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based on your avatar i'm sure we have Coltrane admiration in common as well. just for giggles, on another board someone posted a thread about your personal top 20 records of all time, w/o over-thinking it. there are probably some records you've got in your collection here: Neil Young - On The Beach Mogwai - Come On Die Young Sonic Youth - EVOL Verlaines - Hallelujah All The Way Home Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes Melvins - Houdini Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality The Who - Quadrophenia The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge Bl

would you pay $85 to see Willie Nelson and OCMS? that's what tickets are for Boston. there aren't too many bands I'd spend over $50 to see. but there are certainly a few.

adjusted for inflation, Wilco's probably the highest (or at least near the top) of what i've spent for a ticket... back in 2002, my wife and i spent about $100 per seat for very front row seats at the Orpheum.... even though i'd been a fan for a while, we'd never seen them and decided to scalp tickets via eBay. definitely worth it, imo. still pissed that i couldn't smuggle in my little P&S camera.

or Yeezus.

a friend of mine is shooting that show. here's what he said:

i know i post a lot of metal but it's hardly all i listen to (note - this doesn't reflect any listening via my home stereo, just PC habits)! http://www.last.fm/user/narlus/library i don't get all the hand-wringing about a second 'big name' on the festival.... did anyone really think that The Replacements or My Morning Jacket would play? based on the previous incarnations, no fucking way. i think the lineup is missing a bit of past abrasion (see Purling Hiss; Pillow Wand; On Fillmore), but that's OK. Swans would have been an inspired choice i am really psyched to see Walker and Tyl

huh?

yeah excellent and varied lineup once again. really excited for Ryley Walker and William Tyler.

hey, look at that. even a blind squirrel finds nuts occasionally.

nope. the answers are way too fast for someone to hold up their phone for a 15 second clip and then type it in. Glenn and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler.

probably running on the "Obummer will take our guns away" platform. it's a popular one.

holy shit. this is not from The Onion. http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-lawmaker-suggests-Asians-adopt-easier-names-1550512.php

Albini was on my write-in ballot.

Behemoth were amazing. CC, not so much

i've seen Jim play twice... once w/ Brise-Glace, and once w/ Sonic Youth. I'd go for a 3rd time.

yes, please.

Behemoth and Cannibal Corpse.

but really.... what's the big story?

you really need me to spell this out for you? why do you think there's a 5 and half fold difference of people who think our president (who's been in the public eye for quite some time now) is Muslim, when broken down by party?

54%. FIFTY-FOUR PERCENT. as to your Scott Walker comment, i suppose holding our elected leaders to a higher level of knowledge is unreasonable.

sigh.

i found out about The Chameleons sometime in college, but can't remember exactly how.... a younger neighbor of a good friend of mine from high school had a copy of the debut record, but i can't recall if i'd already grabbed a copy of _Strange Times_ in the cut-out bin, an unfortunate but familiar place for that outstanding record after Geffen dropped them. anyway, i never saw them in their original phase, and sadly (i really don't know what i was thinking) didn't see their 2000 reunion tour either. i'd moved out of the city and we just had our first kid and i was barely seeing any concerts in

sorry, i can't hear you from my hyperbolic chamber.