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		<title>Beatles Kid Prodigy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OhYeahOwl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This kid can seriously play an incredibly hip guitar! Playing Come Together by the Beatles, this young kid nails it and with an amazing style on an acoustic guitar. You may have never heard the Beatles played like this especially by such a young dude like this...


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This kid can seriously play an incredibly hip guitar! Playing <em>Come Together</em> by the Beatles, this young kid nails it and with an amazing style on an acoustic guitar. You may have never heard the Beatles played like this especially by such a young dude like this&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Beat It Indie Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JorgeSausage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't care how played out Michael Jackson is at this very moment in time and history, this my friends is one of the best "indie rock" covers I've heard in a very long time living under a boulder. Beat It covered by Pomplamoose Music...


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t care how played out Michael Jackson is at this very moment in time and history, this my friends is one of the best &#8220;indie rock&#8221; covers I&#8217;ve heard in a very long time living under a boulder. <em>Beat It</em> covered by Pomplamoose Music.</p>
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		<title>Just Looking To Snuggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristPuncher</dc:creator>
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		<title>Movies On Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristPuncher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movies on film. Get it, they're movies about the subject of film and film making, and it's also the medium on which movies are shown. And since there's such a fine line between clever and stupid, I'll move on from here.  For people who pride themselves on being film lovers...


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Movies on film. Get it, they&#8217;re movies about the subject of film and filmmaking, and it&#8217;s also the medium on which movies are shown. And since there&#8217;s such a fine line between clever and stupid, I&#8217;ll move on from here.  For people who pride themselves on being film lovers, the subject of movies about movie making just makes us wet between the legs.  It&#8217;s movie nerd heaven.  We think of all the potential inside jokes about actors and stabs at the industry we love to hate as well as some great fodder for drama.  So here are my top 10 movies on film in no particular order.</p>
<p><strong>Ed Wood (1994)</strong><br />
I&#8217;m starting with Ed Wood because It&#8217;s probably the best movie about bad movies.  Ed Wood was the king of horrible cinema.  Known primarily from Plan 9 From Outer Space, Edward D. Wood Jr. also made plenty of over stinkers. Like the semi auto biographical Glen or Glenda about the cross dressing tranny.  Well, leave it to Tim Burton to make a legitimate film about such a shitty filmmaker.  I think is his best film too, maybe because he works best within the confines  of a script grounded in reality where his weirdo imagination can&#8217;t run too wild.  Oh yeah Johnny Depp steals every scene he&#8217;s in and Martin Landau won best supporting actor for playing the ever mysterious Bella Lugosi, so that helps to.  It does a great job showing the lunacy of how movies were made in the 50&#8217;s, when the title and the poster sold the movie, and script and acting took second seat.  &#8220;Pull the strings!&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Mulholland Drive (2001)</strong><br />
Moving on to the opposite end of the spectrum, Mulholland Drive is a movie still about the absurdity of the process, but making it a nightmare.  It&#8217;s the kind of film that you show people and you can judge how they watch movies.  Do they view them as light entertainment, or are they intrigued by there mystery?  Without giving away too much about it, Mulholland Drive is the story about an actress trying to &#8220;make it in Hollywood&#8221; told though a series of dream like scenes that range from hilarious to one the scariest scenes of all time.  Complimented by a beautiful score by longtime David Lynch callaborator Angelo Badalamenti, no other film confuses and intrigues like this one.  It&#8217;s the pre eminent David Lynch film, definetly a filmmaker at his peak.  Sorry Dave, inland Empire was a little much.  &#8220;Silencio!&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Singin&#8217; In The Rain (1952)</strong><br />
Everyone knows the song, and we&#8217;ve all seen clips of Gene Kelley doing the number.  And for those who haven&#8217;t, or refuse to watch musicals, It&#8217;s the song that Alex sings in Clockwork Orange while raping that chick.  Good times.  Besides some amazing dancing by the legendary performer Gene Kelly, the film offers a comedic depiction of Hollywood&#8217;s transition from silent films to &#8220;talkies&#8221;  What makes the movie good isn&#8217;t it accurate potrayal of Hollywood though, it&#8217;s becasue I wanted to put a musical on this list.  Gene Kelly is awesome, that fucker can dance.</p>
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<p><strong>American Movie (1999)</strong><br />
