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I think I'm more concerned with his lack thereof.

Yeah. U2 has been very generous in terms of releasing B-sides onto any "Best Of" or Remastered editions that they have been releasing. They even give out nice "Rare" compilations through their U2.com website. (But it costs about $50 per year and isn't worth getting unless U2 tours that year and you get 1st crack at tix. Other than that you find those rare fanclub cds on ebay for hefty prices. Even I missed out on some nice ones like the Zoo TV show from Syndey which I happen to have on bootleg with FM radio sound. It's ok, but not professional) The one given out in 2009 had a lot of rare stuff

Oliver Stone 1-2 Punch: U-Turn - rented this last week as I had never seen it, but worked at a movie theater when it was out for like 2 weeks. I really enjoyed it, although it was very, very dense. After a half hour had passed it felt like the film had been on for an hour and there was still 90 minutes left to go. Definitely a rental and not something to sit through in the theater. It was nice to see Sean Penn in a leading man role where he can be funny in a mean & condescending way towards the townsfolk of that awful town out in Arizona. Billy Bob Thornton & Joaquin Phoenix both tu

Apparently, so do the folks at the Criterion Collection. He's batting a thousand in terms of having all of his films on a Criterion Collection format. Fantastic Mr. Fox isn't out yet via Criterion, but I've seen some sites mention that it is certainly underway and will be ready in a few years. Just a perplexed observation. There's a lot of other directors who should have some films out on the Criterion Collection. Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise & Before Sunset spring to mind. It bothers me about as much (or as little, really) as the Oscars do. Meaning I'll be bothered by what has

Great song above this post. Pittsburgh U2 fans the band just announced a show at Heinz Field for July 26th, 2011. Tix on sale this monday at 10am. Also, expected to be added soon are shows in Baltimore, Nashville & Boston (aka Gillette Stadium in Foxboro).

Yeah. Guilty as charged. Another one off the bucket list.

Elton/Leon Live On Fuse From NYC Oct 19th

Beautiful moment: Bobby Cox comes out of the dugout to congratulate and tip his hat to the Giants, who in turn all tipped their caps to him. More thoughts on the LDS' in a bit....

No problem. I pulled some strings for you. {although, to be honest, you responded to that pretty quickly.} {fingers crossed for the return of WrinkleInTheRug}

Sitting here watching the Braves/Giants on one channel and then flipping to the Vikings/Jets on the other channel something crossed my mind: I don't think this is the real Runaway Jim. If you check out the thread that is linked, you'll notice that he left as Ordinary Beehive. Maybe he forgot his password etc. and couldn't come back under that screen name. I don't know. Something seems fishy.

Oops!!! Wrong thread....

I think if you had copied and pasted your 1st post on page 1 onto your 2nd post onto page 2, I would have never responded to it because you addressed all 3 things. Instead your post on page 2 began kind of accusatory pointing fingers at the VC community for making it into a "black & white" issue and that there are other colors out there. Then you address the Wilco portion followed by the white audience and then you kind of left it at that, thus prompting me to think that you were kind of either subconsciously or consciously making us feel guilty. I addressed this better in my post above. E

How would you guys know how much hair Jeff has d........oh....ok...you meant his forehead..... So I guess after 16 months of no album we discuss hair. Next month let's discuss his toenails.

The Union on NPR: Entire Album

Yes. Maybe. But once you send out a message the receiver deciphers it. In this particular case, the joke had a hell of a lot of depth depending on how much thought you want to put into it. On the surface it works as a joke about Wilco and its audiences lack of diversity which I guess translates into a whiteout. What some of us on here were trying to do was try to figure out why the joke really works. And by doing that you have to take into account the minorities that the joke addresses, but somehow doesn't clearly state because the focus is on Wilco & their audience. All that some of us

Hmm. My father's ex college roommate is a huge die hard Yankees fan and my dad is a huge die hard Red Sox fan. (someone at Murray St had a sense of humor, I guess in making living conditions) In 2004, my dad's ex roommate never called up my father until sometime around April 2005 barely acknowledging the World Series victory. Although, I'm sure he was trying to look past the Yankees loss. Both knew what happened and my dad never really rubbed it in or addressed it either. Whatever. Then in 2007, the same process occurred: phone call in April 2008 to talk about the new baseball season. LOL.

In Horsemen, he ends up cutting his own heart or something like that. It was an extremely bloody scene. I also think that he was in that movie Saved! that came out in between these two.

If anything I read your post on this page as painting Wilco as the bad guys and not really giving any reasons as to why people of color would or would not listen to them like I did for myself and female musicians. (I wish that you would have given an example like the one that I gave, although you addressed this a little bit on page 1 which I read a day ago and then saw your post today thinking it was new to the discussion) And saying that Queen Latifah is picking on Wilco made it sound like to me that Wilco is to blame here and not the audience. As if they were making mutually white music.

Once again, you are blaming the band and not the people of color who are not supposedly at the Wilco concerts. What is Wilco supposed to do? Release a rap record? Christ, they already posed with a camel. People of color will find them and probably have found them. And it also goes back to who is the butt of the joke? Yes. If you really want to get irate, you should watch Outsourced. It makes fun of both Indian and American people. It isn't very clever and it is very demeaning. It paints Indians as worker bees with little sense of self and Americans as buffoons who just want to buy n

Weird. On MLB right now classified under All Time Games is last night's gem of a pitching performance by Tim Lincecum. That was quick.

I too thought that it was beautifully photographed, but there was a lot of missteps in the editing department. For me, the best edited song on there was Via Chicago. There was a lot of strange camera coverage (on other songs) on a band member who really wasn't doing a solo at that particular moment. Via Chicago had such emotional editing behind it that it made it ultimately cinematic: a perfect fusion of words and music as told through pictures. It was perfectly and meticulously timed. It's just too bad that the rest of the DVD didn't look that way. It doesn't really bother me too much beca

Thanks. Another ugly game going on at the Trop. Rangers up 6-0 in the top of the 5th.

Hello, Where is Man In The Sand?!?!?!

I wonder if Halladay has some studio time set aside after the post season to rejoin Coldplay. Awesome game yesterday. Not so awesome was the Twins up 4-0 on Sabathia no less, then blowing it very quickly. If they had won that game against C.C. no less, they would have gotten a lot of people's attention and the Yanks would be shaking in their boots depending on Hughes and Pettitte. Anyways... Oh yeah, Cliff Lee looked great (after the 1st inning, of course). Edit: Also, I've been having a tough time finding 4 Days In October on the channel listings. I had to cave in and go on the offi