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Oh, darn! K!!!! My Part TWO got snorted by this word-addict! Or smoked, or whatever. LISTEN HERE, Mister Board-man, check into Betty Ford. Go eat somebody else! damn, Koj- I liked that one! It didn't let me hit back, and then re-post. WTH? 2 for 2. I'm going for the record! sssssshhhhhhoot! Let me regain composure, WAIT! I HAVE no composure, BAM! Ok, this calls for a kick-box, pray I don't knock the stuffing out of it! See you soon precioussssss Darn! D
OMG! I did it! Check my # Kojannon. I just saved myself a CD! Phew! Koj- I remember when we started- it stood at 743 posts or something! I suppose I can handle the Bum-Bite I received on that last post. (but I am still going to go kick my punching bags butt!) Poor thing. I feel sorry for it in a way. ~D
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K! I TOLD you she was fine, no? I really thought we might sway mortitia this way but he didn't seem terribly impressed. I think she can hoop it up, bam! Then of course, there is the guitar and drums, and you know us, we still go for the home-made garage band sound. Can't seem to shake that raw sound.Made more so w/ a back up of two. The Stripes grabbed us that way- heard they might come through again and you betcha' we'll be there!
You're right, the EMO(emotion?) is similar to the Hoobestank*I think*. T sez it isn't exactly complimentary, but we've never allowed a little thing like flattery stop us, eh? I remember someone telling the story about how Jimmy Eat World got their name- funny you mention that.Is there a band-mate named Jim/Jimmy? I believe so. So he has this younger, a bit chubby little brother. WHO he teases unmercifully. (as I can attest- being teased unmercifully by two brothers) I think he kept razzing him to quit eating so much, little brother draws a pic of big bro REALLY big, then sticks it on the fridge saying Jimmy Eats World. Something like that.(damn- it was so much better when I heard it). We did buy T few Blink CDs back in the day, I notice her G-ma bought her the new on for X-mas. Haven't listened yet, but thank gawd there weren't any Aaron Carter, Spice Girls, HMMM, just checked her bum stack of CDs- she must have chunked them(the clean-cut crap). About last November she asked her "Do you like Hillary Duff?" I dove on that one, NO,NO,NO. Man-O-man, I saw where THAT was headed! If her G-ma only KNEW what she listens to, Oh Lordy! I did see her give my nephew ELEPHANT! for X-mas. I almost fainted. She gives neph Elephant, and gives T Blink? Who, BTW- are rumored to possibly come through Austin on a Dollar-Bill Tour. QOTSA did that, charging two dollars for some lucky fans. K? I'll take her to see Blink for a dollar, yep. I do hear the drummer is one skinny but bad-a** drummer. Travis, I believe? ok, back B4 I get another chomp off the Other bun! xoxox- D
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Dia, believe it or not, I never did catch "The Ring". Never was a huge horror fan (used to be a scaredy-cat as a kid, although my cynical teen years pretty much rid me of that), nor do I like watching gore (scenes of impalement or knives slicing flesh will stay with me for years) other than the usual ham-fisted violence, so I'm usually a no-show. However I like a good scare as much as anyone -- loved "The Shining", pretty much anything by Lynch, and the first three "Aliens". I heard "The Ring" was great though, so I may have to tune in one of these days.
Did re-watch "Malice" this afternoon, just because it was filmed in Northampton. Not many exteriors though.
Emo, well, I get the feeling that it's more for kids, although one of my best friends who's my age got into Jimmy Eat World before they got big and was totally into the stuff. I thought Good Charlotte were more pop-punk, if that's any diferent, kinda like Blink-182, or tuneful, humorous pop for folks under 30. Sorta like Green Day used to be, but not as catchy in my book. They were decent songwriters, sad that all those grunge groups got such a bad rap for being so popular. I can't imagine people looking back as fondly on Good Charlotte, much like they don't on the Gin Blossoms or Hootie (not like Charlotte's that easy-listening level), but time will tell, and I'm obvioiusly too old to be in their camp. I think Hoobastank counts as Emo too, no? I can honsetly say that I've probably not heard enough of it to have a true picture of the defining traits, but Jimmy Eat World was always the prototypical name tossed out in magazines I read.
Listened to most of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Fun, fun, fun...and OOOOO! is that Karen O sexy! Another in the Pj Harvey/Bjork/Donna Summer line of singers whose voices alone are unmistakable turn-ons.
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Koj- What have you heard about EMO? That Good Charlotte type stuff? Don't care for Good Charlotte, but anyone heard any EMO worth a cr**?? God I hate the make-up they wear... (oh- so EMO isn't a very nice word for that type stuff?) ah- so what...
