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socialist farmers

Someone should blacklist these commies!

Local milk producers found out Thursday that they'll be getting checks from the federal government for losses incurred during a major dairy downturn this year. The money will come from a $290 million pot approved by Congress earlier this year....

Having grown up in the Central Valley, I can pretty much gaurantee you that a large percentage of farmers getting this money hold anti-government, Tea Party-type views. They will scream all day about Obama and socialism, but they never make the connection that direct payments from the government is just about the purest form of socialism.

I should be clear that I absolutely support this sort of socialism.  I just wonder how the farmers taking the money square their idealistic Rand-ian vision with reality.

a brief history of om nom nom

lynyrd's innards - sissy (1995 off time)

Fucking great, uh....pop-punk? Power-pop? I don't care what you call it. It's fucking great. Greater than a Ding Dong King Kong Sing Song Burger, in fact.  

Of course they are from Chicago. 


The recently departed Mat Arluck of Horace Pinker sometimes sang cover songs for Lynyrd's Innards. RIP.

1. Si
2. Target

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the decade in movies

Slate posted a list of the movies critics have commonly cited as being the best of the 00's. Instead of trying to remember all of the movies I've seen, I'm going to cherry pick their list for the ones I have seen. They are: 

• Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
• There Will Be Blood
• No Country For Old Men
• Grizzly Man
• The Royal Tenanbaums
• Lost In Translation
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Borat
• Lives Of Others
• Children Of Men
• Pan's Labrynth
• The Dark Knight
• The Queen
• Knocked Up
• Capturing The Friedmans
• Punch Drunk Love
• L'Enfant
• American Psycho
• Man On Wire
• Farenheit 911
• Bourne Supremecy
• Donnie Darko
• Kill Bill Vol 1 
• Kill Bill Vol 2 
• Oldboy
• A History Of Violence
• Juno
• Half Nelson
• Traffic
• Squid And The Whale
• Capote
• In The Loop
• Good Night And Good Luck
• I Heart Huckabees
• Inglorious Basterds
• Sideways
• Being John Malcovich
• Irreversible
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Waking Life
• An Inconvenient Truth
• The Departed
• Moulin Rouge
• Syriana
• Hotel Rwanda
• Audition
• High Fidelity
• 40-Year Old Virgin
  

10 Awesomest Movies They Forgot:

1. King Of Kong
2. Sexy Beast
3. House Of Sand And  Fog
4. Anvil: The Story Of Anvil
   
5. Little Miss Sunshine
   
6. The Wind That Shakes The Barley
7. Monster
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. The Hangover
10. The Wrestler

The 3 Worst Movies Listed:

1. The Dark Night 
2. Waking Life
   
3. Moulin Rouge

7 Good Movies, But Terribly Overrated:

1. Eternal Sunshine
2. Juno
3. Donnie Darko
4. Half Nelson
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Lost In Translation
7. Sideways

2 Most Disturbing Movies:

1. Irreversible
2. The Audition

10 Best Performances Of The Decade:

1. Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs Of New York
2. Peter Capaldi - In The Loop
3. Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
4. Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
5. Charlize Theron - Monster
6. Jeff Daniels - Squid And The Whale
7. Helen Mirren - The Queen
8. Christian Bale - The Machinest
9. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
   
10. Christian Bale - American Psycho 

And finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, The Ten Best Movies Of The Decade:

1. The Departed
2. Kill Bill (1&2)
3. No Country For Old Men
   
4. The Squid And The Whale
5. There Will Be Blood
6. The King Of Kong
7. In The Loop
8. Sexy Beast
9. 40-Year Old Virgin
10. Anvil: The Story Of Anvil 

 Feel free to disagree in the comments. What did I miss?

daily beast, part infinity

I didn't realize that all of Facebook was my friend.

Facebook researchers have found that 11 percent of the approximately 100 American users are African-American, 9 percent are Latino, and 6 percent are Asian.

That this happens so often on a high-trafficked site is inexcusable.

todd margaret

This is not one of those "England has all the good shows" posts, because I don't think that's true. What country came up with Jersey Shore? Nuf said. But, I do find it sad that “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” is going to be aired on the UK's Channel 4, and not in the US. Will Arnet? David Cross? Somebody needs to step up and carry this in the States. I'm looking at you, HBO.

i need to move to nyc

The way everyone is just chilling, I assume this is par for the course in a NY subway.

[barstoolNY]

oblivion - product (1993 johanns face)

Oblivion is rad. That is all you need to know.

1. Theodore
2. Fester
3. Yellow #5 

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really?

This is who the Chargers are battling for the second seed? San Diego better win by 300.

yes, the bcs sucks, but so does the entire bowl system

Fresno State went 8-4. Not the greatest season, but not a bad one either. And when you look at who they lost to, the season looks a littel better.

Wisconsin. At Wisconsin. Lost in overtime.

Cincinnati. Undefeated Cincinnati. Lost by 8, but had a chance to tie before a late interception.

Boise State. Undefeated Boise State. Lost in a track meet.

Nevada. They got blown out. This was the only true "bad" loss of the year.

Throw in a win against Illinois in what may have been the best college football game of the season, and I thought things would be looking pretty good heading into bowl season.

Nope.