American Movie is a 1999 documentary about the making of an independent film.  It&#8217;s the best documentary ever made about the trials and tribulations of coming up with the money and resources to make a movie yourself. It&#8217;s also immensely sad, funny, and affectionate. It centers around Mark Borchardt, a scruffy, eccentric, blue-collar, beer drinking movie-lover whose dream is to be a filmmaker. However, his life is beset with personal problems. I can&#8217;t say enough good things about this movie.  Instead of kids spending thousands of dollars at film school, they should just Robert Rodriguez&#8217;s 10 minute film school and this.  &#8220;It&#8217;s not about making films or in the long-run getting some money&#8230;but to create and complete.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>State and Main (2000)</strong><br />
For those of you who haven&#8217;t heard or seen this movie, State and Main is a 2000 comedy film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Alec Baldwin among others, about the on-location production in Waterford, Vermont of a film called The Old Mill.  That said, David Mamet, being the incredibly talented playwright, really nailed the superficial, self obsessed world of moviemaking in light comedy fodder.   From Alec Baldwin&#8217;s empty headed leading man to William H. Macy&#8217;s quick witted director, this movie hits all the stereotypes.  But what makes this great is it doesn&#8217;t seem cliche.  Playwrights and screenwriters usually complain bitterly about the way their work is made into movies, and Mamet puts this story line in as an inside jab.  The movie seems even funnier if you&#8217;ve ever been on a set, but still has plenty of laughs otherwise. &#8220;Go you Huskies!&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Boogie Nights (1997)</strong><br />
P.T. Anderson, it&#8217;s been said, that he&#8217;s part of the VCR generation of filmmakers.  Along with other auters like Quentin Tarintino, Anderson was raised watching tons of movies at home.  I think these directors have an advantage over their predecessors because they were the first generation to saturate themselves with film.  And well, Paul watched a lot of porn.  When he was 18, he made the mockumentary, The Dirk Diggler Story. Later of course, became the movie we know as Boogie Nights.  The movie is more about people, than movies. Taking place in the &#8220;Golden Age of Porn&#8221; it depicts the film cliche of the rising star descending into a nightmare of drug abuse. Oh yeah, it&#8217;s funny as shit too. I&#8217;m a little biased though because it&#8217;s one of my favorites.  I will never get tired of John C. Reilly trying to convince people he looks like Han Solo. &#8220;Feel feel feel my heat&#8221;.</p>
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<p><strong>8 1/2 (1963)</strong><br />
Titled because it was Fedrico Fellini&#8217;s 8 1/2 film at the time.  Six full features, two shorts, and a collaboration with another director.  The latter three accounting for only a half each.  The film revolves around an Italian director and the struggles of the creative process, both technical and personal. Hugely influential throughout the years its been on pretty much every all time best of list.  People have said &#8220;8 1/2 is the best film ever made about filmmaking.&#8221; Maybe cuz It is told from the director&#8217;s point of view, and its hero, Guido is clearly intended to represent Fellini.  Featuring one of the surreal moments in all of film.  It begins with a nightmare of asphyxiation, when the leading man is stuck in traffic and he proceeds to float off into the sky, only to be yanked back to earth by a rope pulled by his associates, who are hectoring him to organize his plans for his next movie.   In the film he claims he doesn&#8217;t know what he wants or how to get it, and while watching it shows he knows exactly what he&#8217;s doing and how to achieve it.</p>
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<p><strong>Sunset Boulevard (1950)</strong><br />
This thing starts out telling the story of the down on his luck writer, and ends up telling another one.  About someone one who ends up being far worse off.  Its a corrosive black comedy that puts an assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business.  Subtle yet very savage.  Why is it so easy to make fun of the very machine that makes the movie we love?  We love to hear about singers and actors hitting rock bottom with drugs and ending up on celebrity rehab.  It gets huge ratings.  Maybe that&#8217;s why this film still resonates today.  If you have the dream to make it to Tinsel Town, you might want to check this flick out because Hollywood is as hard on dreams as it was back in the 1950s. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready for my close-up Mr. Demill&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Adaptation (2002)</strong><br />
This film is like the depressed movie geeks scripture.  Charlie Kaufman put all his fears and axieties about writing and relationships on screen.  It puts everything out there and puts together one of the best screenplays of all time.  It&#8217;s a movie about the making of a movie about writing a screenplay about adapting a book to film.  But man it&#8217; depressing. But it has a somewhat uplifting ending.  Anyway who struggles completing writing or filmmaking projects and gets easily frustrated should look to Charlie Kaufman for inspiration. And much like Federico Fellini&#8217;s classic 1963 film, &#8216;8½,&#8217; from which Kaufman almost certainly drew inspiration, &#8216;Adaptation&#8217; tells the story of its own creation. Oh yeah it&#8217;s also one of Ridiculous Cage&#8217;s few good performances. &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I got shot. Isn&#8217;t that fucked up?&#8221;</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of other I know I missed.  Check &#8216;em out if you haven&#8217;t seen.<br />
