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    Your Top 5 places to go/things to see

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I'll be in Paris from July 22-29 and am looking for your top 5 must sees..I've been to Paris before so I've done the big things (Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, etc) but it's been awhile so I'm willing to revisit anything worthwhile. Any suggestions?? I've got to fit it all in in 5 days!

     

    I'll also be spending one day in Amsterdam before flying home (no flights available out of Paris so we have to take the train to Amsterdam and fly out from there) so if you have any strong opinions on what I should see that one precious day then lemme have it!

    Pitchfork...who's going....

    in Someone Else's Song

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    i'll be there saturday and sunday

     

    for those who havent heard, there is a free concert tonight at pritzker pavillion in millenium park called "Music Without Borders: Pitchfork Music Festival Preview Night". Fleet Foxes, Extra Golden, A Hawk and A Hacksaw, and Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar will be playing. well worth it especially since it's free! i'd go if i wasnt sick as a dog right now.. :( im saving my energy for this weekend

     

    if anyone ends up going, be sure to report back!

     

    info here

    The Photography Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    So I am not in any way shape or form a photographer. I have a Canon PowerShot SD 700 IS ... a point and shoot. I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers on getting better pictures in dark venues. Most the time, I just try to hold the camera still for long exposures but they just come out looking like impressionist paintings. Ha! Is there anything I can do short of getting a better camera, learning about photography and/or hauling around a tripod?

    It just takes a lot of toying with--and sometimes a lot of luck as well. The lighting at a show can really make or break your photos. All the Wilco photos on the first page of my flickr were taken with a Canon PowerShot SD870 IS (not much different from yours if the numbers indicate anything..I'm not really sure). I played around with the Manual settings to start...upped the ISO, angled the camera so it focused on a spotlight, or at least included a light in the background of the photo somewhere, which then gave it a higher shutter speed and thus sharper results. Another trick is to focus first on a brighter area on the stage, hold down the shutter half way so it focuses and holds that light information, and then return the camera to your subject and push the shutter the rest of the way. Sometimes this can backfire and get you really dark photos, but sometimes it works out. I also tried using the "Indoor" setting and the "Night Snapshot" setting...took the flash off on both and again played around until I came out with some somewhat decent pictures.

     

    In the end it's about knowing how your camera works and what little tricks you can pull with it...every camera is different in how it captures/reacts to light. Just use it a lot and see what you can come up with. Good luck!

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Oh, and the collar around the polar bear skeleton that Charlotte found in Tunisia? That was most likely because the polar bears were once used to turn the wheel so that THEY would be banished instead of a human. Hence the bear remains in the middle of the desert.

    huh. that's pretty good.

    Yahoo 25 bands of the 90's

    in Someone Else's Song

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    The 25 Best Alternative Rock Bands Of The 1990s

    Posted Tue Jun 3 12:54pm PDT by Rob O'Connor in List Of The Day

    With Weezer out with a new album, it reminded us here at List Of the Day (actually it's just me, but I talk to myself enough to engage the plural) that there were other bands that also existed in the 1990s. And most of them, regardless of what they sounded like, got marketed as "indie" (even if on a major label), alternative (even if they sounded like the Eagles with distortion pedals), or punk (grab a safety pin and say "Oi!").

     

    Were Pearl Jam or Stone Temple Pilots or Nine Inch Nails really alternative groups back in the 1990s? I suppose Trent Reznor was scratching out a new sound, and Pearl Jam may have sounded like Blood, Sweat and Tears on "the clear" but their business practices and general outlook on life once they'd sold 10 million copies of their first album was pretty much a "leave us be" kind of approach. Hole were terrible. Rancid sounded like the Clash, but much worse. Bad Religion somehow got popular. And Fugazi made dull records but managed to put their Marxist anti-consumerist values to the test and stayed true to their ideals until the end. Bravo for that.

     

    This time around I decided to really mess with you. That's right. I put SOLO ACTS on the list. Because even the best solo performers hire someone to play behind them. And while I still compromised the list a tad to include bands that sold a few records here--I mean, Beck was a hero to most, but he always seemed a little forced to me--I did manage to put some of my personal faves way higher on the list than any other listening human would. I did Nirvana the favor of keeping them in the Top 10 out of pure crass cynicism. And Smashing Pumpkins were ignored because they're not alternative, they're Queen.

     

    I also short-changed the British big time. (Belle & Sebastian are Scottish.) Somehow, it seems like they should have their own list someday, a place where Pulp and Blur and Oasis can duke it out without a bunch of loudmouth Americans getting in the way.

     

    I had over 75 bands on this initial list and everyone included had to start in the first half of the 1990s to qualify. While cutting L7 was easy, trashing the unforgivable Goo Goo Dolls was natural, and losing Radiohead made me chuckle (oh, the hatemail), seeing the dude from Palace sent to the scrapheap made me a little sad until I realized, some day there will be an alt.country list that I can sneak him and Richard Buckner onto! But until then, we'll stick with this crap. (And for those wondering, the Yo La Tengo snub was deliberate, too. I love plenty of dull, sleepy music, but not from Hoboken.)

