Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


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-t - Jul 27, 2014 5:07:29 pm PDT #6081 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

True Blood: OK, this is stupid, but it made me sad that lawyer lady said "they sell anti-glamour contacts at the Walgreens" and not "K&B". Oddly enough, I don't think it would have pinged me if she'd said "Walmart".


Frankenbuddha - Jul 27, 2014 6:43:17 pm PDT #6082 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

K & B? Don't even know what that is.

ION, I've been taping the Leftovers but hadn't seen any up until tonight. On a whim I watched tonight's episode (I figure if it's compelling, it will be compelling if I have to go back and catch up). It definitely held my interest but boy howdy this may be the least fun show I've seen in a great while. It makes True Detective look like Friends I swear.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 27, 2014 6:52:07 pm PDT #6083 of 7329
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Is Walgreens not prevalent in northern Louisiana? It is here in Arkansas and in western Tennessee.


-t - Jul 27, 2014 7:03:51 pm PDT #6084 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It is, I think. I just miss K&B.


Fred Pete - Jul 28, 2014 3:05:23 am PDT #6085 of 7329
Ann, that's a ferret.

K & B? Don't even know what that is.

K&B was the big local drug store chain in New Orleans. Their shopping bags were dark purple. A shade I still think of as "K&B purple."

Sad to hear that they got swallowed up.


Hil R. - Jul 28, 2014 4:02:22 am PDT #6086 of 7329
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I think that K&B closed just before I moved to New Orleans, but a bunch of the other drugstores that took over their locations kept the purple shopping carts.


kat perez - Jul 28, 2014 7:28:01 am PDT #6087 of 7329
"We have trust issues." Mylar

The Leftovers is total depression porn TV. I've been watching it and while it holds my attention, I don't enjoy the show at all.

I can't with True Blood. All the way done. I want them all to die now. Except LaLa. He can survive. And maybe Jason because he's pretty and there was that one time when he was made of awesome.


-t - Jul 28, 2014 8:04:52 am PDT #6088 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I might care about Tara's weird afterlife thing? I'm not sure.


§ ita § - Jul 28, 2014 12:46:29 pm PDT #6089 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm studying LaLa for fashion tips. Everything else is stupid.


Atropa - Jul 31, 2014 10:11:57 pm PDT #6090 of 7329
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

We're catching up on the previous season of True Blood, and I am SO NOT OKAY with what happened to Terry. It felt like the writers being pointlessly cruel.