he even went to UT. He's just a sad little troll with a one-track mind hard-on for "hildabeast". Looks like they are up to about 4 posters over there now, though. Hope they don't blow the server once the game threads start.
  16. ^^^^ Interesting story as to how this song even came about... "Neanderthal Man" is a song by Hotlegs, an English pop band that was later relaunched as 10cc. The song, initially created only as a studio exercise to test drum sounds on new recording equipment, sold over two million copies and reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 22 in the US. It reached No.1 in Italy and Germany and was also a Top 20 hit in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland and Japan. The song was the first to be recorded at Strawberry Studios inStockport, England, on new four-track Ampex equipment purchased by studio owners Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman and Peter Tattersall. It featured a simple repeated chorus and a heavy drum rhythm that Gouldman's manager, Harvey Lisberg, has claimed became influential in pop music. He said: "I think a lot of people were very influenced by 'Neanderthal Man', which was something new in drum sounds, using four drums on a four-track machine. When Gary Glitter came along with his records, I thought I could hear the same sort of sound deep down in there. I think there were a lot of other people who copied the sound, maybe unintentionally."[1] Stewart recalled that when the recording equipment had been set up, Kevin Godley set up his drum kit, Lol Creme got out his guitar and Stewart sat down at the control desk. "It was the first time we'd had a real control desk with a four-track machine and we were excited to try it all out," he said. "The whole thing was just an experiment because Kevin wanted to lay all sorts of different drum beats down that he hadn't recorded before, and there was this crazy sort of nursery rhyme that had just got into our heads." "As we laid down the drum tracks, Lol was singing in the studio with Kevin keeping time – and after we'd laid four drum tracks down Lol's voice came through at a very high level, sounding like something none of us had ever heard before on a record. It really sounded very strange, so we carried on working on the number, adding little bits of piano to it."[1] He said there was one further hitch before the song was released: a loud metallic burst towards the end of the song blew a ₤1200 cutter head as the track was being mastered in the Phonogram cutting suite. He explained: "We had a sound on that track that was something that had never been recorded before. We'd made the sound by taking a large 6 ft by 4 ft sheet of steel into the studio. It was actually a sheet we were going to fireproof one of the doors with – and then at the right moment we had hit it with a hammer. The hammer blow gave it such a shock frequency-wise that the equipment just couldn't take it. At the time this was an embarrassment to all of us, but that faded into insignificance when we found ourselves with such a massive hit on our hands.
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