Barton Fink<br />
For Your Consideation<br />
The Kid Stays In The Picture<br />
Sullivan&#8217;s Travels<br />
RKO 281<br />
Bowfinger<br />
Tropic Thunder<br />
Film Geek<br />
Get Shorty<br />
Hollywoodland<br />
Inland Empire<br />
Last Action Hero<br />
The Player<br />
Swimming With Sharks</p>


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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristPuncher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of all the apps that Apple boasts about having, most of them are complete wastes of time.  Now, there are some really useful ones out there, KashBook, Flixter, AroundMe, etc, but wow are there some stinkers.  Here are some of the most pointless iPhone apps ever, and clearly say to the world, I'm a douchebag.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Out of all the apps that Apple boasts about having, most of them are complete wastes of time.  Now, there are some really useful ones out there, KashBook, Flixter, AroundMe, etc, but wow are there some stinkers.  Here are some of the most pointless iPhone apps ever, and clearly say to the world, I&#8217;m a douchebag.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/fatburner.jpg" alt="fatburner" width="170" height="246" /><strong>FatBurner 2k</strong><br />
Yeah that&#8217;s it fatty, take your iPhone and press it hard up against that BigMac filled stomach of yours and watch the pounds float away. Just check out these amazing workout options!<br />
<strong>Use it …</strong><br />
*  while finding a parking spot<br />
*  when waiting to order another cheeseburger<br />
*  at the doctor’s office because your overweight and at risk for diabetes<br />
*  while you fall asleep on your parents couch<br />
*  when watching NASCAR<br />
*  while you post updates on facebook<br />
*  while you write your fan episode of CSI: Miami<br />
*  while you keep telling yourself how awesome you are, even though you live a life of delusion and everyone hates you, fatty!<br />
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<img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/hangtime.jpg" alt="hangtime" width="170" height="246" /><strong>Hangtime</strong><br />
This app literally wants you to break your overpriced iPhone.  It&#8217;s supporting you to throw it up in the air.  The same phone that AT&amp;T refuses to insure.  Apple says that they didn&#8217;t make it, but let&#8217;s get serious, they&#8217;re laughing at all the douchebags breaking their phones trying to get the high score.  This just pisses me off, I thnk more so because there are dumbasses around the world using this.  It makes me sad inside.<br />
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<img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ipint.jpg" alt="ipint" width="170" height="246" /><strong>iPint</strong><br />
Dude let&#8217;s get fvcked up tonite! Yeah brosef, totally, but we have no beer!  And without beer how are we gonna get the courage to talk to super hot ladies?  I know there must be an app for that!  Alas there is, the iPint.  It turns your iPhone into a pint of your favorite brew.  When you tilt it, not olny does it give the illusion your chuggin beer, it shows the world your a total douchebag.<br />
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<img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/kissbooth.jpg" alt="kissbooth" width="170" height="246" /><strong>KissingBooth</strong><br />
Further delve into your own world of disillusionment and start making out with your iPhone!  When living your life through facebook and other forms of non-human contact communication aren&#8217;t cutting anymore, the KissingBooth app is here to be your lover.  I can just see little tween practicing at home with this thing waiting for little jimmy to respond to her post on his wall.  Fuck me this is trash.<br />
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<img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/poop.jpg" alt="poop" width="170" height="246" /><strong>Poop The World</strong><br />
What the fvck is this crap, seriously?  So you&#8217;re supposed to use this to &#8220;mark your territory&#8221; wherever you take a dump using this GPS feature.  Is that what the world has come to?  Some of the most advanced technology ever conceived by humans and we&#8217;re using it to show where in the world we take shits.  And what are you supposed to do with it once you&#8217;ve built up a library of places?  Share it with other Poop The World users? Pick up chicks at bars by showing &#8216;em how much you defecate?  I hope someone finds every single person that uses this app and shoots them in the head.</p>


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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JorgeSausage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like a good ol' fashioned beer run on who the hell knows what or how many kinds of drugs. Kinda makes you wonder how this guy even got to the store. Music by Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With You (myspace.com/neonindian good Stuff).


