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  1. That section's creature feature is a 15-minute homage to the Original Series, right down to Kirk solving the situation WITHOUT using his fists (in a manner of speaking). I'm getting giddy just thinking about it.
  2. I hear you. II is obviously the movie that finally validated nerds the world over and its place in SciFi movie history is unimpeachable. Wrath of Kahn is a great movie, but VI has everything II has except VI does it better (Kahn spends the entire 3rd act bumblefucking around, for instance, Chang would clean his chonometer (boop)). But what VI really is, down to its core, is the entire 30 years of Star Trek story and lore sticking the landing.
  3. 15%
  4. One of the first places I went when visiting San Francisco was going to that intersection. 😂
  5. VI >>>>> IV > II Watched Search for Spock recently and it's held up quite well, I dig that one now more than I used to. Time has been kind to that one.
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    David Crosby RIP

    Been awhile coming, sadly. RIP https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-nash-1235495467/?fbclid=IwAR34xQ3ZAY0BU4zac2AwLMcUQdy6m6Ba5CPqNpHjIp4asWQI0VxyeJYfjHI
  7. Took the children to see William Shatner at the Long Center in Austin this past weekend. The show included a watching of Wrath of Kahn, then a Q&A with T.J. Hooker himself, then a meet and greet after (which turned out to be a cattle call tbh). For 90+, Shatner was bouncing around the stage and just as entertaining as ever, he definately still all there. Wrath of Kahn is my 3rd favorite ST film, but watching it with an auditorium of enthusiastic Trekkies made it memorable beyond it simply being a great movie and has me re-thinking my order. (In all the times watching it I never noticed the Moby Dick thread throughout, btw. #dense) Ive been worried for some time that I might be running out of time to see him in person, the only OG main cast member I hadn't up till now, but if his energy and presence are any indication, he might be around for a while yet, hopefully. Bucket Item: checked
  8. This popped up on the timeline today (Big Brother and all that). Cool rundown. Disney afterschool TV was on another level in the 90s. MIght be the only place Disney had their act together that decade. I even forgot to mention Tailspin. Zzzzz
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    Pink Floyd

    Preach. And no SACD, either?
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    Pink Floyd

    Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary just announced. James Guthrie remastered. Would like to check out the Atmos mix. No band works so well with surround mixes as Pink Floyd. https://www.amazon.com/DP/B0BS1VVXT1?tag=linkfiregen&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&ascsubtag=abafe1946138a9dbd5993acbf220a281&ref=dmm_acq_soc_us_u_lfire_lp_x_abafe1946138a9dbd5993acbf220a281&fbclid=IwAR25Cua9g2sPEUV_uvvRBZjCGS2rl0wdZA04sns17J9YMu5GIDUcnH69ELg
  11. If the color of a person's skin tells you what you need to know about who they are, I'm not going to convince you otherwise. I'm telling you I believe skin color is a shallow thing to relate to, I am not telling you, nor do I agree with, that a common background is the same thing. Side note, I grew up in a Missouri City. Or, as we like to say, "not Mayberry." I wont hold it against you that you thought I grew up in an all-white town, afteralI you cant see the exact hue my sexy caramel skin and thus the tapestry of my life.
  12. I can't think of a less valid comparison than this one. Not only are we talking about two different things, we're talking in two different languages. And I imagine my daughter would react the exact same way to seeing the CSWS.
  13. That's kind of the point. Connect with whomever you want for whatever reason you want. Hopefully it's for something more substantial than the color of their skin, but if not, no harm no foul. Diversity of appearance is the basest form of diversity.
  14. Lazy. I never looked at Ricky Ricardo and felt any connection based on his looks. He looked like my uncles, big deal. Could he make me laugh, if not I'm changing the channel and watching Andy Griffith. No one in that town looked like me and I couldn't give a fuck. Didn't even cross my little wetback mind. Still doesn't even though I'm beaten over the head that it should. So many people put everyone else into little boxes. That's probably the woke movement's biggest failure. And it's an ironic failure at that. It's unfortunate that there are people who need such shallow validation, but even more unfortunate that so much of what we're sold caters to them and promotes these empty calories. Couldn't make it 20 minutes into an episode Velma and there's a shitton of little animated people in that show with an approximation of my skin color. They all sucked. Had they the less fortunate condition of having less pigment than me but written to be more entertaining or interesting, I'd still be watching. Diversity is great, but when I want to be entertained, it's way the fuck down the list. Entertainment has lost the plot.
  15. It's worth having kids just so you can do that mid-90s Rescue Rangers/Ducktales/Gargoyles train of greatness and pretend you're doing it for the kids.
  16. This news makes me tingly. I mean, I know you SAID '58 but I read R8 and was just proceeding accordingly. Surely you werent' talking about an honest to goodness 1958 made in the year of our lord 1958. This is beyond astonishing and I look forward to watching Lifetime TV movie of how this came to be.
  17. I had a similar situation with the house I'm in now. I had a rat's nest of wires without labeling and they were bundled runs which included many colors other than red and white. I had to reverse engineer the whole layout to find out what colors went together and then to which of the 9 locations the pairs went. To wrangle it all I went with a Monoprice SS-Pro and it's worked wonderfully. It was worth it to me to keep using the in-walls over Sonos'ing the whole house. If your wires are all red/white pairs I imagine it would be even easier to do it yourself. (Brother, have you tried to get a contractor out to do anything is this day and age?)
  18. Highlander
  19. Same. The Archer has always been on the shortlist (I'm not putting anything on my board called a "Tumnus."). Plexi-Drive too.
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    Jeff Beck RIP

