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Post by EdoBosnar on May 2, 2024 4:16:45 GMT -5
OK, a little late to the party, but here are my Top 10 albums of 2004 then. This was definitely a much less strong year for albums than 1994 was, as far as the music I liked is concerned anyway. #10 - Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of LeonI don't hate Kings of Leon. I won't go out of my way to listen to them...but I don't hate them. So that's good. #9 - Kasabian by Kasabian This, on the other hand...that's like nails on a chalkboard. My response to this is almost the opposite: while not necessarily nails on chalkboard, I'm definitely not very fond of Kings of Leon. On the other hand, I'd never heard of Kasabian until now but that sample track Confessor posted isn't bad.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 2, 2024 1:50:50 GMT -5
Oh, man. Condolences on your loss, tartanphantom, and yeah, Eddy is a big loss for music in general. And the news about Tandy also gives me a twinge of sadness, too - I used to love ELO so much for a time.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 15:44:03 GMT -5
This is the best mayonnaise...
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 15:16:00 GMT -5
Looking over the list of 2009 movies, I'd probably go with Black Dynamite, too (I only got around to watching for the first time last Christmas). Although I really like Up as well. Don't like Inglourious Basterds as much as most other people seem to. And one that gets a kind-of/sort-of honorable mention from me is Julie & Julia - I may have noted this in another thread here previously, but if this had just been a straight-up biopic about Julia and Paul Child (played by Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci) during their time in Paris, I would unreservedly think it's an excellent film. I was completely uninterested in the B-plot (or is it the A-plot?) about the woman blogging her way through Child's cookbook in the early '00s.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 14:50:35 GMT -5
Batman #230 (DC, 1971)
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 9:44:45 GMT -5
1994.1 Teenager of the Year - Frank Black(...) That's a really good album, but I never liked his solo material as much as the Pixies. And he'll always be Black Francis to me...
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 9:24:53 GMT -5
First of May, International Workers' Day... How could I resist listening to L'Internationale, as every year? (...) Yeah, it's pretty good, but as far as socialist ballads go, I've always preferred Bandiera Rossa; here's an excellent rendition by a Belgian musician from her balcony back in 2020 during the Covid times...
And possibly my favorite version, by a Croatian punk band, KUD Idijoti, from 1990:
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 6:12:59 GMT -5
Definite 'yea' from me; I've had several series or runs bound, including - yes - Logan's Run... ...as well as the original Charlton run of E-man... ...which I think has been collected into a now out-of-print tpb once, but I also wanted the various back-up stories and letters pages: Since, like me, you're not interested in the resale value of your books, this is a really great way to go, because it's so much better and easier to have them on a shelf rather than bagged and stuffed in boxes that you rarely feel like pulling out.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 2:17:30 GMT -5
I have a preference for some branded stuff, e.g. I like Hovis bread, and Diet Coke. But I am absolutely happy with generic, non-branded cereals, biscuits, orange juice, etc. A non-branded, generic orange juice tastes just as nice as a branded one that is double the price.Yup. From what a friend of mine tells me (he's a senior manager for a major grocery chain), their "home brand" orange juice is made by the same company that makes a certain big brand. It's just the packaging that changes. Yep. That's something I recall learning in high school (in a personal finance class) - back in the 1980s. It's particularly true for canned goods, frozen foods and sometimes even pasta. Since bread has also been mentioned, we always buy bread in a bakery, although most supermarkets here (in Croatia) sell baked goods made by one of the bakery chains, and a few even have their own in-house bakeries. Packaged (i.e., in a plastic bag), brand-name bread is not a popular thing over here.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 16:45:00 GMT -5
Yeah, Prince Hal's "A Comic Lover's Memories" was really good. And, yeah, fourthing the missing of certain members, esp. brutalis, among other things because he started and maintained a number of really awesome threads, like "Remember When: comic book remembrances" (a nice companion to Prince Hal's aforementioned thread) or "Which One?"
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 15:12:44 GMT -5
Prince Hal
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 12:38:33 GMT -5
I have a copy of that issue signed by Chaykin as well, form when I met him at Gem City Comic Con a couple years prior to Mike Grell being there. I had like 4-5 books signed by him and commissioned a Hawkgirl sketch form him. -M Yeah, he signed two other books for me and drew me a sketch of Monark (which I know I've posted somewhere else here at least once before - can't remember which thread, though). While searching for something else here, MRPs_Missives, I stumbled onto the post I mentioned above: it's in The Stories Behind Your Signed Classic Comics thread back in 2018 (images of the sketch and the three books he signed are posted there).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 12:27:05 GMT -5
Doing a little thread necromancy here to post some recentish SF paperback covers that I've always liked because they have such a retro look. To wit, the first-run pb covers on John Scalzi's Old Man's War series, all featuring lovely paintings by John Harris:
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 7:12:32 GMT -5
And I continue my discovery of new (to me) music by clicking on eye-candy album cover art; in this case, it's Sweetback, by Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones...
Funky jazz guitar - definitely sweet, and so far my favorite of these algorithmic recommendations I've been getting from YouTube recently.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 4:55:23 GMT -5
So a few weeks ago, in another thread, I noted that I was interested in picking up the Astro City Metrobooks, and - as often happens when we talk about things on the forum - later on that same day I came across a very reasonably priced used copy of vol. 1 online and snapped it up, and it just arrived... (the banana was purchased separately...)
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