caliber66

Hey, everybody poops, man.

Any band that has a hit song with the line "Don't bring me down - gross!" is a mopey band.

 

Jeff Lynne's perm should be in the HOF though.

I realized this morning as I was driving down to Charlottesville that I somehow confused ELO for T. Rex. Whoops.

No...but they don't belong the the RnRHOF.

Can you tell the story of the music without mentioning them? YES.

You can't tell the story of music without mentioning Dr. John or Johnny Cougar?

The Jam or T-Rex are mopey? huh...

Any band that has a hit song with the line "Don't bring me down - gross!" is a mopey band.

Jeff Lynne's perm should be in the HOF though.

Cheers

I found Simple Men on Netflix not too long ago.

What year did Draw the Line come out? That was when I was out.

I suppose you could say that's where you drew the line?

He's now checked himself into rehab.

Are we talking about Robert Urich or Jeff Tweedy's kid?

Todd Leiter-Weintraub

That documentary was filmed in 1971. Roy Buchanan was born in late 1939. He is the oldest-looking 31/32 year old I've ever seen.

Three posts to butt hurt. Not a record, but close.

U.S. can get credit for Israel's military might, but not so much their economic. Who has to "give" Arab nations the opportunity to industrialize? That's seems to me a very odd notion.

For every dollar that the U.S. has given to Israel in military aid, Israel can spend its own dollar on non-defense programs.

a meat grinder for young Americans

 

in vein.

Only one of these is an idiom.

For instance, if this had all happened in the back rooms of the Penn State Creamery, would the entire ice cream making department be shut down? Or if this had happened with the head of the theater department (if they have one), would that entire section of the school be shut down?

Probably?

Presented by who? "tax" was not in the law.

Oddly enough, it is paid to the IRS, however.

Good reason to vote for Romney, then, huh?

Jules said the above - I believe it was taken by some as being condescending. Actually Jules should contact his congressman and he just might get that visit - though I have a feeling his business is not in a Democratic district - so the district may not want to advertise the 100 hires ----- I could be completely wrong about that though - my point is, if you want the President to notice - write your Congressman. Jules standing next to the President would be a great picture.

What about either of those quotes is condescending to Jules's employees?

I took his statement to LouieB, where he called him dumb when he [LouieB] said that workers make stuff and business owners just hire, as an offense to people who are not in management or business owners. I took it as saying I could get anyone do work for me [Jules]. I do all the production, they [the workers] are cogs in the machine that I [Jules] created.

How the hell do you get that from Jules's statement?

It's all well and good to say that the song means what you want it to mean, as long as you want the song to be about drugs, which it is.

"highy" is correct.

I originally thought so too, but after looking at the lyrics surrounding it, it became obvious to me that he was describing the taking of a picture:

 

Won't you please

Bring that flash to shine

And turn my eyes red

Unless they close

When you click

And my face gets sick

Stuck, like a question unposed

 

I see the flash as the flash of a camera, and in pictures the eyes can turn red. Additionally, "click" I saw as referring to the click of a camera, and "stuck, like a question unposed" seems very much like a still picture to me.

Occam's razor, buddy. No need to put yourself through the mental gymnastics. The guy (and I'm referencing the speaker in the song, of course, not JT himself) enjoyed pulling some tubes. I'm surprised he didn't figure out a way to work "grip it and rip it" in there.

Certainly no problem here with a song about pot, but I'm a little more concerned with the not-so-subtle reference to recruiting others (climb aboard) to inject drugs (tracks of a train's arm) and float away. Leave the heroin songs to Son Volt, dude.

It's pretty clear that the song explores the singer's dependence on marijuana. If you can't figure out what

Bring that flash to shine

And turn my eyes red

means, I don't know what to tell you.