Sweet Papa Crimbo
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So the BBC is coming out with web shorts focused on Amy and Rory all this week, called Pond Life. I guess it will bring us up to date on what the Ponds have been doing since last we saw them.
Wonder what River has to say about his 'running into' Mata Hari?
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This may just be the correct answer.
Make that Vic Chessnut, Townes Van Zandt and Alejandro Escovedo
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He's 50 years into his recording career, and I found myself smiling with glee listening to this.
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they sound as if they are blowing it up mid season. wonder how much of the traded salary boston will have to eat if the trade goes through.
There is one more I would show the door for that heinous crew.
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Cowardly, Gutless and Classless.
If they don't blow this thing up after the season....
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I'm wondering when Mike Scioscia is going to start feeling the heat. All I was hearing from the national baseball media before the season started was how the Angels were far and away the best team in the west and more than a few projected them as the preseason favorite to win the World Series...
And then they added the second coming of Mickey Mantle (yeah...Trout is really all that).
As of today, the Angels are nine games out and are seemingly floundering.
I don't want to hear how the Angels pitching staff is hurting or how Albert had a bad first two months.
The Rangers had 10 different pitcher make more than one start this year with two (including the prohibitive staff ace) out for the year.
Michael Young and Mike Napoli have lost their stroke (Young's OPS+ is at 71) and Josh Hamilton has a HORRIBLE two months in the middle of the year, but the Rangers keep plugging along.
Ron Washington has had some muted criticism that he isn't a good in-game technical mananger, but HIS team performs for him. Just how hard do you think it must be to motivate a team that has lost two world series in a row. This team has the best record in the American League.
Wash's team PERFORMS for him.
If Wash doens't win manager of the year this year, they should stop giving out the award.
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The absolutely worst thing that happened to the fiscally conscious wing of the Republican Party was the rise of the influence of Grover Norquist.
There is no room for nuance or compromise anymore.
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Graham Parker reunites with The Rumour!
Brinsley Schwarz and Bob Andrews: two of the most-underrated sidemen in the history of rock. This can only be good!
http://www.rollingst...ecades-20120822
Provided, of course, that Graham writes a good batch of tunes.
I'm exicted about this...but damn...that picture of those old men...
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Word is he was suffering from an inoperable brain tumor.
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How about in the context of Pod?
Pod? Pod People?
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i don't have a problem w/ the songs you mentioned...yeah they can be a bit sentimental and sappy, but not nearly to the extent of Hey Jude...the fake wigout at the end and the endless na-na-nah-na part is the absolute worst.
you are right, but that criteria by itself doesn't excuse a song either (hello, "achy breaky heart," etc).
You just lost a lot of credibilty by comparing "Achy, Breaky Heart" to 'Hey Jude'.
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No one could tell me I can't enjoy things on these terms, but it's still a strange kind of fandom.
Bumped for good use of irony
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Maybe back then. I can't stand hearing his interviews anymore. He is overtly aware of his place in musical and pop culture history. Listening to McCartney talk about his accomplishments on repeat turns me off to him and, in a way, the Beatles. I don't listen to them much anymore. I get bored with it quickly. Then again, this all coincides with my Dylan fascination the last five years or so. And it's not just Bob's music. I don't have to listen to him constantly reminding me of what we all know he did, and when he does speak, he's usually putting us on. I rather like it that way.
I think McCartney has become extremely defensive of his place and accomplishments because his dead former partner tagged him with a negative image (that Lennon probably really didn't mean) that he has no way to combat.
Dead men cannot take back hurtful comments and they really can't be challenged on their merits.
Lennon has an almost religious following (abetted by Yoko Ono) that will vociferously assert that Lennon was a genius and McCartney was a hack.
Truth be told, they were better together than they were apart; Lennon died too young; and McCartney will always be insecure about his legacy.
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hard to shed any tears for boston.
valentine is an ass and the players appear unable to accept any responsibility for anything.
How can Lester complain about the pressure of playing in Boston and expect any good from it? (and i love Lester).
Pedroia is a punk; Lester and Gonzalez are whiners; Ortiz appears to have quit and the entire clubhouse is a pit of plotting, scheming prima donnas.
And Valentine gets the blame. I guess you can't fire 25, although this team could sure use a really good house keeping.
Theo and Fran got out just in time. Fran probably wanted to stay, but Theo bailed out faster than a Casino Queen wife.
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Crow Daddy Magnus®, on 17 August 2012 - 05:45 PM, said:
HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN
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That's curious. That song is in my top ten all time beatles list.
There are a few songs that I simply cannot listen to out of the context of the album on which it appears: THE CONTINUING STORY OF BUFFALO BILL, HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN, PIGGIES, THE WORD, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE....hmm.
