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In the spring of 1941, 19-year-old guitarist George Barnes had already been a national radio star for almost two years, and enjoyed jamming with his colleagues after they'd wrapped their respective NBC shows. George's friends would drop by his Chicago apartment in The Chelsea Hotel and play into the wee hours. These 15 tracks were recorded directly to acetate discs and, with each playing, acquired the inevitable patina of age. But you can still easily hear in these pre-WWII home recordings George's early explorations of his musical options — including his extraordinary, even eccentric, piano inventions, clearly influenced by Fats Waller and Art Tatum, to whom he listened when he first laid his hands on the keys as a toddler.
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1. Bilbo
I recover from my fall through the plothole and look up at my surroundings. I'm in the middle of a field with a hill and a road on one side. Gleaming in the sun at the top of the hill is a freshly-painted round green door. Success! I'm in Middle Earth!
I get to my feet and head up the hill. A sandy-haired hobbit is pottering about with planter boxes on the front landing while his dark-haired master lounges on the bench, smoking his pipe and chattering away happily. I smile to myself, wondering if I'm about to actually find out the answer to the question that everyone wants to know (are they? Or aren't they?) when a young lad comes tearing around the side of the hill, trowel in one hand and uprooted potato plant in the other. He's almost an exact replica of the older hobbit, right down to the cowlick in his sandy curls and the freckles on his nose.
"Hom? Hom!" he exclaims breathlessly. "Are the –"
Hom? What? Who?
Hom stands up. "Now Ham lad, don't take on so in front of Mr. –" his words are obscured as he takes the lad by the shoulder and leads him away, with an apologetic glance over his shoulder for his master.
The hobbit on the bench stands up and bows politely.
"Good morning!" he says. His eyes are really quite distractingly blue, but his hair is reddish rather than dark brown and beginning to be flecked with streaks of grey. Clues click into place.
"You – you're Bilbo Baggins!" I blurt.
"Yes, my good lady," says Bilbo dryly, bowing again. "At your service, and your family's."
I manage to control my gaping, although I can't quite help but steal a glance over the hill to where Hom and Ham have gone with their taters. That's the future Gaffer! This is really weird (though why it should be more weird than falling through a plothole into the same place but seventy-seven years later I'm sure I don't know).
Bilbo is still looking expectantly at me. I drop a curtsey. "Uh, Kate Fairfax at your service and your family's," I say.
"Now, where have you come from?" wonders Bilbo aloud. "Come in, come in!" He opens the door to Bag End and beckons me in. "We don't often get travellers in this part of the Shire –"
He chatters away as I follow him through the smial. My head clears the chandelier and the rafters by bare inches. Wow. This is what it's like to be tall!
"Can I get you some tea?" Bilbo is saying. "Seed-cakes? Cheese?" Does he ever shut up? "Gracious, you haven't any pack! But you can't be from around here. Don't say you have been set upon by thieves, here in the Shire –"
"Do you have any coffee?" I interrupt.
"Coffee? That's a dwarvish drink!" says Bilbo. "You're not a dwarf, are you?" I shake my head. "Never met a dwarf, but it happens I have got some coffee. Came all the way from Far Harad, or so I'm told, wherever that may be. Haven't a clue how to prepare it, though, have you?"
He produces a crockpot full of whole beans. I take a whiff. Now that's some good coffee. Wonder if he has anything to grind it with. As I'm puzzling over the mechanics of making coffee in Middle Earth Bilbo glances out the window and I see a flash of grey robes.
"Do excuse me, Miss Fairfax," says Bilbo. "It looks as though I've got another visitor –" and off he goes towards the door, chattering all the way.
By the time he comes back I've rigged up a primitive filter system with a sieve and a piece of cheesecloth over a pot, but I haven't quite figured out the grinding part yet.
"Well, of all the nerve!" Bilbo is saying. "Gandalf the Grey wants me, Bilbo Baggins, to go off on some adventure, as though I were some irresponsible Took! No thank you, I told him, we don't need any adventures around here – I say, are you having an adventure, Miss Fairfax?"
"Yes, I rather think I am," I reply dryly, "and not the adventure I was expecting, either."
"Well, better to stay home snug in your own little hole, that what I always say," says Bilbo. "Easier not to miss supper if you stay put. How's that coffee? We'll try it with our elevensies."
I try to explain to Bilbo how I mean to make the coffee, and soon it's dripping away in the contraption I threw together, smelling wonderful, while Bilbo is setting out seed-cakes, and scones, and jam, and three kinds of cheese, and two kinds of mushrooms, and he is still. talking. He's come round to the topic of where I came from and what I'm doing here again.
"Are you from Far Harad?"
"No, I'm from a place called Avacal, which is even farther away than Far Harad –"
"And you walked all the way here? Goodness me!"
