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Death has a plan... Looks like a new Final Destination movie (after Bloodlines)... Though with one survivor, could be a very short movie...

Okay?

I would guess either "I", "we", or "you"... Maybe "Yes" or "no"...

Paige returned after missing four games due to a concussion and puts up 35 points on 13-19 shooting (5-7 from beyond the arc), six rebounds, and four assists... Dallas still lost to Phoenix, but for a first game back, pretty good numbers for Paige...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/entertainment/brian-wilson-death CNN — Brian Wilson, cofounder of The Beach Boys and the creative force behind the group’s surf sound, orchestral arrangements and perfect harmonies, has died, his family announced on Wednesday. He was 82. “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away,” his family wrote in the statement shared on Instagram and his official website. “We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world.” CNN has reached out to representatives for Wilson for comment. Wilson’s life was marked just as much by struggles of substance abuse and mental illness as it was by repeated comebacks, remarkable talent and timeless songs that still echo across the country, decades after their release. His story, by all accounts, is one of resilience. Despite a childhood scarred by his father’s abuse, becoming partially deaf, and the years of haunting voices in his head from schizoaffective disorder, the two-time Grammy Award winner went on to become the “reigning king of pop melody,” as the Denver Post once put it, often bringing to life songs that told a much different tale than his own reality. “That is probably why I wrote those happy songs. I try to get as close to paradise as I can,” Wilson told The New York Times Magazine in 2004. Over the decades, many have revered his genius. “I don’t think you’d be out of line comparing him to Beethoven,” Tom Petty once said. In 2001, CNN credited Wilson as the creator of “some of history’s most intricately woven pop songs.” “He managed to both distill a simplicity of human emotion out of his songs and yet, do something that’s so artistically complex and beautiful,” musician Don Was once marveled about Wilson during an interview. Rolling Stone magazine in 2023 named Wilson one of the 200 greatest singers of all time. In The Beach Boys, Wilson found a family that accepted his perfectionism and eccentricity – he did, after all, install a giant beach sand box under his piano for inspiration. And later, as a solo artist, he revisited and released the one project he couldn’t fulfill while in the group: the SMiLE album that Wilson called a “teenage symphony to God” and looked back on as his greatest accomplishment. An ‘unbeatable’ record The oldest of three brothers, Wilson was born on June 20, 1942, in Inglewood, California. His love for music began early, but so did the abuse from his father, who, during bouts of rage and depression, would beat Wilson with a belt or take out his artificial eyeball (he’d lost an eye in an industrial accident) and make Wilson look at the empty space. Wilson used music to escape, and his life was always shaped by the melodies around him – with some of his greatest influences including the Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, George Gershwin and, at one time, the Beatles. In 1961, Wilson wrote his first original melody in “Surfer Girl,” according to the biography on his official website. The same year, Wilson and cousin Mike Love wrote “Surfin,” recording the song with Wilson’s brothers, Dennis, and Carl, and friend Al Jardine – and soon after becoming known as the Beach Boys. The song was included in the group’s 1962 debut album, “Surfin Safari.” From left to right, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson (1944 - 1983) and Carl Wilson (1946 - 1998) of The Beach Boys. