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All right...since I have met some of you in person and talk with others regularly and feel comfy here...this is me all dolled up (which doesn't happen all that often). I took the photo. :D I miss my colors in my hair. I'm up in the air as to what I want to do with it. :/ http://apageatatime.net/images/michelle.jpg

I NEVER wear make up. I decided to go "all out" today- eyeliner AND eye shadow?! Who am I??? lol http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e337/hobo73/1009799_10151699462690758_605506807_n.jpg

When you find the RIGHT person...you'll understand why this one doesn't matter.

Like the photo and then leave her to figure out what it means.

Holy crap this picture is awesome! :drool:

It's one thing to sing bad and pretend you're good (like most crap out there). It's another thing to kick so much ass on the guitar that we love him regardless of his voice. :D

That's the spirit! :eyeroll:

Punch her in the vagina.

Wow!!! I mean... You look so... WOW! Natural beauty can still be natural with a little 'help'. I usually only wear powder and mascara. I have blonde eyelashes that make me look like a cancer patient when I don't wear mascara. You are stunning, my dear! Yes, I know what I'm talking about. I have been in the beauty industry for 20 or so years and am Key Hairstylist for a local tv show every year. ;)

This is terrible. I listened to one of their tracks and now I feel compelled to kill Geddy Lee. I blame Marilyn Manson and Black Sabbath. Just a point, by complaining about them, viewing their page and discussing them on FB and forums you are doing exactly what they want you to do. Just ignore them.

Maybe she did. Just let it go. It's in the past. Nothing good will come from thinking about it. The mind can play evil tricks on you. Unfriend her, stop looking at her page or just quit FB and look forward to new possibilities. :cheers:

I think it was close. For me, Natural Science and all of 2112 on the TfE tour were the most surprising, exciting moments for me.