"No, I – I'm not really sure how I got here, by magic, I guess." How did I get here? I can't seem to recall, though it might have had something to do with the brownie I ate this morning and the two Tylenols with codeine I took right afterwards.
"Magic?" Bilbo is off again, about the nerve of Gandalf for expecting him to go on an adventure. Happily, when he thinks to ask why I came here, he accepts my explanation that I was hoping to find someone but apparently I have come too soon and begins to go on about the difficulties in arriving somewhere precisely when one intends to.
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rac7d wrote:This has to be the most interesting page this year. I did not think we would ever see naga again?
rac7d wrote:Anyway, I don't think they are here for Sam. It be sweet if angels were looking out for her but I somewhat doubt it.
rac7d wrote:Though I would appreciated a back story flashback on her right about now, final memories dripping though as the machine takes over.
Cerulean wrote:When Deedee said that "She makes a mistake" I took that as meaning that Sam was about to make a mistake. As someone who values life (DeeDee), this mistake could mean that she (Sam) is about to give up on the last pieces of her humanity. If she isn't already full-metal, maybe she was injected with a parasitic machine that would enable her to become full metal should she require it. Or something...
GrimlyLoveGunner wrote:It makes me very nervous that it seems by 'making a mistake' they were reffering to Blossom. Paranoidic thoughts barging in..... Blossoms gonna die and Deedee's sweet smile isn't going to resurrect her this time......
Unless Grim has a plan for her. Huh...... hmmmm....... Hmpf.
Sigment Kurosai wrote:She was once Human, so she at least had a soul. It's whether or not it has stayed with her. I would say yes, as her consciousness, who she is, is a representation of it. Even if nothing organic was left, as long as her mind was her own, I would say that her soul would be as well. 'Course, that's just me.
Tenshi Nova wrote:I'm assuming they're here for Sam, since DeeDee makes a small poke at her.
Tenshi Nova wrote:Course DeeDee could just be doing that, as part of her personality.
Tenshi Nova wrote:I wonder if Jack's sword will be factor considered with all these judgements.
Havoc wrote:That's a good point, Tenshi. After all, Jack's sword was forged by the Gods, and Naga said this matter involved said Gods.
But how exactly will Jack's sword play into all of this?
Tenshi Nova wrote:DeeDee could just be correcting Grim because it's something she would do, pointing out Sam still has a soul that is.
Tenshi Nova wrote:Jack's sword working on someone, could be a visual event that they can use as reference.
Blood Lord wrote:That could be a reason why they are involved. Perhaps its used to kill someone and they have that kill overridden?
Tenshi Nova wrote:I wonder. It'd be strange to say this. What if the spirits decide whether or not the sword works?
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[1]The U.S. hockey team's Olympic orientation camp next month is expected to be full of newcomers.
Winning at the 2014 Winter Olympics is still the goal, but the U.S. is willing to give younger players a chance.
Alex Galchenyuk of the Montreal Canadiens, Jake Gardiner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Jacob Trouba of the Winnipeg Jets will at least get a taste of Olympic life next month, even if they don't make it to the final roster for the Sochi Games in February
Zach Parise and Ryan Suter of the Minnesota Wild were those young players in Vancouver in 2010, and now they're expected to be two of the best players on the team.
Of the group invited, 16 players were born in the 1990s, replacing some veterans who might be phased out as USA Hockey looks toward the future.
The idea, general manager David Poile said, is to reward success of players who have participated internationally, like Galchenyuk and Anaheim Ducks goaltending prospect John Gibson, who won a bronze medal with the USA at the most recent world championships.
It also means some from the 2010 silver medalists stand a good chance of being left out this time. That includes Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller, who will be at camp but could need a strong start to the 2013-14 NHL season while competing in a group that includes Jonathan Quick, Jimmy Howard, Craig Anderson, Cory Schneider and Gibson.
Poile made it clear the U.S. isn't trying to make any roster decisions now and players who weren't on the list of 48 invited to camp in Arlington, Va., next month still have a chance.
"It's not the team, it's just a start," he said.
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In the swampy heat of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lolo Jones peers at a line of approaching rain clouds. The rumble of thunder carries across the track at Louisiana State University, where Jones is training for her second run at an Olympic gold medal. Jones entered the 2008 Games in Beijing as the favorite to win the 100-meter hurdles, but in the final race she clipped a hurdle and ended up finishing seventh. A lifetime of training evaporated with one error.
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When it comes to this summer's Games in London, she's leaving nothing to chance.
