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Paul Wesley

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  1. I usually listen to the NPR critics end-of-year "best of" show, in hopes of discovering a few new artists every year.  Sometimes it works.

    One year, all three of the critics just RAVED about Courtney Barnett.  "She wrote a song about her ASTHMA ATTACK!"  And then they played it and they all fawned over it like it was some kind of fucking achievement.  It's horrible, unlistenable nonsense.  It has no redeeming quality.  None.  It seemed completely calculated to make you say, "Oh, that's so QUIRKY!"  Which is even more annoying than all the ironic moustaches on the first five rows of a Mumford show.  She has all the genius and creativity of the second season of Punky Brewster.  

    I've been waiting half a decade to talk about how much she fucking sucks.

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  2. 3 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    Had a buddy that had one of those in hs

    My good friend’s older brother got one - I think I had an acoustic at the time but no electric - and I remember feeling very confused while he explained how he was getting “The Paul” but not a Les Paul.  

  3. 11 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    They just added 1.4M voters to the rolls too.  Felons who have paid their debts to society and regained the right to vote.  I'm sure there are a (very) few Trumpsters amongst them.

    Fair point.  

    Still, I was really surprised by Florida last night -- after hearing about all these motivated minorities, new voters,  and post-school-shooting emboldened youth -- despite all that, Rick Scott (who has narrowly survived some extremely tight races even in 2016) and Desantis both win.

     

    (edit to add):  Also, I wouldn't say "very few" Trumpsters in Florida's prisons.  It's the land of white trash.

  4. 4 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

    Florida just got a hell of a lot tougher to win as well - even with the R sweep at the top.

    Florida got tougher for Trump?  Really? 

    Seems to me that they ran extremely Trumpish non-PC candidates (you know... racists), and they won.  

  5. Yeah, I like it, but the concept is pretty much the same as the offset telecaster -- a jazzmaster shape with tele-style string-through-body, tele bridge, tele pickups, etc.

    I'm not crazy about the rectangle fret markers.  If you're looking to do a hybrid of vintage sonics/futuristic styling, it seems like neck inlays are a blank canvas where you could do something new.

  6. 28 minutes ago, BigVegasHorn26 said:

    And soon enough, the democrats in that bracket will eventually become employed and flip.  

    You realize that being college-educated is a predictor of voting Democratic?  

    Are you under the delusion that college-educated folks sit around and vote D so they can collect unemployment?

    Or are you just repeating Reagan-era talking points while having no fucking clue about the world around you?

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  7. 1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

    In 2008 our DL rotation was Brian Orakpo, Sergio Kindle, Lamarr Houston, Roy Miller, Henry Melton, Sam Acho, and Kheeston Randall.

    In 2005 our DL rotation was Tim Crowder, Brian Robison, Rod Wright, Frank Okam, Larry Dibbles, Brian Orakpo and Roy Miller.

    In 2000 our DL rotation was Casey Hampton, Shaun Rogers, Marcus Tubbs, Corey Redding, Kalen Thornton, plus a couple of other guys I can’t remember.

    We had a full starting DL plus a few backups who were NFL players when we were good.   We now have Charles Omenihu as a mid to late round draft prospect, and other bodies.

    I think that’s pretty much it.  

  8. Wait a second.  You want to congratulate yourself for not blaming the black president after a white racist piece of shit took a gun into a church to murder the black worshippers who welcomed him to join their service?

    Go fuck yourself.  

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  9. I'm about to sell a couple amps on the craigslist.  If you're in Austin and trolling for an AC30 (CC1 combo) or an Orange Rockerverb 50 head (+/- an Orange 212 cabinet), I'll make you a deal.

    Plus you can have that charitable, satisfied feeling -- just knowing that your money will probably get recycled on gear.  

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  10. Sorry for the Waddy thread hijack.  

    Just to offer my .02 on the thread topic:  I love Mike Campbell.  I own one of his signature guitars.  He was perfect guitarist for Tom Petty.

    But Lindsey is 100 times more original and creative... think about the unconventional drums and syncopated high guitars at the beginning of "Go Your Own Way," which he had to fight the label brass to keep intact (they told him they "couldn't find the beat" and wanted him to change it to something more straightforward).  

    Or think about the arrangement to "Tusk" - pounding drums and acoustic guitars with a very muted (almost whispered) vocal part singing in octaves, and that gives way to a marching band in the choruses.  Brilliant and totally original.  

    And he's technically proficient.  Second half of this song just blows me away:

     

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