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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Australian Rules
Leaving Las vegas
Full Metal Jacket
The Man Who Wasn't There
Memento
Reservoir Dogs
A Simple Plan
Deliverence
The Man With The Golden Arm
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Detail
In The Bedroom
Apocalypse Now Redux
Spirited Away
Metropolis (anime version)
Perfect Blue
NGE: Death and Rebirth
NGE: End of Eva
Monsters Inc
Cinema Paradiso
Raging Bull
Rocky
Peter Gabriel -- Growing Up Live
The Quiet American
Wonder Boys
Robin Williams Live on Broadway
MASH
Stand By Me
O Brother Where Art Thou
Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different
The Exorcist
The Ref
La Dolce Vita
Pirates of the Carribean

And possibly a few more I can't find...

Add to that my anime video CD collection + VHS tapes and that's a shitload of filmage

Ah, that's easy, throw some shit to the car without the car owner being able to see you and then kindly ask him for some money to clean his car.

Don't throw too much shit or it won't be worth all the hard work.

Damn, now all my years at university have gone to waste when I could have been doing this to earn a living.  

[Quotes by Darth Mandarb]

* sigh *

You don't listen to a great variety of rap or rock, do you?

Quotes by Darth Mandarb

"'Gansta' Rap is predominantly about drugs, guns, and violence."

"Rock music (the rock I listen to) is mostly about love."

"Yes there is rock music that is bad and crap."

*sigh again*

Why are sighing? Are you in love with me because I'm sooo dreamy?  

You still haven't made any distinction between rock and Gangsta rap as a whole.

You're going purely on music you've listened to, which to me seems very limited -- Thus, I said "You don't listen to a great variety of rap or rock, do you?"

There are many great rock songs that aren't about love, but are about violence, drugs, and guns.

For example, Purple Haze by Hendrix, Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith, Woke Up This Morning by Alabama 3, I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats...

I mean, you're generalising a lot of Gangsta rap and Rock on the basis of the few songs you've listen to.

I mean, would you also say "I hate Martin Scorsese's gangster films because they're filled with violence, guns, and drugs"?

I doubt you would.

BruisedWeasel:

A person hands you a lump of shit. Does this mean you're obligated to throw it at your neighbor's car?

Throwing shit at a person's car is a little different to selling crack.

People sell crack to make money -- I don't see how you'd make cash from throwing shit at cars unless someone hired you to throw shit at a car, which is retarded!

But interestingly, a child would throw shit as someone's car as a prank if there's enough peer pressure from other kids -- just the same as if other kids wanted him to smoke crack.

'Gansta' Rap is predominantly about drugs, guns, and violence.

Rock music (the rock I listen to) is mostly about love.

You don't listen to a great variety of rap or rock, do you?

There are many rock songs about drugs, guns, and violence.

To name a few bands and artists: Nirvana, Silverchair, The Vines, The Boomtown Rats, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Deep Purple...

At the same time, there's a lot of rap that's not about drugs, gun, and violence.

For example, take "that whiny pussy" Eminem and his Oscar winning song "Lose Yourself".

Edit - and I would much rather my future children listen to songs about love than about drugs and violence and thug-life. That's a no-brainer.

Meanwhile, some kid in the ghetto has to deal with the drugs, violence, and thug-life.

And the ghetto didn't end up that way cause of rap music.

Rap music only reflects what's going on in the ghetto.

Thug-life exists in the ghetto cause of money, or lack thereof.

Thug-life exists because the cops there are like nazi-overlords.

Thug-life exists cause drugs are being run from overseas, which so-called "thugs" sell on the streets, which once again relates back to money.

Rap music didn't cause these things.

They exist because white people don't want to acknowledge there's problem in ghettos.

As Furious Styles says in the film 'Boyz In Da Hood':

Furious Styles: Why is it that there is a gun shop on almost every corner in this community?
The Old Man: Why?
Furious Styles: I'll tell you why. For the same reason that there is a liquor store on almost every corner in the black community. Why? They want us to kill ourselves.

and this:

The Old Man: Ain't nobody from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folk, shootin' each other and sellin' that crack rock and shit.
Furious Styles: Well, how you think the crack rock gets into the country? We don't own any planes. We don't own no ships. We are not the people who are flyin' and floatin' that shit in here.

Cause they're like Spirte Jams now.

So, the moral of this thread is...



SIXTY-NINE, DUDES!

It looks like that creepy guy who lives next door.

Why did Peter Thomas post a picture of a drag queen?

That's what I hate most. Music that started out as a cause, but has since become complete garbage. grr.

Yeah, but Sturgeon's Law says 90% of everything is crap -- why single out rap?

Punk also began with a cause, and now we have so many shitty pop punk bands.

Same with rock.




Want a twinkie, Genghis Khan?

My name is Sigmund, but you can call me 'Ziggy'!



All we are is dust in the wind, dude!

PARTY ON DUDES!


Also:
We have two threads so far that blame rap music for the decline of society.

I say BULLSHIT!

Repeat: BULLSHIT!

Gangsta rap is not to blame.

MTV is not to blame.

Society has been fucked up WAY before MTV or rap.

It's ironic that a lot of people are blaming rap music for the problems in society -- Rap began as a protest to how fucked up society was.

Listen to '911 Is A Joke' by Public Enemy and then blow me.




WHOA!

Just what the internet needs: A French-Canadian Mikey.

He just needs an embedded MP3 that goes: "Bonjour my future girlfriend... This is what I sound like..."

