FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 07:57 PM) http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/23/news/newsm...dex.htm?cnn=yes Despite constant claims otherwise, there IS justice for those who commit corporate fraud. Unless you die and they suspend your sentence. 24 years for Skilling sounds about right.

And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side two of Led Zeppelin IV.

I'm the dinosaur with vinyl versions of just about all of the FZ catalog up through Guitar and YCDTOS Vol. 1, so I too would love to come into a chunk of change to get the Ryko disks. If you haven't checked this out yet, pick up QuadrophiliaC at your soonest convenience. I have to use other people's surround sound systems to listen to it in the way it was intended, but it's really something. I have maybe 20 or so FZ boots other than the Beat the Boots set. I'm ashamed I don't have more and need to rob a bank to get some money to make it happen.

QUOTE(Felix @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 01:17 AM) I can't give you a perfect set list yet (can't seem to find one), but there is an attempt at one posted here along with some reviews of the show. There is a list for tonights show in Ohio which looks incredibly similar here, and setlists/reviews of every other show so far here. Overall, it was fantastic. My favorite few songs of the night were "I'm the Slime", "Black Napkins" and "The Black Page" (which was done in a timeline fashion, showing the early parts of the song in development with Bozzio working on the drumline, then introducing the melody with Steve Vai coming out). Quite possibly my favorite was the finale, a song that I -- shamefully -- didn't know the name of until DZ mentioned it, but had heard before a few times, "Regyptian Strut". Dweezil hit the nail on the head before starting the song up, saying that its a lesser known song of FZ's but one that best 'describes' his musical style. I've listened to it a handful of times since, and I must say, I agree. It's quickly become one of my favorites, which now leads me to thinking there are so many of his songs that I am not familiar with, and am missing out on. I've got a lot of work to do Also, Dweezil REALLY impressed me. I admit, I didn't think he was that great of a guitar player before seeing the show (I'd listened to "Automatic"), but he really surprised me. He has a stage prescene up there with the best of them, and had some incredible solos throughout the show, but specifically in "The Torture Never Stops". It's amazing to see him play his fathers music with such ease, despite how incredibly difficult some of those songs are to transcribe. Many thanks for the show highlights. You can't beat yourself up too much over not knowing something like Regyptian Strut by name, but if you don't have the Sleep Dirt album (or the eventual Lather rebox) seek it out because there's a lot of great obscure stuff there. I am trhe Slime and a Torture with Terrry Bozzio on drums would have been worth the price of admission right there. Seems like Bozzio's presence in the lineup had an impact on the material selected more than Napolean's. When I get the time I need to pour over the set lists. And if you go so far as to seek out someone who managed to come up with a recording. please let me know.

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QUOTE(Felix @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 09:14 PM) Best show of my life, easily worth double what I paid for. They duplicated Zappa's sound, and Steve Vai, Terry Bozzio, and Napoleon Murphy Brock have yet to lose a step. Amazing show, and I'll definitely be going again if they ever come anywhere near me again Also, I really hope that they release a CD/DVD for this set of concerts. I'm thinking that they will, which would be incredible. I'm extremely jealous, Felix, but really excited that you got to take in the show and that it was something special. So, how about a set list for those of us unable to catch the tour? Music is the Best

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 12:46 AM) First good thought to come to my mind is Brian Jones. QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 03:32 AM) Syd Barrett And that's the tricky part. Brian possibly had a lot more in him, but it wasn't going to come out as a marginalized part fo the Stones. As for Sydd Barrett, i guess you can make a similar argument, but he had 30+ more years to top or equal his Floyd contributions and I don't think he got close. These are all personal opinions though and that' what makes it fun so carry on.

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Nick Drake and Terry Kath are my dark horse choices, but I'll also throw Jimi in there. I think Jimi was heading off into amazing new directions so as not too be doing the Experience retread thing past its time. I don't know that the new stuff would have carried most of the fans of the earlier stuff with it, but the same can be said for theBand of Gypsies material and some of that stuff has withstood the test of time musically and socially better than a lot of the Experience stuff.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 19, 2006 -> 11:56 PM) I will stand by my statement that the quality of the instructor will be far more important in continuing to dive then the agency that issues the card. That part I don't disagree with. My Y instructor, a retired cop, was a great instructor. Trying to get on a boat too dive GBR with nothing byt a YMCA cert card would be a difficult task with most opoerators however.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 19, 2006 -> 09:20 PM) Don't get too hung up on which agency is doing the cert, they all have basically the same standards. More important is the instructor and dive shop. I disagree, as far as which C card you end up with. PADI is more universally recognized than NAUI or NASDS, and a YMCA cert is essentially useless despite the fact that they were the forst organization to offer standardized scuba training as far back as the late 1950s. My first scuba certification training was a Y program through the Chicago park District. Great program, but if you didn't pay the extra $50 at check out time to get simultaneous PADI certification you couldn't find too many places (especially internationally) that would recognize the card. Maybe that's changed in the (insert big crooked number) years since I got certified, but i think PADI is the best route for Americans.

