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Just found this ticket stub from Buffalo State University. I wasn't aware that Rush opened for Genesis. http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh597/greyfriar2112/genrush73tixS_zpsd544aa35.jpg

I love suits. The way they make you carry yourself. I wish more men wore suits. There's a level of sophistication that can't be beat. I've posted this before, but thought I'd post it again, since we're talking about suitshttp://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad190/TDear_1984/Wedding01.jpg I love a nice suit. I'll take any opportunity to get out one of my pinstripes. Plus, a nice waistcoat , a bow tie (I was wearing before Matt Smith made them "cool") and some two tone shoes.

Stella and I after watching Phantasm: http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k210/RodrigoAltaf/unnamed3_zps1fe734d1.jpg

Good Lord. Could you imagine?....

it's a state college, and what little genesis footage I've seen from this time period had them playing in a small/medium venue. Yup. One of the most famous and well bootlegged shows on that tour was at a University auditorium in Montreal.

I am gaining excellence with each passing moment!

"Hello cutey-pie. One of us is in deep trouble!" http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-running-man-movie-poster-1987-1010469538.jpg

I decided to initiate Stella into the realms of horror movies, and started with this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Phantasm.jpg/215px-Phantasm.jpg And here´s a picture of me and her watching it: http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k210/RodrigoAltaf/unnamed2_zps05553bd8.jpg

http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/tours/731201story.htm as I suspected, it's not our rush

I voted for treeduck. But I feel bad. Its like choosing which kid you like best.* *To my knowledge neither of them is my kid.

Here's me with my little sister at the Cutty Sark yesterday! She works there as a Collections Manager and gave us a tour.... http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb414/lyndseyg2112/20140926_115644.jpg Gilby at the Planetarium in Greenwich. He's a little worn out as it's a steep climb up the hill to the Observatory... http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb414/lyndseyg2112/20140926_151609.jpg And me of course, just outside the Observatory entrance... http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb414/lyndseyg2112/20140926_161320.jpg

here's me with Britain's Finest: The Beatles tribute (except for the guy who was Paul, he was busy changing into his Sgt. Peppers costume). they played at my school carnival. their music and their accents were spot on!

A belated thread for Your_Lion at 30,000 posts, but has clearly surpassed it. So without further ado: Congratulations, Yuor_Lnio, on getting to :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

"Am I the only one who likes Neurotica?" Yes.

I much prefer suspense-based films over horror & gore.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogGKBiMX8KU Me too. Quiet tension is more unsettling than straight up horror and I included several of those type of films in my list since the "horror" overlaps as well. Polanski was very effective with these as is Michael Haneke although I've only seen a few of his films. Films that fit into effective "quiet tension" for me, psychologically unsettling or creepy/disturbing: Vertigo Rear Window The Birds Rosemary's Baby The Tenant Repulsion Chinatown Taxi Driver Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht The China Syndrome Let the Right One In Funny Games The Piano Teacher I Stand Alone Irreversible Dead Ringers Dead Calm Se7en No Country For Old Men Children of Men Shutter Island Requiem for a Dream Black Swan Pi Oldboy Midnight Express Deliverance Cries and Whispers Off the top of my head.

LOL! They had energy for sure, but Neil was still in his sloppy, over-playing stage and Geddy was in his screeching stage. The real pinnacle was around 1980 or so. Some people prefer the screeching Geddy. Consider me proudly one of those "some people".....

I love Running Man.Despite how 80's it looks, I think it's much more relevant today than it was back then. "Climbing for Dollars" is a show I can really see happening As Neil so eloquently put it in The Big Money - "it's the fool on television getting paid to play the fool". This was written in 84, waaaaay before reality shows like Big Brother started to happen. I've always found this amazing.

I'm not a Godsmack fan, but I totally agree with this.

Godsmack is much better than Nickelback. it's not even a contest.

