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Just came home with a pint of Haagen-Dazs Chocolate. Just plain chocolate, as God intended.

Happy birthday!

Folks, a whistleblower reached out to me and informed me that the next song on hi_water's list is Hemispheres, and he's been stalling for the past week because he fears the outrage and the backlash. Understandable.

Foo Fighters guitarist Christ Shiflett sits with Alex to talk about his Limelight solo.

Either one of them alone would be fun, but nothing beats an interview with both of them. Maybe Rick could serve soup.

Not a terrible song. The backwards guitar solo is pretty cool. I probably would have ranked it somewhere in this vicinity.

We're almost at the point when we can say RIP print media.

I've liked this song ever since it came out in the '80s, and I hated most of the new wave stuff back then (I've come around on some of it in recent years). Obviously the bass was the big draw with this song. John is pretty well locked in there.

I watched a good chunk of that. Corpuz was steady the whole day, especially on the back nine where she was throwing darts on her approaches and dropping putts. Hull made it very interesting with that eagle and all those birdies. Hataoka however just tanked on the back nine.

Elvis is back in the building!

This is one of the better songs from VT. The contrast between the verses and the choruses, and that killer pre-chorus riff. This is ranked too low.

Here's the uncut sequence. The guy is ballsy.

My Android is an unlocked phone that I bought from B&H Photo. When you buy a phone from say, AT&T, it comes pre-installed with all kinds of bloatware and apps that AT&T wants you to have because they make money off of it all. But the main thing is, the phone is already set up to work on THEIR network, and theirs alone. You're locked into using them for your cell service. That's how they get away with giving away phones and buying out old contracts from rival carriers because they make most of their money from locking you into a two- or whatever-year contract and charging you every month for the service. An unlocked phone isn't tied in with a carrier like AT&T or Verizon. You buy just the phone from a tech store and then you can take it to whichever carrier you want and they'll get it connected. You pay them for the monthly service, but the phone is yours, and if you decide to switch carriers, you can do it as long as you're not locked into a service contract. Plus, an unlocked phone is clean. Just the operating system is installed. It has none of the spyware apps that the carrier phones come with, so you're starting out with a less intrusive phone.

Not just in the same inning. In the same at-bat, and on consecutive pitches. https://www.mlb.com/news/elly-de-la-cruz-steals-second-third-and-home-in-same-at-bat

Another example of a Rush song that doesn't sound like Rush. It sounds like the most commercial version of U2 mixed with Jefferson "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" Starship. It's icky. It's a bottom-10 song for me.

I can help you out with that on Sunday or Monday.

The chocolate that young people eat is barely chocolate. I should know -- I ate a lot of bullshit convenience store candy bars in my youth. Snickers is the only one that still tastes good to me. The others are too sweet and too fake for me now.

Having some dark chocolate right now. A bar with almonds and sea salt.

Yeah, your count was restored a while back.

I knew I was missing one but I couldn't figure it out, so I gave up after a few minutes. I just wanted to show the album representation so far. No, not awkward at all. Rush is a band with a lot of different sounds and styles, and we're all not going to agree on which are best. That said, my taste in Rush tunes is better. CP not showing up much at the bottom of the list doesn't surprise me at all. I think a lot of fans see that album as a comeback of sorts, at least as far as escaping the thin-sounding pop band stretch from HYF thru RTB.

Nope. Somehow those songs are better than Double Agent and Between Sun And Moon.

Here's an album breakdown of the list so far. The numbers here are not too surprising, maybe except for HYF having only two. Rush ................................. 2/8 Fly By Night ...................... 1/8 Caress of Steel ................. 1/5 2112 A Farewell To Kings .......... 1/6 Hemispheres Permanent Waves Moving Pictures Signals Grace Under Pressure Power Windows Hold Your Fire .................. 2/10 Presto .............................. 8/11 Roll The Bones ................. 5/10 Counterparts .................... 2/11 Test For Echo ................... 7/11 Vapor Trails ...................... 4/13 Feedback ......................... 6/8 Snakes And Arrows .......... 5/13 Clockwork Angels ............. 2/12

There's "No static at all" where she is.

Indeed. This thread still chokes me up a bit when I see it.