Sweet Papa Crimbo

Undoubtedly there's a disconnect between best, greatest and favorite.

For me, it's all the same guy

How many wars did Clinton lie and mislead America into?

Either one too many (Ask the Serbians) one too few (ask the Rwandans).

In other words, according to the Clinton administration, ethnic cleansing in Southern Europe...bad. Genocide in Central Africa...well...let's not talkabout that.

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.

 

Waiting for the eventual mashup with Snakes on a Plane.

 

Just a solid fun episode. Nothing too earth shattering like last weeks. I think is was more for the kids than anything else.

 

No Owsin unfortunately.

 

7.5/10

There was a very telling exchange between Amy and the Doctor about mortality and traveling with the Doctor...that and the fact that there is no recorded record of the existence of the Doctor.

Something's brewing...

Obviously, I have to limit myself to the Jeff songs.

So, that said:

Gun

Acuff-Rose

Watch Me Fall

This...

or Maybe Long Cut or New Madrid instead of Watch me Fall

You don't know what you're missing.

Unless it's IRememberDBoone

the things that dream are made of

I'm not really surprised, but a little disappointed that One Sunday Morning has all but disappeared from the setlists.

While this is a truly wonderful song and was one of the highlights of the show I can see how it doesn't work in a live setting. When played with Poor Places and Art of Almost, it is dramatic and offers a definite emotional statement of purpose.

Set opener or encore showcase, it seems to simply be too emotional and quiet to really work without certain contextural accomodations.

Isn't is interesting how banal the embodiment of true evil appears?

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Having a bad day Bjorn?

Coventions are tent revivals for the faithful.

One cannot glean anything substantive or important from these self-congratulatory jerk fests.

I decided to tackle an impossible (for me) task:

Ten favorite Springsteen songs

The task seems insurmountable, but I decided to break his career arc into three phases .

1973-1978

1980-1988

1990-present

Lost in the Flood

Spirit in the Night

Thunder Road

Backstreets

Jungleland

Born to Run

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Racing in the Streets

Incident on 57^th Street

Rosalita

The Ties That Bind

Independence Day

The River

The Price You Pay

My Hometown

Born in the USA

State Trooper

No Surrender

Valentine’s Day

Walk Like a Man

If I should Fall behind (Wait for me)

Human Touch

Better Days

Girls in their Summer Clothes

The Ghost of Tom Joad

Lonesome Day

The Rising

Long Walk Home

Streets of Philadelphia

Jack of all Trades

As it is, I have left more than a few great songs off (Growing up, New York City Serenade, Badlands, Promised Land, Reason to Believe, Nebraska, Brilliant Disguise, Beautiful Reward, Book of Dreams, Straight Time. Another 10 right there.)

So...

As stab at the ten favorite Springsteen Songs:

Girl in their Summer Clothes

Lonesome Day

Incident on 57th Street

Lost in the Flood

Backstreets

Jungleland

The River

Racing in the Streets

Streets of Philadelphia

Born to Run

This was really hard.

I will have a totally different take tomorrow, but codifying it here will open up what could be a pretty interesting debate.

(I don't have the guts to try this with Dylan. Just Not Gonna Do IT/)

From you? Or just by coincidence?

LOL

Happy day of exit man!

I guess sometimes it's got to be enough to be the best band in America and making a breathtaking record.

Don't get me wrong, Candyfloss is excellent, but in 1999 the teenage girls were listening to Backstreet Boys, NSync, and other boy bands.

It's a moot point.

Do you mean back in 1999 this song would catch the ears of teenage girls?

Why not?

But it never had a stinking chance.

Given the emotional and addictive state of various members of the band, not achieveing massive success is probably a good thing.

And let's see if his emminence Archbishop Tutu will calll for PBO to face war crimes charges.

I don't expect people to be logical in their arguments, I just expect them to be honest and consistent on important points.

I just figured out that PBO meant President Barak Obama.

I think I'll go eat a sandwich.

From Forget the Flowers--

You're trying my patience, try pink carnations, red roses, yellow Daffodils

What I want to hear is:

You're trying IMPATIENS, try pink carnations, red roses, yellow daffodils.

Would keep with the flora theme...

 

 

I confess I have apologized for Obama on these issues as a "lesser of evils" (excuse the cliche) argument. Bush marches the troops in by the thousand, and while Obama seems to do a decent job of marching them back home, he also sends drones to kill more specific targets. I think Obama sincerely looks to capture, detain, kill etc dangerous men who would hope to do harm to our nation. The problem is he continues (and in some ways extends) the Bush administration's habit of overstepping legal and ethical boundaries to do so.

 

**Edit/ PS** I just stumbled across more of the bizarre footage of Eastwood at the RNC. At one point he digs into Obama for having the horrible idea to try convicted terrorists in NYC. Apparently Obama's brief flirtation with due process is worthy of derision.

He might have 'marched them back home' from Iraq, but the body bags are still being filled in Afghanistan.

And as for overstepping legal and ethical boundaries...if I remember correctly, Sadam Hussein stood trial in Iraq, was convicted and duly executed.

While I shed no tears for bin Laden, Obama has not moral high ground to assert here. It was a revenge killing. That and the indiscriminate use of drones to attack targets in Countries we have not declared war against and the excessive civilians killed would earn Obama a place on the docket with Bush and Blair in the Hague.

It's rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Sorry, I was crossing my attention between 2 threads. Still the MP3 though.

The movie and TV industry managed to survive and thrive in the age of digital downloads...why not the music industry?

Lack of imagination. Luddite thinking. Greed. Stupidity. Mismanagement. Short sightedness.

But this is probably better suited for another thread. Don't want to sully the glory that is Candyfloss.

I'd say that's the MP3, but I suppose it could be bad music journalism, you may just be onto something there.

Actually, I was referring to the music industry execs.

You score a copy?

Or even notingsevergonnastandinmyway (again).

Idiocy abounds in moribund industries...these guys have the blood of the music industry on their hands/

i think youre confusing tongue in cheek/snarky blog posts designed to get web hits with music journalism.

Same animal, different stripe. The buggy whip factory that is the hard copy music magaine/newspaper have been pushed to irrelevancy with the anarchy of the interwebs. These guys want web hits just like the magazines and newspapers wanted to sell you printed paper.

It just makes me feel like an old man railing against 'progress' when it is in fact 'regress'.