Kid Gleason

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 10:03 AM) "Growing On Me" is one of my favorite songs ever. Catchy as hell. I don't know if they'll ever drop the jokey gimmick. It would help them long-term to drop it. They will eventually, and they already have started. Look at pictures of the bassist from the first album, and now look at him.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 07:47 AM) Man, I could go into a song a year for the past 10 years probably. I will just name some random ones I can remember getting insanely played out The Verve- Bittersweet Symphony THe B- 52s - Love Shack Enter Sandman- Metallica The ENTIRE Californication album- Red Hot Chili Peppers Freshman - The Verve Pipe anything from Nickelback anything from Creed Ill think on this and get back, i know I have many more But do you like these songs or bands now? That's the key to this question.

Nah, they got great hooks and Hawkins has a great voice that he chooses to shoot to hell with falsetto that is terribly weak. But when he isn't doing falsetto, the guy has a cool voice. "Growing On Me" is one of the best songs written in recent memory. Once they get big enough that they will feel safe dropping the gimmick and falsetto jokiness, we will see an amazing band emerge. Give them one more album of this sort, and then we will see what they are really capable of.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 08:10 PM) Little Caesar's blows. I'd rather stick a DiGiorno in the oven than eat that crap. Well, since you put it that way, I'm sorry I always force you to eat it. Shame on me.

I was driving home last night and a song came on the radio. When it first started I thought to myself "wow, what a great song!" Then I realized it had been years since I had heard it, and I also realized how "overkilled" the song was on it's initial release, and how much people had grown to hate it way back when. And that got me to this question. What songs, when you first heard, you loved. Then due to becoming huge hits, you grew to hate, and now after all these years you can hear again love like you did the first time. The song that prompted this? Jefferson Starship - Find Your Way Back I'd like to hear any of todays "great vocalists" sing that friggin' song! Amazing to say the least!

Well, the Little Caesars just down the road from my house is $5 large, one topping, all the time. So it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what pizza joint gets the majority of my business. After them it would be Papa Murphy's. Their sauce is what I dream about.

I don't know. I agree that Pizza Hut and all those mega Pizza joints fail compared to some of the "classic" Chicago style joints. But it's like Burgers. Sure, I know where to get the best burgers in the world, but sometimes, I want a Whopper/Big Mac/Quarter Pounder, and I ain't ashamed to admit it.

My wife and I were looking into getting one for me, and one for her. But ya know...$250 - $350 is a hell of a lot of money. I just don't know if I could swallow that. I have so many things I would love to get, and this would be a fun thing to have that would get use pretty much at all times of the day, but still, they are so dang expensive.

So, does house arrest mean you have to sit at home and watch TV and movies for the duration of your "arrest"? If so, who has an ass for me to slap???

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 25, 2006 -> 08:26 PM) Isn't that the repair man from Pleasantville? Yes. RIP Mr. Knotts.

From what I have read, it's been a slow death for him. He lost his wife a few years ago, and he just sort of lost the will to live and has been slowly fading ever since then and has always been a little lost without her. There are a few pictures I have seen of him from a birthday party thrown for him just after she had passed. The amount of aging that had happened to him from right before she passed away until those later pictures was rather stunning. Hopefully he is resting well now. RIP Kolchak.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 24, 2006 -> 02:33 PM) IIRC Quincy Jones had to force that "classic Dylan" sound from Dylan. As the story goes, Quincy kept asking him for that sound and Dylan wasn't folowing, finally, Stevie Wonder did a "twany" Dylan impersonation, and Dylan joined in. Not even the best Beatle song ever. For classic rock, and sticking to Sgt Pepper, Either the title track or Lucy would be closer to my thought of "Classic Rock". Now my definition of Classic rock is based on decades of listening. Picking the best definition of "classic rock" from the Beatles, Revolution comes to mind, Back in the USSR, Come Together, or Help would be more classic. Best song on Sgt. Peppers is without a doubt "Good Morning, Good Morning". But, I guess nobody else thinks its is as great as I do, or else it would have been a big hit.

