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Paul Wesley

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  1. TV Yellow is just the "right" color for those. Love how they look.
  2. I'm just catching up on this page (which is pretty strong...), so I just saw your post above. Straight Frets is probably who I would have recommended. Danny plek'ed my old Tele and I was very happy with it. The guy I used to use here in Austin is super competent and a great guy, but he chain smokes like mad in his little workshop, and the last guitar I got back from him brought the smell home with it. For a few weeks, when I'd walk into my spare bedroom, I'd catch a faint but distinct whiff of Deep Eddy Cabaret. I've been using Straight Frets since then.
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    Grammys

    Interesting chart. I guess all the disco of the mid- to late-70's is "soul" on this graph(?).
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    Grammys

    "Beyonce is so fine that even if she worked at Burger King, she could *still* marry Jay-Z." (pause) "...but if *Jay-Z* worked at Burger King..." - Chris Rock
  5. Lots of good advice. Just a few things to add: 1. That guitar-mounted DPA mic might sound great... I dunno. But it's about the same price as a used KM184, and for sure if you were going to sell one of them in 5 years, you'll get pretty much your entire $700 back from a used Neumann, and less than half that for the used DPA. I agree with jimmyjazz that the Gefell SDC mics (M300 or M295) are at least as good as the KM184, but they're a lot less plentiful on the used market. 2. You could make a case that if you're also planning to record vocals with the same mic, perhaps you'd be better off with a large diaphragm condenser. If so, I agree with the 414 recommendation. My personal favorite for a secret-weapon LDC is the Blue Dragonfly Deluxe (has to be the green "deluxe" model and not the regular dragonfly... they only made 275 of them). I have owned several of them... they come up used for around $750, and they just murder everything else in that price range, IMO. Poor man's cardioid-only U67. 3. Stay away from the new LDC Neumanns (TLM series). They're straight trash. I'm shocked that such a venerable company puts a Neumann badge on them. 4. If you're not doing vocals, I like the idea of a used Neumann or Gefell, and put the rest in moveable acoustic treatment (wall panels or tubetraps) that will serve you well for both tracking and for mixing. You will get life-long use out of these things.
  6. Who would have guessed that the rest of the league would be rooting for Kansas at home vs Texas?
  7. Did Disu come back in the game after he was favoring his arm?
  8. Carr has to stay under control.
  9. no contact there at all
  10. When I was like 14, I’d play acoustic guitar for the singing portion of the Sunday School service. And so sometimes after church I’d have my guitar with me when dad took us for lunch at Luby’s (full gospel services always ran long, and we arrived long after those restrained and punctual Methodists). In the winter, I didn’t want to leave my guitar in a freezing cold car, so I was the kid balancing a tray while holding a guitar in one hand. It’s a long way to the top…
  11. Has Fran ever lobbied for a call in our favor?
  12. Man, George has some offensive moments where he just gets great elevation and lets it go with a silky-smooth release, even with a defender right in his grill. It's Durant-ish. I suspect Durant shot a much higher %, but still.
  13. Yeah, I'm not down for any league-wide conspiracies or whatever. I just think "Charlie pissed them off" doesn't line up with any behavior we saw from Strong in his entire career, including in that game. He's remarkably restrained. I've seen Bo Pellini repeatedly go on red-faced, spit-flying, chest-bumping, unhinged rants (and not get flagged). We never saw Charlie act like that for a single moment. ... unless, of course, that ref thought he was being - you know - uppity.
  14. I suppose anything is possible - we'll never know - but that just seems highly unlikely. I'm not sure you could find a more WTF personal foul against a coach in any sport. I'd say way more likely than "refs hated Strong" is that somebody quietly had $$$ on the outcome. We know for a fact that the system has been clowned for gambling $ in both college basketball players and with NBA officials. Watch it on YouTube. I've seen refs who were stunned that a coach or player bumped them, and it takes them a second to digest what just happened and then throw the flag (or throw them out of the game). But that ref is chasing after him, then hitting him from behind and flagging him all in one motion. It's pretty dirty.
  15. I’m not trying to be an asshole to anyone, but if we’re gonna take turns telling anti-vaccine anecdotes, let’s also be very clear about the bigger picture.
  16. Tough call, right? On one hand, some guy on a bike got sick but now he’s fine and also the world re-opened. On the other hand, you’ve got six or eight million dead people and our nation’s schools, economy, and mental health could have been devastated indefinitely. What to do? p.s. Even for those of us lucky enough to be perfectly healthy (knocks wood), there is a public health consideration, right? Can we all agree that it’s not great for healthy people to recklessly give it to grandma, or to a person whose autoimmune disease requires lifelong immunosuppressants? If we’re all just gonna say “Fuck it. **I’m** not gonna die!” then why not abolish school zones and stop making me be fucking inconvenienced by kids on bikes for three hours every weekday?
  17. I mean, they *could have.*
  18. I mean, SF is on the road with their QB out. And yet they can still get to the locker room down 7. The chance they were gonna march 80 yards in 90 seconds with Johnson right there was **very** small. There was a far greater chance of giving up a sack, and/or a couple incompletions and giving Philly a free possession from midfield. It seems to me that, in general, coaches have learned from analytics (e.g. you rarely see a punt anymore once a team crosses midfield). But I think end-of-half clock management still errs on the side of being way too aggressive. Often, the smart thing is to run it up the middle twice and go to the locker room. Hell, UT did that with Garrett Gilbert right before the half vs Bama (also with starting QB out with an arm injury). If I recall correctly, we could have gone to locker room down 7, and instead ran a cluster-fuck of a shovel pass deep inside our own end of the field, and gave up a pick-6. Just a boneheaded high-risk-low-reward decision.
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  20. Yeah, Tenn player clearly landed out of bounds while holding ball
  21. Pretty bush-league accidental/on-purpose elbow to the face by TCU there. He should get tossed.
  22. I know y'all already talked about this, but when the teams were picked for these matchups, some effort was made to try to for compelling games with a lot of side stories. Kentucky vs KU - battle of blue bloods. Texas-Tennessee has the Barnes angle. Most of the other games try to make some sense geographically. How is it that all these games just skipped right over the Aggies, who used to be IN the Big 12, and who could have gone 90 miles down the road vs Baylor, or against former rivals Texas or Texas Tech? Just completely ignored.
  23. I normally don't go too hard for the conference rah-rah shit, but Bama and Auburn are a combined 14-2 in SEC play, and neither one even showed up for the first half on the road against two teams that are a combined 4-12 in the Big 12. That said, the day is young.
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