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Paul Wesley

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  1. Any giant corporation/industry with good lobbyists is gonna get bailed out and made whole. Don’t worry about them. And it will end up in private pockets. 2008 out front shoulda told ya.
  2. Yeah, that fucking jumped out to me too. It’s unbelievable - even now, almost 4 years later - that this fat, clownishly orange, relentlessly lying shitbag who mocks the physically disabled while reading like a 4th-grader is the POTUS.
  3. (edit: lots of spoilers below. maybe go see it before you keep reading) I saw it tonight.... Had a surprising amount of old concert footage, backstage footage, amateur photos, home movies shot in Woodstock. The talking heads were informative and gave a lot of insight. The story of the group's early years was well illustrated. I still have problems with its one-sided presentation. Especially the last 15 minutes or so of the film... Robbie just lines up all the talking heads he can, and one after another he gets them to more or less say, "Robbie wrote all the songs." I mean, Garth Hudson is still alive, right? Why is Robertson getting friends and business partners to say he wrote all the songs instead of just asking Garth, "As you know, Robbie says he wrote 'Chest Fever' (an organ solo). Is that correct?" It was weird how the movie seems very careful to answer all the charges against Robertson, but those charges themselves are never even mentioned.... that without the rest of the band's knowledge, Robbie claimed 100% authorship for all the early tunes. The bitterness from the other guys about the financial disparity that created. That "The Last Waltz" was shot and edited by Robertson's friend, and it ignores the fact that it was primarily (maybe only) Robbie who wanted to have a farewell show and quit touring. In this film, Robertson just comes flat out and says that by 1975, he *had* to write all the songs because Levon and Richard were strung out on heroin. Which is problematic to me for two reasons. One, it's a little distasteful to throw your two friends under the addiction bus when they're dead and can't answer that charge. And two, even if Robertson did write all the 1975 material, I'm pretty sure those aren't the songs whose authorship was ever challenged. It's a good movie. I'm glad I saw it, but it's not going to be the last word on the story of the Band. It would be like Paul McCartney producing a 2-hour film that examines his complicated relationship with Lennon, and even though he effusively praised Lennon's talents, he used *only* talking heads who supported his positions in their arguements, blamed Lennon and Harrison for the Beatles' problems, and he released such a movie with no participation whatsoever from the only other living member of the group.
  4. Couldn't agree with this more. Off a fucking cliff. First decade of albums: unique sounds with texture and space. Smart production and exquisite engineering. Three decades since then: Aural chainsaw, like a buzzing swarm of angry bees in a room with three old televisions blaring white noise. Sort of like Nickelback, if Nickelback was more self-satisfied, less original, and more annoying.
  5. I just saw on Fandango that it's in Austin. I'll check it out this week.
  6. Just wanted to give this sentiment an "Amen!" I think those guitars through Vox-styled amps break up in a way that's sublime.
  7. I think the only answer is “the pedal that inspires you.” That said, I’d lean toward a pedal that covers a function that’s fairly ubiquitous - like- -clean boost/treble boost -gain/overdrive -delay A couple other ubiquitous categories would be modulation (chorus/phaser/flanger) and reverb. But I’m assuming your modeling amp already has some reverb and modulation in it. It’s a golden age of pedals. In each category, there are a hundred manufacturers- from cheap Chinese knock-offs to unique novel designs.
  8. "So then they barred me... for being too good a player."
  9. I don't know. I think Lincoln being a Republican is sort of like having one black friend. They get to be as racist as they want, and use it as a get-out-of-racism-jail-free card. Something to remind us of when we see an all-white Trump rally where they're chanting "Send them back!" about 4 black and brown Americans.
  10. I was going to suggest going to the Ted Weber site... I think those guys have been discussing questions exactly like this for decades.
  11. She needs to hammer Stone (and he richly deserves to be hammered). And I understand that Trump and Barr will defy the law and subvert her decision, which is a separate issue.
  12. The Mike Campbell Duesenberg is a modded Starplayer. Maybe they'll do a second Mike Campbell guitar that's a modded Double Cat or Caribou.
  13. I was expecting you to reveal one of the collapsing buildings from Idiocracy.
  14. I'll be shocked if a single Republican lawmaker says a fucking word. Just like when Trump stood and smiled while an all-white crowd chanted "Send them back!" about four black and brown Americans. Not one word.
  15. Exactly. The deeper we get into this alternate reality where rule of law is flagrantly ignored by the executive branch (and by a complicit Republican legislature), the more I see Trump denying any election tally that would result in requiring his administration to make a peaceful transition of power (i.e. more banana republic shit).
  16. And now one of the prosecutors either resigning in protest of interference or taken off case by DOJ. I'm sure that all the same Republican lawmakers who spoke out against racist chants ("Send them back!") at Trump rallies will again speak out against an obvious wrong by this administration.
  17. So: collude with Russians to subvert democratic elections , repeatedly lie to FBI about said collusion, threaten violence against your co-conspirators and fellow witnesses, encourage violence against a federal judge, and rest easy knowing that Trump and Barr will obstruct justice on your behalf? Fucking sickening.
  18. I haven't read through this whole thread, so this has surely already been pointed out... There are a ton of audio and video clips out there recounting Rush's racism, bigotry, and general meanness. But I think that - by far - the worst thing he's done is something he says 50+ times every show. "Liberals hate America." "Liberals want to destroy this country." "It's just another example of how liberals are pure evil, folks." That shit has taken a giant toll on this country. After decades of repetition, his audience has heard it so much that they swallow it down like a cult. Nobody flips on the AM radio and then thinks critically and says, "Yeah, I have friends/family with liberal politics, and I know for a fact that they are not a demon who wants to destroy America." Rush has done as much to divide this country as any person alive. And he is the personification of hypocrisy. He rails against immigrants, and in racist-coded language (e.g. "thugs") he argues for stiff penalties for criminals. Then he goes back to his mansion and sends his undocumented housekeeper to fetch him vast quantities of illegal narcotics. He calls for "family values" and faith-based morality, then heads to the airport to take a private jet to the Caribbean with a woman who is not his wife, and a bottle of viagra prescribed to someone else. As I type that last paragraph, it occurs to me that we shouldn't have been surprised by the willingness of today's white evangelicals to support an obviously immoral and un-Christ-like cult leader.
  19. When Milli Vanilli was on stage lip syncing, at least they had band of real musicians and an audience of people who were actually fans. There wasn't a single second of live audio during that entire show... just a couple of middle aged chicks doing a soft-core strip tease in front of a fake audience doing scripted fake audience things (pretending to shoot cell phone videos). I'm just fine with watching Shakira dance, but Milli Vanilli had better songs (it's not even close) and were more authentic.
  20. I can't remember a team that just consistently took a worse shot than their opponent... seemingly every possession, every game, all season long. Other teams move the ball, set on-ball and off-ball screens, exploit matchups, make an extra pass -- and they get rewarded with easier looks. Meanwhile, we're launching off-balance, contested shots. Sometimes forced shots happens when a team has no athleticism to create a good look. But it should not happen here. This team is no fun at all to watch.
  21. I clicked on the board and expected the "fire Shaka smart" thread to be at the very top.
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