I found this Google preview, but am forcing myself not to read it.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ug_-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=brian+wilson+bus&source=bl&ots=x-7i0v3GLD&sig=NxlQzNLVF_ZiXbR7YMP5GXHXMPQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlp6ulw6nPAhXK7YMKHXaXDCU4ChDoAQguMAk#v=onepage&q=brian%20wilson%20bus&f=false

That review sounds just like Brian.

Lets talk about this year's league with my bulls with alpha male Rondo and Wade leading the way to disaster!

Being a Detroit Pistons fan, I've despised the Bulls for as long as I can remember. However, now that they drafted Denzel Valentine, I find that I have a rooting interest in the team. So here's to hoping that Denzel manages a great rookie season, while the rest of the team stinks!

A few (maybe more) years ago, somebody had tracked down the session notes from the "Inside Pop" stuff that was filmed. Does anybody happen to know (or remember) anything about those, or where we could find them? I recall that it would say something like "guys doing open country song", or something like that. Maybe if we re-read those notes now, things on it would make more sense. Or maybe I'm just dreaming all of this.

You know what's kind of funny (in a not really funny way); I've never posted much, but I've been around the boards forever. I was on the PSML, I remember reading the Cabinessence board, I was a regular visitor to the SMiLE shop. And even though Cam has always been a Mike Love lean, he always seemed to be a decent guy. And I know that a lot of people respected him. Back on the SS, he always had a lot of info on session sheets, and was willing to share any kind of info he had. Even his Mike Love defenses seemed to come off more as him just trying to get people to see things in a different light, like maybe not everything is "Brian is perfect and Mike is an asshole". The last couple years though, his posts seemed hellbent on just being Mike's defense lawyer, no matter how ridiculous he sounded. Sometimes, I don't even know if he believed some of the stuff that came out of his mouth. It's weird.

Cut to Cam Mott readying Mike Love's defense in 3...2...1...

I don't have a Playstation, although this game alone has almost got me buying one!

Anyone see this and who contributed to it?

http://www.plumfund.com/fundraising/appeal

That's pretty weak; "Beat this thing", Probyn Gregory says. Stay Classy!

Derrick Rose to the Knicks. Interesting.

I am so excited for this game. Skyward Sword set the bar so high and I think this will exceed it.

I have it, and have never gotten around to playing it!

Twilight Princess, on the other hand, is one of my favorite games ever.

The game last night is why I never bet on anything.

Draymond Green needs to play his typical defense and be the leader on the floor tonight. Don't let the Cavs lure him into any stupid mistakes. Not having Bogut hurts, but the Warriors should be able to pull this off tonight. If both Thompson and Curry get going, it's all over. That's a big "If", though.

If the Cavs lose tonight, or if they actually win the series, these are probably the last games that Love wears a Cavs jersey.

I'm going to wait until the NX comes out. I had a Wii U and sold it. Not enough good games on it! That game looks incredible, though.

As long as people keep discussing the other board, there's never going to be any kind of 'closure', or whatever you want to call it. The best thing to do is to just stop talking about it, stop talking about the people who caused all of the bullshit here, and go on with business as usual. In due time, that board will become what this board was, because of the people there. Just concern yourself with this place 

I think that he'd be a good player wherever he would've been drafted; I think that he's great in GS because it was the perfect fit. Sometimes, it just turns out that way!

I'm looking forward to the draft, also. I'm looking forward to seeing where Denzel Valentine and Deyonta Davis end up. Last I heard, Denzel was slipping, which seems insane to me. The NBA just doesn't seem to like guys who played an entire college career. They want the 1 or 2 year guys with a lot of 'upside'.

[on this board]

All along, I thought that this thread was about problems dealing with moderation on this board. Not about what goes on at other boards.

It's weird these songs are labeled Michigan State University..  The show took place in Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor on the campus of the University of Michigan.
Michigan State University is not in Ann Arbor.

