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2 years ago
Merry Christmas - another boobs calendar success!
If you click the top left corner, it takes you to the ass calendar, too...and, if you choose to swing that way, the dude calendar (ew).
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2 years ago
Have less than 100 police encounters?!?
Who the hell has anywhere near 100?!??
Not really "youth", but in my mid-20s, I was driving home in the wee hours of the morning, realized I was too smashed, and pulled over to sleep it off...a short while later there was a knock on my window. I woke up and saw three cops standing there. I opened the door rather than grab the keys to turn on the car to put down the window (that'd be an immediate DUI), talked to them a minute, and then suddenly.... *PUKE*... all over one of them. I thought OH FUCK, and then looked up and saw the cops behind him laughing. They asked for my ID, came back a few mins later, and I thought I was toast. Dude handed my ID back to me, said, "sleep it off, asshole", and went back to the police car. A min later they were gone.
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2 years ago
This place has gotten WEIRD.
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2 years ago
As I have no desire to ever visit Florida...and Michigan will play in the Fiesta Bowl five minutes from my place, go Detroit!
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2 years ago
Whenever I see a lot of the elderly on here bitching about a stripper not being their particular cup of tea (or Metamucil may be the more fitting beverage), I'm often reminded of this clip from Seinfeld, telling his uncle Leo he ought to be grateful...
https://youtu.be/E8t9JEROAzQ
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2 years ago
The X-Files
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2 years ago
Never been to a strip club in either city, and never been to Providence.
However, I feel like I can make an educated vote here since Detroit Rock City was a better movie than Outside Providence. Detroit. Go Lions.
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2 years ago
I've seen pretty much everyone I want to, except for maybe Metallica and Nine Inch Nails. I looked at tickets for Metallica's shows here next year... $500+?!? Ehh...don't want to see them that badly. I would consider U2, but wouldn't drop that kind of money on it.
I missed out on Alice in Chains, Nirvana, and Soundgarden...but saw Cornell with Audioslave and with Pearl Jam where they did some Temple of the Dog songs.
I think at this point the only "serious" cash I'd spend for a show would be if I went to see Pearl Jam in Ireland or something, favorite band in a bucket list location.
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2 years ago
Ah fuck I just got Rick rolled
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2 years ago
A couple others come to mind but they aren't the official MTV videos...still, they're professionally shot and were better than most of the shit MTV was playing when it still played videos.
Metallica "Enter Sandman" from Russia in 1991. They played in front of over 1.5 million people on an old air force base or something. Soldiers were supposed to work security but you can see some in the crowd just rocking out. Helicopters flying over the crowd. This was wild.
https://youtu.be/_W7wqQwa-TU
And then Pearl Jam "Porch" at PinkPop in the Netherlands in 1992.
It wasn't over a million people, but the crowd was still huge. The band's energy was insane (I wish they still played this this fast), and it'd be pretty nuts to be jamming out on the guitar and then all of a sudden you see your lead singer leaping off the camera rig into the crowd.
https://youtu.be/7_eDMjv0HwU
Thinking back, before TRL there was still a nightly top-10 show in the early 90s. I remember Nirvana "Heart Shaped Box" and Meatloaf "I Would Do Anything For Love" were on it quite a bit. That Meatloaf video was cool.
Someone mentioned "Sabotage", yeah that was great. RHCP "Soul to Squeeze" was good. I remember being like 10 years old and digging the chick in the Billy Idol "Cradle of Love" video.
Oh, shit...Aerosmith "Cryin'" and "Amazing" were really cool.
Foo Fighters "Learn to Fly" was great, in a goofy way.
Tom Petty's videos were good... can't remember which one it was, but one had an Alice in Wonderland thing going on.
En Vogue "Never Gonna Get It" just had a cool look to it; black & white, but they were wearing all silver. And it was super super simple, but whenever I think back, every time, the first video that pops in my head is Sinead O'Connor covering "Nothing Compares". It was just on so damn often...but if I can remember it so well 30 years later, it had to be good.
I feel like the sweet spot was 1985 - 1995. Before that, videos were fairly simple, working out the kinks of what made cool videos. After that, too many people started using whatever the hell it's called, "fisheye" or something, where it's like zooming in through a peep hole (off the top of my head I'm thinking Jamiroquai and Missy Elliott).