But there's no actual proof that pot users become heroin users:

http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/health-public-affairs/mhcs/publications/4410.html

"There are also things about drug use which parents misunderstand - and these misunderstandings increase their fears. Many people believe smoking cannabis leads to heroin use - but cannabis use is no more likely to lead to heroin than alcohol or tobacco use. "

The first step to having a serious drug problem is trying serious drugs.

Are there any differences as to how to render a model because in one game you'll be shooting and in another you'll be talking?

You can do both in Deus Ex.

One thing I have noticed is the increase in adverts about suicide on local radio aimed at young people. Never really heard them before. Lots of "shocking" adverts on TV nowadays too.

When I was in high school, Australia had the highest rate of suicide in the world -- mostly due to teen suicide.

From what I've heard, that hasn't changed much.

As for the whole "drugs" issue, I have a few points to make:

1) Not all drugs are bad. I've spent a lot of time around people who've done some serious drugs. I used to be a casual pot smoker, but that's nothing compared to some of the shit I've seen -- I'm talking people sticking stuff up their noses, popping pills, shit like that. But they're pretty civil people who hold down high-ranking jobs, like lawyers and doctors. SO, it's hard for me to fault speed and ecstacy. Having said that, I've seen people fucked by serious shit, like heroin. Seen the movie Trainspotting? Read the book? Yup, that's what it's like. So I have diverse views on drugs. Pot, to me, is harmless. Speed, eccies -- flirting with danger, but I've seen everyday people do this kind of stuff -- not my cup of tea, but that's a personal decision. Herion -- might as well flush your young life down the toilet bowl. I must say though, the media hype drugs up big-time (Face it, how many positive drugs stories do you hear in the news? Probably "Marijuana has medicinal uses" and that's about it). But a lot of people have done a lot of awesome things while high: The Beatles (Sgt Peppers, Abbey Road), Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, Last Detail, Cuckoo's Nest), Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now, anyone?).

2) Blaming rap videos for drug, prostitution and violence problems in society is like using violent movies, computer games, and Marilyn Manson as a scapegoat to blame for the Columbine shooting. In other words, utter bullshit. Drug, prostitution and violence problems were happening long before rap was invented. Ever heard of the 70s? The 50s? Even the 30s! My opinion is this: the real blame is a self-esteem issue. Most kids start selling drugs and pimping because they need some easy money quickly. Why? To buy cool shit, like the cool shit their friends have (that they incidently bought by also pimping and selling drugs). Same with prositution. Earn big money in high school. MTV rap videos don't cause this. They reflect this. I think it's a self-esteem issue. If there was high self-esteem, we wouldn't have such problems. Sadly, not all kids can have high self-esteem -- to believe so would be folly. Or else Australia wouldn't have such a high suicide rate. Are parents to blame? I'm divided about that because I think it's a number of things: home life, school, peer pressure, impressing the opposite sex...

3) I believe that the world will only get better if parents stop trying to shelter their children and just properly educate them about drugs, sex, etc, etc. If I had children, I'd want them making informed decisions about drugs. It's better than them being sheltered until they're 14 or 15 and having to succumb to peer pressure without any knowledge of what they're getting into. I wouldn't want my kids hiding a serious drug problem from me. I'd want to know, so I can help. When I was a kid, my Dad told my sister and I about pot -- He told us what it did, both good and bad (which was a little contrary to all the Reagan-era anti-drug cartoons we'd been watching that said "drugs are bad"). Dad then said he hoped he could be around when Aimee and I first tried pot so he could share and help with the experience. He was awesome back there. I don't think Aimee and I ever did share that joint with him -- Probably cause we thought he just wanted some of our spliff. I did get really hammered with him once while in my teens, but that's another story. My mother and her boyfriend/fiancee are similar -- they have a joint probably once every two weeks. And both are very pleasant and logical people. And they're quite motivated -- you should see them working away on a weekend. And in high school, we had a subject called personal development. The head of that subject told us that one day we'd probably try pot, that it was an experience, and that an experience is okay as long as it's in moderation. I consider all this a healthy education in drugs. I have been taught by people with experience, not some anti-drug campaigner who has never smoked a joint in his or her life. I just think kids need parents who are open and responsibile. Those are the kinds of qualities I want my kids to inherit. I don't want to be some authoritarian cause that'll distance my kids away from me. At the same time, I don't want to be someone who alets my kids do whatever they want. I want to find balance. I want to educate. I want to be a responsible parent and teach my kids to be responsible in their decisions and actions.

In the last week, there was a study released in the US that showed music piracy wasn't to blame for poor music sales.

Of course, the record industry reps said the study was rubbish.

What I think is stupid is you have music celebs jumping on the anti-Napster/anti-Kazaa bandwagon because they're looking for a scapegoat to blame for poor album sales.

I wondered if they considered that maybe they got poor sales because their albums were shithouse.

I haven't bought many CDs lately.

Having said that, I've probably downloaded one or two songs in the last six months.

Film piracy is another issue and, in some cases, more rigid than the music industry.

Consider the whole Academy screeners issue from last year -- Someone got expelled from the Academy for accidently lending his screener tape to a friend (who, in turn,  pirated it on the net).

I think a bigger issue, though, is software piracy.

And that's a whole new debate.  

I have no artistic ability

Irony abounds!

Lirpa Sloof is an unusual name for a press agent.

I guess you could take that a step further and say LeChuck is a Freudian father-figure, because Guybrush "kills" him at the end of the first game.

Also, notice that he "kills" LeChuck with a phallic symbol (A fizzing bottle of root beer being a metaphor for ejaculation).

I win the page competition! My entry is awesome! Everone else's sucks, especially Darth's! HAR HAR HAR!