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The Brothers Karamazov = Hot Tub Time Machine 2

I like Wes Montgomery's "California Dreamin'," Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" I've always liked Devo's "Satisfaction" The Lemonheads version of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" is better than you could ever expect. The way Gibby Haynes sings "Dancing Queen" can always bring a smile to my pants. I know there are about a hundred others, but my mind isn't working right now.

She is hauntingly attractive. If I were single, younger, better looking, more charming, more successful and had the opportunity of meeting her, it's conceivable that I might express to her my wish of having her join me for a nice meal at a quality restaurant.

I suppose analytics have some value, but crap like that always becomes a crutch. There are dorks in every line of work who can’t understand anything about the world or make a decision unless they can compare column C and D on a !@#$ing spreadsheet. That’s because they lack imagination, insight, vision. Analytics will only get you so far—the true visionaries in any field succeed because they can see the world as it is and don’t need it simplified and color coded for them. Tons of guys like this where I work. They are utterly clueless, but they can always justify their ludicrous position because they have a piece of paper that says A > B. I call it “spreadsheet sophistry.”

Inferior, yes. With regard to this issue, that hits it on the nose.

That’s one way of looking at it. I’ve known quite a few people with Down Syndrome. The idea that they should, as a rule, be abandoned at birth is a little more than I can chalk up to cultural differences.

So true

That’s great except no sane parents would ever let their kids get into organized sports. It would essentially make PED's compulsory and not just in the elite ranks. Also, the NFL would need to install conveyer belts on the playing fields to remove the mangled corpses after each play.

scum, trash

I'd like to start a thread about soccer for soccer fans to share their thoughts about the beautiful game and have it constantly hijacked by unfunny crusades pointing out problems of the game.

Gbinije is under 50% on free throws for the season. That's !@#$ing ridiculous. Something psychological going on.

He is!

Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions Raymond Carver Where I’m Calling From Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Denis Johnson Jesus’ Son David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again Italo Calvino A Baron in the Trees George Saunders CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation

Wow, just imagine what you could bring to 19th century composing knowing all you do about the the emergence of sophisticated passing schemes in the modern NFL.

Beautiful girl. Pageants are creepy though. I can't watch them.

Roger Goodell is the hot-head dad driving the car on the family trip while the kids in the back are getting rowdy and misbehaving. He doesn’t know what to do to straighten them out so he just sits there getting more angry. When he finally reacts to it, it’s simply out of frustration and his proclamations seem irrational and all out of proportion. The kids know this. That's why they keep misbehaving. They sense that there is no true authority and they get a sick pleasure out of seeing not only what they can get away with but also just how insane dad will get if they push him.

Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in Blue Velvet. Also, the Spanish version of Roy Orbison's "Crying" ("Llorando") in Mullholland Drive.

I kind of hear Paul Simon singing, "Why are the balls soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?"

Yeah, that was suspicious to me too. I think he contradicted himself right there.

That sums it up perfectly. I couldn't agree more. I've always felt it was funny that American football is the only sport where the officials have to make a spectacle of explaining via microphone to the crowd what is happening. Now the broadcasters need another official to add another level of interpretation. It's nuts.

Eastwood has impressed me as a director. I like a lot of his early movies and I think Unforgiven is outstanding. I liked Gran Torino too. But he's had other moments where I've found him to be manipulative and heavy handed. I'm thinking of Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River. This one gives me the same feeling I got from those two. I could be wrong though. I'll probably check it out at some point when it makes its way to cable.

I don't really want to see this one. It has nothing to do with how I feel about our troops--I respect and admire them a great deal. The vibe I get from what I've read and from the clips I've seen is that I would not enjoy it. It seems to have a one note "agenda" type thing that I'm not interested in.

"Wins?" Who gives a ****? It's silly, stupid, insulting to even have the debate. !@#$ Penn State as an institution and !@#$ the NCAA. They showed their true colors throughout the whole thing.

Good call on this one

They're not booing, they're shouting "Gooooooogny!" Have a great day. Cheers!