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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance         Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| "Home," by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros." It plays at almost every single event held in Los Angeles, and about half of the bars I've walked into the last couple years.
It's become this hipster anthem of sorts. A friend of mine who does a stand-up routine that's more him philosophizing for two hours on stages plays it before shows (among other songs). Anyway, if you don't know the song I'm talking about, it might be familiar hearing it below. It's been appearing in loads of commercials and trailers, specifically for indie flicks, lately. (Last edited by Rogue on 05-27-11 12:26 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| She is, isn't she? I thought I was excited to see her, then I saw their Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, and Ms. Marvel. Hot damn...
EDIT: And apparently Psylocke is coming out next month. (Last edited by Rogue on 05-27-11 12:19 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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Originally posted by Goku When X2 was being made I kept hearing A LOT of people throwing a fit about rumors that he was going to be in it (which he technically was, his name anyway). The main argument was that he's not an essential X-Man and not one of the important ones that should be in the movies. My theory for all the Gambit hate is probably that he was like Twilight back in the day. A lot of teen and tween-age girls got really into X-Men because they thought he was hot and thus it was an influx of fangirls and fair-weather fans, which is something that so-called "serious" fans HATE. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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Well, there was also Death Race, which had the amazing line uttered by Joan Allen's character during the peak action: "OK, cocksucker. Fuck with me and we'll see who shits on the sidewalk." 
It's so funny that it's a huge deal right now that it was discovered that Chinese prison guards were forcing inmates to play WoW to farm gold for them which they'd sell. Anyway, I do wonder if California's finally going to carry out the executions of people sentenced to death row. In this state getting the death sentence is 20-30 years (on average) of waiting around and then maybe having your life end at the hands of the justice system. By the time your execution finally rolls around everyone forgot the severity of what you did and protests the system on your behalf saying you must have seen the light while you were in there. See: Tookie Williams. (Last edited by Rogue on 05-28-11 12:11 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| Yeah, I had seen some of that. On a side note, I adore Louis Theroux. He has some intense (though thoroughly amusing) interviews.
This news piece just came out in the L.A. Times about South Africa having a big issue with violence against homosexuals and mentions the Uganda legislation. This sort of caught me, though I wasn't shocked to read it:
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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Originally posted by Elara You know, I've heard that argument made against him before too, about there being pink in his costume. I've heard it specifically by guys who didn't want to see him in the X-Men movies, who also made the argument that he's not essential and shouldn't be in them. I liked his costume better when they put him on X-Men Evolution. Anyway, it's funny when you look back on scenes between him and Rogue, especially when you try to keep in mind that these all happened on a show meant for KIDS (Bonus that the corner of the screen shows this was aired on the Disney channel): |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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Thoughts? Seems more like Kick-Ass. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| The voice acting for Gambit right after he comes to after falling for Morph's trick (around the 4:40 mark) is just awful, though.
Still, I miss the ol' swamp rat. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| I only listened to "Born This Way" for the first time after this whole Gaga supposedly rejecting his song thing happened (though later saying it was her manager or whatever). Anyway, I much prefer "Perform This Way."
It's a damn good song for something he put together on really short notice. As for the whole end of the world name and cover, it just seems appropriate in that there's just so much talk about the end coming soon - May 21, Oct. 18 (now it's Oct. 21 or something), Dec. 21, 2012, etc. Apparently the world is going to be destroyed some time soon, so this could easily be his last album. (Last edited by Rogue on 05-30-11 08:52 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| A bit of an update on the situation.
