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Paul Wesley

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  1. Turns out the people who predicted more variants and spikes were right, weren’t they?
  2. 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.
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. Obligatory Bill Hicks reference...
  6. 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"
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Dude, the loudest voice of the “RIGGED!!!!!” assholes was the fucking President himself. Is that a “fringe?” And are you telling me that there are voices on the left of equal number and positions of power subverting faith in elections in order to overthrow their results? So no, I can’t agree to your “both sides!” argument. I am definitely a patriot, btw.
  10. This thread is an interesting read, but I’m afraid this is the post that speaks to the thread title. The beaches of democracy have been getting shelled by far-right propaganda for years. The actual invasion comes when right-wing lunatics like Gohmert and MTG are joined by state-level opportunists like Abbott and Paxton - and the baseless accusations of fraud are used to subvert the popular vote of the swing states. There were a few principled Republicans (Georgia SOS) who prevented that subversion in 2020, but those people are being actively targeted and replaced in preparation for 2024 and beyond. Edit: There may only be 20-25% of Americans who are buying the Trump-Giuliani-Sidney Powell horse shit, but there are at least that many more who - having been softened by decades of propaganda- don’t want the tax rates to go back to what they were in 2001, and will thus be okay with the coup.
  11. I cannot even get my head around that level of reading. It’s unreal that someone’s brain can digest written music that quickly AND have the hand-eye coordination to play and read simultaneously.
  12. In that Beato video above, Rick says in passing, "Theory is just naming things," and I think that 5-word sentence pretty much sums it up. My mother is one of the best pianists I've ever heard. She was the pianist for whatever church she attended from age 14 until well into her 80's. For decades, strangers would come up to her after a Sunday service and say, "That was the most beautiful offertory I've ever heard!" It happened all the time. She'd be visiting with family or friends after a church service, and I'd see a stranger a few steps away... just sort of waiting their turn to talk to her, and I could tell from their body language what they were waiting to say. She can't read music... except looking at the top left of the clef and counting sharps or flats. She knows from the symbols what the root chord is - and that is all she needs to know. When I was a kid, she might say to me after a service "I just hate when (musical director) starts singing that song in four sharps!" I always thought that was a funny thing to say. She would never say, "I don't like playing in E." I never heard her practice. She'd occasionally go to the piano before we left for church on Sunday morning, and she'd play the offertory one time beginning to end -- flawlessly. But as far as hitting a bunch of wrong notes until she could figure it out... or struggling with a difficult passage over and over again until she got it right... I never heard that. Not once. Anyway, I don't know if it would be fair to say "She doesn't know musical theory." She may not be able to articulate what she is doing, but (like Chad says) she absolutely can speak the language. Theory is just naming things.
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  14. Still pissed about that He’s a yard deep in the end zone when ball stripped It’s not even close.
  15. Chris Simms is one of the winningest QB in the history of Texas football.
  16. In one of Mike Leach's last visits to Austin, right before halftime, he instructed his QB to fake a knee (which would have ended the half) and then stand up and throw it deep. Without his knee actually hitting the ground, the refs blew the play dead, and the clock expired. Leach made a grand production out of acting like he'd been jobbed... walked out to midfield with palms up and both arms over his head in a "WTF?" gesture. And you could read the ref's lips saying over and over again, "That's the rule." Leach didn't know the rule either.
  17. Did y’all just talk jimmyjazz out of buying a guitar? The fuck is going on here?
  18. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
  19. All this HSS talk makes me want to restring the old Ibanez (which I almost sold many times, but thankfully never did). Its design is kind of laughably dated and silly. Also, it kind of rocks.
  20. Proud to say that I had to google what the Applebee’s song was. But in the process, I added an abbreviated view to the 47M YouTube views for the video... So I guess I contributed to the fall of civilization.
  21. Maybe I should say not interested in *solving* things… I’ll concede that Gohmert and Cruz are interested in saying or doing anything at all — including literally overturning American democracy— if it gives them personal power and wealth.
  22. Paxton getting re-elected despite multiple felony charges for bribery and financial crimes Gohmert talking about terror babies, George Soros, and filing bullshit lawsuits to overturn elections in other states Bootlicker Ted Cruz now gonna keep up a feud with a fucking puppet And not one of those guy is even remotely interested in things like education, health care, pandemics, or power grids. WTF is wrong with you, Texas?
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