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  1. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    Those two are a study in contrasts. Good stuff. Hadn't heard the name Soulhat in a long time, but I left Texas right around the end of their heyday. "A song for my mother ... " -- the lyrics are a hoot: I got a Ph.D. in knife fighting and saying fuck, yeah ... Got a big long middle finger, shaped just like a ball-peen hammer.
  2. The release does say "exclusive streaming rights" so I'm wondering if it's just an additional platform. I can't imagine they'd remove it from broadcasts. I've never understood those regional blackouts, which weren't part of the HS sports environment 10 years ago but seem to be now. Before I cut the cord from DirectTV and then Spectrum, I could get FoxSW (and the rest of 'em) and watch these games. Streaming packages stopped carrying Fox/Bally, and whoever else, at some point in the last 6-8 years -- I can't even remember when my access got cut off and I couldn't get it back without DTV. Regardless, the release also says this is a "major step forward in elevating the visibility and accessibility of Texas high school football ... statewide and beyond," so I'm hopeful I can stream those state games come December.
  3. In my first reporting job, I once sat with Fred Akers in the press box at Leander HS. Can't remember who he would have been there to see. It was a small press box so I introduced myself and tried for about two seconds to exchange pleasantries, but he was having none of it. I get not wanting to talk to reporters -- I poked fun at journalists myself about six pages ago -- but I was not impressed. Interviewed David McWilliams a number of times in his office, and he was a lot more down-to-earth and surprisingly unguarded. The last time I talked to him, he prefaced something with, "When I'm gone ..." and I remember being taken aback. He was fired a few months later.
  4. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    I have a hard time listening to those guys. Most of their stuff takes me to some pretty dark places. It's a conundrum of music -- why some painful, even tragic stuff is easy to listen to over and over, yet other stuff makes me want to jump off a building. I'll listen to "Club XIII" any time, though. And "Ugly Buildings, Whores and Politicians" is a great album name.
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    "Bring it" songs

    "It's better to burn out than to fade away" is definitely in the ballpark. Maybe even standing at home plate. I've seen some interviews with Neil Young about why he wrote that; in one he talks about "fighting the corrosion," and I think a lot of folks see resistance as a theme in that song. A great deal of music is the personal stories behind these songs, both for the musicians and the listeners. Surly posters always have great stories, and a lot of those can be told in a line or two, or maybe a paragraph or two. That's part of what I hope comes out of this. A lot of it is clearly personal interpretation -- somehow, I've never heard Lennon's "God," so I'm curious about what is going on in that one for @honolulu horn. But the lyrics in "Perseverance" are easier to link -- they are my daily life since our stuff started back in the late teens. That kind of anger and disappointment aren't something I can allow to consume me, but I maintain a low-level, background rage that sustains fighting back while staying sane. My colleagues and I are in a unique position of being able to resist in ways that others can't. Without music it would be harder. Family, friends, finally having the Horns back where they belong ... all that stuff helps. I know your fear of loss And your struggles with faith And how it takes everything that you have to face the day The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain All your heroes have failed you Yet you try and prevail Face your torment and dismantle your doubt Refuse this legacy of shame and deceit Cause the only real truth in your life that you know is hostility Your world is coming apart Remain steadfast Perseverance Against all opposition Crushing all limitations Pure strength through solitude Discipline and determination
  6. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    Never a big RATM fan, but I occasionally listen to Morello's radio show on Sirius XM and like it. My son and his buddies went to the opening session of the reunion tour for RATM three years ago. Again stuff that's not in my normal wheelhouse, but definitely classics that I've always been aware of, and listening to them all now in this context increases my appreciation of them. Lots of good stuff. Time to get out of the rabbit hole for a while, though.
  7. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    That is indeed the obvious response and often pops up on my mental soundtrack. Interestingly enough, I thought I had it on the aforementioned playlist but don't. Adding it now. 9/11 made us hear a lot of songs differently. Bought this CD when it came out and several of those live versions still move me. Springsteen's "The Rising," too. Wonder how many albums like the latter were in response to that day.
  8. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    I was driving back home from Pardeeville on a fine Wisconsin summer afternoon when I first heard "American Ride" and thought, "who's that guy?" Been hooked ever since.
  9. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    For me, it's a song about not backing down from the assholes. Persevering, standing on principle ... but much of the fun is what it means to others. I listened to all four of @Iceman's contributions above and there's less of that and a lot more . But I think the Willie Nile song from @G650 is a little more FAFO-for-everybody vibe -- a little less in someone particular's face. But I missed some of the lyrics on my first go-round and there doesn't seem to be a good place to find them right away. I'm sure they're out there somewhere, so I'll probably run over to evil Spotify and see if they've got 'em posted (not my streaming choice -- it's for our kids, so I got the family plan; their reliance on Spotify may be my biggest failure as a parent, but fortunately, they've got a lot more good points than bad).
  10. Sounds like these games are supposed to be free. I'll believe it when I see it, but I'd pay for them anyway. "The change to Victory+ (https://victoryplus.com/) will be the first time all of the Texas High School State Football Championships will be available for free and outside the cable bundle that was the main distribution platform for the Regional Sports Network model who was the carrier for the last 3 decades." Kind of an odd news release. It's from DCTF, and it says they "brokered" the deal.
  11. Hallelujah for all of us out-of-staters who don't want to get satellite, which I believe has been the only way to access these games for several years now. Could be wrong, but I certainly haven't been able to purchase whatever regional service would let me get the games. Haven't heard of these guys before, but happy they're doing this. Seems it may be attached to Dave Campbell's. https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2025/06/10/victory-uil-football-dave-campbells
  12. Hayduke

