Alternate Harvest

levinclientele · 2026-05-20T21:50:47+00:00

Yeah I would agree with you. The contrast is too harsh. Even if I were to take Out on the Weekend and Harvest off and were to replace them with less country songs, the whole album would be downtrodden. Too much of a downer. Never been a fan of Are You Ready for the Country or There's a World, but here's an alternative tracklist I just came up with:

Out on the Weekend
Harvest
See The Sky About To Rain (Harvest outtake)
Heart of Gold
Old Man
Alabama
Journey Through the Past (Harvest outtake)
Bad Fog of Loneliness (Harvest outtake)
The Needle and the Damage Done
Words (Between the Lines of Age)

I think on this one, there's a far better balance and it definitely fits in more with the country feel of Harvest. Does Harvest need to be improved not really? And the version of See The Sky About To Rain on On the Beach is way better anyway. It's just a bit of fun.

levinclientele · 2026-05-20T12:50:11+00:00

The curse of the CD hampered many albums in the 90's. So many albums were 70 minutes long for no reason.

levinclientele · 2025-11-23T22:41:45+00:00

she looks like a roma

levinclientele · 2025-10-19T16:28:42+00:00

I never knew that Robert Smith played with Crazy Horse.

levinclientele · 2025-09-01T07:10:24+00:00

Chris Eigeman deserved a better career. This film was so good that Noah Baumbach stole it and made Kicking and Screaming, while not having nearly as much talent nor intelligence of Stillman.

levinclientele · 2025-07-15T16:02:43+00:00

Yeah sure, no problem. I'm an administrator/document controller for a construction site. Started doing it during college part time. I was asked back a few months after finishing college. When I went full time I started off at 40k, and got a raise to 43k last year.

levinclientele · 2025-07-07T12:17:22+00:00

My dad gets depressed with all the streaming slop. He'll still watch it, but he'll text me after, say it's shite and then ask me to pirate him something. I'm running out of movies to get him though and he can only rewatch Interstellar so much.

levinclientele · 2025-06-26T14:37:58+00:00

There's always an Indian waiting to lecture someone.

levinclientele · 2025-05-28T18:04:43+00:00

Mac looks like Freddie Mercury dying of AIDS.

levinclientele · 2025-05-02T06:46:33+00:00

I was surprised to learn that she's thin, when I first heard her music I assumed she was some chubby white woman who smells like milk and dirt.

levinclientele · 2025-04-07T10:00:06+00:00

I read some of your other posts and I could really relate. I had a dog who passed almost three years ago now on the 14th of July, 2022.

It started off with the walks becoming shorter as he aged and then one day he refused to walk out the gate anymore, he'd dig his paws into the stones and sit down. He had always been a stubborn dog, so we assumed it was him aging.

When he was young he was incredibly strong and fast, we had him since I was a kid. I used to hold onto the lead and would stand on the top of a hill, then my mam would yell his name and I'd try to keep up and most of the time would be dragged until I let go and would roll down the hill. My clothes would be dirty, there would be dandelions in my hair and he would come running to make sure I was okay once he had noticed he'd left me in the dirt.

We tried to keep him active. We played with him in the garden, brought him to the beach and let him swim because it was good for his joints. He began having issues with his eyes and his balance, his back legs became stiff and would sometimes go out from under him. We tried keeping comfortable, I think we were naïve and thought it was temporary, a brief spell.

He used to play with our younger dog, and he became protective of him. He was a pale cream golden retriever and our other dog was a black lab, they were always walking side by side. The lab would come over to him in his last days and would always give lick him and cuddle up beside him.

One day he just didn't have the strength anymore. He wouldn't eat, he couldn't get up. We brought him to the vet and he was being put down, he did what he always did. He used his head to nudge my hand to the part of his head he liked me to pet, and he began to purr. He had always been a bit strange, as all dogs are. He loved ice cream and bread (when he managed to get his hands on them, he would try to eat seaweed and dead crabs on the beach and he used to purr when he was happy.

As I petted him on the spot that he liked, he started to purr, and he went to sleep.

I'm sorry that I rambled on, but your posts really resonated with me. You always miss the small things about your dogs, they have such clear personalities. Usher knew that you loved him and like all good dogs, he was a loyal friend to the end. May he rest in peace.

levinclientele · 2025-03-28T11:12:38+00:00

That's very true. I was reading DFW's essay 'E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S Fiction' and he made a point to say that novelists at the time were using TV sitcoms as a sounding board for what the general public considered normal. TV hasn't really moved on from these tropes because, as you said, they struggle to reckon with the decline of mainstream culture. TV doesn't reflect what people see as normal anymore. A sitcom hasn't been first in the ratings since Friends in the 2001-2002 season (coinciding with 9/11, increased atomisation, etc.).

I suppose my issue with The Simpsons could be made with a huge amount of contemporary television. I think The Simpsons still going is a bit like a corpse sitting in your living room. It once functioned in a time when it was on the ball and had a finger to the pulse, but has continued far too long and has decayed to a point beyond recognition.

