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Paul Wesley

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  1. The Hole in the Wall episode with Don Henley is one of Austin's finest legends, IMO. The RS article references it with this link: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-06-20/don-henley-must-die/
  2. Sure, I’ll concede that’s true. But you’d have to also agree that it’s the other kind of “terrible” that we’re actually subjected to on a regular basis. You aren’t getting the Shaggs in elevators, dental waiting rooms, commercial breaks, etc.
  3. I hear you, but there are different kinds of "bad." There's "bad" like no musical talent at all (Shaggs), and "bad" like really talented people creating commerce that tries to pass itself off as art (pandering). (edit) Arguably, there's another kind of bad, which is adopting some kind of silly affectation and using some sort of pressure/trick to get everyone to agree that the action has artistic merit.
  4. I feel like the Doors are one of those stages-of-life bands. Sort of like discovering Kerouac or Hunter S Thompson, there's a point in life where the Doors *seem* to be rebellious or counter-culture in a way that appeals to a youthful brain. And only later do you get more breadth and depth of experience that allows you to accurately reclassify those artists according to their actual artistic merit (read: "meh"). For the Doors specifically, reading "No One Here Gets Out Alive" and considering Morrison to be a genius -- that time period will coincide with the one where you're still a gawky virgin, but you carry that same condom in your wallet for an entire fucking year. Someone should start a "bands you outgrow" thread.
  5. If Swift mobilized 20 or 30k of otherwise non-participating voters in each of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin-- it would be massive.
  6. Looked like that 2nd down throw-away went out of bounds a few yards short of the line of scrimmage. Maybe it's not ruled the same way as a punt(?)
  7. I had never heard this Led Zeppelin legend - linking to the podcast website, but it's on all the streaming services. It's episode #4 in this Allan Cross-narrated series: https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/uncharted-crime-and-mayhem-in-the-music-industry-podcast/
  8. In the 90’s, I got an American Express card in the mail. An hour or so later, I set out for California with my buddy in his Isuzu Trooper. Skipped school for a week. Slept on the floor of a frat house library in Tempe (don’t know which one…my buddy told them he was in that frat in Austin). Drank a lot. Hung out on the beaches of San Diego for four or five days. One day, we set out for LA because he knew these twins from his time at Texas Tech. I was awakened the next morning by a pretty big earthquake. The girls had (somehow) left for work, and I thought my buddy had come into the bedroom I was in and was shaking the bed to mess with me. Then I realized that I was in the room alone. I went running out to the living room at the exact moment he ran out of his own bedroom, and with the walls still rattling, we popped open a couple beers to celebrate. “Earthquake! Whooooo! Earthquake!” Anyway, on the road from San Diego, we listened to “LA Woman” by Billy Idol over and over again. And it kicks the shit out of the original. When we got home, I had to sell my car to pay the Amex bill. Had to walk everywhere for the rest of the year. In the words of Max Fischer: “You know what? It was worth it.”
  9. “Wichita Lineman” is a fucking terrible song. Stupid lyrics. Melody that meanders aimlessly. Compelling like a dirt sandwich. Totally fucking pointless and without merit. I guess the record company decided Glenn was handsome and marketable and so they paid off the radio stations to play this banal and insipid piece of shit. Sorry if you got tricked. Yes, I resurrected this thread to say that. I’ve needed to get it off my chest for decades.
  10. Joe Pug is thoughtful and engaging. His "Working Songwriter" podcast has some really good guests and conversations. I sometimes wish they'd talk more about the mechanics of writing songs, but I understand that there's a finite public appetite for talking about the best chord progressions for building tension, or about the glorious uncertainty of the major 7 chord. His latest episode is a good one - a conversation with Bob Schneider. This episode has some observations from each of them that I found really relatable. You songwriter dudes will like it. If you don't care about his own housekeeping topics, you can skip the first five minutes. https://theworkingsongwriter.com/episodes-1/2024/1/2/episode-234-bob-schneider
  11. *rainbow* was the operative word there. It was the US flag with rainbow colors instead of red, white, and blue.
