Darth Drabek

I'm sorry for your loss.

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - First to Finish, Last to Start

Fountains of Wayne - She's Got a Problem It's like I was saying in the iPod thread, sometimes it's just nice to have something tangible. I like browsing through the budget bin at any CD shop, looking for a gem to add to my collection. edit: I believe Kor's got a thing, and that thing is called radar love.

Yeah, I picked up the album for five bucks used this weekend. Although the three songs I knew stand out, there are a lot of other quality tunes on there. Son Volt - Moonshiner That's a nice lunch break tune right there. Good rootsy, acoustic music. Dude, I love the bass lines in "Watching the Detectives." Great song. cut to baby takin' off her clothes closeup of the sign that says 'We Never Close'

Anything with Greg Dulli or Ryan Adams in it.

Played some Smash Brothers with my nephew yesterday. It's been a few years since I played it, but I still have that magic touch with the baseball bat. Although it pained me, I even let the little whippersnapper win a few times so he wouldn't get too whiny.

Comedy Central has been playing Napoleon Dynamite pretty much all weekend, so I'm guessing over the last few days I've seen most of it. I saw it a while back when it first came out on DVD, and although I'm not about to buy a "Vote for Pedro" t-shirt, I do believe it's better the second time, and maybe the third.

Fountains of Wayne - Survival Car

Whatta kick. Well, it's Bears vs. Saints next week.

Did you guys see Reggie Bush get piledrived into the turf? Holy cats, that was a hit!

This thread has taken a Patriotic turn... something that won't happen in this weekend's game, when the Chargers take Tom Terrific to the turf! Alliteration is fun!

Sure, he could do it. Just let him arm himself with Tank Johnson's arsenal.

Yeah, those one-liners were great. Cab driver: You owe me $10 bucks. Gimme the dough! Ah-nold: Bucks? Doe? Vot ez all dees zoo-o-logical talk ahhbout male and vemale ah-nimalls?

Razorlight - Up All Night A co-worker loaned me their first album for the day. So far, so good.

Arnold's career was truly launched with Hercules in New York (1970), one of the funniest movies ever made. Amazingly, I found it on DVD a few years back. I still watch it once or twice a year, I'd say. I have the version with Arnold's original (non-dubbed) vocal track - it's damn near unintelligible at times.

Oh man there's some great ones on that list. Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold was a fantastic Wolfenstein clone, set in the future. And Terminal Velocity, man I didn't even remember that as an Apogee game. That was reason enough to have a joystick for your PC! The Genesis was my first console. I remember playing a lot of Sonic, Street Fighter, Road Rash and NHL Hockey. there were also the lesser known games, like "Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude." My grandma bought that one for me, presumably because of the nonthreatening-looking fellow with the skateboard and frisbee on the cover. Still, the island-hopping ways of Greendog were highly entertaining - Thanks grandma!

Yeah, I'm feelin' it too. I just found out yesterday that MS did harmonies on the last Counting Crows CD. Matthew Sweet - Evangeline just tell me how you want it we won't be seen you can tell your father it was all a dream try her on, she fits like a glove too bad the only man you trust is god above

If that's proven to be the case, he will get canned. Maybe it should've happened already, but if his team doesn't improve next year, his firing is inevitable. Nobody is arguing that football players shouldn't play hard and want to win. If they even care at all about the team, of course they will be frustrated after multiple losses. They may even have suggestions: maybe they think their talents aren't being utilized to their full potential; maybe they think a new strategy would help put some W's on the board. Good, that means they care - if they didn't I wouldn't want them on my team. Unless of course their concerns are for the good of their free agency value and not the good of the team ... but I digress. But if they have suggestions, or even if they want to whine, it doesn't do any good to call out the coach in the press. The losses speak for themselves. Let the analysts analyze, and don't throw your teammates or coaching staff under the bus. Go through internal channels with your suggestions or complaints. I'd bet the coach would be more receptive to your ideas if you voice them in his office rather than with a cluster of microphones in your face.

I do what Wals and Plano do. If I pay money for something, I want something more to show for it than a computer file. I want to be able to burn it to a CD, as many times as I want, for my own personal enjoyment. I shouldn't have to circumvent any restrictions to do this. Music that I've paid for shouldn't be locked in my PC. I want to be able to create my own mp3s by ripping them off my CDs, or even from friends' CDs. I don't see that as any different as taping a song I like off the radio, like everybody used to do back before the digital revolution. If I like an album well enough, I'll want to add it to my collection. So then you buy it - less disappointment that way. I had a 128 MB Creative player for a few years. When it died on me, I bought a 512 MB Sansa that does everything I want and nothing I don't want. I bought my parents iPod shuffles just because neither of them are tech-savvy, and they won't be buying any music online - just ripping it from CDs and putting it on their Shuffles.

At TE, Gates and Gonzo are the tops. I agree that Shockey is the epitome of "dumb jock." And he went to Miami, so that's another reason to hate him. He provided the mold for "K2," my hometown's version of the big-play, big-mouth TE. That's not where the similarities end: Cleveland might hire Romeo Crennel back as a lame-duck coach, which will make it even more difficult for him to manage discipline on a team of prima donnas whose numbers don't validate their massive egos. Volo, you sure love to defend whiny receivers. Plax was notorious for sulking when a game wasn't going his way in Pittsburgh. Yes, he's talented - but he's a headcase. Even in this league, where talent talks and doesn't fear the repercussions, I still believe a coach needs to his players to fall in line. Forgive the clumsy military analogy (I've never served, but I have watched a lot of war movies), but when a brigade goes off to war, does the field commander allow dissenting remarks about his tactics? It's okay to want to win, but respect for your leader is necessary. If that respect is unfounded or misplaced, at least in the NFL they'll be back next year with a new coach.

is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay? she's the kind of girl you want so much it makes you sorry still you don't regret a single day Great, great song. Matthew Sweet - Winona

I finally got around to listening to that new Modest Mouse track... I like it a lot. I was also interested to read that apparently Johnny Marr is in the band now. I mean, he was in The Smiths! Under provisions of the Morrissey Association Act of 1999, that should reinstate all the "indie cred" Modest Mouse lost when they committed the sin of having a hit song. I have a feeling their bitter fanboys will still hate them for "selling out." Louis XIV - A Letter to Dominique

Hey, maybe Cowher will be on the market again by then, too. I'd love to see The Chin get in Shockey's face and give that punk an earful. On the other hand, a reunion with Plax might not be that enticing for Cowher. I don't know, I can't wrap my head around the possibility of him coaching anywhere else than in Pittsburgh. I guess we'll see though.

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed

Lucero - She's Just That Kind of Girl