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Paul Wesley

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  1. How much do you have to fucking suck to be an also-ran school in a state that's shaped like a fucking rectangle?
  2. Watching the K-State fans celebrate in their goofy purple overalls, with their ridiculous powercat videos and their high school cheers... reminds me how fucking painful it can be to lose to a shitty glorified high school on the prairie. I don't know if that's the LSU fans' reaction though. If those hillbillies moved to Louisiana, they'd all be tutors.
  3. I just rewound DVR to see if this announcer was really saying that Nebraska and K State were in the same conference... yes, he said that. Obviously someone in the booth got his attention and got him to correct himself.
  4. Nice. Are you Levon Helm?
  5. Sat down to audition some of these records in this thread, and I got one band into the first post... Royal Blood. Inadvertently started to listen to their last record first... very garage rock, with decent songs, but they seemed to go to the same palette of sounds/production tricks over and over again. Then I listened to Typhoon, which uses a lot of dance-club drum sounds against fuzz guitars... an odd pairing but an original sound. Also better songs than the prior record. I dig it. Thanks for the recommendation.
  6. When Worthy got the unsportsmanlike call for that, a poster here claimed that spinning got flagged every single time. Apparently not.
  7. Just to add: Despite what I just wrote, I still root for Tech in most every game they’re not playing Texas. There’s a scene in Blues Brothers where they’re talking about an old booking agent who got the band a bunch of big gigs and showcases, and they name several of those venues. Then, as if tallying the score, Jake adds, “I got him laid. He owes me.” I’ve only been to Lubbock once. It was the weekend of a UT game in the 90’s. I had a great time. So if we’re talking Tech, I owe them.
  8. Good analogy. The further away he is, the more you can just be entertained by his trolling. To some extent, he’s poison to his conference as well. There was a period where Leach had Tech fans 100% convinced that the refs were conspiring against them… even though during that exact time period - Tech was called for fewer penalties every year… despite throwing it 65 times a game while magically going years without committing holding vs future NFL defensive ends (Kindle, Orakpo). I have several Tech friends who still tell me every year before the game how they’re sure the refs will fix it for Texas “like always.” It defies logic (and it defies the box score year after year), and I don’t think that started with Dykes or Tuberville or Kliffy or anyone else.
  9. Turns out the people who predicted more variants and spikes were right, weren’t they?
  10. Agree 100%. They had every bit as big a budget as any of their peers. But the drums sound terrible - and I’m not saying terrible compared to Bonham + Glyn Johns - but terrible compared to just about any band on a major label. Ditto for the guitars, which seem to be shooting for “muffled fart” sonically. And I understand that the whole thing was never intended to have any more integrity than a Wiggles TV special, but dammit if the Wiggles’ vinyl doesn’t hit a lot fucking harder.
  11. I've heard McCartney defend himself in interviews (this was decades ago).... paraphrasing "Everything I do isn't going to be better than the last thing I did. Some things will hit and some will miss." That said...
  12. No, I don’t think they did, and I agree that the film could have done a better job telling “whatever happened to…” with some of the main characters.
  13. Obligatory Bill Hicks reference...
  14. Prompted by the L'eggs commercial that was referenced in the ZZ Top thread... Worst sell out? ... and I don't think it's enough to just be a shitty band or a "band" that was from the beginning just a creation of a promoter or record label. The nominees have to be either a great band that sold out to some lame Madison Avenue bullshit commercial *OR* a band that could have made kick-ass music, but instead chose mediocrity and sweet, sweet money. I suppose we could debate whether Aerosmith was still capable of making good music when they made this in 1998... From the band that made "Crazy On You" and "Barracuda"
  15. I'm surprised there wasn't already a thread about this 3-part series. It's about Chester Weger - who was found guilty of a pretty horrific triple murder that occurred in a state park in 1960, his present-day quest for parole, and the ongoing debate around his guilt/innocence. It has the interesting twist that the film maker is the son of the prosecutor. It's one of the better films of this genre that I've seen in the last few years. It's remarkable how many family members/witnesses/jurors/lawyers/etc are still alive and how many participated in the film. I've seen it twice - the second time was when my wife watched it - and the second viewing only reinforced the opinion I formed in the first one. Part 3 drags just a bit, but they packed a lot of information, interviews, and theories into a reasonably short film (each part is under an hour). Mostly the pacing is pretty good, and the information is revealed in a way that may make you change your mind a couple times along the way.
