famousblueben

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[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 2 points 11 months ago

I ended up getting promoted from rhythm guitarist to frontman of my high school band when they realized I was good at screaming because a dude and I were messing around on a cover of For Want Of towards the end of practice.

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first Cramps song I ever heard early in my teens, I was instantly hooked.

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago

My stepfather, who I adored, was an instant huge fan of Death to Smoochy after it came out on home video and would often sing the line "Stepdad's Not Mean He's Just Adjusting"

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omg, how did I not know as the hardest of hardcore Bright Eyes fans that this exists? Great cover(s).

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think the selection of films really justifies the price, but the book and teleplays and bonus features are very cool if you love Cushing (which I do).

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This song is great and this album is one I feel like far too many people overlook. As a huge Nebraska fan, I'm down for any time The Boss wants to strip down and get all acoustic on our asses, and while it isn't as great as Nebraska it is still easily my favorite 90s Springsteen album and high on my list of favorite E Street Band-less albums.

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm of real mixed emotions here. I totally understand why latino/a folks want this film to succeed, there has never really been a film to this scale to feature as predominantly a latin-american cast as this one, and that's certainly a big moment. I have a latino friend who is going purely for how big a moment it is for representation of his culture and I get it.

However, so much of the complaints about how iffy the film's likely performance I've seen really border damn close to just complaining about the strike "ruining" things for people (like we didn't all know this film had 'potential bust' written all over it for a long time now) and studios' plans. And frankly, while I certainly hope for more latin-american representation all across film, I also think that trying to save Warner Bros Discovery from their own disasterous decision is counterproductive to wishes of future good quality and original programming

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

Not a month goes by that I don't get the sudden urge to revisit this song, it is really an all time favorite.

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, nothing about his "clarifications" really do anything other than making him look even more a dim light struggling to form an opinion.

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

As killer a track as ever

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like to equate a targeted campaign based around hatred and influencing corporate culture to shun an entire group of people with a television show not being rerun because it heavily features a symbol of hate in every episode is like, not great. These two things are not equal.

[–] famousblueben@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen a lot of gameplay footage of the SG-1000, and while it doesn't seem like a bad console for its modest hardware and goals, it is of course easy to see why it so struggled to keep up with the Famicom.

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