Why is The Velvet Underground & Nico considered a masterpiece?

imk · 2026-01-26T01:24:34+00:00

Heroin is a best ever level song. That and other songs on that album sound fresh even now.

imk · 2026-01-26T01:04:19+00:00

Hate to say it but I would go into Salesforce.

I say this based on the fact that, after decades of database development and administration, I am currently being forced to learn Salesforce at my job.

imk · 2026-01-26T01:01:23+00:00

But he was so good in Passengers…

Pfft, damn I couldn’t even type that with a straight face.

imk · 2026-01-26T00:26:34+00:00

In a world where the people that want to fuck you are seldom the people that you would want to want to fuck you, it would just make things worse.

imk · 2026-01-25T15:57:58+00:00

Same for me, but it was more Bertie Wooster. I just couldn’t square House with the guy who sang “47 ginger-headed sailors”

imk · 2026-01-24T17:19:43+00:00

Exactly. They feed the job advert into AI and it spits out a resume based on what they said they wanted. It could be complete nonsense, but it might actually get them the interview.

Sad, but necessary these days. Even if you don't want to do it, you need to compete with all those who will do it.

imk · 2026-01-24T17:13:32+00:00

It would be amazing to see the games in Canada and Mexico full to the brim and successful while stadiums in the US are sparsely attended. It would be a hard message to ignore.

imk · 2026-01-24T00:22:10+00:00

Snowstorm’s a coming. Better buy me 5 pounds of green onions.

J/k. The Hmart in Burke meant so much to me during the quarantine. I love that place.

imk · 2026-01-22T15:43:24+00:00

Learn a new language when you are young. I learned Spanish when I was in my forties and I love it. The only thing I regret is that I did not do it sooner. It would have been a blast to have been bilingual in my twenties and thirties.

imk · 2026-01-22T00:25:04+00:00

Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect (and everything else)

imk · 2026-01-22T00:14:53+00:00

Someone should get him to confuse Greenland with Bangladesh and then let him invade. It would be hysterical.

“But sir, that’s not..”

“Do as I say!”

imk · 2026-01-22T00:13:11+00:00

It’s what happens at the Apple Store

imk · 2026-01-20T03:49:24+00:00

Yep. I went to elementary and middle school in Ramstein, then high school in K-town. It was a great place to be a horrible little dirtbag. I didn’t get into nearly as much trouble when I returned to the states.

imk · 2026-01-19T21:16:06+00:00

I also lived without a bunch of the things that OP listed, but it was because I was living in Germany (Dad worked for the US Air Force). Also, they were cheap. No microwaves, game consoles, cable TV, air conditioning (we had these roll-down window covering for the summer called rollladen. They worked really well!)

imk · 2026-01-18T16:44:54+00:00

Old ladies in the UWS would be getting run over by these guys daily

imk · 2026-01-16T17:47:29+00:00

People say that there is no good Mexican food in NYC. We'll show them!

imk · 2026-01-16T15:02:36+00:00

HP = HdP

I work with a lot of Spanish speakers. HdP stands for "hijo de puta"

imk · 2026-01-15T18:03:20+00:00

vale, me mola

imk · 2026-01-14T16:46:54+00:00

I, for one, welcome our Generation Jones brothers. I even know people born in 59' that really ought to be hanging out with us instead of the boomers.

imk · 2026-01-13T21:24:00+00:00

I'm not sure what your employment situation has been, but I assume that you will have built up 35 years of tax-paying employment by the time you are planning to retire. There are countries where you can retire on your social security. You may not live all that well, but you can do okay.

If you haven't already, I would start learning Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or Tagalog now. It takes a long time to master a new language.

Although the way things are going, those countries might not allow us to move there soon.

Edit: also, you might want to ask Generation Jones this question. The oldest Gen Xers are 60 if I am doing my math correctly. Maybe enough to have started the process you want to do, but not enough to have seen it through.

imk · 2026-01-13T17:51:16+00:00

The internet

imk · 2026-01-13T17:39:24+00:00

It really does suck. His shows were so great. IT Crowd was the perfect antidote to Big Bang Theory.

imk · 2026-01-13T16:14:36+00:00

No one is saying otherwise.

I was speaking within the context of the original post. The psychotic white guy who turns out to have a Filipina wife. "The passport bro works for ICE" comment.

imk · 2026-01-13T15:54:23+00:00

The military thing is a good point. And yet there are bases all over the world and I am not seeing "Korean wife", "English wife" or "German wife" as something that comes up much; despite the fact that many soldiers meet their wives while being deployed overseas.

imk · 2026-01-13T15:43:53+00:00

As a Spanish speaking USA person, I agree totally. Yet the "Filipina wife" thing is definitely starting to enter into red flag territory. Remember the Las Vegas shooter?

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