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#51 Re: Guns N' Roses » KATARINA BENZOVA vs. GUNS N ROSES; GUNDAM TOURING SERVICES U.S. LLC,;G » 84 weeks ago
I really don’t know how he survives. He comes off as both an idiot, creep and a scumbag.
I wouldn’t be surprised if his wife divorces him. Seems like he’s been cheating on her.
#52 Re: Guns N' Roses » KATARINA BENZOVA vs. GUNS N ROSES; GUNDAM TOURING SERVICES U.S. LLC,;G » 84 weeks ago
This is awful. I've only read 20 pages into this. But how the heck in the me too era do you not have a HR dept for this stuf? It just makes them seem like they are stuck in the stone ages.
There's that other part about Fernando claiming that he sometimes give people credit for photos.
Their problem for years (Axl's actually) that he has never had decent management aside from the Azoff period. And it finally bites him.
If worse comes to wear, Fernando will be gone from management. Those 3 main guys (Axl , Slash and Duff) know they need each other if they want to continue touring in the future.
#53 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 85 weeks ago
I'm just ready for Chinese era to be over. Honestly, maybe I've been grouchy lately, but it's pretty disappointing if you look at the totality of the entire thing. Even the reheated leftovers disappoint for various reasons. I can't really blame the suspect production on anyone but Guns. And yeah, the last minute or whatever of the General is really rough, like abrasive to my ears .
These guys can't (looking at you Team Brazil) release an album anyway, so they are basically a greatest hits band whenver they are going back on tour.
And I totally forgot the insanity of you guys trading/leaking whatever (sorry I totally glossed over most of those insults).
#54 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 85 weeks ago
That riff tho.
Yeah, the lyrics are the problem in that. It lets down the music. If you just listen to the music and ignore the lyrics. It's not bad at all. It's not worse than My World.
#55 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 85 weeks ago
Another professional experience to share, I work with kids with special needs for a living and have to deal with public school districts from time to time. I met with the director of special education in a local school district in an attempt to set up a collaboration. To paraphrase bluntly, she stated that the school district would never hire me and that they have no interest in what my facility does for children. She took it a step farther and state that the public school serves these children very well and services like mine weren't needed.
I am intaking public school students on a weekly basis these days. They come to me by choice. The difference is that people are forced into public schools. These parents express extreme dissatisfaction with public schools and their programs for special needs. I don't blame her. The public school system has turned into a monster. It's not about the children, it's about how to expand and advance the school system with little regard for how they serve the community.
As someone who once was a huge proponent of public schools in general, I must confess that it is losing my support. I'm fed up.
I have a friend who has a special needs kids and that goes to a special needs school. From what she has told me, they are pretty incompetent and driven by money and not the well being of the kid. They get money from the state (she lives in NJ) and that seems to be the driving force. Plus they stick her kid in (he has a speech impediment) with all the other special needs kids, some of them are worse off than he is.
So yeah, I'm not surprised at the dissatisfaction by parents at the public school system or the fact that your services weren't needed. Their priorites are screwed up.
Lol Mitch, it took me a minute to understand what you meant by your daughters friend
They have just ruined public schools. Old school teachers are leaving in droves, mainly because students are out of control and low pay. We’re really seeing the chickens coming home to roost with how political the education system has become. Liberal parents I know are putting their kids into Christian private schools. Never thought I’d see that. Kids need to be kids, not neurotic activists.
Two nieces of mine have been sexually harassed by trans kids (girls pretending to be boys), the same MO, different states. The youngest wants out of school completely and my bro is considering home school
They are just not getting taught life skills to me where they can survive on their own. It's not a bad idea by your bro. Ask your nieces what they know about a general topic and I'd bet it's a lot less than you knew at that age. Public schools have become soft, it's hard to explain.
#56 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 85 weeks ago
Trump refusing to answer questions, attacking the judge and the DA and blatantly ignoring any of the civil rules of court shows once again what an orange turd he is…
Burn in hell dude
It is what he does and always has. Basically just attacks everyone else and name calls. He should not be allowed to run again anyway.
#57 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 85 weeks ago
After the release of this set of songs... Absurd to Monsters...I think it's now much clearer on what the A and B lists really were.
Fans always took it as A list = Big Guns, B list= everything else.
It's more like the A list is fully fleshed out songs and the B list is all the 1 verse and a chorus on a loop stuff plus the various instrumentals, sketches, and obvious throwaways.
No one had any idea at the time that big guns would actually be on this B list.
You mentioned this before but Ezrin was correct there were very few hits on this album of mostly deep cuts. The other problem is that a lot of these songs lack something that puts it over the edge. It lacks hooks for an album of mostly deep cuts. I mean a lot of it is good but I don't feel the need to listen to it repeatedly because it's catchy.
Even Slash and Duff can't save the reheated leftovers. I mean they are nice songs because I'm a hardcore fan. Have casuals listen to them and you'd get the " uh what is that " reaction.
#58 Re: The Garden » Bobby Knight dead at 83 » 86 weeks ago
Sigh. Another guy from my childhood falls by the wayside.
For the NBA question; it’s totally different than college. There is a shit ton more travel and you are dealing with pros as opposed to teaching kids fresh out of HS.
Knight was way too divisive after he allegedly choked the kid or whatever he did to get from Indiana. No one was touching him for a while. He was sort of radioactive
#59 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 86 weeks ago
Whoever is making these decisions needs to step back and get someone in there who has an actual plan and knows how to execute it.
The leaks were the only good thing that came from this. They screwed up every step of this process. They can blame the vinyl plant, but these songs should never have been released like this to begin with
You and I both know which group is responsible for this. It’s funny because the part about dumping this as a B side is just tone deafness on them understanding their fanbase, especially the hardcore portion, which they revile.
#60 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 86 weeks ago
The Killer - Very entertaining. Movie about film making. Not very deep.
Killers of the Flower Moon - The real movie is all subtext. Main text beats you over the head.
Killer=the Fincher one w/Fassbender. I'm looking forward to that.
On Killers of the Flower Moon, is it worth sitting through? I still haven't finished the Irishman and the runtime scared me off.
Seen a few :
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: weird, almost psychadelic trip. There's a lot of stuff that people may not get. It's basically a critique about the American Dream or just a darker look at "flower power". I need to watch this again.
Shaft (1971 orignal) RIP Richard Roundtree. I've seen this like once or twice. Always liked the sequel. But I get why this is so infleuntial. This is the first (or most mainstream) "blaxplotation" films. It goes over the difference in social conditions (subtely) between black america and white america at the time. Ok, it's not THAT deep but that's what I got from it this viewing. The plot is almost lifted from one of those 40s-50s film noirs. But what makes it work is this: shots of NYC in the early 70s and Roundtree is just a cool cat as Shaft. Oh great score by Issac Hayes as well.
Sleepy Hollow; Interesting and fun film with Johnny Depp in his prime and playing another eccentric character. This thing oozes gothic mystery, spookiness and anything else that'll get you into the Halloween mood. The violence earned the R rating. This was definitely not a kids film. I'm not sure this is a classic though. The end is sort of a clusterfuck or things that happen too fast. And I hate to point out this next part but having Christina Ricci play Depp's love interest has an ick factor since she looks pretty young in the film. They should have cast someone older.
Oh I did like the contrast between the Ricci' character's spirtual(maybe pagan side) against Depp's reasoned, scientific based character.
