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Paul Wesley

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  1. I have a teaburst R8 that is really pretty wood, is super light and sounds glorious. But I never really bonded with it because of the chunky neck. It’s in mint condition. I’m mentioning that because it’s probably headed to Reverb in order to fund another purchase. If anyone wants to do something financially irresponsible, I’ll try to entice you with a below-market price (avoiding Reverb fees will help). I haven’t bought a guitar in several years, but I hope that I just broke that streak (hoping my offer will get accepted). I have 24 hours to find out.
  2. I watched it because I'm a sucker for music documentaries. Definitely learned a few things (am I the only one who didn't know she was a backup singer for Michael Jackson?). I have two observations: 1. The filmmaker is keenly aware of the criticisms against her for being purely self-interested and (as a consequence) for passing off collaborative work as her own. It definitely reminded me of the Robbie Robertson documentary... who faced the same charge. Both documentaries spend almost zero time explaining the basis for the criticism, but spend extensive amounts of time defending against it. It makes for a kind of weird protesteth-too-much movie. 2. The film opens with Sheryl and Brandi Carlile stating very emphatically that the music business is much harder to break into for a woman, and that women have to be more talented and harder-working than their male counterparts. Which is a fucking silly and demonstrably wrong assertion. It was completely impossible to break into the traditional industry (record labels) in the 90's if you were overweight, ugly, or old... regardless of gender. If you were a hot young woman, on the other hand, then all kinds of industry doors were (and remain) wide fucking open -- doors that are hermetically sealed to the unattractive (no matter the gender, no matter how talented). I think the only Sheryl Crow record I ever bought was TNMC. She's definitely got talent as a singer, writer, and performer, but she doesn't blow me away on any of those individual skills. My wife cannot stand her vocal delivery on a lot of songs (like "All I Wanna Do") - she thinks it's just kind of an annoying affectation.
  3. This is awesome, Deej.
  4. Thanks for the heads up. I'm in.
  5. Speaking of rules of thumb...
  6. Cool guitar, but the video called to mind a rule of thumb: If a hat looks fucking ridiculous when you're not playing guitar, it probably looks fucking ridiculous when you are (I'm looking at you, bass players and your fedoras).
  7. It's all I own.
  8. Any of you degenerates in Austin want to go to the Jason Bonham Zeppelin thing in 90 minutes, PM me your cell and I’ll text you a ticket. You’ll know me when you see me there - I’m the guy playing that Peavy in the AUTF pic.
  9. This comment reminds me of the Bill Burr Philly rant where he starts getting heckled and he just spends his entire set talking about how much their city sucks. I think it was a year or two after 9/11 ”The terrorists will never attack you, because they know the rest of this country doesn’t give a fuck about you.”
  10. (Edit) Was worse than I remembered. A rich guy teasing another rich guy about golf.
  11. I don’t know… Did you see the videos from that recent Kid Rock concert where Trump (in full orangeface) appears on a giant video screen right before the show and tells the crowd that they are the God-fearing backbone of America? That might be less rock and roll.
  12. It's just bonkers that only one of the hosts had some kind of clarification question, and the others just nodded along with "we shouldn't have schools."
  13. OK, the Tragically Hip. That's about it.
  14. And btw, if you're ever in a club and a dude takes the stage with the Aldo Nova guitar, you can just go. Really, just leave. Don't wait for confirmation.
  15. Has there ever been a Canadian rock band that didn't look totally fucking ridiculous? Rush? April Wine? Aldo Nova (it was too hard to pick just one)?
  16. I think every R vs D political discussion needs this reminder. When you start off with Reagan's "Government *is* the problem," it gets tricky to address even the most profoundly broken systems that provide basic elements of government. e.g. healthcare, a stable power grid.
  17. Those graphs... There has been a measurable Democratic shift to the left on many issues, and you could reflect that shift in a graph. e.g. Should a gay couple be allowed to get married? Should America's healthcare system cover some basic level of care for all its citizens? Is capital punishment - as currently practiced in the states - problematic in terms of race or social class? If you want to discuss those shifts, then let's all admit that we could illustrate the same shifts for the past 300 years. e.g. Should women vote? Should people with dark skin be enslaved and treated as property? Do we need national civil rights laws ensuring equal access to voting? I'm sure you're proud of the R's non-movement. Congrats, I guess. It would be a lot harder to illustrate in a graph where the Republicans have moved, because *their* movement has been one where you altogether quit talking about healthcare, infrastructure, and educational standards, and instead endlessly discuss fake laptops, anti-vaccine conspiracies, unvarnished white supremacy, and - most importantly - imaginary massive voter fraud that gives you justification to overthrow democracy.
  18. I'll bet Fox News and all the rightwing talkshow hosts *combined* haven't spent 5 minutes in all of 2022 talking about how to fix a broken healthcare system. Contrast that with several hours a day talking about how catastrophic it would be if a high school teacher ever mentions that 250 years of brutal human enslavement ran a wee bit contrary to the values that America espoused at its founding.
  19. There was polling of Republicans in January where 54% said they supported party over Trump, and 36% said they supported Trump over the party. A solid majority of Republicans still firmly believe the big lie DESPITE NO FUCKING EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER. The rightwing backlash to a Mitt nomination would be ****LOUD****. They do not forgive him for his impeachment vote. If he's the nominee, either a huge % of their voters will stay home, or (more likely) we'd get a Trumpkin (or Trump himself) as a 3rd party candidate. Republicans cannot win national elections without the lunatics that make up somewhere between 35-50% of their voters, and it's scary to consider the ramifications of that. The only actual issues that they have real-world policy proposals for are banning abortion and scapegoating immigrants. It's been 25+ fucking years since they actually talked about fixing healthcare. I don't hear meaningful proposals for helping the middle class, addressing wild income disparities, educating children, or articulating a coherent foreign policy. For a solid fucking decade now, conservative media ignores nearly every real issue in favor of Seth Rich, pizzagate, birthers, bamboo ballots, Hunter's laptop, relentless anti-Fauci conspiracies, more Hunter's laptop, Jewish space lasers, Tucker Carlson's open white supremacy, "hey look, let's imagine we found more imaginary things on that imaginary laptop," and jaw-dropping levels of stupidity from the My Pillow guy.... all of whom have banded together to accuse anyone who opposes them of grooming children. Those people are abso-fucking-lutely not voting for Mitt.
  20. Hey, sidis - I am just now seeing and hearing these... I am loving hearing them with the full piano/orchestrations. They sound great! Madeleines is my first-listen favorite. Those cello lines are really nice.
  21. There’s a documentary as well - can’t remember if it’s Netflix or Amazon prime. It’s good… could definitely have used a timeline and a map of the locations in question to give a framework for the narrative (the “where” and “when” of the child’s injuries are kind of crucial to her guilt or innocence).
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