The New Mexico Bowl to play a 6-6 Wyoming team. Tickets still available!

I'm not slagging Wyoming or the New Mexico Bowl. But we've played Wyoming lots of times when they were in the WAC. Last season we had to play former WAC Colorado State. in 1999 & 2000 they played former WAC teams Utah and Air Force in bowl games.

It's not like Fresno State is not competitive against BCS teams. They have bowl wins over Georgia Tech (twice), Virginia, UCLA and USC. So while I'm glad Fresno State is  going to any bowl, it sucks that the bowl system couldn't produce a more imaginative matchup. I know, conference tie-ins. blah blah blah. It still sucks.

Then you have the Heisman. I'm not going to argue that Ryan Matthews should have won, or even should have been invited to New York. But Ryam Matthews may be the best running back in the country, and his name wasn't even mentioned as a possibility. Dude was the second leading rusher in the country, ahile missing almost two games with a concussion. I've seen a lot of great running backs at Fresno State - Lorenzo Neal, Michael Pittman, Derrick Ward - and none holds a candle to Ryan Matthews.

Watching ESPN's 30 For 30 movie on the University Of Miami, it's crazy to think that a school went from nothing to National Champions in such a short matter of time. They had the advantage of being in a major conference. In a BCS conference, all you have to do is win to get respect. If you're not in a BC conference? Well, you don't have to ask a Fresno State fan. Ask a Boise State, Utah, or TCU fan.

There's nothing you can do.

lebensreform - licht, luft, leben (1996 per koro)

This is German straightedge hardcore. Normally, those words make me think this is gonna blow. Not this time. This sucker rips. More in common with ugly hardcore like Fuckface and Artimus Pyle than any generic straightedge band. I cannot stress how much this surprised me when I first heard it. Rumor has it that that just might be the guitarist's actual blood constituting the X on the cover, but it looks like a marker to me. 

1. Feel
2. Für Dich!
3. A Cry
4. Prolog
5. Cheesy
6. Inner City

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la mesa's finest

While joining a bunch of nerds on their trinket quest, also known as "geocache-ing", I discovered that La Mesa has a corridor of murals. There are many, uh, interesting things hidden in these murals, but none as, uh, interesting as this one.

Sleep well!

snoopeez tapeworm - s/t (1996 will e survive)

Relatively obscure Chicago hardcore. This was released in 1996, but was recorded sometime in the late 80's, I believe. There are no song titles listed, no band members listed, nothing. Any info, please post in the comments.

1. Song 1
2. Song 2
3. Song 3
4. Song 4
5. Song 5
6. Song 6
   

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hi-standard - california dreamin' (1996 fat wreck chords)

A lot of people are into Japanese hardcore. I am not one of those people. Just never appealed to me. Japanese pop-punk, however, is right up my alley. And Hi-Standard is one the best Japanese pop-punk bands to have ever existed.

1. California Dreamin' 
2. Lonely
3. Wait For The Sun

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babies, corners, get it?

the face of evil

I don't think I could name five people in the world I loathe more than this guy:

I really can't explain it, but every time I see him on Iron Chef America, I want to punch the screen.

jesus needs to refinance

What the whaaaaat?

Does not compute.

relapse - s/t (1990? progression)

Same band as yesterday. I haven't learned anything new overnight. It's still Michigan straightedge. Release year is listed nowhere, so if someone can confirm, it would be appreciated.

1. Realize
2. Friends
3. Wrecking Ball
4. Playground
5. Remember

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relapse - if this is right (1991 conversion)

Michigan straightedge. That's about all I can tell you.

1. Wordless
2. If This Is Right
3. Maintained
4. Gray Eminence

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jon cougar concentration camp - victoria's secret sauce (1996 mutant pop)

San Diego punk rock. IMHO, their best 7". I posted the Punk Explosion EP earlier this year; it can be found here.

1. Victoria's Secret Sauce
2. Don't Call Me A Spartan
3. I'll Be Where I'm At
4. Cooper Teen-O

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th' downer boys - werken men und pirates (eye 95

I posted an EP of this DC band earlier this year. Everything I wrote there applies here.

1. Fuck This City...Phil Lives
2. Vitus
3. 2nd Punk
4. 'downer 'downer
5. Gregg Ginn
6. Void
7. Rick Derringer You're Dead
8. Rob Roskopp

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inherent vice soundtrack

I recently read Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice. It's a very fun read, and name drops a plethora of bands and musical artists from the 60's and earlier. Some of the stuff everyone knows (The Beatles, Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, etc). Some of it is quite obscure (Bonzo Dog Band?). And some of it just strange (Tiny Tim). I thought it would be cool to somehow compile a soundtrack to the book. So as I read, I would write down mentions of bands and songs that I would later obtain. But, once I finished the book and went online to research, I found that it wasn't exactly an original idea. A lot of people did the same thing. Even Pynchon himself.

But no one did as thorough of a job as the mystery man who posted the entire soundtrack in a zip file here.  I'm pretty sure he got every song. In order, to boot. Man, someone should really thank that guy for all of his hard work. If he had a girlfriend or fiance, I'm sure he drove her nuts. If it's even a guy. How would I know?

Download it!

EDIT: Links were bad. Now fixed. Be warned, this is a huge file. Over 100 songs, and about 400mb.