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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm2MFQDITLs&feature=feedu

 

Extremely cool for a couple of reasons. 1. ESPN has a national ad that features the Nashua Garden which is about 5 minutes from where I live. Best sandwiches around. They get fresh braided rolls from the North End in Boston every morning. Yes, there are sandwiches named after Boston sports legends. (just saw it now at 2.a.m. and shocked) 2. It features an actor (the meat cutter) who was in our short film back at Fitchburg State College in 2005. I recognized his voice and did a double take while looking up some MLB scores while watching ESPN no less .

Can someone explain this commercial to me? I've seen it many times now and I'm still trying to figure out why it's funny (or if it's even supposed to be funny). Specifically, the Esposito reference. Brian? Phil?

Disclaimer: I have never even been to Boston (or Nashua), and I am not conversant in Boston sports lore. However, I do understand capicola.

If this surgery becomes popular, maybe it'll pick up his name as a nickname the way another surgery is nicknamed for Tommy John.

"Colon surgery."

Uh, never mind.

Since, then Devotion & Doubt, then probably Bloomed or Dents and Shells

I agree with these four, though not necessarily in this order.

I'm a big fan of Grant-Lee Phillips, both on his own and in GLB. Would love to have seen one of these GLB shows, but of course they aren't playing anywhere near me.

I did see Phillips play solo a year or so ago, and he was fantastic. Highly recommended, if you get the chance.

It does appear that Mighty Joe Moon was released on vinyl, at least in the U.K.

Centro-Matic: Fort Recovery (I'd probably start with this one)

One of my favorite albums of all time.

And yes, I mean all time.

My older brother helped to mold my taste when I was still in high school and to some extent in college, but since then my influence on his taste has been at least as great as his influence on mine. (I got him into the Pixies in the late '80s, and that's steered the subsequent development of his taste as much as anything else.)

We have a LOT of common ground, but have also diverged a great deal. Which is cool, because those divergences give us stuff to share with each other, even if it doesn't ultimately take.

We haven't lived in the same state since 1986, so divergence was inevitable.

I love Ozzie, but if he gets fired this year, that will be perfectly OK with me.

That said, the Sox will likely awaken from their slumber at some point. The question is whether that will happen early enough in the season for them to get into the race.

Neil Young with Bert Jansch, Fox Theatre, Detroit

I'm one of those people who paid an insane price, but I'm also going to be fourth row, center section.

Let's just say that I have paid more for a concert before, but this is probably #2 in terms of expense.

Atlanta's a damn good team. They worry me. I really hope the Bulls haven't been looking past them to the winner of Boston-Miami.

If they have, hopefully game 1 refocused their attention on the task at hand.

Just some stuff I read somewhere:

"Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.'"

- Ezekiel 33:11

"Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the LORD will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them."

- Proverbs 24:17-18

So all of those who cheered and waved flags to celebrate bin Laden's death must not have been Christians, right?

I never push my way up to the front of a crowd, so if i am where i am, its because i arrived at the appropriate time.

This is a good point.

I may be tall, but I don't muscle my way past people to get closer. If I'm up front, it's because I showed up early.

I will not apologize for either my height or my desire to be closer to the stage.

 

Or maybe "Get Well Soon VCer's with Nothing Better to Do Than Start Inane Threads and Get Worked Up Over Records That Haven't Been Released Yet"

Inane threads are the engine that drives any message board worth posting on.

The next Wilco album should be called (Clean Version).

I still don't know anyone (personally or online) who successfully scored the Big Star vinyl. I'm hoping someone did, because I'd like to know how much it was retailing for. The current eBay prices look kind of ridiculous ... I just want an idea of how ridiculous they really are.

My take (two stores):

Television - Live At The Old Waldorf San Francisco, 6/29/78 2LP white vinyl

Bob Dylan - Brandeis University 1963 vinyl LP

Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power Live In The Hands Of The Fans vinyl LP

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Gotta Get That Feeling / Racing In The Street 10" vinyl

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love 10" vinyl

Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock 7" vinyl

Derek and the Dominos - Got To Get Better In A Little While / Layla 7" vinyl

Justin Townes Earle - Move Over Mama / Racing In The Streets 7" vinyl

The dB's - Picture Sleeve / Write Back 7" vinyl

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Here We Rest CD (non-Record Store Day purchase)

Grant Lee Phillips - Little Moon vinyl LP (non-Record Store Day purchase)

Yeah, I guess being responsible for yourself or wanting the freedom of choice is a strange concept of freedom. I guess I know what Sparky means now. The only thing I can think of to make you understand...

 

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

— Benjamin Franklin

Wildly irrelevant quote, but whatever.

You're pretending that the Danes have somehow sacrificed "freedom of choice." If you actually ask Danes about this, they won't know what the hell you're talking about.

Their society works. Ours doesn't. If you prefer ours, that's your right. Personally, I'd prefer to make ours a lot more like theirs.

I don't think so; you promote a socialist doctrine, yet what if I as an individual do not want to give my money for whatever social program you offer? Today it is forcibly taken from me; if I refuse the IRS comes after me or whatever government agency. The fact is no matter how noble a socialist cause, without the consent of an individual, is an infringement of his freedom which the United States (used to be) is all about.

You have an odd concept of "freedom."

Ask the Danes if they feel like their freedom is impinged in any way. They pay astronomical taxes, but they also get free healthcare, free education including university, a stunning array of well-funded social welfare programs, ample funds for infrastructure ... and all of these taxpayer-funded benefits allow them a degree of freedom that Americans will never know.

