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by Rabid Garfunkel
Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:23 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: By the Fruit of Another (I Am Tempted reviews)
Replies: 73
Views: 55773

Really digging on Kelvinator's entry right now (Hundred Mile High City by Ocean Colour Scene, anyone?), and Josh Woodward's lyrics are pretty damned awesome too. Reviews to follow, eventually. But those two (and our Soylent Spuds entry--be people or not!) are keeping me highly entertained through an...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:20 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: By the Fruit of Another (I Am Tempted reviews)
Replies: 73
Views: 55773

soylent spuds: and i didn't realize there would be so many political songs this week... but i should've since it is right after election week... the music is ok... i'm guessin' this is spud... all the sounds sound like samples... but i know that's not usually your style???... i don't know if you ch...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:29 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: Which half of the Stone - Left or Right? Prefight.
Replies: 32
Views: 13626

Johnny gets Rabid. Garfunkel gets $. And as soon as a naming convention is found, I'm tempted to submit it. 8)
by Rabid Garfunkel
Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:16 pm
Forum: Complaints and Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion Box
Replies: 112
Views: 47464

Are you trying to out fox me on the random and inchoherent Rabid? Cause when I was 13 I met this cute Temple Baptist girl and we kissed in the YMCA pool...my first romantic kiss, which led to a quick embarrassed trip to the mens room. Ces't Pas? Say Vray, yeah. Posting between waking up and the fir...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:18 pm
Forum: Complaints and Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion Box
Replies: 112
Views: 47464

Leaf wrote:why are you calling me "Johnny"?

In most of Canada, Joe Doe. In Quebec, Peppe LePeu.
Ah politics, heh. Gotta love them Quebeçoise (jeez, I mutilated that one).

So then, change the "Johnny ADD" to "Joe ADD" and I learn a little more slang... thanks :lol:
by Rabid Garfunkel
Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:45 pm
Forum: Complaints and Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion Box
Replies: 112
Views: 47464

WARNING. Actual suggestion. Heh, beat you to it, Johnny ADD :wink: Like, the third post in this thread. OT, what do Canadians (does using Canuck work to cover the population of the entire country, or does it just earn a punch in the nose?) use for the generic male name? Like "John Doe" is...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:14 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Songfighters of Gor - fantasy, sci-fi and horror must-reads
Replies: 119
Views: 66120

Bad SK adaptations far outweigh the good. In fact I'm not entirely sure there is a really good one. He sure as hell can't write for film (Maximum Overdrive? Please!) It's been mentioned before, but The Dark Half t'wasn't half bad onscreen. And I put "Apt Pupil" and "Creepshow" o...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:04 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Songfighters of Gor - fantasy, sci-fi and horror must-reads
Replies: 119
Views: 66120

Hitchhikers is hilarious but I found the books dwindled as they went down the line. I remember reading the first one on the subway on my way to high school, many moons ago, and looking up at the people in the car staring at me after I would guffaw loudly at points in the book. Laughed my ass off in...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:16 pm
Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
Topic: The Gift of Music (SF's Holiday Cover Challenge)
Replies: 487
Views: 147189

For the curious, here's the Primitive Screwheads song list links: The directory: http://www.pats-lies.com/sf-mp3s/ Jello Biafra/Mojo Nixon - Buy My Snake Oil http://www.pats-lies.com/sf-mp3s/01%20Buy%20My%20Snake%20Oil.mp3 Rubber Chicken Lollipop - Over the Rails http://www.pats-lies.com/sf-mp3s/Ove...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:01 pm
Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
Topic: The Gift of Music (SF's Holiday Cover Challenge)
Replies: 487
Views: 147189

Personally, I'm digging what I got, hadn't heard any of them before, whee!

