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  1. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    yeah.  I know it's more punk rock in a sense, but it still doesn't resonate with me.

    I just think it's a real different thing than Spirit In the Sky or The Doors.  None of those are songs that I would kinda group together mentally, I guess.

  2. 7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I meant no insult, and like most people, much of my "taste" is erratic.  I mean, I love "MmmBop", for pity's sake.

    Something about "Spirit In The Sky" strikes me in a similar way that "People Who Died" does, or everything The Doors ever released does.  Simplistic, blues-referencing meh.  Not my thing.  But I shouldn't have said it, that's not the point of this thread.  Mea culpa.

    Jim Carroll's "People Who Died"?

  3. On 4/15/2024 at 12:25 PM, usmc0331horn said:

    I honestly don't think he does. The game has changed and if he doesn't win he's cooked.

    I'm thinking the guy who won a natty at UK as a player has a pretty damn good idea of what being the coach at UK is like.

    Doesn't mean he'll succeed there, but he knows exactly what he's walking in to.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    good strategy for folks here as well

    I think it’s a good strategy for all of humanity.

    Only thing that truly makes me feel better.

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  5. 45 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    To a large extent, most of us started drinking as a response to unpleasant emotions. Maybe everyone does to a greater or lesser degree; I can't speak for the normies. 

    But the beginning of the pathology was that it displaced any coping mechanisms we should have developed. 

    The Friday into Saturday into Monday sounds very familiar to me, but the instances where I could control it were few and far between even if the initial imbibing began not, at least on the surface, as an emotional response. 

    You are at the point that you have recognized a potential problem. The acid test now may be to see if you can just quit. 

    As a normie that had a rough patch a few years back, I never started drinking to deal with unpleasant emotions, but I found it was a temporarily relief from them and then it started using it as a coping mechanism.  Thanks to my wife and parents saying something it never got to the point where I had a full on problem, but it definitely could have.  I met with a therapist for awhile back in those days and her assessment was that I wasn't an alcoholic, but I had a maladaptive coping mechanism.

    I didn't drink for awhile after that, and ever since, when I'm feeling really down I go to exercise to clear my mood.  I do still drink, but it's always either with friends as a social lubricant, or occasionally, one or two at the end of the day as part of a wind down.  Although I rarely drink in that setting any more these days either.  It feels akin to drinking to deal with pain, which is what I was doing 7-8 years ago.

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  6. 13 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Damn, what’s going on in Kentucky? Two big time programs with weak hires considering their expectation and standards.

    Guys who are already making generational wealth don’t see the point in making money they’ll never spend just for the privilege of dealing with psychotic fanbases.

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  7. 33 minutes ago, Richard Kimball said:

    Drew has to take the Kentucky job. It's more pressure, but the NIL money and network contracts with the conferences are too much of an advantage to pass up. He'll probably double his salary, also. Even if Baylor offered to match salary,(doubtful, since the only reason Aranda is still there is because the BMDs didn't want to pay his buyout) the admin sat on their hands and got years behind on NIL. 

    Drew was always a good recruiter, but recruiting is now more transactional than persuasive, he's going to get better players at Kentucky.

    There are two drawbacks for him. His family has been raised in Waco, and the pressure is intense at Kentucky. He stays at Baylor, he gets a statue when he retires. He'd have to miss the tournament several years straight to look at getting fired. At Kentucky, his last two years of going out in the second game of the tournament would have rumblings going on about him being fired.

     

    Well, except he doesn’t have to take the Kentucky job.

    20 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    That same plane headed up to NYC today. Either another pass at Hurley or….

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    That would be so god damn funny.

  8. 2 minutes ago, theaveragejon said:

    Or McCasland.

    McCasland isn't openly fighting with his administration, and didn't just drop a steamer of a season while showing his crazy ass to the world for weeks on end.

    He very well might be looking to go back, but I think Tang has more incentive to leave his current situation.

  9. 1 minute ago, deadshank said:

    Sidewalk on west side of street.  I walk dog on east side of street with traffic.  I wear earbuds.  I no care.  

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    I always go into traffic while on foot.  Never understood people who don't.

    It's a little bit like how I shake my head when I see people cycling the hilly, narrow country roads in my area.  I'm an AVID cyclist, but we have tons of paved trails, and the risk of getting hit on these roads is so high due to their construction and the local geography that I just can't relate to people who eschew the safety of the trail just to mix up the scenery a little bit.

