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Oil Can Boyd

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  1. On my trip to Maine last weekend (350 miles round trip) my Honda Civic Hybrid got 52.3 MPG.
  2. Cat Power's I Found a Reason remains one of my favorite covers.
  3. Both of my kids (age 9 and 13) sing that song incessantly. It's like crack ...
  4. As a Red Sox fan of over 30 years I can say that I am really sick of the Sweet Caroline thing. It was fine and even sort of fun in 2004 but it's time to give it up.
  5. Seemes appropriate for the day Lawn Dart by Ed's Redeeming Qualities It was the third of July and the weather was fine Ed brought the hot dogs, the croquet set was mine But the red ball was missing and three mallets were bent Ed suggested lawn darts so to K-Mart we went We looked by the yard games, we looked by the grills But we couldn't find lawn darts come high water or hills We talked to the sales clerk and she started to cry She said "They're off the shelves now," and she told us both why: A kid was pegged in the head with a lawn dart Her dad didn't see 'er, that's the worst part
  6. You can download the second set here" NYC Taper Second Set: [Total Time 51:21] 01 Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith) 02 Original Love 03 Deep Fascination 04 Outdoor Miner (Wire) 05 The Final Word 06 Sooner Or Later 07 Too Far Gone 08 Time is Right 09 Fa C
  7. I wish. I saw them at Maxwell's a long time ago and it was tremendous. And don't forget the show on Friday opening for Sonic Youth.
  8. I think I told this story in another thread but I saw the Pixies in the summer of 1987 before they were signed. It was reportedly the show that Ivo (from 4AD) saw them and signed them right after.
  9. The Feelies opened for REM on the fall 1986 tour. I saw the show at the Felt Forum in NYC.
  10. Just finished this and really liked it.
  11. Not sure if this goes here or in the Now Drinking thread Love is like a Bottle of Gin (Magnetic Fields) It makes you blind, it does you in It makes you think you're pretty tough It makes you prone to crime and sin It makes you say thing off the cuff It's very small and made of glass and grossly over-advertised It turns a genius into an ass and makes a fool think he is wise It could make you regret your birth or turn cartwheels in your best suit It costs a lot more than it's worth and yet there is no substitute They keep it on a higher shelf the older and more pure it grows It has no
  12. My daughter's class is watching that movie today. I should have packed extra kleenex in her backpack ...
  13. I don't think I have ever seen my wife cry as hard as she did when we watched You Can Count on Me (with Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo).
  14. When my 20 year old cousin died, two of his friends played Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah at the memorial service. There was not a dry eye in the house after that.
  15. I think I have told this here before but several years ago I was in a small town on the coast of Maine, wearing my summerteeth-era Wilco shirt. An old lady, probably in her late 70s, came over to me and said "Is that Wilco, the rock band?" I said yes. She said "the fellow who plays bass guitar in that rock band was over visiting the so-and-so's last night." And indeed, John had been in town.
  16. Saw Kozelek play last night and it was really good. It was low key. He played in a small-ish theater at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, so the sound was excellent but for some reason in that venue, the audience never talks between songs. The quiet seemed to freak him out a bit. He played acoustic with another guitarist (Phil?). They played a range of stuff, mostly Sun Kil Moon. But, to my dismay, he did not play Carry Me Ohio.
  17. I think we have a winner! 61 on the celsius scale is about 142 F.
  18. I may not be a student of the game enough to understand why that discrepancy is so great but the gap in total fouls is much smaller (LA 28, Boston 21).
  19. Man, that game got a little too close for comfort ...
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