Hi girls. I've never posted on a Rush message board before. I've read them for years (this one much more than the others) but, for whatever reasons, just never decided to get my feet wet. After last night's phenomenal show at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, I decided to change that - even if only for a day. There are some things inside me that need to come out and I felt like this was the only place I could release them. I'm a 31 year-old woman from NYC and a Rush fan since 2003. Last night marked my 14th Rush concert and my VIP package awarded me a great ticket right in front of the very man whose plaintive riffs stole my heart 10 years ago: Alex Lifeson. (I'm pretty small, so he never noticed me standing there gazing up at him with a potent cocktail of loving tears and adoration in my eyes, which was perhaps for the best. It was a very emotional night for me and getting any sort of eye contact from a member of Rush might have legitimately caused a fainting spell!) I think that most Rush fans are, to an extent, somewhat broken and emotionally fragile people. Not ALL of them, obviously, but the more I meet and speak to at shows, and the more eyes I gaze into as I pass them in the hallways of concert venues, the more I believe that the 3 talented misfits who comprise Rush have managed to produce music that reaches into the hearts of every other misfit on the planet and pulls them into that warm and comforting nimbus where they know they will always be safe. And understood. I am one of those broken people. I was an "accidental" child born to a mother who was violent and resentful. I was sexually abused by my father until I was in my teens and never told anyone. I was a compulsive cutter, a complete outcast in school who was abused verbally and physically. I had no social skills, grew up despising all other children and was terrified of men. For the most formative and important years of my life, I was such an introvert that something as simple as going grocery shopping gave me anxiety attacks. I spent the majority of my life feeling like I had no place on this earth. I felt unloved, unlovable, worthless, filthy, confused and full of a sadness so infinite that it sometimes felt like my heart was smothering in my chest. I had no interest in music, in hobbies, in dating. My only true joy was in painting, but because I lived on my own from an early age, I rarely had the money to buy decent art supplies. I was a lost and completely broken human being who was merely existing without living at all. Anyone who tells you that music cannot change your entire life has obviously never been at the very end of their own rope, like I was. I will never, ever forget the first time I heard Rush. Sitting on my bedroom floor in front of my stereo system on an overcast day in October, I stumbled onto Q104.3FM while station surfing. Suddenly, streaming out of my speakers in impossible, shimmering, twisting ecstasy came Alex Lifeson's Limelight solo. It pierced through my heart like an arrow and I remember an awe-struck, prickling sensation spreading fast as wildfire throughout my entire body. His guitar cried out in sorrow and my heart answered immediately in understanding. But then the notes that followed twisted and danced and spiralled off into the most nakedly honest and raw joy I'd ever heard. It felt like, in the space of only 30 seconds or so, he had told my own personal story and created a happy ending for me where there had been none. The euphoria and pure, delicately screaming joy of that final, spiralling note that he rides into oblivion awakened something inside me that I couldn't fully understand but never wanted to let go of. Alex had jump-started a heart that had been dead for nearly 2 decades. I had no idea who he was, I had no idea who the rest of the band was or even the name of the song. I only knew that if I could hear that sound again, that sparkling guitar full of hope and promise, that teeming wall of rapturous sound that wrapped around it, then somehow everything would be okay. That was the beginning of my love affair with Rush. They reached me in the most beautiful and profound way possible, at a time when nothing and no one else could. I have never loved a band so much. I've never felt this way about music before, so consistently and for so long. I've never felt so deeply connected to 3 people I don't even know. I've never felt that I owed SO MUCH to a group of complete strangers. As they played The Garden last night, I reflected on all of this and broke down and cried. Right there in front of me, a mere 15 feet away, were the men who had saved my life and they didn't even know it. They would NEVER know it. I doubt they realize just how much the fruits of their livelihood affect the lives of those who hear it, how significant they are to the lost and hurting who stumble across their music. I'm still a broken person, but Rush was the bandage that helped me begin to heal. They were my rainbow in a life of nothing but clouds. I can only hope to God that they know how special they are. I often wish that I could meet them and just hug them and tell them "thank you", but it would never be enough. For what they have given to me, for what they have given to us all, there is no hug long or tight enough and there can never be enough "thank you"s. As The Garden wound softly to a close last night and the boys retreated for a short break, I thought about the lyrics. "In the fullness of time, a garden to nurture and protect". Whether Rush realizes it or not, we all are their garden to nurture and protect.... and they have done a damn fine job. So to all the other misfits out there... to all of you who, like me, have found solace or love or hope or healing in the music of these 3 wonderful men... my heart is with you, I understand and I raise a glass today to you, to Rush, to new beginnings, to the strength to carry on despite all odds and to the camaraderie that exists within this incredibly unique fanbase. If anyone made it through this entire message, thank you from the bottom of my heart for obliging me. :') And most of all, thank you RUSH!!! <3

What the Hell are you doing stalking her on Facebook? You gotta cut her loose and let her go.

She's your "ex", right? Then it doesn't matter. Move on, and learn from the experience.

If the lyrics in a song are really bad, like they are here, I just can't get past them to even notice the music. And if I do, it almost makes it worse. It's like having a delicious hamburger that's smothered in velveeta cheese. I can tell that the hamburger is yummy underneath, but all I really taste is gooey, disgusting processed cheese and the hamburger is completely wasted. Maybe if I could scrape off the cheese the hamburger could be saved, but you can't exactly make Virtuality an instrumental. ;) I'm the exact opposite- I go straight for the music and most of the time don't pay as much attention to the lyrics. I can't help it, I listen to songs in "layers"- drums, guitars, bass, keyboards, etc. all separate :) Lyrics are just words, IMO at least lol. my husband is always like "HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THE SONG'S ABOUT?? WE HEAR IT ALL THE TIME!!" lol the funny thing is my wife is super picky and sensitive to lyrics. i've sometimes played a song for her, and will say isn't that great? she'll say oh my god no, that was horrible, the lyrics were about this and this and this, and she'll dissect them and not be able to enjoy the song if she thinks the lyrics are negative somehow. in those instances whatever those lyrics were didn't bother me enough to get in the way. i'm particularly hypersensitive to rush lyrics, however, because generally they're so cool and/or meaningful that when they don't meet up to a certain standard, it's hard to ignore. for example, good news first on S&A - the music is cool, it's catchy, but the lyrics just don't make sense and it kills the song for me. and if the lyrics are just really lame like in virtuality or other certain songs on CP or RTB, etc., i just can't get past it. the music could be super killer (like in the necromancer), but the lyrics (or in that case the narration) just ruins it for me *cough* roll the bones rap *cough*

