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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Books Thread
- Replies: 2426
- Views: 788264
Re: Books Thread
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter is a little bit different. The story is told completely in the form of transcripts of and news reports about a true crime tv series. I enjoyed it but I imagine the format is not for everyone. But it's a quick read so it's not a big investment of time if you want ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Books Thread
- Replies: 2426
- Views: 788264
Re: Books Thread
Check this out bubba. Winslow has retired from writing novels & is battling the forces of evil: Yeah, I knew he was retiring (or at least saying so) and I've seen some of his political posts/writings but I didn't realize that he is formally and directly engaged in the political stuff. Needless to s...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: Who's Everyone Seeing Live?
- Replies: 7484
- Views: 2069090
Re: Who's Everyone Seeing Live?
Angelique KIdjo last nite at the Somerville Theater. Fantastic performer, great band.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62473
- Views: 14094771
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
As they say in France chaque un a son goute.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62473
- Views: 14094771
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
But why?
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: Artist of the Week 04/18/11 - Neil Young
- Replies: 711
- Views: 310799
Re: Artist of the Week 04/18/11 - Neil Young
Agree or disagree with the rankings and/or the commentary, this is still an absolutely jaw dropping tour de force.
https://uproxx.com/indie/neil-young-best-songs-ranked/
https://uproxx.com/indie/neil-young-best-songs-ranked/
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Southern Rock Opera Redux
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3752
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Southern Rock Opera Redux
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3752
Re: Southern Rock Opera Redux
FWIW, livenation is pimping VIP tix for Chicago pretty hard.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Southern Rock Opera Redux
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3752
Re: Southern Rock Opera Redux
No doubt it'll be a gas, gas, gas.*
*I'm giving myself permission for this one because i don't believe i've ever used it before over all the years.
How are ya? How's Emily? The kid?
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Books Thread
- Replies: 2426
- Views: 788264
Re: Books Thread
When I saw Deadly Game by Michael Caine on the library shelf I asked myself is that the Michael Caine? The answer was yes, so curiosity piqued, I grabbed it. Kudos to him for branching out and for apparently writing the book on his own. As for the result, meh. I liked the main characters. The plot ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62473
- Views: 14094771
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
Beyonce' - Cowboy Carter I suppose calling a Beyonce' album overhyped is kind of redundant, but that doesn't make it untrue. It's good but it's not that good. And it's a little bit country but it sure isn't a "country album." That's neither diss nor praise, just fact. I'd say that if there's a them...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Books Thread
- Replies: 2426
- Views: 788264
Re: Books Thread
When I saw Deadly Game by Michael Caine on the library shelf I asked myself is that the Michael Caine? The answer was yes, so curiosity piqued, I grabbed it. Kudos to him for branching out and for apparently writing the book on his own. As for the result, meh. I liked the main characters. The plot w...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62473
- Views: 14094771
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
As for Blackbird, it's a pretty basic tune and song. If you stay faithful to the original, which Bey does, I think it's kinda hard to screw it up To be clear, I don't think she screwed it up at all. I was just hoping she would do more of a personal interpretation along the lines of any great cover ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Fisherman’s village music festival
- Replies: 7
- Views: 169
Re: Fisherman’s village music festival
I disclaim any implication of wisdom and I don't know anything about this festival in particular, but in general DBT festival sets are shorter than typical rock shows. If they're not headlining and in the middle of the bill you'll probably get about an hour and if they're closer to the top of the bi...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: the Springsteen thread
- Replies: 264
- Views: 78142
Re: the Springsteen thread
After seeing the band on Thursday and Sunday, I'd say if you have an opportunity to catch one of these shows to do it. Both nights were great and the sets had some good variation to them. Bruce sounds really good so far on this run. Yeah, the last couple of days I've been really wondering whether I...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20805
- Views: 4915256
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Jonathan V. Last has an interesting column in today's Bulwark. He asks whether Trump is, in quantum physics terms, a particle or a wave, i.e. a symptom or a cause of the threats to the Republic associated with him, and concludes that he's both, which is imho the easy and correct answer. In the cours...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20805