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing like a good ol&#8217; fashioned beer run on who the hell knows what or how many kinds of drugs.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristPuncher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1987 two huge blockbusters entered our known universe and blew us all away, well I was 3 years old, but I could just imagine how much I'd be blown if I knew what was going on around me.  RoboCop and Predator came out and destroyed that summer.  Out of all the spin offs,  how come they haven't duked it out?  The future of law enforcement vs. that dude from space with the dreads who rips out spinal chords.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the summer of 1987 two huge blockbusters entered our known universe and blew us all away. Both films were among the top grossing in 1987, with RoboCop pulling in 53 million dollars and Predator 59 million.  Both films directed by men who are masters of their craft. John McTeirnan, better know for Die Hard and The Hunt For Red October, and Paul Verhoeven who is responsible for other sci-fi epics like Total Recall and Starship Troopers. But who is the victor? Not which is the better movie, but who would win, RoboCop or Predator, in an all out battle to the death. We&#8217;ve all seen Alien vs. Predator, and even the Sega Genesis game RoboCop vs. Terminator. But these are all robots and aliens fighting there own kind. I say cyborg vs. extra-terrestrial. Disclaimer: This essay does not take into account sequels or video games, for they change characters attributes so the audience doesnt get bored. Example predator will not have a ship as seen in the sequel. You don&#8217;t see the ship in the first one so it&#8217;s not an advantage. Also this does not take anyone&#8217;s opinion of which movie is better and or more &#8220;bad-ass&#8221;.</p>
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<p>First off what is the location of the battle? You will have to pick two locations, so there wont be any dispute over home field advantage. First location, obviously the  jungle, and second an abandoned warehouse, where a cocaine distribution ring is  going on. But does Predator really have an advantage with the jungle fighting  RoboCop? Predator has two ways of seeing things, his infrared with the mask on  and some kind of one color rendering where all he sees is things in red. RoboCop  also has two forms of vision. A computer enhanced full color sight system, and  infrared that seems to be more powerful that normal, where as it can see through  walls. This is seen when RoboCop sees the terrorist holding the mayor hostage  through the wall and punches through it to disarm him. Predators infrared is a little  less advanced. He has trouble seeing Dutch in the end of the film when he&#8217;s simply  just covered in mud. So how will he see RoboCop? Hes not warm living tissue. The only tissue he has in underneath his cold steel outer frame. The mouth does show, but is it just a skin outer coating, that doesn&#8217;t produce heat? One would think it is. When RoboCop takes off his mask near the end of the film you see that it almost looks like the face has been stretched over a steel skull. If Predator couldn&#8217;t even see Dutch when he was covered in mud, Predator would not be able to see him unless he had taken of his mask to his natural unassisted sight. The Jungle does give Predator one advantage, that does not have to do with sight. Predator is extremely more agile than RoboCop. So moving from tree to tree and through bushes would be difficult for RoboCop, but with a computer assisted aiming system, it wouldn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<p><a href="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/robocop.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-46" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/robocop.jpg" alt="robocop" width="333" height="500" /></a>Both RoboCop and Predator have pin-point accuracy, which in Predators sake is assisted by his helmet and laser guidance. You know the 3 red dots. And RoboCop&#8217;s accuracy is assisted by his vision being in synchronization with his robotic arm. As stated earlier, Predator will not see RoboCop with his helmet on therefore rendering his laser guidance ineffective. Robocop can see with or with out his helmet and still have his accuracy. The only downfall of RoboCop&#8217;s guidance is its somewhat easily knocked off aim. In the film he almost gets taken down but the Detroit Police and has to reset his aim later. So during a brutal fight with a 7 foot alien, his aim could again be taken out. But its still better than not having any.</p>
