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I really doubt 'everything' will run faster vs an internal drive except in some unique cases like running out of free space on the internal drive or some older g4 ibooks have such a bad frontside bus speeds that an external hard drive connected via usb2 or firewire actually transfers data faster than using the build in drive. Since you're on a laptop this setup should be good since your internal vs external differences aren't going to be noticable. Also, the comments that mention firewire a better option because it's directly connected to the sound device instead the computer are incorrect, tho the firewire devices can be daisy chained together data from the external sound port must "travel through" the computer before writing, so you don't save anything here. Firewire 800 is faster than 400, they use the same connection port but your equiptment must support this transfer rate. Also, if your soundcard is firewire 400 and your laptop can do 800 I don't think you get the benifit if they are chained together because it throttles for the slower device.

The upside of this setup is that if your internal drive fails you still have the important files, portability or for easy upgrades if you switch machines you can just switch the drivecables.

Hey, this is how i make sauce more or less. I end up freezing most of it tho and using it for a few weeks, it's great, pretty simple too. the short version of this recipie is meat in pot, brown add a bunch of tomato puree and sauce, simmer for a few hours.

I have some friends who were a little non-plussed by the ending. The film just ends while the final part of the book really ties up the themes explored in it's pages.

I got this reaction from some friends too, the only explanation I can think of is pretensious and is a theory on story telling in general.

Basically a film serves the same social purpose as that of a storyteller. Historically people used stories to explain their context in the world and to reinforce the idea of god, that in the context of the story the story teller is god, someone who knows how it's going to turn out and while the world at large seems chaoitic and random that we hope, like we hope the story, has a point. When a story or film ends ambigiously without handholding or that payoff or a glimpse that the story teller doesn't have all the answers, we tend fo feel unfufilled and dislike the story.

Which I think is doubly interesting because I think you can make a case that old country was about this very idea.

My ticketmaster captcha word was FAILURE. Thanks for rubbing it in ticketmaster.

left foot, right foot, repeat.

but don't get me wrong, there are a zillion other reasons why they (The Beatles) were and are the greatest band ever. personally, I think The Beach Boys have had more of an impact and Brian Wilson was in a gazillion ways more talented, but that's just my tastes.

I doubt your numbers here.

Did you goto the one on Halsted? I fucking hate that place. Its actully the guitar center I was speaking form experince on.

Yeah that place is awful, If you're looking for a guitar to start on and are in CHICAGO go to N. Ave Guitars on North ave or the Old Town School of Folk Music guitar shop on lincoln and wilson. These are much much much nicer and less pressure places.

Get a good all solid wood acoustic guitar. Like a Epi Masterbuilt.

I've been very impressed with these, they are priced nicely and sound good.

I would compare Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian to a selection from Ann M. Martin's Baby Sitters Club series. Both deal in universal truths made more horrifying through the lense of a black and white empathic indifference to the suffering of others.

Yes it was a great show, I thought Jeff really worked the room well, I was way up in the balcony, and his little things like, coming out to the foot of the stage and playing without the pa really seemed to shrink the room in a way the other performers didn't do. I really think his setlist was a good selection for the event, and good job to the ensemble people that was really a class move of jeff.

Frank Hamilton is the nicest guy, he did a couple workshops at old town last week that were a lot of fun. He's really been teaching for over 50 years. He was twenty something when the school opened up. I'm not sure if it was his first show in 50 years, he's been teaching in atlanta with his wife. (He served as first dean of the school but left the old town to join the Weavers)

Places like Sudan and Palestine, where poverty and a lack of education are the norm, probably have a higher % of people that feel this way. Other places that are better off, not as much.

I think for them a big guy with guns is their el guapo.

I don't want to hijack the thread but I personally disagree. I find that in his earlier work he would more often take a melody or lyrical idea and transform it.

 

Modern Times feels like he is just regurgitating others work. Point to songs in his early catalogue that have the same title, melody, lyrics, and theme as another song. I'd say its pretty hard to find. Even on Love and Theft he didn't do what I just said. Look at Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum its obviously "Uncle John's Bongo's" but Dylan does a good job of changing the lyrics and themes. Most of Modern Times doesn't have Dylan adding much to these tunes which is the big difference. On top of that I think it seems like he wrote the lyrics while taking a shit and went out and recorded them without looking at them.

Hard Rain's gonna fall is just Lord Randal.

does neil usually annouce that you can't shout out request and only buy one beer at a time? That seemed odd to me that they would announce it like that.

I am also looking for a waffles.fm invite if anyone has one

the Magnetic Fields will be playing 6 shows in chicago in march, yay!

P.S. I'm also getting kinda tired of 1600's Hiro.

This is the storyline I'm most interested in. Tho the Mr. Bennett one got better last week.

