A Hipster’s Last Waltz: Shut Up and Play the Hits
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LCD Soundsystem played their final show to a sold-out audience at Madison Square Garden on April 2nd, 2011. The decision to end the band was made by LCD frontman James Murphy. He explained that he wanted time to live his life rather than spend his days touring on the road. LCD Soundsystem were always an interesting "band" because they began as a solo project for Murphy (who was best known as a DJ in New York who had a very eclectic record collection). Their first big "hit" was "Losing My Edge" Read more [...]
... and it turns out it's got nothing do to with pimps. Well, not normally, at least.
Let's take a step back for a moment. I'm referring not to the Scarlet Pimpernel, but rather The Black Pimpernel, a Swedish/Chilean movie released a few years ago. It tells the story of the Swedish ambassador to Chile during the 1970s Pinochet revolution. He saved around 1,300 people from likely death, and is often compared to Oskar Schindler.
The movie was pretty good, although it does seem to take a bit of 
(Note: There's plenty of bad language in this post, so if you don't like that or don't want your kids exposed to it, be warned. Ironically, if The Hobbit had this much profanity, it might have gotten a rating that would have prevented a lot of the problems I'll describe in this post... which is ripped from the headlines!)
So here's the deal. We live in Costa Rica, and we hardly go out. We went to watch Life of Pi at the movie theater in San Ramón last weekend, and we joked that it was our "yearly