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I'm sure they realize they're not getting any younger but I would think they need a break not just physically but mentally as well. Sometimes you have to get away from something for a while to get inspiration again. Alex said that Geddy's buying up basses like there's no tomorrow so that's a good sign. I would rather have them take a longer break and come back and give us some great music than to take a short break and put out a substandard album. And I'm sure that'll spur some comments about the last few albums.

I can wait. I hope they have a nice long break- they've earned it, I think. I don't think they are going to lose anything; they've been playing too long for that.

This cracked me up, I hope y'all like it, too! http://ilovefunnypics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/nopefish.jpg It's real name is the Goliath Tigerfish, they live in Africa.

Whatever. Geddy is still gorgeous. He's #1 in my book.

I fixed it for you. :P Are you referring to the new guy? I can't judge him on looks since he's always hiding behind something.

IDK about that, judging from that pic! Maybe the 2 most goofiest men. HAHAHAGeddyHAHAHA!

Because I told Geddy that I needed to see him a minimum of 6-10 shows next tour and he knows that I'm still paying off my credit cards and debt from Clockwork Angels and that I was laid off of my better paying job and still paying catch-up from that.

hahaha ok, I have to share. I posted this on facebook last night and my hubby said "Why did you post a picture of Dave Mustaine on your wall? HOLY CRAP it's my wife?!" HAHAHAHAHAHA. .....I must say, I do a pretty decent Mustaine impression!!! LOL http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e337/hobo73/1517518_10152161448240758_639431689_n.jpg

The 2 most gorgeous men on earth!

I wouldn't worry either. But then again I'm used to waiting for Tool to do something and that really pushes your patience. ;)

One of mine from Columbus, Ohio. Sept. 2012. http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/imzadi-7/Facebook/Rush%20Clockwork%20Angels/327387_531538510206517_761535717_o.jpg

Also needing a Ged fix. :) Another one of mine from Nashville. http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/imzadi-7/GedNash/Ged16NVPK_zps225bb5af.jpg

Pic I took of Alex in Nashville this last tour. I'm needing a big Al fix. :) http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/imzadi-7/Facebook/Rush%20Clockwork%20Angels%20Nashville%202013/465038_656413384385695_1752522041_o.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg293/goose_trf/Skiing2214_zps867d7a33.jpg Me with my father in law, Jerry, and awesome neighbor, Gary. Good company and fresh snow!

Too bad they don't play the entire version anymore. I miss the Intro and Keyboard part. :codger:

Agreed. Celebs have a penchant for doing sh*t like this...... :) Edit: :sigh: Please leave this thread. I see no reason too but since you said please I will honor your request. Celebs apparently causing their own deaths doesn't make me sad... I explained the kind of things that do... :) So celebrities aren't people? That's a crock of shit... Addiction issues are scary, and I've known people close to me affected by them.. And how the f**k have you not heard or seen any movies he's been in? You're the type of Rush fan that gives others a bad name with your naive, out of touch bullshit You don't get me or care to know anything about me at all and I think I will hit the high road after that uniformed rant.... Edit: Part of the high road :) <-------------------------------------------- You're right. You take pictures of yourself running on the treadmill at Planet Fitness. You aren't a tool at all. My apologies High road I'm going to take the high road, yes, but before I go.. Can I try and guess the last movie you saw in the theater was? Close encounters of the third kind? maybe ET? Am I close? Saving Mr. Banks. I mean this in all sincerity...... I am not here to pretend I am something I am not. If i say I haven't ever seen an episode of The Simpsons for example... That means that I have not ever seen an episode of The Simpsons. I am here to be honest first and foremost and have some fun and not to make enemies. I say we bury the hatchet now and move on with our lives and I will let the personal crap roll of my back.... :cheers: :)

:laughing guy: I speak for the new guy...he is definitely a cutie. :drool: http://www.theserialkillers.info//MediaPath/10561.jpg

:laughing guy:

The douchebags better release another album by next year or I'm DONE with them.

I fixed it for you. :P

Mmmmmmm can't wait to see me some Geddy pecs. *nom nom nom chomp chomp* R u normally aroused by concave surfaces? You've mentioned the word "concave" in reference to Geddy's body in another thread. Geddy doesn't have any concave areas, either that or one of us (I'm going to go with you) doesn't know the meaning of concave.

