a.miller

What's sad is that it was deliberate on Rivers part.

Agreed. It was almost like, "How cookie-cutter can I make this album?" I think all of the songs on the Green Album are structurally the same and all of the solos are simply the melody line of the song. And, how less original could the album name/style be?

i think roller hockey is still fairly popular...so...perhaps rollerblading is still alive

Dr. Evil?

"I once thought you were crazy, but now I can clearly see your nuts."

Theologians is probably in my top 5 favorite Wilco songs..and the piano part in Hummingbird I find simply wonderful.

Its no great loss considering they havent made a decent record since '96...

My thoughts exactly. I used to worship this band until they decided to only put out garbage.

But only if you hold a sign up for it

This is considered the standard by which song requests are presented.

the new M. Ward rules

3 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

Is it funnier that this guy has the worst reviews ever or that 3 people actually found the review to be helpful?

not true

Thanks for the clarification. I wondered, as some of the rhyming surely couldn't have been translated.

This has got to be a joke...

....I love the Arcade Fire, been listening to them a lot lately.....would love to see them live.

Yes. "Funeral" is a fantastic album. One of my friends told me that it was written entirely in French and then translated to English. Not sure if that is true. Now back to the Sufjan.....

i subscribed to harp on feb 17 of this year. they told me during one of the now 6 phone conversations that i've had with them that my subscription wasn't even processed until april 21. it is now july 13th and still not a single issue. 6 phone calls without any results and three unanswered emails. i did get the free cd, though.

 

this blows because harp is my favorite music mag. it's contents are second only to paste, but paste only comes out during eclipses. so, i like harp more because i can get it more often. well, if they would send me one i could.

I hope my subscription does not see the same fate.

I lost my virginity after a Wilco show. How cool is that?

IT must have been one hell of a show.

Great interview.

Psychedelic mushrooms work their magic on many

 

Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:02pm ET

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Magic mushrooms," used by Native Americans and hippies to alter consciousness, appear to have similar mystical effects on many people, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

 

More than 60 percent of volunteers given capsules of psilocybin derived from mushrooms said they had a "full mystical experience."

 

"Many of the volunteers in our study reported, in one way or another, a direct, personal experience of the "beyond," said Roland Griffiths, a professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who led the study.

 

 

A third said the experience was the single most spiritually significant of their lifetimes. Many likened it to the birth of their first child or the death of a parent.

 

And the effects lingered.

 

Two months after getting the drug, 79 percent of the volunteers said they felt a moderately or greatly increased well-being or life satisfaction, according to the report published in the journal Psychopharmacology.

 

"Discovering how these mystical and altered consciousness states arise in the brain could have major therapeutic possibilities," said Griffiths.

 

These include "treatment of intolerable pain, treatment of refractory depression, amelioration of the pain and suffering of the terminally ill," he added.

 

 

Griffiths and colleagues tested 36 healthy, educated volunteers who all reported they had active spiritual lives.

 

"We thought a familiarity with spiritual practice would give them a framework for interpreting their experiences and that they'd be less likely to be confused or troubled by them," Griffiths said in a statement.

 

Griffiths said he did not want to be accused of working like Timothy Leary, the former Harvard University psychologist best known for his 1960s experiments with LSD, another mind-altering drug.

 

NOT TURNING ON AND TUNING IN

 

 

"We are conducting rigorous, systematic research with psilocybin under carefully monitored conditions, a route which Dr. Leary abandoned in the early 1960s," Griffiths said.

 

"Even in this study, where we greatly controlled conditions to minimize adverse effects, about a third of subjects reported significant fear, with some also reporting transient feelings of paranoia," he added.

 

"Under unmonitored conditions, it's not hard to imagine those emotions escalating to panic and dangerous behavior."

 

Psilocybin acts like a message-carrying chemical called serotonin on brain cells. Serotonin is linked with mood.

 

"Unlike drugs of abuse such as alcohol and cocaine, the classic hallucinogens are not known

to be physically toxic and they are virtually non-addictive, so those are not concerns," Griffiths said

 

To ensure that people did not imagine their experiences, each volunteer got either psilocybin or methylphenidate, a stimulant best known for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

 

Then the drugs were swapped, so that every volunteer got both drugs, but neither the subjects nor the staff working with them knew who got which drug or when.

 

Afterwards, 22 of the 36 volunteers said they had a "complete" mystical experience with psilocybin, compared to four after they got methylphenidate.

 

Former National Institute on Drug Abuse director Dr. Charles Schuster praised the study and said such drugs may some day be used to treat addictions.

 

 

Dr. Solomon Snyder, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who says he has experimented with LSD himself, said the experiment might lead to a way to find the "locus of religion" and the biological basis of consciousness in the brain.

 

But Griffiths said such study would be purely scientific.

 

"We're not entering into 'Does God exist or not exist.' This work can't and won't go there," he said.

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Gibson ES 335. Too bad they cost more than my car is worth. Gotta love how the neck plays.

1. Jager

2. Vodka

3. Rum

4. Whiskey

5. Tequila

Just saw the new Pirates this weekend and I thought it was very entertaining. Now I have to see the last one next year.

I picked up Harp on a whim at the local quickie mart.

I took your advice and purchased a year subscription. $20 and a free CD, what the heck. 6 - 8 weeks to start though...

If I could get my hands on Mojo, I'd do it, though.

You can, for the right price. Amazon.com has a subscription that is $9.76 a piece and at 12 issues per year, that's $110 something. A little too much for my budget.

I'm ressurecting this thread. Any idea's on the pickup Tweedy uses in his acoustics on these solo shows? They definatly sound great and i'm in the market for a new one for my j45.

I have an LR Baggs Goldbeam (?) from 2 years ago that has been great and it was only like $120 installed. My luthier suggested it much higher than a fishman, and I have been pleased I took his word.

I have also come up with an idea for the whole Jeff solo reverb/pedal idea: a male to two female Y cord coming out of the guitar. On one side of the Y, plug in a cable running to a volume pedal hooked to a reverb pedal and then to your PA. On the other side of the Y have a cable plugged in and have it running to the PA also. Keep the volume pedal all the way off until you want reverb, then you can push it on. This allows you to maintain a clear, dry signal directly from the guitar to the PA and also a signal saturated with reverb that you can modulate with your foot. All of that may have been said earlier, but I didn't totally get it unitl I figured it out myself.

edit: not sure on what pickup JT uses. They often look white in color and like they hook in the soundhole but come out an endpin jack.

I have a journalism degree, and would also love to do more music writing, but right now, all my time goes to audio engineering work. Do you mind me asking how you are going about getting started?

I also have a journalism degree and made good contacts with a lot of my professors in school, which has helped. The best advice that I have been given is to write reviews of everything you listen to, as well as reading a lot of publications that are on the topics/areas you are interested in. I just got done with a long stint at a college newspaper and am beginning to write reviews that I can submit as a portfolio. So, I'm not too far along with the process. I don't know if that helps. It has also been my experience that people (obviously) love free work. There are also opportunities if you have a large city newspaper to see if they have a "local" section for counties in that city where you can write articles and have them published. Those sections are pretty happy to get anything interesting from the local areas and usually pay extra if you submit photos with your articles. So if you wanted to do more music writing, you could find a good story that is going on with a local band or musical act and cover that story along with a review of a live show or something. Also, like you said, starting a blog is probably a good idea.