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Found a band or singer you never knew existed until recently? Doesn't matter if they're an up-and-coming newbie band or an old rocker from ages ago, post your discovery here -- tell us what you found and what you think of them.

For example... Just recently, I discovered Sigur Ros with their latest album Takk. Apparently it's a very popular album with a few tracks legally released online and being swapped around blogs. However, musically, I've been living under a rock for the last few months, so it's a new band for me. And it's very pretty album.

I also recently saw Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah perform on Letterman. Thought the singer was a little "screechy" but then spent a few seconds listening to the actual song and thought, "Hey that's pretty good." Haven't listened to the full album yet, cause at the moment I'm still listening to Takk.

Prior to these, last album I bought was Elbow's Leaders of the Free World back around November. They're one of my favourite bands, so not really a new discovery. But a bloody good album, their best release IMO.

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Heat Vision and Jack

Don't know if this has been posted yet. It's a rejected FOX TV pilot directed and produced by Ben Stiller and starring Jack Black and Owen Wilson. Black stars as Jack Austin, an astronaut who gets super intelligence from the sun. His best buddy, Heat Vision, is a talking motorcycle (voiced by Wilson).

It's as funny and crazy-assed as can be!

Watch and enjoy!

I guess I was just hoping there was some normal-ish person who believed in it, so I could ask them why and stuff. No biggie.

In all honesty, I doubt you'd even get a reasonable answer from a scientologist.

I suppose they've got commentary in there, but it's not really clever.

Re-watch the episode "Best Friends Forever". It is one of the sharpest pieces of satire you'll ever see. Just one of the reasons I totally disagree with anyone who says South Park isn't clever.

I think a lot of people miss the point of South Park. Many relegate it to just a "shock value" show, but the shock value is merely just a reflection of a lot of the things we find shocking in our own society. Take my example above with the "Best Friends Forever" episode and how they're able to satirise the Terry Schiavo case, something that was pretty shocking in itself.

But to each their own.

once yuo seen one towel head you seen em all, rite guys?

Finally, I've grown totally bored of Iraq!

Don't you mean, "I've grown totally bored of The Middle East"?

Y'know, cause of how Afghanistan is, like, so totally not in Iraq and is, like, so totally another country.

Or did mean to say Iraq's boring now cause this Afghanistan death penalty case has got you psyched?

clarification on your apathy pleez

Late agin, but just to address something...

DG: Very good, this is a big pointless thread, then why did you post in it? Does the thread have a point now? Or are you now wasting your time when you should be starting threads about homeless people or something important.

You so misunderstood what I was trying to say.

Why did I post in a pointless thread? Hmm, I don't know. Maybe to tell people that it IS a big pointless thread that seems to be growing like hairy pimple each day. It's not so much that it is pointless. It's more that I felt that the subject matter didn't really warrant the thread's growth. But, hey, maybe cartoon titties really do warrant a 12 page discussion.

But I love how you switch the accusations to me, trying to make me seem like a hypocrite, even though all I'm doing is stating the obvious. Let me ask you then, if you think I should be posting about homeless people, then why aren't YOU posting about homeless people? Too busy talking about cartoon boobies, I presume?

Wow, see how easily I did that!

EDIT: Since the thread has gotten this big, I should mention Hitler and the Nazis.

How about this for my main addition: "This thread is a huge waste of time." Most of the other threads that I you tell me I should "hit up" don't have seven pages devoted to whether cartoon boobs are important to plot.

That's one of the few things you stated that I disagree with.  When judging whether the general discussion topics are a waste of time, you target this thread while there are a good many below it that seem more a waste of time.  Eventually, these things all die off, but your comments exacerbate the debate rather than allow it to come to a creeping non-conclusion.

Yeah, but the difference is the discussion was up to six pages in two days when I posted! There aren't any other threads with that kind of jump in responses in such a short time.

And now it's up to eight! Also, most of the replies between pages 6-8 have nothing to do with my comments, so I don't think it's fair to say my comments have exacerbated the debate. I think it would have continued down the same wonky path whether or not I added my pretending-to-be-the-voice-of-reason rant.

My issue is how eager people are to hop on this thread in such a short amount of time. I was very happy to see people contribute to other long threads, like the Mohommad cartoons thread (one I didn't reply to because I had nothing much to contribute, my views were already discussed in detail by others. Also, I read that thread late, like this one.) or even something simple like the birthday thread. Not so much the Paul Harvey thread because arguing with rharpe was like trying to crack a coconut with your skull. And you'll notice I was trying to steer people away from the Paul Harvey thread too.

pie is george w bush's way of keeping the working man down blah blah blah and other political bullcrap

p.s. voice of reason, and the pretending to be of which.

I like how you pretend to swoop down and be the sole voice of reason in this thread DG and then tell everyone they are wasting their time because there was a hurricane a few months ago.

If your main addition to this thread is "Shut up and debate something that really matters." You have an AWFUL lot of threads you're going to have to hit up and tell people to shut up in...