Jones is attended by 22 scientists and technicians, paid for by Red Bull, her sponsor. It is her seventh training session with the team, and today they've arrayed 40 motion-capture cameras along the track. She's also being monitored by a system called Optojump, which measures the exact location and duration of Jones' contact with the rubberized surface on every step and after every hurdle. And a high-speed Phantom Flex camera rigged next to the track can zoom alongside Jones and film her at 1,500 frames a second. The Red Bull team calibrates the equipment while Jones warms up.
As sports go, hurdling is incredibly technical. A runner's raw speed has to be balanced against her form and technique as she clears the ten 33-inch hurdles. If you're running too fast and not focusing on your form as you approach a hurdle, you can suddenly find yourself too close to the barrier as you take off, and you'll hit it—as Jones did in 2008. Jones and her coach, Dennis Shaver, are seeking a deeper understanding of how she runs and how she might be able to adjust her technique to gain an advantage over her competition.
1 | Australia | 397,858 | 2 | Cuba | 426,349 |
3 | Belarus | 602,317 |
4 | Holland | 795,169 |
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7 | Russia | 1,710,247 |
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Just as Jones completes her warm-up, the skies crack wide open. The motion-capture session is washed out—the delicate cameras have to be moved under a tent for protection. As Red Bull's director of high performance and former US Ski Team sports science director Andy Walshe says, "We're the only people stupid enough to try and do motion-capture outside like this." But there's still the Phantom camera rig, which has no trouble handling the rain. Jones does a series of five sprints down the track, clearing the hurdles with a graceful aggression. The resulting hi-res footage is both beautiful and revealing, showing far more detail about her hurdling than the naked eye could ever see.
Jones and her coach gather with the scientists and watch the video to see how quickly she is getting her lead leg back on the ground after each hurdle. "We discovered that I wasn't kicking down my front leg as soon as I could," Jones says. "I'm just trying to get down a little sooner over every hurdle, maybe an inch closer on each one. Over the course of 10 hurdles, that's 10 inches, and when you're winning or losing by hundredths of seconds, that's a lot."
Richard Kirby, an engineer on the project, ticks off other discoveries. They found that Jones was usually fastest on her fourth or fifth trial, so Shaver increased the length of her warm-up time before races. They discovered that her left side wasn't as strong and stiff as her right, which caused her to wobble slightly down the track, reducing her speed, so now she's working to strengthen that side of her body. And they found that sometimes she lands with her center of mass behind her front foot, which for a sprinter is like pumping the brakes.
Almost none of these are things that could be seen even with normal video analysis. Shaver and Jones could have trained forever without noticing them. "A lot of things you don't know, simply because you can't measure them," Kirby says. "Getting data like this puts you in a position to ask intelligent questions."
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James McCarthy has enjoyed a well-earned break and is now raring to go as Everton count down the days to the new season.
The Republic of Ireland international has used the summer to rid himself of a niggling ankle problem and work his way back to full fitness.
The 23-year-old says he is now feeling 'fresher' and ready to face the challenges of a second campaign at Goodison Park.
His first can be considered a success, as he made 39 appearances under Roberto Martinez, but the intention is to ensure that 2014/15 is even better.
McCarthy said in the Liverpool Echo: \"I had a nice summer, pretty chilled.
\"I pulled out of the Republic of Ireland squad because my ankle had been bothering me. Martin O'Neill was okay with it.
\"For me, it was good to get a break in. I enjoyed my summer, but now it's back to work. I'm looking forward to getting started again.
\"I think the rest will make me a lot fresher and a lot fitter.
\"I had a niggle with my ankle, and that has given it time to heal. I feel a lot fresher than I did at the end of the season.\"
On Everton's ambitions heading forward, McCarthy added: \"We want to go and win things.
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Only in America do we settle for this crap. All of those people should be behind bars as they are nothing but societal rejects. The Rhino Club needs to be shut down as it only attracts street trash. ANother youth gone because of a "troubled" life. Get over it and grow up. It starts at home. It starts with the parents and family. Family that cares don't allow their kids to go to slum clubs like this one. »
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I know what power beads are, in the sense that I know what they're supposed to do, but I've been hunting the net trying to figure out their actual background. If you plug in a question about the history of power beads, you basically get links to various stores, all claiming power beads' ancient connections.
I'm not saying the stones themselves don't have traditions of being symbolically linked to certain concepts or powers, but the bracelets themselves, in their current form, are not ancient. They popped up right before I became a teenager.
So, was the concept pulled from thin air? Did the inventor simply expand on already existing thoughts about those stones (tiger's eye for courage, etc) by stringing them in that very specific pattern of round beads? Or was the bracelet itself actually and directly inspired by Buddhist prayer beads? Because the circle of round beads plus that one weird tie-off bead is strongly reminiscent of juzu beads.


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It's good news for Khloe, as it appears her low amount of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) won't keep her from motherhood. HollywoodLife.com spoke EXCLUSIVELY to a top doctor, who tells us the most effective way Khloe can try for a child!