Were Pope Benny and Emperor Palpatine separated at birth or what?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 06:50 PM) I actually knew a man (father of a friend) who was buried in a tux... but was wearing a White Sox t-shirt underneath. QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 07:40 PM) Rented? No, I'm guessing it was his real father.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 11:26 PM) I've watched waaay too many drug commercials and thought by the end, "Oh my god, I have anal warts." And that's just the Viagra ads.

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 07:16 PM) Threadjack.... Jim wants to learn since seeing it done in Hawaii... You think lessons would be a good Christmas gift? I think it would be great if he's really committed to wanting to go through the whole basic certification. You can do it in just a few weeks at any rate. You typicallly can also do "resort certification" at your vacation destinations. Basically, a half-hour or so of pool instruction and then a supervised shallow reef dive with a well-qualified instructor as your buddy. I used to be very against these, arguing that it could give the novice diver a false sense of security and he/she may gget another chance to do a less controlled/supervised dive down the line and get into trouble. In this case though, Jim is smart enough to know better, and if most of the dive opportunities he'd have are in a resort setting, I do think that is an option. . . . especially sicne your open water certification dive in Illinois tends to be underwhelming at best (eg, a flooded rock quarrry in the summer), or brutal at worst (eg, a flooded rock quarry in winter). A quickie resort certification in a tropical setting may be more to Jim's liking.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 03:44 PM) How long were you in that coma Kid? Larry Eustachian tubes? Your innner ear, the tube you try to force air into to equalize pressure on both sides of the eardrum. I'm an avid scuba diver, but I always have too take my descent slow because I have to really work at equalizing. Same thing on landing in an airplane.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 02:13 AM) I'm flying to Iceland next month. I have a crippling fear of flying. How can I get past it? Hopefully you are going there to b*tchslap the Icelanders for deciding to resume commercial whale hunting. I dislike the discomfort in my ears and eustachian tubes on landing, but otherwise I really love flying. More than a lack of fear it's more the excitement of getting wherever I'm going.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 13, 2006 -> 08:29 AM) I guess I have a lot of dreams Or a lot of voices duking it out in your head.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 07:15 PM) I'd start or run a business bringing urban or disadvantaged youth out into the wilderness. And then leave them there. Disadvantaged AND disoriented. You bastard. QUOTE(Soxy @ Oct 12, 2006 -> 12:56 PM) Tenured professor at a research university. Somebody already said "win the lottery". QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 12, 2006 -> 01:44 PM) A couple things transpired to have me switch. Now I'm working for the Boy Scouts running a High Advneture Sea Base and loving it. I just read your intro thread from september on the Sea Scouts site. Sounds like you're fitting in well. QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 12, 2006 -> 11:03 PM) Hey, that's my job. Have you thought about working for the Boy Scouts? I am now an assistent Den Dad for my Boy's Tiger Cub scoout den. First den meeting on Tuesday, and a camping trip alread next month. My dream job saddens me because I could land the gig - it just doesn't pay enough to make it work: Brewmaster at a craft brewery.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2006 -> 10:45 AM) Interesting thing I just read said that if the 655,000 dead number is to be believed, that is about 512 people a day. Even the civilian dead numbers that shocked everyone from last month said 2600 dead, which works out to about 89 a day, so where are the other 420ish people a day coming from? I haven't looked at the numbers that closely myself, it was just something I heard. One of the Coauthors of the Lancet paper was on Democracy Now this morning and he went up and down the stratified random sampling methodology, explained where the variance derives from and confirmed that there is essentially a 2% chance that the actual casualty count is below 400K, and likewise a 2% chance that it is actually above 950K. He further suggested that independent corroboration that they are in the ballpark would be easy enough to obtain by randomly picking out villages and talking to the gravediggers to confirm that they are burying 4x the bodies now compared to before the invasion. If the answer is yes, then the numbers from this report holds up. But, if the administration doesn't at least take a serious look at the report and engage the possibility that their Iraq civilian casualty estimates are horribly off, it would be a great disservice to the memory of the almost three hundred Americans who died on 9/11 when the so-called Global War on Terror began.

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There was an ABC News story about an egg cooker that uses halogen lamps to cook soft-boiled eggs. OK, whatever, and here's the link if that sounds exciting to you. But what the article really did for me was to ratchet my already substantial dislike for Prince Charles up another notch or two: "Go cook me seven different eggs and I'll decide which one I like." What a pompous @ss.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 11:12 PM) Debbie Harry lives ten miles from me. I have been so tempted to leave a flaming bag of poo on her door just to see her stomp it out. I think it would be HI-larious! I wanted to puke when Blondie first reformed a decade or so ago, debbbie's voice seemed sooo shot and she looked like 10 miles of bad road. Then, after a while she seemed to get it together, to th epoint where I had a ticket in hand and was primed to see Blondie and the new Rundgren-fronted Cars in concert. . . And then the week before the show, Elliot Easton dislocates his shoulder when th etour bus gets in an accident, and the show gets cancelled.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 11:15 PM) person: my guy! Nothin' you can do 'cuz I'm stuck like glue. . .

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