WAR ROOM LOUNGE V25: MJ vs Prince

[Trotsky]

I love that movie, I'm such a fucking mark for Jeff Bridges. Not really the same genre, but you ever seen this?

Haha yeah, Crazy Heart is one of my favorite films too. Great soundtrack and great performance by Bridges.

 

[Limbo Pete]

@Limbo Pete I miss that quote you had of mine, about the mods crawling on all fours. During the Nost era.

Still one of the all time GOAT quotes. I have it saved somewhere.
Edit: Gotta go find it now

 

[Jack V Savage]

There are some movies that just get better and better every time you watch them.

@Jack V Savage

Haven't seen that. I recommend "Down With Love" as one of those. All-time great movie that majorly flew under the radar.

Ed: Just looked it up, and I see its rep has majorly improved since it came out. Good to see. I saw it three times in the theater, and I thought it was the best movie released that year (and later viewings have only raised my regard for it), but it got mediocre reviews at the time.

 

[sickc0d3r]

Haha yeah, Crazy Heart is one of my favorite films too. Great soundtrack and great performance by Bridges.

Good answer, you dirty commie.

Consider joining the sherdog movie club over in the mayberry, bud.

 

[Limbo Pete]

@Sketch found it

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Got booked for a big show tonight. Closed up shop, smoked a blunt walked the French Quarter listening to the Christmas time is here instrumental (sue me) and I come across this.

A drunk Santa on crutches while that rose tinted ass song plays.

 

[Fawlty]

There are some movies that just get better and better every time you watch them.

@Jack V Savage

Is this just a Bridges fellatio vehicle or something, because it looks god awful

 

[Higus]

I feel someone like Fallon Fox shouldn't be allowed to compete. To live well into your 30s as a male with a male's level of hormones in your system and then transition and go fight women? I get women with skill have beaten her but her wins look like a really REALLY bad DV beating

I agree that combat sports should have better scrutiny. Things like running or swimming should be less controversial imo but people get really offended when at things like foot races or swimming races. If it really matters who wins, the people who care about times or records or sponsorships or scholarships or whatever will be able to make the distinction afterwards.

 

[Trotsky]

Is this just a Bridges fellatio vehicle or something, because it looks god awful

Nah, it's easily the best Western in a decade since No Country. And the premier performance is Ben Foster, not Bridges. Trailer is kinda action-y for marketing.

 

[Fawlty]

Nah, it's easily the best Western in a decade since No Country. And the premier performance is Ben Foster, not Bridges. Trailer is kinda action-y for marketing.

Huh. Based on how they cut that, and the crapshoot that is Lionsgate, I wouldn't go near it. May check it out on your recommendation.

 

[Trotsky]

Huh. Based on how they cut that, and the crapshoot that is Lionsgate, I wouldn't go near it. May check it out on your recommendation.

It's free on Amazon Prime. Highly recommend. Score is by Nick Cave, so it's really good too.

Same director just did Outlaw King, the movie about Robert the Bruce, for Netflix. I do NOT recommend that one. It sucks something fierce.

 

[Trotsky]

@Fawlty this is a better trailer

 

[Fawlty]

@Fawlty this is a better trailer

Like a completely different film lol

That's crazy

 

[Fedorable]

My dog never barks or growls and rarely makes any noise.

He was so happy to see me he howled twice and then immediately farted loudly.

 

[Andy Capp]

Got booked for a big show tonight. Closed up shop, smoked a blunt walked the French Quarter listening to the Christmas time is here instrumental (sue me) and I come across this.

A drunk Santa on crutches while that rose tinted ass song plays.

It's a sign. Break a leg.

 

[PolishHeadlock]

It's free on Amazon Prime. Highly recommend. Score is by Nick Cave, so it's really good too.

Same director just did Outlaw King, the movie about Robert the Bruce, for Netflix. I do NOT recommend that one. It sucks something fierce.

@Fawlty I liked the movie as well. Caught randomly on HBO a while ago. Ben Foster is an awesome actor imo

 

[InternetHero]

I moved this here because it's really a pretty huge digression from the thread topic, but I think it's an interesting discussion.

I have a great deal of respect for Bertrand Russell, as does (I must presume) @Jack V Savage. But his mislabeling of Lenin was pretty glaring. He referred to him as, though a generationally "great" man, a narrowly focused and rigid ideologue who was propelled to his station by his being a superior diplomat and administrator than his contemporaries. This is in star contrast to the portrayal of Lenin by Kropotkin, who held Lenin as a sort of apolitical tyrant.

