Lammycat

Don't get too attached to your manager, Trot.

This is a very good show and one I go back to often. I do enjoy Vince's sax licks on the keys but always perferred garcia's deeper tone with the midi effects for sax in Dark Stars, Eyes', etc.

Yeah, too young. And he always came across as a decent and sincere guy.

I'm not subscribing just to read this, but his Wikipedia site has been updated! Apparently he was giving an interview when he went out.

Oh, and It's a Wonderful Life still gets me, even though I've seen it probably 30 times. The toast from his brother at the end, in particular.

I remember there were a few scenes in Kramer vs. Kramer that were pretty heavy and sad. Also, after the kid from Pay it Forward gets shanked and all those folks with the candles was kind of sad. And I agree on the Field of Dreams scene when his dad comes back for a catch. Man. While not a movie, I always get misty-eyed when I see that clip of Jim Valvano giving the "don't ever give up" speech, too.

MattZ mentioned it's impossible to report "news" wiothout a slant and I agree. This is probably the biggest hinderance to getting any semblance of fact from what you read in the daily or hear on the news. The key problem being that the slant not only comes from the network/reporter/paper but from the initial source. The majority of what finally gets to the press is a watered-down sugar-coated dab of reality.

Walter Cronkite didn't have the inside scoop on politics either. He just reported what he was told to report.

Yes, but it is because it's what the general public wants or because it's what it's being served?

I'm not so sure that it isn't the other way around. Hear me out: Do we really know that it's what the people want, or do the people think they want it just because that's what they are being fed? Has anybody polled the people and asked the people what they want? My claim is that people take and adapt to what they are given. It becomes a slippery slope and one where the lines are blurred by what a perceived "want" is, merely because that's what is assumed they want. Anyway, the majority of political news is watered down bunk from the truth anyway, regardless of the source/reporting.

Brian's Song wasn't very funny.

The kid at the very end of Groundhog Day got to me for some reason ("God bless us everyone") when I saw it in the theatre, and then they busted into that tune about the world being a better place - for you, and me, etc. I might have been drunk, though.

Yep. :badger

Is this the Dogbowl of King Missile notoriety?

I've got a sweet mash-up of Mmm-Bop v. In My Life (Beatles). Sweet, I say.

"This is where white people come from." I listened to again it on the way to work a little while ago. It was the last night of a tour that was kind of difficult, I suppose. It's actually a decent version regardless of the taunting of the audience. I like those older versions where they kick it into high gear towards the end of the tune in double-/triple-time and JT's screaming.

Spring of 1997, specifically the "Kingpin" from 4-13-97. He tells the audience to "come up and get him," as well.

Jeff threatened a dude in the crowd ("I'll get you after the show" sic, or something similar). Also told the crowd it was the "worst tour of our lives," sic, and bemoaned Englanders as snotty, etc. Good times.

BTW, there's a very nice documentary this month on Mantle if you anyone gets "On Demand."

Mantle and Mays are really very evenly matched, especially considering they played in the same time frame (for the most part- Mays outlasted him). A case can be made for either if you compare actual years-really see-saw back and forth starting in 1951. It's been said that Mantle's three best seasons ('56, '57, and '61) were better than Mays' best season (1965). Mays was overall better than Mantle (had consistantly better seasons than Mantle) during the time span, though. Also, Mays could still play and contribute in his final years compared to Mantle, who became a shell of his former self du

"Attics of My Life"- GDead

I'd go Mays and probably even Cobb before Mantle, overall.

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