boywiththorninside
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"Somebody Made For Me" by Emitt Rhodes - 2:25
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" by The Walker Brothers - 3:03
"Walk Away Renee" - The Left Banke - 2:43 or "Pretty Ballerina" - The Left Banke - 2:38
"I Want You Back" - The Jackson 5 - 3:03
"You are the Light" - Jens Lekman - 3:23
"Cemetry Gates" - The Smiths - 2:41 or "This Charming Man" - The Smiths -2:44
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I usually don't go too nuts about these lists, but I'm surprised "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" wasn't higher. I like that album a lot less than most, but I've always looked at it as the indie rock album.
Also, I would have liked to see YHF placed higher.
Like was said earlier though, regardless of what is ranked where, there is a lot of good music on this list.
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What are the Red Sox offering? 3 years?
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Unbelievable. Where are they getting this from? I just tuned in. Is it for 10 yrs?
WFAN is reporting 10 years/$275 million. I don't know where they are getting the numbers from.
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Mike/Dog are saying its a done deal. Wow. Did I hear $27MM?
Yeah, they said $27 Million per year.
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Official statement:
http://arod.mlb.com/players/rodriguez_alex...sp?story=111407
Looks like Boras gets tossed under the bus?
Apparently, Bernie Williams did the same thing in 1998. Just when it looked certain he was going to Boston or elsewhere, Bernie told Boras to screw off and went to Steinbrenner on his own to work out a deal to remain in NY.
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Mike and the Mad Dog just read an official statement from A-Rod confirming that he did reach out to the Yankees and that he met with the Steinbrenners today. He made no mention of Boras.
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I got this off of a blog, so I don't have a direct link, but this is Blender's list of 100 Greatest Indie-Rock albums. Enjoy.
100 The Shaggs - Philosophy Of The World
99 Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine And Roses
98 Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
97 The Mekons - Rock 'N' Roll
96 TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
95 The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
94 Half Japanese - Greatest Hits
93 Big Black - Atomizer
92 Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
91 The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
90 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
89 Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
88 Daniel Johnston - Yip/Jump Music
87 Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
86 Flipper - Album - Generic Flipper
85 The Clean - Anthology
84 Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
83 The Misfits - Walk Among Us
82 The Embarrassment - Heyday 1979-83
81 The Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines
80 Feist - The Reminder
79 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
78 The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators
77 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
76 Le Tigre - Le Tigre
75 Galaxie 500 - Today
74 The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
73 Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
72 The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
71 Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm
70 Mudhoney - Superfruzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles
69 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
68 Descendents - Milo Goes To College
67 H
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The original video is disabled so I couldn't watch it and I don't know what Sigur Ros actually said about "selling out."
Is this selling out?
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That's what I love about A-Rod. He's always thinking about others.
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This article blew my mind, man. Everything you thought you knew about A-Rod opting out is wrong. Here's the real deal:
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We have a cult about that here. Someday, we are going to build the set and re-enact the movie.
Isn't that new Will Smith movie "I Am Legend" the same story as "Omega Man?"
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Speaking of 1984, or more generally, the 80's, I wonder if I could find one of these:
If I could get my hands on one of these and manage to get service for it, I'm sure I could start an ironic, hipster trend. I've followed plenty, but I have never been able to start one of my own. I think this is my chance to shine and get a star on the Williamsburg Walk of Fame.
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1) Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
2) Various Artists - Four Songs by Arthur Russell
3) Justice - Cross
4) David Vandervelde - Moonstation House Band
5) White Williams - Smoke
Also, I liked Sound of Silver and parts of Person Pitch. I wish I liked Sky Blue Sky more. There are some good songs there, but it just never managed to hold my interest.
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I needed my cell phone twice in emergency situations - 9/11 and the 2003 Blackout. Both times it didn't work - network overload. I still have one, but never carry it except if I'm traveling (and even then I rarely use it). I will admit I couldn't live without an iPod.
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From Philip Roth's latest, Exit Ghost:
"What surprised me most my first few days walking around the city? The most obvious thing-the cell phones. We had no reception as yet up on my mountain, and down in Athena, where they do have it, I'd rarely see people striding the streets talking uninhibitedly into their phones. I remembered a New York when the only people walking up Broadway seemingly talking to themselves were crazy. What had happened in these ten years for there suddenly to be so much to say--so much pressing that it couldn't wait to be said? Everywhere I walked, somebody was approaching me talking on a phone. Inside the cars, the drivers were on phones. When I took a taxi, the cabbie was on the phone. For one who frequently went without talking to anyone for days at a time, I had to wonder what that had previously held them up had collapsed in people to make incessant talking into a telephone preferable to walking about under no one's surveillance, momentarily solitary, assimilating the streets through one's animal senses and thinking the myriad thoughts that the activities of a city inspire. For me it made the streets appear comic and the people ridiculous. And yet it seemed like a real tragedy, too. To eradicate the experience of separation must inevitably have a dramatic effect. What will the consequences be? You know you can reach the other person anytime, and if you can't, you get impatient--impatient and angry like a stupid little god. I understood that background silence had long been abolished from restaurants, elevators, and ballparks, but that the immense loneliness of human beings should produce this boundless longing to be heard, and the accompanying disregard for being overheard--well, having lived largely in the era of the telephone booth, whose substantial folding doors could be tightly pulled shut, I was impressed by the conspicuousness of it all and found myself entertaining the idea for a story in which Manhattan has turned into a sinister collectivity where everyone is spying on everyone else, everyone being tracked by the person at the other end of his or her phone, even though, incessantly dialing one another from wherever they like in the great out of doors, the telephoners believe themselves to be experiencing the maximum freedom. I knew that merely by thinking up such a scenario I was at one with all the cranks who imagined, from the beginnings of industrialization, that the machine was the enemy of life. Still, I could not help it: I did not see how anyone could believe he was continuing to live a human existence by walking about talking into a phone for half his waking life. No, those gadgets did not promise to be a boon to promoting reflection among the general public." (pages 62-64)
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UConn's basketball team is unranked and yet their football team (they have a football team?) is ranked #13 this week. I am a confused alum.
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Charlie Weis told Mike Francesa that Notre Dame is going to be very good next year and scary good in two years. Weis said nobody is going to want to play ND in two years. We'll just have to see.
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When is Joe Biden going to be cancelled? It seems to be a habit of his to make racially insensitive/ignorant remarks and yet he never seems to suffer for it:
"Biden also stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city's high minority population...Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others -- in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District. "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with," Biden said."
Biden - Washington Post interview
So, Iowa's schools perform better than DC's because they have fewer Blacks? That's basically what Biden said, right? Good God. I guess Joe Biden and James Watson share some of the same views. Personally, I gave Biden a pass on the Obama is "clean" and "articulate" remarks, but eventually there is a cumulative effect. Taken all together, these remarks make you begin to wonder how Biden really feels about Blacks. It also makes me wonder why he isn't taken to task. Dog got what he deserved, but he's a freakin' TV personality. His influence is pretty limited and his views could be contained by market forces - if he wasn't fired, a lot of people probably would not have watched his show anymore. Whereas Biden is a US Senator. A policy maker. A man of real influence. And yet there is no consequence for what he says. Crazy, to me anyway.
Sorry if this was a threadjack, but I thought it was somewhat related. And, again, so there is no misunderstanding: Dog deserved to be fired.
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I should have known better, but I thought this had potential.
feist - like or no?
in Someone Else's Song
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I prefer Let It Die too. Even before the commercial/SNL, etc., I never listened to the new one much.