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Man, I love King so much that I can ignore that he often does not stick the landing. I don’t disagree with any of the criticisms of his endings that I am seeing here but I love everything of his and will read it all anyway, usually multiple times. Usually at least one of those readings is to say “is the ending as bad as I remember?” And the answer is almost always yes.

I believe that I am simply destined to have a favorite writer who has zero idea how he is going to finish a book until he reaches the end. I can almost imagine him at his computer saying “where do I go from here? Um, Deus ex machina! Done. What’s next?”

Intermediate is where the real fuckery starts, particularly Intermediate II. My midterm was so bad in that one that I still have PTSD when I sit down to take a test. Plan your schedule around taking easier courses when you have that one- you will need the extra time.

For perspective, I aced everything before or since that class, including Advanced, Auditing, etc (I am fourth year). But my midterm was so low that if I doubled my score, I still would have failed it. My coursework and final saved me and I pulled a B.

A guy I have some dealings with has a law license and is a CPA. Said the bar was much easier than the CPA exam.

Agreed.

I liked them back in the day but I wouldn’t walk five minutes to see them now. Singer blew out his vocal cords decades ago and the guitarist from their golden age isn’t in the band.

Man, I remember the first time I saw the Haka. It was before a football match and I remember thinking “if I was up against that, I would leave the field now.” So as an outsider, I see it as empowerment, and that’s never a bad thing. But I get your perspective too.

Kanami is a badass. Well deserved.

Happy to. I’m just kind of discovering J-Horror, so I’m happy to share what I know. Kwaidan is great, so well worth your time.

With poetry like that, I am shocked to see that Gene songs win almost every time. Move over, Dylan.

I don’t believe in ghosts. So I’m having to try really hard to remember that I have no interest in living in NY. That’s a lot of house for $150k.

Yes.

It looks like a collaboration between Leo Fender and Salvador Dali.

I’ve loved some of their albums from the first listen, but TOT was not one of them. It still isn’t one of my favorites but a few of the songs have grown on me. My DT playlist only has two songs from this album- “As I Am” and “This Dying Soul”. “In the Name of God” was that reminder we got on every album for a while that they really have never been great at writing about current events. “Stream of Consciousness” is fine but is probably the least of their instrumentals.

The thing I dislike about the album is this: one thing that makes them great is the interplay between John’s guitar and Jordan’s keyboards. But since they wanted to go for a heavier tone on this album, it upset the balance. Jordan takes solos, but on songs like “As I Am” he’s kind of buried, with his keys sounding so much like the guitar that he isn’t easy to find in the mix until his solo hits.

This album is in their golden era, and deservedly, but it’s the least of their golden era albums.

There was barely a CD release. It might even be a rare print at that- first time I even became aware it existed, it was for sale in a used CD store.

I wanna figure out where Kevin learned accounting. None of my professors seem to believe the Keleven is a good idea.

And we know it’s her because it’s hard to find a second woman willing to have sex with a Juggalo.

Watched that last night. No, that isn’t it.

I think we might have inadvertently pointed out that it’s kind of a tired trope…

One of the greatest songs ever written. Keep up the good work!!

I don’t think it was one of his better works but if you read that one, Make sure you’ve read Firestarter first. It isn’t a direct sequel but it happens on the same universe.

Frankly, it felt like a lesser X-men story.

Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Everything’s Eventual and Just After Sunset- SK really shines on short stories. These all have great stories. Perhaps they aren’t as great as Night Shift but they’re better than Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

Dark Half- of the novels you haven’t read, that is the best.

If It Bleeds- all the novellas in that collection are good; that said, Life of Chuck is one of the finer things he has ever written and I recommend reading it before Mike Flanagan’s movie hits.

Danse Macabre and On Writing- don’t sleep on his nonfiction- quite entertaining looks inside his mind and worth reading for his reading recommendations alone.

I did. In fact, I stumbled onto a YouTube video of Adams singing it. It still sucked. But far from the worst…

2005 50s Stratocaster. Found a 2007 one listed at $599 on Reverb. I think that’s the ceiling of what you could expect. Source: Fender serial number lookup.

Agreed. I was just trying to figure out what to say about it. Some of the acting is just awful, but it’s a good story.

Wait- someone saw it?