Yeah, I'm pretending. My whole post was a cunning ruse to fool yuo all for five days.

How about this for my main addition: "This thread is a huge waste of time." Most of the other threads that I you tell me I should "hit up" don't have seven pages devoted to whether cartoon boobs are important to plot.

My response was, "Duh, of course not. But who cares?"

Maybe if you read my post properly instead of thinking, "Oh here we go, another typical DG rant. Obviously he's pretending to be the sole voice of reason. blah blah blah."

Answer: They're pointless.

But so what?

Let me tell you a story about someone...

*swirly dream sequence*

This is even more pointless.

Why's bringing up the example of Russ Meyer pointless? It's a valid point and you've said nothing that demonstrates otherwise.

But you want to know what I find vulgar? This is vulgar: it's been revealed today that the Bush administration was warned on the highly destructive capabilities of Hurricane Katrina in a series of meetings with FEMA prior to the hurricane hitting. It's in a series of videos recently obtained by the Associated Press. Bush even says in the vids, "We are fully prepared."

Let's not even get into state versus federal jurisdictions.
Troll.

Did I say the state was unaccountable? No, I didn't. What I'm saying is that the US has an agency for managing federal emergencies and Bush said such an agency was prepared for Katrina, despite the fact it wasn't.

And don't call me any of your mother's pet names.

No debate in Gen Gen can actually make a difference.

It can raise some consciousness about issues. There's potential in such forums. But, hey, believe what you like about the forum.

DG, that was just a cheap way to turn an unrelated conversation into a political gen-gen crapfest, one that usually ends up with me acting like an asshole, and everyone else being pissed off at each other.  So you think that people don't care enough about something that happened?  Don't hyjack a thread in order to say your little political bullcrap.  Start a new one, or better yet, tell it to people in a place where it'll actually matter.  You wrote the rules in GenGen, i should think youd atleast know the etequitte.

I'm not hijacking a thread. I'm using that as an example of something else you could be talking about.

But according to you, it's political bullcrap. Debate the boobies for all I care. Let's not turn this into a political crapfest. Let's leave it at a regular crapfest.

It's not like Gen Gen hasn't seen it's share of serious threads...the Stanley Williams execution, the Mohammed cartoons, etc.

And that's the thing: I'm proud of people debating that. But when it gets to stuff like this thread, it makes me ill. I think to myself, "Do people actually spend their time debating stuff like this? Seriously."

Maybe this thread grew so fast because people are relieved it's only about boobs.

Could be.

Then maybe what DG should have done is read this thread,

Did that...

the AG thread

and that...

and OGSquinky's blog

and that too!

and see that only 1 person called the breasts vulgar. One person. I searched this thread and all the other ones for the word vulgar and I saw just about everyone saying "I wouldn't call them vulgar." "Gratuitous maybe, vulgar, no..."

I noticed. I also noticed that the topic of this thread was "Would you really define this as 'vulgar'". Hey! That's the first thing I wrote about. HOLY SMOKES!

So DG should have directed this rant to JohnPaterson on the AG forum since he's the one and only person who brought it up. You could make a case for saying that Snarky called them vulgar but only if you don't read his thread at all and just search for the word "vulgar".

The rant wasn't only directed at JohnPaterson but anyone else who shares his view. It was on-topic ( and sure I came in late, but six pages in two days!) and no one has said anything to disprove what I've said other than "dg you have a potty mouth and to talk too much about political bullcrap. stfu you crabby old man!"

But if you read my second part, which was more about the later point that was brought up in this thread (i.e. are gratuitous boobies necessary), you'll see from an example I've given that my point of view still remains: "They're unnecessary, but so what? It's no big deal!"

DG to the rescue with some motherfucking common sense!!

Is it vulgar?

Answer: Who gives a shit? As if the entire world is going to pee their pants over something as banal as a big pair of cartoon titties. "oh noes, alert the internet police! we might have another nipplegate on our hands! right-wing idiot parents will ring up chris jones and abuse the shit out of him cause the picture might cause impressionable young women to dress like sluts, which can lead to rape, which can lead to ABORTIONS! HOLY CRAP SOCIETY JUST FARTED AND WE ARE ITS CASUALTIES!!! SOMEONE CALL JOHN ASHCROFT TO COVER UP THOSE DIRTY DIRTY BOOBS!!"

Anyone who thinks it's vulgar needs to take a long nap and then wake up so I can slap them asleep again. Shut up all of you.

Now to the other point that has been raised -- whether the big titties are necessary to the game or whether they're pointless.

Answer: They're pointless.

But so what?

Let me tell you a story about someone...