Plus, Topher has stepped out of the "limelight" and nobody has seen him for awhile. Why? Because he has been in the gym supposedly. Topher is an amazing actor, and I fully expect him to pull it off. Raimi has yet to make a mistake (other that the first Goblin suit, IMO), and I really don't expect him to start goofing this up now.

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan vs. A Day In The Life - The Beatles Though, as has been said, when I am sitting around, and a song comes on the radio and I say "Oh man, that f'in ROCKS" I don't think the reason behind that statement has ever been The Beatles, and it definitley has never been friggin' Bob Dylan!

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Feb 24, 2006 -> 11:40 AM) The kid from Illinois needs to be voted off next week. He's, by far, the least talented of the remaining contestants. It's impossible for him to perform a song created after 1980. He's from my home town here. I love Big Band, Swing, and the old Jazz crooners. The kid is decent, but he is a far cry from Sinatra, Crosby, Martin, or even Connick Jr. If he had the talent of Crosby, it wouldn't matter what year or style he was doing, his voice would just win everybody over. (home town is Crystal Lake, which is where I am sitting right now...not Harvard for those looking to the left)

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 24, 2006 -> 08:38 AM) I wonder what it would cost for an arm and a leg, so I could afford to go to opening day? [books 3rd class ticket to hell, right over the wing] No ticket for you, as that was a real nice play on words!

My prediction is that in the end you will have Paris and Taylor standing there. I am hoping Paris wins, as she will be just what they want. Hopefully Taylor won't win so that he can sign his own contract and put out the amazing album his voice is capable of putting out. He is by far the best thing I have ever seen on that show. The guys voice is outstanding, and he sings with pure heart. If you look at his list of influences, and people has worked with, the guy is 100% real to what he portrays himself as to being, even more so than Bo was last year. But Paris...good Lord...that kid will be HUGE someday! Hopefully they find exactly what she needs to be doing, and she will dominate it. She needs to be a modern Aretha, NOT another Mariah.

Thome looks like a Rugby player.

No s***? Well, that's f***ed up.

My Dad tricked me with this one a few days ago. He also filmed it. Bastard.

Nobody was hurt, and they got away? That's really cool.

Wow, talk about lies. Palmer was none of those things. He was a Colonel in the military and the house is one of the most "treasured" buildings in Crystal Lake, just down the road from my office. I've been in it numerous times. http://www.crystallakeparks.org/ws05_06bro...e/colpalmer.pdf It's a HUGE retirement home in Crystal Lake, again just down the road from where I work, and is about 15 years old. The place is REALLY nice, and I have never heard of these stories. I might have to look into this one. I guess with so many old people living there, you are almost assured some ghosts.

That's where all the teens in Covered Bridge used to go get drunk and have parties. My friend, the one I just mentioned, lived just down the street from the park. I'm wondering if she had something to do with this site. This is wrong. It's the Borders in Crystal Lake (which used to be Crystal Point Mall). I had also never heard of this haunting before, until my friend "discovered" it a few years ago. This one is obviously urban legend, as the mall stood there since the early 70's, and if that was never haunted, why would the Borders be haunted?

I grew up with this place in my backyard. Nobody ever thought of it as "haunted" while we were growing up, just thought of it as a neat building. Down the street is also the "Satan Worshippers House", and I am surprised that one didn't get mentioned. That is the house that everybody thought of as haunted and scary as all git out. The guy that lived in that house finally bought a gun and kept it filled with buckshot to keep the kids off his property. One of my best friends was one of the number 1 ghost hunters in the midwest. I used to go hunting with her from time to time. I never saw diddly-squat.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 22, 2006 -> 01:31 PM) (Please excuse the slur here)... Dago-T. That's what I had always called them. I never knew what "dago" meant either, until years later.