The Let-You-Down Machine

Pet Sounds is also cloying and claustrophobic, but I love it.

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lots of people love it.

i'm tired of seeing people gush about it when i really haven't heard anything but the hits.

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Well, for what it's worth, I think "I Get Around" is one of the best songs ever.

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it's worth exactly one-half fuck-all.
that ain't much, but you take what you can get.

btw, has anyone ever told you that your platelets are quite pretty?

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Not as pretty as my sideways-lookin' indie chick.

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in your eye.

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Does that mean something?

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just a lame reference to the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" cliché

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Oh! I pictured it drawn-out and drawly: "In yer eeeeyyye!" Like some kind of 40s mobster curse.

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see?

that's why you should never demand an explanation from me.
the answer will always be much more mundane than whatever you can imagine.

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when i really haven't heard anything but the hits.

well maybe everybody's tired of you haven't heard anything but the hits?

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bestest comment evar!

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are you a bot?

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apollo is pretty awesome

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oh oh oh oh you've got to see Lepa Sela Lepo Gore if you have any ability to deal with subtitles (some people really hate em so i don't like to assume coz they get bitchy about foreign film snobs and then somebody freaks out and shoots and before you know it the whole planet conflagurates n' shit..)

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thanks for the recommendation. i needs more of those!

and don't worry,
i only start bustin' caps if you put salt on my popcorn.

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oh man, nooooooooooo salt on de popcorn por favor

i've got plenty more reccommendations where that came from, tho to narrow it down you should let me know what you're into, i tend to go for historical/anthropo fiction in a big way. i also highly discourage reading too many reviews before seeing a movie.

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tho to narrow it down you should let me know what you're into, i tend to go for historical/anthropo fiction in a big way.

i like stuff that is good.
pretty simple, really. we've watched too many big blockbusters for a long while 'cause that's all the rental stores carry around here... so i'm playing catch up a bit.

here's my rental queue, that'll probably reveal more than any descriptions i could give youz:

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993)
Heart of Glass (1976)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Criterion Collection) (2004)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
American Movie (1999)
Down by Law (Criterion Collection) (1986)
Star Wars: Clone Wars - Volume 1 (2005)
Trekkies (1997)
Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth (Disc 1 of 2) (1991)
Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth (Disc 2 of 2) (1991)
The Guy Maddin Collection (1990)
Tales From the Gimli Hospital (1988)
Withnail and I (Criterion Collection) (1987)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control (1997)
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
The Brothers Quay Collection (2000)
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life - Open Ocean / The Deep (2001)
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life - Ocean World / Frozen Seas (2001)
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life - Seasonal Seas / Coral Seas (2001)
The Blue Planet: Seas of Life - Tidals Seas / Coast (2001)
Genghis Blues (1999)
Broadcast News (1987)
Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994)
Nanook of the North (Criterion Collection) (1922)
Fanny & Alexander: Theatrical Version (Criterion Collection) (1982)
Network (1976)
The Larry Sanders Show - The Entire First Season (Disc 1 of 3) (1992)
The Larry Sanders Show - The Entire First Season (Disc 2 of 3) (1992)
The Larry Sanders Show - The Entire First Season (Disc 3 of 3) (1992)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Remastered Edition) (1976)
Men With Guns (1997)
Antonia's Line (1995)
Disinformation: The Complete Series (Disc 1 of 2) (2002)
Through a Glass Darkly (Criterion Collection) (1961)
8 1/2 (Criterion Collection) (1963)
Mon Oncle (Criterion Collection) (1958)
Rashomon (Criterion Collection) (1951)
In the Mood for Love (Criterion Collection) (2000)
Growin' A Beard (2003)
Grey Gardens (Criterion Collection) (1976)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
The Changeling (1980)
Naked States (2000)
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (1993)
Best Boy (1979)
The American Astronaut (2001)
Harvie Krumpet (2003)
Happy Tree Friends vol.1: First Blood (2002)
Metronomic & Co.: French Animated Shorts (2004)
Black Orpheus (Criterion Collection) (1959)
The Young Ones - Every Stoopid Episode (Disc 1 of 3) (1982)
The Young Ones - Every Stoopid Episode (Disc 2 of 3) (1982)
The Young Ones - Every Stoopid Episode (Disc 3 of 3) (1982)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Best of The Muppet Show vol.1: Elton John/Julie Andrews/Gene Kelley (1976)
Best of The Muppet Show vol.2: Mark Hamill/Paul Simon/Raquel Welch (1976)
Best of The Muppet Show vol.3: Harry Belafonte/Linda Ronstadt/John Denver (1976)
Best of The Muppet Show vol.4: Peter Sellers/John Cleese/Dudley Moore (1976)
Best of The Muppet Show vol.5: Steve Martin/Carol Burnett/Gilda Radner (1976)
Best of The Muppet Show vol.6: George Burns/Dom DeLuise/Bob Hope (1976)
Best of The Muppet Show vol.7: Diana Ross/Brooke Shields/Rudolph Nuryev (1976)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Dark Star (1974)
The Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection) (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Solaris (Criterion Collection) (1972)
Heathers (1989)
Dead Alive (1992)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Seven Samurai (Criterion Collection) (1954)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Conversation (1974)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Skydivers (1994)
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Disc 1 of 3) (2003)
The Awful Truth: First Season (Disc 1 of 2) (1999)
The Awful Truth: First Season (Disc 2 of 2) (1999)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
Sound & Fury (2000)
3 Women (Criterion Collection) (1977)
Free and Easy (Buster Keaton Collection) (1930)
The Cameraman / Spite Marriage (Buster Keaton Collection) (1928/1929)
The General (1927)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Manos, Hands of Fate (1993)
Masters of Russian Animation Vol. 1 (1962)

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that's a mighty stack already, i will however reccommend vol2 of the russian animation to boot, maybe make sure they're both available in case you want more right away after seeing the first one. some of the ideas in the animations definately leapt the iron curtain at some point.

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oo and i'm on the verge of seeing in the mood for love, i acherlly limped through a review of 2046 over at imdb (i suck at these things so there's some eek factor to being hit with the compulsion to try every once in a while..). adn you gottttta lemme know how the theatrical fanny & alexander is, or at least if it's i dunno.. i could be scarred for life by it or something..

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you have to understand that i know ~~000~~ about Ingmar Bergman.
i know exactly fuck all about him or this work.
have you seen the TV serial version then?

i was actually torn between renting the theatrical version or the series.

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this one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083922/
i have no idea which one to go with, not having seen the other one.
i'm pretty nutty for his stuff, but of course the big draw is that it's got lots of that same difficult-to-describe thing i tend to like about things. which almost sounds like maybe i just think it's there and they're all great mirrors or something, but neh.

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i don't know if volume 2 is available.

the movie you recommended earlier isn't available...
unless you misspelled it horribly?

have you seen the Russian animation then?

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ohyea, and made many icons from it. i've got a copy of 2 that's screwed up enough to pretty much have wrecked two of the stories. the animation i was searching for (which brought me to this animation series) is safe & sound in vol 2 tho :) i've been meaning to try and salvage the rest of the stories...

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2046: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212712/

lepa sela lepo gore: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116860/

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aha!

they do have it, under the English title "pretty village, pretty flame" -- i'm looking into it right now.

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yup, both available, both added to the queueueueueueueuuue

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I've got Blue Planet, the Young Ones & Withnail if you want the hookup. I also have other BBC nature docs that are very similar to Blue Planet but are not in print in the US.

My Withnail isn't Criterion though. Hm. I don't know how different they'd be.

Also, I didn't notice KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM on your list.

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