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Celery Man

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  1. Wegmans is open today. And Harris Teeter, goddammit I miss HEB
  2. If I wasn’t paying particularly close attention to the lyrics and the song was decontextualized and you told me that Down Under was a Christmas song from an Americana Christmas album I’d nod and accept that as true.
  3. I’m not 100% that I’m not mixing concerts together but I could swear I saw TOP with BB King and Jimmie Vaughan (and Indigenous) at the Arena in Houston in the late 90s. I was a kid going to a concert with my dad so of course it was incredible but I remember it being incredible.
  4. I tried out of the Cadets of Bergen County in like.... 2002, 2003 maybe (I got offered alternate for Cadets and membership for Crossmen, I ended up not doing it)? I can't remember if this was one of the songs we worked up at camp or whatever, but I wound up with the sheet music and, given a couple of days to get back into shape I think I could still rip the first part on my flugelhorn. I was in Jr High in the napster era. THPS and Blink 182 were already shaking me out of whatever mainstream nu-metal rap rock shit I was half into as a 13 year old MTV viewer and then I downloaded this album and it was game on i could go down the rabbit hole of every ska band I found my way towards, and I should go ahead and toss a Reel Big Fish song up.. but then this show was one that blew my 17 year old mind. I was excited to see the fucking Voodoo Glow Skulls at my own bands favorite venue to play at and oh yeah Rx Bandits that's cool too, and they were there with a totally different sound than their very very third wave stuff for good measure and why not
  5. Snipe Hunter is interesting. Definitely a different sound. I thought I hated it at first but I think I’m going to wind up sitting with it and coming around.
  6. A thing that stuck out to me at the end of season 3 this time was the “we found a body!” bit with Johnny OD’ing in Hamsterdam. The timeline is fuzzy on that whole thing but it was going for months? They would have had people dropping out every day starting in week 1. That’s how it would have fallen apart.
  7. Wow. Yeah I mean world class asshole but he was a legend of my childhood.
  8. Oh hell yeah man that sounds great. I’m so excited for them!
  9. Oh shit, Will Yip did your daughter’s band’s record? That’s a big deal, he’s like “the guy” for that whole genre.
  10. I think this is going to be a whole thing. I’m already thinking about buying shit for it, getting one of those backpacks you can stick a kid in. Some goody shoes and a camelbak. I think I want a slightly longer walk and I think I can up the weight. Bizarre sticking 30 lb in a backpack and breaking a sweat and then realizing 7 months ago I was carrying more than that much extra around with me 24/7. but what a pleasant way to get some exercise in. Saw some cows, listened to some music, walked by a creek.
  11. Not showing up, I was just listening to Buck Owens this morning. Someone should buy this
  12. It's funny we're talking alternate tunings and then just wind up on drop D, which... is an alternate tuning but it almost doesn't count. And it's so obvious why you want some familiarity there in the arsenal - both the sad (Speed Trap Town) and the gritty (Choctaw Bingo) version of that sound are so great and so reliant on that low D. For something that will be entirely unappreciated by this crowd but makes me want to go put on girl jeans and a too thin t-shirt with song lyrics ironed on to it - the goal there of course is not mastering the neck and then expanding past, it's... doing this one thing that makes this specific sound. in practice-
  13. I think this actually really hits on it as well as the entire theme of the show - the people and the systems that make up the city. In a way Stringer mirrors McNulty in egomaniacally needing to be the smartest guy in the room (and frequently actually being the smartest guy in the room) but being unable to force the system to bend to their will.
  14. That's what my read used to be, and I'm still now convinced that it is wrong. Your second sentence is certainly how he sees himself, but he's not really doing anything new there -he has a front, he's trying to get away from the street and be a wholesaler, get into the real estate game. There are other players who did that successfully that are referred to by the other characters - I think Butchie has a few lines about a major player from way back when whose name you've never heard of who did that. Stringer didn't even really succeed with rebranding his weak product and he didn't come up with the coop - that was Joe. Joe was the real brains, and the real leader of the coop. And Stringer didn't fail because he was applying the street rules to the politics - he died because he stopped abiding the street rules. Even trying to hit Clay Davis, which would have caused his fall, wasn't an application of street rules. It was him once again falling prey to his ego and trying to go after someone uninvolved in the game because his pride got hurt. Avon turned on Stringer, but Stringer was already going to get got, and deservedly. It wouldn't have served Avon at all to protect Stringer, and by the rules of the game he had it coming anyways. Avon could see that Stringer was way out of pocket all over the place and couldn't protect him, couldn't keep him from fucking up. Avon is actually the one who might have held on for longer if he hadn't been betrayed by Stringer - Marlo was more fierce and more cunning than Avon, but Avon still had more muscle and he had a location on Marlo. If they had managed to hit Marlo at the rim shop that night, that would have been it for Marlo. But Stringer took down the whole fucking organization. And in the end, even smart businessman Joe doesn't win against ruthless soldier Marlo. And Marlo will eventually lose the crown, and it'll be some newer fiercer quicker Marlo that catches him slipping.