Khloe Kardashian was devastated by her inability to get pregnant on the September 9 episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Thankfully, her supportive sister Kim Kardashian took her to Dr. Mark Surrey, a fertility expert who said that a lack of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) explained her inability to conceive. Fortunately, there is hope for Khloe to have a child — even with this diagnosis!
HollywoodLife.com spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Dr. Brandon Bankowski, who said that Khloe, 28, CAN compensate for her low amount of FSH.
"There are pills and injections that can force one to ovulate and replace the body signals," Dr. Bankowski said. "Just because you ovulate it doesn't mean you will get pregnant."
Fortunately, doctors understand the problem and can help patients compensate for this lack of FSH.
"What this probably means is that her brain is kind of asleep and not sending enough signals to grow the eggs," he said. "The ovaries respond to signals from the brain and the brain is supposed to send FSH. If the hormones are too low, it means the eggs are getting the signals. Many times, those women take the injections of FSH and then the ovary responds. It's a clinical condition. Essentially, for whatever reason we don't understand, a part of the brain called the pituitary is not sending the right signals. Food, diet, stress can all have an effect. She is young and it's a very treatable problem."
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Uhhhh I'm not sure what kind of doc is being interviewed here but anyone who knows the basics about fertility issues knows that HIGH FSH ( follicle stimulating hormone) is the problem, not low. The doctor in the espiode even told Khloe her levels were "high" and her ovaries were not producing eggs. This usually indicated premature ovarian failure or primary ovarian insufficiency. The quality of eggs in these cases can be poor even when doing IVF, thus making it very difficult to get pregnant. Get the facts straight and do some research people.
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The year is 1978. A young Miriam Linna has just moved to New York City to pursue a passionate dream.
"I'm working for Red Star now," she writes in a letter to her sister back home in Ohio. "It's Marty Thau's record company and real cool. I work about four to five hours a day, get paid a hundred a week – I know that's barely enough to live on… I can appreciate the fact that money becomes records when you trade long green for round vinyl."
Thirty four years later, a shaky Linna reads the water-logged letter aloud to a group of teary-eyed volunteer workers. Hurricane Sandy has all but decimated that dream.
Norton Records is a Brooklyn-based record label and publishing company run by Linna and her husband, Billy Miller, for the past 30 years. Their oeuvre runs the gamut of everything rock and roll, from unreleased rockabilly to obscure garage. With over 400 titles, the small yet mighty independent label boasts an extensive back catalogue. The company stockroom, which was built in an industrial warehouse originally used to store dry goods on the Red Hook waterfront, was destroyed in the storm surge.
"The destruction is unreal," Miller wrote in a Facebook update. "The warehouse was like a fort with giant iron doors…it was always dry as could be."
"All I can say is that it feels like I'm dreaming and I'm going to wake up and say, 'Hey, I had a really bad dream last night,'" Linna said. "It's a big giant shocking tragedy to the record company."
Not only were nearly a quarter of a million record titles soaked and scattered throughout the expansive warehouse space, but countless archival materials of American rock and roll history. Photos, original fanzines, rare paperbacks and memorabilia, all destroyed, all irreplaceable. In addition, Kicks Books, the neophyte paperback publishing division of Norton, lost nearly their entire stock of brand new books.
"You open the doors and can't even begin to think of what happened there," Linna claimed. "It was like an earthquake or a hurricane! We opened the door and saw all the records, then we were like, oh my god, the brand new printed books! Oh my god the paperbacks!"
"The thing that got whacked the most was our 45s," Miller explained. "Because we had tons and tons of picture sleeves for every release… we were able to keep them in print because we had extra sleeves for them."
"Last November at this time we were having a big festivity about having a great label and 30 years of struggle and success and hard work and happiness and here it is, one year later, and we're looking a total destruction of the mind," Linna added.
But Norton has since begun picking up the pieces. Post-disaster, Linna, Miller and their familial staff have organized a massive volunteer-run
effort to salvage what merchandise they can. The hallways of their home have been packed with family, friends, neighbors and vinyl aficionados, stripping and cleaning wet LP records. Volunteers have been amazing; the outreach and support has been international.
"It's very heartwarming to see people pay back what Norton's been doing," said volunteer, record producer and musician Matt Verta-Ray. Norton is not just music but an institution for helping artists. It's a pleasure volunteering."
"It was a tragedy averted by friends," announced volunteer and radio DJ Dave the Spazz, whose volunteer-run New Jersey-based ad-free radio station, WFMU was hit hard by the hurricane as well. The storm claimed not only two of the station's radio transmitters, but also caused cancellation of the annual record fair, a major source of income for the longest running freeform radio station in the country.
