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QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 07:22 PM) Have you heard the "Watching The Wheels" acoustic demo? It's amazing. I listened to it yesterday as a matter of fact. It's on the "Acoustic" release from a year or so back. The Cold Turkey, John Sinclair. and Working Class hero off of there are also musts.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 05:21 PM) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...38596%26fvi%3D1 It was at $11 dollars a few hours ago.... When did eBay take away the "view bid history" option?? Or did they just move it somewhere?

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 05:58 PM) I love John Lennon, but had he continued recording albums in the 1980s, I think people would ultimately have been disappointed with what he released, not unlike the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, etc. People would love the album at first and then nobody would remember it a year later. In fact, listening to Double Fantasy, I find myself liking Yoko's work more and more while John's just kinda fades away to me. People were already disappointed with most of what he released in the 70s - as Jackie said. But when I listen to the Double fantasy stuff now, I still hear somebody who took an extended break from the music business and all its attendent cr@p to be a husband and father, and then he came back refreshed and ready to have fun making music again. The Double Fantasy stuff wasn't earth-shaking or groundbreaking, but John sounds downright happy on those tracks, which he largely hadn't for a long tme. I still miss him.

And when you read figures like that estimated death toll and figure that there is no possible way to put a positive spin on that, GWB chimes in:

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 12:45 PM) He's the reason we have adult swim, Ren and Stimpy, Anime, Cartoon Network and the Simpsons. One of them, anyway. Tex Avery and Bob Clampett were the real racy animatoes, with Walt Lance, Robert McKimson, and Fred Quimby also pushing the envelpope with some of their stuff. I quite admire the stylized work of Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng too, but I don't thing they ever went the extreme/absurdist route like Avery or Clampett.

I saw that too. He was one of the pioneers and a big reason those core Hanna-Barbera franchises succeeded. Like Hanna and Barbera, he did his woodshedding with Tex Avery. Some of the best classic Droopy shorts were directed and supervised by him.

QUOTE(shipps @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 11:28 AM) I kinda enjoyed Spanglish.Punch drunk love was the awkward bad.Especially if you went to the show to see it. I liked both of those. They're no Wedding Singer, but they were quite good I thought.

Hilly, on a hell of a run. My pilgrimage to the place was a 1992 NRBQ show that remains one of the best shows I have ever seen.

First off, I'll admit my bias. I think the Potter books are great. I think the overall message of an unlikely/reluctant hero standing up to evil is entirely positive. I read them to my kids – and this from a father who doesn't allow toy guns or gun video games in the house so it's not for lack of being protective of my children. Relative to the Potter books specifically, a great many of the religious conservatives who have condemned them have not read them. My 80-year old mother-in-law had it in her head that the books were recruiting manuals for Satan. Then she actually read the books (all of them) and loved them and told her busybody family values friends to stop talking out of their arses about something they are clueless about. I didn't know the "uproar" over the books actually began as an Onion story and some folks not getting the joke. But if that is the case, that tells you how manufactured the outrage actually is. The single most important thing about the Potter books is they are single-handedly responsible for getting a generation of kids excited about reading. Reading!! Girls and even Boys! They eat up the Potter books. Then they check out the Lemony Snicket books or something else. Then they read something else, and on and on hopefully into adulthood. All because a fantastically entertaining and engaging series of books written by a former welfare mother from England jump-started their imaginations. That will be the enduring legacy of the Harry Potter books.

That is awesome. Congratulations!! Apparently your boy sperms are lousy swimmers, eh? Enjoy and cherish your growing family.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 08:19 PM) While New Orleans sound is good to me, my top choice is brassy big band stuff. Not necessarily your classic dance band routines... slightly more modern, but still jazz with that "wall of sound". Artie Shaw Orchestra, some Basie stuff (though that is older), but even better is Stan Kenton's 50's stuff. Or, go a different Big Band route towards be-bop and big bop, like Maynard Ferguson's stuff (though Maynard's chops have been shot for some time, his bands are hot). I also loves me some Dirty Dozen, Tower of Power and Lester Bowie. If you like fusion, you'd probably like those guys. Maynard just died a couple of months ago. And you are right, his recent bands have been hot. Lots of top young graduates from his jazz academy would woodshed with him for a while. A horn player knew back in college was among them. His chops may not have been up to what they were but his embrochure was rock solid. I saw him about three years ago and he was nailing some amazing upper register notes. I dig the Big Band stuff as well – Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller et al. Timeless stuff. There's just something about the Nawlins "ur" jazz though that makes it really special. Hearing the raw results of the unique confluence of young players taught by European classically trained musicians but then deciding to break all the rules, stylized afro rhythms, catch-as-can instrumentation, and lots of clear-cut cases of guys playing the instruments flat out wrong, but making it their own and refining it until it sounded good. . . The birth of the style right there for the listening.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 10:31 PM) im getting married in 5 days! holy schneikies! Although I question how sincere you were in your belief that the Sox were going to be contenders if you thought scheduling a wedding in the middle of October was a safe bet.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 9, 2006 -> 05:18 PM) life is good... 8 months til the surgical attachment of proverbial ball and chain. Good stuff, the married life. Notice the lack of green. Mrs. FlaSoxx is the one that keeps me sane. Alcohol helps too.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 03:33 PM) The good thing about going away for so long is that i forget who I don't like around here... (save ss2kwhateveryearthisis and flaxseedjim) Back atcha Brotha! So. . . where ya been?

