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Hmm, I appear to be developing into the resident Tool Easter-Egg sceptic around here. As that post itself points out, that track re-arrangement is unlikely to be intentional as it splits Dispostion/Reflection/Triad up. Those were conceived as one song, split into 3 for the album, but played as a si...

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For me, middle class means that I'm too poor for college and not poor enough for financial aid.

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I cannot believe that no one has mentioned the holy gift yet. tl;dr, some fans that dig into this kind of thing believe that, going along with the Fibonacci motifs in Lateralus , the album is in itself a puzzle, and not in complete form when you first get it. To listen to the album as it's actually ...

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No. See Rule #2 -ST

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Jorge Luis Borges. I've kept his collected short fictions always by my bedside since I got it; its probably my most prized book. Explaining his stories wouldn't do them fair justice, but suffice to say they're mysterious, beautiful, short and fascinating. They're filled with symbols, mysteries, laby...

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R-654304-1170195233.jpeg This whole album. All of it. It jerks a tear, then crushes your soul, and then slowly mends it back together again. Musically speaking, it's a mix of trip-hop, ambient, spoken word, and just a dash of breakcore. If you're in the mood for a sitting-down musical experience, n...

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First music memory is Star Guitar, by The Chemical Brothers. Every time I took a ride in his car I would beg him to play Come With Us over. and over. and over again. Sometimes he refused and played Fatboy Slim or Soul Coughing instead. But I had no problems with that.

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>The Mars Volta is supposed to be coming out with a new record, but then again they said that about this year too. But I'm sure it'll be incredible. >Swans has another new album, "The Seer" coming out next year. Can't fucking wait. >I think Animal Collective is going back into the studio, ...

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When I eat scrambled or fried eggs, I get this feeling all over like I'm covered in grease. It's nasty and then after Sunday breakfasts I usually spend the rest of the sunday feeling gross.

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Sooo. I was thinking of giving a Gaiman book to a friend for a birthday. She mentioned only liking fantasy books (as in. i think she's only read HP books or the like). I'm kinda undecided on which book to give her. Any idea which would be a good one for a pregnant birthday-lady? :mrgreen: I believe...

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You can, but in the mean time I'm also gonna try this "Veggie Food" book Amazon recommended.

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I like this a lot, and a copy can be had for around $5. Sold. Thanks a lot.

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Hey foodies, I was wondering if you could recommend a good cookbook for me. I'm moving out soon, and I can't cook worth a damn. I screwed up my microwave oatmeal last night, to give you an idea of what we're working with here. But I'm going to have to learn to cook on my own here soon, so here are t...

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I will third Clive Barker, particularly The Hellbound Heart, The Damnation Game, Coldheart Canyon, and for the young-ens The Thief of Always. You have to be careful though, pretty much anything other than The Thief of Always and Abarat will have graphic depictions of various kinds of sex. Warning: ...

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In b4...

never mind, I'll just do it. If anyone hates these kinds of games, you should try I wanna be the guy. Easily the simplest, most straightforward game I've ever played.

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I'd advise going for it. Get the PS3. The disc games are alright, but PSN is where it's at for me. It's got a wealth of exclusive experimental and arty games that I, personally enjoy.

LittleBigPlanet is not as amazing as you might believe.

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I made a LittleBigPlanet level of the first 5 cantos of the Inferno once. I can almost guarantee it's more accurate. Maybe accuracy doesn't translate to fun, though. At any rate, they relied a bit too heavily on the smoky effect, but at the end I liked the horrible sludgy goo world that Cerberus was...

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I think most all modern BIOS'es support booting from USB, which should mean that you can install to the USB drive from pretty much any liveCD. Since space is limited, I'd use Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux. You will probably have to do manual partitioning, which isn't too difficult.

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*twitch* you...put down....

Okay, moving on, is there anything dreamlike/surreal about the novel? Because if so I'm in. That's my area of interest currently.

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I was shopping for a new copy of Infinte Jest on Amazon and the book came up. It looked intriguing. Is the entire book accounts of abduction, rape and murder? I'd be a little apprehensious about reading that, then. Also, I was dissapointed because I was expecting 2666 to be like a year and I thought...