Among the personal items destroyed by the hurricane, Linna lost a box of her mother's keepsakes – documentation of her family's survival of WWII and immigration from Finland.
"I found my first records I ever bought, then I found the box of Hasil [Adkins] stuff. Then there was this letter about coming to NYC and working at this record label, Red Star. Marty Thau was my boss."
As if by cosmic coincidence, moments after Linna's heartbreaking reading of the 1978 letter, she received an email from Thau himself. His message was simple. "Keep the faith," he wrote.
"I never thought it would happen but here it is happening and I'm positive and sure that we're going to be alright and things are going to happen to make it come back in some kind of way." Linna said.
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Sorry I originally posted these in the wrong forum, and I am reposting here just to stack odds in my favor that employees will atleast skim the two links concepts. While I am positive you guys are working on a number of the things I mention I believe in the least my breakdown of the current flaws that prevent full effectiveness within the Honor system are pretty accurate and potentially useful. I made these two threads because for me as a long time player, dealing with the game to game odds of negative experience due to attitude have always been quite high. While I have it coming for often playing normal matches solo or together with less experienced friends, I believe you would agree that these are scenarios for using your product that cannot be faulted. Of course you want us playing with our friends in this game, and you want people to be able to try and enjoy this game on a casual and similarely frequent basis. I really appreciate the investment in trying to counter the ease of mouthing off in game and am excited for the future. Hence here you go in the hopes that any of this is useful. I believe the concepts are sound. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/...9#post31519369 ^ focuses on why the categories are not ideally implimented. Highlights why Red and Green badges must currently be most prominent. Has suggestions in refinement. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/...8#post31532298 ^ While I believe you are moving down a path along this line already for the reasons I mention I am just trying to be sure that its at least been on the table. Thanks guys for rocking my favorite game, and despite some tasteless posts in the past that I regret and have attempted to remove I've realized it is easier for me to enjoy League by not succumbing to the often incessant toxic ignorance in game and instead leading by example in sportsmanship and promoting decency among competitors. The best part is it works now and then. Your addition of the Honor System as a commitment to community "health" is making a difference that I massively appreciate and hence I just wanted to share my assessment of what I perceive the current inefficiencies to be.


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I adore cake…a little too much. If it's in my house, I can't resist it, even for breakfast.
A few years ago I had a piece of coconut-and-pineapple cake at my grandpa's 80th birthday party in Midland, Texas. It started a little obsession for me. I decided I wanted to track down that cake recipe, to have at my wedding. Unfortunately the baker was uncooperative. So I decided the next best thing was to enlist my sister Katie, who works here at EatingWell, to come up with a recipe for Pineapple-Coconut Layer Cake. And even though the final cake would certainly be healthier than the original, I wanted to make sure that it was still rich and delicious. It needed to have layers filled with a sweet pineapple curd and covered in frosting. Katie ended up working through endless...
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First it was tainted peanut butter. Now, we're hearing that some pistachios may not be safe. On March 30, 2009, the FDA reported that pistachios from Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc., may be contaminated with Salmonella, a bacteria that can cause serious (sometimes fatal) infections in young children, the elderly and others with weakened immune systems.
At the time of the FDA release, there wasn't proof that tainted pistachios had made anyone sick; still, as a safety precaution, Setton recalled about a million pistachio products. The FDA told consumers to avoid eating pistachios and products containing them unless they could verify that the nuts did not come from Setton. (A searchable list of affected products is available on the FDA's website...
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I love Easter brunch, but I always thought it was stressful to pull together. I got up at the crack of dawn to get everything on the table by midmorning. Sure, it tasted great but I was always too tired to really enjoy it. This year I'm going with a new strategy. All the recipes for my holiday table can be made ahead of time (with the exception of the drink, but that takes only 10 minutes from start to finish). That way I can relax a little and free up some time to enjoy the day.
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Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole: This healthy update of a traditionally rich ham-and-cheese breakfast strata is made lighter primarily by losing a few egg...
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I'm so glad that spring is (finally!) here and my farmers' market is back in the swing of things. I can get my favorite salad greens (here's a recipe for my favorite dandelion-greens salad), garden-fresh rhubarb and fresh-from-the-oven bread directly from the best local purveyors. But shopping at the farmers' market isn't the only way I eat local. Here are 5 ways you can eat local beyond the farmers' market from our new book, EatingWell in Season: The Farmers' Market Cookbook.