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Jan 3, 2004 7:47 PM
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K- He did ask "Are you lost?" I stumbled around and replied,straing straight UP to that 7'2 in. frame,"I was, but now I'm found". Shoot, K- I made Robinson chuckle.
back soon,precioussssss, and YES! T and I raved about Sean Astin's role. So sweet & sensitive! How high do you think LOTR may rate Oscar-wise? You think it may pull it off? K- did you catch The Ring? That and Punch-Drunk Love are on 2nite.
Saw Gibby for a few- and now you have snagged T into the Staind obsession. That and she seems to like 10 Doors Down. Need to finish listening Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Glad you got it. (ok- what audio-book did you get?) I love to do that, in my few times alone! Catch U after The Ring (for the 10th time-AGH!) L8! Bam! Dia
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PS Race, ELO in '77. Whew, one of my best friends saw them on that tour in Detroit.
No, they don't use the Civic Center much for anything anymore, if it's even still standing. I guess they have a lower wattage hockey team there now, but sad that the Whalers are gone.
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"...and then we takes...the PRRRREEEECIOUSSSSSSSSS!!!!" So you saw "Return of the King", Dia? Ah that Smeagol/Gollum. I think Sean Astin gets the real game ball for this one, although I liked everyone, and Serkis I thought stole "The Two Towers".
The Admiral? I read where a composer I know (Daniel Bernard Roumain) is supposedly writing a piece for Texas or San Antonio history that will involve Robinson as narrator. There's an old piece (1979?) that an Eastman professor wrote where Willie Stargell was narrator, so I guess sports figures are becoming the orators of our time, hard as that is to believe. But Robinson's a good guy, isn't he? Finished school, stand-up guy, helps out all sorts of charities, and never trash-talked. Much like Duncan. They get some good guys down there -- and they can still play, which is even more outstanding. So you were hanging with him? What's he, like 7'2"? I was in an art store with Kareem in Denver once (1985), but I didn't want to bother him. He's a decent guy, but allegedly not too cool with autograph seekers. I just wanted to tell him that the 1972 Bucks were my favorite team, and thank him for beating the Celtics that year.
The other guy sounds immensely cool. That would have been Jimmy Witherspoon (we heard of him on an album from the mid-70s called "The Black Caucus" that had like Kool and the Gang -- back before they jumped the shark -- War and like Curtis Mayfield. Had never heard of Jimmy Witherspoon, and haven't heard much about him since, but he was (is?) a big blues guy I think) I'd guess. Etta James though, there's a legend. Did she just get inducted in the RnR hall of fame or something?
Race, we had one time where we were going to the Meadows a summer or two back to see Tina Turner, and they wanted like $70 for the lawn seats (all they had left by the time we tried to get them), so we bagged. I don't see too many summer shows so I've missed out on the Meadows for the most part. Mostly I've just seen stuff at the Webster Theatre (south of town, bit of a dive, but great bands) and at the University. A lot of the folks that come there also come up to Northampton, but very little hard rock stuff, even with the colleges here. Mostly we get the folkies and the jam bands. Oh yeah, and Ani DiFranco is MASSIVE with the two women's colleges in the area.
Ted Nugent! That WOULD take a bite out of your hearing. A real showman though, isn't he? The other shows sound amazing though.
I saw Lesh with a group opening for Dylan in Amherst back in November of 1999. It was great, maybe the first time I had learned to appreciate the Dead and that type of music. But I was in a deep depression around that time, so it wasn't the best of circumstances for a show like that. Plus M -- my SO -- got freaked out with all the kids offering drugs to us in the parking lot. You'd have thought she'd never been to a rock concert before, which was not far from the truth. But I never did see the Dead, sad to admit. How was Neil Young? Was that Crazy Horse with him then?
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Well, still haven't shaken off the effects of that last chomp! Took a big chunk outta my bum, that one! Awww, bambino! HA! T said last night: "Um Mom, can you plz stop idolizing Koja, that creepy MY PRECIOUSSSSS KOJA deal is starting to creep us out." You WILL still be my friend after my eyes begin to bulge, down to about 10 strands of hair, and the teeth start to point, eh? LOL!!!!!
