[quote=RolanK post_id=371472 time=<a href="tel:1602956865">1602956865</a> user_id=2795] Yes, the ending is intense. But also, SPOILER ALERT, imo the "right way" to end the story. There was just no way there could be a happy ending. It was never "ment to be". May not be the ending. They want to do a...

Pre season polls are bad enough, but ranking teams which haven't played in the same poll w/ other teams that have played as many as 4 games? Absurd. It puts a fine point on how much of an opinion poll this is (and always has been) Or as some might say, a guessing game ruled by hype and reputation.

Has anyone else noticed that the Dotard seems to be wearing A LOT of makeup recently? https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/18c3164/2147483647/resize/1160x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Ffa%2Fb4%2F54a6313d4a55a84992c738722ab1%2Fap20289649876387.jpg Yes. And have you seen th...

Early voting in Texas started today at 7am. I was in line at 640am. There were several hundred people ahead of me. By the time the polls opened there were at least another hundred behind me. I waited in line for a bit over two hours to cast my ballot. It was wonderful. Cathartic. Amazing. I've been...

The Bureau is a French spy series that I hadn't heard of and kind of stumbled into. The first season was very good - very intense and totally absorbing. We didn't quite binge it (too intense for more than a couple of episodes at a time) but on the other hand we finished all 10 episodes in just over...

Pre season polls are bad enough, but ranking teams which haven't played in the same poll w/ other teams that have played as many as 4 games? Absurd.

this remained true but thats about it. i get why it became such a massive seller but beneath all the sex and drugs and i didnt find it all that compelling a story. i read it in basically two 200 page chunks and in between it was hard to muster the enthusiasm to get back into it. Were the "good part...

Or, put another way, this is the intended result of decades of intentional bad faith conduct by the Republican Party possibly augmented by unusually high voter turnout by the standards of American presidential elections.

who act as if the state is a prison and they are the prison staff? I don't understand. What does this mean or refer to? It seems like everybody who can leave is leaving. I personally would never live in huge swaths of CA but might be persuaded to live in a few areas. It's a big place. But if a thou...

schlanky wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:36 pm

He played on his back porch and had a chorus of crickets throughout. If you didn't buy the show, it's worth the money just to hear the crickets sing along on the last song---that's the way that song was meant to be heard.

Yeah, the crickets were great.

bovine knievel wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 09, 2020 12:18 pm

Shocking.

"religious liberty" has come to mean "religious intolerance" or "some religions are better than others" Coincidentally, David Von Drehle's op-ed in today's WaPo is on point. I think it's a good, concise, non-hysterical summary of what the law is and should be and why the "religious liberty" folks a...

RolanK wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:57 pm

I would actually go as far as to say the horns theme on Sea Island Lonely is a strong nod to Otis' Sad Song.

I'll say! If that's not intended as a tribute to Otis, Sad Song or both you can knock me over w/ a feather.

pearlbeer wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:55 pm

You know...status quo.

Or as they used to say in the military, Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.

PS: No doubt that Trump went way off the reservation w/ his order to shut down negotiations. Surprised everyone. A lot of people are blaming the drugs. Could be, who knows?

The song is called Primer Coat. I think the music fits it well. Nice. And pithy too. Groupthink isn't healthy. Especially when it comes to politics. Words to the wise. Sara’s Flame immediately made me think about Once They Banned Imagine...something in the chords or intonation in Cooley’s voice. Ag...

This is an excerpt from a much longer conversation that I enjoyed. Fridman and Malice are interesting thinkers and while I tend to lean more toward Fridman’s way of thinking I do agree with more than just some of what Malice says. I’m not an anarchist even though my wife accuses me of being one. Lo...

Anybody have a clue what Trump's "no stimulus now" position is about? Was it just an attempt to put pressure on the Dems to accept the "skinny plan" that he later endorsed? Even by Trumpian standards the past few days have been dizzying.

That would be the formerly great now laughingstock Walter Reed Hospital.

The duality of the Southern Thing in real time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/opin ... 029039208a

They're not so much overtly political as they are excruciatingly topical. And really, that's the issue with a lot of political songs. They are just so specific to a single incident or time that they end up lacking those timeless universal sentiments that mark the best songs. "Putting People on the ...

As long as we're talking stupid, how about some equal time stupidity: There's some Republican Congressman (I think; might be a state official) who believes the recent covid outbreak among Republican officials including the president must be a conspiracy by the Democrats, because how come only Republ...

Cole Younger wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 04, 2020 11:45 am

What happened, bubba? I missed this.

sexting w/ a staffer. I think it was consensual, don't know if it was part of a physical affair or not.

I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink This NC "scandal" may be the last straw for me. No, I take that back, this last week has been one big last straw. But anyway, is it a REQUIREMENT that you be stupid at a histor...

Regardless of political views fans should respect this fact. It’s simply doesn’t exist enough in today’s music. lol what ?? It's literally all anyone in music is talking or writing about. Music, sports, your favorite cooking show, local car commercials, fishing shows, all politics all the time. I'm...

Count me as another who likes this better than The Unraveling. Which is not a slight on The Unraveling at all. But The New OK is tonally a lot more friendly and inviting, and there's stylistic diversity than there has been on a DBT album in a while, which I'm really digging. Seems odd to call it a ...

John A Arkansawyer wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 03, 2020 2:34 pm

[quote=beantownbubba post_id=371179 time=<a href="tel:1601740968">1601740968</a> user_id=66]As I suggested to Cole elsewhere, we all need to pace ourselves.

I rather took that to be part of the point of Slow Ride Argument.
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That’s so last album.

The only overtly political songs on the album are Sarah’s Flame and, of course, The Perilous Night. The New OK and Watching the Orange Clouds are certainly socially co copy’s but I would not call them political as both sound deeply personal to these ears. It could be argued* that we're in an age wh...

You don’t smoke cigarettes, in the interest of truthiness Neither do I? Fixed it for ya! Sheesh! Can't get away w/ anything around here. I wasn't being disingenuous or speaking in alternative facts, it's just that the phrase "warm nights having a beer and a smoke" evokes an image from black & white...

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Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:09 am

Iowan wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:21 pm

I think we’re arguing semantics here.

On this board? Never.

What do you mean?

I suspect PH has spent a lot more time than we appreciate picking songs and sequencing them for this release. At least as to sequencing, Patterson has a well deserved reputation for the time, care and thought he puts into sequencing. If I try to take a stab at the feel of this album, it's warm nigh...