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Music Shit / Re: Bye Bye Phil Collins
« on: May 01, 2011, 06:43:13 PM »Phil Collins suicide would be a great story
would you say that you've been waiting for this moment for all your life, oh lawd?
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would you say that you've been waiting for this moment for all your life, oh lawd?
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Music Shit / Re: Bye Bye Phil Collins
« on: May 01, 2011, 01:52:35 PM »That quote is heartbreaking. I hope Phil comes back a few years from now for a third act. Long after pieces of shit like David Fricke and Greil Marcus have crawled back into their miserable holes and the smirking douchebags responsible for Phil Collins Day have disappeared into a life of exorbitant property taxes and compulsive tattoo removal, Buster's gonna return with a sober masterwork about aging and mortality, bankrolled by his hundreds of millions of Sussudio dollars. Fuck the world: Phil wins.
aw nobuddy wikes poor widdle zillionaire phil collins.
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Music Shit / Re: Bye Bye Phil Collins
« on: May 01, 2011, 11:08:45 AM »
How could phil just walk away, just leave without a trace?
my hopes that he'll return are against all odds, but they're a chance i've got to take
my hopes that he'll return are against all odds, but they're a chance i've got to take
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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V
« on: April 30, 2011, 02:37:15 PM »35
Cities / Re: FUCK YOU MEMPHIS!
« on: April 30, 2011, 11:25:43 AM »...and I am sorry to hear about Hipsburgh. My first encounter with the city was through Dishwasher Pete, who lived there for a few years and tried to get me to move there. Said I could buy a house easy. I loved the place. Lots of funkiness, cool ethnic neighborhoods, very cool buildings and a really attractive city. If not for the fact that I hate snow and cold, I'd have moved there - no second thoughts. It is not surprising that all those attributes lead to its hipness nor that that is leading to a lot of the cool shit going away. Unfortunately that is the way shit works.
there's still untainted spots here and there, they're just getting increasingly hard to find...it's definitely a cheap place to live with some cool things about it. it is really fucking cold in the winter, though. it's funny you mention taxes, though - the school district i went to was a relatively upscale area (the kind of people who'd be benefitting from the tax cuts you mention), and i heard from a former teacher who i'm friends with that they're totally cutting the elementary school music programs, and scaling back funding for all music programs across the board. it's fucking infuriating that they're doing this, when our governor is already slashing funds to education (penn state is losing almost half of its public funding), specifically in the special ed field (a friend of mine's mother is in danger of losing her job as an ESL teacher). we have to cut funding to education because there's a budget shortfall; we have to fix our budget shortfall so we can afford to let the rich laugh all the way to the bank. getting fucking sick of this country - the circle of people who benefit from the government's policies is just going to get smaller and wealthier until people start throwing bricks, but by then it won't matter because the rich will be holding all the guns and bombs. /rant
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Cities / Re: FUCK YOU MEMPHIS!
« on: April 30, 2011, 11:02:44 AM »
Speaking as a Pittsburgher, I can say that although we've 'reinvented,' we still have boatloads of problems - specifically the fact that most people like me are planning on getting the hell out of Pittsburgh as soon as they can. Allegheny County's population is the second oldest in the country, on average (next to palm beach, fl), so the worst is yet to come for pittsburgh. It's a nice town, but frankly, a lot of what i liked about it is dissappearing. It used to be a slightly funky place - lots of dive bars, ancient locally owned restaurants, lots of 'local flavor' at the risk of sounding cliche. Now, the Heinz factory and half of the Strip District's been carved up into lofts and condos, the local markets are disappearing in favor of whole foods, and East Carson Street's becoming the #1 Hipster Destination in town, full of self-consciously trendy bars and 'alt' clothing stores (Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, etc). It's like they're trying to gentrify the whole city for a bunch of young rich white kids who are all planning to GTFO anyway.
