Darth Drabek

We held hands in the temple, but we had no wedding day Now she sends me perfumed letters and I throw them all away A buddy just gave me Frank Black Francis.... what do you think of that stuff? I like the horns added on the new Holiday Song. I also like the new Into the White. It'll take a few more listens to form a more cohesive opinion on some of that stuff.

I never got a cell phone until I got a job and an apartment, and that's worked out well for me. I also highly recommend headsets, and not just for driving. I can make a sandwich, do laundry or play video games while talking to people, and without getting a stiff neck. I don't have a land line. A lot of people my age that are just moving into the working world are going that route. I just figure, if you're going to have the thing with you at all times then why would you pay an extra bill for an extra phone line? Also, I'm just plain cheap. As evidenced by by lack of cable TV or Internet as well as a land line. It was odd in college, when everyone else had one and I didn't, but that had its advantages. Like when a boss calls you to come into work early but can't reach you because you've "been in class" or "out running." That's worth being socially out of touch. Besides, I usually knew what bar to find my friends at, anyway.

My user name is a tribute to the only pitcher in major league baseball history with both the name and the demeanor necessary to be a Sith Lord.

"It's indie rock and roll for me."

Lovin' the new avatar, KQD. Bob Dylan - Changing of the Guards

Traditional sitcoms bore me. They've all been done before. Everyone Loves Raymond? Come on. More like "Everybody thinks Raymond is mediocre." Family Guy Aqua Teen Hunger Force Sealab 2021 I enjoyed Seinfeld and Frasier while they were on, although I lost interest in Frasier after a few years.

Yessssssssss. (Johnny) Mnemonic devices rule.

Cake - Hem of Your Garment

Lepidoptera.... you clever fox, you! I can't believe I remembered what that means - I haven't taken a biology class since high school. I always preferred Coleoptera myself.... because I'm such a big Beatles fan! Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family genus, species.... did I get it right?

Wow, this is getting pretty bad. Soooooo.... how bout that comedy? I hear it's funny stuff.

Honestly, that's what I hear too. When I'm at work, I just post songs that are running through my head, or that I just heard in the car. Buffalo Tom - Dry Land

Anthrax - Antisocial

Which of these things is not like the other.... Quitcha ill-associatin, rude boy! Note: I am not disrespecting your opinion that any of the above genres of music are in fact, crap. I was just curious why ska is lumped in there. I never mentally catalogued those ska kids and their shiny shoes with those other genres.

Not Capt. Hazel "Hank" Murphy? "I'd be an Adrian Barbot-bot, with laser beam eyes, and big chainsaw hands! BZZZZZZZ! BZZZZZ!"

Let's see... rap is not my primary genre of music, but I have managed to find some really cool stuff out there. I dig the Deltron 3030 album that Del the Funkee Homosapien made with Dan the Automator. I've found just about anything the Automator touches ends up being pretty good. He had a mixtape album of sorts called "Wanna Buy a Monkey?" that had a a lot of remixed or reproduced songs with other awesome artists he's worked with, like De La Soul, Gorillaz and Lovage . I also like Quality Control and Power in Numbers by Jurassic 5, and NWA before they lost Ice Cube and Dre. Also, I felt an obligation to listen to some Public Enemy to "get myself educated," so to speak, and I've come away with the conclusion that Chuck D is a genius. Yo Lare - Is Dalek on Ipecac Records, Mike Patton's label? I'm asking because I think I saw them open up for the Melvins and Tomahawk a year or so ago.

Cake - Jolene Jolene unlocked the thick breezeway door Like she'd done one hundred times before Jolene smoothed her dark hair in the mirror She folded the towel carefully and put it back in place

I'll check the boards or make a short post while procrastinating at work, or write something lengthier from the local library. I don't have the internets at home. Who needs it, right?

I love the smell of napalm in the morning! You know, I loved the movie, so I was very hyped to finally read Heart of Darkness. I thought it was disappointing. While we're on the subject of great war movies: The Bridge on the River Kwai = fantastic.

Yes. Yes it is. The surf influence is one of my favorite things about the pixies.

Seems like pixies is working his way through Surfer Rosa. Joe Jackson - One to One I agree with what you say But I don

The music industry just wants to make money. And play the latest by-the-numbers Nickelback song three times an hour. "This is how you remind me that she's just a woman and look at this photograph...." Terrible. Between that and the "crunk" revolution, I've stopped listening to the radio. Indie labels are the way to go! Like this one, although they don't have too much going on anymore.

Seymores - First Lady of Delaware Sort of reminds me of a less nerdy and desperate version of Nerf Herder.

What's the difference though? I mean when does sampling stop being a rip-off and start being creative? I'm not having a go at rap here, I am rather partial to it. Hell, one of the best live shows I've been to was a hip-hop show. I also saw the Beasties at a festival last year and they are still phenominal. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I guess the "difference" in my mind is how clever the piece is, and how much they are doing with the sample. Are they using the sample as a crutch or as a platform to get to something greater? I can dig someone hearing a particular riff and saying "Man, I wanna take a ride in THAT car, I've got some siiiick ideas," but I don't know about basing your hit single off a repetitive slice of a hit single from 20 years ago. That's another thing. In my book, the more obscure the sample, the better. If it's unexpected, or out of left field I can appreciate it more. That Jessica Simpson song from a while back that "sampled" Ventura Highway by America is a double offender. Not only was it a huge hit in the 70s, but she pegged the whole damn song on that guitar riff. It's just pounding you over the head with it! I thought the Beasties using "When the Levee Breaks" on "Rhyming and Stealing" was cool, because 1) they messed with it a little so it wasn't quite the same beat you were used to, and 2) it wasn't like they were sampling "Stairway." I also thought the Gray album was a brilliant idea because the samples DJ Danger Mouse chose were totally out there. I mean, meshing Jay-Z's The Black Album with the Beatles' White Album had to present a huge challenge, but he pulled it off with aplomb. And although he used "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Helter Skelter," he also sampled "Julia" and "Piggies," two of the more obscure songs he could have picked, and made them work with the Jay-Z material. I never said rap wasn't music. At its best, it can truly move people. Witness the guy that destroys that Kanye West song "Never Let Me Down," with some seriously amazing rhyme and flow. I've heard it's Saul Williams, but I guess there's some debate over whether it's him or not.

And here I thought this was going to be a thread about the ethical implications of "sampling" and how rap musicians are nothing but musical vultures, scavenging any decent riff they can find and financing their Lexuses (Lexii?) with the hard work of "real" musicians. I *am* being sarcastic, but only about 85 percent. Jay-Z and Danger Mouse create The Gray Album = good. Jimmy Page sells his soul and plays Kashmir for Diddy's mediocre rhymes = bad I'm all for creativity, and some rappers have that. Others... not so much.

Smoooooooth. Afghan Whigs - My Curse