<p>If Predator won&#8217;t be able to lock on to RoboCop&#8217;s cold steel outer skeleton would he even use his shoulder mounted plasma canon? That seems to be his only weapon other than his self destruct mode. RoboCop only has a fully automatic gun hidden in his thigh. And what if RoboCop is still in arrest mode? Will he just try to hand-cuff and book Predator? Not if Predator attacks RoboCop. RoboCop will kill out of self defense. He did take out an entire drug ring because they shot first. Predator can bleed and die fairly easily like a human, but its his quickness that keeps him alive.With RoboCop not dying from a barrage of bullets from the his own police force with at least 25 guys firing at him with fully automatic weapons for 5 minutes, getting fired at from a plasma cannon from someone who cant lock onto you shouldn&#8217;t be a problem. But Predators a hunter right? Hell out smart RoboCop. Yes there is a chance of that happening, but RoboCop&#8217;s vision calculates his environment with computer like speed. Predator cant be too cunning he walked right into an obvious trap set by Dutch at the end of the film and a giant tree stump crushed him. Well wat about the fact that RoboCop has feelings? Could this be his downfall? Predator could, in the usual action movie style, hold a helpless girl hostage. Use her as bait and trap RoboCop using his human emotions against him. This &#8220;could&#8221; happen, but very unlikely. Predator does not invite inncocent and unarmed people into fights. This is seen when Predator kills, but lets the native girl go because she is unarmed. So in standard action movie fashion, RoboCop couldn&#8217;t simply take him out with one shot with his aim. The movie would only last 10 minutes. So what have to happen to make it somewhat even is both weapons would be taken out through the battle, and no one would have guns or pin-point accuracy. The battle would resort to hand to hand combat. In that case Predator would have a serious advantage in the jungle. But we know how fragile he is with how he met his demise in the end with the tree stump. RoboCop had a bunch of steel beams dropped on him and he survived, so he&#8217;s obviously more durable. Also RoboCop took the end of a gun and bent it, so his strength is also far superior to Predator&#8217;s.</p>
<p>So in conclusion with Predators inability to see RoboCop with his infrared and helmet on rendering his laser guidance useless, and the fact that RoboCops infrared is far superior that his opponent making his invisibility useless, its obvious RoboCop will kill Predator. And along with RoboCop&#8217;s far superior strength, hand to hand combat is no contest. Well what if he just blows up in self destruct mode? If Dutch can be right next to him when he arms it, and run away and duck to safety, RoboCop&#8217;s bullet proof steel will protect him even better. And good guys always win in movies, duh.</p>
<p>RoboCop wins.</p>
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<p>Who knew the future of law enforcement was set to the same score as The Terminator?</p>
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<p>I like how trailers from the 80&#8217;s kinda suck, but this one&#8217;s a joke.  Talk about about anti-climactic!  Where&#8217;s Carl Weathers? And that other governor guy? Geez this movie deserves better.</p>


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		<description><![CDATA[Top pop albums, ever of all time, forever
For some weird ass reason this was bouncing around in my head for a week.  If I didn&#8217;t write it down, MJ&#8217;s ghost would haunt me until I justified his pop existence.  So&#8230;..here&#8217;s a little review of albums that,  sold millions of records each,  still were able to keep the integrity of the artist, and age well with time.  So I&#8217;m writing these in no particular order.  Some of these are obvious and some not so much. ...


