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I thought for sure that Chuck Brown was gonna be receiving props in this thread...

"8 year olds, Dude"

Jimson-wiki Sounds like a blast!

If by "violently sick", you mean "dead"... I've read that jimsonweed is one of the few psychotropic substances that can create true hallucinations as opposed to the distortions of LSD, psilocybin, etc. I've heard stories of one's entire field of vision essentially being replaced- like watching a movie you have no control over.

Everything but veal! You need to kill and gut at least three fish or a chicken for that.

What about opium, heroin's wacky little brother? As for me, I'll stick with soma.

You could use a similar analogy when considering American viewpoints on warfare. Push a button from several thousand yards away and some little brown people in the distance die. Perhaps they're even vaporized. A little bit different than "those other people" using a machete to lop off a head for the video camera. But the end result is the same. America has a weird disconnect with death. I think our casually violence-saturated media (and I should add, I think the relatively bloodless "sanitized" violence of network TV is more sinister than something more realistic like say, Saving Private Rya

Under: Company In My Back, Why Would You Wanna Live Nothing jumps out at me as an overrated song right this instant... Glenn should get a medal or something for the drums on "Company In My Back". Beautiful feel to that song- funky without slapping you upside the head and announcing it.

Shrimp and corn quesadilla with mixed greens and a pint of Stella Artois. I'm allowed at least one yuppie-lunch per week.

He'll have plenty of material for a second thesis relating to astronomical bodies that have become lodged in his hair. Dynamite with a laser beam!

Menomena - Friend and Foe LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver The Good The Bad & The Queen - The Good The Bad & The Queen Bill Frisell - Unspeakable Four Tet - Rounds

That's three... I'll probably dish out some more freebies in the near future. I'm happy to hear any thoughts, criticisms, or abuse regarding our tunes. We don't suck. I mean, we really don't suck. We're just on the Guided by Voices career path.

We've got at least one brave soul here. To clarify, by "freebie" I mean "you don't have to pay for anything or do any work whatsoever except tell me an address to mail this thing to".

First three replies get a freebie copy of our newest disc, Goodbye Dominion... Don't fear new music.

Yeah, I play bass for 'em. So? We have a purty, spankin'-new website that I'm kinda excited about It's suburban sprawl tribute music, with doses of paranoia, doubt, and deceptive soul. We're mountain folk with college degrees, distortion pedals, and sloppy chops. Ridiculous band name. Pretty damn good songs.

Moon worship is obviously the one true way. "We do whatever we want, whenever we want, at all times."

Hey VCers- Making my first sojourn to the Pacific NW in August to visit a friend in Seattle (Wallingford, to be precise) Looking for interesting things to see, places to wander, record shops/quirky boutiques/markets to browse, and eats to uh, eat. The two touristy things I'll probably do are Pike Place Market and perhaps the EMP.

According to ESPN, Erik Bedard's game last night was worth a game score of 98: best in baseball this year (including the two no-hitters) and the best ever in the AL since they started tracking in 2002. 27 up, 27 down. 15 strikeouts. The Rangers looked like a 12 year old girls softball team up there at the plate.

Man,Tom Petty played some incredible tennis back in the 1980's.

I'll make a special mention of Aoxomoxoa too, because it's an album indelibly linked to my late teen years, but has resonated with me ever since. If you're into Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, or "freak folk" at all (and I must admit I'm not a huge fan of the genre) then you're still listening to the reverberations of Aoxomoxoa. It is a thoroughly psychedelic album, if there really is such a thing, and it absolutely sounds like the 1969 that saw its release. "St. Stephen" has countless live versions that represent it well, but the studio version concisely fits in all that makes the tune

I heart Jimmy Smith. The Gourds are absolutely underrated, maybe because they're far too weird to conform to country or even most "alt-country" standards, and their twang probably makes it tough to make critical inroads amongst the tastemaking Indie Mafia. Maybe "Gin & Juice" pigeonholed them to some extent, but I just think people are biased against accordion and mandolin in rock. I thought Heavy Ornamentals was a somewhat flat effort, devoid of a lot of the unbridled quirkiness that makes Ghosts of Hallelujah one of my favorite hidden treasures, but I'm always eager to hear what dem be

If you'd like to hear the band at the peak of their country/blues/roots influenced songwriting: American Beauty and Workingman's Dead If you'd like to hear the band showing off their most intricate and musically complex work: Blues For Allah If you'd like a pschedelic taste of what they were doing in the late 60's that inspired a lifetime of devotion from so many: Live Dead The Dead are still the most misunderstood and unfairly dismissed band of all time. Forget their fans and whatever images you conjure up when hearing the word "Deadhead". Forget what you think they should sound like. Just

I have a hard time considering bands from the English-speaking world as "foreign" to my ears. You don't exactly say "Oooohh, how exotic!" when listening to The Rolling Stones or The New Pornographers or whoever. I'd say artists like Dengue Fever, Gogol Bordello, and Fela Kuti are probably more along the lines of music I enjoy and would consider "foreign". Nice to see a mention of The Pillows, too!

Erik Bedard would mow down your grandmother with a backdoor power curve and not even think twice about it.

I'm surprised "Uncle Tremolo" hasn't been said yet... UpDownUpDownUpDown The FaceQuake I Am Trying To Shake Your Heart Professor Knobtwiddle's Old-Time Modulating Volume Salve Detlef Schrempf Wobble Sauce