I approve of this thread simply on the grounds that it may finally drive Radiohead haters into a state of apoplexy.

I eagerly await the 4th thread on this subject. Maybe it'll clear the air a bit more.

swahnhennessy: I eagerly await the 4th thread on this subject. Maybe it'll clear the air a bit more.

This.

This.

This.

swahnhennessy
Atleast this is a follow up and not a repeat. That will be in about 5-10 hours from now.

/subby

i feel like i'm threadjacking, but this movie looks awful.


...an awful lot like "fight club," that is!


seriously. another book about people on the edges of society doing weird things to earn their rent. come on, chuck.

Turns out every friggin' FARK thread gets contradicted three threads later. Way to go, moderators.

OH WAIT!
*sees radiohead thread*
*clicks link*
"Nuh nuh nuhhh uhhh radiohead sucks nurrrr duhhh radioheads is coldplay lolol pretentious.. nuhhh duhhh xxxxx is better than radiohed"

Sorry, just seeing what the big attraction is to all the people that click on a thread for a band they don't like just to bash them.
?

/I'm sorry for saying those horrible things Radiohead

meddlin' kid

They are very similar but very different kinda like Monet's Nympheas and Water Lilies(1916) or Metallica's Load and Reload.

Atleast it's not another Stephen King adaptation.

meddlin' kid: seriously. another book about people on the edges of society doing weird things to earn their rent. come on, chuck.

yup... could have at least made a movie about one of the better books about people on the edges of society doing weird things to earn their rent.

Fark has really, really gone downhill.

Glitchwerks: Fark has really, really gone downhill.

we're one step closer to hitting bottom.

I really hate all the contradictory information in these Radiohead threads, a band which I really enjoy and admire.

Oh man am I excited for this movie. One of Pahlaniuk's better books. I read Rant on a plane last month and loved it.

I saw a Radiohead special on MHD the other day, which was just them standing in a circle someplace and playing the Rainbows stuff with no audience, and I quite enjoyed it.

Still shocked that MTV was involved with it. TV needs more programming like that where people just plug in and play, and that's all there is to it. The fact that there was no audience really made it better.

Valdes: I really hate all the contradictory information in these Radiohead threads, a band which I really enjoy and admire.

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA. good one. carry on.

and creating a nuisance: Oh man am I excited for this movie. One of Pahlaniuk's better books. I read Rant on a plane last month and loved it.

srsly? i read rant on a plane last month and could not for the life of me figure out what the point of it was.

it seemed like just cool images that chuck wove into a narrative, as opposed to an actual tale. people struttin' around spouting interesting information does not a riveting novel make.

i respect chuck for the fact that he doesn't write like anyone else that i've read, and i think one day he'll write a fantastic book, but i don't think he's done it yet (including fight club, the ending of that was even worse than the movie).


i feel like he's pre-"on the road" kerouac.

Thanks for two repeats on a story that turns out not to be true.

flaminglip

Yeah, you're where I got the link. You posted it late in the first thread(the big trollfest) and it didn't stop the repeat. Sorry you didn't get the green.

The music tab has sucked ever since it became "Fark on Blender"

rdt21: Turns out every friggin' FARK thread gets contradicted three threads later. Way to go, moderators.

Yeah I gotta quit sending my friends links I find on here until I do my own research on them first....I got a friend all excited now I had to send him this Pitchfork link.

I know I will see this movie because my boyfriend likes Chuck a lot. I only really loved Survivor. If Haunted wasn't quite so ridiculous gross weird it would make a cool movie. Rest of the books I was mostly "meh"

meddlin' kid: srsly? i read rant on a plane last month and could not for the life of me figure out what the point of it was.

it seemed like just cool images that chuck wove into a narrative, as opposed to an actual tale. people struttin' around spouting interesting information does not a riveting novel make.

i respect chuck for the fact that he doesn't write like anyone else that i've read, and i think one day he'll write a fantastic book, but i don't think he's done it yet (including fight club, the ending of that was even worse than the movie).


i feel like he's pre-"on the road" kerouac.

The disjointedness and lack of direction from Rant was an interesting writing style that is rare. The whole oral history approach was great.

As the end of the book approaches, and you realize that some of the narrators are telling stories of what they heard. They were taking third party tales and embellishing the stories. Whether or not any of that part of the story (especially the supernatural parts) actually happened is up to the reader. After reading Rant, it felt eerily like the New Testament.

mandy123: If Haunted wasn't quite so ridiculous gross weird it would make a cool movie. Rest of the books I was mostly "meh"

Haunted could ONLY work as a premium cable series. I mean, the whole thing is a collection of short stories with one big wraparound.

That would rule if Showtime would pick it up...

As for the topic at hand: meh. Radiohead, as far as I'm concerned is "ok" at best. I don't love them, I don't hate them, I just hate the "people who DON'T like Radiohead are either ignorant or stupidheads" crowd.

HBK: The disjointedness and lack of direction from Rant was an interesting writing style that is rare. The whole oral history approach was great.

As the end of the book approaches, and you realize that some of the narrators are telling stories of what they heard. They were taking third party tales and embellishing the stories. Whether or not any of that part of the story (especially the supernatural parts) actually happened is up to the reader. After reading Rant, it felt eerily like the New Testament.

i concur with your thoughts on the way chuck plays with form. that's why kerouac comes to mind. i just don't think the content lives up to how neat the framing of it is, ya know?

but yeah, cool that he wrote it as an oral history and had people contradicting each other and everything.


i think, and i don't mean this condescendingly 'cause he's obviously a good writer, that he's got some great books in him and we haven't seen them yet. again, like early kerouac...and a lot of those folks, actually. i get the sense that figuring out how to really wield a novel is something wildly different than crafting a good album or a painting.


seems obvious from one perspective, but there's no real way of telling.

I've only read one of Palahniuk's books. I really dig his entire collection.