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The Fall is really the only Gorillaz album I can give a listen to the whole way through. The whole thing was recorded and mixed on an iPad or something. It's super good.

And @Ashevolle, you're naming some good ish right now, music and TV. The Terror was a tremendous show. I think it's gonna be episodic seasons, much like True Detective or (blah) American Horror Story. Season 1 was riveting.
 
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ChismsHeadband said:
The Fall is really the only Gorillaz album I can give a listen to the whole way through. The whole thing was recorded and mixed on an iPad or something. It's super good.

And @Ashevolle, you're naming some good ish right now, music and TV. The Terror was a tremendous show. I think it's gonna be episodic seasons, much like True Detective or (blah) American Horror Story. Season 1 was riveting.
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I think you are right. New season, new story. Season 1 was based on a Dan Simmons novel and ran out of source material. If you haven't read anything by him, he is a really good writer. His Hyperion series is being adapted for TV soon and should be bonkers.
 
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3rdDegreeVol said:
Not unless your under 20. I'm not that old.

Yeah, there's a lot of my Dad's favorite stuff in there. I guess it gets passed along. My 13 year old is a connoisseur of '80s music.
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Not knocking your tastes. Just eerily similar to my dad's (and my favs growing up)
 
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Ashevolle said:
I think you are right. New season, new story. Season 1 was based on a Dan Simmons novel and ran out of source material. If you haven't read anything by him, he is a really good writer. His Hyperion series is being adapted for TV soon and should be bonkers.
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As far as reading goes, I like more existentially touchy-feely stuff that borders on bastardizing the English language. Jonathan Safran Foer is highly up there, and I should be finishing Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders here soon.

Granted, written word can venture much deeper than a TV show, and supernatural fiction is right there in line with my tastes in literature, so I might just have to check Dan Simmons out.
 
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ChismsHeadband said:
As far as reading goes, I like more existentially touchy-feely stuff that borders on bastardizing the English language. Jonathan Safran Foer is highly up there, and I should be finishing Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders here soon.

Granted, written word can venture much deeper than a TV show, and supernatural fiction is right there in line with my tastes in literature, so I might just have to check Dan Simmons out.
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I'll check these out. Never heard of them before.
 
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Ashevolle said:
I'll check these out. Never heard of them before.
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JSF wrote Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, both of which were turned into movies (I've seen the former, haven't bothered with the latter). Everything Is Illuminated is incredible from p1 to p200-whatever. His deftness in immersing the reader back to pre-industrial shtetls where you know all hundred of the villagers is some of the most talented writing I've ever read. It's not arduous, either. It's actually really funny and poignant all at the same time.

Saunders' Lincoln is tickling my brain in the same manner. It reads almost like a movie script, with second-, third-, ..., nth-hand accounts of Lincoln after the passing of his son, Willie.. most of the story being told from the perspective of the handful of spirits that neighbor Willie Lincoln in the graveyard. I'm about 2/3 the way through so far, and I don't know if I want to get to the end of it.. I really wish it were like, 600 pages instead of the 300-something.
 
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utvols88 said:
oh... we are doing kid songs that ruin my sleep?

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Haha.
Seagulls is actually a Jack Black .., uh, thing?
To be honest, I laughed hard when I watched the video. Crazy how much the characters look like they're singing the song.
You should watch it .
 
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jakez4ut said:
yeah, it sucks. i've reached that age where the new music just doens't do much for me, and my music makes my kids embarrassed to be around me.

Rock of Ages came on the radio yesterday, and i turned it up and sang the whole song. my 8 year old covered her ears, and ducked down below the car window.....and was like "Daddy, turn that down" and i was like "sweetie, this music was meant to be played LOUD"...lol.

now i know how my dad felt when he tried to force Joe Cocker and The Who on me as a kid.

interestingly, i like that stuff too now. i am old.
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I'm lucky..my kids all love the same music I do.
 
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bignewt said:
Active/Recent bands I'm spinning

My Morning Jacket
Avett Bros
Father John Misty
Lumineers
Blitzentrapper
Band of Horses
Iron & Wine
Damien Jurado
Fleet Foxes
Sturgill Simpson
White Buffalo
Dawes
White Denim
Alabama Shakes
Portugal. The Man
Spoon
Delta Spirit
Old Crow Medicine Show
Black Keys
Tame Impala
Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Old School:

White Stripes
Beastie Boys
The Band
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd
Zep
Beck
...many others
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I didn't expect to see Portugal. The Man, RKS, or Tame Impala in this thread, but they've all been in steady rotation lately.
 
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bignewt said:
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Missed a great morning on the river Invol!
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Was this your fishing technique?
 
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