Yes! As someone who grew up 5 minutes from MSU's campus in East Lansing, I can assure you that MSU is NOT University Of Michigan!

"Magdalena" is top notch. I didn't expect much before I heard it, but it's really, really good. Mike and Mickey sound really good.

"That pizza that Tony used to make was a very powerful dish, very dynamic. That was the last of the super-dynamism cooking from Tony I think, and that was 1965".

Here's a few more. And I should say SPOILER ALERT for these two:

In the past month or so, I’ve watched two Kurosawa movies that I thought I would talk about here as well. The first is Ikiru and the other is Seven Samurai. In my younger days I had seen portions of both, but these were more concerted efforts at watching these movies more carefully.

They were both rewarding experiences. Kurosawa is typically associated with the samurai movie, but, in fact, several of my favourite Kurosawa movies are not directly samurai stories. Rashomon is probably the best example but another good one is the contemporary Stray Dog. Ikiru, like Stray Dog, is a contemporary story. This one is about an old man who discovers he only has a short time to live and what he decides to do with his time.

The story is wonderfully structured, the performances are excellent, and the photography is beautiful. It is probably my favourite Kurosawa movie after Throne of Blood and Rashomon. Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of this movie is in its presentation of bureaucracy. It’s not so much an indictment of the bureaucratic system so much as it is a comment on the way that society can constrain us – that the structures that we build in society, which are inevitable and quite often necessary, nevertheless prevent us from acting in a way that’s human.

This is what Kanji, Ikiru’s protagonist, finally confronts at the end of his life – that’s he’s about to die and he’s never been a real person. But it’s not just his condition, Kurosawa tells us, it’s everyone’s. Consider whether now you would put everything at risk to build a park for children, as Kanji does. Or, for that matter, anything meaningful? If you did, you’d run the risk of being told that you are not living in the real world. But Kurosawa asks us what are the costs of this world? The film ultimately offers the compelling point that, in fact, no one really lives in the real world.

This is why everyone who plays by the rules of the real world ultimately resents Kanji. When Kanji’s actions win the respect of the townspeople, the heads of the bureaucratic system immediately leap in to take credit – because, for them, it is impossible that anyone could actually be successful outside of this system of constraint, which Kurosawa shows us prevents anything from ever actually happening. But most people know different and Kanji’s legacy is fairly secured.

And that’s partly what this movie is about too. I was surprised when, in fact, Kurosawa has Kanji dying about a half hour before the movie actually ends. It was a bold and brilliant move, illustrating just how Kurosawa is a master of cinema who works to challenge audiences at every turn. In that case, the movie is not simply about confronting mortality – that’s too easy. It’s about what we do once we’ve confronted our own inhumanity and what are the consequences of finding it, particularly in a world that denies it – where the very act of living is something to scorn. The question is whether Kanji will motivate others or will his actions be subsumed by the system that took away his individuality in the first place? We don’t really know, but it’s an important question.

Ikiru is a complex film that deals with these compelling questions but is has a wonderful emotional resonance – Kanji is someone we feel for but we don’t just feel for him but also for others caught up in the system but are trying to escape, like, for example, the novelists that he runs into or the girl who briefly works in Kanji’s office. Like in most Kurosawa movies that I’ve seen, there’s a great deal of heart here, as we discover a man who begins to love life at a time when there is so little of it left.

Seven Samurai is probably considered to be Kurosawa’s masterpiece – either that or Rashomon. I did indeed find Seven Samurai to be a wonderful movie, but I was less impressed by it than I have been by several of the other Kurosawa’s that I have seen. Perhaps it is just because I do not particularly love action movies, and this is a great example of an action movie. However, as I observed upon watching the film again this time, how many action movies today would be so bold as to have its final shot be a bunch of grave sites.