Lennon songs...
Out of the context of the White Album.
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Hey Jude is awful. horrible enough that i hope to never hear it again.
Hey Jude suffers from the simple fact that it has been really over-consumed by the music listening public. My parents, my children and the grandchildren of friends all recognize the song. And I know my grandmother knew it too.
A song doesn't become a part of the consciousness of four generations because it is a 'horrible song'. Shit. It isn't Afternoon Delight or I ain't gonna Bump no more with no big fat woman or Celebrate.
McCartney has/had the gift/curse of being able to write songs that seem to be ingrained into the DNA of a large part of the populace. Yesterday; For No one; All My Loving; Here, there, Everywhere; When I'm 64; Fool on the Hill; Hey Jude; Let it Be; Band on the Run; Mull of Kintyre...fluff? Possibly...maybe even probably. But one cannot tell the story of the modern rock idiom without pointing to the sense of melody and the music hall that McCartney brought to the table.
McCartney's optimish and mawkishness was perfectly balanced by Lennon's anger and cynicism. Together, they had seven year recording history that changed the face of music for the last half century
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What did Lennon once call a certain thread of McCartney songs, was it "Granny music"?
Lennon was sour, angry, disillusioned, sad and more than a little jealous from late 1968 to the mid-1970's.
I hear a lot of self-loathing and self-pity in Lennon's early solo work.
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There are a few songs that I simply cannot listen to out of the context of the album on which it appears: THE CONTINUING STORY OF BUFFALO BILL, HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN, PIGGIES, THE WORD, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE....hmm.
Lennon songs...
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Thunder Road (Bruce & Roy)
Hungry Heart
Sherry Darling
Summertime Blues
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
We Take Care of Our Own
Two Hearts
Wrecking Ball
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
Knock on Wood
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
Thundercrack
Frankie
Prove It All Night ('78 intro)
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Working on the Highway
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Backstreets (with Dream Baby Dream interlude)
Badlands
Land of Hope and Dreams
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Who'll Stop the Rain (acoustic)
Rocky Ground
Born to Run
Detroit Medley
Dancing in the Dark
Quarter to Three
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
American Land (with Ken Casey)
Very nice looking set list...but I have a few general comments.
1). Magic was a really good record. Why does has he not managed to play more songs from this record? GIRLS IN THEIR SUMMER CLOTHES is a wonderful song. But so are GYPSY BIKER, RADIO NOWHERE, LONG WALK HOME, MAGIC...Is he avoiding the anti-war songs because of some misguided thought that the Wars are over? Or that playing these songs will be attacking Obama (whom he so very strongly supported)?
2). Adding a DREAM BABY DREAM interlude to BACKSTREETS sounds like a stroke of genius.
3). I REALLY like the revival of the solo piano arrangement of THUNDER ROAD.
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The red sox are totally bumming me out this year. Seriously.
Last year couldn't have been very uplifting either.
They really need to tear it all down in Beantown. Things are apparently so bad in that clubhouse that only a handgrenade could solve things.
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Besides the Beatles?
LET IT BE kind of kills that
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So it turns out that one of my co-workers knew Paul Ryan years ago: she actually went to the same high school with him, although she was not in the same class. She told a couple of us a rather funny story about how he was running for some type of office at the state level, I believe, and came literally running up to her at the state fair to try to secure her vote. He grabbed her hand (and held onto it) and started out with, "I know you're a Democrat, but..." She said the whole time he was talking, all she could think was, Eeewww. You're touching me. Stop touching me. Hahahaha.
Anyway, out of all the words she could use to describe him, what word do you suppose she used? Was he a jock? That wouldn't be a big surprise. A nerd? I could see that, for a future policy wonk. Could he have been a stoner who became a straight arrow Ayn Randian? Anything is possible.
Nope, it wasn't any of those. The word she used was sociopath.
Nothing like a good, old fashioned ad hominum attack from an old school mate...
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As usual we are talking to ourselves. I drove by the New Apartment Lounge yesterday and took a picture to post on Facebook. It is very sad that we won't be going there ever again for one of those wonderful nights.
LouieB
Not everyone here is from Chicago.
Not everyone here is a Jazz fan.
No one should be shocked that an 88 year old man in ill health passes. (Don't mean to be harsh, but sometimes this seems like the 'Chicago' in Viachicago is more important than the inspiration for the board.)
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So I take it you wouldn't take a liking to my idea an offseason trade scenario along the lines of: Boston sends Pedroria, Gonzalez, and Aviles to Texas for Kinsler, Andrus, Moreland, and a decent minor league pitcher (under the scenario of Hamilton leaving)?
Good God no. I wouldn't trade anything for that gutless bunch from Boston.
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