Johnny Foreigner does sound like a badass name though.
Sounds like the name of a man who needs no instructions to know how to rock.
Johnny Foreigner is going to be my next superhero.
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American Beauty had a great cast and some great scenes that were smothered by the director slathering his relevance all over everything. You can tell Mendes was ex-theatre, because he just had to play that shit all the way back to the cheap seats.
I do like the movie as part of a trilogy of 1999 movies - AB, Fight Club, and Office Space - about people's dissatisfaction with dead-end corporate America, though.
the problem with damn fine movies is that they get swarmed by overexcited teenagers and overexposed until they become trite and lose their power
see also: donnie darko
Or Fight Club, but maybe to a lesser extent. But the problem with that is that people simply didn't get it, and were all "let's start a fight club lol"
hey, i have to buy a car sometime in 2009 (as my car has 150k miles on it and is not known for its gas milage and reliability).
im 6'0 and fairly built so i don't want to have a real small car... i guess what im really looking for is a mid-size sedan or 2door. no hatchback/wagon/SUV, but i would like AWD for the weather and antilock brakes.
right now im looking at the ford fusion and maybe something from subaru. i was thinking of the fusion just because it should be cheaper given fords problems. any suggestions?
There's also the fact that knowing art history ties in beautifully with regular history and literature.
And especially with smaller kids, actually MAKING art is helpful for learning self-expression, fine motor skills, basic physical properties, narrative structure, etc..
American Beauty had a great cast and some great scenes that were smothered by the director slathering his relevance all over everything. You can tell Mendes was ex-theatre, because he just had to play that shit all the way back to the cheap seats.
I do like the movie as part of a trilogy of 1999 movies - AB, Fight Club, and Office Space - about people's dissatisfaction with dead-end corporate America, though.
Mendes did a lot better with Road to Perdition, I think because he wasn't trying to beat the viewer over the head with his message, though it didn't have the sweet rack shots from American Beauty.
I wouldn't put it in the same category as Fight Club and Office Space as those were entertaining movies...
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My favorite part about Fight Club is that the movie is so much better than the book.
Seriously.
I will give the book its props, though. Too much of what gets published as literary fiction these days (and back in the 90s) is really self-conscious, arch, reflexive, and ironic. I admire Pahlaniuck for writing a genuinely subversive little underground book. I just admire him somewhat less for making a career of beating that horse into its constituent atoms.
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I can't even remember how the book ended anymore. Somebody want to
it for me?
He shoots himself, gets brain damage, and is sent to an asylum, where the staff and patients secretly assure him that they're waiting for him to recover and lead them once again.
American Beauty had a great cast and some great scenes that were smothered by the director slathering his relevance all over everything. You can tell Mendes was ex-theatre, because he just had to play that shit all the way back to the cheap seats.
I do like the movie as part of a trilogy of 1999 movies - AB, Fight Club, and Office Space - about people's dissatisfaction with dead-end corporate America, though.
Mendes did a lot better with Road to Perdition, I think because he wasn't trying to beat the viewer over the head with his message, though it didn't have the sweet rack shots from American Beauty.
I wouldn't put it in the same category as Fight Club and Office Space as those were entertaining movies...
I thought Road to Perdition was really self-serious too, though, although I agree not as much as American Beauty. I had some problems with it because I loved the original book and it barely had anything in common with that.
I can't even remember how the book ended anymore. Somebody want to
it for me?
He shoots himself, gets brain damage, and is sent to an asylum, where the staff and patients secretly assure him that they're waiting for him to recover and lead them once again.
That's not entirely correct.
He didn't get brain damage, he shot through the hole in his cheek that wouldn't heal. Also the grand plan to blow up buildings failed because they used parafin which was foreshadowed the narrator could never get to work.
I think the author of fight club has stated he likes the movie ending more himself.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I can't even remember how the book ended anymore. Somebody want to
it for me?
He shoots himself, gets brain damage, and is sent to an asylum, where the staff and patients secretly assure him that they're waiting for him to recover and lead them once again.
Really? I don't even remember that at all. I remember reading the book, but not that. It's awful Philip K Dick, though.
American Beauty had a great cast and some great scenes that were smothered by the director slathering his relevance all over everything. You can tell Mendes was ex-theatre, because he just had to play that shit all the way back to the cheap seats.
I do like the movie as part of a trilogy of 1999 movies - AB, Fight Club, and Office Space - about people's dissatisfaction with dead-end corporate America, though.
Mendes did a lot better with Road to Perdition, I think because he wasn't trying to beat the viewer over the head with his message, though it didn't have the sweet rack shots from American Beauty.
I wouldn't put it in the same category as Fight Club and Office Space as those were entertaining movies...
I thought Road to Perdition was really self-serious too, though, although I agree not as much as American Beauty. I had some problems with it because I loved the original book and it barely had anything in common with that.
I guess having not read the source material I didn't have that connection. I liked the minimal dialogue and Tom Hanks was great.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
hey, i have to buy a car sometime in 2009 (as my car has 150k miles on it and is not known for its gas milage and reliability).
im 6'0 and fairly built so i don't want to have a real small car... i guess what im really looking for is a mid-size sedan or 2door. no hatchback/wagon/SUV, but i would like AWD for the weather and antilock brakes.
right now im looking at the ford fusion and maybe something from subaru. i was thinking of the fusion just because it should be cheaper given fords problems. any suggestions?