    The next 5 years or so are going to be devastating.
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    Vinyl

    Wanted to circle back to this. This might be the most successful haul to date. Every one of these were stellar. In a Silent Way was expected, but side two of Milestones is some killer bebop that I've gone back to a few times already. It's bebop, but all grown up and polished. Side one of Jack Johnson was similarly eye-opening (side note, Jack talking at the end of side 2 came out of nowhere and startled me good. Lol). I don't know how I missed I Robot, but I'm glad to have discovered it. I knew of Alan Parsons from his Pink Floyd connection, so it's odd to me that it took this long. And if you haven't, Suite Judy Blue Eyes post-haste. After Thriller, this is my second favorite One Step of the year and I'm not much a CSN fan. But I am getting pretty damn old so that might be changing. Bill Evans is Bill Evans, dude's a witch. This One Step is the best I've heard Portrait sound. I'm refusing to get the AP Riverside box on principle so maybe this is the best I'll ever hear it sound. Also, there was a cool documentary on Bill Evans that came out in 2015 called Time Remembered. Worth a watch.
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    Jeff Beck RIP

    Wow. One of the greats who has an unimpeachable place among the most influential guitarists but whose catalog I know hardly anything about. He's up there with Rory Gallagher shredding on some songs I've still never heard but, if the rest of the guitar playing community is any indication, are probably pretty damn awesome. RIP
  23. To be fair, that period produced a some great soundtracks, too. Like,
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    Vinyl

    $150 shipped. Still have eyes peeled for Sunday at the Village Vanguard but ffs.
  25. A few things, imo. You can tell it's a AAAA top from a mile away. Quilted is pretty rare, I think, on HPs which might be my favorite iteration of LP Standards Gibson ever attempted with their main line releases. Though 2018 is my least favorite or that run, I still appreciate some of the chances on the 2018 that lead to a more playable/better user experience guitar (I think this was the only year where the necks were Plek'd AND cryo'd as standard, for instance). If this was a 2016-2017 HP I wouldn't even be asking you jokers, I'd just be posting about how I screwed up the paint and help me plz. I'm even down with the Tronical because I'm old but not that old. Short story long, I've never seen quilted HP before (they always have those deep, gorgeous 3D-looking fuck you flame tops).
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