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there seem to be 3 tracts in college: 1)The kids that go to class but don't buy the books cause they realize the teacher just goes over the s*** in class. 2)The kids that don't go to class but know the books by heart cause they know that the teacher just goes over that s*** in class 3) And me, the kid whose too scared to do either this early in his career.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 09:59 PM) I cannot believe that I am the only one in here who has any classical, jazz or soundtrack music in their iPod. I do see one or two blues tracks, though. ten out of 6000 songs i have every miles davis, duke ellington, roland kirk, coltrane, parker, etc etc album but jazz albums typically had longer songs = fewer songs = less chance in this lottery bro.

don't go to restaurants...you'll save a lot of money.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 08:21 PM) The New Workout Plan-- Kanye West lol, sorry, but this song with your avatar is funny as hell...i sometimes imagine that the people typing are their avatars so...well, you get the picture.

awesome...we play kansas at home this yearwhich'll be fun (always is)

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 08:01 PM) i like college a lot, but miss my good friends back home like everybody else. But the weather here in mizzou is nice at night, but sucks during the day. Went to a frat party over the weekend, which was an experience, but since I really don't drink, I have no crazy stories. The mizzou rec center is insane, i go there everyday, sometimes twice. Homework not bad and there are some damn hot girls. And got my football tix for the year today, can't wait for the OK/Missouri game. AP is amazing. So far so good. its pretty cool how many home games we have this year isn't it?

it certainly came across that way...but i'm done arguing this point.

i love my film studies class beginnings - 1945 (roughly) class. I think i may take more of these.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 07:01 PM) I don't shop at those stores so I don't have any clue as to what teen clothes costs. My sister buys for a 5 year old and my cousin for 9, 11, and 12 year olds so that's all I know about. I do think that unless you are in charge of ones checkbook then you really don't know what is or isn't the better value for them, so I'm done commenting on that specific point. He can make a general point of interest based off his specific experience that the other person may not have known about. Thats the general atmosphere of most threads. As his point could and did pertain to a greater majority than the post it was directed to, and was not underriding their opinion, merely stating why he thinks there is an opposing viewpoint based on his own experience. The only person who has underrided anyones opinion in this thread has been you with "I do think that unless you are in charge of ones checkbook then you really don't know what is or isn't the better value for them, so I'm done commenting on that specific point." I don't think there should be any "you need to be this high to ride this rollercoaster" threads in here, do you? Kind of discourages people from commenting their welcome opinions.

I think a uniform of a collared polo and jeans/long khakis / adjusted for spring would be more than reasonable/acceptable...

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 03:49 PM) The New Pornographers - All for swingin' around you Erich Kunzel with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - Main theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture Fatboy Slim - Fishing in heaven Nirvana - Lithium Cream - Anyone for Tennis? ...And you will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Heart in the Hand of the Matter Smashing Pumpkins - track 4 at Metro, 10/05/1988 Ben Folds Five - Twin Falls (Live at Club Quattro) Jimi Hendrix Experience - Gypsy Eyes Neil Young - Southern Man Built to Spill - Stop the Show That was far more entertaining than my first shuffle. beautiful! And i'm going to see BtS sept 18th, if you'll remember, they were s'poseda play back in april but postponed and now i'm ultra excited. I hope they play Randy Described Eternity

i had my first week of my second year...can i talk about that...or am i already grown past that...damnit...i can't go trick or treatin either.

I'm not referring to making the girls wear plaid knee length skirts and blouses and the dudes wear suits. There is a reasonable medium. Uniforms could certainly cut down on first impression prejudices and help kids respect themselves more.

I think uniforms should be enforced for public schools. Kids aren't expressing themselves in high school, they are expressing MTV. Make school their job.

so sad...

this felt like i was stabbed in the stomach, and the knife twisted, and then a blow torch was taken to my heart.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 03:17 PM) I have become obsessed with "Circus Maximus" by Momus and "Oh, You're So Silent Jens" by Jens Lekman. i was also suprised to see how his live material had such life to them. I'm definitely looking forward to all the new jens lekman songs coming out soon.

i hit the 6000 song mark in itunes...i got to do some cleaning up with my external.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 05:48 AM) Not my Ipod, but I'll play. Here's the last 10 songs that played for me on Pandora... Two Step -- Dave Matthews Band The Beauty of Gray -- Live Michael -- Red House Painters (Never heard 'em before. I didn't give it an up or a down) Concrete Bed -- Nada Surf Warriors -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs I want you around -- Ramones High -- Tripping Daisy A Face in the Crowd -- Tom Petty Something New -- The Smithereens You Drive me Crazy -- Shakin' Stevens red house painters were great...

