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Thanks - that alternate tuning on Chinese Translation explains why it never sounded right when I tried to play it. He's such an amazing guitar player!

I just figured out I'll Be Yr Bird last night - that's a fun one to play.

56 here in Santa Cruz. Time to build a fire!

Seeing M. Ward solo last night made me want to pick up the guitar for the first time in years. What are some of the songs that you love to play on guitar? I've been having fun today with Criminals (Uncle Tupelo), War of Man (Neil Young) and A Love You Can't Survive (Richard Thompson).

Carnivale - even though it was cancelled after the second season, it's still the best HBO series I've seen.

Forgot about that one

The cover makes it look really bland, but the subject matter is captivating. Jaynes' theory is that the aiodoi, or bards of the Illiad, and also stories in the Old Testament - such as Moses and the burning bush - had no consciousness. Defined by Jaynes, consciousness is the ability to make decisions or introspect - and when the gods spoke to people it was actually themselves making decisions, but they had either visual or aural hallucinations that instructed them in what to do. He cites many interesting studies conducted on schizophrenics and epileptics (a common "cure" used to be severing th

I think it's hard to beat "Here Comes A Regular". Everytime I hear it, I think what would it have been like if Cheers used this for a theme song...but I love the line "you're like a picture on a fridge that's never stocked with food", and the way Paul's voice breaks when he sings "I'm sick of everything my money can buy, a fool who wastes his life, god rest his guts" - it gets me every time. And the repeat of "ain't much to rake anyway in the fall" - basically I love everything about the song. I also love "It's a Wonderful Lie" off of Westerberg's Suicaine Gratification, sometimes I think that

Well said I vote for Gimme Shelter

I really enjoyed this. I thought it was really clever to have the hard-boiled detective type dialogue and the film noir style and set the whole thing around high school kids. I've started season one of The Wire, everyone seems to love it, but I haven't been impressed so far. I thought the first three episodes were pretty good, but the two I've seen since then didn't seem on par with those. I guess they just haven't developed the characters enough for me to care what happens to them.

One of my favorite solos is Robbie Robertson on King Harvest - even though he's an amazing guitarist, he's so subtle on that song, and the solo is so short, you almost miss it. Nick Hornby on Paul Westerberg's (three note) piano solo in Born For Me: "A better pianist would have wrecked the moment, filled in the gaps, failed to recognize how the tune has exerted a spell over the right listener; somebody with little talent and absolutely no ear would simply have chosen the wrong three notes. Just as you know intuitively when the simplest and crudest brush strokes have been made by a proper ar

# 1 Poison Cup - M. Ward 19 others are by M. Ward, off various albums - I've been on a huge kick lately 7. Neighborhood #1 - Arcade Fire 13. Can't Hardly Wait - Replacements 14. Wolves - Josh Ritter 19. How It Ends - Devotchka 22. 20th Century Man - Kinks

I thought he was great in that - it was actually that film, This Boy's Life and The Basketball Diaries that caused me to overlook his Titanic teenage girl pinup reputation. What was it about his performance that you didn't like? Of course, it is my favorite Scorsese film, so I may be predjudiced.

Good one. My favorite Herzog quote (White Diamond): "There are dignified stupidities, and there are heroic stupidities, and there is such a thing as stupid stupidities. This is a stupid stupidity"

Just finished: I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book this much. I finished it (600 pages) in two days, I couldn't put it down. On the surface it's a murder mystery about crack dealers - but the characters are so colorful and the story is so much fun I think I'll be reading this again very soon. Clockers is a hard book to follow, but I just started I've heard great things about it, and started it 3 or 4 times before, but have never gotten very far.

I'd second the Japanese Tea Garden, the Academy of Natural Sciences - if you're into that sort of thing. You could spend a whole day just in Golden Gate Park. The Presidio is also one of my favorite places - there's a great picnic spot right above Fort Point that has beautiful views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay and Sausalito. If you're into hiking, check out Mt. Tamalpais, not too far from SF - there's some very cool trails there. If you get tired of the city, and are up for a day trip, Santa Cruz is about an hour south of SF, along one of the most beautiful streches of highway you've ev

I got in in 33 minutes. The most clever, I thought, was The Omen.

Yeah - I mentioned that one in my earlier list only because it's great to see that he has a sense of humor about himself and his reputation. He's so intense and almost arrogant in commentaries and interviews, so it is a lot of fun to see him to see him "playing" Herzog. Someone posted this story here awhile back, for some reason it always makes me laugh Herzog shot with air rifle

It help to know that they're all "dark-themed" movies. ex - easier ones are Nightmare on Elm Street and Seven...

I just bought this one myself. My only complaint is that it's way too short. I saw them last month and all I can say is wow, what an amazing band!

Have you read his book, Walking in Ice? It's probably out of print - I found it in the Univerrsity library. It's his diaries from that trip. Interesting read. I'll have to watch Fata Morgana - I could listen to him talk for hours!

Well, to be honest I didn't give it a fair chance. Before watching the film, I had read about Bruno S., and it seemed almost cruel to cast him as Kaspar Hauser. Also, I had a really hard time getting into the story because of the age difference between Bruno S and the real Kaspar Hauser. He was what, 40 years old and playing a 14 or 16 year old? It was mainly those things combined that prompted me to turn the movie off before I was halfway through it. I'm sure it deserves another attempted viewing, as I've loved everything else I've seen by Herzog. I think that silent film style is what I lik

I'm a huge Herzog fan and I think White Diamond is his best. The last 20 minutes of Aguirre are probably the most powerful 20 minutes ever! See them both. My Best Fiend and Burden of Dreams are great - Burden of Dreams is about the making of Fitzcarraldo, and knowing how crazy Herzog is made me appreciate his films much more. The man is just as fascinating as his films. Incident at Loch Ness is fun. It's a mockumentary type film by Zak Penn (X-Men) - not as good as Christopher Guest's stuff, but Herzog is fun to watch. I'd also recommend Nosferatu - Kinski is very creepy and the film just ove

It's not the Velvets, but I really love Nico's Marble Index. John Cale does some really amazing soundscapes on that one. The whole album is just so strange and unlike anything I've ever heard. I think Lester Bangs said something like it was like Cale built her a beautiful cathedral in hell. It's not particularly easy to listen to at first, but once I "got it" it moved up into my top albums of all time list Anyone else like this one?