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I just love wiki. I'm a complete outsider looking in, but I want to jump in in a big way. I just signed on for a year of freelance contract work through Smithsonian to take over a web-based estuary species inventory project where I have to knock out painfully detailed descriptions of 50 different species to add to a slowly expanding database. I'm thankful for the gig and the money to do it, but if it were me I'd go wiki and and try turning a bunch of bio-geeks and naturalists onto a cool community build with an expert oversight panel. Probably get the whole database fleshed out in 1/10th the time. Maybe the Borg had it right and it's best just to plug into the collective after all.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 04:02 PM) If anyone is interested, Pitchfork didn't think so highly of this album. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/reco...ho_Endless_Wire I don't think that review is too far off, although it's worded a bit harshly. I wish Entwistle was around to be on it for sure, and Daltry's voice isn't what it used to be, but that is to be expected. QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 08:22 PM) Who's in the band? Were they atleast somewhat smart and call up Kenny Jones? Listening to it, I am guessing not as it doesn't sound like him. Kenny hasn'r played with them since '96 or '98. Zach Starkey has done most of the touring group drumming duties since then, but because he was tied up with an Oasis album and tour he's only on one song on the CD. Most of the live drumming is Pete, and the programmed stuff is mostly him as well. QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 08:33 PM) I just listened to it. I guess what I don't get is the lack of "intensity" and "bombast". I understand that Pete has sensitive ears and all that crap, but why not atleast turn it up for an album? It's not like it would hurt ol' Petey's ears. I mean, I have a feeling that many Who fans want that BLAST that is synonymous with the name THE WHO. Instead you get a bunch of Celtic tinged folksy numbers and lightly distorted Old People Rock. Daltry sounds like he wants to reallybust back out and ROCK, but old man Pete keeps him back with a "Well, Rog...ya know, me ears hurt". Agreed, a little bombast is in order. Sound Round gats in the ballpark (think that's going to remain my fave cut on the album). It's Not Enough and Mirroe Door flirt with it. All in all, missing personell aside and just focusing on the strength of the compositions and the production, I think this album is certainly better than It's Hard was. Without looking at the album, I can only recall two or three other tracks on that besides Athena. That said, as much as I didn't warm too maybe half of what was on Face Dances when it first came out, I sure think highly of that album now (including Mr. Jones) by comparison to the new one.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 01:25 PM) Damn and I thought this would be a thread about Tex's sexlife...

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 01:13 PM) I'm guessing a lot of time will be spent preaching on Jonah's interactions with sealife..... that's the closest thing I've got to a "rimshot." I work with what they give me. Ach, loaves and fishes? Fishermen casting their nets to the side of the boat Jesus tells 'em too?? Lots of radical-nautical-Biblical whatnot. Hope the new Bishop Lady knocks their socks off.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 12:06 AM) There's your honeymoon idea. Go to Florida and have sex with Jim 500 times. Somebody better have a bottle of those little blue pills handy.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 12:02 AM) If we are playing guess the speaker, who said that? Jesse??

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 10:40 PM) South Park had a relevant episode concerning this issue. It was rather good. I recommend everyone watches it. Funny, too, that the ending of the episode was based off my exact belief that removing religion --a point which many argue the world would be better without -- would merely be substituted with athiests fighting one another. Where ethnic/societal/social differences remain, sure, many of the underlying conflicts that lead to war would remain. But erasing the further sociocultural subdivisions caused by religious differences would eliminate many of those differences. Certainly it's only armchair speculation and will always remain so, as organized religion is not going anywhere. And your point that humans always seem to find something to kill each other over is well taken.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 04:52 PM) and have sex with him for $5.... I don't know I just felt like running way over the line, for funsies. Wait. Do They have to pay or me?!?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) Queen's posting, must be lunch time. I'm having some Gumbo I had a can of spinach - cold, out of the can - and a 16 oz Rockstar Juiced energy drink. Nothing but the good life for this gentleman of leisure.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 01:05 PM) Not certain who Entwhistle is, but if you mean Entwistle, good call cough!! *ass-hat!* cough!! Finished with my secind and third listenings. Hearing a lot of Tommy in Sound Round as well, which is one of my two favorites on the disc so far. Supposedly this was actually composed as far back as 1971, so the similarity to vintage Who tracks is to be understood. Pete's Louis Armstrong meets Tom Waits vocal stylings in the first part of In the Ether are really irritating, which is unfortunate because I quite like that song. Reading some of Pete's diary entry about Man With the Purple dress gave me a better perspective on what that was about. There's a lot of interplay between the Wire and Glass mini-opera and some of the things Pete was exploring back on Psychoderelict, including the fact that fictional dinosaur rocker Ray High is the central character from that play and is the sanitorium-bound narrator of the new play. A little creepy that Ray's obtaining explicit images of a 14-year old was a plot element back in 1993's Psychoderelict, btw. There are conceptual whiffs of FZ's Joe's Garage rock opera as well as Tull's TOTR&R/TYTD (Ray Lomas, rather than Ray High though), and Pete is giving Zappa a run for his dead money as far as cyclical themes and conceptual continuity. And you're a bigger Who Fan than me, Tex. Do you own the Lifehouse Chronicles box and is it worth getting? I'm always leary of the retread/"from teh vault" releases, but just the thought of hearing some demo stuff with Keith and John on it is an appealing idea. Still digesting the album. . .

