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    How was the next day?

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    I've been recuperating all day from one hell of a weekend. The bachelor party I planned for my buddy went well. A total of 12 dudes drove or flew to Chicago, where we participated in some joyous debauchery, soaked up the sun with the bleacher bums at Wrigley Field, and caroused our way through several fine drinking establishments.

     

    All in all, we came back plenty of with stories we can't tell. So, "great success!"

    My exercise regime

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    Good job~ :p

     

    How better are your pants fitting? Thats the true measure of hpw much weight you're losing. :p

     

    No kidding. That was one of my biggest motivating factors to lose some weight... I only had two pairs of pants I could wear to work without being uncomfortable.

     

    Kudos to you, Wals!

    The Music Thread

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    Anybody have any experience with satellite radio? My new SUV has Sirius preinstalled into the deck already. Damn there's a lot of stations on that thing.

     

    The Clash - Train In Vain (Stand By Me)

     

     

    I've got a friend who has it. He wrote a story about the "satellite radio wars" for the paper when we worked there.

     

    I guess Sirius is killing XM, at least in our area, because people go into Best Buy and say "Which is the one with Howard Stern? I'll take it."

     

     

    Lucero - She's Just That Kind of Girl

    The Music Thread

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    1979- Smashing Pumpkins

     

    thanks for the link DD, I'm gonna go ahead and take advantage of that deal they have for the live cd and peace, love and anarchy

     

    Lemme know how that live CD turns out. It's got my favorite songs from The Devil You Know on it.

     

    I've got that live CD he put out a few years ago. That's a great one for me, because he plays a lot of his best songs from his early albums -- the ones I don't have.

     

    Todd Snider - D.B. Cooper

    Ohio Senate tells strippers to back off

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    Social conservatives 1, strippers 0

    Posted by Aaron Marshall April 17, 2007 12:41PM

     

    A bill that would effectively end the strip club world as we know it in Ohio passed the Senate Tuesday afternoon in a 24-8 vote.

     

    Senate Bill 16 was proposed by an initiative petition filed by the Citizens for Community Values, a Cincinnati-area group that successfully pushed the gay marriage ban in Ohio. The bill was approved 7-1 Tuesday morning by the Senate's State and Local Government Committee.

     

    The bill would put in place a 6-foot rule separating patrons and performing strippers and cause adult clubs without liquor licenses to close at midnight. Those with liquor licenses could keep serving alcohol after midnight, but no performances would be allowed.

     

    The committee vote wasn't without intrigue, as several conservative Republicans on the committee appeared to be struggling with supporting the bill.

     

    Read the rest HERE

     

    Now let's forget the fact that this would never, ever be enforced. Ohio's public school funding system was ruled unconstitutional 10 years ago and still hasn't been fixed, manufacturing jobs are disappearing as factories close up shop, and this is how our representatives are spending time? Debating how much safer strip clubs would be if the strippers were six feet away?

     

    Hell, some of the old folks I've seen in places like that won't even be able to see the girls if they're six feet away!

     

    It just doesn't make sense to me. What are they trying to accomplish? I don't think the change would improve the secondary effects" the article talks about -- high crime rates, declining property values and urban blight -- because the clubs will still be there.

     

    They aren't even trying to remove the strip clubs -- they're just making them less fun.

     

    Thoughts?

    The Music Thread

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    I picked up 'John Fogerty: The Long Road Home' from my local independant music retailer today. One cd. Twenty five songs. And it's a mixture of his better solo work and Creedence tunes. It gets major props for having The Old Man Down The Road, yet loses points for not having 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' .

     

    John Fogerty - Hey Tonight (live)

     

    Put me in coach! [guitar fill] I'm ready to play!

     

     

    The Broken Family Band - Walking Back to Jesus, part II

    The Music Thread

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    Todd Snider - Peace, Love and Anarchy

     

    dude, where did you get this from? I had heard about it, and I even have an autograph promoting it, but havent seen it at all...

     

    The False Husband- Isobel Cambell and Mark Lanegan

     

    Haha, actually my dad burned it for me. I don't know where he got it, but it's for sale at Amazon.com.

     

    I listened to it a few days this week driving to and from work... it's got some really cool stuff for a B-sides and rarities disc. It's got a cool version of "Nashville," a great gospel tune called "I Will Not Go Hungry" and a instant live favorite called "Combover Blues." It's also got the title track from East Nashville Skyline... the one that didn't make the album.

     

     

    Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

    Movies You Have Seen Lately

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    Oh Jesus, I saw the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie last night. I think my brain is still recovering.

     

    Now I love the show and its surreal brand of comedy, but I think a full-length movie was a bit much. The first five minutes were fantastic, though. Pure genius, as well as a great way to make sure everyone in the theater knows what to expect for the next 90 minutes.

    The Music Thread

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    np: BOaT - Circle Sound "Roro" ()

     

     

    You guys are seriously in a rut. Get some new music, even thinking of listening to this much of Afghan Whigs makes my ears bleed.