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Well, you got me there. You won the topic. Show's over, folks. Let's roll up the carpet.

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I hate that feeling of loving an author but not having anyone in the world to discuss the author with. I feel like that about rather everything. Sorry to say, I haven't read Robbins either. But I have heard of him, which is a start, and I'm pretty sure he's a postmodernist, so I'll get around to rea...

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Are there any other long (as in 10+ minute) songs people can recommend? So far, I've had the most fun with "The Poet And The Pendulum" by Nightwish. Some of the most fun I've had with the game has been obscenely long ambient music. Go figure. Also, Godspeed You! Black Emperor = raep tiem ...

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I'll be at the Indiana one!

I can't wait.

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I've heard about that as well. Definitely contact Sony. I've had a lot of success writing a letter to the biggest guy you can fine. It sounds crazy, but it works well. Write a letter to the CEO of Sony in the US (or wherever you are) and tell him about your problem. That's assuming it's not under wa...

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I don't feel so well anymore.

I skipped past the last half of the goofus thing, but I read all of the care bears one.

I mean, damn. That guy who wrote it seems pretty intelligent. It's a shame he had to use his powers for evil.

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Feel free to raaage at this theory all you want, but isn't it possible that something could be so ambiguous that one can see more or less anything in it? Imagine, if you will, Finnegan's Wake as a perfect literary analogue of a Rorschach test. It's possible to get anything from it, but the literary ...

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I'm refusing to believe that you're for real here. This must be a hoax of some sort. I personally haven't attempted the book yet, as I failed to comprehend Gravity's Rainbow . Besides, don't you need to speak like 15 languages like Joyce in order to grasp the book and its up level puns? Also, you sh...

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Aren't the hip 18-24 year olds way too far into Hulu and torrents to really give a shit? I suppose the ones that weren't would be totally up for this, though. Keep in mind that this is the group of 18-24 year olds that would actually participate in a focus group.

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I couldn't stand how in the novel Jane is inherently superior to anyone she meets, and all adult and authority figures are snarling harpies whom Jane brings down with her amazing craftiness (even at, what, 9? 10?) and anyone with any hint of Jane's level of competence is out-and-out killed, like Hel...

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headprogrammingczar wrote:Edit: I am curious to see what list would contain Memento.

1. Memento
2. Memento
3. Memento
4. Memento
5. Memento, in reverse.

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I think the point in the game lies in discovering the neat oddities that occur when you mess with stuff. I read about a way you can set stuff on fire, but I haven't found it yet. Though, I'm hoping they add an update one day that adds a bit more something to the game. What if there were randomly gen...

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I just got this today and it is pretty excellent. It's a PSN downloadable game that features a worm type guy named BOY and he can stretch and grow and eat things. When you stretch, your length gets uploaded to GIRL, who keeps track of the total length of all players in the world and grows accordingl...

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ParanoidAndroid wrote:My relatively new and underused last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/ohnopigeons

Seeing as how you're the last person to post a profile, I added you and got a Very High. Cool!

Also:
http://www.last.fm/user/robotinator

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My English teacher on the subject of Moby Dick: "Oh God, not more blubber!"

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I'm doing the IB Diploma, so i could have chosen any random topic to do my Extended Essay on. I chose the lighting in a midsummer night's dream, because a) i'm head of the wasps (tech team) at school, and b) i love AMSND. I'm almost finished the 4000 word essay, but it's heavy going. i might post i...

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I wholeheartedly second the recommendation of A Beautiful Machine. It's some very high-quality stuff. I've listened to their whole discography now, and it's worth paying for.

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I'm of the opinion that the book is too short, myself. I'm guessing that you're referring to the second act of the story, when the Count is in Rome. I'd be inclined to agree, as compared to the opening and then the last half of the novel, it's fucktastically boring. But it sets up a lot of sub plots...

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@psyck0:

I skimmed over you post and thought you said that Leaves of Grass was a book about gay love.

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I put down Spook Country because it got lame and boring. I thought it was gonna be some sort of badass post-cyberpunk, but it's kinda like the cyberpunk party ended and this book's left picking up trash. A better description: there's a lot of themes of paranoia and fear in post-9/11 America and at t...

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