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John Smith

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  1. I have been contemplating a transfer within my company to Europe and the lack of dollar strength is a very heavy factor for me to think about right now.
  2. Maybe because it's our favorite guitar players not yours, maybe?
  3. Gee how about a list of top albums recorded after a band broke up and got back together? Or top albums recorded after a band reached mass acceptance? Or top albums made after a major personel shift (Stones, and Black Crowes come immediately to mind) list lists lists...
  4. No love for Neil? Weld is a great live album and the Arc part of it is...is...um its there.
  5. Johnny Ramone Pete Townsend Neil Young Jak White Josh Homme Keith Richards Ronnie Wood Billy Zoom George Harrison Angus Young Pete Buck Paul Weller 1970's vintage Michael Schenkar (UFO/Solo/Scorpions) Mike Ness Mick Ronson Lowell George Mike Cooley J Mascis Paul Westerberg Bob Stinson and... Me, if I don't like myself, then why bother?
  6. Kiss Alive UFO Strangers in the night Little Feat Waiting for Columbus ACDC If You want Blood... Cash - Live at Folsom Cash - Live @ San Quentin Ramones Its Alive Neil Young Arc/Weld
  7. I'm certified as a sport diver and as a rescue diver and love it. Like they said sinus issues can be a problem. You must must must absolutely be able to clear your ears when you go down. Swimming is not really a major issue either, Most classes have you show that you can swim 200 - 300 yards and tread water for 15 minutes or so. I'm not such a great swimmer, but diving is no problem for me at all. Once below the surface there is no swimming involved. Breathing is 100% through your mouth, you use no arms only legs, the fins really help out. Most of the training for scuba is safety train
  8. Allmans Beatles Clash Drive By Truckers Earle Flaming Lips Guided By Voices Hendrix Ian Hunter Jason & The Scorchers Kings of Leon Los Lobos Morrison, Van Neil Young Ozzy Pink Floyd Queens of the Stone Age REM Springsteen Tool UFO Van Halen Weller, Paul X Yes Zevon
  9. A few details from the Trib... Spitzer is linked to prostitution ring By Danny Hakim and William K. Rashbaum The New York Times 2:55 PM CDT, March 10, 2008 ALBANY, N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation. An affidavit in the federal investigation into a prostitution ring said that a wiretap recording captured a man identified as Client 9 on a telephone call confirming plans to have a woman travel from New York to Washingto
  10. Some of my rocks are definately pre-cambrian...for those of the religious right persuasion that means pre-flood..
  11. I have my name sakes discharge papers from the Navy after WWI. My house was built in 1921. A first edition of "Revolt in the Desert" (Lawrence of Arabia) A couple dozen miscellaneous tintypes from before th turn of the century 1820's Spanish coins Stocks certificates issued on April 14, 1865 a Burnside Breech loading rifle carried by a relative in the civil war. and... possibly oldest of all... rocks.
  12. My Gay friends are absolutely unable to articulate this agenda. I don't think they are organized enough to pull it off. Beyond that there is a little more background on the issue at hand. The speech in reference was given to a closed to outsiders Republican party gathering. Someone covertly taped it and passed it along. Additionally she says in her talk that homosexuals are the greatest threat facing our nation, greater even than Al Qaeda and terrorism. I would have one question for this lady...could she produce these studies about countries failing that she references? I seriously dou
  13. I find it funny because in this thread the accolades for JT flow freely until someone points out that they feel it is poorly written. Then it turns to well...maybe he didn't write it. Typical over the top fan reaction. If it's not perfect our hero didn't do it. Sorry but he, like all of us, is entirely fallable. But like I said earlier when an article has a byline, I guess if the byline is simply a guide line and does not mean it was written by that person at all. Of course there is a catch-22 involved here. Lets say JT did write the article, but and editor cleaned it up a bit, which th
  14. I really don't take it personally. I find it rather funny actually.
  15. I guess we have to disagree then as I see that this article in no way shape or form follows an interview/transcription format and is written, to my eyes only apparently, in the first person throughout its entirety. No obvious questions, no obvious answers all first person musings, as well as when you click the Jeff Tweedy Link on the original it lists Jeff Tweedy as the author. The byline alone should have been clue enough, but apparently I'll have to watch bylines more carefully from now on as it seems that in today's world the interviewee gets the byline. All of my simple observations are
  16. Touche' Selective editing on your part. If you follow the link or read past the part you posted it is obvious to all who the writer is. Everything prior to the heading "Boy meets pain" is simply back ground material on JT. In the original those two paragraph's are in italics and very obviously set off from the rest of the article. If that is the sole basis for your comment that the article was written by editors then that position does not hold water. I tend to agree with 65 days that it is not great writing. But writing long form is not what JT does for a living so it is entirely excu
  17. The byline is Jeff Tweedy, It is written in the first person, It is conversational in style (i.e. not a professional job) I would say he wrote the article. What would make you assume he did not write it?
  18. They never understand or care to understand that the steel didn't have to melt it only had to soften up and become pilable/plastic thus rendering it unable to hold up the weight on top of it.
  19. http://migraine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/...-off/index.html March 5, 2008, 4:34 pm Shaking It Off By Jeff Tweedy Jeff Tweedy is primarily known as the lyricist, lead singer and guitarist of Wilco, one of America
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