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That's because nobody over fourteen likes DBZ. But this isn't just 'throwing wind' at people. All four elemental 'bender' (basically, they can manipulate their element) fighting styles are modeled after actual martial art styles. The water-benders, for example, are based on Tai-chi. They're martial arts moves extended by an element, basically. Pixies, it seems to me that it is generally more rewarding as a whole instead of episode per episode. When you watch one episode, you generally only get the self-contained conflict of that particular episode. When watched in the right order you can follow the story of the war and how it affects the characters, which definately overshadows the smaller conflicts. Also, it's pretty funny at times. This is a welcome relief from anime shows like Naruto whose humor repetoire consists generally of sexism and fart jokes.

Dammit. That's odd. Anyway, the picture is of a creature that appeared in the season finale. It's called 'The Face Stealer' and it's basically a giant talking centipede who lives in a dark place and, well, steals peoples faces. I can't really describe it.

Works fine for me. Go here: http://www.musogato.com/avatar/pics/spirit-koh.jpg

It's better than the usual 'hey, watch me throw energy balls at you! NNNNNGH!'. Besides, "let me throw wind at you" never bothered anyone when Captain Planet did it. Another thing that surprised me is that I expected it to be all kiddy-fied. Some parts are actually pretty intense and deal with fairly adult themes (such as abandonment and child abuse). That does not look like something from an american kiddy show.

Yeah, that's how I felt originally too, "what, americans writing anime? the world has gone insane!" Like I said, this show really took me by surprise. I only watched it because a friend of mine (who is, in fact, asian) recommended it to me. I'm glad he did. It definately beats out all asian anime for that demographic, like Naruto and Bleach and *shudders* Yu-Gi-Oh.

Angst. Tough-guy attitude. (Also, claws are awesome.) I loved how Deadpool parodied Wolverine's clich

Wow. I just watched the whole series (so far), and I have to say I was caught off-guard by how good this series is. It's like these American writers took all the stuff about shows like Naruto and Bleach that is good and left out the bad, threw in a good dose of mythology from a whole bunch of cultures, added some fantasy ala 'The Neverending Story', took a bunch of cues from Hayao Miyazaki and made it into the best story they could possibly think of for a children's show, then proceded to hand it over to an anime studio with an American budget. I wish they made shows like this when I was a kid. It's really good. Especially for it's demographic. I probably wouldn't be as impressed if it was for an older audience, but any children's show that can have an epic war and something as creepy as the 'face stealer' from the season finale in it has my vote. It's very well-written, with mostly three-dimensional characters (One of the villains, Zuko, is pretty one-dimensional before the second season develops him more) and a compelling story. Plus; it has the edge on manga-adapted anime by having self-contained conflicts and storylines with a climax in almost every episode (yet the writers are good enough to not let these overshadow the main story). Anyone else follow this?

Pearl Jam - Army Reserve My disturbingly large amount of love for Pearl Jam still remains!

We need more mods?

Is this the track that plays when Hammond is talking about his flea-circus? That's pretty. You know what's a good John Williams soundtrack? Hook. The movie itself wasn't all that good, but it's got a really good soundtrack. Alice In Chains - Junkhead what's my drug of choice?/well what have you got?

Are you dutch, Kor? I don't think a lot of people outside holland know The Golden Earring, although Radar Love was a pretty big hit. Tom Waits - Downtown Train

Milkmen are my heroes. Pizza delivery guys have nothing on them.

You know, the reason all those bands cover Walk is because it's ridiculously easy to play. Pearl Jam - Why Go (live at Pinkpop 1992) I assume this is many a person's favourite Pearl Jam bootleg because they play pretty much all of Ten and is an incredibly good quality bootleg. Personally, I like their album Vs. much more, but it wasn't out back then. The audience gets treated to a high energy version of 'Leash' though. EDIT: Correction, it was 1992, not 1991.

A recording of me singing along with Temple Of The Dog's "Hunger Strike" The best way to improve is to listen to yourself, or so I've been told. I don't sound that bad anymore.

Wally, you already won the thread when you posted the third post in it. You got it right, man. Stop trying!

That depends on how much you like Prog Rock. (Which is what they are suddenly doing now.) Eh, I like it. Mother Love Bone - Stargazer

EVOL is probably Sonic Youth most underrated album. I love it. The Decemberists - The Infanta

Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)

Wasn't it always? I'll do this trick, and then in nine months, you'll have a baby! That can't be natural.

Well, that depends. What kind of magic tricks do they do? If they involve penises and tongues, naturally, it will get you banned.

Can't we talk about House M.D. instead? (See how I did that there? By talking about ANOTHER show I actually make it into a 'general tv discussion thread')

Has anyone posted this? It's a classic.

I am SO sorry for you. >_ > hides his Dashboard Confessional albums Currently listening to Black Market Radio - I would describe them as Soundgarden version 2.0, which isn't all that surprising because it's Chris Cornell's brother's band.

I suspect a lot of the appeal for you is the profuse profanity. Hey now, low blow. I do not advocate the use or overuse of profanity. I advocate the abolishment on censorship of such profanity. You ****. You ******** ********. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4RZRtM6_Q&NR Things like this is why the japanese will someday rule the world. EDIT: Huh. It didn't censor one of those words, but I'm not going to get banned over that.