I think the best value in chicago neighborhoods is Logan square, me and my roomate pay 550 a month for a 2 bdroom that's pretty big and it's a nice neighborhood, but really your first neighborhood is kind of a crap shoot, you'll figure out where you want to be pretty quick. Tho some of the cheap/big ones are if you have no idea of the city, all these are easily train accessible to columbia, listed based on distance from columbia, and only the ones I've lived in or spent a lot of time in:

South Loop - Pros: near Columbia, can be affordable, always developing

Cons: my buddy lived in the south loop near the library (in the loop) he got tired of trudging out to the neighborhoods for shows and friends as most of the loop is dead at night, tho maybe not near columbia

Pilsen - Cheap! On the south side, trains are easier to catch at rush hour. On the down side it's hard to find a nice place here, I looked a few years ago, maybe it's getting better.

Wicker Park - It has hipsters, lots of fun things to do, lots of kids. Down side is that it's the new Lincoln Park, trendy trendy and expensive

Bucktown - Nice, a low key wicker park possibly a bit cheaper as mentioned above. I couldn't find much in my price range there myself. Very good bars here if you like fancy beers.

Logan Square - I live here I like it alot, it's centrally located between far north chicago and downtown, still pretty reasonably priced, there's a farmers market on the blvd on Sundays in the summer and tacos and dive bars are available 24 hours a day. Lots of nice families and quiet on weekdays and a freakin party all night on 4th of july and Mexican independence day. On the downside, hipsters are migrating north from wicker park so prices should rise as this second gentrified wave moves in.

Humbolt Park - Further south than logan but farther than the train, some of my friends have had trouble with muggings and crime here so I don't have a good opinion of it, but basically the cheaper, less safe and further to the train version of logan square. but that's defiantly a vague opinion.

Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square - Two neighborhoods north of logan square, they are nice, more families in Lincoln Square lots of young married couples home to the old town school of folk music which is an awesome place. Good german food, a bit far for me from downtown for work and the brown line stops at like 1 or 2 am so there you go.

Lakeview, Lincoln Park - These are the trendy north side neighborhoods on the red line (Logan and wicker being on the blue), I really don't spend a lot of time there. At one time Lakeview was considered edgy like wicker park, but I wouldn't really say that now (tho so was Lincoln Park in the Old Town 60s). They

Paul Burch -- Last of My Kind

Everything by Paul Burch is seriously underrated.

Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers

Blaming Al Qaeda or "the gays" is no more ridiculous than blaming global warming (which has been done).

any statistics on this claim of ridiculous level?

Whover said that was Woody's intent?

well, woody for one.

"I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work."

the intent of the song wasn't my question tho. If you look at the manuscript for the song (i think there is a link to it on the wikipedia page) you can see the verses are present in a song called "God Blessed America". Woody didn't record this song until 5 years later, at that time it was given the "This Land" title and the verses aren't present (on the Asche recordings) tho they are in subsequent recordings and sheet music. MY question is, Was there actually an effort to censor this song or was it just woody being a songwriter and changing a song throughout it's life to his whim.

Tho as far as that quote, it's a good one from one of his more elequent diatribes:

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. ... I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.

And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow. " -Woodrow

I haven't heard anything about Howie's choice to choose one arrangement over another. I'd like to see it if anyone knows, but everything I've heard is speculation. I mean I can see why it's propagated, censorship is a more attractive myth than woody's randomness.

Besides, woody wrote songs to make you take pride in yourself not make you "batshit enraged".

The song featured all of the original verses, which many people have never heard because they were sensored over time because they are quite critical.

I've never bought this story. Woody was never one for not embellishing or recording / writing a song the same way twice. Moe Asche was pretty much the only person recording Woody, And it's unlikely to me that Moe would have censored him, on the Asche recordings you can hear several versions of the song and some have the verses some do not. Maybe they told him not to play it on some of the radio shows he was on but he never stayed those jobs long enough to face any cordinated censorship. Tho it is true that the version we are most farmilliar with does not contain the verses, this is probably due to the fact that the sheet music distributed to public schools by Howie Richmond doesn't include them. Maybe he felt the verses weren't appropriate for school kids but I've never seen any evidence to backup a conspiracy of censorship.

I guess i just don't like tom's sthick he tries to make woody's song more combatative than they were.

Again, I highly recommend the biography Ramblin' Man. It outlines Woody's position fairly well, including his feelings about writing for The Daily Worker. Very complex guy...you could say he ran the gamut from patriot to anarchist. He didn't have much use for politics.

I have heard good things about this book. Have you read the Kline bio of woody "A Life"? Is there a lot of new stuff? I'm wondering if it's worth reading in light of having read that one.