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Top pop albums, ever of all time, forever</strong></p>
<p>For some weird ass reason this was bouncing around in my head for a week.  If I didn&#8217;t write it down, MJ&#8217;s ghost would haunt me until I justified his pop existence.  So&#8230;..here&#8217;s a little review of albums that,  sold millions of records each,  still were able to keep the integrity of the artist, and age well with time.  So I&#8217;m writing these in no particular order.  Some of these are obvious and some not so much.  So maybe it&#8217;s time ya give em a chance?</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/petergabriel_so.jpg" alt="petergabriel_so" width="200" height="200" /><strong>Peter Gabriel &#8211; So (1986)</strong><br />
This is a great example of a veteran musician making a record to sell, but still keep his sound and integrity.  He had come a long way from being the curious 19 year old dressing up like a vegetable and playing 15 minute long prog songs.  Check this lyric from &#8220;Big Time&#8221; (I&#8217;ve had enough, I&#8217;m getting out to the city, the big big city, Ill be a big noise with all the big boys, there&#8217;s so much stuff I will own.)  Tell me he wasn&#8217;t self-aware of his soon to be worldwide popularity. The song is clearly pointing out his potential rise to fame and living the superstar life.  Gotta respect the artists who were self-aware.  It almost made it seem like he took stardom with a grain of salt.  Gabriel had four huge hits, &#8220;Red Rain&#8221;, Sledgehammer&#8221;, &#8220;Big Time&#8221;, and &#8220;In Your Eyes&#8221;.  But also managed to sneak in his dark, brooding sense of experimentation  with the haunting &#8220;We Do What Were Told&#8221; and the oddly uplifting &#8220;Don&#8217;t give up&#8221;.  In the entire genre that would be 80&#8217;s adult pop/contemporary or whatever, this is the best there is.  Inventive songwriting, catchy hooks, thoughtful lyrics, all wrapped up in a nice pop package, ready for middle class white folk to gobble up.  Don&#8217;t forget about those ground-breaking videos that one could say were responsible for MTV&#8217;s early success.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/saturdaynightfever.jpg" alt="saturdaynightfever" width="200" height="200" /><strong>BeeGees/Various Artists &#8211; Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack</strong><br />
For anyone who was too young for disco and asks about it, just play this record and nothing else, (ok maybe some visual aids of John Travolta in that white suit could help). They could get an entire portrait of the disco era.  Skip the ABBA and Donna Summer, this was better, well some ABBA&#8217;s pretty good though. I used to hate this shit.  But I never listened to it.  Disco is really easy to hate.  Give it a chance, really.  I think what gets overlooked about this album is Barry Gibbs amazing singing.  Remember that this was before Auto-tune and digital editing, and the harmonies on songs like &#8220;Night Fever&#8221; and &#8220;How Deep Is Your Love&#8221; are perfection.  With 15 million copies sold, that doesn&#8217;t even seem enough, this thing was a national obsession.  Discos opened up all over, and everyone wanted to shop at Disco Pants &amp; Haircuts, so they could walk down the street to &#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221; with their best strut.  There were some hidden gems on the record too. How cool was Walter Murhpy&#8217;s classical music regurgitation?  It was saying, hey i know this music is campy and fun and I&#8217;m gonna parody the genre by putting some of the greatest pieces of music ever over a disco beat.  Hip-Hop artists figured that out about 12 years later by putting recognizable hooks over hip-hop beats.  This album was an event.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/tearsforfears.jpg" alt="tearsforfears" width="200" height="200" /><strong>Tears for Fears &#8211; Songs from the Big Chair (1985)</strong><br />
I love this album.  And this was written to sell, Roland Orzobal once said he wrote &#8220;Shout&#8221; because he heard the word a lot in other hits from the past.  But guess what? that song is amazing, It&#8217;s simple and original, and nothing sounds like it.  &#8220;Everybody Wants To Rule the World&#8221; completely embodies the 80&#8217;s get rich, greed filled, cocaine, live fast die young lifestyle.  You know the stuff Patrick Bateman would like.  Well, he might think it&#8217;s a little too &#8220;new wave&#8221; for his tastes.  But what I think what makes this album still great today is the production.  Orzobal and Smith were notoriously detail oriented in the studio (I think only second to Steely Dan).  Its pitch perfect in every way.  Just think of that scene in Donnie Darko where &#8220;Head over Heals&#8221; plays and it pans through the hallways of the high school.  That song is the 80&#8217;s.  It did what every other pop/new wave artist wanted to do: sell records, but not make another Rick Astley piece of crap.  It had real emotion attached to it, real passion. Meticulous song writing made these songs really stand out in an era full of some of the worst music ever made.  