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Paul Wesley

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  1. @G650 referenced this one in another thread (it made a lot of year-end "best of" lists): https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ Recent Switched on Pop episode: https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/stacys-mom-adam-schlesinger-fountains-of-wayne
  2. I wish I could rep your post 100 times, because it's full of facts and truth. Texas could have left the Big 12 at ****ANY POINT**** in the past 15 years. When this topic used to come up 15+ years ago, I was receptive to the idea of going Big 10 or Pac X. Those conferences felt like better cultural fits with Austin, and I wasn't crazy about competing with the bagmen of the yeehaw Deep South. Obviously, a lot has changed in the last 15 years, including NIL. I'm glad the alums like me who were looking Midwest or West Coast lost that argument. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm pretty sure the Texas/OU departures were announced within weeks of the new NIL rules. I don't think that's a coincidence. I mean, in the late-stage capitalism of the modern NCAA, why would Texas keep themselves yoked to schools who cannot pull their own weight in terms of revenue, why would Texas fill their home schedule with a bunch of schools that NO ONE (including our own season-ticket holders) gives a shit about, miss out on all the five-star recruits who want to play on the biggest stages, and subject themselves to endless fuckery from the openly "Anyone-But-Texas" administrators (like Yormark) who run the conference? There were ZERO reasons for us to slog on in this league.
  3. I'm not sure which is better between CS and Lubbock, but I'm definitely never going to live in a shitty town whose biggest sales pitch is that "it's only 1.5 hours from (a good town)!" Are you gonna sit in your car for three hours just to eat at a nice restaurant or go to live music on a weeknight?
  4. So the “de facto commissioner” comment came from a single writer in a city whose readers are decidedly hostile to Texas… and not from “Texas fans bragging,” which is what you claimed.
  5. I referenced Kasich when talking about the debate last night… a guy who I fundamentally disagree with on most things, but it seems like he and I more or less live in the same reality. …but 2016 was a loooong time ago. Including Trump, 3 of their top 9 candidates are billionaires, and two of those are absolute sociopaths. Mike Pence is a bizarrely robotic freak who thinks he’ll get the nod if he can just say “Jesus” in every answer (might have worked back in the 1900’s). He wants the 10% of sane Republicans to remember the one day he behaved with honor, and he simultaneously wants the rest of them to remember his decade of enabling evil and treason. Desantis is a fascist in adorable high heeled kids’ boots who is trying to pull enough profoundly un-Jesuslike publicity stunts so that modern American Christians will get behind him. Hutchison and Burgum might be decent humans in real life (or not), but definitely both have checked their integrity at the door so as not to lose the deplorable wing of the party (it’s a huge fucking wing). There was an old Simpsons episode where the Kwik-e-mart gets robbed, and Homer hides. And after the burglar leaves, Apu calls out, “You may emerge from behind the chip display. The chance to be a hero is long passed.” That pretty much sums up Chris Christie. You’ve already shown us what you are, Bro’. We saw it. Tim Scott had his pre-prepared “Aw shucks, I’m just a folksy country boy” speech ready to go, but he launched into it right after the buzzer sounded, and then all of America had to suffer and impatiently squirm in their desks and wait for him to shut the fuck up already… like we were all in the third grade and it was the dumb kid’s turn to wrestle with reading aloud. Nikki = Ted Cruz.
  6. Texas fans had a pretty good decade in the major 3 men's sports in the 00's, and pretty much - to a person - we felt that all happened *around* Deloss or *in spite of* Deloss. Credit for the UT success went to 1) a good university with highly-ranked academics and lots of money, 2) it's an easy city to recruit college kids to, and 3) occasionally credit went to the coach (e.g. Gus). Right or wrong, Deloss got 0.0% of the credit whenever a Texas team did well. If there had been a Parliament-style snap election with Texas fans, he'd have lost in a landslide. The Tech fans' version of history - including this bit where Texas fans boasted about Deloss - seems like more delusion than reality.
  7. You posted "these neocons are just like democrat neocons" over and over again until you finally got the response you were trolling for, then you say "you seem triggered." Why not just start your own thread if you wanted to make that case? I mean, I think you're wrong, but I'm willing to hear your argument. If you think Ukraine by itself makes Biden (who ended a two-decade conflict in Afghanistan to his own political detriment) a "neocon," then pretty much all of Western Europe was "neocon" in response to Hitler in the 1940's, as was Soviet Russia, as is all of Western Europe in response to Putin.
  8. To be fair, they talked a good long time about Biden and the radical Democrat cities were murdering full term babies.
  9. Not one. Also, Vivek's rhetoric is as bad as Trump's... maybe worse. "We live in a dark time and I am going to destroy your government." He has a nice smile though. Total clown show. I don't even think there's a Kasich on the stage, who I might fundamentally disagree with, but at least we share some basic facts. These guys spent 10 minutes railing against killing full-term babies (as though that's an issue). I'm out.
