There's a very funny interview with the Primo Pastafarian, Prophet Bobby Henderson, here:
Believers of the FSM are normal people, living normal lives. Certain rituals must be followed, however, most of them having to do with pasta and/or pirates. Random acts of piratical expression are encouraged. Flipping off a stranger, for example, would not only be hilarious, but would also go a long way in pleasing Him, bringing you that much closer to FSM heaven, which, among other attractions, features a Beer Volcano...
I think FSM does a better job [than ID] of explaining what would motivate the creator to go to so much trouble to change our scientific results in order to make the universe appear older than it truly is. Tampering with our radioisotope measurements, geographic observations and, perhaps most impressive, placing individual photons enroute to earth, suitably redshifted, in an effort to mislead us is not only an act of an intelligent maker, but also an anarchistic, mischevious one. It is for this reason that we believe pirates must be His Chosen subjects, as their personality perfectly embodies the mischevious spirit of the FSM. Virtually no field of science goes untouched by His Noodly Appendage.
My meh toward REM is a voice/sound thing that I can't quite put my finger on. They just grate a little, and not in a good way.
I like REM, but all their songs sound the same to me. So I'm not motivated to seek them out.
I like REM, but all their songs sound the same to me. So I'm not motivated to seek them out.
This reflects something a friend of a friend said - that REM has been making the same album for however many years and it keeps getting less interesting each time out.
When I'm being REALLY snarky about them (aside from channelling Denis Leary's rant about Michael Stipe) I like to say they peaked with CHRONIC TOWN, but in reality I really like just about everything up through DOCUMENT without reservation. GREEN is where they seriously started to lose my interest.
Finally Cindy has a music opinion that I can agree with.
I think we agreed on
Brass in Pocket,
as well. I think we largely agree on Prince, but your love for him is stronger, larger, and more all-encompassing, and possibly dirty.
Aye caramba, you're full of crazy notions today.
Honestly, I think they owe their entire careers to
Radio Free Europe,
which was a great song--twenty some-odd years ago. And probably
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine); The One I Love; Orange Crush;
and possibly
Man on the Moon
(although I got tired of that one), are all that stand between them and irrelevancy. They make quintessential college music.
ita, did you and I graduate from high school in the same year? 1987?
I watched the rerun of the pilot for
Bones
today. Watchable. no truely annoying moments and it distracted me from the floor cleaning I was doing. I will probbably watch tonight's in real time.
actually, it wasn't a question of disbelief of age. I thought you were a 1988 grad!
When I'm being REALLY snarky about them (aside from channelling Denis Leary's rant about Michael Stipe) I like to say they peaked with CHRONIC TOWN, but in reality I really like just about everything up through DOCUMENT without reservation. GREEN is where they seriously started to lose my interest.
Yeah, you're me with this one.
There are a handful of songs from the post-Document era that I like, but I don't like any of them anywhere near as much as I like (insert almost any song off of any of those albums, especially if it's off of Fables of the Reconstruction).
I'm not sure why I haven't managed to replace my worn out tape copies with CDs, except perhaps a lingering distaste for the recent output.
