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jimmyjazz

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  1. Looking at that bracket, of the top 8 national seeds the 2 seeds are pretty similar in terms of RPI. Vandy (#8 national seed) probably has the easiest 2 seed in Georgia Tech (35 RPI), but it's not like GT is far off the mark of the others. I don't know if RPI is so predictive as to allow that level of parsing, anyway.
  2. Quinn always came across as aloof, both on the field and with the media. The only time I recall being surprised at him was the Gruden piece. Whatever you think of Gruden or those interviews, Quinn was a completely different guy -- relaxed, comfortable in his skin, funny. I don't know why we didn't see that guy more, but maybe it's just the difference between one on one and dealing with groups. (I'm no psychologist, I won't diagnose.)
  3. That seems a bit of a reach. There are plenty of hyped up QBs who succeed in the NFL. Even so, Arch doesn't seem like the Baker Mayfield type, but even Baker found his landing spot.
  4. At this point it's almost impossible to argue with a true believer that a photo has been altered, either by addition or subtraction. We could all see this coming decades ago as Photoshop started to explode. I assume there are ways to run a photo through an app to highlight the alterations, but I wouldn't know how to do it. Regardless, it simply wouldn't matter. "Fake news."
  5. More flavor on RPI, from the NCAA website -- SEC has 6 of the top 7 teams:
  6. Hell, they hired Elko away from Duke before Duke's bowl game. That's a lot more crass than waiting for a guy to lose play in the national championship game before you ink the deal.
  7. Yeah, I think it will be hard to be MORE ruthless than bama/UGA/LSU have been for a while. Demanding excellence is not evil.
  8. I have a sneaking suspicion that the rest of the SEC may soon start to see that Texas isn't the villain A&M would have us to be. Their utter weirdness has already been exposed. But for other conference schools, road trips to Austin have already been seen as worthy getaways where they mingle with more or less level-headed fans who aren't what we're made out to be by the yokels from East Texas. It is my fervent hope that this makes A&M even more paranoid and despondent, which while hard to imagine in some sort of historical sense is fairly likely in a hysterical sense. Those fucking weirdos.
  9. We're probably doing some studies.
  10. HEB "Wagyu" Top Round. Yellow mustard, 2:1 black pepper to kosher salt by volume. 15 minutes at 450 F, 40 minutes at 250 F. Best roast beef I've ever made. Sammiched it up with swiss on sourdough.
  11. Yup, Pato's Good Tacos. It burned down in a fire early 2000s. First place I ever had nopales tacos.
  12. Of course, Austin 2025 is not Austin 1970 no matter how much they want to press the stereotype.
  13. At least the supers (while against supposedly better competition) let a team potentially get by on 2 starters. Omaha CAN work out that way for some of the bracket, if I recall.
  14. Happy Birthday, Willie! Born April 29, 1933.
  15. jimmyjazz

    Spoon

    Favorite tune? I'm torn between many, but the two that come to mind are
  16. At least Ward routinely shit talks Trump, something Ani will never do. He remains curiously quiet.
  17. jimmyjazz

    Spoon

    I'm not sure if this is still true, but they shared the same manager for a while.
  18. That and they see Austin as a degenerate hippie cesspool, so by extension UT students and alums are degenerate hippies. Which, to be honest, is partially true.
  19. jimmyjazz

    Spoon

    Well, they got a whole lot better over time. So did I, but I never did any released work for them again. I did eventually build a real studio and they would sometimes do demo work there, but by that time they were total pros who knew exactly what they wanted and I basically just made coffee and twisted the occasional knob. Not long after that, Jim built his own place that became Public HiFi (now located in his home state of Rhode Island), and they were fully self-sufficient.
  20. I will be on the lookout for new usernames; say for instance, "cheetahlizard".
  21. jimmyjazz

    Spoon

    Two linked Tascam DA-88 digital tape decks, two Mackie 1604 boards, lots of basic microphones (multiple Shure SM57, AKG D112, Shure stereo overhead), Jim Eno in Britt's living room, the rest of the band spread around his house. My first "real" gig. Honestly, it turned out pretty good, although the mix is kinda thin. Mackie boards and basic Lexicon reverbs will only get you so far; plus, I had no idea how to use a compressor. Britt and I did overdubs (mostly vocal and guitar) and the mix in my living room. Very low budget affair. No infighting in the band that I recall . . . yet.
  22. A chaser of Tylenol can't hurt, either.
  23. jimmyjazz

    Spoon

    For me Gimme Fiction is their gold standard.
  24. Back in the 90's/aughts Takamine acoustic electrics had a good reputation for sounding more natural than most when plugged in on stage. They sounded like warm ass in pure acoustic mode. Curiously, most seemed to be finished black. Very common guitars in the "Unplugged" era.
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