  15. I am very limited in my “playing in drop d”…. range, but go learn - Cover Me Up Speed Trap Town Whitehouse Road and you’ll pretty much get it? There’s pretty much a new G and a new E and a lot of the same but you get that great low D. Play some Norwegian Wood.
  16. These three have all been great for me. Maybe not all time eps but pretty classic Sunny, moreso than most of the episodes last season.
  17. I understand why it's difficult to do, but I really wish I could have the original soundtrack. For some reason, Canada is the level I was really missing when THPS1+2 came out. Haven't gotten past airport yet, but this is a fun trip down memory lane. Still a fun game.
  18. for the longest time I thought that this was sampling literally some Dave Matthews deepcut. Wrong David Matthews this was the soundtrack to every college party in 2006 oh man just hearing ying yang twins over bittersweet symphony is taking me back
  19. What years? It's possible that I'm out of date, but I suspect that the poor QC Gil has heard about is with the Chinese electromatic Gretsches. I have two FMIC era Japanese Gretsches and they are great - they are the professional line Gretsch guitars. I think that post FMIC that remains the same. @AnotherUTFan is probably still our resident Gretsch expert though. (I’m finna throw ditch or otherwise store everything on that awful bookshelf, don’t tell anyone how I live) 2006. Bought from South Austin Music. Would’ve brought it back for the reunion show in Austin if I wasn’t afraid to take it on the flight.
  20. I'm in the exercise portion of that book right now and rucking sounds like the kind of activity I could happily incorporate into routine. I think generally what I want in my "Centenarian Olympics" repertoire is to continue to be able to move around without pain for as long as possible, and to do that basic "get through the airport and lift a bag into the overhead" as a fairly old man. I might stick a kettlebell in a backpack and take a walk later. My wife just asked if she could have some ibuprofen. I keep a bottle in my desk, one of those 500 tablet bottles because I used to go through quite a bit. Weaning off of that hasn't been an explicit goal but pulling that bottle out from underneath a bunch of other shit made me realize how long it's been since I've taken any. That is definitely a change that has occurred since dropping a bunch of weight this year.
  21. Freaky Friday 2 is in theaters and Fender should really reissue the Tele-Sonic chambered mahogany body, dearmond pups, 4 knob layout. Red and black.
  22. been slowly slowly playing oblivion. just downloaded this though can't fucking wait
  23. I'm on to season 4 in the latest rewatch. I was in my twenties when I first watched this and thought that Stringer was super smart. And, he's not a moron, but with a bit more seasoning it's interesting watching again and realizing how much fo a dipshit he still is (how self satisfied he is with his assessment of cell phone market saturation, his stupid roberts rules of order, him just taking Clay Davis' bait every time. And every single misstep he makes sealing his fate because he thinks he's the smartest motherfucker around. He would have been fucked anyways - i missed it before, but there's a phone call right at the end of season three that indicates he contracted some hitters (to hit Clay Davis). There's no way that whatever plan he had would have stood up to the scrutiny that would have come down with a hit on a politician. Avon was the smarter one out of the two of them, and he was a trillion percent correct with his assessment of Stringer being not hard enough for this right here and not smart enough for that out there. Another cool thing I've noticed a few times that I missed in previous viewings is the trick they'll do with the sound editing where you'll here some background noise and it will continue into the next scene at a different location. In season 2, they throw the guns that land on the boat, the boat's horn blows, and then it cuts to the Greek in the diner and the horn is blowing farther off in the background. Same at the end of episode 1 or 2 of season 4 when Carcetti is drunk on the park bench being told to move it along by a cop, and there's a police siren far off in the background, and then you're with Randy sitting on his stoop and the same siren is still going, much closer. I always took it as Wee Bey is a free agent but he recognizes Namond as his child and at the very least, he takes care of his baby mama and Namond and perhaps even as a member of the family in a sometimes conventional way. While also having his own crib and drug-fucking shorties to death and etc.
  24. What’s the best Texas polo these days? I like a basic pique polo ( but the one on the coop website looks like it might be shitty) but am curious about the general consensus.
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