TS: The 80s vs. Ninjas vs. Cigarettes vs. Sex vs. Pizza

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What do all these things have in common? Why, they are all counted by Ryan Adams as influencing his most recent double album!

Via Pfork's review today:

"Hi, hello, it's me again," Ryan Adams bellows, granting III/IV-- Adams' 12th LP since 2000-- something of a cheeky start. Adams is the patron saint of the prolific, equally beloved and reviled for his never-ending avalanche of releases, and reintroductions aren't necessary: he's never drifted out of earshot for terribly long. A follow-up to Orion, the limited-run, vinyl-only, sci-fi concept record he released last spring, III/IV was culled from the same batch of tracks that produced 2007's Easy Tiger. The sessions were supposedly inspired by "the 80s, ninjas, cigarettes, sex, and pizza", a kind of holy pentangle for kids born in the mid-70s. And despite all his bluster-- all the songs and breakdowns and books of poems and oddball interviews-- Adams insists his needs are simple, universal: All he wants, he sings, is "Someone that loves me the way I love Star Wars." Well, sure.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Sex	13
Pizza	12
Cigarettes	5
The 80s	4
Ninjas	2

― slouching, unshaven, thick-necked, unstylish, pig-eyed (ilxor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

Can't have pizza without sex.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

He missed out pirates and zombies.

― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

I don't like the smell and can't afford it as a vice but cigarettes are cool.

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

Love ya eighties, but I vote pizza.

― Cubby Wubby Nubby Hubby Dubby (u s steel), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

sex, pretty clearly.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

Sex... but it just barely beats out pizza. fuck I love pizza.

― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

Sex, without a second's hesitation.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:33 (fourteen years ago)

Pizza.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDSAnIlvNIaM4IOdFWS6PVUHuG8T6HYF7pguwUFeH-q6v38qeG

Ninjas.

― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

this is just the long version of sex vs pizza. depends on the pizza.

― carles marx (contenderizer), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:05 (fourteen years ago)

True - a "Ninja Sex Pizza" would have some kind of structural advantage.

― Dans la Bot (seandalai), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

Sex overrides all polls in the universe. This is unfair.

― heh (kelpolaris), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:23 (fourteen years ago)

the 80s really encompasses cigarettes, sex, pizza, arguably ninjas

― iatee, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:24 (fourteen years ago)

i am having ninjas over for pizza sex

― heh (kelpolaris), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:26 (fourteen years ago)

Why did I think searching for "ninja sex pizza" was a harmless idea?

http://www.concretehermit.com/blog/ninja-turtle-sex-museum-james-unsworth/

(Warning: contains Whiney-baiting 80s ephemera posing as art)
(Warning: also kinda NSFW)

― Dans la Bot (seandalai), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:40 (fourteen years ago)

strangulated guy shitting corn out his eyes while fellating cock-turtle landscape feature = "kinda NSFW"

― carles marx (contenderizer), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:46 (fourteen years ago)

voting cigarettes but that's mostly because i haven't had one all day FUCK

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:09 (fourteen years ago)

+ the other 4 things are all played-out/tth

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:10 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 9 January 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

so sad i missed this poll

also dude u coulda just quoted the press release it was way shorter

*outs himself as the kind of guy who reads ryan adams press releases*

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 9 January 2011 00:07 (fourteen years ago)

Sad for ninjas.

― Dans la Bot (seandalai), Sunday, 9 January 2011 01:39 (fourteen years ago)

this is just the long version of sex vs pizza.

otm, apparently

can't believe it was so close-- like, 12 people would rather eat great pizza than have great sex??

― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Sunday, 9 January 2011 04:48 (fourteen years ago)

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/pizza-delivery-porn.jpg

― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Sunday, 9 January 2011 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

oops forgot.

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/pizza-delivery-porn.jpg

― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Sunday, 9 January 2011 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

wouldve voted ninjas

― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 9 January 2011 07:32 (fourteen years ago)

oh god is that guy's dick in the pizza box or something?

― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

Can do without ninjas and cigarettes, but the other things here are all pretty much classic. :)

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)

in retrospect, it was a mistake not to vote for sex :/

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 10 January 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)

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