But the more I think back, the more I realize it starts and ends with Michael Jackson. You could teach a PhD-level music video production course and only use his videos.
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2 years ago
Errrrrr Guns N Roses "You Could Be Mine" and "November Rain".
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2 years ago
Chris Isaak "Wicked Game" was nice... thank you, Helena Christensen.
But best?
Take your pick from anything Michael Jackson ever did.
Guns N Roses "You Could Be Mine" and "Wicked Game" were rad.
Soundgarden "Spoonman" was killer.
Pearl Jam "Jeremy" and "Do The Evolution" were bad ass.
Coolio (R.I.P.) "Fantastic Voyage" was fun.
Snoop Dogg "What's My Name" was really cool with all the transforming into dogs.
Going back a little earlier, A-ha "Take On Me" and Pete Gabriel "Sledgehammer" were cool for their time.
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2 years ago
Wtf is wrong with you?!? Are you intentionally trying to get girls fired / arrested / raped in a parking lot!?
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2 years ago
Got the ancestry thing as a gift several years ago...it told me what I expected: about half Irish / Scottish, and half Ukrainian / eastern European.
I don't give a flying fuck if somebody has my DNA in a petri dish. What're they gonna do, create a clone army of 6'3 guys who like tits, whiskey, and gambling?
It DID eventually allow me to track down my dad's biological father's family. That was my ultimate goal once I started looking into things...the grandfather had already passed, but I got to speak with the woman he married after my grandmother and will probably meet up with her and my dad's other set of half-siblings my next time in Detroit.
And before she died, I was able to connect my grandmother with a cousin she grew up with but hadn't seen in like 75 years. That was pretty cool.
I'm hoping a couple connections I've made through it will get me access to the old estate in Northern Ireland when I eventually go there.
And there's a slight chance I'm a descendant of Robert the Bruce. I'm royalty, biatch!
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2 years ago
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ATACdawgThank God Trump is FIRED!!! Lock him up!
GO BLUE
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2 years ago
It's the same with sports.
The best of all-time is not necessarily the best at every point of the career or best single performance ever. The greatest of all-time is the overall body of work.
Tom Brady may not be the best QB this year...but that doesn't mean suddenly he's not the all-time best.
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2 years ago
Dutch is good, but it's like freshman to PTA's varsity first team all state
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2 years ago
I mean, anything from the 80s and early 90s:
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Transformers
G.I.-Joe
M*A*S*K*
Thundercats
Silverhawks
Voltron
Looney Tunes
Duck Tales
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Animaniacs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Simpsons, Beavis and Butt-Head, and South Park of course, but do they count?
While we imbibed in our preferred substances, recently a girl a little younger than I am forced upon me some of the cartoons she liked: courage the dog, Mr Pickles the satanic murderer dog, some anime with a little bald guy who was strong as hell, Rick & Morty is fun when drunk.
(Holy shit I remember Robotech in the 80s)
OH! And if you haven't watched F is for Family on Netflix, do it! It's Bill Burr's, hilarious, and about growing up in the 70s... like your grandkids did
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2 years ago
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...and it isn't even debatable.
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2 years ago
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motorheadFat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
If you train your dog to be nice, it will be nice. If you train it to be a blood-thirsty attack dog, it will attack. It isn't rocket science.
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2 years ago
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azddOn the prowl in Tucson and Phoenix
Motorhead, you're moving the goal post. Nobody said anything about never hearing of the Rolling Stones. The original post was about the girl who didn't think she knew their songs. My original response to that was she'd probably heard them, but didn't know what it was... because it was her grandparents' music.
But again, I have to concede. The AARP crowd is more cultured and knowledgeable about music than anyone born post-1980. You guys didn't have music of your parents' and grandparents' generations forced upon you because those were the only options at the time, with just one radio in the house. You sought that stuff out - rather than watching The Lone Ranger, or Adam West run around in blue tights, or playing kick the can, 3rd grade you begged your moms to play Cab Calloway and The Andrews Sisters records because "all the kids were doing it!".