They're really, really playing up this whole hipsburgh thing in the last 5 years or so, but everyone's also got a giant boner for legalized gambling. SSR, you're saying stadiums are a huge scam? Casinos are kinda like that times 10. Not only does the building provide sooooo many jobs (that disappear the second construction stops), people imagine this magic cascade of money flowing forth, as if the casino were some magic fountain of cash. If you guys ever saw the monorail episode of the Simpsons, that's kind of what happens to towns when local politicians start tossing around the word 'gaming.' People in Pittsburgh were seriously discussing the notion that Pgh could become a second Atlantic City. We build this giant fucking casino on the river, build about 4 hotels around it, and from what I've heard, they're never even very busy. I'm not opposed to gambling - people have a right to do whatever they want - but I think it's pretty typically a pipe dream for downsizing cities.
They're really, really playing up this whole hipsburgh thing in the last 5 years or so, but everyone's also got a giant boner for legalized gambling. SSR, you're saying stadiums are a huge scam? Casinos are kinda like that times 10. Not only does the building provide sooooo many jobs (that disappear the second construction stops), people imagine this magic cascade of money flowing forth, as if the casino were some magic fountain of cash. If you guys ever saw the monorail episode of the Simpsons, that's kind of what happens to towns when local politicians start tossing around the word 'gaming.' People in Pittsburgh were seriously discussing the notion that Pgh could become a second Atlantic City. We build this giant fucking casino on the river, build about 4 hotels around it, and from what I've heard, they're never even very busy. I'm not opposed to gambling - people have a right to do whatever they want - but I think it's pretty typically a pipe dream for downsizing cities.
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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V
« on: April 30, 2011, 08:26:06 AM »Love-Forever Changes
Women In Prison 45-PUNK
People's Temple LP-really good, I've seen em and played with them over the last couple years and they kept getting better each time. Good to hear a band mining 60s sounds without going the BLips/BFTG worship like a lot of young bands have been or were doing or falling into the pitfall of doing faux-psych.
As far as the D. Dogs go, the s/t, Big beef and We Three Kings are corny as hell but still great summer driving music...I don't care how fonzie they are. Can't get into Saturday Night Fever...that was too over the top for me, I do like the EP they did on Empty from those sessions tho.
The People's Temple LP is pretty solid - but sometimes I feel like it's just BJM worship (even if Jonestown's a great band to worship)
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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK
« on: April 30, 2011, 07:47:25 AM »Just exactly....WHO THE HELL....IS HARV??
not sure, but HE WAS THERE...i feel like the epitaph should have 'maaaaaaaaan' added to the end.
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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V
« on: April 30, 2011, 07:45:53 AM »
Today started with Brain F 7"'s, GREAAAT.
Restraining Order has to be one of the best songs I've heard all year - that LP is gonna be killer
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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WTB COIL LPs
« on: April 29, 2011, 11:31:15 AM »
http://cgi.ebay.com/Coil-Destroy-Angels-12-RARE-LP-MINT-/160373933992?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item25570807a8
http://cgi.ebay.com/Coil-Panic-Tainted-Love-12-/220714238394?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item33639801ba
dunno if you really wanna drop that kind of cash, but here you go
http://cgi.ebay.com/Coil-Panic-Tainted-Love-12-/220714238394?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item33639801ba
dunno if you really wanna drop that kind of cash, but here you go
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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?
« on: April 29, 2011, 11:29:23 AM »
David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King." It's not bad - clearly an unfinished novel, but it's amazing to see how much his writing style matured and improved since Broom of the System
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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V
« on: April 29, 2011, 08:56:50 AM »Why do I not like Spiritualized at all? Seems weird.
they've got their moments. Electricity is a cool song
i've been listening mostly to The Make-Up's "Destination: Love." it's good, but not as good as NoU
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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK
« on: April 27, 2011, 09:07:59 AM »He went to Canevin Catholic with me but then I think he left and went to Keystone Oaks.
keystone oaks is pretty un-city...so maybe it makes sense
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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK
« on: April 26, 2011, 06:04:10 PM »http://post-gazette.com/pg/11116/1142068-100.stm
Joe Grushecky of The Iron City Houserockers son who was also my High School class mate just got bet up by someone in Brokencyde.
NOT CITY
which pgh high school - just curious
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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V
« on: April 26, 2011, 01:09:05 PM »
double nickels on the dime
uv race - homo
uv race - homo
