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oSuJeff97

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  1. Jay Bennett was a talented guy, no doubt. But honestly I think his biggest contributions to Wilco are confined to Summerteeth. That’s basically the album where he and Tweedy just got nuts in the studio and crafted one of the beautiful melancholy pop albums ever. Yes he was there for the early sessions of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but if you listen to the demos vs. what ended up on the album, the end product was something that was largely shaped by Jeff Tweedy and Jim O’Rourke. Then of course Bennett was gone for A Ghost is Born, which is brilliant in its own right, IMO. So yeah, Bennett definitely put his mark on Wilco in their most creative years, but I’ve just never bought into the myth that he was “co-responsible” for their creative peak, as many Wilco fans seem to think. He was a cog, just like all of the other cogs that made it work, but outside of Summerteeth, I don’t think you could say that he had any more contributions than any of the other non-Tweedy pieces.
  2. Yeah plus do we know that Miles Teller is playing the son we saw in Top Gun? It’s possible Goose could have knocked up Meg Ryan right before he died and so the younger Goose Jr. would be 35 or 36, which is right on.
  3. That ‘there for you’ crap worked like a charm…
  4. I really want to punch Jay Bennett in the head by the end of this scene.
  5. I love the Grateful Dead, but the greatest American rock band is Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
  6. LOL I always try to be the right kind of asshole. A Shaggy asshole, as it were.
  7. So innnnnnnnnnnnn. BartScott, etc.
  8. Yeah it's funny that basically Elaine and Kramer are the only two who they ever show boozing on the show... and Elaine does the most by far, lol.
  9. Not a quote, but I just watched "The Engagement" last night, and Elaine throwing down Bud heavies cracks my shit up every time.
  10. So what this post presupposes is that Texas is back?
  11. Ha yeah except this time it's because there is literally nowhere to produce the vinyl and CDs instead of having an album that their record company didn't want to release, lol. Holy shit... yes. It was the transition between Jesus, etc. and Heavy Metal Drummer. I wanted to jump through the screen and tell Bennett to shut the fuck up.
  12. Also - in case anyone else was wondering about vinyl - this is up on their site: "Yes, CD and LP editions are in the works, but we’ll spare you the supply chain talk." So seems like digital only on May 27 and vinyl/CD later.
  13. Yeah and apparently this is the first full album since Sky Blue Sky to be completely recorded in The Loft. Really looking forward to this one.
  14. Yeah. As over-the-top as the Buss stuff is with him being a huge horn dog, they at least balance that out with showing him being the shrewd businessman that he was in other scenes. With Westhead, it's like they ONLY thing we see with him is being just a completely over-the-top incompetent pussy.
  15. So this is interesting. Wilco announced a new album dropping next month, "Cruel Country." Apparently it's a loose concept album about the history of the U.S. and it's a "country" album. The interesting thing is it doesn't say it's a "double album" but there are 20 tracks listed, so seems like it its? First track released is "Falling Apart (Right Now)."
  16. Yeah I think it's gonna be rough for the rest of this year, especially with limited gas-to-coal switching this summer. But production is about to really take off from 2H '22 into '23. We should see something approaching a balanced market by 2H '23 into 2024, assuming no more black swan events. (I'll grant you that may be a big assumption, lol)
  17. Holy shit. I had no idea they were brothers, but looking at them in this pic, they are totally obviously brothers, lol.
  18. Ok fine. But he was still an NBA coach and he still has a ring. It's like saying someone in the MLB who hits .200 "sucks." Yeah, they may "suck" in the context of other MLB players, but they still made the show, and are still better than 99% of the baseball players in the world. Westhead may have been a mediocre NBA coach, but he still accomplished more than 99% of all the basketball coaches in the world, and I'm never going to believe he acted like they are portraying him acting on this show. (I still love the show)
  19. "Good morning, gentlemen, the temperature is 110 degrees." HOLY SHIT, IT'S RAMJET!
  20. Lol so great. And yeah we haven't talked about how great Avon is in the show. In fact, Wood Harris is just fucking great in everything he does. He's just one of those guys who makes everything he's in better.
  21. He never "made it" in the sense that he wasn't a coach who won multiple NBA championships, but he *did* win an NBA title as the Lakers coach, and he had multiple other NBA head coaching and assistant jobs over the years, as well as very successful run as a college coach. That's "making it" to the vast, vast majority of coaches in the world. I understand if his schemes didn't quite work as well in the NBA, but I just don't buy that he was the completely ineffectual pussy they make him out to be in the show. Maybe that characterization will change over time, and especially once he does win the title, but I just can't believe a guy like him behaved like that, even before he won the title.
  22. Yeah agreed. He had multiple NBA head coach and assistant jobs over the years, plus was the head coach at those 80s Loyola Marymount teams that were really good. You don’t get those jobs and that level of success being the ineffectual pussy they make him out to be.
  23. I think it was just a typical episode 1 setting up the storylines for the season. HBO sent out screeners of the first 6 episodes and the reviews have been glowing.
  24. But then they couldn't have had the "THIS is the dynasty" line, lol.
  25. Yeah I have no idea of knowing but my gut tells me the "accuracy rating" of the portrayals are something like this: Almost a total caricature: Buss, West, Westhead Still a bit of a caricature, but with some real stuff mixed in: Magic, Jack McKinney, Chick Hearn, Bird, Claire Rothman, Jeanie Buss Mostly accurate, but with some whimsy mixed in: Kareem, Riley, Nixon, Cooper
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