Be grateful she is your ex and shake the dust from your feet. Good riddance to bad rubbish! Cheating is a very selfish act. But worse than that, it displays a lack of integrity in the cheater. At least have the decency to break it off before you take up with someone else.

I bet in 10 years we will all be discussing KGL's "synth period" and which was better . That song is so sucktastic I Bet Jann Wenner puts them on the cover of RS. In a attempt to quell the Tsarneav fiasco .

I don't have one. One of the best lines about Facebook came from Charles Barkley, which I wish I had said first: "I'm not trying to catch up with people from my past, I'm running from them." I have a facebook account, but I never post on it. The only reason I have it is that I have reconnected with a couple of people that I lost touch with, and I'm glad they found me. I don't understand the people who make a half dozen or more post a day. How narcissistic can you be? Does anyone really give a rats ass what you had for breakfast, or what color your poop was?

To the people who said they "reported them" who did you report them to? The internet police? That's not even close to the worst band name I've ever heard. They're not gonna make it anywhere with a name like that so don't waste your time with it. They're just looking for attention by naming their band that.

^^^^^^^^^ Seriously. Some quarter-assed basement band isn't worth anyone's time.

For me that goes to Time and Motion, for the odd 5/8 time signature and just the overall strange sound of the song, which used to be the norm for them, but became extremely rare as they got older.

Lyrically and musically, this is one of my favorites. Other than Resist, best song on Test For Echo.

Happy Birthday! :)

It has been brought to my attention that it is a non-optional social convention that the person celebrating their birthday must be spanked the number of times of their age. In your case that would be 29 times. Why in the world people are punished on their birthdays is beyond me. But, since you are also involved in deception of your true age by a factor of 8, I have no choice to to levy additional spankings on you at a rate of 5 per year deceived, in this case 40. So your total spankings will come out to 69. That's an oddly coincidental number... Hoo. :) This might be a little late, but as MeeMaw always said, better late than...and then she'd say she forgot what she was talking about Anyhoo I understand the relevance of 69.....why not add four to make it 73 in my humble opinion the best number around

That's what fascinates me and - dare I say it? - attracts me. Needles to say, these traits are what I'm striving to achieve.

hapybirthday2uhappybirthday2u ! happybirthday Amy ! ♪♪♪♪ :hi:

Well look at you Chatty Cathy's in here trying to get me to do naughty things.

Don't encourage Sheldon..! ;)

Bruce is definitely influenced by Gillan, and you can hear a little bit of him in his singing. I found the list on some deep purple fanpage, it was: deep purple - made in japan led zeppelin - II crazy world of arthur brown - crazy world of arthur brown rainbow - rising jethro tull - aqualung Yeah that's the Bruce influence list!

I found the 2nd night (didn't see the first, but did see Hamilton a week earlier) to be excellent. I found the guys played almost as good as they did in Hamilton but the Halifax crowd was very tame in comparison to Hamilton. There was a looseness to the 2nd night that was apparent (trailer park boys, etc) and I think it was a great vibe on stage. I locked eyes with Geddy a few times and just rocked out with him - such a great feeling!

The thing I always loved about this cover is how abstract it is. It doesnt really mean anything. Its a collage of different things, and could mean whatever you want it to. Even reading the description from Hugh, he never explains it. He just talks about how the idea came about, the idea of a woman in front of a mess of things happening, but never talks about what that means, and that certainly is no description of what it is, so its basically just very random, which was good because explaining it kind of ruins the fun mystery of it. And maybe there is no real explanation of the actual meaning of it. It means whatever, or nothing. It doesnt matter.