Denmark is basically a socialist country in many ways -- certainly in terms of its welfare state -- yet it's also consistently at or near the top of the list of countries whose residents are happiest. Businesses thrive despite this socialist nightmare, and the markets are as free as virtually any in the world. According to Wikipedia, those America-hating commies at the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation rated Denmark's economy as the "11th most free" in the world, yet 80% of workers belong to unions. Income taxes are the highest in the world, yet the standard of living is also among the world's highest, and wealth disparity is among the lowest.

What Denmark is doing, we could be doing too ... except that no one could ever sell that kind of success to the American public, who prefer their uniquely "American" brand of fucked-up, failed economics, corrupt politics, and greed-based corporate supremacy, despite it being against their best interests. Our system is pulling us over a cliff, but as a nation we're more interested in wrapping ourselves in the Stars and Stripes and shouting about how America is the Greatest Country In The World™ (or might have once been, anyway) than in facing up to the mistakes we've made and finding real solutions. That stubbornness and willful ignorance of our systemic problems will propel us over that cliff, sooner rather than later, and in the resulting chaos we'll see how much people truly cherish things like "freedom." In times of crisis, true freedom is one of the first casualties.

You may have some points, but through socialism you take away individual choice and liberty which is something the United States is founded on. Oh, and the free market "didn't land us in this place". It was the fault of bankers who made terrible decisions.

You're confusing socialism with Soviet-style communism.

Also, you're concentrating solely on the calamitous events of 2008. The (relatively) unfettered free market, which gained considerable momentum during Reagan's time, led incrementally to the 2008 meltdown, though its onset was significantly expedited by the policies of the George W. Bush administration.

I wonder, you're against Ron Paul's views on economy; so are you for spending money we don't have and allowing the Federal Reserve to print money(further devaluing our money? I just want to understand how you think.

I'm for raising taxes drastically on the wealthy, closing loopholes on corporations (for example, those who incorporate in the Caymans to avoid U.S. taxes, and so on), raising a shit-ton more revenue, amending the Constitution to eliminate "corporate personhood" and guarantee Constitutional rights only to human beings (not corporations), and (among other things) repairing the nation's infrastructure, which is crumbling at an alarming rate, which would actually create hundreds of thousands of jobs, if not millions, not to mention the positive ripple effects it would have across the rest of the economy.

Essentially, a New New Deal. Let's bring back the Works Progress Administration. Let's give more than a spit-shine to this country -- update its infrastructure from mid-20th century to 21st century with room to grow into the 22nd. Let's re-regulate some industries that obviously can't behave themselves. Fuck the "unfettered free market" -- that's the naïve fantasy that landed us in this mess in the first place.

More than anything, let's narrow income disparity. Yes, that means wealth distribution, but instead of from the bottom up (which has been what's happening for decades, but especially since the Reagan administration), this time from the top down.

Does that smack of socialism? You fuckin' betcha. It also happens to be what this country needs.

It amuses me that there are people who would seek to pair Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.

If you really think Paul and Kucinich are politically compatible, maybe it's time for you to do some reading and puncture some of the mythology that's built up in your brain around those two men. They certainly agree on a select few issues, but they're diametrically opposed on most of the others.

I have no doubt that Ron Paul is a principled man who only wants the best for his country. That said, I also think that his economic philosophy is preposterous and would only further cripple the national economy. I also disagree with him on a few very important social and civil liberties issues, though in that arena we see eye-to-eye a lot more than on economic policy. Also, he named his son "Rand." And Rand is a fucking lunatic.

Kucinich, on the other hand, is right up my alley ... except that he's a bit of a freak and would never win a national election.

As for Wilco, they will support Obama again, I'm sure, though they may choose to be less visible in doing so. Personally I have found Obama's presidency to be disappointing, but hardly "failed." However, I was never under the illusion that Obama was a leftist ... he's been a centrist his whole career, and lefties who feel let down by Obama's refusal to push their agenda simply weren't paying attention to his positions. It's hilarious that the Tea Partiers call him "radical" and a "socialist," because he's about as centrist as a politician can get.

If nothing else, Obama's presence in the White House has emboldened the GOP to show their true colors on a wide range of issues, and I think the electorate is starting to see them for what they are. 2010 may have been a repudiation of Obama's first two years, but I think 2012 could turn out to be a firm rejection of the Republican vision for America. It certainly should be, anyway.

I have little doubt that I will hold my nose and vote for Obama again in 2012, if only to prevent the election of another Republican.

How many people on this board have their LP and didn't pay for it?? Musicians have to get paid too.

Or labels, anyway.

I'll never understand why this stuff bothers people. Doesn't change the song whatsoever in my mind, and it nets the bands some extra cash. Maybe even some new fans. Win-win as far as I'm concerned.

This.

It's just the way the world works these days. Good for them.

Saturday Morning - Joe Higgs

She Only Calls Me On Sundays - Gary Louris

Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning - Cowboy Junkies

Won't You Try Saturday Afternoon - Jefferson Airplane

Tuesday Heartbreak - Stevie Wonder

Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson

Saturday Morning On Sunday Street - Mark Olson & Gary Louris

Ironing Tuesdays - The Posies

Sunny Sunday Mill Valley Groove Day - Frank Black

Friday Night, August 14th - Funkadelic

Monday Morning Rock - Marshall Crenshaw

One More Saturday Night - Nils Lofgren

Black Friday - Steely Dan

Sunday Nights - Frank Turner

Super Tuesday - The Shazam

Saturday - The Reivers

Groovy Tuesday - Smithereens