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What is the opposite of tone deaf?

Well, good luck on that. I hope that it works, but what if it doesn't. You'll be screaming an epic NO for more than one reason. Oh yeah, and what if it is the iPod Touch? Or I should have simply said: Smart Ass.

OK. You just found out that there is life after death. And word on the news wire is that your bum bum is a music player. While writing your last will and testament, which 3 cds do you put aside to go up there for simple storage and listening pleasure for eternity. U2 - Achtung Baby (not the digipak version, although maybe that would be more comfortable? I'm not sure if you feel pain? Hmm) Wilco - Being There The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs I'll see you on the other side. Or the backside... {I'm not really 100% sure on the whole headphones thing. I think the music gets piped directly

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.