bjorn_skurj
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So wait, you work at the Bunny Ranch?
I was gonna guess Screw magazine.
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Per usual, well stated. You should write Op-Ed pieces, dude.
Thanks man. My latest on the Kingston High School bond was an OpEddy tour de force.
I like this method, too, and I might have the Old 97s be my number one as well, if only because the last two times I had tickets to see them (both "Too Far to Care" album shows!) I had to miss out for family reasons. They kick ass live, and most of their records are good-to-great, but they have a few forgettable ones in the catalog.
That said, Wilco is my favorite band. I like all the albums (though some are better than others), and there are very few dud songs. I could say the same thing about the Beatles, but I never saw the Beatles live, and I've never experienced a "new" Beatles record, so I'll never have the same relationship with them that I have with Wilco.
One of the most amazing things about seeing the Cirque de Soleil Beatles thing in Vegas was the experience of hearing their music on a really loud and really really good sound system.
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Being free from the strictures of conformity is good. Even better is being free from the strictures of non-conformity so you can like what you like, regardless of how popular or not it is. I think I have exquisite taste in music, but I know that only applies to the space between my own ears.
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I envision it as a pyramid, with The Beatles at the top, as their music makes me feel happy in a way that no other music does. Wilco is on the next level, alongside Sabbath, Zep, Floyd, Gabriel-era Genesis and The Clash. Quite a bit on Level 3 - A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, The Band, Collins-era Genesis, the Dead, etc. But yeah, The Beatles now and forever at the top, above all others.
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MMJ is legal in New York - I saw them at SPAC this summer!
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Like, Albert Camus/The Myth of Sisyphus absurd, or absurd as in a Monty Python sketch?
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It is quantified through empirical observation of length of head and facial hair.
1988 (upper right, in the tie dye)
2006
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2006 was my hairiest year since 1988.
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It's a vicious cycle. Perhaps Obama could win back some of his lost popularity by setting up a program of federal subsidies for drugs and alcohol. There could be a website.
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Probably better to just give them drugs and alcohol directly and cut out the middleman.
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Jimmy looked a lot younger when he gave that speech.
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If I am in a really good mood, yes. Otherwise, no.
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I saw them at least three times back in the '80s. I wonder if the deceased was the guy who gave me a very dirty look when, during a show in late autumn of 1986 at Vassar, I yelled "Let's go Mets!" after he introduced the band as being from Boston.
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One of my personal favorite eBay purchases was the complete set of original Squad Leader games, gamettes and supplemental boards and other material (in used but good condition) for like $200. Playing war is fun, but actually being in one sucks major choad. I imagine it's like the worst campout ever combined with the opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan."
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Let the kid grow up and be a kid. Start a punk band. Sleep on floors. Play shows in people's basements.
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This reminds me of something a guy I used to work with said about a top IBM executive who gave him a hard time once while my friend was janitor-ing: "He shits out of his asshole, just like everybody else."
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"Speak Into the Rose" - Stockade Tavern, Kingston, N.Y.
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Aqualung my friend, don't you blah blah blah blah blah blah
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I never thought I'd praise a rap, hip-hop album, but The Low End Theory is such an extraordinary record with very smooth sounds, I could listen to this all day. I think the whole album sounds like it was an entire, very large song, the vocals allowing you to surf on a wave of jazzy beats.
Yay you! The very apex of rap music.
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That's 5 minutes of my like that I'll never get back.
I'm sorry man, but if you didn't think any of that was funny, then your sense of humor needs a look-see by a certified professional.
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Hey, why don't we take a break from endlessly debating the motives of a dude none of us have ever even met and read this?
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-weirdest-things-weve-learned-since-911/
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My take on Zimmerman is that he's a pathetic schlub who let the power of carrying a weapon really get to his head. He's a walking example of how NOT to comport one's self while armed.
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Afghanistan is a nut which will not ever be cracked by traditional U.S. nation-building techniques. They do not want our law or our ways there.
You just can't live in Texas unless you got a lotta soul
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I bet it's the best tasting crime scene since at least Manson.