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Can I just go on record and say I HATE early shows? I mean like 6 pm shows. I just got home from seeing Titus Andronicus and it slays me I'm home so early.
Same club is pulling the same BS Thursday, as well.
I wish shows would start earlier! Well, at least during the week.
I HATE going to shows on work days and knowing the closer wont go on till 10pm and ill be out till at least midnight.
I wish shows would start at 7pm on the dot, and the main act goes on around 8:00-8:30 and over by 10. EDM shows are even worse and can go until 3am if the closer doesnt go on till 1am.
Every once in a while I do or think something that makes me realize how much of a music snob I am. I just posted on facebook about my excitement that Lucinda Williams was playing in Arizona again. One of my friends (a total hipster) liked the post and then I got made because I know for a fact the only reason he knows who Lucinda Williams is is M Ward.
I don't want to argue about the subject. It's nice that everyone knows he is a bad guy but people that are in charge are well aware of that. Invisible Children is a questionable charity that will cause more bad than good. Stopping Kony will not change anything. Just because Osama Bin Laden is dead doesn't mean terrorism ceases to exist.
It just pisses me off that Justin Bieber/random celebrities tweet something and people actually act like they care about something that has been going on for a long time.
i see where you're coming from. ive spent about an hour researching the subject tonight myself and have read all kinds of negative things about the activism just like you.
however, i think its great that celebrities can use their tweets/fb for a good cause. and it may have been going on for a long time, but if it wasnt for those celebrities, hundreds of thousands of people would today still have no idea who Kony is, I know I didnt.
either way, the video is VERY well done and deserves a watch.
the video is very well done and that's the point. people act on emotion not knowledge. Invisible Children will pocket most of the money and then exploit Ugandans for more propaganda. What will US military intervention do besides cause more death and destruction? If Kony is captured/killed there will be someone to take his place.
Who will be killed trying to capture Kony? Ugandan children.
It's a sad reality but there isn't much you can do. Donate your money to a charity that helps Ugandans not one that campaigns for death.
I came to work early to do something... that I forgot the password for. Fail.
EDIT: So I've been using the past hour or so to check out some of my accounts and such... I login to my Chase card. (Back story: It went MIA in November when my purse was lost/stolen in Cali. I called for a replacement and have not received it. I am busy/lazy/afraid of the telephone and for some reason I can't request a new one online.. so I haven't replaced the card again). So I login and realize that I do have a balance. Netflix and my Kindle services get autocharged there- which I completely forgot. Luckily, I have a $25 autopayment which actually was over paying Chase for a few months. Until February 6th. Apparently I bought Amazon Prime??? I mean, I have been thinking about getting it but had NO idea I actually had bought it. I am really glad that I reviewed my charges (I usually don't)!!
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
That's a photo of the "non-profit" d-bags that made this film. Calling these guys "shady" is not doing justice to just how scummy they are. They profit off of death, plain and simple. A small portion of their revenue goes to actual charities and they refuse to give the BBB the proper information to accurately investigate the numerous claims against the Invisible Children "charity" group.
The video is from 2003, for the record. They are basically taking something 9 years old and presenting it as a current event.
They're misrepresent the current state of Northern Uganda with this money-grab bullsh!t. Northern Uganda has been free of LRA war and violence for 5 years now. Kony is on the run, if he's not already dead, and has been on the run for more than a year. Recruitment of children to the LRA is down 80%, and not because these douchey war mongerers decided to "open our eyes," it's because the Ugandan military intervened years ago. They are grouping together multiple conflicts and presenting it as a single war.
This is an ACTUAL quote from the Invisible Children spokesperson after being questioned on their shady tactics: “I agree with you that leading people to believe that the war is still happening in Uganda is not ethically right. It's something we've been addressing internally, focusing on getting all staff and supporters on the same page (of communication)." Nice.
The fact of the matter is these conflicts (plural) have been in the news for years, but people don't give a sh!t because it doesn't directly impact their day-to-day lives. But, when celebrities start tweeting about something it's all-of-a-sudden the biggest effing deal EVARRRR! Is Joseph Kony a bad man? Yes, he is. But presenting the Ugandan government, who is guilty of mass murder, kidnapping and using child soldiers, as faultless in this conflict is irresponsible. Invisible Children just picked one side of a conflict whose two participants are both bad. Joseph Kony will be dead within the next 6 months (again, if he isn't already killed) and his LRA group has little-to-no power in Africa, THAT should be the news.
I don't mean to be a jerkstore, but this just pisses me off. This isn't news, it's been an ongoing struggle that no one ever seemed to care about until it caught the eyes and ears of celebrities. It's a sad indictment on our American culture and basically leaves me hopeless that my generation has the brain power and common sense to succeed as a whole.
P.S. - Did Bacon really get banned?
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Bonz!!! You gotta keep up with that stuff lady! ;D But really, im pretty crap at taking care of my cards too - my checking/debit card was expiring in February, and round about the 11th I though - gee i wonder where my replacement is??? So I called my bank and they were like, we sent you the replacement in November 2011.... well I never got that, so can you send me a new one and STAT? Im getting snotty messages from Netflix and Apple that my card's about to expire.
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Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
My finger hurts. Fell down at Dropkick Murphys last night AFTER I go out of the pit. It was still kind of pushy and shoulder to shoulder up front by the stage, but someone hit me in a way (think they were trying to puch in front of me) that landed me on my butt almost in the mosh pit. IMMEDIATELY a person on each side of me helped me back up. YAY super nice mosh people LOL. I had been drinking whiskey and pushed the guy that knocked me down.. I don't think he had even realized he had done it, oops.
I really want to bang Gillian Jacobs all of a sudden. Don't get me wrong, I've always wanted to bang her, but I had been more of an Alison Brie fan. We'll see if the new season of Community reverts me back to Alison. Until then, I'm gonna watch Choke.
Hey, now, I was running around Dave and Busters playing games with my six year old with a beer in hand a week ago! haha. Unless the place it a straight up bar (no familiy dining), this could be being blown up. That girl looks terrified though, and I generally am disgusted by most of what I see out of that show (which usually from my sister or Joel McHale lol).
Yeah the only time i've ever seen this show is on the soup, and Joel McHale ripping in to it. There are a lot of things i want to describe it as.... and absolutely none of them are positive.
Post by Dave Maynar on Mar 9, 2012 11:14:21 GMT -5
I just noticed today that, whenever I hear someone who speaks in an odd voice (rather it be accent or an odd cadence or inflections), I try to replicate it by speaking to myself softly. I don't even know if I am good at it, but I feel like I have to try to see what it would be like to speak like that.