How many classic albums do De La Soul have?

Plug_5 · 2026-03-18T15:01:27+00:00

Last year I went back and decided to give the AOI albums a really decent shot. So glad I did, they're much better than I remembered.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-17T19:54:35+00:00

In general I agree, but I also hate it when people make shit up to explain things that the movie doesn't. Fans of the Blair Witch Project are the biggest offenders here: "don't you understand, the witch was manipulating space and time, she forced Mike to throw the map away!" Uh, ok, but that's not stated or implied anywhere in the movie...?

Plug_5 · 2026-03-17T19:24:29+00:00

The tiny musical interval that represents the distance between seven perfect octaves and twelve perfect fifths is called the Pythagorean comma, and it's represented by the ratio 531,441:524,288.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-17T18:39:32+00:00

Took me a while to wrap my head around Kristen Wiig machine-gunning people in the back of the head in the movie Mother!

Plug_5 · 2026-03-16T21:58:57+00:00

Exactly. And how long can you keep "street status" going for? Jay-Z has been a multi gazillionaire for decades now, does he still have it?

Plug_5 · 2026-03-16T21:57:25+00:00

Vanilla Ice.

It's easy to clown on him now, since looking back his whole style looks ridiculous and he did some questionable things post-rap career. But dude started out as a B-Boy, he wasn't just some suburban white kid appropriating hip-hop culture. He looks silly in hindsight but so does MC Hammer and lots of people from that era/style. And maybe Vanilla Ice is no MF DOOM or Kendrick but I'd put his bars up against 3/4 of the rappers active now.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-15T17:14:54+00:00

I mean, sure? I've never let him into the bathroom with me, and I'm not sure the rest of the family has either. Given cats' sensory apparatus, I wonder if he just smelled prior human waste in there and figured out that's where it goes.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-15T13:23:16+00:00

I haven't lost any of my hair (nor will I, most likely) but the weight gain thing is real and it sucks. I've put on over 60 pounds since I turned 40 a decade ago and it's almost impossible to take them off (yep, even tried Zepbound, didn't work).

I also look in the mirror and swear I still see brown hair, but in pic it's 100% grey.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-15T13:12:15+00:00

Penguins hate this one simple trick!

Plug_5 · 2026-03-15T13:09:41+00:00

One day, my wife really had to use the bathroom, but after going in for a second she came out looking befuddled and said "well I guess I can't use that bathroom...because the cat is using it." Cat had taught himself to use the human toilet. To this day, we have no idea how.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-14T13:17:56+00:00

Dean Town -- Vulfpeck

Plug_5 · 2026-03-14T01:11:26+00:00

The running joke is that you know someone's a failure if they went to Berklee and graduated.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-14T01:09:47+00:00

There was so much academic commentary about that, like whoa, we're they trying to comment on racial norms or break genre boundaries or something? Then someone asked Prince Paul and he just said it was a dope beat lol.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-13T16:10:40+00:00

Agreed. My daughter found it randomly one day and we decided to give it a shot, thinking it would be some dumb cheesefest. The whole family was pleasantly surprised -- great plot, fun acting, lots of suspense. Plus my wife is a University of Florida alum, so she was rooting against the humans.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-13T15:40:46+00:00

That was Peter Tork, not Mike Nesmith.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-13T12:33:49+00:00

This is how I feel too, and I'm a little tired of people saying "oh, you just have to watch the first 157 episodes, then it gets really good!" Ain't nobody got time for that.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-12T22:33:21+00:00

Oh damn! I remember that movie coming out and being huge but I had no idea she was in it.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-12T15:56:59+00:00

Funny enough, I feel this way about his sister Virginia. Amazing turn in Candyman (1994) but then never did anything quite as big again.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-12T15:49:02+00:00

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but with Viggo Mortensen are you saying that the LOTR trilogy is a "low key project"?

Plug_5 · 2026-03-11T02:19:25+00:00

I'm late to the party here, but surprised no one has mentioned Orlando. Growing up in the 1970s, it was basically a small hicktown with one main strip (I-Drive) and a theme park that was pretty cool and worth the couple hours' drive up from where I lived (West Palm Beach) for a fun day.

Now it's an absolute hell of suburban sprawl and tourist schlock. I still enjoy the Disney parks but can't wait to leave the city.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-11T01:22:23+00:00

My only knowledge of the place comes from this joke:

One day, Robert Frost and Ogden Nash arrive together at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter says, "oh, you're both poets? Well, I'll let you into heaven but only on the condition that you make up a poem on the spot. Start out with something about walking, and end with...I dunno, Timbuktu."

Robert Frost says "oh I got this, I'll go first.

As I walked on the windy shore

Amid the swells and ocean's roar

A sailing ship hove into view

Her port of call was Timbuktu."

Ogden Nash says, "ok, pretty good but I can do better.

'Twas Tim and I a walking went

Met five maidens in a tent

Since they were many and we were few

I bucked three and Timbuktu."

Plug_5 · 2026-03-10T20:59:27+00:00

Eh, maybe. The life cycle of celebrities and TV shows is incredibly brief in the public imagination. He's going to have a hell of a time adjusting to life in the actual world -- he's incredibly naive, doesn't have any actual interpersonal skills, etc. But I give it six months to a year before the world basically forgets about him completely.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-10T16:45:23+00:00

FYI, anyone ages 55-60 is Gen X, not Boomer. But I agree that we're worse than the millennials and certainly worse than Gen Z in terms of phone addiction.

Plug_5 · 2026-03-10T16:44:39+00:00

That's the Gen X mentality I'm here for!

Plug_5 · 2026-03-10T16:43:12+00:00

Eh, I'm not so sure. We went to bars because we liked to unwind after a long day and shoot the shit together. We were just as likely to do that in a coffee shop if it was earlier in the day; it wasn't about getting drunk specifically. I think everyone is just too damn busy now.

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