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ideally speaking, in this thread. :) funny story about the falls ... so my wife is from utah, where all the national parks are a half day's drive from salt lake and pretty much in the middle of nowhere. yellowstone, zions, bryce, moab ... all 4-5 hours away, and all are in pretty remote areas. we went to visit my folks in WNY back in 2004. being her first trip out, she was really excited to see the falls. from my old house, it's about a 30 minute drive, none of which is considered "remote." as we were getitng ready to leave, she packed up some books (she was in the masters program for speech pathology at the time, and thought she'd get in some studying on the drive). i just kind of chuckled to myself, got in the car, and we all took off. 30 minutes later and after going over the GI bridges, we stopped at the 3 sisters. "okay, we're here. " she got this really confused look on her face, as if we were pulling some prank on her. "wait ... what? no we're not. what's this place?" the look on her face was just priceless. all the buildings, all the tourism, all the trappings ... and in the middle of it all is this incredible waterfall. she just couldn't grasp it. "why are all these buildings here?!!" after we got back to the house, we started talking about the differences between the falls and yellowstone. it really made me really appreciate the pristine nature of all the parks we have out here.

Thanks. I actually choked on dry pretzel because of that one. Well played, master. Well played, indeed.

co-workers whose seemingly sole purpose is to push buttons and taunt. especially in light of today's health news. EDIT: Bio, I just read your post. I'm so sorry!

indeed, it was MJK.

they're bringing an 8-piece string section to help out on this tour. didn't end up with vegas tix like i had hoped, but this is just the first leg. they'll be doing another leg next spring/summer/fall. it's heavily rumored that they'll be doing clockwork angels in its entirety. you lucky bass turds. 2013 can't get here fast enough.

Trivia: do any of you know who sings the parts of "NOT BY THE HAIR OF MY CHINNY CHIN CHIN!!"?

where?! on a res? we're paying 3.59 our here.

nice! road trips are the best. enjoy the ride man!

photoshop. when i can take a hodgepodge of pics and pop them in to PS for a panoramic merge, and it comes out looking like it was one pic, that's awesome.

came home to a package from shirtchamp.com. it's time to get tie-dyin'! backstory: stumbled across this obsession with tie-dying about 11 years ago. bought some crappy little kit from a craft store, and threw together some shirts. truthfully, in looking back on those now, they truly were horrible, but we thought they were awesome at the time. and who knows ... maybe in another 11 years, i'll look at some of my shirts now and think "yah ... utter sh**." for fun, we ordered some dyes from dharma trading and made shirts for our family and friends as christmas presents. they were a *huge* hit. everyone loved them. since then, we've made a scant few for birthdays and what-not, all to rave reviews. someone suggested that i start selling them. i thought they were out of their mind. sites like etsy are riddled with tie-dyers who have way more experience than i do. for kicks and giggles, i threw some pictures up on facebook and said, "anyone interested in something like this, i'll make you a custom shirt for $10." a few people gave me their shirt size and favorite colors, and i made them shirts. they wore them, and told their friends where they got them. their friends wanted shirts. they MSGed me over FB and asked if they could have one or two. "sure." my aunt ordered 18 shirts for her family's reunion in july. with her outstanding payment and everything else so far, i've made over $400 by just playing. with that extra cash and with some internet savvy on how to get cheap hotels, we're going to moab in a few weeks for next to nothing. and that's IF i don't sell any more shirts. the more i sell, the less this trip costs. moral of the story: if you have a hobby that's kind of artsy-fartsy crafty, you *might* consider posting somewhere and asking if anyone will buy your crap. you just never know ... F'N FANTASTIC!

i feel for you, man. the state and the AG/AAG should be pressing charges if your boy is able to articulate exactly what happened. sounds like you got a bum detective. i'd call the station and ask if another detective could be assigned to the case.

from wikipedia (yah, yah, yah ...) duck vs. duct duck brand's version of history A fly in the ointment

just my $.02, but i've never had my jaw come unhinged like it did when i first heard the intro to "clockwork angels". i agree with CV's list, and i can see where weave is coming from with his favorite track, but for me, it's the title track. and definitely give it a few more spins. listening to it even a few times doesn't allow you the time to digest the whole thing. this cd is meaty, linear, and incredibly deep. my first few times through, i listened to it for just the music. after i was comfortable with that, i perused the lyrics, and that's when the whole cd really began to click for me. never really heard any of slash's solo stuff. not out of purpose ... just haven't sought it out. might have to give it a spin.

