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Peter Destructo

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  1. On 7/5/2019 at 3:44 PM, Crummy Scrimmage said:

    Also, I don't like when they rag on Paul for his childhood asides. He obviously tells the stories because he knows they are funny and/or odd, but then he's made to feel bad about it. He just sounds like he was a kid with an over-active imagination. 

    I thought their reaction to his "drunk on root beer" story was odd for that reason.  Sounds like standard kid stuff to me, and in the hands of a natural performer like Paul, probably pretty funny.

    Oh, and fanny packs, Jason?  What's next, are you gonna start wearing shorts to shows?


  2. On 11/9/2018 at 9:44 AM, TentPitcher said:

    If The Rock was slimmed down he would look like Tiger Woods. On a side not is it proper to capitalize The when you are talking about his name? is it The Rock? or is he just Rock?

    I think he's just naturally tall and broad-shouldered. He played on the defensive line on the Miami Hurricanes football team in the early '90s. At most he could maybe slim down to be a power forward in basketball or a football tight end.


  3. On 11/2/2018 at 10:40 PM, bcbrick said:

    Hello HDTGM fans and friends. I made an account to share my favourite moment; the total bliss of June's vindication during the Howard the Duck episode when they finally found the scene where howard tried to fly, also maybe the only F bomb i recall her dropping.

    June's had a few other Precision F-strikes, notably in the "What's Its Misssion?" clip.


  4. Correction! The quote from Botha is "Light a man's house on fire, and you find out what he really LOVES", not what he really knows. Which makes more sense.

    And I guess the fact that no one has yet commented on how The Rock climbs 100+ stories up a crane in, what, 15 minutes? just proves how much the Fast and Furious movies have suspended everyone's disbelief on The Rock's superpowers.

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  5. On 11/9/2018 at 12:25 PM, stueygeorge said:

    What bothered me most about this movie was, how was everyone moving around so easily inside this building that is on fire?  

    I really try to avoid the knee-jerk anti-CGI attitude that so many have, I think CGI has done great things for what's possible to film in movies. But in this movie, it really is the fundamental flaw. The impossibly gigantic building has to be almost all CGI, and consequently, there is no sense of space or real-ness (or suspense) to any of it. Anybody could be nearly anywhere at any time. There is so much character movement that is just skipped over or handwaved away, even within single scenes. 


  6. Yeah, I'm way late as usual, I'm almost never on top of this podcast because of how many other podcasts I listen to, and my tendency to bank episodes for long drives. But...

    First episode I think must have been Birdemic because Weird Al was the guest (how cool would it be if they could get him back?). Must have been 2012-ish because I listened to it on a drive back from St Louis.  From there I ping-ponged around the back catalog based on how interesting the movie looked until I finally started enjoying the show for its hosts and filled in most of the rest of the gaps.

    Clips: I think I've said this late on a Howdy post too, but in Junior where they pitch a sequel featuring an unholy Danny Devito baby spawned from Schwarzenegger. I want to see that animated so bad.

    And maybe this violates the "always remember" because I didn't remember it from the first time, but I relistened to The Apple recently, and the whole run where they bust on Paul for not catching the obvious biblical metaphor is absolute gold. What I did remember from the first time was Andy Richter trying to recreate the BIM song.

    Weekly routine: Like I said, I tend to bank HDTGM episodes for car trips because it really is one of the best driving podcasts out there. By now listening to them at work almost seems wrong, like they're too much of an event for that.

    I almost never watch the movies for the podcast because I think I just don't have the attention span for watching movies very often, although I've been trying to fix that lately. I rented Skyscraper for the podcast on Friday because I had meant to see that in the theater due to heat wave induced boredom, but I never got around to it. Rhea's comment about checking her phone during the movie really spoke to me. I wouldn't recommend the movie either, but that episode was really enjoyable for me for the note-comparing experience. Still too afraid of the movie quality overall to do this on the reg though.

    So with a small sample size to draw from, my favorite movie watched was Island of Dr Moreau which I saw in the theater back in the day and again on video for Rifftrax. I cheered in the middle of my old cubicle farm when Paul announced it as their next movie, as I was in the verge of suggesting it. So fascinatingly bonkers, and so sad that it's a rare Jason-less episode. "Guys...he's so smol."

    Hated: Vampire's Kiss, which I watched in prep for the Now Hear This festival. Some good Cageness in there, but BOY was it ever uncomfortable. I had to stop it after his sexual assault of Alva and pick it up later.

     


  7. On 9/14/2018 at 8:27 PM, Ofcoursemyhorse said:

    I think the French 2014 version also suffers from having Beast Cassell looking a bit better than actual Cassell.

    Yes!  Embrace teh furry!

    *ahem* 'Scuse me.

    Anyway, I'm way late to this one, but I listened to the subsequent mini and the discussions on the bus trip to Macchu Picchu, and I was surprised that nobody mentioned the Darien Gap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darién_Gap).  Basically, the roads do not exist to get a busload of teenagers from eastern Panama to northern Colombia.  At the very least, it would add days of primitive jungle trekking to an already, what, weeklong bus excursion.  And then there's all the drug smugglers hiding out in those forests.  The trendy Peruvian restaurant would probably be a better bet.


  8. I tried resequencing, but mostly just ended up switching sides with "Imitation Of Life" and "She Just Wants To Be", which I consider at least as single-worthy as "I'll Take The Rain". I thought "I've Been High" would be okay on side 2, but then you'd have two songs with the word "high" in the title too close to each other. Maybe these guys really did know what they were doing.


  9. Not that anyone asked, but my resequencing:

     

    Upside

    1. Lotus

    2. Daysleeper

    3. Hope

    4. Suspicion

    5. The Apologist

    6. At My Most Beautiful

     

    Downside

    7: Walk Unafraid

    8: Sad Professor

    9: You're In The Air

    10: Why Not Smile*

    11: Parakeet

    12: Falls To Climb

     

    * Either the Oxford version, or the album one without quite so much wash drowning out the cool piano part

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  10. Man, I knew this would be an interesting one. Up is one of my favorites, owing largely to when it came out in my life, i.e., early college years. Soooo much deeper and more complex than all the stuff the FRAT BOYS listened to. "You're In The Air" was the soundtrack to the tortured love obsession angst that I still hadn't really experienced but could totally see myself experiencing with the right person.

     

    I don't think this album needs the hatchet as much as "Hi-Fi" did, but maybe that's just because I dug the sound so much, it's an album for a long rainy afternoon. But I could still mostly get on board with both of their resequencings. "Suspicion" still belongs on side 1, maybe just further back than track 3, and I'd save "Parakeet" over "Diminished", I love the dreamy imagery of that song.

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  11. Kinda surprised that this album is as highly regarded as it is, seeing as how 1) it was a tour document album, with all the looseness and post-grunge bloat that implies, and 2) it was kinda commercial suicide for them. I've never been a fan of Stipe's beat poetry songs (and yes, that includes "Country Feedback"), and this album's got two that they thought would be singles. "Bittersweet Me" absolutely should have been the leadoff single, but "Leave" could have maybe been a single if they'd shortened it considerably and taken at least 40% of the siren guitar out. The concert treatment livens up "So Fast, So Numb" considerably (see the video of that all-request concert from Germany)

     

    The discussion on alternate track listings proves to be a fascinating direction. I'd probably keep it mostly as is other than maybe swapping sides for "Bittersweet Me" and "New Test Leper" and taking "Binky" and "Low Desert" out.

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