     

    25) Sebadoh: By acting like he didn't care and singing as if he had a cold, Lou Barlow made sloppy half-assed albums that always included a couple of heart-tugging tunes that made girls weep and boys think to themselves "I gotta try that." That's right kids, even the losers get lucky sometimes!

     

    24) Dinosaur Jr.: From the band that gave us Lou Barlow and Sebadoh, number 25 on this list (just look above you), Dinosaur Jr. became the ruling party for J. Mascis whose idea of a good time is making everyone in his audience completely deaf. He has essentially written the same three or four songs over and over and done so with just enough skill to make it seem irrelevant. As long as you like the songs he writes, who cares about diversity or variety. Just sit around and play video games and pretend your life isn't going down the toilet. Works for me.

     

    23) Sonic Youth: The band that wouldn't die. No one can kill these guys. They will be making albums long after the rest of us are locked up in retirement communities or buried in landfills. And they will continue to do so without ever properly tuning their guitars. They will continue to spout abstract poetry and fans will argue over what moves were "too rock," "too commercial," "too experimental" and "too over with." Each new generation will like them for three to five albums and eventually move on to breed children and attend soccer games much to their inner horror.

     

    22) Pavement: By acting smarter than everyone else, they became smarter than everyone else. And by having friends in the music business who liked to tell everyone how smart they were, it became fact. To me? The Tom Petty of Alternative Rock. A couple of nice tunes per album with a bunch of filler that only the diehards need to understand. The rest of us can go shopping for furniture.

     

    21) Flaming Lips: Ambitious young scamps whose workaholic ways guaranteed them a staying power no one expected when the Lips first burst on the scene in the mid-

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Did anyone notice that after the helicopter crash, there is a close-up of Jack on the raft saying "it's okay, we're alive"? In that close-up, it looks like it was filmed separately leading me to believe it was added in afterwards to specifically have someone say "we're alive." Significant?

    yeah, i was thinking about that "they're all actually dead" theory when he said that..

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    okay. some afterthoughts:

     

    does sun help whidmore kill locke? does whidmore develop a desire for locke as he had for ben once he becomes the "leader" of the island?

     

    also, i think ben is full of shit. he can (and will) get back to the island...he probably just needs jack and friends to do so..

     

    whoa. wait a second. new thought: locke's "death" is a set up by him and ben to get the oceanic 6 back to the island

     

     

     

    okay, im just going to stop now. man i really hate waiting between seasons. this is going to be torture.

    GOD DAMN THAT FINALE WAS SO GOOD okay now im done

    who has better coffee?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    i have yet to drink coffee. ive seen it drain so many people's pockets--it really is an incredibly expensive habit. i'd rather spend the money on cd's and concert tickets... that, and i know that some day soon in my college career, when my procrastination has hit its limit and i'm up against a wall, i have something that will be guaranteed to keep me up for 48 hours straight ;)

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    huh. interesting, i hadnt quite placed things in that order but i guess i can see it. also, totally forgot about those old flash forwards where jack's lost it. its good to see all that stuff in one place, it helps a little bit

     

    I had a dream the other night of the season finale. My memories are a little vague, but all the conflict on the island is interrupted when a godzilla like creature surfaces from the ocean (it looked like it might be [partly?] robotic). Ben saves everybody by teleporting everybody to India, but Jack and Juliet return to confront the monster. Juliet seems to have some psychic connection with the beast. Jack kills the godzilla look-alike by tossing dynamite from the Black Rock into its mouth. This causes Juliet to lose her mind. I guess that's the cliffhanger.

     

    Sorry if I spoiled anything.

    :lol awesome. damn, you have pretty coherent dreams

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Nitpick - wouldn't Sun's doctor know, from the D.O.C., that her baby was conceived on the island? And if Jin didn't survive the plane crash, wouldn't people be wondering what the hell that was about?

    i was thinking the same thing...same goes for "kate's baby"..i felt like that reporter was out to get her, but he didnt end up exposing anyone/anything..

     

    i was a little frustrated with the miscommunication with people getting on/off the island....if a raft full of people show up at the boat saying they had to get off the island in a hurry, why on earth would desmond's first thought be to take the freighter to the island? dumb dumb dumb

     

    also, that shot with faraday in that little raft heading out into the big big ocean along with that music playing behind it (not to mention his oh so enthusiastic wave back at the boat as he drove away)....seemed a little gloomy to me. could be a red herring but my first thought was that he wasnt gonna make the trip

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    i dont get the deal with locke's knife near the beginning when he's talking to alpert. is the point that everything in his life is predetermined, so he just can sense that at one point he'll own all those things? or that it has already happened and this is about the time traveling properties of the island?

    Lost

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    so that means jack's been dead since the beginning? hmm. what about hurley, have we seen anything that leads us to believe he "died" at some point on the island? he saw jacob's cabin after charlie's death (which had christian sheppard in the rocking chair) but i dont think anything life threatening had actually happened to hurley before that...he first sees charlie after his car crash that ends his high speed chase, but this is not on the island..

     

    i dont know, i see that theory working, but some loose ends need to be tied up i think..has locke been dead the whole time too? is he only dead after ben shoots him? can people not get sick on the island because they're already dead? ack.

     

    this show drives me crazy

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