They owe us nothing and deserve however long a break they see fit :)

Fixed for accuracy Fixed again... :) Back to how it was ;)

Agreed...I was never sure how much of it was performance and how much was his actual personality. Such a shame - he was a great actor indeed, even in not so good movies like "Along Came Polly". I was planning on watching "Before the Devil Knows You´re Dead" with him and Ethan Hawke one of these days, and now there´s another reason to watch it.

Wow.. people are real quick to spend other peoples time, aint they? The dudes worked from mid 2011 through mid 2013 on CA and the tour. And thats right after 2010/2011 on Time Machine. They made it VERY clear they were going to take a year off after the end of the CA tour and then get together and figure out what they want to do next.. and as far as I have heard that plan is still in place. They'll meet up in September, have one of their "Business meetings" (see the final scene in BTLS) and then get things in order for whatever they choose. They've invested a LOT of their lives into this band.. at 60+ years old if the boys want or need to take a year for themselves, they've earned it!

I think they should announce a retirement tour and stick to it. Geddy's voice is fooshed, Peart should be enjoying his daughter's childhood and Lifeson will end up wearing the most ridiculous wigs.

Why Are RUSH Taking So Long A Break? Because they can.

They've been around since 1974. I think at this stage of the game, an extended break won't kill their career.

There is NO WAY I'm calling that number from my phone. But, I might call from my sister in law ... ha ha ha. Bitch.

Some oldies but goodies. http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo228/LifesonPics/20081681_zpsfa11334f.jpg http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo228/LifesonPics/20081688_zps4cf33fe3.jpg

My apologies if this has already been posted. I just discovered this vid. Enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1hmDpa8bo

Mine is something that I have to keep relearning over and over again. Buying cheap is expensive. If you spend the money on a quality product the first time, it will last. If you buy cheap, you're going to be spending money again, and soon. This lesson has cost me a lot of money. Please share your hard earned lessons.

I agree with you. I don't get the Sheridan hating. I loved his character. Imo, Bablyon 5 is the best sci fi series ever made. It starts off slow and not so great in the first season, but then really picks up from there. Agreed. I;m not a huge sci fi fan, but my Brother in law loaned me the series when I was recoverin' from my first back surgery. He insisted that I'd love it and used a term for it I'd never heard before. He called it "military science fiction". Well, that intrigued the heck out of me so I watched it and immediately watched it again to pick up on all the subtext I missed the first time. Great, great series. Just magical. PS: I liked both Sheridan and Sinclair. Almost forgot: I own a replica Earth Alliance pin that my Brother in law got for me at a sci fi convention and gave to me as a birthday present.

This made me laugh out loud.

I have lived my entire life that way and still do. If it's something you can change then I would suggest doing it. I haven't been able too and it's lousy when you care what people think even when you barely know them too. It's like I want to say f**k'em but I can't........ :sigh: Constantly worrying about what I say, what I do, how I look etc to strangers in case they react is a problem for me (and I never have the nerve to contest what someone is saying to me). This aptly explains my choice of Avatar. I understand totally. I have never even had a shouting match with another person that I can recall. I have never been in a fight either. I would prefer to walk away than have any altercation. Just like the disagreement in the other thread made me feel weird. I don't like and will avoid all confrontation...... :)

I have lived my entire life that way and still do. If it's something you can change then I would suggest doing it. I haven't been able too and it's lousy when you care what people think even when you barely know them too. It's like I want to say f**k'em but I can't........ :sigh:

Well I'm still trying to learn to not care about what people think of me, and stuff of a similar ilk - but no such luck as of yet - :sigh:

Trust your gut instincts. If something seems "off" about a person or a situation, you are probably correct.

They certainly will never let you live it down...... This way of thinking is why people can't spell. High school kids are reading on a grade school level. I see nothing wrong with correcting someone, especially if it's an honest mistake. Please correct my grammar unless it was obvious that i was misspelling a word to be funny, etc.

http://therangeplace.forummotions.com/t111-geddy-lee

I learned that you should never correct people's grammar, spelling or vocabulary on the Internet even if they ask you

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee138/ReRushed/The-Sixth-Finger-Outer-Limits2_zps7aa93951.jpg

Never trust anyone with under 33,000 posts in TRF.

