I realise this is TheKappa’s turf, but seeing as some of us lack proper perspective, choosing to “celebrate family holidays” and indulge in what the rubes call “having a life” I figured I’d step into the breach, and potentially upon … Continue reading Week 12 NFL Live Thread
Surprising no one who was paying attention, A League of Their Own captured the title of our favourite sports movie. And OF COURSE it did – the movie is utterly charming, with peak Tom Hanks (then again, the man has been at … Continue reading Avocado’s Favourite Sports Movie WINNAH and CHAMPEEN
Unsurprinsingly, A League of Their Own and Rocky easily handled Caddyshack and Slap Shot by 20+ votes each, and are the two sports movies vying to be #1 in our hearts. Neither of them has even been challenged so far in the tourney, and I think … Continue reading Avocado’s Favourite Sports Movie – CHAMPIONSHIP
Greetings citizens! Much was afoot in the elite eight – A League of Their Own kicked The Sandlot out of the pool by a 62-18 margin. Rocky treated The Karate Kid like a side of beef 55-18 The underdog slobs … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Sports Movie – FINAL FOUR
The Sweet 16 of our venerable (well, tolerable) Sports Movie Tournament feature little in the way of surprise. Beloved underdog movie Cool Runnings finished first in the round-robin and promptly got trucked to the tune of 32 votes by beloved-er underdog … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Sports Movie – Elite Eight
Round 1 (and round 1.5) is in the books, with a few surprises. firstly, due to a screw-up from yours truly, Raging Bull was one of the least-liked round 1 winners; however, thanks to those quirky and likable Jamaicans from Cool Runnings, Jake … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Sports Movie – ROUND 2
…or more accurately, “that asshole Mr BE could fuck up a wet dream.” So anyhow, I managed to completely skip over Cool Runnings, which garnered a respectable 18 votes in the nomination round (tying it with The Sandlot, Eight Men Out, Happy … Continue reading Sports Movie Round Robin Runoff….
The votes are in, and we have 32 movies in the running! The votes ended nicely, every movie with 11 votes made it, and there was only one movie that had ten (sorry, Baseketball – you’ll have to placate yourselves with … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Sports Movie – ROUND 1
Now, I am well aware we have a large chunk here who loathe the “sportsball” (which, I feel sports overall are terrific, obviously, and I think that people who dislike sports mostly dislike the shit, garbage culture that … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Sports Movie
What has been working for your team? In some cases, NOT A GODDAMN THING. Let us pray, and talk about everyone’s favourite highly-problematic American sport Continue reading Weekly NFL/CFB Live Thread Analyzes What’s Been Working For us
Greetings, Avocados! I didn’t see this up, so I figured I’d do it myself. We missed out on a typically uninteresting TNF game and a solid CFB Saturday, and start out Sunday with London being subjected to the full-on Jameis … Continue reading Week 6 American Football Catch-All Thread
Alt-metal, desert rock, stoner metal….the Queens of the Stone Age wear many shoes and they all manage to fit. In light of the recent release of their latest LP Villains, I’m going to take a look at the career of the … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Queens of the Stone Age
As pop music junkies, I’m sure everyone reading this has that favorite band that came oh so close but never quite broke through; usually they have a decent first record or two, then make that leap into the awareness of … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Smithereens
Usually I do these chronologically, as most artists have a career arc of building to (x) and then declining, and that leads to a fairly easy narrative to construct. Juno Reactor don’t have any sort of narrative, as they seem … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Juno Reactor
“DO DRUGS!” anonymous 6’4” 300 lb biker at Monster Magnet concert, circa 1999 Emerging from New Jersey’s….what the hell is in NJ anyway…swamps? Pine barrens? Landfills?….um, landscape in the late 80s, Monster Magnet became one of what Jim DeRogatis calls … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Monster Magnet – It’s a Satanic Drug Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand
Brothers and Sisters! I want to see a sea of hands out there! Lemme see a sea of hands! I want everyone to kick up some noise! I want to hear some revolution out there, Brothers, I want to hear a little … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The MC5 – A Testimonial
This spotlight is less about the 3 bands named and more about the driving force behind them, a Swiss musician named Thomas Fischer; calling him a “genius” would be overselling it, but in the world of extreme metal, he certainly … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Hellhammer/Celtic Frost/Triptykon
“There are King Crimson fans that listen to Voivod and think ‘that’s what I’m talkin’ about!’ “ – Dave Grohl In 1982, MTV showed up in my house. And I started hearing Judas Priest and Iron Maiden and the first … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Mon dieu, il est Voivod
How a short (5’2”), chubby human Muppet Paul Williams became an “all purpose ’70s celebrity,” (thanks for that one, Allmusic!) and why did he disappeared for about 30 years afterwards. Mr Williams was born in Oklahoma, son of an architectural … Continue reading Artist Spotlight – Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Paul Williams
Greetings Avocadoans! Today for my first Scene Spotlight, I will be focusing on that most reviled of genres, the 80s Glam/”Hair” Metal scene, an article which I expect will be embraced by few and ignored by many. But that is … Continue reading Scene Spotlight: ’80s Hair Metal
