It’s great see so much passion for music, but how do your tastes not change over time? Or barring that, how do not feel equally passionate about more than one style? Maybe I should split this off into another thread, but there are things from Hildegard von Bingen to Bach to Lady Gaga that give me chills and are just what I want to hear for a particular time and mood. Sure some works are true achievements and deserve special recognition, but that’s something different I would argue. IDK.
The best way to cook a steak in on a cast iron skillet in a heap of real butter.
There is no such thing as a bad Star Trek canon. Even voyager was great. So was Nelix.
Everything is overrated, except natural silence, eating when you’re really hungry, drinking when you’re really thirsty, and a hot shower after a week in the back country.
Oh, there are a lot of very good and even great jazz drummers, but Morello transcended to the realm of genius; his improvisation, technique and versatility on a five-piece trap has not been equaled. The only guy that comes close is Louie Bellson, who Morello heard playing with his father when he was a child.
Stephen King doesn’t have a bad book (not even Tommyknockers).
The best comic strip ever is Calvin and Hobbes.
The only video games worth playing are first and third person games.
A lot (but nowhere near all) of older and classical movies and books are boring, dull, and overall just uninteresting (movies and books made, say, before 1965).
Dickens? Boring.
Hemingway? Boring.
Austen? Boring
Tolstoy? Boring.
Shakespeare? Most boring of all. Casablanca? Boring. Gone With the Wind? Boring. It Happened One Night? Boring.
Anything starring Humphery Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Betty Davis, Spencer Tracy, or Cary Grant (with the exception of Arsenic and Old Lace)? Boring, Boring, Boring.
Lewis Carroll, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain (and any of their books), Gregory Peck and Jimmy Stewart (and any of their movies) are all great, though. Many more, as well…
…but most seem to be just…boring…
As a non-hater (and declared so up-thread), I have to ask, do you really not understand how the last season left a lot of long-time watchers feeling unsatisfied?
Greta Garbo is the loveliest woman to walk the earth.
Harrison Ford is the greatest action/adventure star in the history of mankind. But he should follow Garbo’s example and bow out of the movie business.
Despite the lack of Internet, the 1980s was a better decade to grow up in than any decade that followed.
The coffee at McDonalds is better than the coffee at Starbuck’s.
As virtues go, intelligence is overrated and courage is underrated. In the early Roman Republic, children were specifically raised to be brave. The Greeks, who raised their children to be smart, didn’t stand a chance.
I can understand a level of unsatisfication, just not “the hate”. I think it was well done, but I also think that they show-runners inherited a mess of mysteries. I think they did fairly well, especially when we get past the weak points in early season 3(the time they got their “end date” settled).
Lol. Yeah better the same way a movie is better than most peoples real lives! A good MMA fight or knockout is way more exciting in my opinion.
As for my eccentric belief, I think that people’s thoughts are not influenced by reality so much as reality is influenced by our thoughts. Sounds kind of crazy, but it’s true to a certain extent.
Fair enough. I’m not insulted by the others, though.