jimmyjimmy

This is an odd one for me.

I like the premise. Many of the overall elements of the story are solid but some of the language seems forced and a bit pretentious. It skips around a bit going backwards and forwards which results in getting a bit off track. And although I would have imagined putting it down and not coming back to it on more than one occasion I've very nearly completed it.

No matter how you approach it, it's probably more trouble than it's worth.

Since this was a recent purchase perhaps the folks you got it from would be willing to take it back and give you credit towards something else.

Recently... Never fails to amaze me this one.

NR:

the Cathedral is the nifty stereo version cousin of the HG...both by EH...check it out... EH

 

and this too van amp reverb

 

personally, i prefer true spring reverb on fender amps...a new accutronics verb tank is around $50 i think, easy install...if thats what the problem is with the amp...

I was going to suggest the VanAmps Soul Mate jr as a possibility but I've actually never played through one.

I like the idea of the control unit mounting on the pedal board and the tank being placed somewhere else ( in my case that would probably be inside the cabinet of an non reverb amp).

The Holy Grail has been discussed here before in other threads. I use one. I also use an Earthquaker Devices "Ghost Echo Reverb"

( which has a hybrid delay quality to it ). Both are noisy in line but work well for me.

Can anyone recommend a Salman Rushdie book? The place I'm staying in seems to have just about everything of his.

I loved The Satanic Verses. One of my top ten books ever.

I'll second Satanic Verses.

NR:

I guess Kay's inconsistency is part of its charm.

I think your right.

FWIW...Rivington also also has a single cutaway three pickup model, also called a "Speed Demon" currently in their inventory.

Wow that image is huge....

Interesting find on Gbase this morning...

http://www.gbase.com...1964-cherry-red

Description: Here is a simply stunning early 1960s KAY Speed Demon. Sounds and plays killer. Beautiful flamed finish, very rare. A wonderful example. Hard case.

What do you all recommend to get next,

boxer or alligator? Or something else?

Just work your way backwards through the releases and you can't go wrong.

You should also poke around and find a copy of "the White Sessions" from 05/2007.

Just finishing up Anna Karenina. My first time through it and I can certainly see why it's so highly regarded.

Next up: Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody.

I'm buying my first HDTV this weekend. Only because my old one is dying.

After being overwhelmed by all the specifications you look at trying to make a responsible purchase I've come to a few conclusions.

1.) I'm having a hard time referring to these as "televisions'. Having used CRTs all my life they look and feel kinda cheap and alien to me (I mean this in respect as a static object that will sit in my home). Of course I haven't found one with faux wood veneer on it yet, so they've got that going for them.

2.)I spent an hour in Best Buy the other day. I don't like Best Buy, but this was a good experience. I talked with a kid working there who was very helpful and enthusiastic about the product. Very knowledgeable. So Best Buy...not so bad.

3.) My current TV is like a twenty four inch screen. Standing in the store, and I'm a little ashamed to admit this, but I was drawn like a moth/flame analogy to those huge monolithic black 40+, 50 inch class units hanging there on the walls. If you had any concept of how small my living room is you'd laugh at the notion of me purchasing such a thing. I'll buy a 32 inch screen, it will look like and feel like the screen from a Drive Inn Theater in my home and I am very excited at the notion of watching summer baseball on it.

4.)I'm buying a Sony mostly because I think it looks rather handsome. Superficial? Probably, but I don't want to waste any more time thinking about it.

"Influence" being the operative word here, this documentary focuses on Wait's primary influences and at what point they have the most obvious impact throughout his career. It's interesting, if not terribly engaging. Waits connection to the various artists touched upon here feels at times like the film's secondary objective. Chapters on Bukowski and Kerouac are weighted heavily with overviews of their work and tend to drag. Still, I learned enough to make me want to explore some of the more obscure artists featured.

Following last weeks viewing of Andrew Dominik's "The Assassination of Jessie James"...

For those unfamiliar w/ this film (as I was ) that's Eric Bana playing the title character. The film is a fictional take on the life of an Aussie psychopathic criminal/murderer. A little funny and quite disturbing at times. Bana, who undergoes an acute physical transformation during the making of this, is terrific.

Lots of memorable lines of dialog in this one. In fact, a friend watched it this past week and we're already trading them back and forth.

I don't own the album (yet) and have never really listened to The National. But I caught the Letterman performance last night, and daaaaamn, that was something. Why are they playing Milwaukee the same weeknight the New Pornographers are in Madison?

I adore Neko and like the NPs on the whole but I'd skip their show in a heartbeat to catch the National right now FWIW...

Just watched. I thought Taj was great and that Green Day was awful.

 

Taj has emotion, subtlety, space, and makes the song his own. Green Day doesn't and didn't.

 

Diff'rent strokes, I guess.

That was my take on it too.

Hearing Taj's voice sing "Shine a Light"... well, I thought that was just wonderful.

I have been in the mood for a good western lately anyway.

I should note that I didn't really walk away from this film thinking of it in terms of fitting into the traditional sense of a "Western".

The components that make it what I consider to be something special, the acting, the portrayal of the fact an mythology surrounding those characters transcend the setting.

Very Good acting here...a good flick.

Avatar was amazing.

Minutes into it I started thinking "Sigourney Weaver as the hard-ass Scientist!" and "Your obligatory hard-ass, rifle toting Jar Heads/Marines" and "A lead character who has some authority issues, is not generally the brightest guy, but we're inclined to pull for him all the same!"

And..." By golly look at that, the natives are empathetic to him too!...Or, at least the Princess is!".

I know that's pretty lame, and a superficial take on it. I'm certain the theatre experience was lots more rewarding, but the story left a lot to be desired IMHO.

Didn't see it in theaters...didn't really read much about it beforehand or listen to a lot of the press.

Found it to be generally boring and cliched overall.

The shows these guys played here in Richmond the last two nights were simply epic. Over the two nights they played every song from High Violet and holy crap does this stuff sound good live. Opened both shows with "Anyone's Ghost" which just owns.

I was there Friday. This band epitomizes the concept of being "Loosely tight". Matt flailing away, moving and riding the momentum of the music and the feedback of the audience. A glass of wine. A water bottle tossed up towards the overheads (subsequently almost slipping as he turns around). Smashing the mic stand (offering up the broken token to the front row). Getting down in amongst the crowd. Things you've seen before but here it comes across genuine. Epic? Maybe. Really fucking good, that's for certain. I can't wait for the record.

 

 

When the lady at the coffee shop in the lobby sees me approaching the cottage cheese case, remembers that I like the ones with the pineapple, and produces some from the fridge in the back before I even have a chance to ask.

Wow.

I like this topic better than the "Peeves" ( I've intentionally avoided responding to that thread in an attempt to marginalize anything that bugs me).

Curiously, just minutes ago I walked into the coffee shop I visit daily and the kid who's now my "new" barista apparently had seen me coming and had a Quad Breve steaming and ready to go for me.

A nice treat on a hectic Friday.

Finally picked up "Shame" on Saturday.

It's great. The production sounds crisper to me than the previous records and I like it every bit as much if not more than Fate right outta the gate.