"Today is day 960 of Opportunity's 90-day mission to Mars," said Steve Squyres from Cornell University. Amazing that the Rovers are still operating and collecting data. The guys who put these together should build my next car. Of course, hopefully it will be able to cover a distance of more than 6 miles in three years. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/10/06/v...ages/index.html

It's IgNobel Awards time again, kids! Some good awardees this year, including a team that found a way to put the ol' stinky pinky to work for the benefit of mankind. To Science! http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....ence+NewsNews-2

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 05:39 PM) Friday surprise time: top aide to Karl Rove Susan Ralston resigns due to the Abramoff scandal and the report out earlier this week of hundreds of contacts between Abramoff's people and the high-ups at the White House. Must be Friday afternoon - the best time for bad news from the White House.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 05:56 PM) Speaking purely from a political perspective though...I don't see any reason why the Dems should do anything except let Hastert twist in the wind. Exactly Correct. Please stay on the job, Denny!

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 05:31 PM) Are you guys up on any late 60s/early 70s era jazz fusion? Dennis Coffey, James Brown Band, Galt MacDermot, Cal Tjader, David Axelrod, Sven Libaek, S.O.U.L., Wade Marcus, Herbie Hancock, Billy Brooks, Jack McDuff, Meters, Kool And The Gang, Freddie Hubbard, Clarence Wheeler, Jimmy McGriff, Groove Holmes, Ike Taylor, Joe Farrell, Jimmy Caravan, Bernard Purdie, Gene Harris, Crusaders, Billy Cobham, Grant Green, Cannonball Adderly, Wes Montgomery, Sun Ra, etc? Or just straight jazz from the early-to-mid 60s? I guess that stuff kinda puts me to sleep. My favorite jazz is actually the original New Orleans style jazz which I know makes me a bit wierd. Not the corny dixieland send up version, but the real thing ala' Armstrong and the Hot Five/Hot Seven, King Oliver, carrying through later to Sidney Bechet, Albert Nicholas, etc. I can go to the French Quarter and be completely happy taking in 3 or 4 sets at Preservation Hall, even though you can't get a drink (But, hey, that's why Pat O'Briens is two doors down!) After that would come the WWII/post WWII era stuff, up through the bebop era. Art Blakely is a favorite from that broad era. Listening to Lionel Hampton's mastery of the vibes still leaves me in absolute awe of how good he was. I went throgh a fusion kick in my late teens, with Mahavishnu/McGlaughlin/Cobham, Wes Montgomerey, Lean-Luc Ponty, George Duke, earlier George Benson stuff, etc., being among my favorites. I grew very tired of the elevator muzac style drek being passed off as "smooth jazz" ad I think that helped me get out of the fusion kick. Then again, some of my favorite Zappa albums are pretty much fusion - One Size Fits All and stuff from around that time when George Duke, Chester Thompson, Ruth Underwood, etc., were in the lineup. I think Lonnie Smith is to the Hammond B3 what Hampton was to vibes, and I dig the heck out of that stuff but I don't know that it qualifies as fusion. Great stuff.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 01:22 PM) Well maybe he just likes it in the can? ZING!!

You're right. I laughed.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 12:00 PM) Last thing we need are a bunch of old people taking away all our Funyons. QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 12:02 PM) Thats why i have started dosing myself at an early age. An ounce of prevention, I always say. Of course, these days, who can afford a whole ounce?!?

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 6, 2006 -> 08:57 AM) Who buys this stuff...? http://www.trailertrashdoll.com/ I want one! She can shack up with my Archie McPhee's Albino Bowler Action Figure!

Between all the new findings coming out about the positive aspects of moderate alcohol and THC consumption, I'm realizing was the damn picture of health back in college! http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/05/pot.a...reut/index.html

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Oct 5, 2006 -> 07:44 PM) -- but there's a difference between committing acts in direct connection with ones religion (9/11, etc.) and those which have no bearing on the event, aside from people suggesting, "he's a Christian -- so let's group this under them." There was a tremendous special of the Discovery Channel recently about the Waco seige. When you look at merely the FACTS (not some unfounded conspiracy theories), you'll realize it was a doomed operation from the beginning. None of which transpired because the "heavily Christian based FBI leaders" were intimidated by the branch dividians. McVeigh I'll grant you is only very peripherally a religious thing. Not so in any way with Waco though. The Branch Dividians were a religious cult - it's the reason they existed and the reason for the Waco compound. Why the FBI botched the seige doesn't change that. Religion - a very whacked one in this case - had a very real bearing on that event.