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images But the high demands of a relentless industry proved too much and in late December 1964, Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and stopped touring, becoming a full-time studio artist for the better part of more than a decade after that. “I probably had a little too much too soon,” he speculated to CNN’s Larry King in 2004. It would mark the beginning of his experience with depression, which Wilson said never really went away. (Even in 2019, Wilson postponed a tour and said that he had been feeling “mentally insecure” at the time and was grappling “with stuff in my head.”) Wilson went on to compose, arrange and produce the legendary “Pet Sounds” album alongside songwriter Tony Asher, with a single goal in mind: to create the “greatest rock album ever made.” It was released May 16, 1966. The 13-track album, which now holds the No. 2 spot on Rolling Stone’s 2021 list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” has become the group’s landmark record. Paul McCartney – who Wilson has referred to as one of his heroes – once called the record “unbeatable in many ways.” The voices in Bryan’s head – and a resurrection While bringing to life many of the band’s iconic songs, Wilson was also plunging deep into his personal hell, taking drugs including hashish, amphetamines and LSD. It was a sort of self-medication, he had said. “It’s called ‘nepenthe,’” he told King in 2004. “Alcohol and morphine – nepenthe means numbing the soul,” he said, referring to a fictional antidote for sorrow mentioned in Ancient Greek literature. Wilson continued to spiral, at times spending days in bed. Around age 25, he began hearing voices: awful ones he desperately tried to tune out, which at times threatened to harm him. It was a symptom of schizoaffective disorder, Wilson said. “Every few minutes the voices say something derogatory to me,” he told Ability Magazine in 2006. The only antidote for those proved to be singing, writing and being around his family, Wilson said. Wilson and his first wife, singer Marilyn Rovell, were divorced in 1979 after about 15 years of marriage. He met his second wife, Melinda Ledbetter, in a car dealership in 1986, when she sold him a Cadillac. He released his first solo album – “Brian Wilson” – in 1988. His wife, Melinda, called that time the “Landy years” — a reference to the domineering therapist hired to help Wilson but who instead, according to the musician, overmedicated him, controlled him and banned communication with his friends or family, Wilson and Melinda told King in the 2004 interview. (After a 1991 settlement, Landy was banned from having any contact with the artist.) Wilson married Melinda in 1995. He pointed to her as a critical backbone and support system during his struggles, and the one who helped him take his life back. After her death, Wilson called her his “savior.” In 2004, came a stunning resurrection: more than 35 years since its inception, Wilson revisited the “SMiLE” project and with the help of lyricist Van Dyke Parks and band member Darian Sahanaja, performed the entire finished album at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He released the “Brian Wilson Presents Smile” album in September 2004. Wilson has called it his “biggest accomplishment ever.” “I get the impression that Brian knew he was running out of time and if he was going to present the work he’d have to make a decision to do it and no longer be embarrassed that he had followed his own madness as a 24-year-old composer,” Parks told The New York Times at the time. In May 2024, after his wife Melinda died, a judge ruled to place Wilson under a conservatorship, to which the musician agreed to. Court documents said Wilson had a “major neurocognitive disorder” and was unable to care for himself, CNN reported. ‘Wilson Power’ In Wilson’s mind, The Beach Boys – as the world knew them – broke up in 1998, after Carl Wilson died of lung cancer. Dennis Wilson died in 1983 in a swimming accident. For all the sorrow and internal battles that haunted his life, Wilson never forgot about the things that made him happy: his wife, his children and music, above all else. “They’re the light of my life. Nothing brings joy into my life like my children,” Wilson told Ability Magazine in 2006. “My children and my music are my two greatest loves.” In his interview with the magazine, Wilson said he had found ways to overcome the darkest days of his mental health conditions with the help of medication and regular visits with a psychiatrist. On what gets him through the day, he said: “I walk five miles a day in the morning, I eat really good food, I get a little sleep at night—four or five hours, sometimes six if I’m lucky—and I use my love with people. I use love as a way to get along with people.” And when the going got tougher, he said he got through it with his willpower – which he, fittingly, called “Wilson Power.”