As with everyone else, if you need one or more of the mp3s from the Primitive Screwheads list, pass the PM through the Niveonator and they'll get posted in reasonable timeliness.
by Rabid Garfunkel
Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:54 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Songfighters of Gor - fantasy, sci-fi and horror must-reads
Replies: 119
Views: 66120

The Orson Scott Card writing technique:

Write one awesome book. Write passable sequel. Write unreadable third book. Repeat with new series. And repeat again. And again.
by Rabid Garfunkel
Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:27 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Songfighters of Gor - fantasy, sci-fi and horror must-reads
Replies: 119
Views: 66120

Varley r0x0rz! Ahem, sorry. Though I'm more comfortable with the sex in his later books ( Steel Beach , The Golden Globe ) as it's... more familiar? Wish I could pull a specific example for comparison out of my memory, but his earlier books, the sex especially was written very... '70s feeling. Like ...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:13 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Songfighters of Gor - fantasy, sci-fi and horror must-reads
Replies: 119
Views: 66120

Heh, cool. This thread, whee! Terry Pratchett has a new book out: Going Postal . Favorite Dick: tie between Ubik and Dr. Bloodmoney Tim Powers: I'll start something on his Last Call / Expiration Date / Earthquake Weather bundle real soon now. IMHO, more enjoyable than Anubis Gates and The Drawing of...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:59 am
Forum: Sidefights and Highlights
Topic: The Gift of Music (SF's Holiday Cover Challenge)
Replies: 487
Views: 147189

Rock. Okay, now that the assignments are coming down, what's the protocol for hearing unfamiliar songs? Do we contact the poster via a blind drop spy-style or just start adding links in our declaration post? Who's the surprise for, is I guess, my pressing question.

Oh, and, sweeeeeeet, Niv.
by Rabid Garfunkel
Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:46 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: Them Dukes, them Dukes... (Moon Shine Reviews)
Replies: 68
Views: 46544

I see I'm not the only one, heh. Bummer that nothing came of it.

Now that the deadline's passed, I can ask:

Did anyone else have Van Morrison in their head singing the Dukes of Hazzard theme?
by Rabid Garfunkel
Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:01 pm
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: What is a song?
Replies: 29
Views: 10401

j$ wrote: As Laurie Anderosn sang 'Language is a virus'
Where'd all the hyperfocused nitpicking go? :wink:

Language is a virus from outer space.

Which might change the meaning it carries in your example. Or I'm just shocked at the Chinese Opera. :lol:
by Rabid Garfunkel
Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:43 am
Forum: Books
Topic: The Da Vinci Code
Replies: 115
Views: 57213

I'll skip it in favor of American Gods. Which, Rabid, is now next on my list, after I finish the 2nd Gunslinger book (and it looks like I'll have to check out The Talisman too). Dude, flattered, thanks. Makes me want to write up some Tim Powers books on here (well, over there, you know?) to spread ...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:25 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: The Da Vinci Code
Replies: 115
Views: 57213

tviyh wrote:...in the #songfight! IRC channel, comments like that get stuck in the channel topic...
Thanks, thusly educated I am. Cool, heh.
by Rabid Garfunkel
Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:15 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: The Da Vinci Code
Replies: 115
Views: 57213

Holy crap, I drop out for a couple of days and boom, I'm actually engaged in conversations :evil: Too funny! j$: first read thought it was a direct address, yeah, second read saw it wasn't. Replied in the same all-encompassing generic "we". No worries. tviyh: man, that's some weird quoting...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:33 am
Forum: Books
Topic: The Da Vinci Code
Replies: 115
Views: 57213

Absolutely agree with you Rabid, especially since it's about a book, but equally one shouldn't get shouty when someone replies to that hard-on in a way other than the one you were expecting. I would reccommend trying to rephrase your message in a more acceptable form, if you believe that strongly i...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:58 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: The Da Vinci Code
Replies: 115
Views: 57213

2. Stop using the word "fascist". The only people who use it (outside of the context of real Fascism) are retarded teens. Uh-oh... does using "cryptofascist" make me a retarded teen (on my what, third swing at that age?). I know of too many retarded post -teens out there, too. P...
by Rabid Garfunkel
Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:26 pm
Forum: Currently Digging
Topic: Velvet Elvis
Replies: 15
Views: 5564

Oh yeaaaaaaah. Forgot about that one (duhhhh). Now the first thing out of my mouth at work tonight will be "This is not my beautiful stapler!"

Even if I misremebered that line, heh. Thanks for the memories, yo.