  16. Yes, those tapes of Hillary demanding state-level election officials to “Find me enough votes” to allow Democrats to retain power in 2016… Or when Kerry gathered a mob and sent them to the Capitol to murder a few police officers and injure a hundred more I see what you mean about both sides attacking those halls.
  17. Dude, the loudest voice of the “RIGGED!!!!!” assholes was the fucking President himself. Is that a “fringe?” And are you telling me that there are voices on the left of equal number and positions of power subverting faith in elections in order to overthrow their results? So no, I can’t agree to your “both sides!” argument. I am definitely a patriot, btw.
  18. This thread is an interesting read, but I’m afraid this is the post that speaks to the thread title. The beaches of democracy have been getting shelled by far-right propaganda for years. The actual invasion comes when right-wing lunatics like Gohmert and MTG are joined by state-level opportunists like Abbott and Paxton - and the baseless accusations of fraud are used to subvert the popular vote of the swing states. There were a few principled Republicans (Georgia SOS) who prevented that subversion in 2020, but those people are being actively targeted and replaced in preparation for 2024 and beyond. Edit: There may only be 20-25% of Americans who are buying the Trump-Giuliani-Sidney Powell horse shit, but there are at least that many more who - having been softened by decades of propaganda- don’t want the tax rates to go back to what they were in 2001, and will thus be okay with the coup.
  19. I cannot even get my head around that level of reading. It’s unreal that someone’s brain can digest written music that quickly AND have the hand-eye coordination to play and read simultaneously.
  20. In that Beato video above, Rick says in passing, "Theory is just naming things," and I think that 5-word sentence pretty much sums it up. My mother is one of the best pianists I've ever heard. She was the pianist for whatever church she attended from age 14 until well into her 80's. For decades, strangers would come up to her after a Sunday service and say, "That was the most beautiful offertory I've ever heard!" It happened all the time. She'd be visiting with family or friends after a church service, and I'd see a stranger a few steps away... just sort of waiting their turn to talk to her, and I could tell from their body language what they were waiting to say. She can't read music... except looking at the top left of the clef and counting sharps or flats. She knows from the symbols what the root chord is - and that is all she needs to know. When I was a kid, she might say to me after a service "I just hate when (musical director) starts singing that song in four sharps!" I always thought that was a funny thing to say. She would never say, "I don't like playing in E." I never heard her practice. She'd occasionally go to the piano before we left for church on Sunday morning, and she'd play the offertory one time beginning to end -- flawlessly. But as far as hitting a bunch of wrong notes until she could figure it out... or struggling with a difficult passage over and over again until she got it right... I never heard that. Not once. Anyway, I don't know if it would be fair to say "She doesn't know musical theory." She may not be able to articulate what she is doing, but (like Chad says) she absolutely can speak the language. Theory is just naming things.
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  22. Still pissed about that He’s a yard deep in the end zone when ball stripped It’s not even close.
  23. Chris Simms is one of the winningest QB in the history of Texas football.
  24. In one of Mike Leach's last visits to Austin, right before halftime, he instructed his QB to fake a knee (which would have ended the half) and then stand up and throw it deep. Without his knee actually hitting the ground, the refs blew the play dead, and the clock expired. Leach made a grand production out of acting like he'd been jobbed... walked out to midfield with palms up and both arms over his head in a "WTF?" gesture. And you could read the ref's lips saying over and over again, "That's the rule." Leach didn't know the rule either.
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