yo la tengo - sugarcube ataxia - montreal scott walker - the girls and the dogs joy division - incubation islands - rough gem silver jews - sleeping is the only love professor murder - camron's new color (pt. 3) wilco - war on war M.I.A./Missy - One for the head skit Broadcast - America's boy

movie looks pretty bad.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 06:41 PM) Oh word? You're a vinyl head? I'm working on crate #17. I've hit a wall with hip hop, jazz fusion, and reggae, though. Did you ever get that Krown Rulers album off sandbox? I'm getting into a lot of obscure soul nowadays. My jam of the moment is Fantastic Johnny C's "Boogaloo Down Broadway". That track is pure FIRE. They have the full soundclip right here, if you want to hear it: Fantastic Johnny C crate 17 ye gods. My vinyl collection is as follows... Velvet underground - White Light/ White Heat , Loaded, VU, VU and Nico Lou Reed - Transformer Slint - Spiderland MF Doom - mmm... Food Animal Collective - Feels Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks (i can't find dylan vinyls at my shop its frustrating) Beatles - White Album, Revolver, Rubber Soul Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow Edan - Beauty and the Beat Yann Tierson - Rue Des Cascades Neu! - Neu!, Neu! 2 Bowie - Low GY!BE - Lift Yr Skinny Fists like antennas to heaven and no i forgot about the sandbox one... QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 06:33 PM) He has a point if you agree with him and dislike the sound of modern recordings. I've heard many great sounding recordings as of late. The new one from The New York Dolls sounds great, and much better than their releases from the 70's. The new release from Butch Walker sounds great. Indie band Chinatown's new album sounds amazing. Certain forms of music might sound better on vinyl, but it needs to be a style that lends itself to the format. A band using distortion will possibly benefit from vinyl, but the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or many Prog Rock bands will benefit from the clarity of the digital form, if they don't compress the hell out of it. YOu can hear more within digital, and that was something people realized when the CD "revolution" began. When I hard The Sisters Of Mercy's album First and Last and Always for the first time on CD I was blown away by how many more aspects of the material presented itself to me. Things I had NOT heard before were suddenly there. It's hard to say that you lose sound on digital but on vinyl they are there. I don't understand how that could be possible. I think Dylan is just reacting like many people do as they get older. Thinking the new generations are crap and whatnot. a point isn't only valid if you agree with someone. I'm not trashing cd quality, but for whatever reason, the mixing on albums digitally has started to become so compressed that its just one loud noise. There isn't a bass and drums and a guitar, its just a wall. I will say recent remasters have given me hope that the trend is disappearing, yes, people like to listen to their music loud, but there has to be a happy medium. Imagine just going to your equalizer and just putting everything up to its top level... The vinyl releases of the past 15 years have had, for whatever reason, a more meticulous mixing, truer to the studio sound i'd imagine. Also vinyl releases have come with extra songs a lot of the time. I'd say the biggest victim of digital has been jazz. Jazz needs a warmer sound, but more than that, the cd releases of sketches of spain and a love supreme were bad to the point of irresponsibility. I heard a new release of a love supreme that sounded 10x better, but a lot of those albums were rushed to just get out there and not looked back at since.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 05:11 PM) That's not exactly true. It depends on what style of music you are talking about and what labels. Major labels have always been notorious for "filler". You mention 20 years ago, which lands us smack in the middle of the 80's, probably the most "filler" full music era. But you can grab many hit albums from the 70's, and there is no shortage of filler material on them. Underground bands and small indie labels will always produce more strong material, partially because the contracts allow for it. A major band, on a major label, will always be under more pressure and will more than likely not be allowed the time to test material out. It's been a looong time since I have actually bought a new album with only 3-5 good songs and a bunch of crap. The last one I did buy that was that sort though was a major label release. I also don't agree with what Dylan is saying. I've heard more than my fair share of great sounding discs. It's not the media or the recordings, it's the mentality going into recording and writing. This was pointed out years ago by, I believe, Les Paul. Nobody uses "dynamics" in their writing anymore. Even when a band plays mellow, it is still the same volume as the hard hitting stuff. Listen to an old Gabriel days Genesis album, the amount of dynamics that those guys used was ridiculous, but also very cool. It's just bands don't think that was much anymore. But yeah, Bobby, clarity in sounds, what a terrible thing. Give me the scratchy sound of vinyl again, please. well, he has a point, for whatever reason major label digital mixing has had a terrible trend of making albums louder and louder, and losing subtlety in instruments and sounds. I enjoy the sound of vinyl more, i enjoy its distinct sound.

lil miss sunshine was sold out!!! damnit!

QUOTE(lightthematch @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 09:12 PM) This article was amazing. I don't want to agree with it completely because I still enjoy a lot of today's music, but one of the main differences I notice between today's music and music 20 years ago is that an entire album was good. Today it seems like only 3-5 songs on the album are good, the rest is crap. but we can also get millions of songs free from around the world... nice tradeoff in my opinion.