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 08:02 AM) And yes, I agree with the lot of you guys. I avoid products because of crappy commercials. I didn't eat at Taco Bell until they got rid of that damned dog! Ironic, since once the dog disappeared I stopped eating Taco Bell. I mean, that dog had to end up, somewhere, and I wasn't going to chance it.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 10:05 PM) Lets say you had $2500 Where would you go? And what would you do? Las Vegas. One spin of the roulette wheel, all on "22" at 35:1. Seriously, I agree with the others that it's less about how much you spend and more about the time together. We did ours weird, I guess, because I'd spent a lot of the previous couple of years working in the Bahamas with free room and board on a remote research island, so I didn't feel like shelling out $$ to stay in a less appealing Caribbean tourist trap. We were both dirt poor grad students. We got married on the Saturday of our spring break and then drove to New Orleans, which we both fell in love with.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 09:02 AM) It almost feels like two albums, a collection of songs to start and it segues into almost an opera for the second half. I had set my expectations low, a la Hell Freezes Over, and am pleasantly surprised. BTW, the opening number seems to sample a few of their songs, I'm hearing Tricky Day and a couple others. I've just finished my first listening and I will need a few more before I can say a whole lot – other than current overall positive impressions. I think I need to catch up on Pete's The Boy Who Heard Music serialized novel before I get the full impact of the Wire and Glass mini-opera. But some of those songs from the mini-opera are among my favorites on first listening, and I wish their running times were longer. No sampling in Fragments or the Fragments of Fragments reprise, Tex. Rather, a de novo homage to some of the vintage arena rock Who anthems. Mostly it's a rendition of the Baba O'Reiley sequenced synth. I did not hear any Tricky Day in there - need to listen more closely. Hearing a whole lot of Quadrophenia in It's Not Enough and Sound Round, the frist song of the mini-opera. damn, if this album could have come out a couple years earlier, Entwhistle would have ablosluely played the $hit out of those songs. More later. . .

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 05:42 PM) touche. That one was so good, who are you? They call me The Seeker.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 04:37 PM) Let me guess.... Playboy for the articles and The Economist for the "boobs".... hahahahha.....haha...ha....ahem. Naw, it's gotta be National Review for the boobs. Frum, Lowry, Luskin, and all those fellas from Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. . . Now, that's a lot of boobs.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 03:42 PM) or mamma's squeeze box Well, now that's a bit more twisted. Good ol' Pete, the Freudian Slip Kid

If only he'd have been satisfied sticking with pictures of Lilly. . .

EEEEEEEK, a dead link! Scary.

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 02:03 PM) Says a lot about a person who supports someone who views child pornography. No it doesn't. Do you happen to like the Derick and the Dominoes song, "Layla"? Well, it so happens that the co-author of that song, drummer Jim Gordon went nuts and butchered his mother and is still rotting in jail for it. But, oes it say anything about anyone who enjoys the song, or even (gasp!!) purchases the album? No, not really. I honestly don't know what to think about Townshend. Like almost everybody I had him tried and convicted immediately on hearing the charges. Now I'm uncertain. Neither you nor I know the truth.

I agree, completely gross. Now, if they'd been White Castles on the other hand. . .

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 01:15 PM) Controlling sperm production without effecting testosterone levels AND avoiding 'unwanted' side effects? My ass. I wouldn't feel comfortable taking these even if were deemed completely safe. Plus it doesn't sound like you'd be "taking" anything. It's an implant, right? I don't think the ladies are going to very readily believe a guy is protected if she can't see it for herself. "Don't worry baby. Uh, yeah. . . , I'm implanted, you betcha."

Not counting scientific journals, all I read regularly in print are Brew Your Uwn, Beer, and Zymurgy. At least my head is not in the gutter, it's in a brewery.

Interesting and unsettling, yes. Reading the conviction with which he writes about this stuff, I tend toward giving him the benefit of the doubt about his porn bust situation.

The last time I got called for jury duty service was two years ago. It happened to be at the exact same time as the White Sox were playing interleague games against the Marlins at Pro Player Stadium. I live 3.5 hours north of Miami and my plan before being called to jury duty was to drive down and catch two games and spend one night at a hotel. Jury duty was going to screw all of thast up apparently First day reporting for duty was the day I planned to head down, so I was hoping for dismissal, but it didn't happen. I ididn't get ampanelled either though. Instead, I was held as a reserve jurist and didmissed for the afternoon but told I had to report back at 8:30 am the next day. Crap. So I drove down to Miami that afternoon, caught a depressing White Sox loser, got lost for a half hour coming out of the stadium taht night and then drove back home to finally get there around 2 am. Got up that morning and went back to the courthouse where I sat around for another full day to finally be dismissed. Couldn't get up teh energy for another 7-8 hour round trip back to Miami, and blew off the second game. Big fun.