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re: Crooked Letter Brewing Co.
Posted by Udvarnoky on 11/9/17 at 12:15 pm to The Seaward
Word is that Crooked Letter will re-open by the end of the year, but as a "brewpub" only. You will have to physically go to the brewery to buy the beer. The plan is to eventually work back up to distributing, but it sounds like they have to start over from scratch, hence the slow reboot.
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Weird Al announces stripped-down tour
Posted by Udvarnoky on 10/12/17 at 4:25 pm
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BE YE ADVISED: I will be announcing ALL THE DATES for my 2018 North American tour tomorrow morning, October 13 at 9:00 AM Pacific on weirdal.com.
In case you haven’t heard the rumors… THIS WILL NOT BE OUR NORMAL KIND OF TOUR. I decided we should try something different, just for a change of pace. So next year we’re scaling way, way back. No costumes, no props, no video screens, no computer servers. We’re just going to walk out on stage, sit down on stools, and play a bunch of old songs. Oh, and we’re going to be performing almost exclusively originals (i.e. not parodies). The deep cuts and obscure tracks. The songs that were never hits. The ones you barely remember.
Okay, obviously this tour is not for everybody. By design, it has extremely limited appeal. Instead of doing festivals, fairs and arenas, we’ll be doing small, intimate theatres. Instead of putting on a big flashy production, we’ll be trying to go for something very informal and low-key… kind of an Unplugged/Storytellers vibe. Like we’re just hanging out, playing in your living room. So if you’ve really got your heart set on seeing fat suits and Segways and hearing all your favorite parodies… this probably isn’t the tour for you. Chances are we’ll be doing that kind of show again sometime in the future, just not THIS time.
It might sound like I’m trying to talk people into NOT buying tickets… Actually, I just want people to be very aware of the nature of this tour so that they can make an informed decision now and not be disappointed later. Having said that, I know that there’s a small but enthusiastic subset of fans that literally have been waiting decades for this kind of a show, so… this tour is for them. And me. And the band. After putting on “multimedia extravaganzas” for 35 years, we just wanted to take it down a few notches and have a little musical palate cleanser.
Because all my concerts in the past were so highly produced, they needed to be rigidly planned down to the SECOND, and therefore the shows were virtually identical from one city to the next. But since this tour is unencumbered by theatrics, we have a lot more flexibility. So… EVERY SINGLE SHOW WILL BE DIFFERENT. We’re going deep into the catalogue and mixing up the set list every night. This show will be loose, unpredictable, and maybe a little sloppy – we’ll be making it up as we go along.
Oh, one other cool thing… For the first time ever, I’m bringing an opening act with me on the road. I’m very pleased to announce that on every show of the 2018 Tour, I will be sharing the stage with my good friend, the legendary Mr. EMO PHILIPS.
We’re calling it THE RIDICULOUSLY SELF-INDULGENT, ILL-ADVISED VANITY TOUR.
If this isn’t your metaphorical cup of tea – hey, I get it, no worries, we’ll see you next time. But for everybody else – please check out the full list of tour dates tomorrow morning on weirdal.com!
Your close, personal friend,
Al
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re: Crooked Letter Brewing Co.
Posted by Udvarnoky on 9/26/17 at 7:55 am to fightin tigers
Possible good news - if you visit this site, it says Crooked Letter is re-opening in October.
Hopefully this is true. I need some Mystery Romp again.
Hopefully this is true. I need some Mystery Romp again.
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99% of the Confederate monuments were erected to recognize and memorialize the soldiers that fought and served in the war. The Soldiers.
On what do you base your confidence in this intention? The confederate monuments in question were commissioned en masse during the Jim Crow era, decades after the war, in the midst of an organized movement to cast the confederacy in a whitewashed light. The earliest memorials, the ones most likely to have been in dedication to soldiers, were erected in cemeteries and not outside of courthouses.
I don't get this whole slippery slope argument of "Is Jefferson next?!" Pointing out that Jefferson owned slaves is not a gotcha. America is a country of ideals, and it's implicitly those ideals we celebrate when we put its figures on a pedestal. We see the atrocities in our history as examples of us falling short of those ideals. But you can't call slavery a shortcoming of the Confederacy's ideals. It was the ideal, as any intellectually honest person who has actually read its constitution knows.
re: Does anybody really care about these statues?
Posted by Udvarnoky on 8/16/17 at 5:01 pm to HailToTheChiz
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but i'm against the erasing of history, monuments, etc
It's not erasure of anything. The statues aren't going into an incinerator, and Germany didn't forget who Hitler was just because he isn't proudly displayed in front of court houses.
re: Did Smith Creamery just disappear?
Posted by Udvarnoky on 8/4/17 at 10:34 pm to Midget Death Squad
Anybody have the story on what happened?
A lot of those studios are smaller than they seem on TV, sometimes deliberately so. According to Conan, his show is taped in a giant airplane hangar at Warner Bros. but he had his set deliberately ensconced in one little sliver of it because he thinks the intimacy works better for comedy in a live setting. I remember how huge his Tonight Show stage was and it did just feel weird how far apart everybody was from each other and the audience.
As you say, the Germans came along "hours later," which is plenty time enough to stumble upon the beached boat.
I think the idea with Hardy is that he was not high enough off the ground by the time he was gliding for a parachute to do him any good, so he committed to landing which without fuel meant riding it out.
I think the idea with Hardy is that he was not high enough off the ground by the time he was gliding for a parachute to do him any good, so he committed to landing which without fuel meant riding it out.
Saw this in a regular cinema last night, and found it amazing.
Where are you folks seeing this in film IMAX? There are no Louisiana options for that.* Closest venue appears to be Birmingham.