I agree jbycho... F--- off... Post your crap in other related threads...

No need to have a streaming service... https://www6.f2movies.to/movie/sinners-123595

Go to something like the Alamo Drafthouse...

Is there something horror-wise that it is similar to? If anything?

Me either, but pretty sure some of the posters here believed it...

Never heard of it... When did this movie come out?

Not true... https://www.tmz.com/2025/06/11/ryan-gosling-not-cast-as-black-panther/ Rumors of Ryan Gosling being eyed to take over the Marvel role of Black Panther have spread like wildfire online ... but there is not a vibranium ounce of truth to it, TMZ has learned. An insider with direct knowledge tells us ... Ryan has not been cast -- nor has he been eyed -- to play an iteration of Black Panther ... the iconic African superhero first played on the big screen by the legendary Chadwick Boseman. Rumors of the brazen casting have swirled out of control -- even generating headlines -- and it seems this all started from a meme of Ryan's face photoshopped onto Black Panther posted back in 2018 ... and used by haters taking shots at Disney's diversity casting for historically white roles. Needless to say ... people were losing their s*** over the idea of the classic cultural superhero getting whitewashed ... and it started a debate over whether it was acceptable. It's a good bet the rumor was plausible -- even if completely outlandish -- since Marvel does love the anything-is-possible multiverse ... but this one ain't in the cards. It's true, however, that Ryan is joining the 'Star Wars' universe in the upcoming flick, "Starfighter." Letitia Wright, who took over the Black Panther MCU mantle after Chadwick's untimely death in 2020 -- is set to reprise the role in the upcoming "Avengers: Doomsday."

Never was a fan of the Beach Boys, but they sure did flood the airwaves with their music... RIP Brian...

Sure... Happy to assist...

@BunnysBastatrds On a laptop/PC, click on your name with the down arrow to the right and click on "Ignored Users"... Under "Add new user to ignore list", start typing the user you want to ignore... Once you find their name, click on it... Click all four checkboxes and then click "Add User"... NOTE: If they are a mod in any sub-forum (like the league section), you will not be able to ignore them... But I am guessing the ones that you want to ignore do not fall into that category as I have them on ignore currently...

On the moon...

If somehow you get a HR ball off his bat, you will have to give it to some kid that is near you...

Which will then be changed back after his Presidency... It shouldn't have been changed to begin with, but at the time, I guess that was a way to make some feel better... One thing that was bad, IMO, was that pretty much everything that was changed from something dealing with the confederacy to someone that was black... I just think something like this will cause issues the other way...

https://www.tmz.com/2025/06/09/music-legend-sly-stone-dead-82/ Sly Stone -- the frontman for the legendary funk band Sly and The Family Stone -- has died Monday ... TMZ has learned. Stone died Monday in Los Angeles, and his family released a statement saying he died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other health issues. His family said Sly "passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, his closest friend, and his extended family," while taking "solace in knowing that his extraordinary musical legacy will continue to resonate and inspire for generations to come." The family went on ... "Sly was a monumental figure, a groundbreaking innovator, and a true pioneer who redefined the landscape of pop, funk, and rock music. His iconic songs have left an indelible mark on the world, and his influence remains undeniable." More recently, Sly finished a screenplay about his life story, which followed his 2024 book, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir" his family said. Sly's musical career skyrocketed in the 1960s when he formed his band, Sly and the Family Stoners, but he changed the name a year later to Sly and The Family Stone. In 1967, the group released their first album, "A Whole New Thing," and their first smash hit, “Dance to the Music.” Of course, Sly and Co. continued to crank out some of the most famous funk songs ever, including “Everyday People” and “Family Affair." Stone was 82. RIP

The World Series brackets are set: Bracket 1 Friday June 13 Game 1: No. 13 Coastal Carolina vs. Arizona Game 2: No. 8 Oregon State vs. Louisville Bracket 2 Saturday June 14 Game 3: No. 15 UCLA vs. Murray State Game 4: No. 3 Arkansas vs. No. 6 LSU Good luck to all the teams and may the best team win, except LSU, f*** them...

Ugh, what a horrible game for the Oilers... I know they were down 3-0 and came back to force a game seven last year, but I really think to have a realistic shot, they need to win the next game...

Definitely something I could never do... I would have to be so drugged up to even get out on stage that I doubt I would be able to remember any lines...

https://x.com/meidastouch/status/1931815762253271459 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-78-stumbles-climbing-stairs-to-air-force-one/ar-AA1Gk0Xy

Well that turned out just like I thought it would... Oh well... Still a good season from them...

Did you honestly expect anything different?