  12. I was on a Texas beach a few years back, and there was a business selling flags out of this big tent. Basically, you could buy *your* version of the American flag. Many had some kind of "Trump won" sewn onto it. They also had the LGBTQ rainbow version of the American flag (13 stripes and 50 stars). It was one of those moments where I just thought, "We're going to have a civil war, aren't we?" I hate all the adulterations of our flag. It's all just very sad to me. I really hate the Blue Lives Matter flag, especially when I see it displayed by members of law enforcement or veterans - all of whom took, you know, an oath and shit to uphold the laws of the flag they've abandoned.
  13. Jackson Arnold needs to practice his tackling.
  14. It's a simple question, Nikki. Just say "slavery" and we'll move on.
  15. 100% this. Even more than that, it's only 24 months since the Aggies signed a historically great class at the moment that Texas was coming off an embarrassing 5-7 season that including a home loss to Kansas. To think that we're leaving the Big 12 with scoreboard on all the left-behinds, winning the conference, in the playoffs, signing our own monster class... and like you said, they paid out an insane amount of money for a ho-hum hire, an incomplete staff, and an recruiting class that's unraveled. Nobody could have imagined how violently the wheel of fortune turned for both programs. Edit to add: we're also about to put a shit ton of guys in the NFL. Who would have thought that *we* would be successfully selling "come here and maximize your NFL draft potential" only 24 months after 5-7?
  16. Yeah, if Georgia had won, it would have been the four undefeated conference champions, and we'd be out. It's really crazy what the Bama win over Georgia meant for the Texas program. Had Georgia won the SEC, we'd be looking at a meaningless bowl, we'd have a TON of opt-outs, we'd be bitching about how the entire season slipped away on a last-second loss just like 2008. Instead, we're killing it on the recruiting trail, and we might have the best all-around sales pitch in the nation right now - a playoff team, NIL money, first-class academics, moving to the SEC, a coaching staff that's about to put a shit ton of guys into the NFL, etc.
  17. This. He starts each broadcast with calm, flowery, scripted praise for Texas. But if the game is tight in the 4Q, he excitedly reacts in an anti-Texas way to every single important play (score, spot of the ball, possession of the ball, penalty, etc).
  18. That fucking clip, man... Every year or so, I grab my keyboard and start typing, "I still cannot get my head around the fact that America elected this comically stupid buffoon to be president." All these people at his country club, just gleefully trying to capture this moment like they're 14-year old girls at a BTS concert - presumably those are wealthy and reasonably well-educated adults. And to see how joyful they are to be in his presence, like they're all trying to touch the hem of his garment, just soooo excited to cheer while he tells them demonstrably false lies... I still cannot get my head around it. Lately I just come back to the same conclusion/explanation: Propaganda works.
  19. I’m on a phone… not sure if this link will work: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gold-bars-featured-bob-menendez-bribery-case-linked-2013-robbery-recor-rcna128006
  20. I had to work yesterday, and I couldn't watch the playoff selection show until today, and I'm right at the point where they interview Harbaugh. (let me pause here for context: I have generally rooted for Michigan, and I see them as a fellow top-flight public university) Paraphrasing just a little here: ESPN: "So, anyway, Jim, you got suspended for cheating, then you cheated some more, then you agreed to be suspended because you definitely have been cheating a long time, and also you were concurrently cheating while also running a ring of cheating cheaters. And you've had to miss a bunch of games this year. First, for cheating. Again, for more cheating. And now, you're ranked number one. How does that feel?" (and now, this is verbatim) Harbaugh: (points fingers upward). "Yeah, thanks to God, first. It's been, uh.... He's had his hand on this team the entire year. It's been a spiritual journey for us, so uh, all thanks, all thanks to God and our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ." (Really. He said that.)
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