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At long last spring is here (though it sometimes feels like it takes an eternity!) and for me that means one thing: time to break out my grill. Some of my favorite spring recipes are great for the grill, which keeps me out of the kitchen and enjoying the longer hours of daylight. Take full advantage of the nice weather with a few of my favorite spring grilling recipes:
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There are more than a handful of sequels and franchise movies that came out amongst tons of hype only to fail or disappoint fans that waited far too long to finally see them. Sometimes, its this anticipation that makes a movie seem less than its sum. We, as lovers of pop culture, have spent far too much time cultivated our own ideas about them. In many instances we have years, even decades, to build the movie for ourself inside our brain. So, of course, more often than not...There's going to be a disconnect. We never return to these movies again. Our tainted memories remain firmly in place. But sometimes, its these bloated expectations that devour us, killing any enjoyment or fun we might otherwise have with any given installment of the latest blockbuster. Sometimes, we just take these things too seriously. And a perfectly decent movie gets lost in that 'expectation translation'. Today, we are looking back at five such movies that we all waited a long time to see, only to walk away frustrated and indifferent. Have the years washed away these first thoughts of lameness? Or are these movies just as bad as we remember? We decided to revisit five otherwise disappointing, yet highly anticipated at the time, movies to see if they deserve a second chance. Or if they deserve to be flushed down the cinematic toilet of history.
1Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
Tenacious D fans waited a long time for this movie, only to find an origin story that was a little too well known, and jokes that fell flat. It was all a little too familiar, and too much like their short lived TV show. While the opening and closing musical numbers were instant classics, the middle was weighted down by soggy jams that seemed tired and uninspired. Had the band reached their Zenith too soon? Fans wanted something new from the duo, and this was just too much of the same old thing. We'd seen it. We'd heard it. Why were we being asked to pay for a repeat. They're not superheroes. Was an origin story even needed? We didn't think so. And the movie bombed! The characters here have an all-too-familiar goal: To become the greatest rock band the world has ever seen. To achieve this, they must steal a magical guitar pick that rests in a Rock 'n' Roll museum many miles away from their home in California. Its a road movie that takes forever to get on the road. And when it finally does, it goes nowhere. Literally. Its easy to see why fans turned their back on the great ones. But time has a way of making us reconsider our position. Over time, having grown away from Tenacious D and their music, revisiting Pick of Destiny brings a much different reaction. Jack Black and Kyle Gass have created a weird little movie that is actually quite fun. The pressure for the 'greatest movie in the world' is no longer in play. And the movie stands as a tiny cult classic that defines the band and what it has come to mean. In the long run, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny isn't nearly as bad as we originally thought it was. Here, in 2013, 7 years after its release, it almost feels fresh. But again, that's because we stopped watching and listening to Tenacious D 7 years ago. When this just felt like a capsulated retread of their history up till that point.
2Blues Brothers 2000
We wanted a The Blues Brothers sequel in the early 80s. We didn't get one until 1998. That's far too long to wait for any movie, and it tried our patience. This follow-up had too many strikes going against it to ever really be taken seriously. First of all, the big elephant in the room was John Belushi's death. There's no way any actor could fill those shoes. Also, the humor that worked for The Blues Brothers twenty years prior, is the same humor that is on display in Blues Brothers 2000. At the time of its release, it seemed dated in a very bad way. The thing we have to remember is that, sans Belushi, this was the same team who brought us the original. Same director, same actors, same musicians. Reboots were not yet in fashion, so Dan Aykroyd returns as Elwood Blues, not some young handsome actor trying to replace him. Frank Oz is back as the Warden, Aretha Franklin is back too, and they even added blues legends B.B. King and Wilson Pickett to the mix. The story is basically the same. Elwood gets out of prison and goes on a "Mission From God" to raise funds for a children's hospital. As you can guess, Elwood has to "get the band back together" in order to travel to New Orleans in the hopes of winning loads of cash in a battle of the bands. That made it even more hated. Back in the late 90s, the idea of this movie existing seemed sacrilegious. It only made $14 million at the box office, bombing big time. But now that almost as much time has passed between the sequel's release and 2013, as the original and the sequel, the whole thing has a nostalgia vibe that is hard to shake. Its aged very well, and suddenly plays like a true sequel, not some desperate rip-off. Its definitely not as good as the original, but we can forgive it for being lame upon its release, and enjoy it as a timeless classic here some twenty years removed. The music is great, and the car chases recall a more authentic time, before CGI came in and ruined everything.
