*****It's Not The Heat, It's The July LC Thread*****

[2/325Falcon]

Hammy take your bike helmet off in the house the chinstrap is on too tight imo.

[happyhappy...]

Originally Posted by jmakinmecrzy

you know how everyone is always like, "OMG, who farted???"

i've never been able to smell it. i just have to pretend it's horrible like everyone else does or they think you're the one that did it. i assume it smells like poop.

i read today that in sweden you don't fart aloud ever, or ever take the last slice/piece of anything. good calls imo.

[Clare Quilty]

Originally Posted by 27offsuit

i go out of my way to never, ever drive around bicyclists and thoroughly enjoy buzzing them by a few inches.

i've also been known to throw soda at them, but only during gay pride week.

Not super surprised to learn you're this douche irl, yet still somehow a bit disappointed.

[Classic]

+1 to ham.

re: moonrise kingdom

I feel like if you're on the fence/slightly annoyed with wes anderson's style, this will actually push you towards the negative. it's just packed to the brim with all the twee **** that he does, to the point that it's almost a parody. I still enjoyed it, but it's at the bottom of the list compared to his other stuff.

[Clare Quilty]

Originally Posted by Classic

+1 to ham.

re: moonrise kingdom

I feel like if you're on the fence/slightly annoyed with wes anderson's style, this will actually push you towards the negative. it's just packed to the brim with all the twee **** that he does, to the point that it's almost a parody. I still enjoyed it, but it's at the bottom of the list compared to his other stuff.

I've steadily grown less and less enamored of WA as he's made more films. They increasingly just seem like an excuse for him make colorful dioramas scored by sixties folk-pop. There's a regressive, infantile quality to it all that I find kind of off-putting. The earlier films had these tendencies as well, but also had enough moments of adult conflict and drama to offset the navel-gazing. When I saw the new film was about kids at a summer camp and entitled "Moonrise Kingdom," I cringed--it's like Russ Meyers making a movie called "I Love Big Tits" or something.

The lionization of WA by my generation speaks volumes about everyone's secret desire to make a semi-ironic playlist, put in their earbuds, and disappear forever up their own ass holes.

[gumpzilla]

Originally Posted by ham on rye

but i can't remember the last time i had a real problem with somebody on a bike and i lived in ****ing brooklyn.

Re: living in Brooklyn, my vibe is that bicyclists become proportionally less annoying in situations of greater density. Falcon being upset at bikers during rush hour, for example, seems a bit weird to me because around here (DC) that seems like precisely the time when bikes aren't actually slowing anybody down (because traffic is so thick that's about the average speed anybody can go anyway.)

My sympathies are generally with the biker - I'd probably do it myself if it weren't for the massive culture/safety clashes that this discussion is emblematic of. But I can definitely also see why other people get frustrated by them. I feel like there's a specific class of biker that will haughtily cite traffic laws when it suits them but will also ignore all of the stuff that doesn't. These people irritate me.

[jmakinmecrzy]

the ones that don't stop at stop signs and just burn though the intersection at 20 mph are particularly tilting.

[kioshk]

Me and my unicycle get no respect on the road. It could be the juggling though.

[lonely_but_rich]

I'd like to tag team some bicyclists with 27off one day. He'll drive by and drench them in soda and when they stop to cry/dry off I'll pull up behind them, get out and beat them to death with a baseball bat.

[EvilSteve]

Originally Posted by happyhappy...

i read today that in sweden you don't fart aloud ever, or ever take the last slice/piece of anything. good calls imo.

But then the last slice is never taken so it eventually ends up in the garbage, and the second to last is effectively the last, so you can't take it either. Following all the way through on this logic, you can't even take the first slice.

[microbet]

Originally Posted by Clare Quilty

I've steadily grown less and less enamored of WA as he's made more films. They increasingly just seem like an excuse for him make colorful dioramas scored by sixties folk-pop. There's a regressive, infantile quality to it all that I find kind of off-putting. The earlier films had these tendencies as well, but also had enough moments of adult conflict and drama to offset the navel-gazing. When I saw the new film was about kids at a summer camp and entitled "Moonrise Kingdom," I cringed--it's like Russ Meyers making a movie called "I Love Big Tits" or something.

The lionization of WA by my generation speaks volumes about everyone's secret desire to make a semi-ironic playlist, put in their earbuds, and disappear forever up their own ass holes.

Imo Life Aquatic was the peak of his style over story. I thought the story was very good in Moonrise K.

Check out Submarine for a very similar story, w/o Wes Andersonisms.

Many great directors (not that imo WA is an all time great) have a pronounced style and there are movies/times where Allen, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Malick, QT, Cohen bros, Kubrick... seem like they are doing somewhat hollow immitations of themselves.

I guess you could measure directors by range, like your do actors. Robert Dinero and Stanley Kubrick are incredibly good at a certain thing, but Ben Kingsley or Steven Spielberg (Danny Boyle? if Spielberg makes you cringe) have bigger ranges.

[EvilSteve]

Ran out of toilet paper but had a box of Puffs nearby, used that. Works just as well imo, and I don't have to tear off the squares.

On a related note I've been a little backed up lately despite taking psyllium fiber, so I thought maybe the bacteria culture in my gut needed a boost. Bought some yogurt with active cultures and had that for breakfast along with an avocado and coffee. About an hour later I seem to be cleaning the system out quite nicely. Yogurt the night before as well.

[EvilSteve]

Originally Posted by microbet

Robert Dinero

aka B. Money!

[microbet]

Originally Posted by EvilSteve

aka B. Money!

I knew there was no way I was spelling all those names right.

[EvilSteve]

That's a cool misspelling though. You could have played that off as intentional.