My grandmother is about to turn 90. My mom is trying to throw her a surprise party. No one is flying down for this, and no one from L.A. is willing to make the staggering 20 minute drive. In spite of the lack of enthusiasm, Lola's primarily living with my aunt in L.A. now, but my uncle who lives over an hour away has to come by the aunt's house to pick her up and bring her to our house on Fridays and vice versa on Mondays. It's not as though my aunt or my unemployed cousin could just drop her off themselves. Brandon and I have gone to pick her up a few times, but this whole having my uncle do it was apparently part of an agreement so no one could try to claim he did nothing in the process of taking care of Lola. She's gotten a lot worse, and yet still playing mind games with people. For instance, she's telling my aunt she doesn't want to come here because we aren't feeding her, which is BULLSHIT. We almost have to force-feed her because she constantly refuses to eat. She keeps playing all of the sides against each other. Last night at a Mexican restaurant she through a fit over the fact that they didn't have clam chowder. And to comment on the cleanliness of my aunt's house -- HOLY FUCK. She keeps collecting chihuahuas and she's up to nearly 30 dogs IN HER HOUSE. When we've gone to pick Lola up, we have to go through the garage and into the kitchen where you can't see countertop under the piles of uneaten, rotting, greasy food with the floor dirty and piles of things EVERYWHERE with the occasional dog barking and nipping at your feet. Lola's been telling them that she's deaf and blind now. When I called her on this in front of my aunt (because Lola, despite the use of only one eye, is actually quite adept at seeing things in the distance. She was remarking on the length of a ship on the horizon when we were sitting in a restaurant in Seal Beach just a couple days before), my aunt refused to believe me. And every-fucking-time we get Lola back she hasn't changed her socks and she smells like urine and fecal matter. After my graduation last week, she and my mom got into an argument about her diapers, because she says they're getting too heavy. She's able to go to the bathroom and change her own diapers, she simply refuses to change them until they fall off because they're so full.
On a positive note, she was ecstatic when I graduated and laughed uproariously, louder than I'd ever heard her laugh in my life, as I ran while pushing her in the wheelchair we rented. It was a great moment between us. So, that's the story up 'til now. Still no caregiver. My parents can't afford it, and the L.A. aunt who stole all of Lola's money won't foot the bill on that. The Bay Area aunt doesn't give a shit. She's phoning it in at this point, only concerned with the money. My uncle, well, he's just doing the bare minimum, allied with the L.A. aunt. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| The job search is on, though it's been mostly spent putting out speculative e-mails to a few people.
I'm super-stoked, though. Just checked my grades. Straight As and a CR (for my internship which was credit/no credit). I'M FUCKING DONE! We return you now to our regularly scheduled broadcasting: the soul-crushing job search. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| He's just finding his own voice, even if it's to someone else's song.
Seems like a decent guy, and go him for living his dream. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| I'm wondering if it's supposed to be Conquest, who carries a bow but no arrows and rides a pale horse.
That would make Al Famine. I like that Al's horse has his hair. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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Originally posted by Elara Ironically, we had just gotten off our Southwest flight from LAX, and we were going to be flying back later that day. No time for games with the rental folks, but hey they insisted. Anyway, fuck trying to look for a job through CSUF's Career Center and getting out-of-office messages saying there won't be anyone there to help me until September. NICE. No help for new alumni who are supposed to receive free help for one year from graduation. (Last edited by Rogue on 05-30-11 10:32 PM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| Tell me about it.
Some situation came up a month or so ago where the L.A. aunt was saying she wanted to call the police on us for some reason or another and my dad called her bluff telling her to go ahead and do it since she's committing elder abuse. When my grandfather died we went through the same shit. L.A. and San Francisco aunt fought over money, while my mom and uncle cried. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| Watching Flight of the Conchords season 2. Never seen the first.
It's pretty hilarious. I don't feel as though I'd been missing out, but rather that this is the right time in my life that this show feels relevant to me, making it seem all the more brilliant. But yeah, I dig it. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| Yeah, I'll definitely look into getting it. I'm only watching season 2 because that's what the city library had and I figured I'd give it a chance.
Still watching it, but now I feel like watching "Spaced." I guess this job search is making me feel like Daisy. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| As far as I could tell Marvel probably wouldn't win. It's fair use.
He's not making any money, for one thing, and that's crucial. The other critical points are the amount of usage and the nature of it and how it might affect the original. What he's doing is not harming Deadpool's effect on society (in fact it's probably aiding their image that someone admires one of their anti-heroes so much that he's emulating the character in real life), and in turn he's probably boosting awareness of the character, which is not negatively reflecting on Deadpool sales. Again, the crucial point is commercial usage, which this is not. Case would be thrown out. However, Marvel has had a history of idiotic cases - trying trademark the word "superhero" for one. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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Originally posted by Kashka By whom? Who is this person who has earned our thanks in recruiting another poor soul to our corner of the Internet's bowels? They must have had quite a secret to get you to wander our way. Well, cheers to the chaos! |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 766 days Last activity: 574 days |
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| New slogan for Xeogaming Forums - "Where Half the Users Need to Be Threatened with Bodily Harm and Severely-Damaged Reputations in Order to Sign Up!!"
Good stuff. 
I'll go pen the press release now. |
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