Awww, come on man. You're killing me! That baby is so dang adorable. :)

I wouldn't have gone at all then! not even for 3 bucks?? I'd see f***ing godsmack for 3 dollars! I'd see Nickelback for 3 dollars. Not even when I get 3.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Demolition_man.jpg/220px-Demolition_man.jpg

27 September 2014 Paleontology Saturday Short-faced Bear (Arctodus simus) The short-faced bear is not only the largest bear ever known, but also the largest carnivorous land mammal ever to exist. Having lived from 800,000 to 12,500 years ago, during the ice age, Arctodus simus is believed to have evolved from Plionarctos, the oldest known genus of the subfamily Tremarctinae. Arctodus simus inhabited North America from Alaska down to central Mexico. Fossils have been found over a very wide range (as far east as Virginia), but more commonly in the western states, especially California. Enormous specimens have been found in Alaska and the Yukon. Also known as the bulldog bear because of its short, broad muzzle Arctodus simus had a low forehead with eyes set far apart and facing forward, giving it excellent vision. It measured 5.5 feet at shoulder height when standing on all fours, and up to 12 feet when on its hind legs, with a reach of over 14 feet. Though it weighed as much 2,000 pounds, it had a leaner build than the brown bear. It had much longer limbs than today's brown bears, allowing it to run faster (over 40 miles per hour). The skull was broad and resembled that of a lion skull. It had a short snout with large nasal openings to supply large quantities of oxygen for running. The teeth are large and higher crowned than its modern relatives. It is estimated that this top predator had a bite force of 2000 lbs. per square inch. Although Arctodus simus may have been omnivorous, the vast majority of its diet was probably meat. Its longer legs would have allowed it to cover a larger territory in search of prey and carrion. It had the capability of catching and killing bison, deer, elk, muskoxen, and other large animals. However, it was probably more of a scavenger. Because of it's size, it could easily chase other predators off their kills. The short-faced bear had a hunting range of over 200 square miles. Its competition with smaller animals entering North America across the Bering Straight, and the dying off of some of its prey both may have led toward the extinction of Arctodus about 12,000 years ago. This is also about the time that humans in North America greatly improved their hunting techniques, which could have contributed to the bear's extinction both directly and by exhausting its food supply. http://i.imgur.com/Q4VHFYx.jpg

26 September 2014 FLORA FRIDAY Royal Poinciana (Delonix regia) Although widely cultivated in the tropics since the 19th century, the native habitat of the Royal Poinciana was unknown to science until the 1930s, when it was rediscovered growing in the wild in Madagascar. The genus name is derived from the Greek words delos (meaning conspicuous), and onyx, meaning claw, referring to the appearance of the spectacular flowers. It is widely cultivated and may be seen adorning avenues, parks and estates in tropical areas throughout the world, but is under increasing threat in Madagascar due to habitat destruction. The Royal Poinciana grows to 9 - 15 m in height but its elegant, wide-spreading, umbrella-like canopy can be even wider. The Royal Poinciana is deciduous in climates that have a marked dry season, but in tropical areas where the winter is not that much dryer than the summer it is a semi-evergreen tree. The flame-colored flowers are formed in dense clusters and bloom seasonally, usually in midsummer. The seeds of D. regia are sometimes used as beads, and there has been some research on the use of the gum obtained from the dried seeds as a binder in the manufacture of tablets, such as paracetamol. Delonix regia is often depicted on postage stamps of countries around the world which have tropical or subtropical climates, from the small island of Anguilla (one of the British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean) to China. It has become naturalised in some places, such as parts of southern Florida in the United States, and is invasive in parts of Australia, where it competes with native vegetation. http://i.imgur.com/JeqjPbr.jpg

That's too much! Not the price of the ticket. Rush opening for Genesis.

this song and this album... stunning adjective: stunning extremely impressive or attractive. "she looked stunning" synonyms: remarkable, extraordinary, staggering, incredible, outstanding, amazing, astonishing, marvelous, phenomenal, splendid http://youtu.be/Ka_pPf7OqiE

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg293/goose_trf/AllenNightInTheCountry2014_zps2cb3a2bd.jpg Me and my crappy straw cowboy hat made the official Night in the Country website as part of the 2014 festival photo gallery. I'm right below the elevated girls, in the plaid shirt. Not a big listener of country music, but the event was killer.

Good thing you don't define what a real Rush fan is. :P While I enjoy many of the live recordings, I can't say I love any of them in full. I'll listen to any of the studio albums from start to finish except one or two but I cherry pick tracks from the live albums. That said, I can't wait to see the footage of 2112 performed in full. i thought the same thing. Here we go. Another one rating everyone else's fandom.

http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/201103409917e35fb053518c6ed7f64e.jpg

But... but... they're both so beautiful. How is one supposed to chose? When is the swimsuit competition? That might settle it for me.

One of my friends interned as a dev with Google and got to try these out. He said this comic is pretty accurate: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-DrhFChT/0/950x10000/i-DrhFChT-950x10000.jpg

I wouldn't have gone at all then! not even for 3 bucks?? I'd see f***ing godsmack for 3 dollars!