I&#8217;m looking at you Billy Ocean.  But take it away from its era, and it still resonates with any steely-eyed youth. It was the logical step for the band to take after the deeply intense debut &#8220;The Hurting.&#8221;   What ended up being too dark for mainstream audiences, was necessary for the process to culminate with &#8220;Big Chair,&#8221; their best selling and most relevant record to date.  Following &#8220;Big Chair,&#8221; with the solid but bloated &#8220;Seeds of Love,&#8221; and subsequent albums thereafter, the band substituted audience awareness for musical conceit.  Too bad they never recovered.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/thriller.jpg" alt="michaeljackson_thriller" width="200" height="200" /><strong>Michael Jackson &#8211; Thriller (1982)</strong><br />
Duh, i mean who doesn&#8217;t like &#8220;Thriller?&#8221; Seven out of the nine songs on the record were top 10 singles. It sold 110 million copies worldwide.  Even the library of congress preserved it, deeming it culturally significant.  So when robots have finally taken over and its been thousands of years and they want to learn about the human race, they can head on over to the library of congress, read countless blueprints from the Apollo program, watch David Lynch&#8217;s <em>Eraserhead</em>, and dance the night away to &#8220;Thriller.&#8221;   I&#8217;m not even gonna bother talking about each song.  We all know them.  But what&#8217;s great about this record is that it hits just as hard as it did in 1982.  Play this at any wedding, club, or sweet 16 birthday and you&#8217;ve got everyone doing the moonwalk and trying to stand on their toes.  No single musician in history is as recognizable or worshiped as MJ was, and still is.  Even the hits that people don&#8217;t think about too much anymore still resonate.  P.Y.T and Wanna be Starting Something are packed with amazing production value and great hooks.  Its the King at his peak. You got Jesus, and then MJ.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/purplerain.jpg" alt="purplerain" width="200" height="200" /><strong>Prince &#8211; Purple Rain (1984)</strong><br />
This was a soundtrack, but kinda. Somewhere along the line when writing these songs, someone decided to make a movie using these jams.  Good decision.   &#8220;Sign &#8216;O The Times&#8221; may be musically stronger, but being a double album, its hard to put it ahead of this one.  Purple Rain just fucking rocks.  There is so much fun packed into this record, you find something new every time.  Put this on loud and dance with your significant other in your apartment until the neighbors call the cops.  It&#8217;s awesome.   Also, It seems to be the most focused of Prince&#8217;s releases, even with his foray into pop, he doesn&#8217;t give up his funk and R&amp;B roots.  His songwriting was at it&#8217;s peak, and with the help of the revolution, it all came together more ambitiously yet focused than ever before.  With the eerie &#8220;When Dove&#8217;s Cry&#8221; to the menacing grind of &#8220;Darling Nikki,&#8221;  Prince managed to do his thing without compromising the pop sensibilities.  This album in particular has influenced a wider range of artists than one would expect.  Foo Fighters have covered &#8220;Darling Nikki&#8221;, Green Day and Incubus cover &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Crazy&#8221; while the indie rock band, Of Montreal cover &#8220;Computer Blue&#8221;.  It just seems to get better with age.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/caroleking.jpg" alt="caroleking_tapestry" width="200" height="200" /><strong>Carole King &#8211; Tapestry (1971)</strong><br />
It&#8217;s too bad I only recently got into this record.  I missed out on playing this for chicks when I was single.  They would&#8217;ve eaten this shit up.   I was at work, which at one point turned into the set of VH1&#8217;s Free Radio, and there was this poster of some chick with a cat sitting in a window.  So I&#8217;m like who&#8217;s this? After giving me some shit for not knowing, my boss tells me it was huge and it had all these hits, blah blah blah.  So I take a listen to this thing, and do it with your lady, you might get some for being sensitive.  Nelly Furtado, Alanis Morrisette, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLaughin all owe Carole King their respective careers.  I may not be a fan of any of them, well pretty much anyone who would play at Lilith Fair, but it&#8217;s cool.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m the proper demographic they&#8217;re looking for. Ok maybe Nelly Furtado and Fiona Apple, they have some pretty interesting stuff.  Something else cool about this is the minimal production which really brought out intimate lyrics, very easy to listen to, and easy to like.  Good thing James Taylor said to start singing your own songs, and stop writing huge hits for everyone else, she came out with a standard for the genre.</p>
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<p><strong>Fleetwood Mac &#8211; Rumours (1977)</strong><br />
