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TheGrandMom · 05-09-2008, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Murphie

I am being subjected to live music on campus today. It's awful. AWFUL. It's like, worse than karaoke. The guy is singing party songs in a straw hat and hawaiian shirt, and dragging people on stage to sing backstreet boys songs and disco tunes with him.

WTF kind of school do you go to!? I lived through the disco era and I'm 100% sure that is torture and illegal in most states.

Akashimo · 05-09-2008, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by TheGrandMom

I'm 100% sure that is torture and illegal in most states.

Poor murphie living in a backwards era.

Feba · 05-09-2008, 11:52 AM

At least he isn't living in a stupid one.

by which I mean Aka is an idiot.

Akashimo · 05-09-2008, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Feba

by which I mean Aka is an idiot.

<_< And being an idiot is better than a prickly ass.

Callisto · 05-09-2008, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Akashimo

<_< And being an idiot is better than a prickly ass.

Not sure if that means in terms of being one or owning one.

At any rate, holyshitfuckingdonkeyballs am I bored. Boss is on vacation for the next 2 weeks, and I only have enough work to hold out until next Tuesday. All the forums I frequent are relatively slow today, and I'm running out of crap to keep me occupied/awake here. I downloaded all of the FFXI OSTs to my work computer and am currently posting to the Einherjar theme, it makes for more epic web browsing than usual.

Completely unrelated, I went to the movies for the first time in a long while last night, and saw the new Harold and Kumar movie. It was a non-stop ride of pot jokes, toilet humor, and gratuitous nudity.

And it was fucking AWESOME. I didn't really expect it to live up to the first, especially considering how little promotion I've seen of it, but it was funnier than shit.

Murphie · 05-09-2008, 12:08 PM

Apparently a lot of people really liked it, and I was one of the few who found it ridiculous.

edit: Callisto, thanks for reaffirming my complete lack of interest in that franchise.

Feba · 05-09-2008, 12:26 PM

No, it isn't, idiot.

Callisto · 05-09-2008, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Murphie

Apparently a lot of people really liked it, and I was one of the few who found it ridiculous.

edit: Callisto, thanks for reaffirming my complete lack of interest in that franchise.

I actually still think it's relatively quality, while I've for the most part grown out of my potsmoking phase(not that I was ever a serious pothead, no tie-die shirts and shit, I just smoked often for awhile b/c I had a steady free supply), and they do use a lot of vulgarity/straightfoward stupid sight gags, some of the satire in the series is top-notch in my opinion, and some of the running jokes are great too(I'm sorry, Neil Patrick Harris in these movies just doesn't get old to me).

Compared to a lot of the shit that's being pressed out as 'comedy' lately in the movies, I think the Harold & Kumar series ranks a decent notch above a lot of the Will Ferrel/Jack Black type of BS that gets cranked out every 2 months, each movie being barely distinguishable from the last one.

Murphie · 05-09-2008, 12:39 PM

To be fair, putting the word "Comedy" in the description of a film anywhere is enough reason for me to avoid seeing it.

Aksannyi · 05-09-2008, 12:44 PM

Callisto if you're bored read this gem, it should entertain you for a solid 10 minutes, it's old but still funny.

Feba · 05-09-2008, 12:44 PM

Murphie's only judgment of quality is how hard it makes him cry.

This one time I told him he looked like he was putting on some weight, he's been convinced I'm the best thing ever since then.

Murphie · 05-09-2008, 12:49 PM

Not really. I enjoy humorous content. But generally when a film is listed as a comedy, it means that there is a rather large amount of trying too hard. Iron Man had a lot of funny moments, but it's not a comedy. Cranford, which I'm watching on Masterpiece theatre this month, is hilarious, but it's not a comedy either.

Feba · 05-09-2008, 12:52 PM

well the problem isn't trying too hard, it's just sucking.

but I mean, most movies suck anymore.

Temagori · 05-09-2008, 12:58 PM

I am forced to see movie upon movie by my wife, but I actually got to see a movie I was curious to see. The Forbidden Kingdom. That movie is full of things that make it great. Action, Comedy, Action-Comedy, and the stereotypical drama. I for one liked it. But then again I am biased.

I love Jacki Chan and I love Jet Li. This has both so...<3

Callisto · 05-09-2008, 01:00 PM

Boo, web filters w/ the block, but thanks for the attempt Aksannyi.

And I generally agree w/ Feba, I rarely watch TV or movies anymore b/c most of them turn out to be garbage, though I did see a few previews that looked promising for a change, notably Hellboy 2, I thought the first was relatively entertaining, and the second appears to be directed by the person who did Pan's Labrynth, and looks pretty sweet visually.

Edit: I guess he did the first one too, was not aware of that at the time.