    "Bring it" songs

    Yeah, I'm actually kind of worried about that, too. I don't come to this particular forum as much as I could, or would like to, and partly because of that. There's a hell of a lot of great threads on this one and I've enjoyed a few new things, but it's a little too easy just to click on a video and suddenly find my wife hollering at me from next Tuesday. See above. I don't know, but I'm probably going to be late for dinner just clicking on your links. Not much of a metal guy myself, but I can appreciate it. Sorta like IPAs for you.
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    "Bring it" songs

    That's a bad-ass song, but not it. Thanks for posting it. Yeah, only one song of his on that particular playlist. I'm a little old-school on playlists -- it's always stuff I own, at least digitally, and I was rather late to discover Willie Nile, so I've only got a couple of his albums. I'm at the point of not being able to manage all my music easily, or listen to it enough. So I don't buy a lot any more, but that's an album I'm going to have to listen to thoroughly. Good stuff, @G650.
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    "Bring it" songs

    Some folks in my neck of the woods have been a real pain in the ass for the last six to eight years for me and my colleagues. Serious needs-to-be-investigated stuff, and we've barely gotten started. Of course I've got a playlist that I've put together to help me through, and about half of them are good "bring it" songs. Heard the one above about the time it came out and it's been a favorite ever since, but Largo is a project I'd never heard of until about four years ago. Apparently that album was one musicians everywhere raved about. Among the folks who've covered "Gimme A Stone" are Roger Daltrey and Little Feat. Pretty impressive bunch of contributing musicians, including Joan Osborne, Carole King, Taj Mahal, and Willie Nile, among others. No official video, but here's Levon Helm and David Forman seeing the Largo version, along with lots of cheesy illustrations: What are your "bring it" songs? Bonus: I'll buy a beer at your favorite brewpub for whoever first posts the Willie Nile song I've got on my playlist.
  15. Couple of IPAs that guys brought back from their travels -- Devil Anse (Greenbrier Valley Brewing Co., Maxwelton, WV; 6.9 ABV, 71 IBU) and Slow Train (Marshall Brewing, Tulsa; 7.0 ABV, no IBU listed). I thought both were a little less hoppy and aromatic, but my taster may be off a bit after too many days of being irritated by wildfire smoke coming down from Canada.
  16. Did a doubletake on viewing that flight and googled Jellyfish Day (never been to Pinthouse either, but I've seen previous EJ discussion on this thread). Assume this is one of the guided flights ... @hacker, that flight probably won't bring either @Iceman or @sith_horn into the IPA fold, but what did you think?
  17. Never too late. Also not too late for a "just got off the road, need to unwind" Nice Things hazy from Central Waters. Perfect, as any beer would be, for watching a replay of Texas winning the softball CWS.
  18. Rebel Kent amber (3 Sheeps) from Howie's, a classic U. Of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus dive. Day 1 of two at the state HS track meet. 3:30 p.m., so one of the few times there's room. Still a session going on, but full of fans. By 5 it will be packed with families and competitors.
  19. This thread has inspired me to start gathering data for my next scholarly journal article (planning to submit to the Annals of Improbable Research). Preliminary title: "Give a shit vs. Give 'em shit: Franchise quality and service disparities in McMansionville." Which neighborhoods should I visit? How much must I eat? Does the number of A&M graduates behind the counter make a difference? What other factors should I consider? I welcome all methodology suggestions and other advice. Edit: And in a serendipitous coincidence, the current edition of the annals just happens to be titled ... p.s. feel free to derail thread even further by letting me know whether "serendipitous coincidence" is redundant. Or not.
  20. Surly 101. Self-deprecation when things count. Claim all the glory for something done on page 27 of 31 in an eight-month-old catastrophe. Also Texan to the core ... well done.
  21. Used to be consistently cheap and good. It's been a while, but the last few times I went, it seemed overpriced and dried-out. There was a time, before the advent of Starbucks, that McDonald's was the one place where you could find reliably tasty (for the time) coffee. On long trips within Texas or on the interstates, it was a lifesaver. Coming back one morning from camping in Big Bend, I swore undying loyalty to the franchise after hitting the McD's in Fort Stockton. But now that high-quality, fresh-ground coffee is easier to find than fake boobs in Hollywood, I can say, "I've changed, baby. You've stayed the same."
  22. She really did seem like a good person, but relationships will make a mess of folks. What did your wife think of her?
  23. Man, what's with all that paper stuff, @TreatyOak? Did you forget your iPad every time you went out into public or something?
  24. One of the neighbors went to Indy for the race over Memorial Day and brought back some Off Square Brewing imperial stout (Scientific Calculation, 10 percent ABV) from Crown Point, Indiana. If you like coffee and stout, this is your beer. One of the stronger coffee-tinged stouts I've had and I liked it fairly well, considering it's not the season. This is all that was left from one shared can at happy hour, but I scrounged a little more from a second.
  25. I kinda like @Darth Tron's Jim Edmonds story (although that seems more "encounter" than "brush") and @Foosters' Herm Edwards anecdote. But, yeah, mine was potentially more "interesting" in some ways. Piper was clearly intelligent and capable, and I've always had a thing for brunettes. She eventually became an an attorney in Houston. But her divorce from Jablin and other stuff seemed to have a devastating impact on her. edit: Just read @Dennis Taylor's story, too. That's a fine one. It's telling that we tend to use "brush" as an indicator of potentially negative or clearly negative interactions. Brushes with death, the law, and infamy are only slightly removed from fame on many occasions. Probably one of the reasons we watch stories like Johntay Cook's so closely. @Boko Bevo's story shows us how little we really know about the circumstances of people's lives at times.
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