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jimmyjazz

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  1. Well, I was cheating on myself and frankly wasn't in shape.
  2. Maybe it's because she has a personality and a modicum of talent?
  3. Christ, thanks for the high school flashback I never wanted to have.
  4. Funny thing about Mumford -- I couldn't stand them (really still can't) but watching "Marcus" fight his way through anxiety on that New Basement Tapes doc really elevated him in my eyes. Not only did he care, a lot, but he ended up bring the best song, and he wrote it on the last night. Dawes, I really like. I know the guy is kind of a weasel, but he embues that LA Jackson Browne vibe more than anyone I've seen since JB. He's really talented. Plus, Mandy Moore.
  5. I mostly find that hyper-feely approach very intellectually unstimulating. I want to hear someone twist the language. And, I know you're not just talking about words. But I want to hear Paul Westerberg and Kurt Cobain and and Brandi Carlisle and Jason Isbell and John Lennon manipulate the same fucking 12 notes (words) into something new. I struggle to appreciate most of what I hear breaking through to the mainstream these days. But, there is plenty of great stuff out there, it's just a wide world of choices that makes one need to go digging for gold. It's out there, though. Tangentially: didn't My Morning Jacket used to rock? Am I thinking of another band? If not, wtf happened?
  6. I may be off base but I thought @G650 was alluding more to lyrical content than musical style in his criticisms.
  7. I'm not your pal.
  8. Interesting, since citizens have already been deported. You really struggle with your bigotry.
  9. Oh I definitely struggled with 60s folk, too. Like I said, it comes in waves, but this latest wave is 2 decades old and it's annoying as hell. So who am I seeing there? Joni, Van, Dylan, Robbie, etc.?
  10. How do we know you haven't been radicalized? I'd be OK with your deportation (as far as you know).
  11. OK, it comes in waves. Morrissey was a puss, too. I'm just saying that the indie folk hey-ho bullshit that is STILL going on didn't show up in the mainstream until after grunge. (Ironically, I was going to start a thread about that after hearing the flavor of the moment Myles Smith, but now it's not necessary.)
  12. jimmyjazz

    brunch

    Well what'd you get?
  13. Kurt Cobain had a stronger than usual sensitive streak compared to a lot of other punks, but outside of Krist's intellect I sure wouldn't say either Novoselic or Grohl were passive, or pussies, or whatever. I mean, Cobain tried to fight Axl Rose on a couple of occasions. He could place himself in another character as a songwriter, and his lyrics certainly weren't all self-reflective. To be very clear: the pervasive pussiness in popular music started well after Cobain died. We had to sort through the hacks like Gwen Bush or whaver the fuck his name was in their lame efforts to be Kurt or Eddie or whoever. That took a few years. Hey to Scott Stapp.
  14. Tell me you never saw Nirvana live without telling me you never saw Nirvana live.
  15. I don't doubt your stance, but maybe learn to spell it correctly?
  16. There is a "parents of Longhorn kids" group on FB that has almost none of that helicoptering. Usually it's comments about sports, graduation, "anybody have a good rec for a mechanic near campus", that sort of thing. Maybe Longhorns are just a little more secure in the idea that little Kasey and Kyler are most likely going to hit campus and be just as debauched as mommy and daddy were in their day.
  17. I find it fascinating how people's tastes differ. No judgment, but that is my least favorite Foos song by a long shot.
  18. Swalwell cracks me up. He has little power but he sure tries.
  19. I think y'all are missing the point.
  20. I'm not sure your point. If we fail to meet our standard over half the time, we suck, right?
  21. Well, we suck. We've fallen short of our "standard" more than 50% of the time. (Just to elucidate: we've been to Omaha 38 times in 78 seasons. That's 48.7%.)
  22. Uh, phrasing?
  23. Yeah, but he'd remember you the next time.
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