boywiththorninside
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One thing that's very wrong about this country is that we still can't seem to support a top-flight professional soccer league, nor field a men's World Cup team with more than a long-shot chance at winning.
I agree.
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I'm curious why you think Obama is not ready? I relate corruption to experience in washington.
Yeah, I tend to see Obama's not being in DC long as a virtue.
I'm pretty certain he could handle the job just as well, or better, than Hillary. But that's just me. I've been wrong about politicians before.
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Miles Davis- front row, Clowes Hall 1987
I know 1987 is not 1959, but damn. Front row too. I bet he played "Human Nature."
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Did he just cut down that tree he's sitting on? Freakin hypocrite. Way to release more CO2.
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God forbid there is a thread that doesn't turn into an argument about the existence of god.
If there is no God, how can he/she/it forbid?
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The Beatles - August 29, 1966 - San Francisco Candlestick Park: That's right. The Fab's last show ever. Was I there? No. I wasn't even born for another ten years or so.
Really, I got nothing. Just a bunch of middle of tour shows from some long running and still active moderately popular bands. I enjoyed the majority of them, but none would inspire envy. Your lists are pretty impressive though. Wilco's first show, early Tupelo, Elliott Smith at Maxwells. I'm impressed.
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How is global warning political? Well, to effect real change will likely require government regulation of both industry and individual lives. Additionally, there are (believe it or not) conflicting views on the issue, and, as usually happens these days, these opposing sides often treat each other with derision. E.G. - My scientists are more credible, you don't believe in global warming but you believe in God, hah!, Al Gore flies in private jets!, Lear jet liberals!, etc., etc.
This might not be a text book definition, but the way I see it: potential government involvement + contempt for opposing views/name calling = a political issue
There was a recent court case in England about "An Inconvenient Truth" which was based almost solely on the fact that global warming is seen as a political issue. The individual who brought the suit did not want his children to be - his words - "indoctrinated by (Gore's) political spin."
Sadly, I do think the issue is political. I wish it wasn't.
How is private citizen Al political? I think the fact that Al's clout as spokesman for global warming is derived from his being a former Senator, VP, and winner of the popular Presidential election makes him, and everything he now does, political. We don't listen to Al because he's regular old Al from Tennessee, we listen to Al because of the political resume' I laid out. Right or wrong, once a politician, always a politician.
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All things considered, he sounds absolutely fantastic.
You're right.
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I like the Earth plenty. Although I live in a city, whenever I get the chance, I like to take walks in the woods and just take it all in. I'm obsessive about recycling. I religiously seperate my paper, my glass, and my plastics. Nothing goes in the trash that shouldn't. Because I live in New York, I don't drive an automobile. Public transporation for me. No unnecessary gas consumption here. When I go food shopping I take a canvas bag, emblazoned with the words "The Nature Conservancy - Saving the Last Great Places," with me so that I won't have to use the store-supplied plastic bags. I got "The Nature Conservancy" bag as a result of contributing money to their organization, as I sometimes do. I'd like to think I've got some environmental bona fides. However, despite these bona fides, I just can't jump on the Gore-led global warming bandwagon. I'm sorry, I just can't do it. Remember the 1980's? Remember acid rain!? My elementary school years were ruined by the fact that acid rain was going to render much of the world inhabitable. Well, twenty years later, it hasn't happened. Why not? Was it just hysteria? Or did we make the necessary changes to combat acid rain? I don't know, but I do get the feeling with all of the talk of global warming, that I have seen it all before. In the 1970's, it was litter. In the 1980's, it was acid rain. Today, it's global warming.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for taking care of the Earth. I try to do my part, and would encourage everybody to do the same. To me, this is just common sense. Nonetheless, there is just something about the global warming movement that strikes me as, well, almost faddist. I don't mean to attack or offend anyone by saying this, but it's just how I see it. I guess I'm also a bit uncomfortable that the issue has become, in a way, political. I mean, if you question any bit of Gore's argument, you're part of the right-wing, science-hating, lie machine. This makes me queasy. If any issue should be above politics, it's the environment.
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Anyone hear Sugar in some commercial of late?
LouieB
I've also heard the Clash's version of "Pressure Drop" in some ad recently. I think it's for a car.
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I picked this link up off of expectingrain. Kind of sad to hear his voice as it now is, but I'm just glad he made it through.
He's going to be on CBS Sunday Morning tomorrow at 9:00.
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I like them in small doses.
I never listened to the last album in full, but I thought "You're the One" was pretty great.
