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bringing out the dead: scorsese can even make nicolas cage look good

holy fuck, this is a purdy flik. it’s kinda like watching the matrix, where you have to squint your eyes or just flat out pretend that fucking talent-suck keanu reeves has most certainly NOT been cast as the quasi-savior-esque “neo” just to somehow, some way,  enjoy it… ahem. scorsese rocks, despite fucking nicolas cage. filmsmithing. [...]

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it burns so good: enter the ghost pepper/bhut jolokia

really, it seems like a “guy thing” but deliciousness iz universal, yo. step up and feel the heat. aaaaaahahhhhhhahahahahh!!!!!!!

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frequency spunnin’: surgeon-breaking the frame and v.i.v.e.k.-eyes down

  see it with your ears here. and then: eyes down. bass up.   oh yes, my f(r)iends. sumo-fat-ne-ess.   …    

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a st. phatties day x-travaganza: all hail grandma’s boy

AAAAAAAAHHHHH YEAAAAAAHHH!!!!  just watch it because this movie is way funnier than me so i’m not even gonna try. yes, it’s silly. so fucking forget green piss ale this year i say, get greener with good ol’ gramma’s boi and have a happy st. phatties day, yerd!

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bangin’ for your buck, surround processor part 2: onkyo

i’m not gonna get all specs and white papers and lab measurements on this site. nope. thankfully for me, those days are over; i did my time in that hell, so all you will hear here is one man’s opinion. the stuff i recommend is somewhat based on experience running the numbers, but mostly on [...]

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hands down best surround a/v processor: classe ssp-800

ok, ok: i know this is for the silver spoon crowd, but goddamn we the people should have access to this (can’t i rent it from the library?) if ever you wondered, “what is the most transparent noah’s ark of a/v?!” well then: classé ssp-800. fucking almost $10k (unless you know whom to blow…). but [...]

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