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I've spent entire days playing this when I only meant to play for an hour or two.
 
Just one more turn....

I've been binging on Civ 5. I don't even like RTS games. This game is insanely addicting.

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Sorry about all the CGI they couldn't get the dragon they really wanted so had to go with a motion capture instead.....

My worst brings out the best in you.
Oooops! Wrong band.

I can't believe they didn't spend their holiday weekend packing up records.  What a bunch of dicks.

Also, it will be a record by La Dispute.

The great thing about being absent minded is that I keep forgetting I flushed money down this toilet. 

Ten of the many things I love about The Birds:

1. It starts as a screwball comedy and slowly turns into a horror film, which kinda mirrors...
 
2. ... Melanie Daniels character development (from self-centered and protective superficiality to deep and dangerous authenticity; from "motherless" to "mother figure" and finally to "daughter in mother's arms").
 
3. The caged birds in the beginning contrasted with the caged people in the latter half of the movie (particularly Melanie in the phone booth).
 
4. The lack of a musical score. Plenty of creepy bird sounds instead.
 
5. The fact that no explanations for the bird attacks are given, except in the wonderful Tides Restaurant scene in which a few characters voice some birdbrained theories. Also in that scene is...
 
6. ...The voyeurism/sadistic audience aspect: A woman looks directly into the camera and says something like "The birds didn't act like this before you came here! You're the cause of this! You're evil!" The shot is Melanie's POV, but it's pretty clear to me that the character is breaking the fourth wall here, asking why you, the viewer, find such enjoyment in watching these people suffer, why they have to endure these awful bird attacks just so you can be entertained. It's the same question Haneke posits in Funny Games: You like to watch people suffer, don't you? If you didn't, you'd turn the movie off.
 
7. Robert Burks' cinematography, e.g. the amazing overhead shot of Bodega Bay with seagulls descending.
 
8. The masterful daytime suspense scene outside the school as the crows gather behind Melanie while the children sing that seemingly never ending song. One of Hitchcock's greatest set-pieces.
 
9. Hitchcock's humor, e.g the lovebirds swaying in unison as Melanie speeds along the curvy road to Bodega Bay.
 
10. The unforgettable and perfectly fitting open ending.

i can tell

"You can have a record in any color you want. As long as it's black." - Henry Ford

What the hell? Yo Casey Casey has really let loose.

tl;dr?

Old Canes - Shapeshifter 7" series (1/17/2011 - waiting)

Sufjan's Christmas compilation "Silver & Gold" from last year is easily my favourite Christmas album ever and one of the most entertaining vinyl boxsets I own too.

Chopin is the king

You have no idea.

http://www.playr.org/play/pokemon_red/420

122 Archer Ave. - Max Dalton (Reprint from The People's Print Shop)
 
 
 

 
The Belafonte - Max Dalton (Spoke Art)
 
 
 

 
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans (Promo canvas given to record stores, 24"x24")
 
 
 

 
Mewithoutyou - Spring Break Tour 2012 (Purchased at Buffalo date)
 
 
 

 
ASOB Reunion "Tour" (Purchased at Brooklyn date)
 
 
 

 
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho - Mondo (No room to hang it yet unfortunately...)
 
 
EDIT: Won an old film noir one-sheet at an auction a few weeks ago, frame should get here by tomorrow, will post a picture soon!

CS 1.6

I like to think skakid and skadaddy are father and son.

David Cross