K! I MUST tell you who I bumped into yesterday. First, "The Admiral", then? In a waiting room, I met this elderly cat I overhear talking about playing Antone's. He walked w/ a cane, but I really did believe this guy played sax w/ a string of greats. KOJ! So help me, he showed me some weathered pics in his wallet, of Himself and B.B. King, Witherspoon, and my REAL fave-holding his sax his ARM wrapped around ETTA JAMES! KOJ! ETTA JAMES! I came so close to grabbing that pic, I could taste it! (unfortunately- a little 5' woman sat by him who looked like she would rip off my head and poop down my neck!) We ended up talking and having such fun! OH, how I wish you & mortitia were there.
K? Didyou happen to catch or dear mortitia saying: he tries to enjoy some current music for his more "contemporary music friends?" Good thing I adore the guy, or so help me, when he returns, I would tear off his coconuts, and that Hula skirt I just KNOW he is already wearing, dancing like crazy at a Luau! (at least I hope!)
SO, my preciousssss (HAHAHA) more L8tr,boy? I have to go back to your past three posts! Darnnit K? Keep 'em coming- I do NOT want to start looking like Gollum(sp).
RACEYGF! SO glad you came, you saw, you conquered! Keep them coming.
seeing Big Fish,& Cold Mountain, this weekend. Shoot! Almost to the end of Mystic River, trying like mad NOT to peek at the ending, but I just flicker back, glance at ONE TINY PARAGRAPH. ONE! THAT paragraph? Told me who the killer was! DAYAM. ok, bambino-cakes! brb, leave? And so help me, I'll start the transformation! Hey to M! Dia
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SON of a motherless dawg! I just got my Chalupa Chewed! %^&%$ P(**() (&&( )&**&*(0 dog-vomit *%& (*^& 7890 &*(& hairballs *&#$ )($^ skidmarks (*(&^%^. Nope, still mad, i just HAD to choose the ISP where you CANNOT save! shit. Gotta go jump on the trampoline to calm down-The Man Show style-natch. To calm DOWN? brb, Holy-mackeral. in a few, Koja, race! Dia
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kojannon...... OH NO!!! OK, you made me do it......Happen to have my original Hartford tix's!! (BTW, have you been to the new outdoor venue? The Meadows?)
I was just visiting Ct. in 2001 and caught "The Other Ones" and "Phil and Friends" at the Meadows.
But...My very 1st concert was ELO in 1977 in Hartford. Ooooo, not in order, however, Elton John in 92, ZZ Top in 84, Marshall Tucker and (Do you remember 'Fountain Head????) in 80. Deep Purple in 87. YES in 80, Neil Young in 83. TED NUGENT in 81 (my ears rang for 3 days after THIS one!!), Jethro Tull in 80. Robert Plant in 88.
I'll spare you ALL the Dead shows, and New Haven shows, Foxboro, Giant Stadium, Springfield, Bean Town and Oakdale. Last I heard New Haven Coliseum was out of the loop as far as musical performances.
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Dia, bambina! Thanks for making us all feel so welcome over here. New Year's resolution to thank you as much as possible for making us all feel a little better every day, in case we forget. I'm also resolving to lose some weight again, I was down a good 15 pounds after last summer thanks to a lot of walking and less food intake, but back in these parts where we need a car to get everythwre, and all those cookies....OH BOY, all those cookies!!!! Is it possible that I've actually almost had my fill of chocolate chip cookies? Not possible, I'm an addict, but I'll have to prove that I can quit anytime I want. I've cut my Good Humor consumption down to 1 a month, so I'll have to do the same with the cookies. But hey, it's a new month, so I can have another Good Humor bar!!! Even in January....
Hoping to catch "Cold Mountain" this weekend, along with all the others we've missed, although M can forego everything just to work on the house, so we'll see.
I got my first issue of Blender (the magazine) the other day. I got a subscription from a local kid going on an orchestra trip. I wanted to help, but the only stuff she had worth anything were Entertainment Weekly, which I'd given up on before because it was so sensationalist, and this Blender thing, which I only got because it looked better than the other stuff, and the ad for it had Thom Yorke on the cover. Well, of course wouldn't you know the first one that I get has Britney on the cover? Looking even skankier than the last time, although showing nothing more than on anything recently -- impossible to show anymore more without it being Playboy or Penhouse, and even they can't show any more than that on THEIR covers. Didn't read the article -- whoops, how'd I miss that one?!!!! -- but the other stuff was weird. Letters that appeared to have come from Beavis and Butthead, I knew I was in for a bad one. Then various shots of Eminem mooning the camera, Jack Black talking about putting Coacoa Puffs up his butt as a joke, photos of Jewel giving her boyfriend some, and the requisite Michael Jackson, Jay-Z, Dizzee Reece (no, he was STABBED five times, it was 50Cent who was SHOT nine times...oh yeah, and they both make music, ho-hum...), and lots of Britney photos. Sad to say that I have like 6 more months of this thing coming, I shoulda just given the kid the money and been done with it. I can always recycle. Still, the reviews are by the usual heavyweight music critics, JD Considine, Robert Christgau, Nelson George, so they're attached to some valid writers somehow. Odd book, I guess I just have to pick and choose, which still doesn't make me feel any better about walking into the john with a magazine that has Britney on the cover. Ah well, M might understand, although I don't think she cares who Nelson George is...
