I didn’t intend for this to be a feature. And it’s not like I discovered these two songs close together. But one of my pet peeves is people who think things were better in the past than now. People who feel they’re “being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century” (actual words I heard someone say in Best Buy). Sure, nostalgia is pleasant, and we always see the past with rose-colored glasses. Everyone remembers The Fresh Princes of Bel-Air and Nirvana. No one remembers chain wallets or Pauly Shore or the rat-tail or backwards jeans or Hudson Hawk. I haven’t heard anyone mention the “authenticity” you get from cassette…
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The Distillation of Smaug
Goddamn, this movie pissed me off. It was so damn long, so filled with meaningless filler with little-no-transition or flow. That barrel riding scene was absolutely ridiculous, way longer than it needed to be. And the battle was so ridiculous, like when Legolas is jumping from barrel to barrel, pulling off perfect shots on tipsy dwarf heads Wisconsin Dellsing it down a raging river, killing orcs before he can see them. Then tedious political conversations with elves & men, orcs-orcs-orcs, some new guy who’s not Aragorn. And basically all I’m thinking ‘where’s the dragon, get to the dragon, I know there’s a dragon, it was in all the commercials, all…
