lost highway

Got my vinyl. It sounds great. The only thing I loved design wise (other than the thrift-store cat cover) is how when you open the gatefold the big picture of the band looks like they're recording together live at the loft. Further inspection reveals it is an artfully done collage with each of them captured separately. I believe this is a visual metaphor for how the album was made.

So wait... you don't care about statistics, or you're interested in critiquing them at great length?

I have veered from blatantly anti-gun, to being somewhat of a sympathizer who is still in favor of some serious reform. I find the self-defense argument to be the worst reason. You can't really sideline the "gunslinger fantasy" and then talk "good guy with a gun" in the same breath. Talk about freedom, better still talk about recreation, talk about the biological need for hunting- these are seasonal uses, not hypothetical. Self-defense is the most far-fetched purpose a firearm in your home could have. The statistics don't support the horribly infrequent success of this, in contrast with

Pretty hilarious.

This Dems debate is interesting. Webb reminds me a little of vintage McCain: a chest beating moderate. Chaffee is done. Sanders and Clinton both drawing applause and getting jabs in, in good turn.

A Marc Maron Jeff interview would be amazing!

I still have my Traynor YBA3-Custom Head. Not that it's lost, but just to share Traynor love. It's my main amp, even over a Marshall JCM800.

With someone new to replace them, and as you like to point out, another gun. You have to combat poverty, it's the biggest cause of violence in our country.

Do you know what causes gangs? Do you think police and prisons will make gangs go away? You're a smart person, I won't lecture you on the effect of socio-economic class. Take the ecological model of human development: Fill in each of the blanks for someone who's born and raised in the ghetto. That's where gang members come from.

You can't prevent it. The goal is to radically reduce it. Think like a technocrat not an idealogue.

Well if we can't compare two countries because they are different, then what should we do? Only compare things that are exactly the same? While admittedly the cultural context around gun usage is different in every country, we have no choice but to look at the dynamics. The most important observable dynamic in gun measures is change. Where were they before, and how did they change. While we can't expect our outcomes, or circumstances to be exactly the same, we can, look at commonalities between measures nations have taken, that have proven their efficacy statistically. This is a lot h

Gibson basses aren't all that common compared to their 6 strings.

New record plus a few shorter tours is my vote.

Yeah, data. That's often sorely missing from this conversation. Thanks.

You create a financial incentive for them to do so. Buy-back programs as the carrot, severe legal penalties (and confiscation) as the stick. This won't end death-by-handgun, but it would over time severely reduce the presence and use of the weapons. To use the popular, child-like language favored by the lobbyists, most of the "bad guys with a gun" are holding a gun that probably once belonged to a normal guy. When all of the normal guys are cashing in their now illegal handguns there are a lot less handguns on the black market, and they become more costly. It's not perfect, but it's some

Handguns are shitty for hunting, easier to conceal, harder to fire accurately... why not become a rifle only nation?

I'll admit that 'common sense' measures are neither cheap nor fool-proof if you'll admit you have a cognitive predisposition to attack any gun control measure. Like the energy discussion this situation has become oversimplified to a polarity. Fact is, America has a problem with this stuff that is incomparable to anyone neighboring us in the Human Development Index. This is coupled with a compulsive fear of doing anything about it that is stoked by a faction of the government coupled with a rich lobby that has made many on its side into fanatics. We could never (and shouldn't ever) take 'a

Aw guys, can't we get pissed that either a. Everyone still has stupid guns, or b. Everyone thinks they should take my stupid guns away, without getting pissed at each other? I would like to melt your guns down to make a bicycle. Does that make me a bad person? But seriously, I think the analogy between red tape on a car to possible gun measures is somewhat apt. If you measure the utility to danger ratio it about evens out with guns being much less useful and cars being responsible for many more deaths. Why not treat firearms as an optional risk that indebts the owner to certain routine o

It's a tough question because this album is arguably more 'of a whole' than anything they've ever done. There's not as much of a stretch between 'The Joke Explained' and 'Magnetized' as there is between 'Rising Red Lung' and 'Art of Almost', or even between 'Company In My Back' and 'I'm a Wheel'. I feel like its easier to guess the ones that will stay on heavy rotation in a couple years: 'Random Name Generator', 'More', and probably the unsinkable due of 'Cold Slope' and 'King of You' because a band always loves two songs that work well together in a setlist to keep the energy of a show mov

Yeah, Mike. We're in a rock trio together called Hooper.

Never heard of Coda. I'll have to check them out.

My bass player/buddy just bought a place at 36th and Newport!

The republican representative from Kansas who spoke with npr today said Boehner had been harder on conservatives than Democrats, and it was time for thinking of the future with a true conservative.

Oof!

Check out De Steeg! Also, Crooked Stave is all sours. This is assuming you're doing little micros and won't be busy driving around to New Belgium, Odells etc.