Pop music is unpredictable.  In Fleetwood Mac&#8217;s case the departure of guitarist Bob Welch &#8212; who&#8217;d reduced the band to re-cutting pointless and pretentious versions of old standards &#8212; amounted to the biggest break they ever had. With that and the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac suddenly became a California pop group; instead of boring ass blues/rock jams, they started turning out bright little three-minute singles with a hook in every chorus.  Beautiful vocal harmonies and lyrics about relationships sell records. In the two years since the previous album, things had become rather difficult within the group.  &#8220;They didn&#8217;t realize this immediately,&#8221; said McVie, &#8220;but them creating such a good album together lifted them out of their misery.&#8221;  How awkward was it for Stevie Nicks singing backups for &#8220;Go Your Own Way&#8221; on stage.  It&#8217;s too bad FM radio has ruined some of the songs on this album, perhaps a rant on that some other time.  They just have a habit of playing the same tracks over and over.  But that&#8217;s not the band&#8217;s fault, I just wish I could&#8217;ve heard this one for the first time without thinking of Bill Clinton&#8217;s campaign run.  Just skip tracks 4 and 5 and its still got some sweet jams.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/thebeachboys_petsounds.jpg" alt="thebeachboys_petsounds" width="200" height="200" /><strong>Beach Boys (ok, Brian Wilson)- Pet Sounds (1966)</strong><br />
I like &#8220;Pet Sounds.&#8221;  Brian Wilson is a musical genius.  Listen to this record with headphones and you can hear his deeply personal lyrics and real emotion pouring out.  Put it on in the background and it sounds like bright catchy pop.  This album has two distinct levels.  More so than any other on this list.  The Beatles heard it and made Sgt. Peppers. Actually Capitol records, the label, considered not releasing the album at all.  They thought it wasn&#8217;t accessible enough.  Yeah, good call douchebags.  Pretty much any musician of importance in the past 30 years has also cited Pet Sounds as one of the all time classic albums. Eric Clapton stated that &#8220;I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everything that&#8217;s ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one.&#8221; Elton John has said of the album, &#8220;For me to say that I was enthralled would be an understatement. I had never heard such magical sounds, so amazingly recorded. It undoubtedly changed the way that I, and countless others, approached recording. It is a timeless and amazing recording of incredible genius and beauty.&#8221;  Bob Dylan has said of Brian Wilson&#8217;s talents, &#8220;That ear — I mean, Jesus, he&#8217;s got to will that to the Smithsonian.&#8221;  Yup.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://ohyeahowl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/sgt_pepper.jpg" alt="thebeatles_sgtpepper" width="200" height="200" /><strong>The Beatles &#8211; Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)</strong><br />
I decided on this Beatles album because it&#8217;s their most focused pop album, at least is to me the week.  I go through phases with their releases.  At different points in my life I&#8217;ve sworn each album is the best.  I guess it all depends of where I am in my life.  With this one they wanted to emulate Pet Sounds, so they did.  I think its better, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Rolling Stone</span> doesn&#8217;t think so.  But what do they know, they put U2&#8217;s &#8220;Joshua Tree&#8221; as a better album than &#8220;Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; on their top 500 list.  I can remember the first time I heard this thing,  I mean really heard it.  I think everyone knew these songs from somewhere else, (thanks Joe Cocker and The Wonder Years.)  But the first time it all came together was when i got ahold of a used record player for free and needed stuff to play on it.  So I sifted through my parents old LP&#8217;s and actually found some gems.  At first I was obsessed with side A of the White Album.  No one could convince me any other Beatles was better.  So i put on Sgt. Peppers while doing some cleaning around my apartment,  and once I was done, I sat down and finished listening to it while staring at the cover and artwork thinking, well that&#8217;s it.  Everyone&#8217;s just trying to be like this.  It all sounded oddly familiar, not because I had heard this album before, but because i had heard the last 30 years of music try to sound like it.    Some people say &#8220;A Day in the Life&#8221; is the best song ever written.  Even though that&#8217;s way too ridiculous to even come up with the prerequisites for this, you would be hard pressed to not include that song in the argument</p>
<p>Hey Hipster, just because they were popular and your parents liked them, doesn&#8217;t make them lame, so steal em from your parents&#8217; cd collection when you go home for Thanksgiving.</p>


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