Moe_Syzlak

"Yard sale" has a different meaning out here...

I fear this thread will not be on page one someday ... as it is a constant source of amusement for me. But seriously, I was thinking about what makes more recent (i.e. One Wing and SBS) less exciting for me than YHF and AGiB, in particular. As I listened to Loose Fur's Born Again in the USA tonight, I realized (not for the first time) that the O'Rourke/Tweedy partnership is powerful. Listen to the 3:25-3:35 mark of Wreckroom on BAitUSA. That little interlude, to me, is what is missing from SBS. It's not the crazy freakouts that precede and follow that little bit. It would have been easy to N

I like it okay, it just pales for me in terms of song writing and production (I love what these guys do with strings). I think Craig is just short of being a great song writer. There is always something missing for me that leaves the songs sounding incomplete. But the arrangements just keep getting better.

Subjectivity, etc... I didn't love it at first the way i did The Meaning of 8 (and I still feel like these two albums are leaps and bounds better -- for my tastes -- than anything prior), but it holds up great for me. The arrangements are by far the most compelling and rich for me and the album is a lot tighter than 8.

My current incarnation: 1. Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) Cloud Cult 2. Rabbit Habits Man Man 3. Consolers Of The Lonely The Raconteurs 4. Real Emotional Trash Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks 5. Modern Guilt Beck 6. Fate Dr. Dog 7. Attack and Release The Black Keys 8. Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust Sigur R

We watched I'm Not There last night. Umm it was okay. I mean it is the height of pretentiousness but I don't really mind that. The problem for me was that, as someone who knows a bit about Dylan's personal life but not THAT much, it made sense only sporadically. I think if you know Dylan's story backwards and forwards, it likely holds together better, but without that prerequisite knowledge it lacks form and structure. Not because of how it utilizes different actors and shifts from storyline to storyline, but because the points it is trying to make seem indecipherable without knowing why the s

I don't know if there is precedent outside of Farm Aid and Bridge School shows, but he has done it a lot at those shows. Here is Neil with Phish for .

I'll put in my usual plug for THD amps. I own a Univalve and love it. It is okay for small gigs/jams, studio and bedroom playing, but I'd go for a BiValve if you play out a lot. What i love about THD amps is that you can very easily swap out tubes without the need for re-biasing. This makes the amp very versatile. You can literally switch out, say Fender-y tubes for Marshall-y tubes song-to-song. When I first got my UniValve I got a bit of an addiction to buying tubes off eBay to try out different sounds. I now have a very unique tone as my standard tone having mixed and matched tubes from dif

The scene from Holy Grail. The tears in the rain scene from Blade Runner. The scene from Spinal Tap.

My favorite part was Beckham. I can just envision the show producer, "... and then, at the climax of the song, David Beckham will emerge and kick a ball into the crowd. It's gonna be great!"

The Sicilian Scene in True Romance.

Has anyone heard of this fan edit of the prequel trilogy? It's called the Star Wars Prologue and you can see a trailer here. It sounds interesting. I have zero desire to watch any of the prequel films again, but I'd watch a 2.5-3 re-edit combining all three films. It sounds like the aim is to make it more like Star Wars and Empire in tone.

Who cares... when does the next Loose Fur album come out?

Read some of the review snippets over there. They are hilarious! Kids movie or not, the creators should realize that the SW franchise has cross-generational appeal. Look at Pixar. They do a good job of creating stories that are entertaining to both kids and their parents.

Yeah I got one last week. I've already recycled it, but it said it had been many years (can't remember the exact number) since they had sent out hard copy Almanacs. When i got it, it didn't even occur to me that I hadn't received one in a long time.

This was posted on a message board my fianc

And the best pissed off AND angry break up song ever is "You Fucked Up."

Didn't Meredith "I'm a Bitch" Brooks get the Bob's Country Bunker treatment opening for the Stones in Argentina?

Is anyone else attending the ACL Fest this year? They have a cool scheduling gadget on the Web site. Here is my anticipated schedule for the fest.

Has anyone seen Wetlands Preserved? A lot have people have opened rock clubs for a lot of different reasons, but Larry Bloch is one of the few to have opened a music venue as a medium for social change. In 1989, Bloch and a handful of friends, none of whom had experience running a nightclub, opened Wetlands in New York City's Tribeca district, and as part of their business plan, each month a percentage of the club's proceeded were to be donated to a nonprofit Center for Social and Environmental Justice, with the annual payout often exceeding 100,000 dollars. In addition to the club's succe

So if all Christians were lumped with Phelps, they should just stop calling themselves Christians rather than try to correct the misperception?

Again, this is where I have a hard time with the popular interpretation of the word "atheist." Folks like Dawkins surely hold some responsibility, but so too do people of faith who can't accept that a simple lack of a belief doesn't constitute an affront and an active disbelief. How would you (not specifically you, PANTHER, but the royal "you") feel if you were lumped in as sharing the same values as Fred Phelps just because you called yourself a Christian? Hardly seems fair or productive. As for why the labels? I don't require a label, but if asked what am I to say? Seems a little like "don't

Right, but again I think it is misleading the way the terms have become distorted. I label myself an agnostic because it helps to differentiate myself from those that actively seek to discredit faith in God. But that is not to say I have any real belief in a higher/spiritual power. If agnosticism is simply the admission that "I don't know" then everyone who has quoted Tweedy's "I don't know and you don't know" would be agnostic, including many who profess strong faith.

Atheism is not necessarily the active disbelief in god (although I understand that it has popularly come to mean that and DOES mean that for many atheists). It is the absence of a belief in god(s), something I have been trying to convey in the Wilco and Atheism thread (with limited success). Atheism means "without god." Someone who is agnostic is "without god" by definition.

Seems to me that agnostic is atheist. If you don't know if there is a supreme being, you by definition don't believe in one, right? I feel that atheism has been distorted into affront to believers. You can simply not hold a belief yourself while not impugning another's belief. Although I understand that popularly this has been come to be the definition of agnostic, so I voted that way.