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QUOTE (Mr. Henry Gale @ Aug 13 2007, 02:59 PM)

QUOTE (Snowman @ Aug 13 2007, 11:45 AM) QUOTE (the masked drummer @ Aug 13 2007, 12:54 PM) Hey, MP is a good guy. This DT thing is outta control. Has anyone that's ragging on mike actually met him? He's a down-to-earth fantastic human and doesn't deserve this. No wonder Neil stopped the fan-email with all these hateful people in the world! Hey! You Portnoy? That would be funny/sad if it was really him.   He might not really even check these boards, like some think. He could of just heard from others that they were disliked on here, or maybe he glanced once. You do an awful lot of talking about bands you don't like, which seems strange to me...

I've had a bit of a reading break the last week or two, but I'll be back with the next book in the MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE series very soon...

 

QUOTE (priest_of_syrinx @ Aug 12 2007, 03:09 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 12 2007, 02:56 PM) QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:54 PM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 12 2007, 02:45 PM) QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:38 PM) Hey guys, I had front row in Chicago. Screamin show!!  Cranial overload! Too much talent under one roof at one time. Watching Mike makes me want to practice all day, everyday-soooo inspiring! Drove 3 hours to see them from Indiana. Worth every mile. P.S saw Charlie Benante from Anthrax before the show. Very cool! Hey colleen!!   How's my friend across the water???   There is water between us right??? Well yeah unless someone moved the Atlantic when we weren't watching...maybe it was aliens that did it...   I really started something, didn't I?.... No mate, it's been going on for months now...

QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:59 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 12 2007, 02:57 PM) QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:54 PM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 12 2007, 02:45 PM) QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:38 PM) Hey guys, I had front row in Chicago. Screamin show!!  Cranial overload! Too much talent under one roof at one time. Watching Mike makes me want to practice all day, everyday-soooo inspiring! Drove 3 hours to see them from Indiana. Worth every mile. P.S saw Charlie Benante from Anthrax before the show. Very cool! Hey colleen!!   How's my friend across the water???   There is water between us right??? I'm good btw, listening to Led Zeppelin, how are you? Wonderful   What Zep cd? My fave is Zep II & Houses of The Holy Not a regular CD, I've got on a CD-R compilation...   When I was talking to you a few minutes ago I had The Immigrant Song on, now it's Kashmir...

QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:54 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 12 2007, 02:45 PM) QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:38 PM) Hey guys, I had front row in Chicago. Screamin show!!  Cranial overload! Too much talent under one roof at one time. Watching Mike makes me want to practice all day, everyday-soooo inspiring! Drove 3 hours to see them from Indiana. Worth every mile. P.S saw Charlie Benante from Anthrax before the show. Very cool! Hey colleen!!   How's my friend across the water???   There is water between us right??? I'm good btw, listening to Led Zeppelin, how are you?

QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:54 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 12 2007, 02:45 PM) QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:38 PM) Hey guys, I had front row in Chicago. Screamin show!!  Cranial overload! Too much talent under one roof at one time. Watching Mike makes me want to practice all day, everyday-soooo inspiring! Drove 3 hours to see them from Indiana. Worth every mile. P.S saw Charlie Benante from Anthrax before the show. Very cool! Hey colleen!!   How's my friend across the water???   There is water between us right??? Well yeah unless someone moved the Atlantic when we weren't watching...maybe it was aliens that did it...

QUOTE (double bass chick @ Aug 12 2007, 02:38 PM)

Hey guys, I had front row in Chicago. Screamin show!! Cranial overload! Too much talent under one roof at one time. Watching Mike makes me want to practice all day, everyday-soooo inspiring! Drove 3 hours to see them from Indiana. Worth every mile. P.S saw Charlie Benante from Anthrax before the show. Very cool!

 

This is the kind of thing mike is talking about...

 

Apologize for that mate, right now!!

 

 

 

Edit: hey where'd that post go???

 

QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Aug 12 2007, 01:05 PM)

Saw DT in Cleveland last night and the meet n greet was... um.... interesting.... Here's how it went, wording not exact I am sure but pretty damn close... I am in the line to get my picture taken with them, wearing my The Rush Forum shirt. My turn comes, I walk up: Me: "Hey guys, how ya doing?" Mike Portnoy: "The Rush Forum? You guys think we suck." Me: "Huh? That's not true!" Jorden Rudess: "Who thinks we suck?" Mike Portnoy: "They do - The Rush Forum. They hate us over there" Me: "That isn't true - only 3 or 4 people are like that, just ignore them." During the signing I was like "Really, there are only a few people who say that, I wouldn't be here if I thought you sucked" to which Mike mumbled something like "It's ok". I thought it sucked, I was embarrassed for this website because of the dildos here who have to be as vocal as possible in how much they think "DT sucks"... Concert was great, but I was disappointed in my seats. While I had third row, I was off to the side and it was actually a limited view seat in the end - I couldn't see Portnoy, I could see John P about half the time, and could hardly see Jordan. I am surprised they would allow someone to pay $300 face value for a seat like this. I ended up leaving during encore because I had a 4 hour drive home and was tired of craning my neck to see... DT does not suck and I am ashamed that Mike Portnoy has actually read those assinine comments here....