- Views: 4915256
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Trump's public social media company started trading yesterday. It closed its first day of trading selling at about two thousand times projected annual revenues. Plus it's losing millions of dollars. It's not a question of if, only when this thing crashes and when it does I don't want to hear any wh...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62473
- Views: 14094771
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
Beyonce' - Cowboy Carter I suppose calling a Beyonce' album overhyped is kind of redundant, but that doesn't make it untrue. It's good but it's not that good. And it's a little bit country but it sure isn't a "country album." That's neither diss nor praise, just fact. I'd say that if there's a theme...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62473
- Views: 14094771
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
Elvis Costello - King of America
Big Star - Radio City
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Big Star - Radio City
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20805
- Views: 4915256
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: the Springsteen thread
- Replies: 264
- Views: 78142
Re: the Springsteen thread
Wow, I"m sure that was quite a moment for Zach and very validating too. Although headlining arenas have got to be some pretty big moments just by themselves.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20805
- Views: 4915256
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
I never approached the issue like this. To me, it is a no-brainer policy decision to raise it. Clearly, a very unpopular position from a political perspective, but seemingly necessary from a financial standpoint. The age discrimination angle certainly changes the lens through which I now view it. I...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Books Thread
- Replies: 2426
- Views: 788264
Re: Books Thread
Gregg Hurwitz's Lone Wolf is one of the best entries in his Orphan X series and a welcome return to form after what I thought were a couple of lesser efforts. The depiction of the protagonist's struggle to deal with and be a part of "the normal world" is one of the best examples of the evolution of ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The TV thread
- Replies: 3666
- Views: 1049567
Re: The TV thread
The adaptation of Juan Gomez-Jurado's Red Queen is pretty good (it's in Spanish w/ subtitles). It is always very difficult to translate a book that relies so much on internal thoughts/monologues/processes and which needs to convey how genius works and I think they did a good job w/ that here. But I'...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: College basketball 2019-2020
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24176
Re: College basketball 2019-2020
Bump. Go Clones Since it's likely my high water mark, i guess this is the place to point out that one of my brackets is in 3rd place in my group. Of course my second bracket is 28th (out of 30). I see that the Cyclones were the championship pick of almost 5% of "ballots." That seems impressive even...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Southern Rock Opera Redux
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3752
Re: Southern Rock Opera Redux
has anyone received the email to actually claim the tix yet? I have received a never ending cascade of emails from TM most of which are highly redundant. But the last set, received this afternoon, lists a 4 step procedure to actually access the tickets. As chuck said, they'll actually show up in yo...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
- Topic: Southern Rock Opera Redux
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3752
Re: Southern Rock Opera Redux
Damn. Good luck!Sterling Bigmouth wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:49 pmTicket request didn’t work out, guess it’s the general on-sale for me.
Disappointing, but on the bright side hopefully that means there’s plenty of early interest in the shows.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Other Bands / Music News (non DBT-related)
- Topic: What's Everyone Listening to?
- Replies: 62473
- Views: 14094771
Re: What's Everyone Listening to?
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame Inspired by my recent expedition to hear Nick Bartsch's Ronin (see live music thread) which is actually pretty different but has enough similarities to give me a push I thought I'd go way back in the way back machine for this one. The best of it s...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: College basketball 2019-2020
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24176
Re: College basketball 2019-2020
Bump. Go Clones Since it's likely my high water mark, i guess this is the place to point out that one of my brackets is in 3rd place in my group. Of course my second bracket is 28th (out of 30). I see that the Cyclones were the championship pick of almost 5% of "ballots." That seems impressive even...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
- Replies: 20805
- Views: 4915256
Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Based on the stories that pass by my screen, I think "we have to save Social Security" is going to be back on the public agenda soon if it's not already. And inevitably there will be calls to raise the retirement age. I think a careful raising of the retirement age (i.e. geared to those who statisti...