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It's rhythm matches uop well with the Jazz tunes of the time that he (Sal) refers to so often throughout, too.

It's true. But hormone-free fast-food meat burrito trumps a McDonalds grease and antibiotic shit burger. The Qdoba/Chipoltle foods may even be better/safer to eat then the local store that buys meats wherever....

Qdoba has queso, a habernero hot sauce, and tortilla soup. The nachos are better, too.

Beer gut and calming eyes?

The thing with On The Road is the cadence of the story. For me, at least. It took me two tries, as well, to appreciate the book. It's obviously regarded as the portal book for the Beats and I think it does a great job of capturing the era in which he writes. I like it as a fairly uncomplicated and simple tale of America/dreams/etc. and for it's commentary on friendships and free-wheeling times. Oh no disappointment at all. We can't all agree on the same books, of course. I find it amusing that one man's treasure is another man's trash. I like that, actually.

Are people listing Beloved because it is a challenging book to decipher/follow or because it genuinely sucks? Just curious. Maybe due to one, the other? I enjoyed it. I can easily see this as the citing of Moby Dick on her by a few people but really, it's generally hailed as one of the greatest American novels ever written.The whaling chapters (where Melville goes into sometimes over-bearing detail about the particulars about whaling) was used as a reference at the time as no one had written much on the industry then. I always thought it was a fun read.

Wow, "hated?" I've read this book 4-5 times and think it's one of the best books I've ever read. The language is rich and the imagery is very well crafteed. To each his own, and all. Love the writing in this book.

I'm with you cryptique. I read it in college (assigned) and the discussions in the literacy group were pretty decent. There's a lot going on in that book and I came to like the style of how she lays the story out. Da Vinci Code was decent for a non-thinking read. The writing is weak but the story was decent. Moby Dick was another college-assigned book that I cam to appreciate with the aid of discussion. I would never have read that monster on my own. I've read it since college, too, and liked it. Confederacy of Dunces I've attempted 3-4 times and can't get into it for whatever reason.

Yikes. Without comment to the lack of clarity/sense/clue in scarnella's posts I think it's cool when a band covers another band's music: like Wilco coverning Judas Priest or Bowie tunes or any other band they sound nothing like normally....

That's a photshop job if I ever saw one as Joe Stalin's been dead for years.

The blue laws around alcohol sales from stores are directly tied to religious beliefs but nobody seems to boycott those M-Sat. Maybe they do, I don't know. In CT they used to stop selling at 8 p.,m., too (I beleive it's 10 p.m. now).

Looks like an awesome time. Wish I had known about this YESTERDAY! I've never eaten food from there but I know a lot of folks like it. At least about 100 of them....

Not sure I really understand this. What do you mean by "pointless" jams? Example? I like bands that can step outside the box and free-form a bit but I can usually sense the context of it. BC's I don't think of as a "jam" band but the tag is there for reasons A-man brought up and their overall feel-good vibe. The term has taken on a broad spectrum of bands much like most terms/categories do eventually. This is great news. Really looking forward to it. They're in Denver in couple weeks and I was on the fence about the show due to other things going on that night, but....

Cheers to you, Bjorn!! :badger :badger :badger

" on 10/31/85 in Columbia, SC, we have the showopening sequence of Funiculi Funicula>Space>Werewolves ofLondon>Music Never Stopped. Those sounds during Space were adownright scary way to open the concert. Weeeeeeeeird…." Always loved this show-opening madness they did this night. The helicopter sounds and all. Very nice "Werewolves" with tons of energy and weird shit/sounds going on throughout it, as well. The "Music" is fantastic, as well. Great, fun stuff.

Steve Earle covering Townes' "To Live Is To Fly" off his new tribute album.

Laminated Cat Outtasite (Outtamind) Handshake Drugs

That really, really shy guy who used to hit for the team? Very quiet, that one.

Sure he does:background. They also duet (vocally) on live versions.

I forget which book/where I read this but supposedly Donna approached Jerry after a JGB show and told him that Keith (too shy to meet Garcia himself and talk) was going to be the GD's new piano/keys guy. Not sure of the next steps in that relationship but evidently he got the try-out this way....

Simon & Garfunkel: "Bridge Over troubled Water."

Ooh, probably my all-time fave: John Prine/Bonnie Raitt: "Angel From Montgomery."

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands in the Stream That David Bowie/Bing Crosby "Little Drummer Boy" is pretty damn creepy, though.

Sorry for losing you most of the night. Glad you had fun too.

Ditto. I don't remeber seeing you though. Were you wearing a tie-dye?