*swirly dream sequence*

The son of a policeman and a nurse, Russ Meyer made amateur films in his early teens, winning prizes at 15. He spent World War II in Europe as a combat cameraman, then after the war became a professional photographer, shooting some of the earliest "Playboy" centerfolds. He made his film directorial debut with The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), the first "nudie" (softcore sex) film to make a profit (over a million dollars), which led to a string of self-financed films that gradually became more bizarre, violent and cartoonish. In 1964 and 1965 he established his style with his "Gothic period", a quartet of black-and-white films Lorna (1964), Mudhoney (1965), Motor Psycho (1965) and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)) that many consider to be his best work. After the blockbusting Vixen! (1968), he was hired by 20th-Century Fox to make studio pictures. The first of these, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), was an enormous hit, but after the lukewarm reception of the uncharacteristically serious The Seven Minutes (1971), Meyer returned to the sex-and-violence films that made his name, culminating in the delirious Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). He spent the 1980s working on various autobiographies, both in film (The Breast of Russ Meyer) and print ("A Clean Breast").

- from IMDB's mini-bio

The acknowledged pioneer of the sexploitation film began shooting home movies as a teenager, using a camera given him by his mother. He was a combat photographer stationed in Europe during World War 2, an experience he claims molded his outlook and personality. Upon returning to the States, Meyer photographed industrial films, girlie-magazine layouts, and occasionally worked on Hollywood productions, such as Guys and Dolls (1955) and Giant (1956). He directed a "nudie-cutie,"The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), which dispensed with the usual conventions of nudist films and served up a ribald storyline and amazingly endowed women. The overwhelming success of Teas started Meyer on a prolific career in sexploitation films, with titles like Lorna (1964), Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966), Cherry, Harry and Raquel (1969), Supervixens (1974), Up! (1976), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (1979), all characterized by a frenetic editing style, a predilection for big-breasted women, and liberal doses of rough violence.

The critical and commercial success of Vixen (1968) caught the attention of 20th Century-Fox execs, who signed Meyer to direct Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970, his biggest success, written by Roger Ebert) and his "straightest" project, The Seven Minutes (1971, a flop adapted from an Irving Wallace novel). Meyer's experiences with Fox soured the iconoclastic filmmaker on major studios, and he resumed the independent production and distribution of his own movies. The demise of the drive-in market and the emphasis on hard-core pornography (which Meyer always eschewed) effectively ended his directorial career, though he continues to promote and sell his product on video. He appeared as himself in a spoofy sequence of Amazon Women on the Moon (1987).

-From Leonard Maltin's Russ Meyer bio on IMDB

*swirly back-to-reality sequence*

Whoa, how trippy!

Russ Meyers was a man who gratuitously filled his films with big-boobed women. He normally casted women with unusually large breasts because he says, "I love big-breasted women with wasp waists. I love them with big cleavages."

People today call him an artist (particularly his long-time friend, screenwriter and now famous movie critic Roger Ebert -- see this link) and his work has inspired cult directors like John Waters and John Landis.

Now I don't mean to suggest big boobs=art, but I do think several people several here are way too conservative about such things. Lighten up, you tards. "Oh lordy, the objectification of women for no point whatsoever! I shall have to write a stern message on the AGS Forums!" Relax, take a deep breath and realise that it's no big deal. Realise that this is just another waffling debate in a series of unending AGS General Forum tirades that ultimately mean jack shit. Speaking of which, when is rharpe going to pop up and start prattling on about how Jesus is crying over those awful enormous titties?

This is just everyone doing their verbal wank for the day. In the end, it means nothing.

But you want to know what I find vulgar? This is vulgar: it's been revealed today that the Bush administration was warned on the highly destructive capabilities of Hurricane Katrina in a series of meetings with FEMA prior to the hurricane hitting. It's in a series of videos recently obtained by the Associated Press. Bush even says in the vids, "We are fully prepared."

Then, as you all know, he did nothing and later said that no one could have predicted the damage Katrina did.

Hear that: Bush was urgently warned about the hurricane, said his administration is fully prepared, spent several days after the hurricane hit with his thumb up his arse doing diddly-squat and said, "Whoa, didn't see that comin'!"

Meanwhile, New Orleans got creamed.

That's the real vulgarity of this world. That's what people should be debating right now. Where's that thread gone?

In fact, no. I find this more vulgar: the fact that people here would rather devote 6 pages to a cartoon boobies debate instead of something that actually makes a difference.

Hmm, your rhymes are pretty fresh. Wanna join my all-boy band?

QFG, of which 1,2 and 4 remain some of the best adventure games (blah blah blah) ever developed.

their not adventures games.. their rpgs, fag!

From what I hear, you're on the money.

The name of the game is Leisure Suit Larry: Cocoa Butter and will  released in September 2006.

Just to make things clear, I also thought MCL was a piece of shit and am glad it was banned in my country. I would have banned it too, not for pornography but for it being a piece of shit.

IMDB for stupid IMDB-like site ideas

semicolonrightbracket

Jeez, DG provided fun for you.
I know the truth now, thanks for revealing it via the animations!

I'm always bringing joy to the disabled in any way possible.

And yes, my balls are really that huge. And blue.

I heard they're making another Larry game. Plus they're releasing the Larry collection in March.

Your opinions are wrong and you should feel bad for thinking them.

The italics part means you'll have sex, esper.