william_miller

My car still hasn't been fixed.

I get the feeling that this will cost more than originally expected. Or that there is, once again, no actual problem -- it's vapor-repair, a problem that has no solution.

I wonder why it is that the Strokes fandom seems to groan whenever a new song leaks to the Internet, claiming this is it, they've gone downhill, it's the end of good music from them.

Then six months later they talk about how great the song is.

I suppose it's better than having 90% of the fanbase being teeny-boppers who'll drop the band when a new, "cooler" band comes along (I figure the teeny-bopper followers of The Strokes chased after Craig Nichols of The Vines, and then from there hopped on the Franz Ferdinand bandwagon -- leaving me and the rest of the 60's-through-80's-music loving, musically exacting, pop-music-enjoying people that listened to the band alone, and making the shows that much easier to deal with).

Remember when people could accept slight growth from bands? When you didn't neccessarily have to pull a 180 from your debut album's sound for the second one? When, unless it is that 180 or it sounds exactly the same, everyone thinks it's the worst thing ever?

Of course, people also buy new computers once a problem seeps in to one that's more than a year old. So I suppose it's become something of an instinct within this generation and the previous one.

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Sometimes I wonder if my fatal flaw will be that I want to pick people up from their doldrums. Or is it the brutal honesty? It's easier to be killed for being honest than being kind. But both are dangerous activities in this country.

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Wag The Movie's second episode was of Gus Van Sant's Psycho. And, to be honest, I hope that it never actually is Podcasted. It may be the most gut-wrenchingly bad commentary ever. Things move way off-topic for 60% of the movie, we became very indulged in the amount of orange and green in the film, freaked out over Anne Heche's ass being in the movie, generally giggled at Vince Vaughn, and so on. Still didn't stop the hour-and-fourty-minute movie from feeling like three holy-shittin' hours.

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The theater ghost hasn't appeared for a long time. It's rather a projection room ghost. A shadow which has loomed over Ian. I've heard growling from the break room. I've seen a humanistic shadow speed across the room (it was dark, so I only saw him pass through some light from the projector's back end -- but it certainly was not part of an ad or trailer). Then there's the damn sounds of feet coming up the stairs when no one's coming.

To be honest, I kinda miss it. Even though it's creepy, especially when you work in what used to be a slaughterhouse some time ago. That's what freaks me out the most about the growling I heard back then.

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I wonder, if you look at the Top 10 singles charts over the past couple decades, if there's a cycle of upper and downer songs. Songs with positive connotations and songs with negative ones; does it swtich back and forth? Is there a correlation between the events going on at that time and what's the #1 single (besides the obvious, like "God Bless America" being #1 during Gulf War I)?

I imagine there is.