Sweet Papa Crimbo

I find interesting to see the reaction of the board.

I'm hoping the sounds of silence are indicative that people aren't on.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/texas/article/Records-Ex-official-eyed-in-DA-slayings-was-cop-4443658.php

 

I don't think these two are a part of the Arayan brotherhood...or a Mexican drug cartel, for that matter.

I think I'd actually feel more at peace if it was one  of those groups instead of an officer of the court and his wife.

Dylan does the same thing. Usually younger up and coming bands who can't necessarily fill a stadium or arena but can hold their on in mid-size venues. 

The boys aren't a 'younger up and coming band'.

They are a dynamic, mature band that has found its audience and niche in the music world. The future for them does not hold selling  out stadiums. The future for this band is to continue to be the best working America band heading toward being the greatest American band.

You cannot imagine the devastation visited on this small town. 

When yo think about Boston, don't forget the people of West.

I kind of follow a Miltonian world view...it is better to headline in medium sized venues than open in a Stadium.

Rolling Stones fans won't immediately go out and become Wilco fans.

I think its natural to be curious about who would do such a thing and what would motivate such heinous behavior.

you weren't 'being curious'.

You were trolling.

We've been lucky.

Maybe too lucky. It's been over 4000 days since the last attack on American soil.

Has our vigilence been slackened? Have we gotten lazy? Complacent?

Maybe this wasn't an act of Terrorism, but at 3:00 CDT, it looks like it.

 

Dozens of people have been seriously injured after two reported explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The Boston Globe cited witnesses who reported hearing two large explosions shortly before 3 p.m. ET. The Associated Press reported at least one of the explosions came near the entrance of the Fairmont Copley Hotel. Yahoo News is tracking the latest developments in the live blog below.

 

With a balanced schedule and interleague play every day of the season, the game must be made uniform. Either both have the DH or both let the pitches embarrass themselves.

Integrity of play and results is paramount.

But serioulsy, who would you rather see hit: Lance Berkman or Nick Tepesh? Big Papi or Ryan Dempster?

He will be missed.

Yes.  And with year-round interleague play, now is the time to do it.  It will probably happen soon.  Hopefully.

 

A sacrifice bunt is nothing more than a waste of an out. 

i get the feeling that Wash employs the bunt now because he got stung when the national press insinuating he was a managing chimp. Implying he didn't understand baseball because he didn't use the bunt.

Too many purists think that because something was done in the 1920's with success that it has to be done today

I would much rather watch a game where it is the nine men on the field vs the other nine on the field. The pitcher is not always an automatic out.

 

The DH was put in because pitchers can't hit what is next a DH for the short stop? Hell if want to see a good threat why don't we have an 9 offensive players and 9 defensive? You would certainly have a better hitting. Baseball is not football.

 

I just find the DH boring. I prefer the NL game.

Yeah...there's nothing like watching a pitcher swing like a little leaguer.

I don't think he was trying to be a POP star. I think that is the music he honestly enjoyed playing. He was listening to Don Williams and JJ Cale and that's the sound he wanted. Certainly there was crap but Derek and the dominoes and Slowhand are classics. Hell, I like another ticket and 461 Ocean blvd. too. Sure, those songs did not lend themselves as much to guitar god status but not sure that was ever his interest. Although I never understood why he didn't show the freedom to really play his ass off on his own albums like he did on Roger Waters pros and cons album.

I was thinking about his 80's run of Money and Cigarettes, August, Behind the Sun, Journeyman...

To my somewhat addled mind, the problem with Clapton is a bit choices he made in his career and the resultant POP stardom.. (Going to try and redeem myself after those unfortunate, long ago comments about helicopters)

Clapton was at his best when he was operating primarily as a guitarist. When he became a singer/songwriter/guitarist is when the problem arose.

No doubt the man is a craftsman, but when operating as a singing guitar player, he began to lose focus. As a singer/songwriter/guitar player, he started to make records in the late 70's and 80's where he was trying to be a POP star. The more he sold records with songs like LAY DOWN SALLY, he became a prisoner of his success. Eric Clapton would be the only guitar god that one's mom would listen too. He has success, and he enjoyed it and sold just a bit of his soul for it. Maybe it was because he was not a part of a band where his tendencies toward MOR would be slapped down. The dynamics of collaboration kept Jimmy Page on the musical path. And Jeff Beck is such an odd duck that he was always going to do it his way.

Clapton, for all his warts, is a incendiary guitar player. Longevity isn't always the best thing for one's reputation.

Jules idiotic statement notwithstanding, I can't believe PBO has brought this as an option when the people on the other side of this debate flatly refuse to close tax loopholes that allow corporations to hide profits overseas.  So I guess it is on the backs of the poor and middle class that solve the deficit "problem."  

What middle class?

Ain't no such thing anymore.

Epic Pitching performance by Ranger Rookie Nich Tepesh.

This kid has pitched 305 inning of professional baseball and only 95 innings above A ball.

The Goldsmith Brothers have a great band.

These guys are young and they progress nicely with every release.

These guys are almost a part of the Wilco family...Pat

played on their first record.

