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Paul Wesley

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  1. It's all I own.
  2. Any of you degenerates in Austin want to go to the Jason Bonham Zeppelin thing in 90 minutes, PM me your cell and I’ll text you a ticket. You’ll know me when you see me there - I’m the guy playing that Peavy in the AUTF pic.
  3. This comment reminds me of the Bill Burr Philly rant where he starts getting heckled and he just spends his entire set talking about how much their city sucks. I think it was a year or two after 9/11 ”The terrorists will never attack you, because they know the rest of this country doesn’t give a fuck about you.”
  4. (Edit) Was worse than I remembered. A rich guy teasing another rich guy about golf.
  5. I don’t know… Did you see the videos from that recent Kid Rock concert where Trump (in full orangeface) appears on a giant video screen right before the show and tells the crowd that they are the God-fearing backbone of America? That might be less rock and roll.
  6. It's just bonkers that only one of the hosts had some kind of clarification question, and the others just nodded along with "we shouldn't have schools."
  7. OK, the Tragically Hip. That's about it.
  8. And btw, if you're ever in a club and a dude takes the stage with the Aldo Nova guitar, you can just go. Really, just leave. Don't wait for confirmation.
  9. Has there ever been a Canadian rock band that didn't look totally fucking ridiculous? Rush? April Wine? Aldo Nova (it was too hard to pick just one)?
  10. I think every R vs D political discussion needs this reminder. When you start off with Reagan's "Government *is* the problem," it gets tricky to address even the most profoundly broken systems that provide basic elements of government. e.g. healthcare, a stable power grid.
  11. Those graphs... There has been a measurable Democratic shift to the left on many issues, and you could reflect that shift in a graph. e.g. Should a gay couple be allowed to get married? Should America's healthcare system cover some basic level of care for all its citizens? Is capital punishment - as currently practiced in the states - problematic in terms of race or social class? If you want to discuss those shifts, then let's all admit that we could illustrate the same shifts for the past 300 years. e.g. Should women vote? Should people with dark skin be enslaved and treated as property? Do we need national civil rights laws ensuring equal access to voting? I'm sure you're proud of the R's non-movement. Congrats, I guess. It would be a lot harder to illustrate in a graph where the Republicans have moved, because *their* movement has been one where you altogether quit talking about healthcare, infrastructure, and educational standards, and instead endlessly discuss fake laptops, anti-vaccine conspiracies, unvarnished white supremacy, and - most importantly - imaginary massive voter fraud that gives you justification to overthrow democracy.
  12. I'll bet Fox News and all the rightwing talkshow hosts *combined* haven't spent 5 minutes in all of 2022 talking about how to fix a broken healthcare system. Contrast that with several hours a day talking about how catastrophic it would be if a high school teacher ever mentions that 250 years of brutal human enslavement ran a wee bit contrary to the values that America espoused at its founding.
  13. There was polling of Republicans in January where 54% said they supported party over Trump, and 36% said they supported Trump over the party. A solid majority of Republicans still firmly believe the big lie DESPITE NO FUCKING EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER. The rightwing backlash to a Mitt nomination would be ****LOUD****. They do not forgive him for his impeachment vote. If he's the nominee, either a huge % of their voters will stay home, or (more likely) we'd get a Trumpkin (or Trump himself) as a 3rd party candidate. Republicans cannot win national elections without the lunatics that make up somewhere between 35-50% of their voters, and it's scary to consider the ramifications of that. The only actual issues that they have real-world policy proposals for are banning abortion and scapegoating immigrants. It's been 25+ fucking years since they actually talked about fixing healthcare. I don't hear meaningful proposals for helping the middle class, addressing wild income disparities, educating children, or articulating a coherent foreign policy. For a solid fucking decade now, conservative media ignores nearly every real issue in favor of Seth Rich, pizzagate, birthers, bamboo ballots, Hunter's laptop, relentless anti-Fauci conspiracies, more Hunter's laptop, Jewish space lasers, Tucker Carlson's open white supremacy, "hey look, let's imagine we found more imaginary things on that imaginary laptop," and jaw-dropping levels of stupidity from the My Pillow guy.... all of whom have banded together to accuse anyone who opposes them of grooming children. Those people are abso-fucking-lutely not voting for Mitt.
  14. Hey, sidis - I am just now seeing and hearing these... I am loving hearing them with the full piano/orchestrations. They sound great! Madeleines is my first-listen favorite. Those cello lines are really nice.
  15. There’s a documentary as well - can’t remember if it’s Netflix or Amazon prime. It’s good… could definitely have used a timeline and a map of the locations in question to give a framework for the narrative (the “where” and “when” of the child’s injuries are kind of crucial to her guilt or innocence).
  16. Damn. Some of you were never kids? ’Cause kids - especially teenage boys - do dumb stuff. Even really good kids… they sometimes do really dumb stuff.
  17. There could not be anything less rock and roll than an ex-president in heavy clown makeup telling an audience they are the God-fearing backbone of America.
  18. Agree with all of that - hard to beat those two records for songwriting, performances, musicianship, etc. I think around 2002, I went to a sporting event with some buddies, and the topic came up: "Best American rock band working right now." I suggested it was maybe the Black Crowes, and I was pretty much dismissed -- "not even in the conversation" I was told (the consensus was Foo Fighters). Anyway, just an observation... I didn't know in 2002 that the Crowes wouldn't put out a record for 5 more years, and essentially completely implode in petty squabbles and lawsuits, while the Foo would spend 20 years making records and playing thousands of shows. What might have been...
  19. Agree on all counts. As a guitar investment, you should put that thirty grand into a pre-war Martin or a 1960 Strat, or almost *anything* else. Even though they're only making seven of them, I'd say there's a good chance that within a few years, we'll see one on Reverb, where somebody is bending over backwards with expired links and screen shots from old promo ads... trying to convince somebody to give them 15K (which might also be a bad investment).
  20. Good Lord. Thirty grand for that abomination? That's even worse than those "boogie van" Les Pauls that listed for 5k.
  21. What’s amazing about those guys is how they were right about an issue… yet still the most annoying people on campus.
  22. A decade of Trump tweets talking about "smocking" guns, secure "boarders," and legal "council..." ... not to mention a hundred examples of him asking his chief of staff if Finland was part of Russia, or telling an Israeli audience that he just "flew in from the Middle East," or suggesting that doctors inject bleach to kill covid, or failing to color an American flag as well as children who just started attending school? But now you think America is not "getting a fair shake" from two black women?
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