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Figured we could use a thread for music that doesn't necessarily fall into the Bluesy category or others.

I just came across this youtube channel...

I stumbled across this a while ago - thought I'd share. Well, I like it, anyway.

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Just a general purpose thread.

I recently started bingewatching Homeland on Netflix. It's not a new series, but in a way that's better if you...

Right now I am reading a book called Shock Value , about the boom in horror in the '70s. Really interesting book and I highly recommend it to anyone...

We definitely need one. So let me start with this nice hijacking of what the Froggies call art pompier (not sure how to translate that:...

Felt like rambling about one of my favorite songs, Desert Moon by Dennis Deyoung. Not because it's necessarily a musical masterpiece but it has a lot...

Just saw it yesterday. What do people think? I'm still forming my opinion. My initial impression is that I enjoyed it. I have questions, however....

To anyone following the show, if you haven't seen the latest episode from Sunday, September 15, 2013, go watch it.

Not giving anything away, but...

Whatever floats yer boat.

The offbeat brand-cum-art collective known as MSCHF is cutting up a Damien Hirst work and putting it up for auction as...

The Open Window

Cousin Theresa

both by Saki (HH Munroe) sadly killed in WW1 at age 46(!)

Yes! We Have No Bananas
Mark Steyn

The history of the song.

Subject line is what some folks thought at the time.

I usually dislike Bob Dylan's voice, but concede the songwriting skills.

Tangled Up In Blue has been stuck in my head lately and now I feel like...

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As a newbie, am I allowed? I can't find any opera threads, so I thought I'd start one. Not that I am a fantastic fan - I just like a good tune and a...

The new japanimation season is upon is!

Macross is back with Macross Delta allowing you to watch Robots fight when you are secretly rooting for...

25 Things You Didn’t Know About The Movie Fight Club

One thing that I'm trying not to perpetrate here is any flavor of the No True Socialist TM fallacy.

And after all it was in the name of his party....

I was hoping this season would have learned from the last.

But they're doubling down on the stupid.

I defended Jodie Whitaker because I loved her...

Since summer I have been reading the Dune series. The original six Frank Herbert novels, plus the two sequels written by his son. FINALLY finished...

The Lincoln Rhyme novels are among my favorites. They are about a quadriplegic forensic detective named Lincoln Rhyme and the books usually have him...

Toxic Fandom Is Killing 'Star Wars'
Marc Bernardin (no less) The Hollywood Reporter

:lmao:

Analysis:
1) Lucas is no longer interested in...

Post your favorite scifi/fantasy/adventure/action/suspsense/whatever story franchise that should be a movie, but probably never will. (As from a...

I am in the midst of the Irishman and am sorta enjoying it, it has a sameness, which is not bad given the dreck out there.
This just occurred to me....

Synopsis:
Mostly what you probably know already except with much more detail.
But toward the end of the video, an overview of recent historians who...

Just watched the official trailer.

I hope it won't suck, but probably will.

Looks like they're trying to Stranger Thingsify it, right down to...

All new crew and ship, not the TOS Enterprise, but notionally contemporary with it.

Some of the most memorable short stories that I have read are by him. He died, as did so many Brits of that time, in a crappy field in France. He...

I knew of the World War One era genocide, but I didn’t know it was such a long lasting program, or that Atatürk was involved:

“we all know, or think...

Just missed observing the 30th anniversary of it coming down.

Of all the tributes I've seen so far, I like this one best.

Anyone else watching this?

It's pretty fucking good.

Is Shelby an English name or an Irish name? I would think English, but I can't be sure.

First of all, congrats to the publicist hired to promote this movie. You have done an admirable job.

The trailers are all tantalizing. Critics...

Needs its own thread. :coolspecs:

Opening gambit:

Was he the tortured soul who poured out his immortal longings into dignified passages of stately music, or was he just an old poof who wrote tunes?

I have been waiting for this movie since I read the book, and I read the book as soon as it came out. The Shining is one of my favorite movies,...

Evidences:

... It took seven decades and a lawsuit, but in the village, the peaceful village, the lion sleeps tonight.

... as a promotion, MGM is letting you have some of the old (but still in copyright) TV shows for free. 8)

Newest trend in superheros: vulgar and obscene. IOW, it's alright to say fuck .

A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected...

Talk about fucking drama queens.

What if you could watch every episode of Breaking Bad and Stranger Things 50 percent faster?

That’s a feature...

They have actually started shooting. I wasn't sure it was going to get this far.

Two things I hope for:

- That they will keep references to other...

Placeholder for either Kudos or a ritual disembowelment of the upcoming film

We will also have awards for spotting minorities or other...

No, not the shitty 2013 movie, the legend.

My question regards the criticism by samurai and monk Yamamoto Tsunetomo regarding the delay of the...

Dark Crimes (2016) is a Jim Carrey movie on Netflix.

I haven't watched it because, while I like some of what Jim Carrey has done, it only has a...

A real American national treasure.

In Japan they have a concept of living national treasures . Well Dolly is an American living national treasure.

This is a movie from Good Korea. I don't care much for foreign language flicks, mostly because I generally never watch a movie so much as listen to...

So as most of you no doubt know, Alex won't be with us much longer. Jeopardy! happens to be the only game show I like; the only one I can still...