Still haven't got to the end of "Angels in America" yet. I have like an hour to go, but no time to view it. M's been so stuck in trying to catch up on the "Angel" episodes she missed that we've still not seen the second part, although I started watching little bits and pieces on HBO when they show them. Amazing stuff, Streep as Ethel Rosenberg is a serious bomb in there. I'm dying every time she's on. You get the sense that she's having a blast playing that role too.
"Angels" was the TV show of the year for one of the NY Times critics I think, or at least in her top ten. It also showed up in many top ten movie polls, in spite of being on TV (Travers in Rolling Stone had it). Also Heffernan in the Times had SFU as number one show, just proving that even in a year that some thought was a drop off in quality it's still light years better than everything else, although I'll be the first to admit that I've not watched one second of the vast majority of the other things on their lists this year. CSI? What's that? Nice to see William Peterson (whom I loved in "To Live and Die in LA" with Dafoe and Dean Stockwell way back in '85 -- great music by Wang Chung of all people...I'm totally serious. The closing credit sequence is worth the price of admission alone, and there's a car chase in there to die for) gainfully employed, although I heard he's kind of a jerk off-camera. Funny that he and Kim Greist were both in "Manhunter" the first Hannibal Lecter flick (that I know of), I've heard she's no walk in the park either.
I ramble. I only keed....TGIF folks, I hope people got the day off (I did...sort of...)
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O-KAY you little kumquat!(is that how you spell that?) I have to run an errand. Don't you DARE stray, Mister. TOO much catching up, here.
*Koj- tell raceygirlfriend and Ive-League to come on up here with the music-maniacs more. We talk about everything, don't we?
The YEAH YEAH YEAHS? YEAH! Koja- you GO boy! I haven't had a chance to listen to it, either. But darn, I do like it! brb, with a nice War & Peace piece of my mind! hi to M! see you in a few! Love ya! Dia
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Hey, YOU! So, another year gone by, buddy? You do realize I was getting a bit squeamish waiting for ya'. I figured you had to quiet down a TAD for the holidays, but knew your fingers just had to hit those keyboards, my brother!
**Great post, never get enough! You da man, Koj. Don't you ever leave here, lest my wrath(K recoils in fear, lol...) "Damn! She's a Ba** Buster, that Dia!"
wow, where to begin... Jack, natch! Remember when he casually mentioned he had a bit-part in a film on Conan? He said he lives in a cave, or something. We found out said cave-dwelling was in Cold Mountain. mortitia said he is on six tracks from the film. We're catching that, Big Fish, and something else this weekend, trying to stuff a few under our belts. Good Night! Did we ever get the movie certificates for X-mas! brb, K, business call! DANG! You're back! Happy Days Are Here Again!! Dia.
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So Dia, how was your New Years'? Last year was way more exciting for us, but we had a nice time ignoring Dick Clark on a snowy tv-set and drinking decent chanpagne with a few friends yesterday. Mellower than the drunken rooftop scene in Rome last year, but geez, I am over 40 now. Not that I won't be having more drunken rooftop scenes or anything though....
Christmas was similarly mellow. We had gifts at my folks' out in Phoenix on the 23rd, then with M's folks on the 25th. Nice times...M and I didn't really exchange with each other this year. Money's been bad and I think we both enjoyed the idea of just treating each other to stuff, so I'm taking her out to dinner, and I gave her a book on tape that we could play while driving down to VA to see her family.
As for music I got bupkis (sp?) since everyone just assumes they'll never find the obscure stuff I'd want. I bought myself Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited", which I've never owned (didn't get any Dylan until like '90), and I noticed was #4 on Rolling Stone's 500 albums of all-time, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which I only heard one tune from, but liked a lot. Haven't heard either of them yet, although I've heard most of the Dylan in various places before.