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My friend Tom (next to Alex) won the Meet and Greet passes through the Rush Backstage Club and suprised me with them a half an hour before we had to line up to meet them. How he kept it a secret I'll never know, but it was a wonderful surprise and capped off a great weekend of attending both concerts. However, the best part of the whole weekend was watching a 3D ultrasound of my unborn son with my wife on Monday morning. :) He's due at the start of September and is already a Rush fan. Wow, what an amazing weekend this has been for you :banana:

My friend Tom (next to Alex) won the Meet and Greet passes through the Rush Backstage Club and suprised me with them a half an hour before we had to line up to meet them. How he kept it a secret I'll never know, but it was a wonderful surprise and capped off a great weekend of attending both concerts. However, the best part of the whole weekend was watching a 3D ultrasound of my unborn son with my wife on Monday morning. :) He's due at the start of September and is already a Rush fan.

Why does Geddy always stand as far as he politely can from anyone? We're not going to bite him. (shut up, Gangster!)

Thank you for sharing your photos. They are fantastic, but this picture from July 14th from another source is a personal favourite of mine. ;) http://jeamland.ca/~mike/Halifax-2-24-450.jpg

Thank you :cheers:

All of these songs rule.

Big nose, small eyes... http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx193/Chopster110/Borneo-Proboscis-Monkey-2.jpg

You mention the honeymoon hotels as if I'm just holding onto something to be bitter but let me ask you this. Say you planned something for months with another person, you were so excited about it and you were pretty sure you were both clear on the meaning of it, only to have this person marry you, humiliate you, and then not even touch you? Can you now see why I'm upset and concerned? These are not good signs.

Hell of a musician and songwriter, even if it's not your cup of tea. As for me, I dig the music but not his voice. Yup, I HATE his voice! Everybody I work with loves him, and they can't understand how a Rush fan can complain about a guy's voice! ;)

I am going to start saving for front row seats starting now!!

It has been brought to my attention that it is a non-optional social convention that the person celebrating their birthday must be spanked the number of times of their age. In your case that would be 29 times. Why in the world people are punished on their birthdays is beyond me. But, since you are also involved in deception of your true age by a factor of 8, I have no choice to to levy additional spankings on you at a rate of 5 per year deceived, in this case 40. So your total spankings will come out to 69. That's an oddly coincidental number...

If you read Far and Away, he was actually in a somewhat similar situation...he was incredibly gracious and did the same thing...invited the folks to the show. I'm sure you are probably jesting about Neil, but he's not a prick.

I'd rather an album with a dull wank cover with colourful, vibrant music over an album with a colourful, vibrant cover with dull wank music.

If the lyrics in a song are really bad, like they are here, I just can't get past them to even notice the music. And if I do, it almost makes it worse. It's like having a delicious hamburger that's smothered in velveeta cheese. I can tell that the hamburger is yummy underneath, but all I really taste is gooey, disgusting processed cheese and the hamburger is completely wasted. Maybe if I could scrape off the cheese the hamburger could be saved, but you can't exactly make Virtuality an instrumental. ;)

At least they don't completely re-record the vocals later in the studio, the way Dave Mustaine does for Megadeth DVDs because he can't sing anymore.

:LMAO: !! *Collapses with the giggles*

Image didn't come through. They probably don't allow hotlinking. Can I assume it's "White House Down"? Sorry, yes "White House Down" It works on my computer. I love action movies but this movie was actually painful to watch. In many action movies I can put up with the corny clichés, weak storyline and bad acting, but at some level the movie has to work. This movie didn't work at any level. It didn't work because it was directed by Roland Emmerich, who also brought you such hits as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, and 2012. He likes to blow up famous buildings but he has no idea how to develop story lines or characters.