  10. Took about 10 seconds into the first answer to get a "Hunter Biden" reference.
  11. "9-11 was an inside job, people under 25 should be stripped of voting rights unless they can pass a test, Juneteenth is a useless holiday, I will pardon everyone of their January 6 crimes on my first day in office, we shouldn't want Putin to lose in Ukraine..." Reminds me of Norm's first sentence here:
  12. For me: Joe Walsh better than Stevie Nicks Ryan Adams better than Alanis Morisette Todd Snider better than John Prine (disclaimer: Prine discovered and showcased Snider -and is an all-time great - but at this time, Prine was in his twilight)
  13. Flirted with selling the R8 last year (talked about it on this thread). Decided to keep it. Just relisted it on Reverb. Dead mint, 8#2oz. Teaburst. True Historic specs. Carmelita neck (pretty chunky). PM me for the Surly deep discount.
  14. Bought tickets but can't go. This is the 8pm show. 2 tickets. Face value ($270).
  15. Cross-posting from the guitar thread, just in case there are interested people who have a different primary instrument, or who make electronic music completely in the box. I am trying to move forward with the idea of organizing a songwriter group that will hold one another accountable for the rest of 2023. Here's an abbreviated version of that post: ----------------------------- Here's what I'm imagining: 1. Every month, you get a three or four prompts to pick from. A couple of them can be specific (tempo or key or style) and a couple can be broad (topics or a short lyrical phrase that you have to use). Everyone can throw one out or email me suggestions and I'll come up with them. There are a shit ton of "songwriting prompt" websites to steal from. 2. An iPhone recording is probably going to be the default format. If y'all want to do zoom or in-person, we could do that too. So don't feel like you'll need professionally polished versions of your songs. I imagine people (maybe including me) would be more comfortable sharing things on a zoom call or an email chain. 3. Something due on the first of the month from now through Jan 1. That's a fairly self-limited commitment, and seems both ambitious and achievable. I would LOVE to have five songs done or semi-formed by New Year's By comparison, the Mraz/Schneider song game - which I was never part of - had a song due every Friday, and you were kicked out of the group if you didn't submit something. https://www.npr.org/2013/11/24/246755925/for-a-few-musicians-beating-songwriters-block-is-all-in-the-game One song a month is a WAY lower bar, though maybe we still have to use the threat of an Amish shunning in order to hold everyone accountable. I'm open to suggestions for a format that is most inclusive and most helpful. Tell you what, if you want "in," then "like" this post with the Gritty Fuck Around and Find Out icon (no need to Gritty again here if you already Grittied on the other thread). I don't know what's a reasonable quorum (maybe eight people minimum?). If we get a quorum after a few days, I'll PM everyone, and I imagine it will probably be easier to operate offline, like we'll start a new email chain for each month. edit: We can make at least one of the prompts pertinent for people who write instrumentals (i.e. it won't just be a vocal phrase like other songwriting groups have used). I have an idea for the first prompt, and I'll send that one (and others) on the 15th. Everyone will have 15 days to write the first one, 30+ days to write the others. And then it's over, just in time for your New Year's resolutions (which always work out perfectly).
  16. Me, reading this thread: "Hey, Babe. Who was that artist that you and (oldest daughter) used to listen to -- it was bubblegum pop and all her songs were about girl power?" Wife, without hesitation: "Bree Sharp. I love her. I'm going to listen to her right now."
  17. To hear him tell it now - and imitate himself trying to do the rapid-fire lyrics while crying - is pretty hysterical. "You try to give away a keeper, but you keep me 'cause you know, You're just so scared to lose..." Tragedy + time, I guess.
  18. A good friend of mine has a brilliant story about this song. He was probably around 30 at the time. His girlfriend of a couple years, who he was really in love with, had announced "this isn't working for me" and moved out. I'm not certain, but I think she had even left the state and gotten back with her ex in a very short time. My buddy was devastated and deeply depressed. After some weeks/months of his friends not seeing him, they convinced him to get out of his house and meet them for karaoke - something their group (both guys and girls) had done off and on for fun. So he goes out, and everybody is having a good time and picking songs, and he sees the song "Stay," and he thinks, "Oh, this would be an ironic and funny song for a dude." He signs up for it. A short time later, he's on the stage, the song starts, and the words come up on the video screen. He sees the words to the very first line in the song and realizes, "Oh, wait .... This is a breakup song." And then all the pain starts pouring out of him, and he goes pretty quickly from shaky-voice singing to crying uncontrollably. But he's determined not to quit, so he just sort of sobs his way through the entire song. And finally it ends, and the once-lively bar is pin-drop silent. All conversations had stopped. And with everyone watching, he walks past the table where his friends are and he goes and sits at the bar alone.
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