Both were incorrect, but Kropotkin was probably closer, and I think the two views have been synthesized accurately by Noam Chomsky (who I frankly hold in higher intellectual regard than Russell, Lenin, or Kropotkin) who describes Lenin as a right-wing distortion of the Russian communist movement. Lenin was no sort of ideologue in the least, and his Marxian applications differed greatly in his life, both theoretically and in practice. To this end, he was a sort of ideological reactionary in that he never held fast to the brilliance of State and Revolution. However, he was also no great administrator: that was Trotsky. Lenin was brilliant and ruthless, but he was also lacking in organization.

Good move.

As well, I see your point there. However, part of my admiration for Russell's choice there is he was going against the thoughts of a lot of fellow travelers, and had less time to analyze the impact or literature regarding Lenin. Chomsky had the benefit of a lot more history as well as some evolving views of the modern liberal left.

When it comes to how to exactly classify Lenin, I am not sure where a proper discussion could begin. The more "Marxist" left is always reticent to own diehard figures, as that segment of the social left is savvy enough to know that a lack of definition means a difficulty in attacking the idea or cause. If only the Neo-cons had caught on in time!

Now, if I am going to consider such a strong personal paradigm shift, I need to know a few things:

Who is a proper, non-reactionary leader from the time period, and today? (Besides Trotsky, if you wouldn't mind.)

What makes Lenin reactionary besides his tyranny and despotic maneuvers in your opinion?

Further, I need to look it up later, but there was a really exceptional biography of Stalin written recently that points towards his use of The Holodomor and other atrocities being initiated to reach Marxist ends as Stalin saw it, not simply to consolidate power. Although, later-Stalin has proved a figure hard to study, as he brushed, massaged, and stole the records so thoroughly with an eye towards history. I'll try to find it (Probably) in 24 odd hours.

 

[Gregolian]

The owner of the bar I used to work at is a goddamn coward.

Sent him a very polite text to resign and apologized for not doing it in person. Ended by asking when I can pick up my check and whether it would include the like 4 hours everyone on staff got short changed out of from their last check on it and he hasn't gotten back to me... I sent it at 3:00PM on Sunday....

Fucking puto pendejo pito sucking coward.

 

[Fawlty]

The owner of the bar I used to work at is a goddamn coward.

Sent him a very polite text to resign and apologized for not doing it in person. Ended by asking when I can pick up my check and whether it would include the like 4 hours everyone on staff got short changed out of from their last check on it and he hasn't gotten back to me... I sent it at 3:00PM on Sunday....

Fucking puto pendejo pito sucking coward.

Fuck that guy, good on you for not accepting that nonsense.

 

[Gregolian]

Fuck that guy, good on you for not accepting that nonsense.

The funniest thing is that this coming Saturday is Latin night.

This will sound racist as fuck but certain theme nights NEVER go well and Latin night is one of them in our town. Last bar that did it, the one I worked at almost 4 years ago now... like 3-4 dudes got fucking stabbed during it and they had to break up 10 fights.

And unlike other states WA requires if you are a nightclub or bar that only primarily sells booze you have to be shut down by 2.... and most places don't open till 8pm at the earliest... 10 fights in fucking 6 hours Jesus.

Part of me thinks he's shitting his pants because I quit, another experienced bouncer just flew back to Hawaii for his main job of captaining a cargo barge for 6 weeks at a time, the 3rd experience bouncer told me and the dude from Hawaii "you bros quit I'm quitting cause I won't have you guys watching my back". So, of the 5 bouncers he had on staff essentially 3 have told him to "fuck off" and of the 3 bartenders on staff 2 are probably going to quit soon as well.

I hope he fucking begs me to stick around... will post what I wrote for my resignation because I think it was well written:

I wanted to do this in person yesterday but wasn't able to. I've heard rumblings that you might be looking to let me go. As such I have been looking for work at other nightclubs and bars and have other opportunities presented to me that I am going to try and pursue. I had a try out shift last night and it felt good and that is why I was unable to do this in person, I was essentially offered the job and chose to accept it.

When can I come get my final check with the hours that were not on the last check in error as well as the shifts I've worked since then?

Thank you

I COULD have done the ranting raving telling him I don't want to be a part of his failing business but chose the polite method.