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QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ May 4 2006, 01:18 PM) Did you folks catch the commercial? If not, then click this. No I didnt actually, what is this all about?

I wonder if they are going to bother explaining what Libby was doing in the mental hospital with Hurley from a few episodes ago, or that they are just going to leave it alone now that shes gonna be dead.

HAaa, last night was a bit of a twist, I kinda figured something was up with Michael that he just happened to show up in the last episode when Jack went out to confront the others. There was obviously some reason behind killing Ana Lucia, but not sure why they killed off the other girl (forget her name). Now Hurley will never get laid.

Watching the new episodes, something is striking me. With the inclusion of the drop of food supplies from the Dharma group, they could have used actual food products and made tons of revenue from product placement. They opted not to do this though, and use the bland logo of the Dharma group on every box and water bottle. I wonder why they chose to do that.

Lets see, what am I doing in May? 05/02 - White Rose Movement @ Slim's 05/06 - The Secret Machines, Loop!Station @ The Independent 05/09 - Nine Black Alps @ Cafe Du Nord 05/13 - Trilogy @ Cue Productions (CygnusX1Bk-2's Rush cover band) 05/26 - Ministry @ The Fillmore 05/31 - Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists @ The Warfield

QUOTE (D-13 @ Apr 30 2006, 09:04 AM) QUOTE (Moonraker @ Apr 29 2006, 06:29 PM) Not bad, I wonder why they are doing so many obscure places though, there arent very many big cities on that list. I know eh'? I have no clue why...only that I know Heart wouldn't be able to sell out huge venues...maybe Seattle...but maybe thats why. They dont have to do huge venues, they could do a smaller club tour or something. You would think though that there would be more Heart fans in a city cuz more people live in the city, I dunno how many people they plan on getting to go if they are playing in places in the middle of nowhere.

Not bad, I wonder why they are doing so many obscure places though, there arent very many big cities on that list.

QUOTE (thestand @ Apr 28 2006, 02:23 PM) QUOTE (2112-Rob-2112 @ Apr 28 2006, 03:24 PM) QUOTE (thestand @ Apr 28 2006, 12:05 PM) Seeing tomorrow- R.V. wow im sorry Why's that? Someone can't see some mindless entertainment once in awhile? I mean, coming from someone who puts Pirates O' the Carribean in his top 5, I would say that you shouldn't make that comment. If it's the script, I understand that it's mindless stupidity. But guess what? Every once in awhile, I want to see sewage spewed on Robin Williams. And if it's a Robin Williams thing, I have two things to say- 1- One Hour Photo 2- What Dreams May Come Speaking of One Hour Photo, credit has to be due to Mark Romanek as well. He also did the directing btw of Closer and The Perfect Drug music videos for Nine Inch Nails years ago.

QUOTE (telegraphcreeklocal @ Apr 27 2006, 09:38 PM) Roger Waters bulletin: If your in California early October, 2006, he plays the Hollywood Bowl on the 5th. The place has all new acoustics, just ask RUSH they broke it in for R30. TCL Check out the Pink Floyd thread, he announced an entire amphitheatre tour for most of the US.

QUOTE (bardan @ Apr 25 2006, 10:00 PM) I wasn't able to get Tool tix for next month in Chicago but June will be a busy month for me: 6/7-DMB and G Love in Columbus 6/9-Gov't Mule and Umphrey's McGee in Columbus 6/10-Umphrey's McGee and Disco Biscuits in Indy 6/14-Tom Petty and Trey Anastasio in Columbus 6/16-Allman Brothers and Derek Trucks Band in Cincy 6/23-(maybe) Tom Petty and Trey Anastasio in Indy 6/24-Pearl Jam in Cincy 6/30-moe. in Dayton Very cool Bardan, your June is looking as busy as my March was.