But these kids today, dag nabbit, they just can't be bothered to pay attention to what was popular FIFTY-FIVE years ago! Ungrateful assholes, and their tens of millions of songs they've had available at their fingertips their entire lives. They should have listened to 1960s Brit rock before anything else!
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2 years ago
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azddOn the prowl in Tucson and Phoenix
I concede, skibum. You win. Your knowledge and culture clearly exceeds that of anyone who was born in the 1980s or later. And I probably always knew this if I'm being honest; from what I understand, the playlist at your last swingers party included Miles Davis, Portugal's current number one rapper (can't remember his name because of my ignorance), a Brazilian prodigy flautist playing medieval Welsh tunes, and the top classic country music band from Kazakhstan. That medieval flute really gets the grandmas' booties bouncing!
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2 years ago
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azddOn the prowl in Tucson and Phoenix
When I was in high school in the late 90s, in our cars we had CDs from bands popular in the 90s, and "classic" rock, stuff that was familiar because we were exposed to it for 15 years by our parents. Friends that had older brothers also had CDs from 80s bands... because they had regularly been exposed to it while growing up.
It's completely myopic and conceited to expect people in their 20s now to be as familiar with music from 60 years ago. Any of you old farts in here, when you were in your 20s, cruising for chicks in your jalopies, were you blasting 8-tracks of the shit your grandparents listened to?
If you say yes, you're a liar.
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2 years ago
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azddOn the prowl in Tucson and Phoenix
No, no. Coke is too current. He intentionally seeks out stuff from the past to rebel against his generation, so on ski trips he asks around for the local opium dens.
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2 years ago
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azddOn the prowl in Tucson and Phoenix
"Duderino and Icee show their ignorance".
Because when you were 14 back in what, 1965(?), you made it your mission to seek out swing bands from 20 years earlier. Your parents or uncles or friend's families or whomever else didn't expose you to it. You were a rebel!!! What're you rebelling against? No, not "what've you got?". You rebelled against your own!! You didn't want to listen to what was "cool" at the time, you wanted to listen to something else. So you chose the music of yesteryear, of your parents' generation... because you'd never heard that in the house...
You'd get your Schwinn out of the garage, ya know, the one with the Ty Cobb rookie card stuck the spokes (wasn't Mickey Mantle, he came too late), and ride five miles in the snow, uphill both ways, to the local record store, and ask the clerk, "can you point me to what was cool 20 years ago?"
If, when you were 8, or 10, or 13, or whatever, had the ability to listen to whatever the hell you wanted, from any time period, from any region on the face of the earth, and it would take a mere five seconds to access it, do you think for a second you'd choose the shit your parents' generation listened to?
To sit there and call people "weak" and "ignorant" and "pathetic" because they don't listen to stuff that was popular 30 years before they were born...which is often 50+ earlier (because their music tastes are developed in their teens and 20s), is your own ignorance. Your parents' generation listened to jazz and Benny Goodman, thus you knew who they were. My dad listened to The Eagles and Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, so I know who they were because that was playing in the house and in the car. These people have had smart phones since they were like 10; they've been listening to their own shit on headphones in the backseat of the car the whole time. They may have some exposure to what their parents listened to, but not nearly as much as the three or four generations before them... because they didn't have to. Yes, I ended a sentence with a preposition, eat shit.
I will talk endless shit about millennials and those younger (hey...I'm from 1981, that's borderline Gen-X, damn it!!), but they run circles around you in regards to exposure to different types of music. Just because they don't choose to listen to Cream or know who The Yardbirds are doesn't prove ignorance. If that's the case, then it shows how stupid the rest of us are because we don't intentionally choose to listen to that Korean boy bands' entire catalog, AND have tickets to go see (insert latest "hot" performer here)'s sold out show at one of the many 1,000-person venues in our towns, AND know the 2,500 other artists they're listening to today. So maybe take The Clash record off the turntable, download a music streaming service on your phone, and go searching for a Celtic rock band made up of Malaysians who grew up in Sudan.
I will give you one point though, skibum, the lack of history awareness in general is rough. A buddy married a younger girl, a teacher in fact. At a Super Bowl party years ago, they wheeled out the (then) real life most interesting man in the world, George H.W. Bush, and she asked, "who's that?" We still laugh at that years later.