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    A DVD freebie offer from my band!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    It wasn't "The Opener", but yeah, just one of the videos was all that I could see.

    Will it play like a CD on a regular CD player?

     

    And, when the music is good, the budget doesn't matter.

    The music is good.

     

    Afraid it's DVD only- it'll play in a computer DVD drive I imagine (I haven't tried)

     

    Our philosophy is all about the music, too- I like to joke that we're on the Guided by Voices career plan of making enough DIY music in an obscure town until people have to start paying attention.

    EW's List of the 100 "New Classics" (books since 1983)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I shan't argue with The Road at #1. Harrowing, absorbing, image-etching writing going on there. As if old cellars weren't creepy enough...

     

    I can't say enough good things about Raymond Carver. Dan Brown and no Larry Brown is laughable.

     

    Also- no Tom Robbins? That's a surprise. And seeing as they've included non-fiction, you could do worse than giving Bill Bryson a mention- I always enjoy his stuff. Maybe a bit too scientific for what EW was going for, but I have to include something from both Richard Dawkins and Jared Diamond if I'm compiling essential books from the last quarter-century.

    A DVD freebie offer from my band!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Hey VCers-

     

    First five replies here will get themselves a free copy of my band's (The Burning Dirty Band) new DVD Live From the Black Box. It's a 40 minute rock film with a limited budget about a band you've never heard of making beautiful music in a very nice corner of the Virginia countryside.

     

    If you like Pavement, Spoon, The Band, The Pixies, and yes, Wilco, then you'll find something to like. It's got nine full-length songs, music videos, interviews, and home movie goodness. DIY rock to the core.

     

    If you're going to be in Northern Virginia on August 8th (and who isn't?) then come out to our DVD release party at Sweet Caroline's in Winchester, VA why don't ya?

     

    hugelivefromtheblackboxcover.jpg

     

    BurningDirtyBand.com

    MLB 2008

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Did you guys see Manny in today's game in Baltimore? Makes an over the shoulder catch at the warning track, jumps up, high fives a fan in the first row and then turns fires the ball to the infield to double off the guy at first.

     

    Manny is so cool.

     

     

    How did that game turn out, BTW? :brow

     

    Orioles Magic, baby!

    Favorite '90s alternative radio hits

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Jawbreaker - "Fireman"

    Poster Children - "Junior Citizen"

    Elastica - "Connection" (I've been told by people who played with them that Elastica was the most spectacularly heroin-addled band of the 90's)

    Mojo Nixon - "Elvis Is Everywhere"

    Social Distortion - "I Was Wrong"; "Ball and Chain"

    Porno for Pyros - "Pets"

    Mike Watt - "Against the 70's"

    Who is the worlds greatest band!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Clearly the Libertines mop the floor with the Kinks' pathetic catalog.

     

    Having just gotten back from England a few weeks ago, I will re-affirm that Oasis still has a weird hold on the music-listening populace there. I think they're the British equivalent of "80's Night" or something, although they have 80's Nights in England, too.

     

    Actually, I might say Pearl Jam is the American Oasis. You don't really find a ton of people professing Eddie Vedder & Co. as their favorite band anymore, but they're always selling out shows and everyone under 40 can still sing along to "Black" and "Jeremy".

    RIP Arthur C. Clarke

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I didn't realize there were two more sequels to 2001 and 2010.

     

    2061 is very much a natural follow-up to the events in 2010- obviously it takes place a half-century later, but HAL, Dave Bowman and the monoliths are still very much in play. Europa is a central setting of the book, and Earth is a very different place since Jupiter was ignited into a mini-sun by the monoliths.

     

    3001 is more of a conceptual piece rather than an obvious sequel (but again, HAL is still hanging around). The premise is that Frank Poole (who was thought to have been killed by HAL in 2001) is recovered from orbit and revived using the advanced technology of the fourth millennium. The book is a chance for Clarke to run wild with his most advanced visions of what humanity and technology might some day accomplish.

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