Huge news for Roger Waters fans http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/news/0604213.html As Roger Waters' 2006 summer tour of Europe moves ever closer, we have news for our North American friends - the complete run-down of shows he will be playing there in the Fall, along with the dates that tickets go on sale. The tour promises a complete run-through of the 1973 Pink Floyd classic, Dark Side Of The Moon, as the second half of the show. The first half is a mix of Floyd classics and Roger's solo material. Elaborate staging is promised, designed by Mark Fisher, complete with projections, and a full, 360 degree quadrophonic sound system. The dates below show on the dates that tickets go on general sale. American Express cardholders will be able to purchase tickets 7 days prior to the public on-sale date, and Amex have already begun emailing their customers with ticketing information. Our Roger Waters 2006 Tour Room will be updated with full details of these new dates imminently - including relevent websites, maps to the venues, and more. 6 Sept PNC, Holmdel, NJ, USA On sale: May 19th 8 Sept Tweeter Center, Boston, Mass, USA On sale: April 29th 12 Sept Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA On sale: May 15th 13 Sept Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA On sale: May 15th 15 Sept Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY, USA On sale: May 19th 16 Sept Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ, USA On sale: May 13th 18 Sept The Palace, Detroit, MI, USA On sale: May 6th 20 Sept Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada On sale: May 1st 21 Sept Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada On sale: May 1st 23 Sept Nissan Center, Bristow, VA, USA On sale: May 20th 24 Sept Post Gazette Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA, USA On sale: May 1st 27 Sept Gund Arena, Cleveland, OH, USA On sale: April 29th 29 Sept First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL, USA On sale: May 1st 30 Sept Verizon Wireless, Indianapolis, IN, USA On sale: May 1st 3 Oct Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ, USA On sale: April 29th 5 Oct Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, USA On sale: April 30th 8 Oct Theater Under The Stars, Las Vegas, NV, USA On sale: TBA 10 Oct Shoreline Amphitheatre, San Francisco, CA, USA On sale: May 7th 12 Oct Key Arena, Seattle, WA, USA On sale: May 6th Our thanks (as ever) to Roger's manager for his help... --- YOU CAN GUESS WHERE IM GONNA BE ON OCT. 10th!!!!

I have to agree with Jack on this. The first one was amazing, but every other one after that wasnt worth a first watch.

Apocalypse Now with "The End" by The Doors

Gettysburg is a favorite of mine, I remember when they used to show it on TV, they would split it up into halves, 3 hours the first night, 3 hours the second night. Thats including commercials though, the movie is 254 minutes long.

Went to Amoeba today and picked up a few new things. Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth Thomas Dolby - Astronauts & Heretics The Editors - The Back Room Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same (single) Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party The Raveonettes - Whip It On Also picked up the first Loop!Station release, "Conversations With Water" at their show last week when they opened for Thomas Dolby. New favorite band.

Cooking Your Placenta! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are several sumptuous recipes around so that you can enjoy cooking and eating your placenta; this one is for roasting it:- Work on the basis that each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight. To prepare a placenta, cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes. Roast Placenta 1-3lb fresh placenta (must be no more than 3 days old) 1 onion 1 green or red pepper (green will add colour) 1 cup tomato sauce 1 sleeve saltine crackers 1 tspn bay leaves 1 tspn black pepper 1 tspn white pepper 1 clove garlic (roasted and minced) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Method -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Preheat oven to 350 degrees) Chop the onion and the pepper & crush the saltines into crumbs. Combine the placenta, onion, pepper, saltines, bay leaves, white and black pepper, garlic and tomato sauce. Place in a loaf pan, cover then bake for one and a half hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid. Serve and enjoy! http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/plac_rec.htm

Tom's sleeping full tonight, he just had his baby.

