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Magua said:
The Honolulu Ghibli roll out the red carpet for our Team Actress: Saoirse Ronan

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From movies like Atonement, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women, I ardently believe she is the best young actress working today. She's done all this by age 28, and I can't fathom where her career will go from here. She has an absolutely magnetic screen presence: funny, earnest, emotive without histrionic. Saoirse has immaculate taste in projects, and I could watch her play any role because she can play any role. If she's starring in a movie, my interest is piqued. Yes, I am a proud simp. Move along, nothing to see here. (Except Saoirse Ronan.)

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@mja -- it's pronounced, "Sur-sha"
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I haven't ever heard of any of those movies and have never heard of this person, but I know this is a great pick because you're a great poster
 
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Striiker said:
Yeah, which proves my point. I only like the best of the best.

F&F didn't win 5 Strikey Awards for Best Picture by accident.
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The best of that best is like looking at a yard full of dog shit and trying to find the nicest looking pile. When it’s all said and done that nice pile is still shit.

ajgoal said:
Remember. We're family.

Defect is just the weird cousin nobody talks about
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Tell stories about.
 
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Now that we got that holiday shit out of the way, let's f***ing go.

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We start the day with one super f***ing handsome clean-whiskered cat on the clock. I'll go after posting this, so the day really will start with @Chuck Downie on the clock, @BernieParent on deck, Bigglesworth on the lido deck, and Hollywood Cannon on the lido afterdeck. @Rebels57 needs to get his drunk ass in here and make up his first three picks, but not until he washes the stink of Minnie Mouse off his hands.

David Foster Wallace used to hang out in the first newspaper office I worked at. He did so before I started there, but one of the editors told me about it. I don't remember what the editor said about him other than that he just liked to sit in there and talk. I can't imagine how bored he must have been to do that, but it seems like it was entirely in keeping with his character. I'll tell you this - it's a good thing Dave f***ing Eggers never got within a nautical light year of anywhere I have been or I would have called a priest to do an exorcism. I despise that c***. My hatred for him is all mixed together with a bunch of other people and stuff that I hate, and that makes it exponentially more intense. But we don't talk about that out loud. Hmmph. C***.

I'm going to go get my pick ready. Enjoy this great song while you wait.

 
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I don't have much to worry about in terms of getting sniped this phase, so I am just going to go ahead with my cover song. This is one of my favorite songs of all time, and it's MUCH better than the original, as is often the case with cover songs. That's no offense to Big Star, obviously - the original is so well crafted and written that it's almost impossible to go wrong.



Superdrag's debut album, "Regretfully Yours," is implacably cemented in my top five albums of the 90s (along with "Exile in Guyville," "Come on Feel the Lemonheads," "Indoor Living" by Superchunk, and then ... I can never decide on the fifth, but lean toward "The Bends.") There was so much good music just erupting from everywhere that I wouldn't begrudge someone putting, for example, Sebadoh in there, or Smashing Pumpkins, or Oasis, or various other bands - there are plenty of strong arguments to be made about plenty of albums. But Superdrag is right there, and you assumed that it was only the beginning.

Then their second album, "Head Trip in Every Key," came out. I didn't hate it at all, because there are some really good songs on there ... but you could tell that something was f***ed, and that something was the same thing that f***ed over countless bands until the music industry imploded not long after the album's release - signing with a major label. I don't know specifically what went wrong, and I think there was some rehab involved also, not surprisingly, but they were f***ed. It is such a shame, because the guy's voice sounds like mine and I was really looking forward to digging into them long-term. It was pretty much the last time I was so disillusioned, because I stopped caring after that. Bloc Party came the closest afterwards, but even my fandom of them was contained.

Anyway, that cover is the greatest thing that ever came out of Big Star. This is, in its way, the second greatest.

"Children by the million scream for Alex Chilton, and he comes running ..."




Team Cover Song - September Gurls

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"For our Team Cover Song, the owners of the Tampa Bay FireSticks are pleased to select a personal favourite -- People Get Ready -- even though we aren't big fans of the artist doing the new version.



"We are moderate-level fans of Jeff Beck's soulful guitar work but haven't been enamoured with Rod Stewart's career. We obviously will make an exception for their accomplished interpretation of this legendary song.

"People Get Ready was originally written and performed by Curtis Mayfield, one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music. He first achieved success and recognition with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted group The Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist. Mr. Mayfield started his musical career in a gospel choir. He wrote People Get Ready in 1965 for the Impressions. The song was ranked at no. 24 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.

"We will bet that @BiggE could do a monster version of People Get Ready #gauntletdropped."
 
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{NO CHANCE, THATS WHAT YOU GOT!! NO CHANCE IN HELL!!!!}
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ALRIGHT DAMMIT!! IM VINCENT KENNEDY MCMAHON DAMMIT, AND RIGHT HERE, IN THIS VERY RING, I WILL REVEAL THE OFFICIAL PET PEEVE OF THE JACKSONVILLE METHGATORS AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, ME!!!
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Now I have a lot of pet peeves, DAMMIT! But, the one that bugs me the most, DAMMIT, IS SNEEZING!!!
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Why?? Because sneezing, is a sign of weakness, AND I HATE WEAKNESS, DAMMIT!! So, if anyone on the Methgators payroll ever, AND I MEAN EVER DAMMIT, so much as let’s loose with one damn sneeze, the next two words they’ll hear will be: YOU’RE FIIIRRREDDD!!!!!!
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According to pretty much everyone who has ever worked at WWE, McMahon actually does detest sneezing, go figure.

Anyway, @Hollywood Cannon , blow your nose thoroughly before coming in to make your next selection.
 
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BiggE said:
{NO CHANCE, THATS WHAT YOU GOT!! NO CHANCE IN HELL!!!!}
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ALRIGHT DAMMIT!! IM VINCENT KENNEDY MCMAHON DAMMIT, AND RIGHT HERE, IN THIS VERY RING, I WILL REVEAL THE OFFICIAL PET PEEVE OF THE JACKSONVILLE METHGATORS AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, ME!!!
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Now I have a lot of pet peeves, DAMMIT! But, the one that bugs me the most, DAMMIT, IS SNEEZING!!!
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Why?? Because sneezing, is a sign of weakness, AND I HATE WEAKNESS, DAMMIT!! So, if anyone on the Methgators payroll ever, AND I MEAN EVER DAMMIT, so much as let’s loose with one damn sneeze, the next two words they’ll hear will be: YOU’RE FIIIRRREDDD!!!!!!
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According to pretty much everyone who has ever worked at WWE, McMahon actually does detest sneezing, go figure.

Anyway, @Hollywood Cannon , blow your nose thoroughly before coming in to make your next selection.
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Why would I have to blow my nose before I make my selection? We don't have any weaknesses.
 
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The Las Vegas Desert Ducks selected as our Team Actor way back when when it was a free for all instead of proper round by round shenanigans Liev Schrieber which means that we now must turn our attention to Team Actress...

We're going to select Cate Blanchett so that we can continue to do whatever we want.

Wait, what? That's not allowed?

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@GKJ you do you.
 
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