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  1. http://youtu.be/Pmx76sOpZmY Kind of cheating here, but it rocks your sock off in a minute
  2. http://youtu.be/ei1qz5cJf4s
  3. The quiet episodes are fine, they can't all be blockbusters. The group will link up eventually I think. It will be interesting to see how the relationships will be effected outside of the prison in a very harsh world. Also consider this: The actors are probably getting more money now and so the producers don't put them in every episode to save some scratch. They did the same thing on Lost.
  4. http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z437/drbirdsong/Happy75.jpg
  5. I've got my privacy settings locked as tight as I can get them. I think Suckerberg is a real shitehed, but his little tool is very useful. I wouldn't be there if I didn't manage the page for my church and the opportunity to see family and friends from far away. There are some alternatives, but nobody has heard of them and good luck getting everyone you know to join. Facebook is a great idea. I just wish the people in charge would be more libertarian about how they run it. I know they have to sell ads to get money and that's fine, but it is too easy for folks to get hacked and the way they track your every move and bug you when you aren't even on it is too much. I've noticed a phenomenon that goes on there too. You get a friend request from someone you haven't spoken to since high school or seen in a few years. You rekindle the relationship and then it peters out to nothing. It makes you remember why you quit talking to that person to begin with. I have three old friends from high school that I manage fairly regular communication with so that is a positive. Two of them live in Asia and we may have a get together in Japan this year or next and that alone makes it worthwhile because it would never have happened or even been discussed otherwise. If you're going to be on there I guess you have to take the good with the bad. I think you have to managed your time carefully on the Internet or you can be on it for hours that pass by in an eye blink. I have one friend that I still write letters to. He gets online once a week and does what he has to do and that's it. I admire his willpower and his ability to live an almost monk-like lifestyle with incredible discipline. I don't think anything short of the Apocalypse is going to get me offline.
  6. I wonder how many people look at that map and have the same experience I did: "Who the hell is Juicy J?" With a name like that I am not even bothering to look it up. My guess is some rapper from Memphis. (Ok, now I have to look it up) ... From Wikipedia: Jordan Michael Houston, better known by his stage name Juicy J, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is a founding member of the Southern hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, established in 1991. Ok, the name gave it away and I have actually heard of Three 6 Mafia. Curiosity satisfied. Time wasted.
  7. I actually saw the Killroy Was Here tour. The movie wasn't too bad and we know from the recent Rush tours that they can be a fun intro. The problem with Styx was that they came out on stage and acted out the story and then played a really good show and then acted some more at the end. Nobody booed, but the "play" part was unnecessary and silly. When the show moved to larger venues it really didn't go over well in the big spaces. They were at their peak as far as live performance went and that part of the show rocked. At the end of the show they came out for an encore and everyone thought they would sing "Lady", but they quit doing the song live because some guy owns it and won't sell them the rights back or something. I saw them a couple of years ago when they were touring with Yes and it was a much better show. Tommy and James are in full control now and they have a really good DDY sound alike and they rock like monsters now. I never heard anything about a 2112 comparison either. It sounds like someone is fantasizing on a cold Winter's day.
  8. That is awesome!!!! Will you please thank her for me? And, thanks to you as well for bringing such an outstanding woman into this world! I sure will. It will be fun to see the expression on her face when I tell her Alsgalpal said Thank You. I'm glad to see her following in her mother's footsteps. First she tried the Navy like dear old dad, but couldn't work out an agreement with them. Next she decided on ROTC, but at the last minute came to me and said she was just going to go in as a PFC and then finish her nursing degree online and that way she only had to commit to four years instead of six and so if she didn't like it she could just complete one enlistment and move on. I guess she thought I was going to be disappointed or something because she wasn't going to be an officer. I think I must have had something in my eye because it teared up for moment. It's working out fine and her mom and I are so proud.
