Posts by Jabels

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God of War III Music - Rage of Sparta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPnVGnptdbM&feature=relmfu

Shit man, half an hour? I didn't listen to it all, but I closed the tab after about 4-5 minutes and honestly, it's pretty forgettable. I suppose I'd appreciate it more if I actually played the God of War series, but I haven't. So with that in mind, I give it a 5/10.

KT Tunstall - Stoppin' the Love

I'm an indecisive bastard, so I'll go for the coin landing perfectly on its side.

Who would you rather be killed by: Patrick Bateman or The Joker?

Ah, probably the most useful update so far, in my opinion. Excellent work as always, Janina!

Superman is my favourite superhero, if you couldn't already tell. There's a part of him that just intrigues me, and that's the idea that even though he's from another planet, he's probably the most human Superhero out there, he just happens to have superpowers.

Anyway, I'm excited for Man of Steel. I've seen the Comic-con footage, and it looks absolutely amazing.

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Yep. And then, after about five listens, you start to love it and wish all music sounded like that.

Seriously man, that was 1965. The only way they could get away with making a racket on record like that (and bear in mind that back then even the Beatles with their nice clean suits and chirpy harmonies were considered dangerously raucous by a lot of people) is because they were American GIs stationed in Germany, where industry standards weren't as tight and they could use their standing in the army to get it released. They made one record, freaked the living shit out of people at their live shows, and then vanished for about thirty years until underground musicians started publicly name-dropping them, and they've gained a cult following that snowballed from there.

They railed against Vietnam years before it was cool, whilst still in the army. Oh, and they looked like this:
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Twelve years later, punk happened and wasn't as punk.

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Oh, I was going to say that the time it was released makes it marginally cooler, but I decided on just talking about the song itself instead of focusing on other details. I went in as someone in the modern age listening to them blindly for the first time without knowing shit about them. Thanks for the info man, I'll definitely check out more of their stuff.

And I agree, they're totally punk as fuck.

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Oh man, that's awesome. Never heard those guys before but I'll definitely be checking out more. I'm a sucker for voices like hers, and the song's just as catchy as sin. 8.5/10.

I'll admit, I only found out about them because the singer is my favourite character's voice actress in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (god, there's no way of saying that in a way that doesn't make me sound like a raging homo). It's definitely my favourite song by them and never fails to cheer me up, especially the bit where the guitarist and bassist are just naming different dances in the background. "Slow..." "DANCE!" "Square..." "DANCE!" "High School..." "DANCE!" "So you think you..." "CAN DANCE!". I really hope they come to the UK at some point.

The beeping during the riff was rather irritating, but you get used to it. That said, the riff is fucking awesome and I love the energy and charisma of the vocalist, I have a thing for somewhat gravelly voices.
There's a sweet little organ slam bit at around 50 seconds in and the vocalist just responds with "NO I DON'T LIKE THAT" or something. That was pretty cool, and it does for some reason make me wonder if they influenced Barrett-era Floyd at all, it just gives me that vibe.
That was actually my first time listening to the Monks. Needless to say, I'm impressed. I give it a solid 7/10.

Hey Ocean! - Make a New Dance Up

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So what do they need them for?

Okay, I laughed way too hard at that.

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is it renee montoya's the question?

Correctomundo.

Okay then, following the comics streak, but a little less mainstream.
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(Bonus points if you can guess which iteration of the character it is)

Alfred Pennyworth (Presumably in his 'Messiah' days).

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que, riddler updates

Heh. That was my contest wish.

Excellent update, Janina!

To be fair, I wouldn't consider Patrick Bateman or Alex DeLarge to be movie villains. Alex is the protagonist of his story and I have no idea what Bateman is, besides entertaining as hell.

For me, personally, it would be Bane. First movie villain I was genuinely scared shitless of just because of how ruthless he is.

A Justice League movie is in the works already. I think they're going down the Avengers route, starting with Man of Steel (which looks great).

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Haha. It was shock, man. Pure shock.

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Seeing Batman getting his ass beat so badly in the first fight, was unreal. He had NO fucking chance. The ammount of determination he had was remarkable. Anne Hathaway was a perfect Selina Kyle, the character of John Blake was so fitting for this universe. And Talia! Jesus Christ, Talia Al Ghul. I also had that sneaking suspicion Miranda Tate was Talia , but the I had no idea how they were going to tie it all in with Ra's and Bane

Definitely going to see it again.

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The Dark Knight Rises...The perfect end, to the perfect trilogy.
I really don't know where to start. I've been in shock since about Friday, July 20th, 9:45pm est. It was a flawless end, and I'll fight to the death deffending that...

Haha, I know what you mean man. I was actually thinking that we both had the same reaction, since neither of us had anything to post.

That said:

Oh, almost forgot:

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That's practically what my brother, dad, and I said watching the horrid early morning news coverage. It's really disgusting, man. It's as if they want people to belive the only "terrorists" are brown people going, "Alahalahalahalah!" so they can try to justify saying they fight the "War on Terror". As if that's even gramatically or physically possible.
Also, there have been reports that James Holmes was dressed as The Joker, according to New York City Police Commissioner Kelly, because he had his hair painted red. "Nerd Point: The Joker's hair is green, not red."

About the whole "Joker" thing. The media seem to be trying to force blame on movies and comic books (they even brought up 'violent video games' as a cause. I thought that argument died years ago.) for him just being a total psychopath. A newspaper around here is directly accusing a scene in The Dark Knight Returns (the scene where a guy shoots up a porn theatre because of Led Zeppelin) for the massacre.

This movie - and even Batman as a pop culture icon in general - might forever be associated with this incident, which is a shame because it's a damn good movie.

9.5/10
My second favourite Bowie song, behind Ziggy Stardust, but it's definitely his absolute best vocal performance.

Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain

There's a disappointing amount of pie charts in this thread.

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Like how we can now see that you are clearly the Person Most Overdue For A Win.

Oh, ADePALMA should definitely win this contest (not because it's overdue, but because his entry is the absolute best in the contest imo). That makes me really upset that I got to first place before him, considering how little contests I've actually entered.

Ohgodthismakesmewanttodie/10

American Psycho (1,000,000/10 is the only acceptable answer)

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Hey, that's funny that you put that because I hate Facebook. (And Twitter)

I only use facebook for keeping in touch with people and (in rare occurrences) getting gigs. But the dickfuckery that goes on there is fucking annoying as shit, man.