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Paul Wesley

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  1. Watching Texas play Tech this year... can't remember being so frustrated watching a Texas team in a mid-season game. McClung or however Danny Ainge spells his name -- he got about 10 free throws in the game in Austin that were complete bullshit. One was a cleanly-blocked 3 right before the half, followed seconds later by a tech on the Texas bench for protesting the missed call. Couple of absolute flops on 3-point attempts. And a play down the stretch where he threw it off the glass to himself and they didn't call the travel... he got ball and got fouled at the rim. And then to have him hit the game-winner. That was a brutal loss. Tonight felt like we were headed the same way. 8 fucking fouls to 1 to start the game, plus two loose balls that were given to Tech on blown calls. Looked like two teams playing hard and giving about the same amount of contact as they were absorbing, but it was only getting called on one end. Pretty bullshit first 10 minutes to sit through.
  2. Paul Wesley

    The Police

    Good review. I think you might be too hard on the back half of "Regatta," which I would rank as one of their very best album sides - "On Any Other Day" is a throw-away track. The rest of it is really strong, touches on a lot of different styles, and has all the elements that made them a great band (unexpected rhythms, great vocal takes, arrangements with a lot of space, great textural guitars). I agree that their first album is probably their best, but every record has a few gems. They went from energetic guitar-based, 3-piece rock songs recorded on a tiny budget.... all the way to massive-budget, complex arrangements with jazz elements and wide-ranging instrumentation (synths, keys, etc). "Truth Hits Everybody" is a million sonic miles from "King of Pain," but I think they're both brilliant. To me, even those last two records were pretty cool, and as a band, they never jumped the shark the same way that Sting's solo records did (too self absorbed, self-important, and dissonant jazz wankery just for the sake of being weird). Summers and Copeland don't have the songwriting chops or the voice (obviously) like Sting, but Sting definitely needed them to save him from himself.
  3. Paul Wesley

    The Police

    Great band. Their records definitely have a trajectory from loud, 3-piece punk rock (I love "Truth Hits Everybody") to highly produced pop. I don't know why Sting feels the need to constantly tell Stewart Copeland - undoubtedly the best instrumentalist in the band - how to play his instrument.
  4. Yeah, that’s a nice color combo
  5. Fuck that trash-talking Grizzly Adams piece of shit.
  6. I've been fighting with my image hosting account, so I'm getting caught up on replying to the last two pages of this thread. Specifically... When considering "who's a douche?" we need to agree on some kind of talent vs ego ratio. Consider Prince. He strutted, he sassed, and (at least in the person he presented publicly), he was a self-absorbed narcissist with an ego the size of Cleveland. But he was also among the most musically gifted writers, performers, singers, and instrumentalists of the last 50 years. Thus, (read this in your Maury Povich voice), "Prince, you are NOT a douche." Lots of rock stars in that group, I'd argue. Jimmy Page, Elton John, Chuck Berry. They might have been arrogant assholes, especially at the height of their stardom (though two of those three examples found contrition and humility in their later decades). But I don't think that being an asshole is the same thing as being a douche. It's like Dizzy Dean said: "It ain't bragging if you can do it." Lindsey Buckingham is a unique rock guitarist and a phenomenal talent who wrote and produced brilliant music. Not a douche. I will die on this hill. So where should we draw the line? Neil Schon ("You ARE a douche.")
  7. "The Lumineers" makes this one pretty genius:
  8. nm Can’t get my photo of Romeo Rose in a pirate shirt to show up
  9. Man, outside of the first three acts on that poster, the rest of those people.... never heard of them
  10. Alternate theory: Propaganda works really well.
  11. Relax, man. I didn't say it was our worst possession of the first half. I didn't say anything remotely like that (why argue with something I didn't even say?). I was "only bringing it up" because you replied to my post to say that Ramey's first two shots were good shots. Ramey launched a 26-footer a few seconds into the game. No penetration, no ball movement, no motion, no screen, no chance to draw contact, no getting teammates involved in game. No chance for a lob to Sims, no kickout to an open teammate... Just get the pass from Coleman (well behind the arc), launch. We can just disagree on whether that's a good shot.
  12. Our first possession of the game, he was "open" because he was about four feet behind the three-point line, and he launched it with 20 seconds on the shot clock. No big man touched the ball, the ball never went inside the 3-point line.
  13. None so far today.
  14. Ramey has taken at least three hero-ball contested, off-balance fucking bricks.... every one of them should have gotten him a seat on the bench
  15. If we're looking for iconic songs/moments that changed everything with a new sound, "Eruption" has to be on that list. And the all-synth sounds of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." You could arguably place those two moments as the birth of hair metal and EDM, respectively.
  16. Holy shit, these are some made-up bullshit calls
  17. Sugarcubes is a good answer. Buddy of mine played “Birthday” for me after it came out. Didn’t sound like anything else.
  18. 100% this. I had a brief moment after the Capitol riot... maybe a fair % of Republicans are going to come back to a fact-based reality. I thought surely an attempted coup right here in America would be the event that caused the schism between reasonable people who want small government and the lunatics whose political beliefs consist essentially of fairy tales (birthers, Seth Rich, Dominion voting machines, Obama's death panels, laboratory-manufactured viruses, fake pandemics, Hunter Biden's laptop, etc.). Nope.
  19. That’s awesome
  20. Trekii makes cool shit, including a preamp where you can run anything through a Leslie cabinet: https://trekii.com/products/leslie-speaker-accessories/uc-1a-pedal-110v.html That used to be on my "wish list" but the guitar pedals that simulate a rotary speaker have gotten really good, and there's other stuff I'd rather have for that $$$.
  21. Me: 1990-ish Ibanez RG-550 with mirrored pick guard ...which would be a bigger loss than you might guess
  22. Temperature falling, your family is freezing, and you have to keep the fire going or die. You have to burn one instrument that you own. What goes in the fire? Caveat: Let’s assume you’ve already burned the banjo(s)
  23. #stopthesteal
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