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"Bran" by Sudden Death comes to mind. (sidenote: whenever I see your avatar Moss, I think of his frozen character in "Scrooged"; that is all)

("This Mess Were In" = great duet)

It's funny, I think the reason they keep Eno and Lanois around is because they AREN'T a security blanket. In numerous interviews they emphasize how important it is for them to have someone that doesn't agree with them in the room. They always say that Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno are people who will fight it out against them and they appreciate this. This democratic process doesn't work for everyone (producers) and it takes a special amount of patience to work this way. They argue it out. Lillywhite has said that making a U2 album is like giving birth to a watermelon. I can appreciate tha

I went on a nationwide road-trip from Seattle, last summer and I would say our stop at Gettysburg was the highlight of the the trip. I've heard others on VC recommend this one.

http://360.u2.com/ Wow! This looks pretty amazing. edit: looks like they took on corporate sponsorship for the first time. Blackbery.

Thanks for that link: Very good read...and I don't usually enjoy Eggers' writing.

According to the new RS, a new U2 album, Songs of Ascent will be released in 2010 as a companion piece to No Line... ala Zooropa to Achtung...it is supposed to be stripped down and medatative..."but not indulgent" (Bono's words)...the first single will be "Every Breaking Wave" which should ring some bells with the people that have followed this latest release. Apparently it was pulled from the album ("No Line") at the last moment.

It's funny...in response to the question of whatever happened to the "background" survivors....I always wonder what the hell happened to the ruptured remains of the fuselage on the Beach....it's not like they can just roll it away.

agreed.

This is good news indeed--and so soon: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news...erst-album-tour Looks like this whole Mystic Valley Band thing is the real deal for Conor Oberst-- they even have cool matching windbreakers to prove it (left). The Bright Eyes mastermind's non-Bright Eyes band is already set to drop the follow-up to last year's sorta-underrated Conor Oberst. It's called Outer South and it's out May 5 on Merge. While Oberst wrote nearly all of the songs for the first album with the Mystic Valley Band, Outer South includes songwriting contributions from Nik Boesel, Nik Freit

I did the whole black-out thing with the last album (read no reviews, didn't listen to the single) and went in cold. This time I've been reading pretty much everything...downloaded the single. I was encouraged when I read that it would be pushing the envelope a bit and then discouraged when I read reviews that said it wasn't as big a departure as advertised...I listened to the album for the first time and the overall impression I gleaned was that it is anything but a "safe" record. All the experiments (and there are many) MIGHT not work in the long run, over repeated listens, but for a band

P(lease)M(e)? I'm pretty sure I read they were going to release "Crazy Tonight" as a single.

Any thoughts on the title track "No Line On the Horizon" which debuted on Irish Radio a few days ago? The verses (musically) remind me of the guitar/drum breakdown before the big guitar solo on "The Fly" -- definitely feels like they are on to something less like the last two records...i.e. standard/verse-chorus-verse. The first two songs we've heard haven't really had choruses.

68%?! WE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!

"I remain skeptical that PED use is connected to performance in a way that warps the game..." I mean, I understand what he's trying to say, but seriously? Do you just gloss over the inflated HR totals, totals which have SEVERELY dropped after the ban went into effect? The great thing about baseball, why it's such a fantastic game built on tradition, is the numbers involved. The fact that you could look at the back of two baseball cards from two completely different eras and see how two players stacked up to one another. With the added variable of steroids and PEDs I don't see how you can

My list: 1. East of Eden - Steinbeck...epic in every way. 2. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow...wrote my undergrad thesis on this book, much like the "Things They Carried" in that it addresses the nature of storytelling and fiction. 3. The Fountainhead - Rand...Read this in high school during the rebellious years, reread it years later thinking that I would find the philosophy ridiculous and it was still powerfully resonant. 4. To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee...the great American novel? 5. Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut...Love Vonnegut and this reads like he was throwing it all in, the summation of hi

Thought last night's episode was hillarious...the part with Pam and the Mounds bars had me in tears. Client: What's a Narddog? Andy: This is a Narddog.

Don't think this has ever been done before here and I've always received the best book recommendations from the VC "Now Reading" Thread...so the next logical step is... Name the Top 5 books you've ever read, any genre, fiction, non-fiction, anything goes...perhaps there will be some clear cut VC favorites? It'll be interesting to see...I'll save my list for now. To all the readers: Lay it out there...I'm really interested to know what you think, pick up some recommendations, etc. What are they and why do they make your head spin? Peace. Red

Thanks for that link A-man...a lot of good stuff there, especially this: "We're left out of his loop. We know he went into the (story's) past and infiltrated the DHARMA Initiative, possibly to gather information about their work. Could he go into the future as well?" He's speaking of Farraday there. I had completely forgotten (already) that he had clearly been back at the creation of the DHARMA initiative...now whether he intentionally manipulated time to get himself back there or whether this was during a "leap" back into the past that hasn't happened yet and was the island's doing and n

I would watch a Stoned Olympics...That would be fairly entertaining.

I thought that was the highlight of the first show(s). I'm so tired of people continuing to trust Ben...I mean...seriously?!

Let us not forget that Des is Farraday's constant as well (if I remember correctly).

I understand what you're saying. I think that Desmond is a "special" case because either he turned the key and became "unstuck in time" previously --OR-- lost his memory traveling off the island, cannot account for his time on the island, and therefore poses no paradox by having Farraday see him in the past (if he has no memory does this allow his past to be able to change, type of question). What I could never figure out and what they have never really addressed is whether or not Des regained his memory of the island? With this last episode (his dream, etc.) I believe the writer's answere

The question I asked myself during the episode: "If Locke goes into the hatch, under Mr. Eko's brother's plane and then time-travels into the past (pre-construction) or if Daniel Farraday is invited into Des's hatch and then time-travels forward (post-explosion), is he immediately buried and killed?" Anyone?

And you know you gotta go On that train from dublin up to sandy row Throwing pennies at the bridges down below And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow ...it's more the context than the actual lines themselves.