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QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) I have to make an EXTREMELY HIGH recommendation on the new Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, I feel this album would be great for a lot of people in the SLP forum. Neko Case is a female singer/songwriter who sings with the New Pornographers and has one of the most distinct and in my opinion the best female voice in modern music...its really great, really really great Translation: This record is a sack slurper.

Boy am I late. I didn't realize Lisa Dergan did UFC post fight interviews. Saw that last night.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 03:15 PM) hey! I started on Wu-Tang in 4th grade LOL...my first ever hip hop love...then came the fugees Youngin. Pick up some Curtis Blow and then we'll talk.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 03:16 PM) Doesn't KG hate VU? Yeah, but you get the point.

Has anyone seen all 5 films that are up for best picture?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 02:45 PM) Well, I am getting the Rakim recommendation from everybody, and that CD is from, what '87? It also looks like most of the recommendations are older. I am guessing like anything, the "must have" stuff really seems to be older. I recommended stuff that is a good starting point to kinda wet your feet with. It's kinda like starting someone on Chuck Berry instead of the Velvet Underground. In hip-hop there is more recent stuff worth owning though.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 02:42 PM) I am SO far behind when it comes to hip-hop. At the risk of sounding like an old man, I haven't heard too much newer stuff that catches my ear. For me, it's all about DeLaSoul, Public Enemy, Ice-T ( I LOVE "O.G." ) and to a lesser extent KRS-One. My guilty rap pleasure was 3rd Bass. DeLaSoul for alright for a minute, but they got kinda soft. Ice T gets the best album cover votes for sure.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 12:31 PM) No. Kind of like American Beauty to me. I liked it right after I saw it, but I'll never want to watch it again. I'll never see 'Crash' again, but I own a copy of 'American Beauty'.

Welcome back hi8is

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 02:32 AM) in response to kid gleason i think it was... albums to get: 1)the aforementioned paid in full - Eric B. and Rakim 2)Madvillain - Madvillainy 3)Gza - Liquid Swords 4) Nas - Illmatic 5) Aesop Rock - Labor Days 6) Wutang Clan - 36 Chambers 7) A tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory 8) Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein 9) Saul Williams- Selftitled (a bit more spoken word with jazz beats but i love it) 10) Clipse - We got it 4 cheap mixtape FOr the record the order is not really an order i just did that out of habit I think Wu and Gza might be too much to start on, ya gotta eeeeeeeeeeeease people into hip hop.

Am I the only person not blown away by 'Crash"?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 01:50 AM) Ive had many fights with Jack Daniels but the worst of em had to have been back in September of 2003. I had just got back from Iraq like 2 weeks before that and had gone 9 months with no alcohol and my tolerance was about zero. I end up going to Wisconsin with my cousin and some of her friends over Labor Day weekend and we end up in this s***ty sportsbar with about 3 other people in the whole place besides us. Anyhooooo, the rest of the group has their little A-B conversation going on and I was getting really bored with being C so I start slamming Jack and Cokes. In the space of 40 minutes I slammed 9 of em. It didnt hit me until I stood up to go to the bathroom and then it felt like a train just hit me. I ran for the bathroom and proceeded to worship the porcelin god, several times. When I finally stopped throwing up I stood up and I was completely out of it. So out of it, in fact, that I couldnt find my way out of the toilet stall. For 5 minutes I fumbled around looking for a way out of there before finally I accidentally hit the latch with my hand and the door swung open. I staggered to where my cousin and her friends were and said........"time to go". Next thing I remember Im waking up face down on the floor of their house with a massive hangover. None of those people, my cousin included, would speak to me after that so I poured some salt on the wound calling her up and leaving a message saying she was a stuck up b****. ^ Hilarious. I was probably 19 years old and me and 2 of my boys bought a bottle of Jack (my suggestion, even though I had no experience with it) and case of beer. There was that one liqour store that sold booze to anyone. They did the smart thing and had a few beers. I had to be Johnny bad ass and proceed to slam shots like it was Kool Aid and call them both candy ass pussies. I must have killed half a bottle in an hour and I was buzzed, but actually doing OK....for a while. We decided walk to the 7-11 for munchies. They went in first and thought I was behind them. I decided to relieve my bladder...on the street....in the parking lot.....facing OUTWARD toward everyone walking and driving by. Next thing I know the cops pull up and are in my face yelling at me and I puke all over the place including their shoes. Everything after that is a complete blank. My buddies tell me they had to beg the cops not to take me in. I'm not sure how they did it, being as we were all clearly under age, but they promised them to take me straight home, which they did. Dragged me to my boy's place was probably more like it. I remember waking up numerous times throughout the night to puke and having ZERO balance control. I mean the room was spinning at HIGH speed, so I was banging into walls and falling down as I tried to reach the toilet every time. I got otta bed at like 3 pm the next day, with lots of bruises and was not feeling 100% until the following day. Nope, no more Jack for Los.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 10:46 AM) Interesting factoid... This the first time since 1982 that all Best Picture Nominees and Best Director Nominees matched-up. Makes you wonder how they could ever not match up? Can a film be great and have poor directing??

