lost highway

This is still in the top 10 most important rock guitar pieces for me. It's up there near Marquee Moon in my book.

It would seem any lengthily political discussion inevitably (necessarily?) veers at some point in to how to have a political discussion. I only hope our tiffs can be instructive.

I have an AC Booster made by xotic effects. It ranges from subtle boost, to substantial overdrive. It can't really do metal, but with the gain up all the way and humbuckers it get's pretty saturated. It has a ton of room to lighten up into shades of dirty/clean gray below that. It has both a bass and a treble knob for eq and preserves mids, and playing dynamics really well. I've been thinking about getting a Freakshow Brown Rabbit, because it seems to be a different beast, and also because I like my Freakshow 2010 boost, and Freakshow Ripple Tremolo, and also because the Wilco guys like

Yet the way you paraphrased it was already a big improvement on the argument. And I agree; no economy is fail safe. Ever.

It's a terrible point. Comparing bankruptcy to slavery could only work in a really good poem, and she's no poet. It's just another paint by number hyperbolic political comment, all she needs is to figure out how to compare the administration's spending to Pearl Harbor, Hitler, and Stalin.

But some of his other lines did.

Thanks for that. I threw on my headphones on the way to work and heard her sing "jjjjegar" (instead of llegar) and went, "I just said she was Chileno that's dumb, she sounds like an Aregentine". "Simple Again" might be one of those songs that makes me wistfully sigh every time I hear it, like when I'm 80 even.

Juana Molina is really cool. I have enjoyed Son quite a bit, I'll have to check out her new one. For those unfamiliar, Molina plays what is technically electronic music, but it sounds pretty organic. There are a lot of tightly wound, tiny sounds, layered densely around her gentle but inscrutable Chileno spanish. Totally unique in my music listening experience.

I actually agree that some level of "warrior play" is going to come out of little boys. My problem is (as the original poster pointed out) all of the media that channels that instinct into an obsession with an unrealistic depiction of war. I really feel that most violence in a PG-13 film is worse because it depicts violence without consequence. It would be better for kids to see a guy get shot and sit there, moan and lose blood while his buddy cries, then to watch a guy get shot and fall away and then he's off camera from there out.

One of my friends told me a tale of his boyhood about this once. He and his buddies were playing imaginary battle games around the house. His dad started asking him why, what was cool about war etc. He was only 10 so he explained that it's cool to shoot the bad guys. His dad (a Nam vet) tried to explain how horrific war is and realized he couldn't find the words. So he sat his kid down and made him watch Apocalypse Now. Basically saying "You see this shit, it's terrifying and awful. Nothing cool about it." My friend said he remembered it being kind of traumatizing but he values the exp

Thunderdome episode IQ off: Hixter vs. PBO! Game on!

If "skewed left" means that you perceive government as serving a role in increasing economic stability, providing a safety net, and at its best increasing the quality of life of its citizens, then yes- a lot of professors are skewed left. A lot of smart people in general.

It's not statistical, but I've heard a few anecdotal pieces from participants on NPR. One person got gouged (a wealthy business owner who's premiums actually went up along with his deductible), and another had some decent savings (a middle class free-lancer who's premiums went down considerably). The thing I'm considering is this: while on the one hand this needs time to shake down, before we can evaluate its many successes and failures; on the other hand this could be but one in a string of health care reforms that could pass in the next few decades. I'm still not done with the single pay

Ugh.

What you're saying is smart and true. (man I suck at trolling)

Is this where the 9/11 jokes come in? Sorry, I don't mean to troll. What you're saying is obviously true. Sometimes it's really easy (satisfying) to take a shit on the symbol of something after the media and politicians have whored it around a bit. At some point the word Benghazi stops sounding like a reference to a real place, or any specific event, and more of a political talking point. If I jest, 'tis merely at that. Or you can take the other road (that you took) and remind people that there's still an authentic root to a conversation that has been corrupted.

Holy crap the new record by Bottomless Pit is amazing. If you've ever heard of Silkworm, it's surviving members of that band. Think Fugazi with subtle pop sensibilities and you're getting close. Kind of some Neil young guitar moments too.

Snuff- fairly obscure English pop punk band with horns. They are pretty good, and are kind of known in circles of people who care about that kind of thing. Seems like the perfect fit. I can say that about most any semi-obscure band that plays music I regard as "fun", without being brilliant or groundbreaking.

Oh no! And I forgot to buy her something. Did you do something special for Benghazi day?

So you don't think that while all the companies are competing to get everyone's required insurance purchase that a company might get more business by offering a lower price? Seems like a fundamental capitalist concept.

No, it is different. Instead of comparing what I think about this band versus your thoughts, it is a comparison of some greater critical consensus versus an individual experience of it. True it is also subjective, but that's what makes it interesting.

That's good info. Thanks for sharing it, it's actually the first first-hand report I've seen other than some doofus on the TV.

I have a feeling that history will give them their due: a high-selling, vanilla, sentimental, arena-folk band.

If anything, this thread proves how critical acclaim can ruin people's ability to hear a band for both better and worse. I had to start ignoring the endless "album of the year" praise for The National's "Boxer" to just hear it for what it is: great. Likewise, as an underground music fan who passed his teenage years in the 90's and my college years in the 00's it took a lot of things to line up for me to actually hear the Stones. I mean really hear them. I had to get past decades of secondary references: my dad's friends wearing their t-shirts, rock criticism, ubiquitous cultural reference

My highest hopes have the ACA as a somewhat helpful change for a percentage of the population who needs it, but my deepest fears imagine a bureaucratic tangle that works poorly. Neither warrant the vitriol from the GOP- as its infighting slowly divides a trench between moderates and nut-jobs. I also feel that in spite of projections, we won't have good enough anecdotal, or data-based evidence on the law to make a clear evaluation for at least a year.