     

    Pardon me if my favorite band reinvigorates my interest in them by recording their first new songs in eight years.

     

    Let's see what other music have I bought/downloaded/borrowed in the last few months. If I haven't heard it, it's new to me, right?

     

    Lucero - Rebels, Rogues and Sworn Brothers (pissed I missed their show last week)

    Todd Snider - Peace, Love and Anarchy

    The Rentals - Seven More Minutes

    Black Diamond Heavies - Every Damn Time

    Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band - Put Your Ghost to Rest

    Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots

    The new Modest Mouse CD

    Say Anything... Is a Real Boy

    Wilco - A.M.

    Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

    Son Volt - Trace

    Ray LaMontagne - 'Til the Sun Turns Black

    Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With the Living

    The first Ben Folds Five CD

    The new Voxtrot CD

    How the Supersuckers Became the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World

    The Letter E - No. 5 Long Player

    Paul Gilbert - Acoustic Samurai

    Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

    Johnny Cash - American V

     

     

    Somehow, even with all this new stuff to try, I still end up listening to old Afghan Whigs tunes. Hey, I can't help it if the cream rises to the top, ya know?

    R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut

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    One of my colleagues was telling me that in Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut introduces each character by describing his member... length, girth, the whole shebang.

     

    I think I was too stunned at such an ... interesting take on exposition to ask the question I now pose to you, Obsidian literatti: Were there no females in this book? And if there were, how did he introduce them?

    Say Hello to Mr. Big Nose.

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    With each 3D GTA game, it's the same story. I can play them for hours and hours, but eventually I get frustrated and cheat my way through a mission.

     

    San Andreas was different though. I got fairly far in the game without cheating (My brother was out of prison) before just giving up.

     

    Just driving through the countryside in those games was more fun than any "driving/racing" game I've ever played.

    How was the next day?

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    My day's been good. I'm "working from home" today, because of construction at work. They're expanding our office , and today they were knocking down a fairly large wall. Supposedly, they're going to put up a plastic wall, but there will probably to be dust everywhere on Monday anyway.

    The Music Thread

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    Wilco - Passenger Side

     

    Hey, wake up, your eyes weren't open wide

    For the last couple of miles you've been swerving from side to side

    You're gonna make me spill my beer,

    If you don't learn how to steer

     

    Passenger side, passenger side,

    I don't like riding on the passenger side

     

    Roll another number for the road

    You're the only sober person I know

    Won't you let me make you a deal,

    Just get behind the wheel

     

    Passenger side, passenger side,

    I don't like riding on the passenger side

     

    Should've been the driver, could've been the one

    I should've been your lover, but I hadn't seen...

     

    Can you take me to the store, and then the bank?

    I've got five dollars we can put in the tank

    I've got a court date coming this June

    I'll be driving soon

     

    Passenger side, passenger side,

    I don't like riding on the passenger side

    I don't like riding on the passenger side

    The Music Thread

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    I had wondered what Jello Biafra had been up to these days.

     

     

    other than being a mayor of a small town, making records and running a succesful record label?

     

    Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he's "busy." But where's my Prairie Home Invasion follow up? Get to work!

     

    Seriously, though... he got elected somewhere? I remember him running for mayor of San Francisco years and years ago, but it was mostly a joke.

     

    And it's good to see that AT is still signing interesting bands...

     

    BLOODHAG

    Hell Bent for Letters

    Formed in 1995 to stimulate a communion between literacy and punk/metal, BloodHag created the genre of Edu-core and operate under the motto "The faster you go deaf, the more time you have to read!" BloodHag's minute-long songs have the common theme of esteemed authors such as George Orwell and Philip K. ****, while the music roars along with the blunt force of bands like Brujeria, Pantera, and Sepultura. Their live shows include between-song mini-lectures and the ceremonial pelting of the unsuspecting audience with books! Brand New!

     

    virus357 (2006) LP - $9.00 | CD - $12.00

    The Music Thread

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    Very interesting. I had wondered what Jello Biafra had been up to these days. And if there ever was a link not to click, that was it, Kor.

     

    Wussy - Retarded

     

    Rippin' cover of an old Afghan Whigs tune. It had better be on the upcoming tribute album, which I am eagerly awaiting (along with like, ten other people).

     

     

     

    you're never alone

    with your jones...

    The Music Thread

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    You know, I'm pretty sure I've never heard a Toby Keith tune.

     

    Jello and The Melvins - Kalifornia Uber Alles.

     

    sigh...

     

    "we'll put a boot in yer ass, it's the american way!"

     

    Here's a much less jingoistic one from his earlier years. I didn't mind him back then, with his Def Leppard-esque backing vocals and fantastic mullet. Oh, and I loved the shootout in that video. Gives Eastwood a run for his money, that's for sure.

     

    By the by, is that version of Kalifornia Uber Alles much different than the DK one?

     

     

    Right now: Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

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