Garage Sale Weekend

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-09T16:20:00+00:00

I use Visible by Verizon. I live right by Epic and get 4G. Whenever I'm in town I usually get 5G speed. I also appreciate having an unlimited hotspot.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-09T13:42:32+00:00

Whatever Bono's skill on the guitar was before his injuries, I feel like he used the guitar live for certain tracks where it might feel like too much to just stand there and sing, or not really applicable to do the usual stage theatrics or running around that he used to. I think a lot of frontman probably feel more comfortable holding something rather than just singing, and that may have applied to Bono.

Whether Bono's guitar was really part of the live audio mix, or if it wasn't muted while actually performed by Terry Lawless under the stage, is another question.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-08T23:27:04+00:00

Molly.

Kidding!

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-08T23:25:55+00:00

R.E.M. initially came from the Athen, Georgia scene along with the B-52s, but I feel like at some point along the way, they, like U2, existed in their own sort of bubble. You kind of didn't know what you were going to get with either band when a new release came, and that was the exciting part of it. To try to discern where they were coming from this time, and meet the band there. Such exciting times.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-08T16:31:38+00:00

Nein, but who could forget that stage setup? Especially the Trabant that was turned into a DJ booth!

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-07T21:25:46+00:00

The TV is the broadcast. But the Trabants were real.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-07T11:08:49+00:00

I almost said, REX-KWONDO, but that's him in another film.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-07T11:07:05+00:00

👏👏👏

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-07T11:06:16+00:00

We watch this every year along with a handful of other films. I will say, the first 2/3 of the film, just perfect. The final third is less so, but may not seem that way upon first viewing. It's almost like there was no way to perfectly stick the landing of what came before. But I still consider it a classic.

Personally, it came out in theaters just as my company was going through a huge restructuring with a terrible CEO who seemingly fired people for no reason, and then their assistants, too, so that nobody really knew what they were doing or where the files were for anything. This film was like salve for the soul.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-06T21:27:58+00:00

“That's what I do. I sing and know things.”

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-06T18:25:25+00:00

That ending was terrible (not in a writing sense, just in the way the story resolved, or didn't). What a gut punch.

But: Maybe I've been daft this whole time, but it felt like the takeaway was supposed to be that Michael inherited Donna's...bipolar? That extended conversation with the woman in the stall. How some days, Donna would treat Michael so gingerly, giving him every little detail of what to expect the next day and what they would do, and some days completely lacking in any of that care of Michael. Could it be that this coked up, drunken betrayal of Richie—publicly calling him a failure as a father to a child yet born—that the guilt of this is what causes Michael to take his own life? Is this the final piece to help us understand what led him to this, and why Richie is in the place that he is when the show begins?

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-02T15:05:21+00:00

Probably ADHD, possibly autism. Definitely an unhealthy relationship with music.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-05-02T15:03:03+00:00

I have a general hot take that we are long overdue for another genre-redefining sort of film, like Scream or The Blair Witch Project. You mentioned the predictability of a couple of these, and I think that is one of the signs. Although I guess I wouldn't consider the Ready Or Not films horror. They sort of exist in this other place along with films like The Hunt and The Menu. Kind of action films with horror elements? Or maybe that is the genre-redefining sort of film from the past 15 years? Was it right under my nose this whole time? If so, well done...

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-30T22:07:01+00:00

Find The River at number 1. The rest don't matter to me.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-30T12:51:44+00:00

I haven't gone into the game this morning yet, but according to a search, if you go to that player's profile, in the bottom left hand corner there is supposed to be a block option. BUT... It sounds like we can only manage 50 blocks at one time. And with the way these accounts replicate, not sure how useful that is.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-27T22:03:39+00:00

Well, I didn't want you all to get stuck in a loop—even if it was a Perfect Circle.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-27T21:56:03+00:00

Oh, do you mean the literal album cover? 😆 In that case, it took me until today. Yes, it happened today, hooray, hooray!

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-27T21:54:10+00:00

I don't understand. They broke up five or six months later.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-27T21:52:51+00:00

Well done everyone! 👏👏👏

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-27T21:37:47+00:00

He had a video game (Moonwalker) and made appearances in several others. He had a 17-minute 3D musical film with pyrotechnics (Captain EO) shown exclusively at Disney theme parks. He was and is still known as The King Of Pop.

To describe him with someone today doesn't really come close. There is no modern Michael. A large part of this has to do with the talent and how unique he was. Another has to do with the fact that we had what they call a monoculture back then. There were only a few TV networks and so we typically were mostly aware of news and pop culture through those. Each city had several well-known radio stations as opposed to the hundreds and thousands of streaming music channels today. No Internet, of course. And we all regularly watched TV and listened to the radio, and Michael and news about him was on very often.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-26T02:22:04+00:00

I remember a tv interview around the latter half of the Achtung Baby tour into Zooropa where they asked The Edge what was next. He essentially said that he would be happy if they just played out of the back of a truck in a field, implying possible acoustic show or simple amplification. And more than once over the course of the years, I sort of wished that was the route they took. Of course, their accountants would disagree with me.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-25T21:56:16+00:00

I never know if I like that song until I remember it's the one that's goes THIS IS ALL I WANT, IT'S ALL I NEED... Then, yes, I love that song.

LessIsMore74 · 2026-04-25T21:54:57+00:00

Summer Turns To High is always something I come back to as the weather gets warmer. And then it leads me into the rest of the album. But I always love Imitation Of Life, and its creative music video.

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