Save your game often!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6V4v6wMxo#t=14

That's the season Marcus shows up and things get dicey with the Shadows. Enjoy yourself, faith manages

I started season 3 today. I'm starting to like Sheridan more and more. He's not an awkwardly obvious replacement for Sinclair any more. Looks like the actor is finally comfortable with the role and the script isn't forcing him to be Sinclair any more. This is great.

I agree with you. I don't get the Sheridan hating. I loved his character. Imo, Bablyon 5 is the best sci fi series ever made. It starts off slow and not so great in the first season, but then really picks up from there. I agree 100%. Maybe part of the problem too was the special effects were really kind of hokey in the first season as well.

I agree with you. I don't get the Sheridan hating. I loved his character. Imo, Bablyon 5 is the best sci fi series ever made. It starts off slow and not so great in the first season, but then really picks up from there.

http://articles.lati...search-20120913 Neuroscience mapping brain connections Discoveries could yield an understanding of and treatments for disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, depression and Parkinson's disease. Inside the human skull lies a 3-pound mystery. The brain — a command center composed of tens of billions of branching neurons — controls who we are, what we do and how we feel. "It's the most amazing information structure anybody has ever been able to imagine," says Dr. Walter Koroshetz, deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Md. For centuries, the brain's inner workings remained largely unexplored. But all that is changing. With the help of new tools, researchers are delving deeper into this complex organ than ever before. We're in a brainy age of discovery that could change our understanding of how the brain works and why, in some cases, it fails to do its job. Scientists already have an intimate knowledge of brain anatomy, from the hippocampus to the amygdala. "We've mapped these in exquisite detail," says Arthur Toga, director of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA. But those maps don't show how the regions connect. And it's this connectivity that enables the complex behaviors our brains perform so seamlessly. The Human Connectome Project, a $40-million endeavor funded by the National Institutes of Health, aims to plot these connections — both their structure and their function. "It's basically a Manhattan Project to try to establish the wiring diagram," Koroshetz says. Calling it ambitious would be an understatement. In the 1980s, researchers spent a dozen years mapping 7,000 connections between the 302 neurons inside the worm C. elegans, an animal not exactly known for brainpower. The human brain contains more than 80 billion neurons and trillions of connections. The problem is further complicated by variability: No two brains are exactly alike. But the payoff could be huge. In addition to gaining a deeper understanding of how normal brains process and store information, researchers also hope to find the root cause of disorders like autism and schizophrenia, which some neuroscientists suspect are the result of faulty connections. Dr. Helen Mayberg, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, has spent the last 20 years probing the neural basis of depression, a difficult-to-treat disorder that affects millions of Americans. Mayberg's goal is to understand precisely what goes wrong in the brains of people who have the illness and, perhaps, relieve the problem by using electrodes to stimulate a particular region of the brain. The quest began in the late 1990s, when Mayberg and her colleagues started scanning the brains of people with depression, treating them and scanning them again to look for changes in brain activity. The hope was to pinpoint the neural circuits involved in the disorder, and eventually they hit the bull's-eye: When antidepressants worked, the scans invariably showed a decrease in activity in a section of the prefrontal cortex called Brodmann area 25. Next, Mayberg needed a way to block the activity of area 25. So she turned to a technique called deep brain stimulation, a therapy that helps calm the shaking that plagues people with Parkinson's disease. A neurosurgeon implants small electrodes that deliver a faint but steady stream of electricity that stimulates the deep reaches of the brain while calming down the trouble spot. A battery pack implanted under the skin near the collarbone provides the power source. Deep brain stimulation isn't a magic bullet. It doesn't work for everyone, and the therapy requires brain surgery, which comes with a variety of risks. But small studies conducted over the last several years suggest the therapy holds promise, and 2012 started with new validation. In January, Mayberg and her team published a placebo-controlled study that examined the approach for both major depression and bipolar disorder. After two years of stimulation, seven out of 12 subjects were in remission, according to the report in Archives of General Psychiatry. "People didn't just get better, they were well," Mayberg says. Now the device's manufacturer has launched a randomized clinical trial to test the therapy in even more patients. Other research groups are looking at stimulating different areas of the brain to treat depression and other disorders. In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved the technology for use in people with extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder. Neurofeedback is another futuristic brain therapy that is already producing real results. Here's the premise: Functional magnetic resonance imaging machines, which watch changes in blood flow in the brain, can monitor brain activity in near real time. And if patients can see their brains working, maybe they can control the activity.