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    Also I got super distracted about trying to read the one club basement's walls

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    Now if you looks close at about 1 o'clock coming out of Jett's head, it says "THE GLOVE". I couldn't get a full picture of that part, but someone had written "SMELL THE GLOVE" there.

    Which if you don't know is Michael McKean's other band's album:

     

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    I've never been a poll worker, but I have done election protection, where I monitored polling locations, making sure the lines aren't crazy or people who show up and not on the list get it figured it out or voters aren't discouraged and turned away or whatnot. That's really satisfying too!

    (Depends on the state rules, so unsure if this is a requirement, but I did this in my capacity of having a law degree.)

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    I always thought of this as a mainstream movie, but Paul & Amy talking about it as an indie really made me appreciate it a lot more. 

    I don't think it's quite great enough for the list, but it's definitely closer than I initially thought. (Kind of an inverse Mean Girls, which I kind of anticipated possibly making the list, but I also think falls just short.)

    But I think Stand has definitely had the influence and sort of become iconic in the way of some old classics have that I might say yes in the end. Like, I was shown To Kill A Mockingbird in school. I was also shown Stand and Deliver. That must mean something.

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    I love the decision-making most of all. I mean, to make the voice of Audrey II a sassy soul singer? Genius. I don't know if that's the way it is in the Broadway version but wherever that choice was made, it's great. There's decisions like that all through the movie that maybe seem super crazy, but end up working.

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    5 hours ago, GrahamS. said:

    I did join the Spoolies FB group to see what the group was like, so I won’t vote again here because that seems unfair.

    Yea, I guess we can stop with that. This here is just a little extra discussion thread with a smaller group of Unspooled fans than the 'talk about every movie ever' FB group.

    I really like Mean Girls a lot, it pretty fun. I could nitpick a few things here and there, but I generally think it's very high quality. I voted no though, because I have a very high bar for this Unspooled List of Greatness. As much I'd love for Tina Fey to be on there...

    5 hours ago, GrahamS. said:

    Also, I have a question about how the new list is being compiled.

    My guess is this will become a little clearer as we go, as they develop what they're doing. Right now I think it's pretty basic. "Is the movie great enough to send to aliens?" seems to be where they're at with it right now at the start haha. But I do think voting/deciding may also be better served if we vote after discussing the other School movies. If we watch these other 6 notable School movies and Mean Girls blows them all away... I may want to change my vote. 

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    Paul & Amy are obsessed with 2004's teenage clique comedy Mean Girls! They approach the film as a work of anthropology, praise Amanda Seyfried's performance, and ask how this pre-social media movie became so heavily GIF'd. 

    Plus: Mark Waters talks about how it feels to have directed a modern sleepover classic.

    This is the first episode of our first miniseries of Season 2, Back To School; next week's film is Stand and Deliver!

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    Just now, JammerLea said:

    Ahahaha! All the ninja turtles gifs! You know me well!

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    I hope you all have been well during this time. I had a bit of a rough week last week, so hopefully this week will be better and perfect for watching a musical.

    After doing extensive research by asking my roommate for ideas I have decided to go with a classic!

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    I have not seen this film in a good while, so it should be fun to revisit. If you want some real torture though, I guess you could watch the original Roger Corman version, but it's not a musical.

     

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    Here's a note from Paul, fyi:

    "We wanted to focus on school films and school films and coming of age go hand in hand. So it's a bit loose. I will say that Wes Anderson could be its own miniseries. So anything that might seem like a glaring omission might be due to a plan to eventually incorporate it under another umbrella."

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    1 hour ago, grudlian. said:

    Yeah. This is the leg of the tour I saw. She did a few songs from other albums before and after the straight run through of Masseduction. It might have been cool had I not already owned the album and listened to it many times. Tickets were relatively cheap as I recall but still kind of like why?

    This is the kind of show an artist should do leading up to an album release. Go to a few cities. Limit the phones so people can't record it. Then let people sell it through social media. Tickets went on sale before the album came out. So, everyone there is already a fan. Don't you think most of us would have at least listened to part of it?

    I'm kind of harping on about it but it wasn't a bad show. It just left me feeling disappointed since I was expecting something more interesting from St. Vincent. I saw Janelle Monet a few months later I think and her tickets were more expensive, but everyone got a free download of the album. Seems like a better option to me if you're just trying to get the word out.

    Yea. I saw each phase, and that first left me baffled too. I think when I went, it was before the album was released, so maybe slightly more interesting than your show, but still kind of strange. She's better when she lets loose though (part of what I didn't like about the Byrne tour she did).

    The first time I saw her about 10 years ago, was in a small packed tent and she like crowd-surfed and tore the whole place up. It was unbelievable and totally punk. She's outgrown that now, but I'm a fan now forever. I also think she's the best guitarist going today.

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    1 minute ago, grudlian. said:

    I saw St. Vincent on the masseduction tour and thought it was kind of a lame show. It felt very stiff. She was on stage by herself the entire show with everything except her guitar and vocals prerecorded. She barely moved other than every few songs she went to a new pose and just stayed there. There was a screen showing some cool visuals but ehhh. I might as well have just listened to the album or watched a video.

    Yea, I saw one of those. She went through three phases of the Masseduction tour.

    First was by herself on guitar and a taped backing, playing the album straight through; it was pointless and I don't know why she went that way. But then later in the same year, she went back around with a band and played it like a real dynamic rock show. That was much more satisfying, of course. Thrilling stuff, even. That first part was just a short phase is my only real defense of it. As best I can tell, she was just using it to introduce people to her new album and less of a performance? Fans don't need that.  

    (After that, she did the short run doing the album as a piano/lounge act; surprisingly effective and awesome.)

  23. Posted

    5 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    Yeah, if you ever heard Tom Tom Club or Casual Gods, it becomes apparent pretty quickly who was the driving genius behind Talking Heads. Not that the other musicians were bad by any means, but.

    I love Casual Gods! 

    HUGE St. Vincent fan too. (You can see me in the crowd shot on her MassEducation album liner notes (the piano version of Masseduction).) She's a modern Bowie imo.

    I went to the St. Vincent/Byrne tour and it was really fun. Maybe not spontaneous enough for my liking, it was highly choreographed and robotic. But when they broke into a couple of Talking Heads songs at the end, it was a revelation. Esp for those of us who never saw TH live. I went to a Byrne solo gig once ages ago too and I don't think he played any!

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  24. Posted

    4 minutes ago, grudlian. said:

    On Naked, the band wrote the music (and maybe even recorded it). David Byrne just sang words until he found the melody and lyrics he liked. I don't think they are necessarily nonsense but they certainly aren't telling stories.

    Yea. Remain In Light is famous for this too. There are some traditionally structured lyrics ("Nothing But Flowers" is on Naked and it has a definite point-of-view) but mostly yea, he wanted to challenge form and what was in a pop lyric.

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  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, Cinco DeNio said:

    I have never understood how Bono can write songs that sounds like a random phrase generator wrote them.

    That's interesting, because David Byrne is famous for basically writing phrases, tossing them in a hat, and picking them out. That may be somewhat apocryphal, but he definitely tapped into a stream-of-consciousness art school vibe for a lot of his songs. He does have some stories though, "Once In A Lifetime," "Psycho Killer," "Big Country," etc. But he's avoided formula as a rule.

    Brian Eno brought that vibe to Bono too. Eno produced both TH and U2; it isn't Bono's natural tendency to write that way.

     

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