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The Beatles/1962 - 1966 (The Red Album)
The first bit of recorded music I remember ever hearing. The first bit of recorded music I ever remember loving. "Girl" and "Yellow Submarine" were the songs that, for whatever reason, resonated most.
The Beatles/1967 - 1970 (The Blue Album)
Years after hearing 1962 - 1966, and after years of listening to all the crap I heard on the radio and MTV, I bought this cassette. This led to me buying all of the American Beatle albums and basically set me on the course of listening to good music.
A Tribe Called Quest/The Low End Theory
Broadened my horizons.
John Coltrane/The Gentle Side of John Coltrane
Miles Davis/Kind of Blue
Sonny Rollins/The Bridge
Bought these all on the same day. Digested it all at the same time. Again, broadened my horizons.
Wilco/Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
After years of listening to almost nothing but jazz, this brought me back to where I began with the Beatles - intelligent, honest and melodic rock. Unfortunately, this album also got me into reading Pitchfork and led to a phase of trying to chase every flavor of the month band/album down. I'd like to think I'm past that.
Bob Dylan/Blood on the Tracks
I'd listened to Bob before. I always respected Bob. This got me absolutely hooked on Bob. This album (and Bob in general) also led me back to listening to artists like Waits, Cohen, Young, Reed, etc., etc.
I'm leaving so many artists/records off that I love, but I really wanted to limit myself to the albums that sent me in new musical directions. If these albums are not, in fact, my favorites, they certainly enabled me to discover my favorites.
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Van derserves more credit than he's got for the career he put together. Just because he has a long career doesnt mean he gets the credit that he deserves.
I agree with this. I think too many people reduce Van to "Brown-Eyed Girl" and "Moondance." As you've pointed out, there is so much more to him than that. He has, I'll say it again, a huge body of work - much of which is often overlooked. If not underrated, I think he's generally underappreciated.
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You read my mind. After seeing the recent Kinks thread, I thought Van Morrison was deserving of a similar one. Based on his body of work, I think he's kind of underrated and that he doesn't get spoken of enough. Anyway, yes, I like him. All the big ones - Moondance, Astral Weeks, Tupelo Honey - are great. I'd like to chose something more obscure, but my two favorite songs of his are probably "Crazy Love" and "Sweet Thing." In terms of my appreciation of him, it also doesn't hurt that he's Irish.
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i heard the news on NPR this morning about Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace prize and a political pundit managed to say in his own words that Al's Oscar is equally as important as his latest achievement of the Nobel. really, an oscar the same as a nobel. ahhh, the media.
with that said, congratulations to Al Gore for winning/sharing the Nobel Peace prize today!
I'd rather win an Oscar than a Nobel Prize.
Oscar winners: Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, etc., etc.
Nobel winners: Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger
'nuff said, for me anyway.
Nonetheless, congrats to Al. He doesn't have to choose, he's got both.
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I don't really care for "One After 909", considering its from their later era.
It was written, I think, in 1962. Early on, anyway.
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I don't, but people seem to hate "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da."
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Don't Let Me Down
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Note: I'm not trying to mock or promote anything here. I just found it interesting to come across these two links/articles today. Brosius' recollection of the Christian influence on the '98 Yankees was news to me. My main memory of that team off the field is Jeter, Posada, Knoblauch and Shane Spencer having a run of the Manhattan clubs. I guess Brosius, Pettite and Chad Curtis had more influence on the team than I ever knew. Also, I know almost nothing about the Rockies, so this article was also news to me. I haven't been to church in awhile, but, if the Rockies win the whole thing, I'm going back. Also, I'd suggest the Yankees follow suit.
Batting for Jesus - The Rockies
"The team doesn't like to talk about it much
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Godrich has also produced Air and Paul McCartney.
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I listen to them.
Is your recent roar Darjeeling related? I will admit to breaking out "Lola v. Powerman" as a result of viewing that film. However, even prior to that, I was listening to "Village Green" a lot recently.
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That's interesting to see. I wonder if she consulted on the film or something.
2007 has been a stinker for indie rock
in Someone Else's Song
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That's a long list and I'd add Jens Lekman (my favorite of 2007) to it. However, I've definitely been down on a lot of the new stuff. More and more recently, instead of some new thing, I've found myself listening to a lot of (old) jazz and the tried and true: classic era Stones, the Kinks, Velvet Underground, Scott Walker, etc. I don't think I'm a lazy listener. The new stuff just isn't moving me in the same way as it had in the near past. For me, the article has some validity.