3Ghostbusters 2
Dan Aykroyd might just be the king of disappointing sequels. Every year, we hear of a Ghostbusters 3 getting off the ground. We get excited, and then we go back and watch this sequel from 1989, and we don't care any more. We actually pray that Ghostbusters 3 doesn't get made. This is a weird movie in that, after a little time passes, we forget how truly painful it is to sit through. We think we might be wrong. That we need to see it again. I mean, come on. Its a sequel to one of the greatest 80s classics ever made. How could it not be any good? And it brings back the original cast, including Bill Murray. Maybe we we're messed up last time we watched it. Maybe we missed something. Its us, not the movie. And then we revisit it, and realize, its not us, it IS the movie. Though, we can't quite put our finger on what went wrong. It just falls flat, like a warm soda that has been sitting on a park bench for days. Its not funny, its not exciting, and the Statue of Liberty is a very weak attempt at trying to recreate the magic of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Its not the worst sequel ever made. But it certainly is the most disappointing. We hadn't watched it in nearly seven years. Just enough time to pass, allowing for another, "Gee, maybe we should give it another try." And guess what? Its still a bad movie. Its unexplainable. We don't just want to like it. We want to love it. And maybe that's the problem. It can never be loved, no matter how long it sits on the shelf. Its own mediocrity has done itself in. But we're including it here, because we know, it will eternally deserve another chance. When enough time has passed, we'll once again think we need to watch it again. The sad thing is, it just never gets better.
4 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
This film is an anomaly because it's a huge blockbuster. Having grossed close to $800 million dollars, it seems like viewers gave this movie many chances. Yet, people still call it an abomination. We actually liked it in theaters. And five years later, we still like it. But a huge number of you didn't. In fact, you hated it. If you saw Raiders of the Lost Ark in theaters back in 1981, then you no doubt were given the warm fuzzies when Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened with a shot of the famous Paramount logo. At that point, the logo turned into a mound of dirt, an animated rodent popped out of it and suddenly all that goodwill was drained from the film. What followed for a lot of us were moments of our youth recalled, only to have them vanquished by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas' attempts to attract a younger audience. The cherry on top was the sci-fi angle at the end, where a space-ship bursts out of the earth and essentially puts the final nail in the coffin for us older fans. This says nothing of the Crystal Skull itself which looked, to be kind, like little more than a large piece of illuminated plastic. So what changed? Well, it seems with the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull might be the last vestige of the old George Lucas that we will ever know. Considering that Disney has plans to release three more Star Wars films, and the fact that Lucas isn't really involved, signals to all of us older people that time has really moved on. Suddenly, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull doesn't look so bad because at least it came from the people who brought us the original. On top of that, considering Harrison Ford's willingness to do another movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is about all we have left of the Blockbusters from the 1980s melding into the new world of the 2000s. This tale of Indiana Jones getting involved with the Russians as they battle for the Crystal Skull may be flawed. But in the case of Hollywood, it is better the devil you know than the one you don't. Plus, again, we've always over looked its flaws and considered it a worthy sequel. Even if you don't.
5 The Haunted Mansion
I know what you're thinking. But here's the thing...Disneyland fanatics had dreamed about this movie for years. It was to be based on their most beloved attraction. There was a real, palpable hunger for it back in the early 2000s. And then Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl came out, blew the roof off the joint, and suddenly people thought movies based on theme park attractions could actually be good. They we're eagerly anticipating another surprise hit that brought the same kind of joy and nostalgia. Instead, they were faced with Eddie Murphy in another by-the-numbers comedy that seemed to waist his talents. But looking at the film on its ten year anniversary, its clear that the film was misunderstood, and definitely deserves a second chance for the weird message contained within. At the time of its release, two years after the Twin Towers fell, America was still reeling from the effects of 9/11. And this film strangely mirrors what our nation was going through. Sadly, America wasn't yet ready to see themselves on screen, and while the movie opened strong, it quickly drifted into the dustbin of cinematic history. The story follows a family summoned to a new home, only to find it haunted. This helps Murphy's character realize that he needs to pay more attention to his family. The cynical among us might just see this movie as Disney trying to make money off a ride of the same name. However, what drives demand for giving this film a second look is hindsight. In the Murphy character we have America. A country still trying to understand how and why something as tragic as 9/11 could happen. At the same time, the ghosts in the film represent the Taliban and our enemies. They are the people who were a threat, yet somehow that threat was ignored. Evil was allowed to fester and spread throughout the world, just like it spreads throughout the home that Murphy's character inhabits with his family. His wife and kids represent America's allies. Those voices that stood with America no matter what, yet didn't always understand its actions. Seen in this light, The Haunted Mansion becomes an important film. It is one that demands the attention of viewers. I feel that in 2013, ten years removed from when this movie was released, we are now at a point where we can see this film for what it is...One of the most important films to engage viewers in world politics since Tora! Tora! Tora!. The Haunted Mansion definitely deserves a second chance and now is the time for it to be granted.
There are tons more movies we feel deserve a second chance. Maybe we'll get to those in the future. Do you have a movie that deserves to be revisited? Let us know your thoughts.
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Ghosbusters 2 is a great sequel!
1 year agoby @profile-61341701Flag
@ejk1 -- Interesting. Guess I was really young when it happened, because I don't (vividly) remember hearing about it.