yah, i love that RS put forth the effort to review usher's new CD, but not rush's. between them and billboard, i think they have the market cornered on crap.

okay, that's a good point. even with those tragedies though, i don't remember ever thinking that they might not ever write again; i remember thinking that i hoped that he would heal and find some kind of peace--whether that's through new music, new adventure, new love ... whatever--just find that peace. and i guess he did. things like that tend to make me respect the person and put the band on a back burner. if they had never written another CD, i would have been grateful for TFE back through their first album. i guess my point is that it never dawned on me that they might *not* write more music. it didn't dawn on me that they might. come to think of it, not much dawns on me. hmm. i will say this: if they hadn't made this last CD, and "snakes and arrows" was their swan song, i would have been relatively disappointed. but with this cd ... if this is to be their last, they go out on a heretofore unprecedented high note. to come back full circle to your original question, i'll pose a new question: where do you see the band in 10 years. cuz here's what neil said in a rolling stone interview: Do you still see yourself working like this in 10 years? I don't think it'll be possible, honestly. What I do is so athletic that I'm glad I've been able to hold onto my peak this long. And like I said before, I dedicate myself all the time to that kind of physical stamina and fitness levels and not to let it go. It reminds me of something a good friend of mine, Doane Perry, said – the drummer for Jethro Tull, another very long-lived, if ever-changing, unit. He was saying that even when Tull goes off the road he can't stand to stop. He's afraid if he stops he won't be able to do it again. And I kind of get that. I'm afraid to let go of the fitness and the peak and the devotion to the instrument in one way or another. in reading this, i take it to mean that the desire will always be there; the real question will be capability. at this point, age is definitely a factor! it's highly unlikely that he'll be able to drum like this for many more years. if they have another record to make, it'd probably need to be soon ... and with their schedule being what it is for the next couple of years, it's probably not going to happen.

10-15 years ago, they were 45-50 years old. if the stones, in their 70s, can keep going (albeit sadly and pathetically), then yah--i figured they'd be around a while longer. "clockwork angels" is their masterpiece. ha ha ha! i totally missed this! sorry man.

well, take the whole thing in context: he said making an album any more is a waste of time. or something along those lines. he wasn't specifically referencing "clockwork angels." but yah, that kind of floored me.

Not a complaint so much as it is a depressing thought: Someday, Alex, Geddy, and Neil will stop making music. THAT is sad ...

12 Angry Men is one of my favorites. My wife and I love old movies. Arsenic and Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby, old Hitchcock movies, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart movies ... yah. Good stuff.

i'll have another was the single reason i wanted to watch the belmont. i like watching sports history unfold. kind of why i'm rooting for the kings. but with the tendonitis and announced scratch, i'll be spending my afternoon re-organizing the car port shed. whoo ...

easily one of the most productive days in recent memory. cleaned off the driveway of all weeds, edged the sidewalk and driveway, swept out the car port, organized the car port shed a little bit, did a load of dishes, weeded the backyard, hung out with my mom for a few hours, and got a nice hour-long nap while my mom and wife took the girls to the school playground to play. made dinner for the girls since wife is out at bunco, and now i'm going to chill with some netflix.

having off every other friday is pretty awesome. especially when it gives me a chance to catch up on all the yardwork i need to get done.

two words come to mind. the second is "yes!" the first rhymes with 'truck." my wife and i have already decided that we're going to NYC when these are done. we missed out on the twin towers. that won't happen again.

i'm about 10 listens in. hey, i have nothing to do at work right now, and we're in that "ebb" phase where nothing's coming in, so i sit here and listen. at first i was focusing on just the music. there's no other way to put it: it's jaw-dropping. there's a sonic dynamic range to this album that they haven't had since "hold your fire." the string arrangements on "the garden" are haunting, but flip a 180 and the guitars on "seven cities of gold" and "carnies" is gut-punching. the dire, frantic and phrenetic intro to "clockwork angels" conjures up memories of pink floyd's "one of these days," yet we're whisked away on some melodic interlude for about half a minute until guitars rip your ears apart in riffs that reminisce of "grand finale" from 2112. no, this thing is their masterpiece, in my opinion. their classics will always be their classics and their building blocks that got them to this precise stage, where they *can* write this kind of music. i cannot quit this cd.

is that a dukes of hazard joke?