  9. It's another semi-legal bootleg sold as the real thing with bad cover art money grab from a foreign company thumbing their noses at both the band and the fans. Of course I do own the ABC release from a few years ago. It was a gift, but I ain't getting rid of it anytime soon so I'm sure this one will find its way into my collection at some point. Let's just hope it isn't sourced from mp3s this time.
  10. I remember being in High School English class when we had to bring in a poem and present it to the class. When the teacher said we could use song lyrics three or four guys chose Rush songs. A big argument got started over Red Barchetta of all things. Without the drama of the music the teacher thought the narrator of the song was just out having fun and racing with his friends. The music often sells the lyrics. And then again you also get something like this sometimes: Big Macs for the fat, lo-cal wraps for the call centre battery hens, Japanese snacks for the choice-spoilt citizens, caviar kickbacks for the citadel denizens. Airport shoeshines servicing the suits among the little silver stereos and hand-rolled cheroots, First class passengers file on last after the scum are packed in with their tax-free loot. Checkout calamity, you're cheated out of loyalty points, ten more years at this joint you'd be home & dry, Beggars beat round the cash machines but you just slip between them with the usual lie. Terrible tales of kidnapped kids keep you focused on the family and filling up the fridge, Neighbourhood watchers shop dole dodgers, stick their semis on the market & start racking up the bids. Should you stand and fight, should you die for what you think is right So your useless contribution will be remembered? If you're asking me I say no, surrender. Constant growth the cancerous cure, a swarming race of profiteers ensure Cheap cars for the rich, cheap lives for the poor, cheap weeks in the sun, free drinks at the door. Puerile propaganda plugs up the TV, keep folk following the money so they'll never be free Keep them swallowing the swill, the celebrities, the paedophiles, the immigrants invading from the camp over the hill. War talk, the big debate, footsoldiers in the capitol liberating new kinds of hate Cum-shots of human dots caught in the spotlight's glare; he dies who dares. Fatuous fast-trackers sneering at the shelf-stackers, little Middle-Englanders can't stand the backpackers, Fortress Freedom, come on in, take your chances-you might win. Should you stand and fight, should you die for what you think is right So your useless contribution will be remembered? If you're asking me I say no, surrender. Sunset beaches security patrolled, keep out the undesirables who don't accept the code Equal opportunity to live in total poverty, execute the ignorant incarcerate the slow Car caressing managers choking up the avenues, brain dead patriots standing in salute Paperwork raining again and again so that billionaires can claim there's an enemy to shoot Pill pushers, doorsteppers, personal goal shoppers, lifestyle trendsetters, meditating mindbenders, Hare-brained share sellers pumping out stocks til you're choking on a chain-letter avalanche of dross. God squads trawling through every country tracking down fools who are bullshit hungry Blinded by divinity followers fall into the man-traps set along the Wailing Wall. Athletes compete in grand charades while tanks flatten streets and a nation laughs, Visa holders gape at the changing guards while creeps bribe bums to take their photographs. Film fans flock to the latest schlock, blockbusters block out even the vaguest thought Bankrupt schools grind out fool after fool then feed them to a system where idiots rule. Polling booths, phone votes, bogus questionnaires, you get a say as if anybody cares Joe Public doesn't want to play so liquidate his life as he looks the other way. Don't get sick, don't get wise or they'll gut you with a *justice* where everything is lies March down Main Street, complain if you want but it's twenty years straight for the losers at the front. If you're asking me I say no, surrender Justin Currie - No, Surrender 2008
  11. Yeah I thought of that ^^^ as soon as I posted my message. That video was ahead of its time.
  12. http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z437/drbirdsong/035.jpg Everyone can rest easier now, my youngest is on watch.
