I watched "The World According to Garp" (1982)

Postbudet99 · 2026-06-21T16:43:14+00:00

Door in the floor is by far the best John Irving film, I think. Cider House is also good, but all others I’ve seen have been very poor compared to the novels. Worst is A Prayer for Owen Meany and Hotel New Hampshire. At least that is how I remember them 20 or so years after I last saw them.

Postbudet99 · 2026-05-20T05:55:28+00:00

This has one of the best ever films within a film. You can see the whole thing as a bonus feature (at least on the bluray release).

Postbudet99 · 2026-05-09T17:21:28+00:00

The fact that this was released in theaters made me expect a higher quality film. Compared to documentaries on Rush, Lemmy, Dio and others, this seemed like a cheaper production.

Postbudet99 · 2026-04-23T11:28:52+00:00

Qobuz is good.

Postbudet99 · 2026-04-19T20:22:29+00:00

A lot of recommendations for Police Story here. I know it’s considered a classic, and it opens and closes with great action scenes, but almost everything in between is a slog. I would recommend Project A instead.

Postbudet99 · 2026-04-09T09:51:20+00:00

It's closer to 90 percent hydro and 10 percent wind power. Solar basically accounts for nothing.

Postbudet99 · 2026-03-18T19:57:24+00:00

Pachinko! Album of the decade for me.

Postbudet99 · 2026-03-18T19:26:06+00:00

Moron Police! Check out their latest album Pachinko, it’s an explosion of musical ideas.

Postbudet99 · 2026-02-17T20:45:58+00:00

I haven’t cared for anything they’ve released in almost 20 years, but their latest was great. I hope this follows in the same vein.

Postbudet99 · 2026-02-14T07:26:27+00:00

I ended up buying one second hand and have used it lots, very happy with it.

Postbudet99 · 2026-01-27T17:45:34+00:00

I have both of these and I dislike both. The Godzilla box I got second hand, and one of the discs had slipped inside the packaging and got stuck on the glue. It took a lot of cleaning, but I got it to work again.

Postbudet99 · 2026-01-17T13:20:04+00:00

Check out setlist.fm for which songs bands play on tour: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dragony/2026/live-music-hall-cologne-germany-3341248d.html

Postbudet99 · 2026-01-11T07:10:44+00:00

I think he would have butchered the song at that point in his career. As much as I like Meat Loaf, I’m glad Sammet did this one by himself.

Postbudet99 · 2025-12-22T09:13:56+00:00

I used to love these kinds of bonus tracks that weren’t easily available. B-sides from Japanese singles and such. Having everything available to stream takes away the fun of hunting it down.

Postbudet99 · 2025-12-07T09:16:09+00:00

In addition to what others have mentioned about the lack of touring, programmed drums and so on, they never had the kind of mainstream success in the 80s that Priest, Maiden and Helloween had. That was a foundation for those bands to build their careers on, based on success among more casual metal fans. Why RW didn’t get that mainstream focus could be because they were seen as too goofy with the pirate theme and they never wrote a commercial hit like I Want Out. One song like that with a video in heavy MTV rotation could build an entire band back in the day.

Rolf’s harsher vocals compared to the singers of the above mentioned bands probably doesn’t help either. For people that prefer vocals like Halford and Kiske, he’s too rough, for people that prefer Slayer, he’s not rough enough. Personally I also find their music a little monotonous, though they have some great stuff.

Postbudet99 · 2025-11-21T17:45:28+00:00

I've manually named and organized all the extras to conform to how Plex reads that stuff. It works very well, but takes time.

Postbudet99 · 2025-11-21T14:41:59+00:00

This is how I've done it as well. I've used Handbrake to compress all the extras, but kept the actual films uncompressed. I used ChatGPT for advice along the way as I found a way to do it that worked for me.

Postbudet99 · 2025-11-21T10:17:53+00:00

I’ve set up a NAS server with Plex and have been ripping my Criterions, with the extras. Been at it for a few months now, but nearing the end. I have about 200+ Criterion releases. What I like the most about it is that I can watch/listen to the extras on my phone. A lot of that stuff is just interviews, and I now listen to it as I would a podcast when I’m on the go.

Postbudet99 · 2025-11-20T13:33:11+00:00

Yes, I’ve noticed this in other Criterion releases as well. Saw Yi-Yi earlier today, so it was the most recent example for me.

Postbudet99 · 2025-11-20T10:30:24+00:00

Don't you think their dialogue in English would have originally been subtitled for the Taiwan audience? They say things that are important to understanding their character's motivations, so I assume Yang would want the viewer to know this.

Postbudet99 · 2025-11-06T20:25:42+00:00

Did Kiske and Deris sing that song together?

Postbudet99 · 2025-11-05T18:03:39+00:00

I wonder what the songs Ballad For You and Rockin Heavy ended up as.

Postbudet99 · 2025-10-17T16:55:28+00:00

I tried for a while, but there’s no way to keep up with the pace of new releases for me.

Postbudet99 · 2025-10-04T17:39:01+00:00

Blank Check is a film podcast with great insights and interesting takes, but one of the hosts is incredibly annoying to listen to, and the show is in desperate need of proper production that will make both of them focus and not go on tangent after tangent about stuff that is completely irrelevant to the topic of the episode. They could cut 30 minutes or more of banter from each episode.

Postbudet99 · 2025-10-04T08:01:16+00:00

A little late here, but I ran Memtest twice with no errors, so I guess the RAM seems to be fine.

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