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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: New Rolling Stone Article
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on: February 10, 2016, 02:37:16 PM
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Lets hypothesis how this article could be positive...
I will start..
RS- Why are you angry?
Mike- I am just angry with myself, I probably should have given Brian more freedom at times, I guess. Look I love TM and I am Mr Positivity, but sometimes I was a real fucking prick to Cousin Bri.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Was there any evidence \
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on: January 28, 2016, 05:09:57 PM
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I am sticking with the 18th of May, can't be arsed changing my thingy and the arguments about this have been going on since ET phoned home. Oh and another thing Smile was going to be the songs we all know + an elements suite at the end with the heroes theme linking the 4 parts together, that's the part Brian never finished, the sequencing and the segueing (is that a word?).
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Rocky Pamplin book about The Beach Boys?
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on: January 21, 2016, 04:31:26 PM
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Wow came into this conversation late. Interesting reading. I want to add my two cents for what its worth.
Having suffered from depression myself, I can understand the problems people have coming to terms with it. Back in the 70's and 80's, it was not the thing to tell anyone about. And even the doctors didn't always know what to do. I slogged thru until I was able to find the right doctors and have had it under control since the early '90s. But I can tell you, its a MF to get thru. Even I didn't understand it all at the time.
With Brian (I will leave Dennis out of this, that is a whole other story), I don't believe he had a drug or alcohol problem. And Marilyn's, Dr. Landy and Stephen Love's treating him like he did was not the way to go. Hiring people to watch over Brian to make sure he didn't get high or wasted was the exact wrong thing to do. We know much more now then we did back then. Schizoaffective disorder wasn't even recognized until the early '90s. People that heard voices etc were diagnosed as Schizophrenic and treated as such. Brian was treated as such. But he could never turn off the voices so he chose the self medication route. That is where the drug taking came from. It was a symptom, not the real disease. Had Brian been treated in a hospital setting from the get-go, things might have been different. We know that he was hospitalized in the late 60's and may have even had ECT. But I would think that by the mid 70's, some of the doctors at UCLA would have been able to help. But there was that thing of keeping it all quite. Which was weird to because EVERYBODY knew about it. It was all over in the magazines etc that Brian was "CRAZY".
The people around Brian were not very attuned to that issue. I will stop short of saying they weren't smart. But if your car keeps rolling backward out into the street, you don't buy bigger bricks to put behind the tires to keep it from rolling, you fix the BRAKES! Stan, Rocky, etc were just trying to keep the car from rolling back. No one thought to fix the brakes.
As for Dennis, I keep thinking of something Robert Downey Jr said when he went to jail (remember how many times he went over the edge, and look at him now). He told the judge that drugs to him were dangerous, but, "Its like sticking a gun in my mouth and pulling back the trigger cause I like the way the gun barrel tastes". So did Dennis. And if Murry was you father, you would get high too.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Talk About Awards For Love and Mercy
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on: December 14, 2015, 03:56:30 PM
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I am betting that it was because it wasn't written specifically for the film.
Oscar rules state that any piece of music is ruled ineligible if it receives commercial release prior to use in the film; hence why Jonny Greenwood's masterful score for "There Will Be Blood" was given the shaft back in '08... Actually, my understanding is that it is considered ineligible for not being featured audibly enough in the film. Too low in the driving scene and too late in the end credits. I concur |
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: The Gun Thread
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on: December 02, 2015, 08:54:46 PM
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No way, just congratulating them on their stance. 355 mass shootings this year, well done! Its a sarcastic nod to the gun totting, Americana that is a myth. The land of the free.
18th of May - the FBI has not ruled out terrorism. This appears to have the indicia of the Bataclan attack, orchestrated similarly. This is not about the 2nd amendment. They used "long guns" the new rhetoric, no mention of Kalashnikovs, and found IED's (pipe bombs.) Cities in the US have attacks from pressure cookers made by those who got hundreds of thousands of tax dollars for free college tuition and apartments, because they were refugees. These shooters used assault rifles. That is not the 2nd amendment. The outlaws have the guns and "soft targets" now need to be armed. Schools, churches, malls, sporting centers. It is the new normal. God Bless America. Wow yeah cool stuff, more guns to stop the guns! f***ed up logic 101. |
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike's band
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on: November 28, 2015, 09:35:48 AM
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ANY board member who receives what they feel is an inappropriate, offensive, or unwelcome private message from another board member is encouraged to report it to a moderator.
I've already covered this in detail in this thread, and also reposted the official board rules covering private messages. Despite claims to the contrary, there is nothing that requires clarification.
To spell it out in the most basic, common-sense way: If a private message is reported, and the moderators are contacted by the recipient, that message can be forwarded or requested to be forwarded to the moderators for review. Otherwise, there would be nothing for the moderators to review. If further action is deemed necessary, if it is determined that the message (or messages) in question violated a board rule, then further action will be taken as with any reported public post on the board.
Repeating yet another time: The moderators can not directly access any board member's messages. PERIOD. If there are questions about access from the administration/owner specific to that process, the questions should be directed to them.
The same rules regarding conduct between board members applies to private messages as it does public posts.
If there are attempts to avoid those rules of public conduct by using private messages for reasons other than normal, person-to-person conversation, that behavior will NOT be tolerated.
If ANYONE receives a private message which they feel was inappropriate, offensive, or unwelcome, PLEASE contact a moderator and report it.
This sets it all out in a clear and concise fashion. Draw a line in the sand and move on. |
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love and Mercy Sequel
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on: November 26, 2015, 09:42:01 PM
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Sequels need to amp up everything. Love & Mercy 2: The Reckoning would need explosions, a car chase possibly re-enacting the 70s Apple Juice Jug Incident, and John Cusack saying he's "too old for this sh*t." Also they should expand their demographic appeal by throwing in a wisecrackin' kid and some giant robots that punch each other really, really hard.
 Love & Mercy 2: Electric Boogaloo. Features Miley Cyrus as the voice of Missy, a cartoon frog that only 1995 Brian can see and hear. Not to be outdone, 1995 Mike is guided by a cartoon rabbit named Nibbles (voice of Hugh Jackman). Who framed Mike Love? |
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