The Oscars are silly. How do they decide best actor when they didn't play the same part? They might as well lump male and female actors in to the same category.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:10 AM) As I read this article I continued to ask myself, "What is the point of this?" Where is the Sox fan newspaper that touts the Trib only covers the cub? As I was reading this it sounded like an 8 year old was writing this. It had no direction or point. I kind of laughed because I don't care anymore the cubs and their fans are a great source of humor. LOL. It's like the popular girl in HS who lost the Homecoming Queen title, so her and her friends sit around telling each other how much prettier they are than the winner.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 08:08 AM) Everytime I see an article like this I think one thing. They are all missing the Sox current advertising thrust. The Sox are trying to capture the next generation of fans. So many of their promotions, giveaways, and such are aimed at kids under their teens. They have the White Sox acadamies, Kid's Days, Southpaw, and the Cubs have what? The Sox know you can't change the fandom of the great majority of fans who have hit their teens and beyond, but they are doing an incredible job of trying to get the fans who are still impressionable. Of course there isn't a columnist in town who has caught on to this... EXACTLY. Lets face it, young kids are the ultimate bandwagonners. If you can capture that fan base with a few consecutive AL and WS championships, you will secure a solid fan base for 15 years from now. As a side note, I don't expect too many people's allegiance to change because the Sox are WS champs. If the Cubs had won the WS, would any of us be jumping ship? If anything, I'd be a bigger, louder Sox supporter. I expect an even more obnoxious Cub fan base this year.

You eliminate all that bread and I bet you I'd put it away.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:27 AM) I am so far out of the hard alcohol stage it isn't even funny... Its pretty much just beer for me. I am too damned old for the rest of it. I hear ya, if I go for the hard stuff, it's with extreme moderation. I get 48 hour hangovers now. :puke

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 01:23 AM) What do you call that? A screwhound or a greydriver? Not sure, but I've seen them both in the adult section at the video store.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 10:53 PM) Ketel is also really good. I've had that drink (with the lemonade, except I used some italian lemonade from Trader Joes...whatever the hell that is I don't know) and its tasty. Girly but tasty so what do I care, lol. Hmmmmm, I'll have to try that. There's this Polish vodka called Belvedere that I mix with a Tropicana oj/grapefruit juice blend.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 09:24 PM) Drinks involving Vodka. If I had my choice on type it would be grey goose, but unless I'm getting it for free or really cheap, I'm usually stuck mixing it with something. My wife enjoys vodka. She loves Ketel One, not sure on the spelling. Vodka all tastes the same to me, but I'll have an Absolut with Snapple pink lemonade once in a while. That's like a summer time at a cookout kinda drink.

QUOTE(Drew @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 09:12 PM) I like good stuff, but generally stay away from vodka and Cuervo of any kind. No mortal aversions, I just prefer gin to vodka if I am going with a light liquor and I think Cuervo just plain sucks, even 1800. Sauza is a good brand at that price point, but Herradura, Cazadores, and del Dueño are all a nice step up. I tend to go with bourbon (Maker's is my call-brand of choice either with water, soda, or on the rocks depending on my mood), or Gin. I like Junipero the best of all the gins I've had, but find that it only really matters in a martini. With tonic or as a Salty Dog, the well's all right. Rum is just much too much to do all night long, but an occasional mojito or proper Mai Tai in season is all right. I don't like to mix booze with anything caffinated or too sugary. I don't enjoy being drunk and wired. Can't do the whole vodka and Red Bull crap. I like my chemicals to take me either up or down, not both. BUT, occasionally I'll do Makers and soda.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 09:03 PM) neat or mixed? I like a chaser of Squirt and just sip the taquila at room temp. I like to pour a small glass that I sip slowly while I'm downing a few beers.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 08:49 PM) Don Julio tequila is my other favorite. Neat, with a chaser. Patron was nice until that damn song made it chic to order. Kind of like being a Sox bandwagon jumper. Don Julio is kinda harsh. Yeah Tequila became trendy much like cigars and martinis, but I always have been and always will be a Tequila lover. Cazadores

Cazadores Tequila or Patron Tequila. Cazadores is relatively inexpensive and so smooth you can sip it out of a glass.