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  10. I thought seasons 9-11 were pretty much on par with the rest of the series.

    But I watched seasons 1-6 in essentially one month long binge in 2008, and then saw the remainder of the series as it became available.

    Ive rewatched most of it over the years, and I think 8 is my favorite, 12 is my least favorite, and the rest are pretty even.

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  11. 7 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    Also, pre full moon fever Petty is the best Petty

    Don’t come around here no more
    Listen to her heart
    The Waiting
    Refugee
    Here comes my girl
    Even the losers
    Don’t do me like that
    Breakdown
    And of course American Girl

    Are you kidding me? I’m leaving out a bunch but that’s a HOF career just with those songs.

    Counterpoint:  he made Wildflowers after FMF.  Up through "Highway Companion" he was regularly dropping top shelf shit.  I won't even include FMF, and here's 10 songs that can rival anyone:

    Learning To Fly

    Wildflowers

    You Don't Know How It Feels

    Last Dance With Mary Jane

    Walls

    Down South

    Room At the Top

    Scare Easy

    Kings Highway

    Flirtin' With Time

  12. 55 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    First, gotdam you're young.

    Second, I liked, but didn't love, Tom Petty growing up in the 1980s, and I was an MTV kid who watched all of his videos.  But I fell in love with Tom Petty when Learning to Fly came out the summer before my senior year in high school.  Something about that song in that moment in my life just hit me, and it's stayed with me since.  It's one of my favorite songs of all time.  And subsequently his greatest hits album was an iconic part of the soundtrack of my college years.

    When he died, I was much sadder than I thought I might be, and I'll always regret never seeing him live.

    Saw him in Omaha on my 25th birthday.  Drive-By Truckers opened.  It was an absolute dream bill and an amazing show.

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  13. On 4/5/2024 at 7:44 PM, honolulu horn said:

    I hated Tom Petty when I was younger. Then I wised up and realized I had been a dumbass all those years. 

    I can't remember not loving Tom Petty.  When I was in pre-school ('89-'90) Full Moon Fever had just come out, my Dad was wearing it out on the tape deck in the car, and one day in class when the teachers asked us to sing nursery rhymes, I claimed I didn't know any and instead sang "Free Fallin'" which lead to my mom getting a fairly stern scolding from the teacher.

    Loving Tom Petty's music has been a part of my very literal entire consciousness, so it's very hard for me to to wrap my head around someone hating it, or even mildly disliking it.

  14. The last season had some very weak episodes, but the finale was absolutely well executed.  Susie trying to play Larry's crippled girlfriend cracked me up, and then of course her final tirade in the courthouse when she found out that Jeff obtained the dressing recipe fraudulently.  One final "YOU FAT FUCK" made my day.  Cheryl considering her dislike of Mexican food to be some personal, confidential secret and Ted berating Larry "it's not your story to tell" was such a quintessential "Larry David does something completely reasonable and gets absolutely castigated" moment.  The call backs weren't so excessive in number to feel like a glorified clip show.  They clearly took the lessons of Seinfeld and avoided that ending, which made the meta-ness of "No Lessons Learned" that much better.  All good things come to an end, and having 21 combined seasons of Seinfeld and Curb is a lifetime of rewatchable entertainment.  Thanks LD.  Thanks for everything.

    19 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    Who was the squealer on the plane?  So many unanswered questions.  
     

    But seriously.  Really liked last night.  Should have had a crazy eyed killer cameo though.  

    It had to be Susie, right?

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  15. 5 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    I think he’d be silly to leave. Doesn’t have much to prove and Baylor will pay him.

    I don't think he has anything to prove, and say what you will about Baylor and Waco, but he has a lifetime contract there.  He won't get that treatment in Lexington.

    I think we're starting to see more and coaches realize that there's a point of diminishing returns with these monster salaries and making $4M/year with job security and reasonable expectations is better than making $8M and dealing with fucking lunatics that demand you win a natty every year.

  16. 18 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

    i for the most part agree with you, but do really enjoy "this life."

    I'm this way but with "Harmony Hall"

  17. 2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    Drew seems like the obvious choice to me.  I do realize that SEC schools like to hire SEC coaches (in every sport), though.

    I just don't see Drew leaving Baylor at this point.  He's had to have had opportunities like Kentucky in the past and turned them down.

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