Interestingly, I just finished watching their ACL show about an hour ago (I'm woefully behind on the DVR).  I've been listening to their stuff ever since the first record, and I very much enjoy hearing them.  The songs are plenty catchy.  However, I don't enjoy watching them--the stage show always feels so mannered, so calculated, so affected.  It feels increasingly inauthentic to me, fraudulent in a way.

 

(I followed up the Edward Sharpe viewing with the Alabama Shakes ACL, and the juxtaposition only intensified my reaction; the obvious sincerity of Alabama Shakes threw into sharp relief the insincerity of Edward Sharpe.)

The inauthenticity of Edward Sharpe I always took as intentional.

Alex Ebert is doing a commedia del'arte thing...it's all a part of a greater performance. The messianic Edward Sharpe and his band of musical hippies. Very contrived but purposefully so...the music being so catchy simply adds to the picture for me.

Okay,....so who is Silvio?  Looks like I am the dumb ass this time.

 

LouieB

A Sopranos reference

the other day i met 2 (TWO!) people who'd never HEARD OF The Who. didn't even ring a bell, with the logo staring them in the face and me telling them they're a classic rock band. seriously, true story, please read:

 

http://bumslogic.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/the-who-pop-culture-shock-at-a-pizza-place/

I may have related this story right after it happened, but as it involves Family and Music; is true and funny makes me want to share again.

On Super Bowl Sunday a couple of years ago (the year the WHO played the halftime show), I received a phone call from my daughter, then a Jr. in College.

(For the uninitiated, I use pseudonyms for family and friends...there are a lot of weirdos on the interwebs and some stalkerish types on here)

The actual language of this conversation is paraphrased a bit, but the gist of the conversation is good as gold.

Phone call received during the Who's performance...

Magic Kristen:  Dad 

Me: Hey Girlie...what's up?

Magic Kristen: What's the name of this band?

Me: The Who

Magic Kristen: The band playing the Super Bowl

Me: The Who. Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend

Magic Kristen: Dad...the name of the band. The band playing at the Super Bowl. Who are they?

Me: The Who. The Band playing at the Super Bowl?

Magic Kristen: DAD...What is the name of the band playing the Super Bowl?

Me: Kristen...look at the backdrop. The name of the band playing is THE WHO.

As I live and breathe, I certify that something like the above conversation actually occurred (only slight paraphrasing)

I had read an article about how Jeff hates performing new songs in front of an audience before he's finished recording them. Something about how it's hard for him to serperate the audience reaction to the quiet studio. I saw them play Walken the summer before Sky BLue Sky came out, I wonder if he still feels that way, or if any songs are recorded at this point. It seems they would have to be if they want to release an album this year..right?

And One Wing...

Two poor episodes in a row, with tonight's being definitely piss poor. Getting fed up with the ubiquitous sonic screwdriver too. Hoping for better with ice warriors on a submarine next week.

Piss poor is about right...this surely played like one of the lesser Tennant era shows. (But nothing will top The Doctor lighting the Olympic torch...absolute dreck).

And as for the new companion...not a very appealing last name for an American audience...and even for Brits. Oswald mosley and Lee Harvey Oswald. Why not just name her Sarah Mussolini?

Secondly, where are they going with this 'impossible girl' shit. Her background won't be timelord related...we saw  her parent's meeting and courtship. She won't be a 'love interest'; the Doctor is married after all (River...remember her?) She doesn't seem especially special outside of the fact that she is cute.

Moffat needs to start bringing his "A" game here. We waited a year for this shit?

I see. And like you said for that last bit, that was a product of the times. Not necessarily the person.

How come when I said the same about  myself, Louieb called me out and got a chorus of support?

Levon Helm.

I don't know that I watch all that much television, but I've seen a fair amount of stuff on the TV and internet that makes me want to stay on this coast. You're right about that attitude not being limited to NY or TX, though...my parents had some friends from Germany, and one of them did nothing but praise Germany (and how it had all these things that the U.S. didn't). Got real old, I guess.

 

As for London, the English have a long love affair with the whole western mythos, especially cowboys. I think of Bryan Ferry's Prairie Rose and some of Elton John's early stuff. It's downright weird. I guess that for them, it would be cool to be able to dress like that and look badass.

Goes back a LOT further than the early 1970's. You can thank John Wayne, Edna Ferber and Larry McMurtry, but it's more accurate to consider the general history of this state. The Alamo was legend before the Movie, and the Texas Oilman was a legend before Giant.

The Texas Rangers (the police force, not the baseball team) are legendary. But so is the RCMP. The American oil industry actually started in Pennsylvania, but do you think of Titusville or Spindletop? The Alamo is as famous as Bunker Hill. The name of Travis is almost universally known...the  line drawn in the sand. Unless you are interested in American History or are a scholar, the name of William Prescott is probably lost upon you.

Was it self promotion?  Or a confluence of events?

So the pride Texans have for their state is rather easily explained.

And after having dealt with people who fled their Rust Belt ridden wasteland states to come south for jobs and the weather, I can tell you the "if you don't like it, go home" attitude is often an honest sentiment that is warranted as a response to boorish behavior.

Nothing to  see here. Get on about your business.