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  1. Prolly some FC, a walk maybe?
  2. Fuck it I say sark can’t have him.
  3. damn top of the league in football and baseball, plus volleyball, softball and women’s basketball and the Olympic sports. not too bad.
  4. Nah, you just wanted to be first. That’s admirable.
  5. I’m listening to her now… chills like always but older stuff… not alone long ride home florida let him fly when it don’t come easy stolen car heavenly day rain (first song I heard of hers that made me listen to all her music) mary top of the world icicles fly She’s so fucking good. She’s covered Guy Clark and Bruce Springsteen of course I think she’s amazing.
  6. One of her best. Absolute genius. My ex and I were huge PG fans it’s hard music to listen to but another example of carving it back for me. She’s a tremendous talent. Frankly her story telling is of a similar style as Bruce. Anyone that likes her that doesn’t like him I question if they’ve deep dived his music. The over lap between the two on stolen car is a perfect example of their similarity. You’d never know stolen car wasn’t her song, and if he covered when it don’t come easy you’d assume it was his. both very top of their game. Bruce just got the top 40 fame.
  7. I’m at that age that I’m starting to calcify in my tastes, at least with artists of a certain era, I’ll admit I have not spent much time in her newer music but I’ll say, “when it don’t come easy” might be the second greatest love song ever written. …. “I’ll drive out and find you…” gets me, every, time. these lyrics are so fucking tight… ”Red lights are flashing on the highway I wonder if we're gonna ever get home I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight Everywhere the waters getting rough Your best intentions may not be enough I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight But if you break down I'll drive out and find you If you forget my love I'll try to remind you And stay by you when it don't come easy I don't know nothing except change will come Year after year what we do is undone Time keeps moving from a crawl to a run I wonder if we're gonna ever get home You're out there walking down a highway And all of the signs got blown away Sometimes you wonder if you're walking in the wrong direction” man that song is so good.
  8. that's a great story. I'll admit, losing my first love to divorce and all that happened made "if I should fall behind" feel like a song of failure for me, and I've worked hard to repurpose it, as i have with much of the music that I held dear from a prior life, but this one we are talking about is still so absolutely pure I can't and won't lose it for what it is, the most poignant and beautiful love song I've ever heard. I think your point about "deeper cuts" and music that isn't super popular in his catalog and how your wife was stunned and became an instant convert is on point - I could actually take or leave his anthem rock, top 40 stuff, it's fun and okay, but if you like folk music, if you like meaningful lyrics, if you like artists with undeniable melancholy in their music then there is no way you aren't a Bruce fan unless you haven't taken the time to explore. I go back to "Straight Time" - it's one of the few songs I know where my mind paints the picture, I'm actually watching a movie in my head while he's singing that song - and I think the music fan that loves music with these attributes might have that one track in their top 10 all time and that's from someone who mainlines TVZ and a bunch of other troubled souls on the reg (Pancho and Lefty is another I sometimes see a movie in my mind's eye while listening). Highway 29 is another I'm watching the movie as I listen. And that is the most telling fact for me if an artist is really good at their craft, when the movie just plays in my mind, you're listening to a fantastic artist. Bruce is absolute upper echelon on story telling, somber, folksy, melancholic sounds and if that's your style and you haven't deep dived Bruce's catalog you are way missing out.
  9. his solo stuff is meh.
  10. Funny you say this, I have a shit ton of bass leaders and flies, and the fish were popping last night down by the boat dock. I could spend $500 plus tip to float a river in centex or $850 plus tip to pole around in skinny bay waters for reds, or I could toss a popper out by the boat dock and not even spend gas money to get there. That’s winning right there.
  11. anyone posting on this thread knows so I wasn't insinuating you didn't know. and to NL's point, exactly. mid week games against Texas directional schools are often times not a walk in the park.
  12. that's kinda where I landed. even sark was a bit of a risk. scholss is the only major mens sports coach that was a can't miss. no way we are getting those other guys for Texas basketball (some are too old, I've grown to like Sampson but he's 69). hopefully Sean Miller is on a upward surge, still learning from his program mistakes and can use our resources to propel further than he's gone before. seems like a slightly positive (not neutral or negative), wait and see hire. At a minimum we can say it's "Miller Time" and that's pretty cool. Not as cool as Shaka lacka or what a smart team, or bust open the barn doors the longhorns are coming, but i mean what could you do with weltlich or penders, not much. Miller time it is!
  13. so I can't really pay as much attention to this as I'd like, attention span, work, family, texas baseball, contingent escape plans in case LE knocks on my door, etc.... are those in the know good with this hire? I keep reading international connection, offensive coach, etc. but ballers are ballers so okay re international. yay for offense, not sure his defenses are good enough but I don't know. can we be in the top 5 of the SEC with this guy and occasionally make a run at the conf title?
  14. Jay wright is coming on board as an asst? Holy shit.
  15. DBU is not a team to fuck around with, hell half the small colleges in Texas are not teams fuck around with.
  16. Doing anything better than prince is saying something but Snead kills that song and owns the best version for sure.
  17. I like Leif Vollebekk’s take it to the limit quite a bit
  18. This guy has had tremendous staying power in my rotation. Everyone of these songs I can listen to several times a day and have for about 2+ years. Saw him in telluride last summer. Going to his concert this weekend in town. He’s fast moving up into all time fav status along with Guy Clark, Justin Townes Earle, and some others.
  19. For me it’s the witness he gives in his lyrics and in his raspy soulful voice to intense pain and despair. I might not always like every song, but when I find his witness to my pain that I can’t describe through the stories he tells in his music, I stop and listen. In some cases I not only listen, but I also respond at a visceral level. To that point, The Ghost of Tom Joad is probably a top 3 album of all time. Just fantastic story telling on that album. Straight time is so fucking good. Galveston bay, across the border, Sinaloa cowboys (holy shit what a story), Youngstown, ghost of Tom joad, highway 29, dry lightening. I mean all of those for me are absolutely fantastic songs. Hence top 3 all time album in my view. If I should fall behind might be the greatest love song ever written. even routine albums like Devils and Dust have songs with lyrics that blow my mind. Working on a dream, city of ruins, nothing man, streets of Philadelphia, my hometown, secret garden (I have this on my current play list), stolen car (patty does it better I’ll be honest), and I could go on and on. Those are the ones that immediately come to mind. his Seeger sessions tour was a bomb in the US but was wildly popular in Europe and the jam sessions on that tour were like nothing else, just spectacular. And not traditional E street music. and so his most popular rock songs are not typically what I gravitate to when I need a Springsteen fix. Frankly the sadder and more melancholic or the intense optimistic songs from a place of destruction are the ones that speak to me. And songs like that - the stories that evoke pain and heartache and possibly optimism in those places, there are very few musicians as good as Bruce.
  20. Nice jump…. Gonna bail early so I don’t get the “you’re watching another baseball game?”
  21. Only if the discussion is compressed.
  22. wait SEC is aggy, aggy is SEC?
  23. Came here to say lunges, squats and core exercises can fuck off. 10 weeks back at it with weights and resistance training, weight room and HIIT with a trainer 2x a week to go with tennis 2x a week. yesterday was the first work out where I felt like crap the whole time, no endorphins, honeymoon phase over. fuck lunges, squats and core exercises. Hate with the heat of a thousand suns.
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