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Paul Wesley

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  1. Early 80’s Customs had those tuners with the flip-out pegwinders.
  2. I think you’re on the wrong thread, dude. This one is for dramatic overreaction.
  3. I just watched that. It made me think of the scene from "Popstar: Never stop never stopping" where Samberg realizes he's surrounded by people who are afraid to tell him when one of his ideas is horrible.
  4. I don't know if they all sound better as a rule, but I definitely think they *can.* My first real guitar was an Alvarez Yairi that I got used in the 80's... I paid $250 (read: "lawn mowing money"). I think the dimensions are identical to a Martin dreadnaught. I played the shit out of it when I was a teenager - in my obsessive phase of sleeping with guitar next to the bed and reaching for it when I woke up. When I got older and got a little money, the Alvarez got relegated to the closet for a decade while I bought "better" guitars. I had kind of the same experience when I restrung it and listened to it head-to-head against my newer guitars (including that Pelham blue J-45 I mentioned above). I was kind of shocked at how it sounded every bit as good as the acoustics I had paid about ten times as much for. I don't know if it "opened up" with time (i.e the top got more resonant) or if it was always better than I realized.
  5. The old cross-division format in the Big 12 -- home/home and then skip two years -- there was a period of almost a decade where that worked out really well for K State. They didn't have to play *any* of the four best Texas teams of the modern era - 04, 05, 08, and 09. If memory serves, the Vince Young juggernaut went two years with only one conference loss (12-0 in Dallas to OU), and the very salty Colt McCoy teams also went two years with a singular (but devastating) loss in Lubbock. K State didn't play any of those teams, but they did play two much more average Texas teams in 06 and 07 and a couple of shitshows in 10 and 11.
  6. I used to have a Pelham blue J-45. It was a nice guitar, but I think I like that one more.
  7. K State in a prime time blowout win... In the words of Norm Macdonald, "Box. Office. Poison."
  8. Ha ha.... shortest postgame in the history of televised bowl games. ESPN cut away from that garbage the instant the clock hit 0:00.
  9. How much do you have to fucking suck to be an also-ran school in a state that's shaped like a fucking rectangle?
  10. Watching the K-State fans celebrate in their goofy purple overalls, with their ridiculous powercat videos and their high school cheers... reminds me how fucking painful it can be to lose to a shitty glorified high school on the prairie. I don't know if that's the LSU fans' reaction though. If those hillbillies moved to Louisiana, they'd all be tutors.
  11. I just rewound DVR to see if this announcer was really saying that Nebraska and K State were in the same conference... yes, he said that. Obviously someone in the booth got his attention and got him to correct himself.
  12. Nice. Are you Levon Helm?
  13. Sat down to audition some of these records in this thread, and I got one band into the first post... Royal Blood. Inadvertently started to listen to their last record first... very garage rock, with decent songs, but they seemed to go to the same palette of sounds/production tricks over and over again. Then I listened to Typhoon, which uses a lot of dance-club drum sounds against fuzz guitars... an odd pairing but an original sound. Also better songs than the prior record. I dig it. Thanks for the recommendation.
  14. When Worthy got the unsportsmanlike call for that, a poster here claimed that spinning got flagged every single time. Apparently not.
  15. Just to add: Despite what I just wrote, I still root for Tech in most every game they’re not playing Texas. There’s a scene in Blues Brothers where they’re talking about an old booking agent who got the band a bunch of big gigs and showcases, and they name several of those venues. Then, as if tallying the score, Jake adds, “I got him laid. He owes me.” I’ve only been to Lubbock once. It was the weekend of a UT game in the 90’s. I had a great time. So if we’re talking Tech, I owe them.
  16. Good analogy. The further away he is, the more you can just be entertained by his trolling. To some extent, he’s poison to his conference as well. There was a period where Leach had Tech fans 100% convinced that the refs were conspiring against them… even though during that exact time period - Tech was called for fewer penalties every year… despite throwing it 65 times a game while magically going years without committing holding vs future NFL defensive ends (Kindle, Orakpo). I have several Tech friends who still tell me every year before the game how they’re sure the refs will fix it for Texas “like always.” It defies logic (and it defies the box score year after year), and I don’t think that started with Dykes or Tuberville or Kliffy or anyone else.
  17. Turns out the people who predicted more variants and spikes were right, weren’t they?
  18. Agree 100%. They had every bit as big a budget as any of their peers. But the drums sound terrible - and I’m not saying terrible compared to Bonham + Glyn Johns - but terrible compared to just about any band on a major label. Ditto for the guitars, which seem to be shooting for “muffled fart” sonically. And I understand that the whole thing was never intended to have any more integrity than a Wiggles TV special, but dammit if the Wiggles’ vinyl doesn’t hit a lot fucking harder.
  19. I've heard McCartney defend himself in interviews (this was decades ago).... paraphrasing "Everything I do isn't going to be better than the last thing I did. Some things will hit and some will miss." That said...
  20. No, I don’t think they did, and I agree that the film could have done a better job telling “whatever happened to…” with some of the main characters.
  21. Obligatory Bill Hicks reference...
  22. Prompted by the L'eggs commercial that was referenced in the ZZ Top thread... Worst sell out? ... and I don't think it's enough to just be a shitty band or a "band" that was from the beginning just a creation of a promoter or record label. The nominees have to be either a great band that sold out to some lame Madison Avenue bullshit commercial *OR* a band that could have made kick-ass music, but instead chose mediocrity and sweet, sweet money. I suppose we could debate whether Aerosmith was still capable of making good music when they made this in 1998... From the band that made "Crazy On You" and "Barracuda"
  23. I'm surprised there wasn't already a thread about this 3-part series. It's about Chester Weger - who was found guilty of a pretty horrific triple murder that occurred in a state park in 1960, his present-day quest for parole, and the ongoing debate around his guilt/innocence. It has the interesting twist that the film maker is the son of the prosecutor. It's one of the better films of this genre that I've seen in the last few years. It's remarkable how many family members/witnesses/jurors/lawyers/etc are still alive and how many participated in the film. I've seen it twice - the second time was when my wife watched it - and the second viewing only reinforced the opinion I formed in the first one. Part 3 drags just a bit, but they packed a lot of information, interviews, and theories into a reasonably short film (each part is under an hour). Mostly the pacing is pretty good, and the information is revealed in a way that may make you change your mind a couple times along the way.
  24. Yes, those tapes of Hillary demanding state-level election officials to “Find me enough votes” to allow Democrats to retain power in 2016… Or when Kerry gathered a mob and sent them to the Capitol to murder a few police officers and injure a hundred more I see what you mean about both sides attacking those halls.
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