Posts posted by GhostOfTomJoad
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Inspired by the Unpopular Opinions thread, who are the dickheads who've ruined your live music experiences?
There was the drunk out of his skull fuckhead at Jerryworld who spilled beer, hit people, & puked all over himself at the U2 Joshua Tree tour a few years ago. My wife was denied the opportunity to see the original tour in 87 by her mom so this was a chance for her to recapture that magic. Instead she spent half the concert trying to avoid beer, vomit & flailing arms. I was at the FEC show back then with $22 tickets. We spent close to a grand including hotel to have a shitty experience.
Then there was the drunk at a Patty Griffin show at Stubbs who decided he wasn't gonna wait in line so why not just unzip & piss where he was standing.
I've never understood the appeal of getting drunk or stoned before a show. I want to enjoy & remember the experience. And not waste the effort expended on getting tickets in the first place.
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So now this is the thread where people out themselves as the biggest asshole at the show that everyone prays they don't have to sit by?A few friends talked me into using an extra ticket for Springsteen in Pittsburgh one time and I got good and wasted before so I was the idiot screaming for Freebird the who show. Some guy wanted to fight me for that. Especially after I said Springsteen sucks and his own songs were awful and if he wanted to sing a good song he should try Freebird.
I hate The Dave Matthews Band
I saw Bob Dylan in the Akron Rubber Bowl and he was terrible. I don't like Bob Dylan.
Here's to you, mister shit faced drunk who wants to ruin everyone else's experience because your fucked out of your skull mind thinks you're funny or worse...interesting.
Did I sit next you at the U2 Joshua Tree show at jerryworld a few years back? Were you the guy who spilled beers over 3 rows of people, pumped his fist in the air so wildly he punched the woman behind him in the face, and when security came to drag him away he'd already puked on himself?
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I've had a few late night, whiskey-fueled debates with a good friend of mine if the Stones' best album is Let it Bleed or Sticky Fingers. Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want are such high ceilings, but Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and Moonlight Mile aren't that far down the ladder.Pos rep on "Let it Bleed". I was/am somewhat reserved on "Live With Me" as a solid track. But otherwise, the album is the best start-to-finish Stones record, period. Full stop.
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Funny you mention because in 2016 she was very pro-Cruz and anti-Trump, calling him out regularly on Twitter & her short lived horrendous radio show (that she broadcast from her PC at home but posted pictures from KLBJ's studio & claimed that's where she worked).Trump is definitely going to retweet her in the next few weeks, right?
I'm sure she's full MAGA now. -
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Bought tickets to a Drafthouse showing next Friday afternoon. Wife was a bit hesitant but after she read all of their enhanced safety policies (temp screenings at the door, distanced seating, all food/bev purchased in advanced so limited contact w/ staff, etc) she came around to it. It's been odd seeing our Drafthouse sit empty all of these months. I can't imagine another theater I'd consider going to at this time.
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I'm as big of a Bruce fan as you'll find, but The Angel and Mary Queen of Arkansas are not exactly stellar works.For Springsteen I'd go earlier Springsteen and submit Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
Born to Run (released 45 years ago this week) doesn't have a bad song. Neither do Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska or Tunnel of Love, IMO. -
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Did a little digging on IMDB and apparently Reeves' vision for this is a detective noir take. Chinatown and Taxi Driver (at least the score) are cited as inspirations.
I'm pretty much done with the super hero genre & don't feel any great need to watch a new Batman movie, but if Reeves does make this a true detective thriller I might change my mind. -
Trailer looks promising. The only film of Reeves' I've seen is Let Me In which was damn good (I haven't seen any of the planet of the apes reboots).
I love Jeffrey Wright as Gordon. And Paul Dano should be awesome. Not sure about the need of Farrell as the Penguin unless it's just to set the table for the next movie.
Anyone else get this vibe from RP?

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As much as we're all (rightly) cringing at this, the point has been brought up several times already: technology has made much of the plot obsolete. Those of us of a certain age understand EXACTLY how difficult travel was pre-internet, phones and apps.
I don't have kids, but do millennials and younger find it funny/touching? I had friends in college who wouldn't watch any film if it was in B&W because they only had color TV as kids.
To me PTA is as timeless as It's a Wonderful Life. You can easily look past the parts that date the films because the story is true & universal. -
Briggo Coffee Haus (robotic barrista with locations at AUS and several other austin tech companies) effectively shut down in April & was recently purchased by Coca-Cola. Austin based enterprise. Gotta figure their product will be wildly popular in our new norm. Their coffee was good, app was great, and being able to order your drink from your car in the parking lot & pick it up a couple minutes later when you walked in the building was great. Even better at the airport for those crack of dawn flights before the store fronts were open.
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35 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:Same. I finally had to block him due the neverending test walls of Qanon memes and other retarded bullshit.
My FIL is dying. Diagnosed last August. Inoperable liver cancer. He did a 3 month stint of oral chemo, hated the side effects (shitting himself...more than his usual once a week) and decided 78 isn't too bad if he makes it. Lifelong smoker & alcoholic who was never gonna change.
My wife has been the smart "rock." After their dad was diagnosed, she worked with her mother, brother & sister to work out the logistics. She's the one who asked the tough, important questions while others asked about songs to be played at services. She brought everyone to the table.
At her last visit to her parents pre-covid in January, she asked her dad if there was anything else she could do to make him comfortable. His response was "vote for Trump."
She told me she cried the entire 2 1/2 hour drive home. Not that she was surprised--he's farther right than Atilla the Hun--but because in that moment he cared more about that fucking despicable asshole being re-elected than coming to terms with his daughter.
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Lemme guess, the new plot twist will include one of them losing their phone/laptop & unbeknownst to either they mistakenly pick up an identical one that belongs to a drug cartel kingpin. They spend the rest of the movie trying to escape murderous cartel members while racing home in time for Thanksgiving. And in the end Kevin Hart's husband is dead, not his wife.
See? Totally original AND topical. -
3 hours ago, Pasken said:
Is this true? If so, very lame. How do you spend 170 million and somehow end up with a smaller videoboard than you had last year?
The new board has an almost identical surface area, but the LED display will have a much higher pixel density than the old board making it brighter & higher resolution. Plus, it won't require the massive AC units to cool it like Godzillatron did.
So brighter + higher res + more efficient > just something "bigger."
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Cougar High = scaffolding stacked on 4x4s. Baylor = vinyl banners on the sidelines made to look like faux brick.
I think it looks a lot better now than in the renderings.
It just feels a little... Cougar High. Hope it grows on me.
This is cool. And I can't off the top of my head think of another school that could incorporate something similar into their stadium. -
This. And if we're just settling for burnt orange lighting we're doing a disservice. Put a few million into a great lighting system that does more than just pulse. Sync it with the lighting of the tower. Get creative as fuck. Have our MOC call some Hollywood lighting specialists. The drone footage from above will be meme material for recruits for years.Yeah, think it looks great. Will be fucking awesome when it's pulsing in orange LED lights during the build up to the team running out for a big night game (Bama 2022 for example).
2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
in Cloak Room
So Trump encouraged rally attendees in North Carolina to vote twice -by mail and in person- in order to "test their system." Other than a sitting POTUS telling citizens to commit a felony, what else is wrong with this picture?
This is just another calculated step to overwhelm the election precincts, delay the tabulation and ultimately destroy any confidence in the legitimacy of the election. How many MAGAts and Qanon nuts are going to spread this message of "Vote twice, it's your patriotic duty"?
We're fucked.