You're gonna have trouble finding a 2 door that's not a hatchback. I think one of the few is the new Altima 2 door.
hey, i have to buy a car sometime in 2009 (as my car has 150k miles on it and is not known for its gas milage and reliability).
im 6'0 and fairly built so i don't want to have a real small car... i guess what im really looking for is a mid-size sedan or 2door. no hatchback/wagon/SUV, but i would like AWD for the weather and antilock brakes.
right now im looking at the ford fusion and maybe something from subaru. i was thinking of the fusion just because it should be cheaper given fords problems. any suggestions?
You're gonna have trouble finding a 2 door that's not a hatchback. I think one of the few is the new Altima 2 door.
yeah, i dont really care if its 2 or 4 doors though. i just want to have some options to look at.
Can someone explain to me why we've actually been mistaken in our calculating Application Scores for students? This is how we do it now:
Academic Average (AA) is worth 65%
DAT (comprised of 4 sections) is worth 25%
Interview is worth 15%
We've just been taking the raw scores and putting them together.
AA of 97 = 63.05
DAT of 82 = 20.5
INT of 31 = 3.1
TOTAL = 86.65
Someone mentioned that we need to be converting all our scores to Z-Scores instead of the raw numbers for fair comparison. I understand how to get the Z-Score for each portion, but I don't think I'm understanding how to use them.
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hey, i have to buy a car sometime in 2009 (as my car has 150k miles on it and is not known for its gas milage and reliability).
im 6'0 and fairly built so i don't want to have a real small car... i guess what im really looking for is a mid-size sedan or 2door. no hatchback/wagon/SUV, but i would like AWD for the weather and antilock brakes.
right now im looking at the ford fusion and maybe something from subaru. i was thinking of the fusion just because it should be cheaper given fords problems. any suggestions?
You're gonna have trouble finding a 2 door that's not a hatchback. I think one of the few is the new Altima 2 door.
yeah, i dont really care if its 2 or 4 doors though. i just want to have some options to look at.
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Johnny Foreigner is going to be my next superhero.
I do like the movie as part of a trilogy of 1999 movies - AB, Fight Club, and Office Space - about people's dissatisfaction with dead-end corporate America, though.
Or Fight Club, but maybe to a lesser extent. But the problem with that is that people simply didn't get it, and were all "let's start a fight club lol"
I don't see many "conservatives" here in australia, way less than the states.
But we do have an endless supply of god damn fucking morons.
im 6'0 and fairly built so i don't want to have a real small car... i guess what im really looking for is a mid-size sedan or 2door. no hatchback/wagon/SUV, but i would like AWD for the weather and antilock brakes.
right now im looking at the ford fusion and maybe something from subaru. i was thinking of the fusion just because it should be cheaper given fords problems. any suggestions?
This I can get behind.
The ending of the movie was great
Maybe conservative was the wrong word. But they are really conservative in their smarts.
Yes.
And especially with smaller kids, actually MAKING art is helpful for learning self-expression, fine motor skills, basic physical properties, narrative structure, etc..
awww I love that
Mendes did a lot better with Road to Perdition, I think because he wasn't trying to beat the viewer over the head with his message, though it didn't have the sweet rack shots from American Beauty.
I wouldn't put it in the same category as Fight Club and Office Space as those were entertaining movies...
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Seriously.
I will give the book its props, though. Too much of what gets published as literary fiction these days (and back in the 90s) is really self-conscious, arch, reflexive, and ironic. I admire Pahlaniuck for writing a genuinely subversive little underground book. I just admire him somewhat less for making a career of beating that horse into its constituent atoms.
It has some yes, but orders of magnitude less than US.
I thought Road to Perdition was really self-serious too, though, although I agree not as much as American Beauty. I had some problems with it because I loved the original book and it barely had anything in common with that.
i think i'm movin but i don't know wheeeeeere
That's not entirely correct.
He didn't get brain damage, he shot through the hole in his cheek that wouldn't heal. Also the grand plan to blow up buildings failed because they used parafin which was foreshadowed the narrator could never get to work.
I think the author of fight club has stated he likes the movie ending more himself.
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Really? I don't even remember that at all. I remember reading the book, but not that. It's awful Philip K Dick, though.
These are the guys who were trying to prevent anyone with AIDS or TB from coming into the country.
I think Lowkes made a big list of everything that was wrong with the country a week or two ago.
I guess having not read the source material I didn't have that connection. I liked the minimal dialogue and Tom Hanks was great.
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You're gonna have trouble finding a 2 door that's not a hatchback. I think one of the few is the new Altima 2 door.
yeah, i dont really care if its 2 or 4 doors though. i just want to have some options to look at.
What's wrong with that? Highly contagious disease that is becoming drug resistant and is lethal. Why would you want anyone with TB in your country?
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yeah, i like to think i helped.
The list i mean. Not the things wrong.
Umm, i put those things in the retard category, not conservative, but i guess they kind of are.
I just tend to think of fundy = conservative, probably wrongly
I understand TB, but when it is bundled with something that is as ridiculous as AIDS? Yes, that is the way to fight disease.
But isn't it manageable with drugs?
Academic Average (AA) is worth 65%
DAT (comprised of 4 sections) is worth 25%
Interview is worth 15%
We've just been taking the raw scores and putting them together.
AA of 97 = 63.05
DAT of 82 = 20.5
INT of 31 = 3.1
TOTAL = 86.65
Someone mentioned that we need to be converting all our scores to Z-Scores instead of the raw numbers for fair comparison. I understand how to get the Z-Score for each portion, but I don't think I'm understanding how to use them.
What kinda price range are you looking at?
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