With that in mind, then, this movie is very much about cost. A simple reading might say that it’s about the cost of war, but really, it’s about the cost of being in a interpersonal family dynamic. The seven samurai, who really only all meet just shortly before they go to war against a bunch of violent bandits, are truly a family with Kambei Shimada (played by the same actor who played Kanji in Ikiru) as the patriarchal head. Look beyond the samurai regalia and talk, and Kambei is every bit as fatherly as Ward Clever, but Ward never had to deal with bandits. Nor did he ever have a son as belligerent as the wonderful Kikuchiyo played by the great Toshiro Mifune.

Indeed, the relationship that Kikuchiyo has with the rest of the samurai is the critical highpoint of the film. Kikuchiyo is not a traditional or even an official samurai – he’s wild, he’s not properly trained. But at the end of the say, he is the most human of them all. At one point he goes off to steal a bandit’s gun after samurai Kyuzo does the same much to the awe of Katsushiro Okamoto, the youngest, child-like samurai. But whereas Kyuzo goes on a dangerous mission, Kikuchiyo leaves his post at a critical point, which leads to several bandits breaking through and a villager ending up dead. Terrible though this is, we sympathize with Kikuchiyo. He really just wants to be as accepted as everyone else and simply can’t quite grasp how. He is the samurai, I think, that we are all meant to identify with.

Ultimately, this movie is about action, wonderfully shot and poetically paced out by Kurosawa. But more importantly it is about the samurai family – a family that is always destined to end tragically. There will be survivors, yes, but the survivors are the ones that have to bear the burden of surviving – they are the ones that do the burying, which is hardly a pleasant task. Beyond the historical period, Kurosawa shows us the joys of belonging to a large family but he also shows us the sadness of it. Being part of a big family can be fulfilling, enriching, and joyous but it could also mean losing your greatest friends over and over again.

Again, I cannot stress more that this movie is excellent. However, I think that there are story elements in Kurosawa that are better elsewhere (Throne of Blood and Ran, for instance, though, when your source material is Shakespeare, it’s hard to go wrong) and his cinematic prowess is perhaps stronger in movies like Rashomon, Ikiru, and Ran. Again, while there are emotionally moving moments here, they do not quite fall as nicely as they do in Ikiru. Nevertheless, Seven Samurai is a wonderful movie and worth watching.

I would say that Ikiru definitely is part of my Top 120. Seven Samurai might but it could also be squeezed out by others.

I've never watched anything by Kurosawa, although I'd like to. George Lucas has said that The Hidden Fortress inspired the first Star Wars movie, and I'm a big SW guy, so that intrigues me.

I never got the love for Scarface. It's funny in some parts (because Tony Montana is so over the top), but for the most part, to me it kind of drags along. I don't think it comes close to Goodfellas or Godfather I and II, in terms of 'mob' like movies. Untouchables beats it by a mile, in my opinion.

Has anybody seen Foxcatcher? I want to see it now, as I've watched the Netflix documentary, Team Foxcatcher. Brilliant documentary, although it's sad how it all ends.

I'd rather mainline bleach. Barely have enough free time as it is.

Talk about killing 2 birds with 1 stone!

I know, right? Then I'd have all the free time in the world...eternal, in fact.

Sadly, it'd still be preferable to how this year is turning out.

To quote The Beach Boys, "The Year Is So Young"...er, or something like that  
 It'll turn around for you.

I'd rather mainline bleach. Barely have enough free time as it is.

Talk about killing 2 birds with 1 stone!

Then Billy needs to become moderator at "Mike Love's Feel The Love" board, and that'll bring balance to the board.

Everybody knows that Mike is the reason SMiLE never came out.

(I just wanted to be the first person to say this, because everyone knows that it's coming at some point).

I think that it's pretty clear that what this board needs is a shakeup. Therefore, I nominate Rocky Pamplin as new moderator. Think about it; Rocky as moderator, Trump as President, and some place in New York just created the first edible pizza box. So your pizza comes wrapped in a pizza that you can eat.

I did not know. Never heard of that guy.

You should be a moderator based on that comment alone.