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holy hell--people have got to get their act together. Horrific

I like how every song on that album is very explicitly about how awesome it is you get to listen to KISS. Got to love KISS--the dumbest band on the planet. I mean that in the best possible way. Been a fan for over 25 years and seen them a bunch of times.

The Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi version of Dracula and Evil Dead. Both really hit an old school, pre-slutty nurse costume, Halloween vibe.

Cutler is an arrogant mess who is no way near as consistent as Fitz...and Fitz has serious consistency issues. Cutler has a lot of talent, but he clearly does no have the mind of a starter. He's too easily rattled. Look at his bad games. Once he starts making mistakes the wheels fall off. How many INTs did he have last year? It was over 25 if I remember correctly. Who needs that stress? We have enough problems already.

nothing too earth shattering here, but Tiki Barber has a couple interesting things to say about Fitz http://sports.yahoo.com/video/player/nfl/22632929#nfl/22632929

I love the PS3--free online community, blu ray, intuitive controller, cheap downloadable games... and not for nothing the worst part about online gaming is online gamers. xbox live seems to have a metric ton of hyper aggressive d-bags. PS3 is mellower. my experience at least.

Book: The Monk--Matthew Lewis. Insane gothic novel from about 1791. It's the time of year for horror based lunacy Album: The Dirtbombs--Dangerous Magical Noise. Huge sounding soul/garage rock. Also I have been listening to the jeff Buckley live album Mystery White Boy a lot recently. Not much of a live album (each song comes from a different gig. Lots of dead air between tracks.) But amazing versions of his songs. The version of I Woke Up In A Strange Place is particularly great. Movie: Liquid Sky. I'm not even going to bother and try to explain this movie. Total facemelter of crazy yup, amazing record. Just in case you don't have it, buy Here's Where the Strings Come In. My favorite Superchunk album. A stone cold bastard of an album.

to flip this around, I'd argue the 24 hour news cycle has numbed us to evil. With these atrocities, various wars and terrorist attacks...the Jersey Shore...being beamed into our faces all day the shock and confusion that came with witnessing pure "evil" has faded. Evil actions and evil personalities become obnoxious talking points for partisan hacks as opposed to moments that actively shock us. Can you imagine what the coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis would be like today? We'd be praying for the apocalypse just to get the chumps on CNN and Fox to shut up.

I'll totally agree with Cinderella. They get lumped in with the stupid hair metal thing--but actually a real good band. Sleazy party metal--good stuff. A few of those glam bands are kind of under rated: hanoi Rocks, Wasp, Jetboy, LA Guns, Kix. That may be it. Can't think of another. Oh, Junkyard. Ok, that's it.

Callahan is amazing. Califone I'm a big fan of--have you heard Red Red Meat? Everyone from Califone was also in RRM. For my money their Bunny Got Paid album is one of the best LPs from the 90s. I'm going to second Palace/Bonnie "Prince" Billy/Will Oldham/Superwolf/whatever else he's calling himself. Here's a few more: Railroad Jerk, Royal Trux, kitty Galore, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and De La soul. Always on heavy rotation. All of it. And in honor of their expanded reissues coming out this week--any Soft Boys fans? Really amazing psych-pop

+ whatever for Clutch. Killer band and an amazing live show. I'll add a few: Dr. John. his first two albums (Gris Gris and Babylon) sound like swamp Tom Waits. The quality plummeted after like 1970--but I will always go to bat for those first two records Electric Light Orchestra. Huge dense pop---awesome. Dinosaur Jr. J Mascis is one of the greatest guitar players to ever walk. Dude needs to be in the guitar god conversation The Byrds. Byrds always get left out of the "great bands of the 60s" conversation. Amazing songs and cool guitar work. Husker Du. The most ambitious punk band. Zen Arcade will burn the paint off your car. Perfect. Hawkwind. Weird proto metal with Lemmy on bass Oneida. One of the more ambitious bands I can think of. Pushing repetition and noise onto off kilter pop. At times difficult, but always rewarding. Love. Have you heard Forever Changes? Amazing. I could go on and on. One of my favorite bands.

