Posts posted by South Austin
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For me the malaise is really starting to set in. I’ve managed to keep up with my in-home lifting routine and take frequent walks. But this past week it was so hard to get out of bed each morning. I’ve always been an early riser who pops right out of bed, and I find myself staying in bed an extra hour or so before starting my day. I don’t consciously feel depressed but the home confinement is starting to get to me.
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14 minutes ago, Goredho said:
To me the criteria for this thread is what are the albums where you are missing something if you just listen to the hits that came from the album. What that “something” is is subjective.
That’s how I took it — what are the great albums that lack any real dead weight.
In defense of the point about Actung Baby, while not necessarily a “concept album,” I do think it was wisely arranged from the first track, Zoo Station, all the way to the last, Love is Blindness, with some great ebb and flow in between.
Same with Darkness on the Edge of Town. I love how it kicks off with Badlands and ends on a somber but promising note with the title track (which incidentally is one of the songs I listened to repeatedly during my divorce).
And finishing What’s Going On with Inner City Blues was just flat out fucking genius.
So I also chose my albums because I think they sound great listening in the order of the track listings.
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24 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:
i have told this story a couple of times over the years...
didn't know the victims, but found some very recently killed girls behind the grand theater in dallas with some friends.
i called 911 (from a payphone! it was 1997), and was detained for statements by police with my friends. we didn't know it at the time, but there had been some trouble at that theater, so they had a plainclothes on patrol in the parking lot. this cop heard a car peel out, started tailing it, then my 911 call came across the dispatch, and he lights up the car he was tailing. two dudes in the car, and a girlfriend; they had the gun and the girls' purses and jewelry and some other stuff in the car.
i was later called to testify in the death penalty case. dallas county DA flew me up, put me up in a hotel, and prepped me for testimony. i was there to set the scene since i got closest to the victims, and since i was the person who called 911. the public defender dozed through my testimony, and had no questions for me. shooter got death, was killed in 2006. male accomplice got 40 years. girlfriend got some reduced plea because she testified against the dudes.
sticks with me to this day, there was just so much blood, and just so tragically senseless.
odd new twist to that story - my testimony in that trial resulted in my being struck from the jury for this trial:
Cool/not-so-cool story, bro.
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3 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:
5 years ago tomorrow. Ugh. We rib Spencer but he was on point that entire night and morning. But so was PHD.
Really great piece from Texas Monthly:
https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/wimberley-floods-memorial-day-weekend-2015/
Damn that article was a gut punch.
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I don't have any personal connection to these events, but this article on the 1970s murder-kidnappings in The Heights is one of the most haunting I've ever read in Texas Monthly.
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17 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:
I would say this: Act and think local. You won't have any impact on what is happening in NYC or DC, but you can impact your family and your community. Be kind (if you believe this means wearing a mask out in public, then do it) but don't live in fear. Fear is debilitating. Be strong because that's what your family needs. Act with strength given the best information you have at the moment, correct as needed, and don't look back. We'll get through this.
You can search all over for happiness, but there's no need to look any further than your own front door. There are plenty of things you can do in your own community. To visit a dairy and find out how milk is handled and prepared for delivery. Or plant a series of window displays on home safety. Or help start a library. To discuss with your dentist how to make your teeth more attractive.
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6 minutes ago, boknowstecmo said:
I, for one, plan to go drink and eat on some patios this weekend, before the virus has time to mutate into something I can catch again.
I live two blocks from Woodrow’s off Burnet, and if they open this weekend I’m going to be real tempted to say “fuck it” and walk over for a beer on the patio.
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1 hour ago, phdhorn said:
Weather situation is kind of complex, and that makes it hard to predict.
This is code for "We all know phdhorn is usually full of shit." But in all seriousness, a friend told me she heard an NPR podcast discussing how the significant decrease in commercial air flights caused by COVID has impacted weather forecasts because meteorologists rely on data collected from those flights. Have you heard anything like this?
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Albums that must be listened to front to back in their entirety
in Music
Agree on Joshua Tree. I caught a show during the band’s 2017 tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of the album. They played all songs from the album in order and had some pretty great videos on the big screen with desert imagery.