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Lots, mostly because of other commitments or not wanting to fork over the $$. Recently Ben Folds just last week, Andrew Bird, Wilco (in West Des Moines, just a month after I saw them in Chicago), on and on...

Listening to it right now, it's great!

W. meh. A few good scenes. My favorite moment was Rumsfeld eating Pecan Pie. While I don't doubt that Cheney feels the way he was portrayed in the "empire" speech, but I don't think he would've given it a room that included Powell.

Guilty pleasure. I love Renegade.

Gish was excellent, Siamese Dream was darned good, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness had some decent songs but was overblown. That was almost 15 years ago. I wonder what would've become of them had they not reached arena-rock god status. My guess is they'd still be putting out some great music. Did anyone else like the Zwan CD?

Can't find it on the Onion's Homepage, but on Facebook, I got this: Perfect! Somehow, I think Obama read this on his Blackberry and laughed his ass off...

Look at how Animal "watches" Buddy in amazement at the end! Some great guest musicians on Sesame St. linked here.

Mother - John Lennon Too Far Down - Husker Du

I'm not sure if this counts as a surprisingly good concert, but I found a surprisingly good jazz guitarist, Mark Whitfield, playing with Cyrus Chestnut. Chestnut was doing an Xmas tour about 7 years ago of mostly Guaraldi Peanuts music. Whitfield was phenomenal. I bought a CD that was underwhelming and he doesn't seem to be doing much noteworthy now.

I'm pretty sure they could cover anything and do it MORE than justice. Maybe even "Revolution 9". That's a band I don't listen to nearly enough.

I like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and, for modern blues, Robert Cray.

From today's Wall Street Journal. Link might not work unless you're a subscriber. Let me know. It's a good defense of Stewart's POV. Meanwhile, NBC Exec Jeffrey Zucker defends CNBC against Stewart. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see one specific refutation of what Stewart has said.

I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg as water shortages lead to real problems out west. Tens of millions of people have upped and moved to the desert in the past few decades. How many of them do you think seriously considered the ramifications on the water supply when they did so?

I liked Friedman's column this morning:

Taking a practical approach, which seems more likely? The billions of religious people around the world will see the error of their ways and join in a secular brave new world or the embrace an ecumenical approach that means treating all people -- religious or not -- equally. Granted, neither seems likely anytime soon. Maker, you must not know too many people who have done charitable deeds inspired by their faith. If so, you would know just how hollow, "a superfluous element that effective bribes otherwise selfish folks into dong selfless deeds..." is.

Speaking of actively hating, I saw a metal band called Balaam and the Angel open for Iggy at the Metro in Chicago in 1988. At first I thought they were there only to piss off the crowd to work them into the kind of frenzy that Iggy would want, but the Wikipedia article says they were label mates back then. I can almost guarantee the only records they sold to Iggy audience members were purchased out of irony.

What's this "independent music store" you speak of?

I'm glad I can say I saw him, but I had the same experience. His backing band was great a traditional 12-bar blues, but his great boogie woogie style was totally lost behind that band. Boom Boom sounded much more like the Yardbirds cover than his version. I saw Bo Diddley around the same time and even though I wasn't as familiar with his catalog (just his beat) his show BURNED.

I watched this last night. Parts were very entertaining, parts silly. I don't think he's going to change anybody's mind with this movie. He's awfully smug for someone who claims not to be certain. I thought the interview with the British Muslim rapper was interesting. He just didn't get his desire to censor Salman Rushdie while assertively fighting for his freedom of expression is hypocritical. I also like the interview with the skeptic (who I think was a priest) outside the Vatican. His conclusion would have been much more convincing if he had acknowledged any of the good people have d

Let's hope another source pops up, sound quality pretty much stinks. I do like Bob's take on Sitting Still.

Or pooped his pants.