True enough but with a new record and tour coming, seems to me he's back with his tail between his legs. I don't know the answer but i think we should check ticket sales for the tour before we decide Neil's terms of surrender. His statement said that because all the other streaming services "have s...

Agree with bubba that the song is about fathers and sons more than anything else. This song reminds me of my old man a lot. He never went to Chicago. He went to Las Vegas. And he went to Vietnam twice. The line about a country boy seeing steam rising reminds me a lot of him and my own experience ov...

Mundane Mayhem wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:10 pm

Probably the odds-on favorite to be my AOTY.

Like. How much remains to be seen but I'll be playing it for a while I think.

I love that he took shots at their lack of a high res service, too. It's ridiculous. I only use it for podcasts at this point. True enough but with a new record and tour coming, seems to me he's back with his tail between his legs. I don't know the answer but i think we should check ticket sales fo...

Eric Carmen of The Rasberries died too. Age 74. Go All The Way definitely a classic. Thanks for the head's up. I had not heard that. More sad news that will of course become ever more common as the makers of classic rock of all sorts age into their 70's, 80's and beyond. The Raspberries were a grea...

RIP Karl Wallinger of The Waterboys and World Party, dead at 66. I liked the Waterboys but i loved World Party for a few years back in the day. A sad day even if he wasn't so young

Started watching MI-5 ( Spooks in the UK). Thought the first season was pretty good, at least good enough to watch the second. The second season started out more or less at the same level as the first, but then came episodes 5 and 6 which may well be the 2 worst back to back episodes of a series i g...

pearlbeer wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:28 pm

she was actually barefoot during shooting. *full disclosure* I just made that up.

Maybe she wasn't barefoot but she is pregnant.

No, that's also an unfounded rumor. i just made that up. But wouldn't it be something?

brettac1 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:48 am

Damn that's a fun pair. I probably haven't thought about BBJ at all since back in the 9 Bullets incarnation of the board.

Same. iIRC littlemamma was a big fan.

pearlbeer wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:24 pm

This week...SXSW

Damn, man, that's quite a week. Very jealous.

Clams wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:16 pm

Just finished my first listen. I like it and can see myself liking it a lot. Hmmmm... maybe I shouldn't have given away my signed vinyl copy that I won at the Nuci's auction. LOL.

Hehehe. I see nothing wrong w/ kicking an asshole bully when he's down and "Ron DeSantis" is pretty much the definition of "asshole bully." I only hope the shift the article describes is actual and not just wishful thinking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/09/desantis-florida-woke-cult...

Katie Britt apparently referred to Biden's foreign policy as a "strategy of appeasement." 😵‍💫 Not only does "appeasement" not mean what I think she thinks it means, this habit of repurposing words to suggest their opposite is another version of alternative facts and is just flat out scary. Whatever ...

So I'm reading Mother, Daughter, Traitor, Spy, the latest book from Susan Elia MacNeal, an author I like. About 2 chapters in she provides the main character's "bio," and says she graduated from Boys & Girls High School in Brooklyn. We already know the character graduated college in 1940 so we're ta...

An interesting interpretation and historically you're right in terms of Cooley's preoccupations. But I don't see the racial aspect in this particular line/verse. I hear it as more of a class-based commentary on how crime is perceived, i.e. everyone complains about "street crime" but nobody notices ...

BTW, the Supreme Court's decision in the 14th Amendment disqualification case is not surprising. The fact that it was unanimous is a little bit surprising. I have not yet had time to review the decision to try to figure out the substance of the decision, but I'm not highly motivated: It's pretty cle...

In the middle of a spy show called Hamilton* which we had never heard of before. Verrrry complicated plot but keeping our interest so far. Depending on how the complications play out this can go a lot of ways (both as to plot and quality) Finished season 1 of Hamilton (which might also be called Ag...

Just for yucks, try this 10 question civics test published by the Smithsonian. It's not particularly challenging but it can't hurt to see if anyone needs some brushing up on the basics. I wonder if people who believe that IVF is part of a plot to create animal-human hybrids could pass such a test? T...

IVF? What is there to say about something so fundamentally stupid and wrong (and frighteningly anchored in religious doctrine that is clearly unconstitutional) that even Republican spokespeople are running away from the decision without, of course, acknowledging that they brought this about by brin...

Having caught up w/ Masters of the Air we're taking a break from it because we prefer to watch multiple episodes at once rather than one per week. However the show turns out from a quality/enjoyment perspective, one thing that just burns through bigger than life is the courage of ordinary soldiers. ...

So, the tv critic for the Boston Globe, Matthew Gilbert, who's usually pretty good, said he loved TDNC up until the last episode which he hated so much it ruined the entire series for him. Thoughts, before i decide whether to take the plunge? Watch it. The finale ties up all the loose ends, which i...

The Greatest Soul Album of All Time One of my favorite things about traveling to Europe is shopping for music (usually cd's, occasionally vinyl). Europeans have a wonderful appreciation for rock/soul/r&b/blues music and often a slightly different take from American taste, especially as expressed th...

Finished up True Detective: Night Country last night and really enjoyed it. Jody Foster is an amazing actress and I wouldn't be surprised to see her win some awards for her performance. A big THANK YOU must go out to the Ringer for its obsessive coverage of the show which helped me to understand (a...

On the merits, "everyone" is appropriately shocked at the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Trump's immunity claim. But what else is new? As my parents would have said, the Court is a shonda* and has been for some time. If one assumes the best, i.e. that they will eventually deny Trump's claim, then c...

I think it is mathematically or spatially impossible for us to occupy the exact same ground 72 or 96 hours a year but not meet (I think we did meet briefly years ago when the hangout was at that bar, not cine but I don't recall meeting you since). Maybe next year. Yeah, that is weird lol. There wer...

I guess it's a good thing that this thread had sunk to the 2nd page, but What. The. Actual. Fuck????? :shock: :shock: :( Six to twelve FEET of snow predicted this weekend for the Sierra Nevadas. With winds over 115 MPH and blizzard conditions. I mean, seriously. Has anybody actually heard of 12 feet...

I was quoted today in Rory Smith's NYT soccer newsletter. I think that's worth at least 50 extra fantasy points, don't you?

I knew nothing about The Paranoid Style until homecoming and since being introduced to them, have become obsessed. Admittedly I was only able to understand roughly 1 out of ten lines sung but the one line I understood was usually a really good one. Also I can understand issues with Elizabeth’s voic...

Today's newsletter from David French is, I think, a fascinating take on the growing sociopolitical divide between men and women (title: "Men are from Mercury, Women are from Neptune"). Since it's a newsletter, I can't link to it and it's too long to copy wholesale. If you subscribe to the NYT I assu...

No doubt a lot has been going on lately but it strikes me that it all adds up to nothing. Just a lot of churning of the same old same old, some days better, some days worse, but none of it changing the overall state of play. But damn one could go blind reading even a small fraction of the words devo...

Nice, brett. And thanks for posting here. I think it is mathematically or spatially impossible for us to occupy the exact same ground 72 or 96 hours a year but not meet (I think we did meet briefly years ago when the hangout was at that bar, not cine but I don't recall meeting you since). Maybe next...