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Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround, pt. 1 is a great album. One of my all-time favorites.

I'm holding out for alison's idea of a spinoff featuring Paulie and the cat.

Chelsea rocks. That reminds me, I haven't had that bread at the Common Grill for far too long. We looked at a few houses in Chelsea, but in the end we found a perfect little house in southwest Ann Arbor, so that's where we bought (closer to our jobs, though I work off Baker Road). Yeah, we almost certainly paid a bit too much for it, and the taxes are pretty brutal, but we love being where we are. Anyway, glad to see another VCer in the area! Maybe we'll see you at a show sometime. In addition to some of the Ann Arbor/Detroit-area folks, some of whom I have yet to meet, there are a few ot

I adore that song, actually. It's what got me to try the album ... but then the album blew me away far more than that song did.

Decided to give this a try... Wow. I'm really enjoying this.

Well, I did say "almost." To me, the very best Stones albums are perhaps slightly better than the very best Beatles albums, but the Beatles' body of work is far, far better than the Stones'. Even if you set a cutoff of, say, Exile on Main St. (i.e., nothing after that), I think the Beatles win in a landslide. But I also don't happen to think that the Beatles ever put out an album quite as great as Sticky Fingers or Exile.

On certain days, I'd almost put the Stones above the Beatles. Almost.

Been meaning to check this out for months ... finally got around to it.

No, that looks about right to me.

You haven't been around much lately, have you?

Never heard it? It's an absolute classic ... one of the greatest albums ever recorded, imo.

Thank cod for that.

The writing in season 6 was perhaps the best in the whole series.

6/10/05?

Our aforementioned local station can't seem to hire a DJ who isn't a moron (guys: just tell me what songs you played, then shut the fuck up), and it's a little too reliant on old Dave Matthews Band hits to flesh out the playlist, but it's pleasantly devoid of Nickelback, so I find myself listening to it fairly often. I had to search their website to find their call letters: WQKL.

I also have the 2004 reissue on Fuel 2000, and it is definitely not mono. The sound quality is fantastic. 22 tracks in all: 01 Care of Cell 44 02 A Rose for Emily 03 Maybe After He's Gone 04 Beechwood Park 05 Brief Candles 06 Hung Up on a Dream 07 Changes 08 I Want Her She Wants Me 09 This Will Be Our Year [Mono Mix] 10 Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 11 Friends of Mine 12 Time of the Season 13 I'll Call You Mine [stereo mix # 1] 14 Imagine the Swan [stereo mix # 1] 15 Conversation Off Floral Street 16 If It Don't Work Out [overdubbed] 17 Don't Cry for Me [overdubbed] 18 Smokey Day 19

With all due respect, Jess, it boggles my mind that you could have found that boring.

Pretty good post-mortem from Salon.com... - - - - - - - - - - - - - "The Sopranos" goes dark David Chase gives fans the finale they deserve -- one they can argue about for years to come. By Heather Havrilesky Jun. 11, 2007 | For his final trick, "Sopranos" writer/creator David Chase made Tony Soprano disappear without fanfare. In what may go down as the most heart-stopping final scene of a drama series in the history of television, Tony walked into a restaurant, sat down at a booth, ate a few onion rings, and . . . that was it. Roll credits. As the screen went black in the middle o

The track order from Oink matches the one from Demonoid. Here's that: Track Listing ------------- 1. Goodnight Rose (3:20) 2. Two (2:39) 3. Everybody Knows (2:26) 4. Halloweenhead (3:23) 5. Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. (2:33) 6. Tears Of Gold (2:55) 7. The Sun Also Sets (4:11) 8. Off Broadway (2:32) 9. Pearls On A String (2:25) 10. Rip Off (3:12) 11. Two Hearts (3:03) 12. These Girls

I thought it was a brilliant ending. This last run of episodes was fantastic. I don't get all the negative reactions ... I mean, you're entitled to them, but are you looking beyond the superficial "who got whacked" angle? I'm really going to miss this show.

There's a local station here that's become fairly tolerable lately (107.1 -- no idea of the call letters) and while we ran out for some errands this evening, they played the new Spoon single followed by "Shake It Off" and "Theologians." I just about drove off the road.