Saw "The Triplets of Belleville" and loved it. Immensely cool music in the soundtrack, although maybe not enough of it. Also saw Altmann's "The Company", which appears to be much more of a Neve Campbell vanity project than an Altmann flick. Not really sure what was happening there, and this from someone that usually LOVES stuff that meanders and doesn't have clear plot developments. It got to the end and I was kinda scratching my head. Other than the day in the life of a dance company -- fun to watch in and of itself -- I couldn't draw any conclusion. Maybe it's that pt anderson idea of non-linearity, but that opens the door for a lot of people who couldn't tell a linear story to save their lives. Reminded me a little of that Daria episode -- yeah, I've watched many -- where her vapid younger sister Quinn all of a sudden thinks she's a poet, and at one point she's heard saying, "I just found out that a peom doesn't even have to rhyme! How easy is that?!!!" Ok, it's still fun to watch all that dance and to see Malcolm McDowell again, but sad to say that if I never hear "My Funny Valentine" again, it'll be too soon (I think there are no less than four different versions in the soundtrack. All of them great, but it gets tiring).
So Dia, we were tallking about Jack, right? Is he in "Cold Mountain"? I didn't know, and I still haven't seen it, or "Last Samurai", or a few others that I should have. The Altmann flick I had to see in NY because I had a day there and I figured I should try to catch something I wouldn't see anywhere else. Waiting for "Big Fish" too. But Jack plays mandolin here?
Is that Garcia/Grisman pairing in the documentary called "Grateful Dawg"? Or is that something else?
Re: mandolin, I'm always thinking of Nigel Tufnel pulling it out for the big "Stonehenge" part of their show in "Spinal Tap". it's a great axe though, isn't that what REM uses on "Losing My Religion" too?
And more Jack and Meg stuff. White Stripes had a few "Album of the Year" notes besides Spin. Plus I think "Elephant" is the only disc from the past year to show up on that Roling Stone 500 albums of all-time poll. Impresive company. I think they may be ready for the RnR hall of fame already. I could live without ever seeing that finger-surgery footage again though too. Gettin' squeamish in my old age.
Ok, here's my favorite quote from some movie-critic on his year-end list. Concerning an early packed-house viewing of "The Hulk", apparently many of the younger action-flick fans were impatient with Ang Lee's more nuanced and slowly developing flick. Those who've seen the movie know that it takes like 40-50 minutes for the Hulk to even make his first appearance. According to said critic, at one juncture about 35-40 minutes in, a member of the audience was heard to yell, "Turn green mother-@#$%er! Turn green!!!!" Had me in stitches, and I wasn't even there...
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Happy New Year!!!! First post o' 2004..I hope. Watch someone jump in before me (where's wolfie these days?).
Many apologies for being out of it, I had a couple times whee I could have got on, and then M says, "are you going to be on for long?". Thankfully she's ensconscend in her "Angel" videos from the last week now, so I have my 30 minutes to ramble.
No new snow! A real treat, although out water heater blew up and we returned after two weeks away to gushing water in the basement, and no showers for a day. Fortunately it all went down the drain so there wasn't any flooding, but depending on when it broke that's going to be one nasty water bill. Good thing there's no drought here, although it doesn't make me feel any better about all that wasted water.
Race, I'm in western MA (Northampton), so I occasionally get down to Hartford for music and stuff. We're about 40 minutes away, and we use that airport north of there (south of Springfirld, MA, home of -- as Dia has said -- Staind).
Rocketta, Happy Kwanzaa! I do have one very hip kente-cloth bookmark that someone got me, but little else that I've been able to buy or give. I guess I could get some of those Maya Angelou greeting cards here, but nothing much else.
jcv, thanks for the heads up about the Joan Osborne disc, M is a huge fan and even though the holidays are over, I think she needs some new stuff. And Jersey, "One of Us" was one of those tunes that a slew of my friends hated (they thought it was over-played, too simple, or just not "Christian" enough, or "too Christian", you name it), but I always loved it. Still do. And have you noticed that it's the same chord progression as "Building a Mystery" by Sara McLachlan, "Power of Goodbye" by Madonna, "Save Tonight" or whatever it was called by Eagle-Eye Cherry, the chorus to "Africa" by Toto, and more than a few other tunes? Works on me every time, although I probably don't like those others as much as "One of Us".
Mortitia, hope you get that dj job, you totally deserve it. I hope your knowledge doesn't scare them off, as in "hey man, we're just looking for someone to play "Respect" and Barry White man!" Break a leg. And do you remember Venus Flytrap from "WKRP in Cincinnati"? You don't have a gong and wind chimes do you? The original quiet storm, NM-style!
Dia, trying to not get gobbled here, I'm working on a novel. Matter if fact I'm sending this now, hold on...
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