  13. For a moment there I thought maybe I had dreamed it, but I finally found my source: The 100% always dead on the money (wait for it) Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Rush_song) Countdown is a Rush song that describes the launch of STS-1 and the Space Shuttle Columbia [1] as the group watched from a VIP area called Red Sector A at the time. The song incorporates audio from voice communications between astronauts John W. Young and Robert Crippen and ground control along with commentary from the Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Officer leading up to the launch.[2] The song incorporates foreboding serious tone with driving rhythm along with heavy amount of synthesizer, with Lee playing only a minimal amount of bass guitar. Lyrics paint a vivid account of their experiences witnessing the launch. It closes the album Signals, and its cautionary tales of man's reliance on technology, on a more positive, celebratory note.[3] The song was used as a wakeup song for astronauts during STS-109, which was the last successful flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was used again for astronaut Mike Fincke during STS-134, flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour on its final mission before retirement. Fincke described how his friends Greg Shurtz and NASA employee Ken Fisher chose the song because the band was inspired to write it after viewing the launch of STS-1. Fincke went on to say the song was played as a tribute to the space shuttle program, which has inspired people around the world.[4] This song, as printed in the liner notes of the Signals album, is dedicated to "the astronauts Young & Crippen and all the people of NASA for their inspiration and cooperation." The song itself ends very abruptly around 5:49, but a reprise of "The Analog Kid" from earlier on the album is included as a hidden track, extending it to 6:49. Some vinyl pressings of the album, as well as most pre-recorded tape editions, should have ended without this reprise. Original North American pressings of Signals contain the reprise by comprising and reflecting its inclusion.
  14. drbirdsong

    40 Years Ago

    I first heard it after jamming on All The World's A Stage, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Hemispheres, A Farewell To Kings and Caress Of Steel. I thought I would get the first one before I got the second one and then I got them all in order and listened to them a lot the way they were released. After a while I stopped listening to the first three and didn't really get into them again until the first CDs came out. Fly By Night became a favorite of the early days, but the first album never grew on me that much. When the Sector box sets came out I finally began to appreciate what a good debut album it is. If you compare it to some first albums by other bands you can see that right out of the gate there was a lot of potential there. With the addition of Neil all the parts were in place. In those days a record company gave a band a few albums to find themselves and they either progressed to something bigger or they got dumped. We all know the story of 2112 and how the fans embraced it and the rest is history, but without the debut we would have none of it.
  15. And a happy cranky Sunday morning to youse too. I just pre-ordered it. This will be the best version on vinyl ever so why not? I do wish they had included the first single as a 45 rpm extra, but maybe that will finally appear in a CD boxset when only Alex or Geddy are still alive and in their 90s. If Neil is the last one left he'll probably burn all the master tapes and write a long memoir of his life leaving out any mention of Rush.
  16. How far are these children going to take this stuff? Someone is going to have to have live sex on stage to top what is going on now. Maybe at the next VMAs Miley can come out wearing absolutely nothing and to top that someone will have to strip their skin off or die on stage. I better stop talking or someone will actually do it.
  17. You're joking right? I think Yes may never get in because of the absolute cluster fornication of members and ex-members. Too much money and history and childish behavior ruins some bands forever.
  18. It looks silly, but it will tie in with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so I'll give it a look because Marvel is doing a good job on continuity now. Could be fun. The Fantastic Four is getting a reboot and it is said that it will be in the same Universe as the X-Men movies. With the X reboot they could tie these all in together and have crossover madness. There is also some kind of Defenders-like something happening on TV with Daredevil, Power-Man, Iron Fist and others. I have the first season of S.H.E.I.L.D. saved on my DVR. Anyone seen it?
  19. I saw one episode and was hooked. I'm going to wait and watch the whole thing at once. I think it was episode four and I didn't even know what was going on and wanted to see more the second it ended.
  20. It has been nice to see things changed up for the second half of the season. This past Sunday's episode was very tense in the parts where Rick has to deal with the "home invaders" and I have no idea what happens in the comic at this point so I'm curious to see the gang all end up at Terminus, whatever that is.
  21. I'll admit to not being much of a plumber so when I tried to repair my toilet I couldn't get a handle on it.
  22. Bump... Anyone? Did I hallucinate what I read? Am I the only living soul on this forum? Have I imagined this entire forum? If so I am indeed near to being mentally irregular.
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