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Moe_Syzlak

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  1. What if I buy an apartment building as a secondary investment (i.e. not my residence), have a mortgage that is $2K/month and rent the four units for $1K each? How is that $2K profit not real?
  2. I have to go with Exile, but I do love Let It Bleed. Monkey Man was always a favorite to cover in my old band.
  3. Yup was just coming in here to post that. More info:
  4. http://phishthoughts.com/nospoilers/
  5. The night that all went down in Morrison, no one had any idea what was going on. The next night, after the third show, I was hanging with the band and suggested, when they said they would never be allowed back at Red Rocks, that they should play Col. Forbin's. Since Red Rocks is essentially built into the side of a mountain, I felt it would be appropriate. They agreed and played it. My claim to fame.
  6. I am beginning to take it personally that the joke posts always seem to follow my posts. I guess at least I can take solace in lightening the mood and bringing people together in comedy.
  7. I know this is a joke (sorta), but this is what I was referring to (sorta) in my earlier post in this thread. I, if life existed in a vacuum, would probably be Libertarian. Such as life is -- i.e., not in a vacuum -- I probably most closely align my political beliefs with Lincoln. It sucks to simplify something to such a degree (this is the Internet) but I find a particularly salient idea of Lincoln's to be (probably paraphrased), "that government should do for people only what they cannot do for themselves." The problem is that as our country grows, so too does the list of things that th
  8. Anyone here going to Hampton the weekend? I hope everyone behaves. Apparently Red Rocks is waiting to see how Hampton plays out before allowing Phish to confirm Red Rocks.
  9. I'm not into comics at all and rarely like comic book movies much (Dark Knight and Iron Man were two of the best, but barely get "B" ratings from me), yet I have a strange desire to see Watchmen. So the question for you Watchmen fans is: should I go in totally cold or should I read the book first?
  10. They should do "Big Bottoms" all on stand-up bass.
  11. Spot on! This is actually a pet peeve of mine. Music is, to me, the ultimate in subjectivity. If someone loves a song, how can it be overrated t them. There is no objective measure of how a song SHOULD be rated in the first place. I may disagree with YOUR opinion of a song, but that doesn't mean I am MORE right than you. You know what is overrated... music criticism.
  12. Bon Iver bores me to tears and I like HMD. And Impossible Germany isn't one of my favorites, but that is due to the lyrics, not the music or guitar solos.
  13. The problem is people are downright dogmatic about the political and economic philosophies they subscribe to. It is like the worst of the worst Yankees fan vs. the worst of the worst Red Sox fan. Rush is one of the worst offenders and worse yet he rallies people to act the same way (damn, that's a lot of worse and worsts). Not to say there aren't offenders on the left as well. Shouldn't we all want what works? If that is nationalized banks then so be it. I am generally pretty fiscally conservative, sot he notion rankles me a bit. But I'm not going to dismiss it out of hand because it might mea
  14. I'm pretty sure my vinyl that i had in HS was just that without the little Grateful Dead Europe '72 badge on it. The rainbow-haired dude shoving an ice cream cone into his forehead was on the inside I believe. But man, that's going back 20 years, so i could be wrong.
  15. I forgot one! 2009 is the year we make the switch to digital television... in case you hadn't heard.
  16. HA! I always love the thumbs down dude in that scene.
  17. I have one thing I would buy a Kindle for, but it is curiously not available: guide books. The device is obviously best for travelers and it makes a ton of sense to have guide books such as Lonely Planet available, but they are not.
  18. Yeah there are many places we may hit up if we can find a cheap way to do it and Japan is one of them. For this trip the plan is travel very cost-effectively. We will have no States-side expenses and I have a side business that requires very little care and feeding that brings in enough money that we will be able to do this trip and come back with more money than when we left. But ONLY if we avoid the more expensive destinations. For example, I talked about wanting to go tot he Galapagos while we are in Ecuador but, if we do, we'll have to find something WAY cheaper than what is advertised.
  19. We've got a long list of potential places to visit, but we'll play it by ear mostly, going wherever we the desire to go within each major region. Here is our tentative itinerary as far as major regions go though: October 12-December 21: Northern S. America (9 weeks) December 21-February 15: Southern S. America (9 weeks) February 15-March 22: Australia (5 weeks) March 22-May 3: New Zealand (6 weeks) May 3-August 9: SE Asia (16 weeks) August 9-September 20: Southern Africa (6 weeks) September 20-October 25: Northern Africa (5 weeks)
  20. Getting married in June! Got to see Andrew Bird last night. Got to try Pliny the Younger last night. Get to see Phish at Red Rocks again this summer. Leaving for a year-long, around the world "honeymoon" in October! I think 2009 will be the best year of my life!
  21. So Eloise had a quite a long list of planes that would be flying through the "window" but the Guam flight was the one they needed to be on, right? I'm assuming all planes that fly through the window don't crash, so was it just the fact that Jack et al were on the plane that made it crash?
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