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It was only funny the first time I saw it when it was about the Cowboys losing the Giants in the playoffs in January 2008, if it's about anything else I have no interest in seeing it at all. --Mike

I have a feeling the BCS catastrophe this year will be a team from a BCS conference like the Big Ten, ACC or Big East going undefeated and passed up in the national championship game by a one-loss team like a Texas, Florida or Oklahoma for the national championship game. I could easily see a one-loss Texas and a one-loss Florida (provided the losses aren't in their conference championship games) edging out an undefeated Penn State in the final BCS rankings, though Penn State would likely be number one in the human polls. Penn State's computer rankings were horrible down the stretch last year,

Didn't Trent Green almost break his neck trying to throw a low block? --Mike

I think they might end up luring Les Miles away from LSU, but Shanahan or Jon Gruden would be good moves as well. I think this Rodriguez thing plays out by him getting canned at Michigan in the next two years and then taking over at Louisville, and after thinking about that I need to go lay down. I didn't really have a problem with losing him as a coach, he was a horrible game planner and fell back on very predictable play calling too often, but the way he left and the rather shoddy job the AD did in the coaching search, kind of screwed WVU. I am not sure whether it will be short term or lo

Even if they do and they find he broke the same rules, I don't think it will affect the the program that much. It's a slap on the wrist violation anyway from the looks of things. It really just makes him look like a even bigger douche bag, which is certainly fine by me. --Mike

How the hell did it take 19 posts for some to mention this?

Every West Virginia fan right now is like the old couple at the end of What About Bob watching Richard Dreyfuss' condo go up in flames. Burn! Burn! Burn! --Mike

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I remember that, it was quite good. VH-1 had actually did have some pretty entertaining original music related programming in the late nineties, though clearly that time has long since past, though VH-1 Classic is still worth killing a few hours with. I should have a VHS of that somewhere as well. --Mike

If the fookin' Beatles broke up we can too. Seriously this breakup will hold as long Phish's they'll be back together within three years. --Mike

Today is the final day for edits and last minute lists. --Mike

The drone was a interesting idea in theory, but they probably could have made the same point by having it run on for three minutes instead of thirteen. That said I usually make it pretty far into it, before I skip to The Late Greats. --Mike

Much like Sky Blue Sky, it's an album I have been less and less interested in the more times I hear it. It's certainly not a bad record and in fact I find Deeper Down-One Wing-Bull Black Nova to be one of the strongest three song runs on any Wilco album. It's just the rest of the record aside from Solitaire that I am not sure I have use for. Wilco The Song and You Never Know have crossed the line from cute to irritating, and the rest of the album sounds like Sky Blue Sky. But I don't kill the Talking Heads for Naked, I just listen to their better albums, the same can be said for Wilco. As L

Yeah, this one was particularly creepy, great though. Has Straw Dogs been mentioned yet? I don't know if creepy is the right word to describe it, fascist masterpiece perhaps? But it certainly packed a punch. --Mike

I will try to close this this thread around midnight tomorrow. Will tally the votes and have a results thread sometime early next week. --Mike

As much shit as McCartney gets, Rod Stewart went way further off the track of respectability. --Mike

I am not particularly fond of either of those songs, but the one that would really turn me off on your CD is Glad It's Over, which might be least favorite thing Wilco has ever put out. --Mike

That solo is one of my favorite Beatle moments. In My Life was my class song, I graduated 39 years after it's release. Paul would probably want to name it Brian Wilson. --Mike

This one might be slightly out of left field, but the creepiest movie I think I've ever seen or at least the one that probably made the most uncomfortable is Neal LaBute's In The Company of Men. Hitchcock, Lynch, and Herbie Goes Bananas are all great choices, but none of them seem as a real to me as Company. Even the concept that someone could be as big of a bastard as the Eckhart character in that film shook me up. Anytime I start to beat myself up over feeling like I've screwed up a friendship or done something horrible socially, I pop that one in and twenty minutes later feel better about m

Paul does have an irritating habit of coming up with amazing choruses or hooks like the "hands across the water" part of Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey or the chorus of Jet, and then filling out the rest of the song with lyrics bordering on the nonsensical that sometimes can ruin the song if you're trying to break it down. Ultimately though those hooks forgive a lot, but there certainly have a sense sometimes that McCartney's solo career could have towered over the other threes had he had a decent co-lyricist chipping in from time-to-time. btw: I probably listen to McCartney, Paul's first solo

"Bob Dylan once said you're a nobody until you get booed. Well I think you're a nobody until you make a double album." Mark Oliver Everett/E of Eels.

McCartney chews carrots and celery as the rhythm track for The Beach Boys Vegetables, it doesn't get much cooler than that. --Mike

When I was 13, my grandmother asked me what I wanted to do as a career and I said I wanted to be Mark Lewisohn. I am not sure where or why I went astray . --Mike

I think there's only disagreement on In My Life (McCartney says he wrote part of it) and Eleanor Rigby. Everything started with the Beatles for me, they were the first band I remember listening to as a young kid, I became particularly obsessed with them and their music when I was about eleven. They both have written so many songs that I have connected with it's almost impossible for me to favor one of the other. It really depends on the day or the mood, whether I need to hear Across The Universe or Hey Jude or Penny Lane or A Day in the Life. Their best albums for me are the most balanced o

Mr. Bean was all down hill after they shitcanned the Teddy Bear. --Mike