Shakespeare In The Alley

people take kiss way too seriously, both the fans and the haters

they were just a band who wrote some really good dumb pop rock songs and struck marketing gold along the way. take away the makeup and all that bullshit and there were still some really good dumb pop rock songs

not the best band in the world, not the worst

im not a huge fan (though i play the first few albums quite a bit) but i have no problem with them in the rock and roll hall of fame

Word is Jay-Z almost blew it when he backed out of a nine year/$225M deal. It really pissed off the president of the Mariners. They should have let that door stay shut at that point. Owners have short term memories when it comes to lengthy contracts.

so not only did they not shut the door, they came back and outbid themselves to finish the deal. 9/225 was already more than cano was getting from anyone else so they more than likely had him at that point. i guess an extra year on top of an already ridiculous contract isnt that big a deal, but yikes

i think the 2014 plan is new album/tour, maybe some loose fur, no solid sound

High On Fire

Kvelertak

Doomriders

this tour kicked all sorts of ass in dc last week. enjoy.

songs of leonard cohen

songs of love and hate

new skin for the old ceremony

those are his masterpieces. after that it gets a bit spotty, to be honest. plenty of great songs but youll have to wade through a whole lot of questionable production choices to appreciate them. songs from a room is good but easily the weakest of his acoustic period. i'm personally a fan of his phil spector album, but many people hate it, and i can understand why. i have a hard time getting into his more recent stuff, which is well written but too heavy on really boring arrangements. the 80s albums had some of his best songs, but a lot of cheesy synth sounds as well. 

The current stadium is served by MARTA (via either a shuttle bus or a ten minute walk), I-20, I-75/85, and numerous surface roads. It's also very close to "the world's busiest airport."  The only thing "problematic" about the current location is that it's surrounded by black neighborhoods and a lot of white people in Metro Atlanta, particularly in the north suburbs, are scared of that and regularly come right out and admit it.

then you have this

 

Joe Dendy, chairman of the Cobb County Republican Party, says that he has two conditions for supporting the Braves' proposed move (h/t Jim Galloway):

1.) That Cobb County citizens won't have to pay higher taxes as a result, and

2.) “It is absolutely necessary the (transportation) solution is all about moving cars in and around Cobb and surrounding counties from our north and east where most Braves fans travel from, and not moving people into Cobb by rail from Atlanta."

lovely

true, the entire concept of the taxpayer funded stadium just rubs me the wrong way

for the braves it's a great deal cuz instead of paying $200 million to fix turner field they pay $200 million and get a new stadium, i just dont like putting the taxpayers on the hook for over $400 million when turner field is still a perfectly usable stadium. this isnt oakland playing in a literal dump of a stadium for years. 

The Braves are moving out of downtown Atlanta and Turner Field, play in a new stadium in Cobb County starting in 2017.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/atlanta-braves-leaving-turner-field-for-new-ballpark-in-nearby-cobb-county?ymd=20131111&content_id=63830416&vkey=news_mlb

 

Now if only Tampa and Oakland could only get new facilities...

i dont like this at all

it sets a very dangerous precedence when a stadium thats not even 20 years old and still in very good shape needs to be ditched for a new, largely taxpayer funded stadium

arguing whether taxpayers should ever have to fund a sports stadium is a different matter but the fact that a multi million dollar stadium (albeit one not originally built for baseball) doesnt even have to last two decades anymore is appalling 

it was really close, but the fact that the more populated/liberal counties were all 50% in while the rural/conservative counties were 100% in gave me hope while it looked for a while like cooch could conceivably pull it of.

i havent watched much tv lately (save for baseball) so i missed most of the campaign ads, but i fully agree that its disturbing how much money both sides spend on them.

anyway im just glad that psycho's been cast aside for now. good fucking riddance

fucking thank god cuccinelli lost in va  

from what i gather (i fell asleep after the 8th because i am an idiot) it was the right call, albeit one of of those confusing baseball rules no one knows about till it screws them over

personally i think its a lame way to decide a world series game, but those are the breaks. play on.

be my baby

whats creepy about liking manufactured for teenage girl pop music? a good songs a good song, and hers often are

when would your life depend on identifying a weezer song?

man, i was pulling for the tigers (and totally though boston was toast going into detroit down 2-0) but that grand slam was something else

hell of a picture too

i havent been closely following this stuff lately but isnt next year supposed to be all about a new wilco album and a full tour for that? doesnt surprise me that there wouldnt be time for a solid sound amidst all that

the ripken/nats rumors are too prevalent now to totally dismiss, but i still think its a long shot. picking a manager is such a crapshoot i kinda hope rizzo goes goes for cal anyway, but i have no idea how likely that is. rizzo hasnt tipped his hand whatsoever in this manager search

yeah what did yo ever do to piss obama off that bad

By stumbling into the playoffs I was referring to getting NO HIT on the final game of the season. May have been the b-squad, but pride should have counted for something there.

you mean the no hitter that was also a tigers shutout till the last minute? you're right, real stumble

id like to see a pirates/dodgers nlcs, but i dont know how much faith i have in the bucs getting past the cardinals. then again, pirates/braves could be a nice sense of closure for the pittsburgh faithful

my hope is for a pirates/a's series, but dodgers/red sox seems most likely. 

either way, lots of interesting angles to these playoffs. should be fun.

i dont really care much about a solid sound documentary, tbh. i guess it depends how heavy it is on live performances vs behind the scenes stuff though. im glad the festivals been a success but ive got little to no interest in watching a bunch of interviews about how theyve done it. live clips though, those id love. hopefully its like sunken treasure or ashes of american flags where the "documentary" bits are small segments after every 4/5 songs

I am hoping for Loose Fur 2014 (followed by tour!).

i want this a lot more than a new wilco album or tour

a lot more

Its just hard to distinguish whether Adams is talking about modern, mainstream country which is essentially pop, or real country music of our past time that more or less shaped his entire career haha.

you sure about that? ryan name drops a whole bunch of his favorite artists and theyre very rarely country guys, modern or otherwise.

its really not that weird to me that the music he makes might not be the music he likes

this isnt exactly news:

"so i started this damn country band

cuz punk rock was too hard to sing"

that was 18 years ago

also nme is renowned for taking an innocent quote and spinning it into a scandalous headline. 

why did you put tea in all caps?