1 year agoby @XxNickTheFilmCriticXxFlag
@skywise@XxNickTheFilmCriticXx Eddie Murphy was never arrested, but he did pick up a transvestite prostitute who was arrested and taken out of his car. The police pulled Murphy's car over before anything illegal could have taken place. Whether or not Murphy's story that he was only helping a person and being a good samaritan is true ( I find it susp*cious, although to his credit, he hasn't been linked with any other activity of this kind since then), one could definitely say the incident had an adverse effect on his career.
@skywise -- Eh, I've only seem him [Kitsch] in "John Carter", so I can't completely comment on his acting skills.
1 year agoby @XxNickTheFilmCriticXxFlag
oh please ....lordy
1 year agoby @Zak-Lee-FergusonFlag
"Ghostbusters 2"....train wreak....and nothing to stop it!! Makes one stop and think, does at any time do these actors call their agent and say, "Get me the hell out of here"!?!?!?.
"The Haunted Mansion" a pure mess. A cheap knock-off of "Casper"!.
"Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny"...has it's own built in fan base. I guess it was not me. A film that falls under "seen it once don't need to see again"!.1 year agoby @2movieguysFlag
sorry to say all these movies are trash and deserve Razzie awards......nothing redeeming about any of them!
1 year agoby @2movieguysFlag
@XxNickTheFilmCriticXx That's a shame really...I don't find Kitsch to be THAT awful.
@skywise -- No, I liked Crusade more. I mean, I thought The Last Crusade was decent, but I felt it lost the magic the first and second - to a lesser extent - had. I think I saw it 6 years ago, so I don't really remember it, only how I felt after watching it. 'Raiders of The Lost Ark' is quite possibly the best action/adventure I've ever seen, period. Outstanding movie!
I never heard of any of his felonies, but that could be the case. All I know is, he's now the face of bombing films. Next to Taylor Kitsch, of course.1 year agoby @XxNickTheFilmCriticXxFlag
@XxNickTheFilmCriticXx did you like Crystal Skull more than Crusade? I really enjoyed Crusade but I was a child when I saw it and you know ....nostalgia goggles make everything look pretty from the past.
But I'm curious about you your opinion about the dislike of Crusade.
Personally I really love the original 3 films almost equally but I tend to lean toward Raiders.
Also I couldn't agree more about Haunted Manson. Sooo ridiculously bad and while Murphy was once a brilliant comedian...it seems that he lost it somewhere along the way. I think its when he got arrested for ...prostitution was it? It seemed like after that he went with the all family films. That is when things seemed to fall apart.@skywise -- "The Haunted Mansion" would crack my '100 Worst Movies of All-Time' list, no doubt.
1 year agoby @XxNickTheFilmCriticXxFlag
@thedude-abides -- I disagree, man. I didn't really like the Last Crusade, but Kingdom of The Crystal Skull was just flat-out mediocre. Hell, I keep forgetting the movie was even made.
1 year agoby @XxNickTheFilmCriticXxFlag
Out of all 5 the only one I was disappointed with was Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. Also, The Crystal Skull didn't make close to $800 million for nothing. And Blues Brothers 2000 was great.
1 year agoby @upsmann44Flag
They should have made that Haunted Mansion movie a darker/scarier movie, instead of making it only for kids like they did, even if it would just so happen to be a Disney movie.
1 year agoby @themoviefanaticFlag
Out of the 5, though I haven't seen 'Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny' yet, I was only really dissapointed with 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' because the first three were all so good. Though I have watched it a few times since it's release and it's wathable, but will never be of the quality that is the original three. The other 3 movies mentioned are okay, not horrible, but not really memorable either. I would like to suggest a movie, and I'm not sure if it's part of the 'Disappointing Movies That Deserve a Second Chance' catagory as I'm not sure if it was disapointing to all. I know it didn't make that much at the box office, so I'm not sure if a lot of people have seen it. I do know that I have heard from a few people that have seen it and they all dismiss it as a silly comedy. So I do think this movie does deserve a second chance, because it is one of those movies that you have to see more then once and start to see what the movie is really about. You start to notice symbolism and deep meaning that you wouldn't notice the first time or even probably second time around. The movie my friends is the great 'Joe Versus the Volcano'! If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and see it, and then wait for awhile, see it again, and again and again. If you have seen it and are one of those, 'That movie is a silly or stupid comedy' watch it again and be awakened by something that you never expected. Cheers!
1 year agoby @gumpermanFlag
*scratches head*
1 year agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag
I'm sure there are hundreds of more notable films that were disappointing that deserve a sequel or are in desperate need of a reboot. That said, whether people liked it or not, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was on par with Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade, so I wouldn't really call that a disappointment.
1 year agoby @thedude-abidesFlag


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