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lost highway

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  1. Both Locator and If I Ever Was a Child have more of a focus than the more dadaist Random Name Generator or More.
  2. So far the strategy of standing back and watching him shoot himself in the foot repeatedly had worked well. So far he's insulted the family of a fallen soldier, a well regarded fire marshal and a baby.
  3. I always thought it was a moon too.
  4. I'm embarrassed to admit how much I enjoy the Counting Crows cover of this.
  5. Yeah, the conversation quickly became obsolete when HRC clearly had more regular delegates anyways. I suppose if the GOP used super delegates they may have sidestepped the whole Trump conundrum. There's no avoiding the fact that both the DNC's super delegates and the GOP's winner take all states are further tempering an already indirect form of democracy. Still, somehow both parties nominated unpopular candidates... it's bizarre. I wont retread it fully, but I'm still vexed that our fellow citizens couldn't sustain an interest in some more balanced candidates on both sides of the aisle.
  6. I'm kind of a skeptic about the old format wars, I like vinyl because it's nostalgic, interactive and mechanical. All of that said Sky, Blue, Sky just sounds better on vinyl. Most notably the bass. I didn't realize how elegant John's playing on that album was until I heard the wax.
  7. Yeah, I think many on here have astutely recognized that a certain core of his supporters haven't wavered in spite of him saying things that disqualify him in an intellectual, moral and leadership capacity. The good news is polling has started to turn. With any luck he peaked at the beginning of July and sanity is prevailing with moderates who don't admire Russia, support out troops, think foreign policy is nuanced, and wouldn't publicly badmouth a fire marshal after he rescues them from a stalled elevator. ** This just in, Clinton just tipped the scales back in her favor in the battlegro
  8. Oh man. Not only are people wrong, but they're interpreting an album they haven't heard.
  9. On that front you are subjectively wrong, but in the overall intention of this thread you are definitevely, objectively incorrect.
  10. I thought Hix was voting for Johnson. At any rate, the guy is a) smart, not insane, and c) right leaning. Most folks who fill all of those categories have been pretty quiet since Drumpf became the nominee.
  11. I also love Draft Morning, sometimes I think Notorious is one of the strongest influences on Wilco's sound.
  12. Was it 3rd Eye Blind that was mercilessly booed for such bold proclamations in Cleveland?
  13. Ah, we're dusting off this old chestnut.
  14. Yeah, I think more people find overdrive pedals more handy, but there's a tool for everything, and really the difference between overdrive and distortion is kind of academic. Really it's a progression with most pedals.
  15. I read this in a thick Scottish brogue, "FOOkin'".
  16. Well there's Reaganomics, Iran-contra, the savings and loan crisis and he ruined the EPA with industry corruption. Don't believe me? Ask the Dead Kennedys! But we digress.
  17. I'm convinced that in an alternate universe, a Sanders presidency would leave his supporters as disillusioned as many Obama supporters felt. I think this is the nature of being president of this country. I also think similar to Obama, Sanders would make changes in the places he could. There has been an ongoing philosophical cliche about the 'lesser of evils' as an unacceptable motive to vote. The more I think about this, the more limited I find the perspective. Every president of the U.S. (at least in the last century, I'm not sharp enough on some of the earlier ones to say) has been directl
  18. I've read more than one article recently that suggested NAFTA was neither the disaster its critics claimed it to be, nor the smashing success its proponents have claimed. I'm no economist, but I found that perspective interesting.
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