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I cannot listen to this song and not sing along in a Tony style. I believe Gandolfini gave us the fullest portrayal of a real person and this was one of the top moments of that.

As I've listened to more and more dead over the years I've gotten a bit more picky in what I want to hear. I used to be very strict and listen to shows beginning to end but more often now I'll pick out longer jams. My top jams in no order would be Dark Star, Eyes, PITB, Sugaree, FOTM.

I'm looking to expand my collection. I recently picked up the first 4 volumes of Sandman for $2 at a library sale and it got me looking to grab more used material. I know I can find them on amazon for some but is there a good place for selling used graphic novels. I am near enough to NYC to go to a physical store if that is an option.

This was a decent comedy but after watching it seemed like there was a much better movie in there and it was focused on the wrong things. Aziz plays the main character for the first half of the movie and right out of the gate it feels wrong. He is a down on his luck gig worker whose real profession is...documentary editing. The movie threw me off a bit here and for the rest of the film. The movie ends up being largely about money, poverty, the current very tough economy and job market but our hero is sad because he isn't able to get an incredibly rare and maybe unrealistic job of editing documentaries? Its fine thats what he wants to do but I found it tough to sympathize with, he might as well have wanted to be a dolphin trainer but there weren't any open positions.

For the first hour the film focuses on Aziz's character and his struggles but hes tough to sympathize with. He ends up as a gopher for a rich guy played by Seth Rogan and that seems good until you goes to a fancy restaurant Seth's character suggests and but is expensive and when Aziz can't pay he uses his company card which then gets him fired. This is sort of the inciting event for the rest of the movie and again its played like Aziz is sympathetic but it hinges on him going to an expensive restaurant knowing he can't afford it, not being honest with his date and apparently not having a credit card which seems the most unbelievable part. Even if Aziz is broke he should be able to get credit to survive on and that would have been better than risking his job.

The next part of the film has sort of guardian angel Keanu performing a freaky friday type move and switching the lives of Aziz and Seth to teach Aziz about gratitude and the emptiness of money but fails when Aziz won't switch back leaving Seth and eventually Keanu to enter the life of people in poverty and the downward spiral of low paying blue collar and gig work. This is the part of the movie that really worked. Seth does great acting and you really see him as someone who is experiencing a new difficult situation and understanding a new perspective on how the world operates. Keanu is just amazing a head in the clouds ditzy guardian angel who ends up as a hardened dishwasher drinking his troubles away in a parking lot. I felt like the message of the movie landed here until we had to go back to Aziz and do an ending which was fine, whatever.

Overall if I was remaking this or editing it I would cut Aziz's beginging to 20 minutes and get us right into the nitty gritty of Seth and Keanu in the underbelly of LA. Aziz wants to be serious but goofy and funny at the same time and can't pull it off. Too much acting from the director on this one.

I was just permanently banned for saying "thank you. I was thinking the same thing" on another comment which was itself saying this comic is not good. The comic in question was a large breasted woman stamping plates with her boobs. It was bad and a person should be able to say this is not good. After asking the mods why I was banned they muted me. Insane.

We’re in a totally corrupt system. Wake up sheeple! The sky is falling!

This is a test, save this post. If later it’s removed we’ll know for sure. Balls in your court mods.

I was rewatching this movie the other day and none of it was adding up. I know the common complaint is why not have the time machine dump the future loopers into the ocean or a volcano. That would make sense but the problem goes deeper. Why do loopers exist at all? So far as I can tell the future mafia employs loopers in the past to do hits and pays them a lot because the job eventually ends when they close their loop by killing their future selves who have been sent back to the past. At the same time the future mafia has sent Jeff Daniels to the past to run these loopers and he has also hired a gang of gun wielding enforcers who now control the city.

What are the loopers for? They seem to be redundant and extra complex muscle but the gat men make them obsolete. Why do loopers need to be killed in their old age through this complex time travel method? Their actions in the future still took place. The mafia seems perfectly capable of kidnapping, is murder beyond them?

I love Umphrey's and while its a collection of great band members a lot of their individual sound was in Jake's playing. I understand their are tour contracts and this is a job for the guys as well as a passion but I can't see losing an essential member and just keeping the tour going. When Jerry had his coma the band stopped because it would make no sense to have the dead with no Jerry; I feel the same can be said for UM, sure its still a good band but its lacking the thing that made it really special. I could even understand finding a replacement and there are probably incredible players looking for a group right now.

Edit: got a tix to see UM with moe in nyc. I’ll find out how it is

The man is shown to be both a pious caring man who truly believes in the gods and helping those in need in a charitable way that doesn’t care about rank and seems wholly apart from the overall horribleness we see everywhere else in the show. At the same time as he says he won’t wear shoes and really wasn’t even looking for power at all, and that does seem to be true, he is this cruel tormentor who kidnaps nobles and is starting fights with the crown.

I’m not saying both can’t be true exactly but the show seems to say he really is just a virtuous man but also he’s a conniving power monger of the highest order out to take control and it never settles on of this is a secret plan all along or an arc or what.

If we’re being honest about what we all like in imm sims the list is maybe 12 games. If you stretch it maybe 20. Then we’re in this sub debating the same games and recommending the same and there is little debate since the best stand out so much (prey/dishonored) and their sales were poor enough that we know realistically studios won’t make more of these at the high level we hope for leaving us to scrounge for indie games that have just a little of what scratched that itch.

Edit: I’m on console only, maybe pc is better but I havnt heard of much.