Everything posted by dcbc
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Can we talk about The Yardbirds?
How does a band with four guitar players even get remembered fondly. But yeah, total freak show of a band. No other explanation.
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Scotch
Is that Janet Lee on that Robert Burns jug?
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Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
Yes.
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San Miguel de Allende
Honestly, despite the thread title, her post was confusing to the uninitiated, and I took it as a broader Mexico rec. But yeah, corrected, and I get it.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Depends on the year. Latter on my 52 AV, former on my 64 AV and early '90 N_9. Rubber band under the knobs on some of them because Fender.
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Surly kids applying / attending UT
Congrats! Just got word that my niece got into engineering as well. We are thrilled for her. She's waiting on some reaches in March, but her mom just put down the deposit on SRD and paid for the parking space (family full of Longhorns).
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San Miguel de Allende
Long shot, but my former, late, step dad used to own this place and it looks like they're still renting it out. It's a 15th Century Hacienda in the Yucatan Jungle (about an hour and some change from Merida). It's amazing with plenty to explore if you don't mind driving. I don't know if it's still being rented out, but if you google Hacienda Xixim, you'll find some sites. Just something off the beaten path.
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Norman Thayer, Junior! Where the hell are you!
"Ethel Thayer. Thoundth like I'm lythping, dothn't it." Dabny Coleman: "I think I saw a bear."
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Norman Thayer, Junior! Where the hell are you!
I got taken along to quite a few more serious movies with my parents as a kid, and I ended up enjoying several of them. Another that stands out is the movie, Four Seasons. It wasn't always a good match though. My parents were very close friends with the parents of the guy my sister dated in high school and college. They'd go on vacations together (see, e.g., Four Seasons) and go out to dinner together pretty regularly. On my eighth birthday, our two families went out to dinner (not the place I would have chosen) and then to a movie. That movie was Mommie Dearest. I'm eight years old. It's my birthday. And they took me to see Mommie Fucking Dearest. I remember feeling ill. Maybe it was the Hungarian food we ate earlier. Anyway, one year, AMC played Mommie Dearest on a loop for 24 hours on Mother's Day. Now I find it funny in the worst sort of way because Faye Dunnaway is so over the top. I also watched a bunch of not-age-appropriate stuff as a result of our getting cable in the late 70s. Back then, TMC (the only movie channel we had) would play the movie of the month several times each day. So at age 7, I'd seen the Shining 30 times. The list goes on. About twenty years ago, a friend and I wrote a parody of Life's Little Instruction book if all of your life lessons were learned watching cable in the 80s. Somehow, I'd saved all the cable guides from back in the day and used them in a collage as the artwork for the rear dust jacket of the book.
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Worst concert/live show that you attended
Yeah, I had a couple of albums in the 90s. But your description of the music is spot on. 2001 was the first summer of the Phish hiatus and we were looking for something sort of related. That wasn't it. We saw TAB later that summer and it really scratched the itch (with horns).
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22% of men (incl. Kevin) don't realize that a chimp would fucking wreck them
Question. Is there water in the pool. If no, I'm team bear.
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"the bear" - new series on fx
- Grandkids
I meant for Surly, but good on ya.- Grandkids
- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
I mean, it's not a strict script.- Home Theater Upgrade.
Unless that's the first two frames of Star Wars, yeah, no bueno. Sucks, but it's just a cheaper-to-replace situation. I'm hard pressed to splurge for much these days.- Norman Thayer, Junior! Where the hell are you!
Most believable movie-older-couple I can recall.- Norman Thayer, Junior! Where the hell are you!
I saw this with my parents as a kid. Got caught up with the fishing with grandpa scenes as a kid, but still appreciated the performances of Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn. And the other four actors in the movie, who I think were famous too (I'm looking at you, Dabney Coleman. Anyway, it doesn't get mentioned enough. This scene stuck with me from the first time I saw it.- Grateful Dead General Thread
He's all over the place! What an asshole! Me and My Uncle was a ripper.- Grateful Dead General Thread
Feels Like a Stranger is super synthy. Then, it slams on the breaks with FotD. Would have liked a little more momentum, but I'm going to shut up, listen to this, and remember good times. edit: This is painfully (heroin?) slow. edit2: Not I.- Texas BBQ
Truth, in Houston, is pretty good supposedly. Toward the end of your drive though. Safe travels.- Grateful Dead General Thread
One track in, and this show is hitting hard. But that's as far as I've listened.- Surly kids applying / attending UT
My kid was at Blanton. I didn't tell him about my relative palace at Towers in the 90s. He likes his roommate. Mine was awful. He wins.- Which musician would've put out the best music if they hadn't passed?
2016 and 2017 were rough. We lost Prince, Bowie, and Petty. I think we were probably going to get some good music out of all of them. Also, this country hasn't been the same since then.- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
A friend of mine, whose wife is a school teacher (citizen who immigrated from El Salvador) said 150 of her school's Latino kids didn't show up on Monday, presumably scared to come to school. - Grandkids
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