Comments on: School of Rock

By: spacetoast

spacetoast — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:48:43 +0000

Eh, these kids commenting on classic video games are sharper and funnier… http://www.egmmag.com/article2/0,4364,1487038,00.asp “Niko: Hey—Pong. My parents played this game. Brian: It takes this whole console just to do Pong? Kirk: What is this? [Picks up and twists the paddle controller] Am I controlling the volume? John: I’m just going to do this [twists the paddle controller as rapidly as possible]. Tim: John, don’t do that. You’ll die. Andrew: This is a lot like that game. Um, whatchamacallit—air hockey. Sheldon: Except worse. Andrew: Blip. Blip. Blip. Blip. Becky: I don’t even see the point of having sound on this. Andrew: Wow. The score is tied. It’s so exhilarating. Brian: I saw a documentary on this. The game was so popular in arcades that it got jammed up with quarters. John: In this thing? [Points to the Pong game console] Tim: I would never pay to play something like this. John: I’d sooner jump up and down on one foot. By the way, is this supposed to be tennis or Ping-Pong? Becky: Ping-Pong. Gordon: It doesn’t even go over the net. It goes through it. I don’t even think that thing in the middle is a net. Tim: My line is so beating the heck out of your stupid line. Fear my pink line. You have no chance. I am the undisputed lord of virtual tennis. [Misses ball] Whoops.”

By: Keven Lofty

Keven Lofty — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:11:12 +0000

> Sorry. > > Sarah, a Brooklyn schoolteacher, did it first. > > And better Didn’t VH1 do a whole show like this about 5 years ago?

By: rosalind

rosalind — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:48:29 +0000

Not only is Sophie right about Dylan, but Holly’s take on The Who’s “Substitute” is freakin’ poetry: “It sounds like when your wee goes back up.” Awesome.

By: MQ

MQ — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:00:44 +0000

What the hell is “Busted”? Whatever it is, it appears to be better than almost all classic rock, so maybe I should look into it.

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:32:26 +0000

Me, I loved Sophie’s analysis of Dylan’s voice: He sounds like he’s just smelled something really bad, like cat poo. I like Dylan, but she’s right!

By: ethan

ethan — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:25:43 +0000

Sorry. Sarah, a Brooklyn schoolteacher, did it first. And better. Click here. For example: "soma", the strokes frances: could you turn this off? sarah: you don't like it? frances: no. sarah: a lot of people think this is a great new band. frances: who thinks that? sarah: i don't know. music people. frances: i think it sounds bad. it hurts my head like a hundred dogs.

By: William

William — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:42:34 +0000

Now is probably a good time to remind people of this—children interpret Radiohead through the medium of drawing people hanging themselves. Twenty trillion out of a septillion!

By: harry

harry — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:41:44 +0000

Why didn’t they play ‘Eating Rifles’ by the Jam

By: Jeremy Pierce

Jeremy Pierce — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:40:35 +0000

What I think is weird is that anyone might think of Nirvana as classic rock.

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:31:06 +0000

Once again proving that kids are stupid and uncool. Weird that they liked “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” though.

By: Rv. Agnos

Rv. Agnos — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:22:51 +0000

Tears are literally running down my face from laughing. “Cream: Sunshine Of Your Love (1967) What the grown-ups say: “The big hook of Sunshine Of Your Love is a grinding, instantly memorable hard-rock riff, stuttering between two notes before hellishly descending for a few more, then rising in an upward squiggle.” (www.allmusic.com) What the kids say: Gabrielle: Argh! Vampires! Beth: Ooh, I think this is by my dad.”