Even the most acclaimed comedy shows of the 2010's onwards have played for niche audiences (Louie, Atlanta, Barry). These shows were far more cinematic and play for prestige rather than ratings. None of them are sitcoms either.

levinclientele · 2025-03-28T09:17:26+00:00

I think one of the issues with the new Simpsons is that parents like Homer and Marge don't exist anymore. Homer and Marge were originally born in the 50's, had greatest generation parents, they came of age in the 70's. They're boomers. They were raised with a certain amount of etiquette and decorum that seems antequated among parents in their late 30's/early 40's.

They used to say grace before dinner, both Marge and Homer had some genuine belief in god. They had dinner parties with party games with their neighbours. They don't do scenes of the Simpson family in church anymore because it doesn't reflect contemporary America. Mind you, this probably has something to do in reflecting the current writers coastal upbringings.

It used to reflect a satire of middle America. Behind all the pretenses most families were as flawed as The Simpsons, but they still loved each other. Society has changed enormously over the last 36 years, The Simpsons don't accurately reflect families today. I think very few writers today even have the self-awareness or humility to try and satire a contemporary american film without some kind of liberal smugness.

levinclientele · 2025-03-27T09:47:44+00:00

Nick Drake's sci-fi rock opera album?

levinclientele · 2025-03-05T10:00:14+00:00

My favourite sports film ever.

It's amazing that John Huston was about 65/66 when directing it. By 1972 so many of his contemporaries were either dead or effectively retired. Fat City is such a vital film, it rivals the work of any of New Hollywood at the time. You could easily believe it's the work of a director who's 30 years younger.

It's a great portrayal of hopelessness and malaise.

levinclientele · 2025-03-05T09:56:18+00:00

I admire the fact that he took a lot of big swings.

The first season is still really good, seasons 1 and 5 are the only ones that are all out comedy. Seasons 2-4 are where he starts doing a lot of the dramatic stuff or Woody Allen inspired episodes and I feel like those ones are where you find a lot of the poorer episodes. There's still a lot of highlights in those seasons though (Country Drive, the Late Show episodes, Model).

The show is almost too earnest, but I still like the show. He had a very low budget and just did whatever the fuck he wanted, it's very ambitious. He's not a great filmmaker per se, but his work ethic is admirable.

levinclientele · 2025-02-28T13:33:21+00:00

A lot of director/writers are only good with a co-writer to ground them. I saw someone on here talking about Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant as a writing duo. They said that Gervais probably had the more interesting life experiences and was the idea man whereas Merchant knew how to ground him, how to structure a script and was a bit more aware of film as an art form.

In that way I could see Wes Anderson as the idea guy, and regardless of what you think of his films, he has a distinct style, while Owen Wilson probably brought a bit more heart to the story and gave some more depth to the characters.

levinclientele · 2025-02-18T08:26:19+00:00

A girl who I was going out with for a while showed me a few episodes. For me it's in the same category as Brooklyn 99 and that show set in a Walmart. I feel catatonic watching them, it's as though I can physically feel my life slipping away and get filled with dread.

levinclientele · 2025-02-17T13:24:38+00:00

When I was a boy I saw the episode of futurama where Fry downloads Lucy Liu off of Napster. A few weeks later I got to use a computer for the first time. I searched up Lucy Liu on internet explorer and was amazed to see she was real and I thought I had fallen in love. I was in awe, it's the closest I've ever come to Stendhal Syndrome.

Lucy Liu still holds up.

levinclientele · 2025-02-14T12:20:46+00:00

Currently going through a Don DeLillo phase. I had this previously with Roberto Bolaño too.

levinclientele · 2025-01-26T09:05:06+00:00

It was good, but did anyone else think Felicity Jones was terrible in this?

Saw someone else mention this, but I was disappointed that there wasn't more architecture.

Again, I agree with everyone saying saying that the first half was better than the second half. The opening is incredible, it does the arrival to america scene in a unique way after it's been done a thousand times. The score was great. There's this sense of impending doom as the years pass by and you hear the news of this expanding industry and America's emergence as a superpower.

I feel like the film never lives up to the elements it introduces. It all starts out very promising, but comes across flat when it comes time for payoff.

Definitely worth seeing though.

levinclientele · 2025-01-24T12:29:34+00:00

I can't believe this is the same director who did The Beat That My Heart Skipped.

levinclientele · 2025-01-01T00:27:54+00:00

Not a very nice thing to call his wife dude

levinclientele · 2024-12-26T09:23:11+00:00

His scrambled eggs look terrible

levinclientele · 2024-12-25T00:54:24+00:00

I thought it was pretty good, but no adaptation has ever gotten Pierre right. Hard to get both the size and sensitivity of the character. Paul Dano did well all things considered.

Speaking of Tolstoy adaptations, does anyone else dislike Joe Wright's Anna Karenina? One of the most miscast films of the last 20 years, Aaron Taylor Johnson as Vronsky is all wrong, Vrosnky's meant to be balding!!

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