with the offense stuck in a perennial game of catch-up the emphasis needs to be on passing. The offense can not risk not getting points knowing the other team will very easily get at least 3 on the next possession. I would imagine the offense would look different if given some breathing room. Although I do not feel the Offense is great by any stretch, I can say I see a huge improvement. Trent used to work to get to the red zone...Fitz works to get to the end zone. Everything is still a mess--O Line included--but the offense has at least become functional. First two games were 3 and outs every possession. Now points are going on the board. Improving? Yes. Good? Not really. Freshness is not the defense's problem. it's not like they are stopping anything in the first quarter. They have become useless for the entire 60 minutes. What changed? Perry left. I don't know what Fewell was doing, but looking back I think we need to give him more credit.

the defense giving up over 30 points a gam doesn't help

That is arguable the least trashy thing that has gone done in Oklahoma for years

From 1959-1963 rock and roll barely existed on the pop charts. Lots of genre fads (surf, folk, teen idols) but rock and roll was essentially dead. The Beatles ended up opening up the possibilities of the style. The rise of the LP, coincidentally, came along at the same time as the Beatles. It was they who really discovered what a two sided album could actually accomplish, artistically. Pre-Beatles, LPs were collections of singles and some throw away covers. Post-Beatles we have Pet Sounds, dark Side of the Moon, London Calling, Remain in Light etc etc etc. None of which could have been recorded without the Beatles paving the way. Also check out a song like Eleanor Rigby or A day in the Life. Mind blowingly revolutionary. Eleanor Rigby is like a short story--no chorus no hook, just a portrait of this woman. A Day in the Life really opened up the sonic possibilities of the studio. More importantly there is no previous variations of those songs. They were not building on what everyone else was doing. They did it first and everyone else followed. Took me 31 years to get into the Beatles--but those reissues last year totally hooked me. Amazing band that still sounds pretty fresh totally. Suppose that comes from being ripped of by everyone. Fun Facts: The word "rock and roll" was coined by Alan Freed...but it's black slang for sex. Chuck Berry was the first to really market himself as "rock and roll," though it was Ike Turner who invented it. plus this John Lennon stood for something. He transcended music to become a symbol. Melodramatic but true. His murder carries a symbolism Dimebag's could not.

yes, and one step further it is suicide to toss a rookie QB in the mix as the full time starter. We should be trying to emulate the Green bay model and let the rookie learn behind a vet for a couple seasons. Fitz is pretty good--not super bowl good; but, if the defense ever starts to remember they are on a football team we are looking at some wins.

um 900 is really not very high at all. You realize that's out of 1600, right?

they sure were. For my money still the best releases of the films. In widescreen, but with all the lo-fi charms Lucas has been hell bent on scrubbing out.

This should be saved and read aloud every time someone gets upset for our jabs at players. Well said.

I did, but I ended up getting much closer to Sazerac Rye. It's been a much more fulfilling relationship

you do need to be impressed with that level of heartlessness. I actually found out about it all via facebook status update. That's professional level cold.

Things turn around when you least expect it, I bear witness. A year ago I was teaching film, in graduate school and engaged to a girl I was madly in love with. Within a week this past april my fiance revealed she was not only cheating on me, but married the other guy before we even broke up, and lost my position in my graduate program. Totally drunkenly bottomed out after that. Took a few months, and my current job is pointless in every way, but life is getting really great again. Life is a pain in the ass, but even after the worst times it eventually swings back towards the positive. And, although its a cliche, the awfulness gives you perspective. People who go through these rough stretches are infinitely more interesting than the lucky.

sort of..but the jets are a very sloppy teams. Once things start going wrong they totally fall apart. Sanchez, in particular, is susceptible to stupidity. That's a guy that can throw 4-5 picks a game, easy. If our D shows up Buffalo stands a pretty good chance. But that is a pretty big if.

I wholeheartedly agree. There has been a lot of chatter about Trent needing 4 seasons to fully prove himself, yet people lose their minds when Fitz throws a couple INTs. I don't feel Fitz has a chance to be one of the elites; however, if given a season I do think a lot of his issues could be sorted out. At the very least last week Buffalo was the worst team in the league, but now not even close. That alone should means we never say the words "Trent Edwards" again. Honestly, if the D played as well as Fitz that 13 game streak would have ended hard today.

here's all I know, I can't think of a single three and out drive today. I can not remember the last time that was the case