Yah !!! Too much to mention, but I'm trying :) and :finbar:

I grew up this YES. I had YES, ELP, Pink Floyd, Genesis and Jethro Tull scribbled all over my books in high school... this is a classic... when this song came out... nothing else compared... IT IS A CLASSIC http://youtu.be/-Tdu4uKSZ3M

They didn't play The Knife? I would've left after Rush then.

http://youtu.be/MifWlrkEBD4

I LOVE that T-shirt! :ebert:

There's a bootleg from this show out there and at one point, Steven mentions that only people with a certain disposition will get a setlist from the show. I think I got it because I was the only one who asked. After the show there was a big party in front of the tour bus and we hang out with the band and crew, for a couple hours. They had good stuff with them :hail: :smoke: Great night.

This is just incredible :finbar:

You better have your ears AND your eyes checked.

Announce a new album and a new tour.

Eagle might have been on her way to bed at the crack of dawn. She's a pacing night owl.

Having said that it's not the best analogy because what I was referring to related more to the exponential decreases in time in Narp reaching another 1000 posts (first 16 then 15 then 10 days) so that as the time to the next thousand decreases the speed of posting increases until for the time to reach its limit of zero (assuming time can not be reversed) Narp would have to post a near infinite number of posts per microsecond just before everything would finally blow up and become impossible. So it's really not the same thing at all...I thought I could put something together that tied them together and made sense but upon further review...nope. Mea culpa...

Narp 12K.... only fourteen days this time.. :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: And another ten days for the next 1000. :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: Narp may be the closest thing to illustrating Xeno's paradox on this here forum. Now I have to google Xeno's paradox.... :) I looked it up and still don't get it!! Its Xeno's only with a Z if anyone else tries. LABT actually made a booboo for once.... :) In my defense, there seems to be some confusion out there about X vs Z. http://h2g2.com/edit.../F66223/T112780 In any case, what I was getting at is the classic version of the paradox which states that if you're trying to catch a runner you first have to get the place where the runner is now by which time the runner has moved ahead and therefore you can never catch up. (The solution is that distance run equals time multiplied by speed and therefore if for example you're running 10 meters, your speed is 10 meters per hour and your opponent with a speed of 5 meters per hour and is given a 2 meter head start, you'll get there in an hour which will be ahead of your opponent who will take 1 hr and 36 mins (he will be at the 7 meter mark after an hour). Thanks I got it now..... :cheers:

They could just give everyone in TRF the R40 release out of gratitude for years of financial support

About an hour ago. http://i59.tinypic.com/122ezbq.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/caddyshack-movie-poster-1980-1020189468.jpg

Been a while since I posted here. Here's a pic of me at a Baroness show last year. In the Rush shirt on the left:

I'm glad to see this thread has gotten back on-point. I'm a firm believer that money cannot buy happiness. A certain amount of it is necessary in our society to afford a certain degree of security- food, clothing, shelter. Those are the necessities. I've lived some of my life with some money (like now), and I've lived through some of my life with absolutely no money- and when I say no money, I mean none at all. There were a couple if years in my 20s when I wasn't even allowed to have a bank account, anywhere, because I'd bounced too many checks (and not spending on frivolous things- I'm talking about things like my apartment rent, for example). So all the money I had in the world was in cash, and was in my pocket. And if I had none, then I had none. The only things I had that were worth any real currency at all were in my music collection- which I would sell off bits and pieces of, routinely, so I could do things like eat dinner- like for four bucks, at Burger King. I lived like that for at least a year or two. This was at the same time that I was just newly sober, too. Truthfully, I had even less disposable income then than I had during the last couple of years of my drinking- because I was facing up to my debts and being honest, which meant not skirting my creditors (my previous creditors, I should say, because they certainly weren't putting up with me anymore!). Believe me when I say that I take absolutely nothing for granted in this life. Nothing. Not ever. And all of that was a long time ago, now. I have two sons, and I'm able to support them and give them everything they need and/or want. I'm fortunate enough to even be able to save up money for things like college for them, and retirement for me. There is more that I'd like to be able to do with all that I have now, but...I just don't. I have a serious disdain for those who place too much emphasis on material gain. I do have a lot of material comforts now that I couldn't possibly have had, say fifteen years ago. But money isn't the thing that does it for me- it doesn't make or break this life. Money doesn't buy my happiness; having true love in my heart does. I believe that transcends everything else.

Last week in Yosemite. Felt silly smiling for a photo with a fire raging in the background. Definitely made for an interesting vacation. I'm on the left.