Seinfeld easily, very easily...

 

Not only is Seinfeld way better the show even "post series" entertainment like Michael Richards making a tw** of himself in a comedy club...

I read Sacred back in 1997 and I wasn't impressed at all. It was totally unconvincing. Compared to people like James Ellroy, Joe Lansdale, George Pelicanos, James Hall, Elmore Leonard, Michael Connolly he's merely treading water...

Some other cool 70s ones are:

 

Live and Let Die

The Man with the Golden Gun

Diamonds are Forever

The Spy Who Loved Me

Towering Inferno

Day of the Jackal

A Bridge too Far

Earthquake

The Jerk

MASH

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Cabaret

Serpico

Westworld

Big Boss

The Warriors

Vanishing Point

Shaft

The Front Page

China Syndrome

Mitchum, I believe he was genuinely tough...

QUOTE (ReRushed @ Aug 2 2007, 02:20 PM)

The 70's, no doubt. Chinatown One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Apocalypse Now Young Frankenstein Superman Superman 2 The Godfather The Godfather Part 2 A Clockwork Orange Taxi Driver Jaws Close Encounters of the First Kind Monty Python and the Holy Grail Star Wars Annie Hall The French Connection ...just to name a few.

The only time I may have had something like that happen, but I'm not sure, was when I was at junior school, at around 10 years old, so it'd be in 1977. I was in the dining hall one day eating my lunch and the bulldog on duty (sorry, teacher), got a bit angry at something I said to someone and hit me in the back of the head just above the nape of my neck. Apparantly I "freaked out" and then lay unconscious with my face in my dinner for several moments. I came to not really sure what had happened, but my friend's filled me in. Mr Briely aka the bulldog, had gone a pale shade of grey as he trudged sheepishly past, he didn't apologize though.

 

So it wasn't exactly epilepsy and I've never had anything like that happen to me again, but it's somewhere in that vicinity. I suppose I found out the hard way why rabbit punching is a no-no in boxing...

 

QUOTE (priest_of_syrinx @ Jul 26 2007, 08:45 PM)

-I don't like people who always say, "like". -I don't like it when people don't finish their sentences. -I don't like it when somebody uses the article "an" before a word starting with "h". For example, "An historic". It drives me nuts. -I don't like to be touched. -Pull up your damn pants. These are only a few.

Why are commercials/adverts always 10 times louder than the programmes??????????

 

 

Why do kids keep asking me to buy them booze????????

 

QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Jul 26 2007, 02:55 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Jul 26 2007, 12:44 PM) QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Jul 24 2007, 11:29 PM) Yes Mike Myers will be playing Keith...won't be out til 2009. I'm not sure Myers has enough of a dark side, Keith was a pretty powerful character, Mike appears too lightweight for the role to me... I wouldn't underestimate his dramatic acting....He did a good job portraying Steve Rubell in the movie "54" and was praised big time. Some even thought he should've been nominated for an Oscar that year.     He'll be fine. After all Moon was a crazy loon as we all know and I can't think of anyone else to play him really. What about Sam Rockwell?   http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/3703_9963_5.jpg

QUOTE (Test4VitalSigns @ Jul 24 2007, 11:29 PM)

Yes Mike Myers will be playing Keith...won't be out til 2009.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2897/redskyatnightbx7.jpg

 

James Hall is no ordinary average, one-book-a-year, A,B,C, 1,2,3 thriller author. No sir. He has a nice poetic writing style, to go with his storytelling/suspense skills. He also has something to say. He has soul. All of which makes him a valuable writer, so if you haven't read one of Hall's novels and you're in the mood for a good thriller, he's your guy.

 

Red Sky at Night isn't Hall's best Thorn mystery, in fact it took a while to get going, but even a modest entry in the Hall canon is a good read. I'll read a couple more of Hall's Thorn books later in the year...

The book cracked me up the way he blabbed about Huey Lewis and Genesis in a kind of machine-like fashion...right after watching "Inside Lydia's Ass" and murdering some poor chick. Now that's BLACK comedy...

 

(note: liberties taken with plot order due to memory malfunction)

 

QUOTE (tangdog @ Jul 25 2007, 11:43 AM)

tangy and the chimps say: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/mikemoran/DCK.jpg

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 23 2007, 04:12 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Jul 23 2007, 04:08 PM) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 23 2007, 04:01 PM) I need to go run...maybe posting this will kick my butt out the door... Use Neil as a pacemaker after the Vegas gig...I bet you can't catch him though...     Betcha I could. No, he'd jump in his limo after 250 yards and you'd be still building up your pace...   - Neil to GG in the back window as it speeds away to his hotel >>>

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 23 2007, 04:01 PM)

I need to go run...maybe posting this will kick my butt out the door...

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 23 2007, 03:23 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Jul 23 2007, 03:22 PM) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 23 2007, 03:20 PM) Okay...you guys are forcing my hand on this one. The REAL reason he ran like hell to the bus was because *I* was in it, waiting for him. You mean he saw you coming...   No, that is NOT what I mean.     Course you didn't lass...