*What Elmwood is offering is 70mm but not 70mm IMAX. Still superb and worth the drive I have no doubt but it is distinct.
Where are you folks seeing this in film IMAX? There are no Louisiana options for that.* Closest venue appears to be Birmingham.
*What Elmwood is offering is 70mm but not 70mm IMAX. Still superb and worth the drive I have no doubt but it is distinct.
re: 'Arrested Development' Officially Renewed for Season 5 at Netflix
Posted by Udvarnoky on 5/17/17 at 6:22 pm to Byron Bojangles III
I'm glad they will be avoiding the scheduling issues this time around, but I contend that Season 4 was an amazing achievement that will be re-assessed favorably over time. It was more challenging and not as swiftly paced as the first three seasons, but I think what it accomplished was more ambitious. Multiple viewings are very, very rewarding.
re: Did anyone see Stephen Colbert have an absolute meltdown over Trump last night?
Posted by Udvarnoky on 5/3/17 at 4:21 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
I have no doubt that the fragile little dears getting worked up about this were equally appalled when Ted Nugent boasted of telling Obama to suck on his machine gun.
The only consequence of this non-controversy will be a boost to Colbert's ratings. By all means, keep the synthetic outrage going.
The only consequence of this non-controversy will be a boost to Colbert's ratings. By all means, keep the synthetic outrage going.
re: MST3K Season 11
Posted by Udvarnoky on 4/23/17 at 8:28 pm to Thracken13
Cry Wilderness was something else. What a miracle of a bad movie.
re: Crooked Letter Brewing Co.
Posted by Udvarnoky on 4/5/17 at 5:22 pm to GreenManalishi
It looks like the brewery just disappeared without a trace sometime in the last 12 months. It's a shame because I loved their Mystery Romp, though as with a few others here, the last six-pack was bought was sour and clearly from a bad batch.
re: Allied...
Posted by Udvarnoky on 11/26/16 at 1:03 pm to Brosef Stalin
frick the reviews.
I thought this was terrific. It felt old-fashioned in all the right ways. Shame there appears to be no buzz.
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Fredo was tied to it because he was feeding Roth info that allowed them to into the house. Michael figured it out at the Mandingo show because he said he Johnny ola (junior soprano) Showed him the bar when he previously told Michael that he didn't know him. This is what tipped him off that fredo had been flipped
I was talking about the logistics of the attempt on Michael, not whether or not Fredo was complicit. We know he was. But how did it actually go down? When you try to work it out, it doesn't add up.
We can intuit that Fredo allowed the assassins onto the compound and possibly even drew back the curtains in Michael's bedroom (or at least somehow let Johnny Ola facilitate those things), but what of the dead assassins? They are found with their throats cut, ruling out both suicide and the possibility that Michael's men killed them before Rocco could command them to take the assassins alive.
So who the hell killed them? Michael confides to Tom that he believes the assassins will already be dead when they're discovered, suggesting he knows a mole on the inside killed them to cover their tracks. But who could that be, given that the perimeters were secured and the compound searched?
Of course, Fredo proves to be the mole, making him the only real option, but it seems utterly implausible that he could have personally iced the button men given his character. Did he really have the intestinal fortitude to not only kill those men, but in that particular manner, and with the element of surprise? If they were found with a bullet in the their heads, you could twist a rational explanation. But cut throats?
Either Fredo was WAY more involved, cold-blooded and capable than he let on (seems a hard sell considering he fumbled uselessly with a pistol in the first movie while his father was being shot) or it's just a sloppy plot point. Pretty much the only thing I buy is that it was Ola and he somehow slipped past the perimeter, but such a Houdini trick seems a stretch. Plus the entire significance of the dead assassins is that it clues Mike into the fact that there's a mole, so it's awkward if it's anybody but the mole who did it. I think they just kind of fricked up. Doesn't change the fact that the movie's a masterpiece.
re: Does anyone else find Godfather II just a little hard to follow?
Posted by Udvarnoky on 11/18/16 at 1:15 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Well it "fits" in that you could argue it was just a final "frick you" by Frankie's would-be assassin, but just because it can be explained doesn't change the fact that it introduces unnecessary, and likely unintentional, confusion, which was the original point.
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The Rosatto Brothers (with the backing of Hyman Roth) had no intention of killing Pentangeli. They needed him alive for Michael's hearing. They had to make it LOOK like they are trying to kill on Michael's orders, hence the reason why one of them yelled out "Michael says hello". At that moment, Pentageli believed it was Mike.
The Senate hearing wasn't a consideration that early on in the story. And your interpretation doesn't jive with the fact that the hit was interrupted by a cop, resulting in a body count. Was that orchestrated too?
My conclusion is that the hit was meant to be real - Roth consented to allow the Rosato Brothers to get Frank out of their hair (he in essence admits to this in the famous "I didn't ask who gave the order" scene). That Roth was able to use Frank's survival - and his belief that Michael was responsible - to his advantage later on, doesn't validate the idea that it was some ultra complicated pool shot he plotted from the start.
The problem is that "Michael Corleone says hello!" line. It apparently wasn't in the script, but an improvised line by the actor, which Coppola liked. The flaw of the scene is that it makes the audience wonder whether or not the hit was real, and I don't think that ambiguity was intentional, and it's certainly not welcome in a movie with 15 running plot threads.
No, you're right, the plotting is murky in The Godfather Part II. People overlook it because it's a great movie, but the Lake Tahoe assassination attempt has logic holes in it, and the botched attempt on Frank Pentangeli is unnecessarily confusing because of the "Michael Corleone says hello!" adlib.
For those interested, you can hear Kimmel discuss Leno almost moving to ABC here.
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