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Random ADHD he/him dipshit
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I mean, everyone said so, but now I'm watching it finally and holy shit
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I had a sales job once. I lasted four hours, and the worst part was that I was actually good at it. Never again. I felt like a tool of the devil.
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Probably, yeh
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This is not a dig at OP, I just wanted to further the point
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Ah, you beat me to it. As long as someone said it
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It feels like my dad's last gift to me that his funeral was an unadulterated shitshow that, had he still been alive, he'd have died laughing at it
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That'll do. I would also suggest Rage:Man by Mogwai
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Lost sleep for weeks after watching this when I was a kid
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We'll need better tunes though
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The other song he wanted was Comfortably Numb, but of course I also forgot about the whole BOOM BOOM BOOM TIME TO GO! sound collage at the beginning, which didn't help either
Also the guy delivering the eulogy got his name wrong and said he used to be a roadie for the Blues Brothers
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Played this at my dad's funeral (he was a huge Zappa fan) but I forgot about the Central Scrutinizer monologue at the beginning, which led to some very confused-looking relatives while I desperately tried to keep it together (my dad would have found it hilarious)
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Right there with you, bud
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The Shining? Hereditary? Not judging, just asking what you think
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just please understand that we are well beyond “ha ha I quote dunked the asshole Senator and got blocked” they will use government resources to try to ruin your life
do not recommend
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Don Cheadle is up there too (can you tell I just watched The Guard?)
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The 'my dad was gay and I eat pussy better than 90% of lesbians' guy. I wish I'd known, I have so many questions
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I know you know that, I was just wrapping up this seemingly aimless anecdote
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Anyway, final thought, you don't need to be a parent to be a massively good influence in a kid's life
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I also taught him a few chords on guitar and not to close his eyes whenever he's trying to hit a ball. I threw him a ball and he kept his eyes on it, like I said, and he knocked it out of the park. Best feeling ever. He was so chuffed.
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When a kid just takes to you, it makes you think "I must be an ok person, or it wouldn't make their day when they see me"
He's taller than me now
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One of the best relationships I ever had with a kid was with my friend's kid Joel. He came home from school one day in a foul mood, and everyone asked how he was and he gave them a thumbs down, then he spotted me and lit up and yelled Ben! and ran over to give me a hug
Never felt so validated
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Well, it's just a revenge fantasy really, and I suspect the reason most people liked it was seeing Michael Douglas play against type, which to be fair, he did a pretty good job
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Especially relevant today, I should think
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I wasn't a big fan of Catcher In The Rye, but maybe that's the point; he's not a very likeable character. He's your average self-obsessed teenage boy. But I must disagree respectfully about Taxi Driver. It's an incredible depiction of what loneliness and ennui can drive a person to.
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Besides, it was the violence in Taxi Driver that bothered my mother, and probably how long it took to get there. She likes plot, not character studies of lonely sociopaths
My mum's favourite movie is David Lynch's Dune, oddly enough
I guess she has idiosyncratic taste
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You may well be right, I'd have to watch it again. And both situations are equally grim, I guess
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Haven't seen it in years, but doesn't he take her to some show with dancing girls, nipple tassles and all? Can't tell which is worse, really
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And the next day she brought it back with zero complaints, so I can only assume that she sat little Billy and Lucy down to watch Larry Clark's Kids, and just left them to it
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When I was working in a video rental shop (remember them?) there was this extremely rude woman who used to rent videos just to get her kids to leave her alone?
I said, What kinda thing do they like?
And she said, I dunno, a film about kids, you idiot
So I gave her a copy of Kids
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On my parents' first date, my dad took my mum to see Taxi Driver, and she fucking hates movies like that. It's a miracle that I exist
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Same! I mean, I'd taken acid before, but went to see The Wall in the cinema on my own after taking a black microdot
Would not recommend