Dammit to hell!!! I got this email a couple hours ago --- Dear Slim's & GAMH patrons, We are extremely saddened to announce that due to health issues, the Hard-Fi show at Slim's on Fri. Apr. 28 has been cancelled. Refunds are available at place of purchase. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience!! -Slim's / GAMH

Here, I will settle this debate. Tom Cruise's beliefs in scientology and life has decreased his acting skills detrementally. I will not watch any Tom Cruise movie anymore until he stops making monologues in the middle of a movie like War Of The Worlds about not taking pills for depression or shouting out the nutritional value of Katie Holme's placenta to people standing around him while hes running away from something in MI:3. It is a well known fact that if you believe in something that someone else doesnt believe in, it makes you a bad actor as you are seen as silly to the person watching. If he continues to speak his mind about his opinions on scientology, I fear his older movies will be infected with this curse of bad acting.

QUOTE (anagramking @ Apr 17 2006, 11:19 PM) This is too bizarre. Keep in mind the source, though. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006170680,00.html This was a sound clip taken from an interview he did last week, where he was intentionally being sarcastic. It was quite obvious in his tone that he was answerin a completely rediculous question with a completely rediculous answer, but of course thats all something like The Sun needs to make headline news. I still think hes completely insane though, whether or not The Sun took what he said out of context.

Its been a while since I've reviewed a show, but 2 nights ago I went to see Thomas Dolby at the Independent in San Francisco and it was easily the best show I have seen in the last half a year. All 3 acts were beyond words, those being Thomas Dolby, and the 2 San Francisco based openers, The Genie and Loop!Station. The first act, The Genie, is a young 20's, self proclaimed pioneer of the scratch guitar genre. He spent the majority of his time blending hip hop elements and pink floyd epic scale guitar chords, building each of the layers of his songs literally from scratch. What he would do is play a few measures of a guitar part, and then loop it over and over while he recorded another layer, until the final product was one in which it sounded like a band of 10 people were on stage. He would then tweak with the loops by compressing and expanding them, skipping and rewinding them to add to the song. It was quite a remarkable thing, and proving that you dont need a full band or anyone else really to develop the music you want. The real highlight of the show for me though was Loop!Station. This band consists of nothing more then one man on the cello and a girl with the most amazing voice I have ever heard. They made use of the same loop effect that The Genie had, building layers of cello and vocal arrangements upon eachother to quite grandios scales. The music is very much rooted in jazz and soul, but is done with such emotional intensity, you cant help but get swept away. I have a feeling this is going to be my next favorite band. And with the use of the loop effect, they sounded as if an entire string ensemble and chorus of singers were joining them onstage, which created some very powerful sounds. Of course I had to immediatly go to thier vendor and buy their cd. Then comes the main attraction, Thomas Dolby. I had seen his first show at the Red Devil lounge last January (which I gave another mini review of earlier in this thread) and his setlist was pretty much the same, with a couple new inclusions. This show though he seemed much more at ease being on stage infront of people playing music, the show I had seen him at before was his first solo show in 25 years, and since then he has had about a dozen solo shows under his belt. For this show he interacted much more with the crowd, telling the stories for how he came to write the songs he played. Even fulfilling a promise that if his equipment (who the makers of were in attendance at the show) failed more then twice in his show, he would throw out free t-shirts. What was really cool was this one camera he had attached to his glasses, so on the screen, you could actually see what he was seeing, and watch as he played with the synthesizers. The highlights of the show were his performances of Leipzig, I Live In A Suitcase, and a version of Hyperactive that was built from the ground up in the same fashion that the 2 openers had done. Dolby was actually the first artist I have seen to build the music by himself with loops in this fashion last January, and since that show I have now seen half a dozen other acts do the same thing. I wonder if this is going to be a new trend for solo musicians, who are finding ways to expand the sound one person can do with the advent of technology. We will see in the years to come, but if it is, it makes for one incredible live show.

Neither, I prefer brunettes. And no, wigs dont make you brunette Jan.

Bourne is cool, my I made my choice years ago.

"This Charming Man" by The Smiths and "The Sporting Life" have an extremely similar sound to them. Both have jangling jumping guitars going through the song.

I dont know how much I like the idea of being in a movie theater for 24 full hours watching a movie.....