Everything posted by Paul Wesley
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LSU vs KSU Crawdads vs Wheat
The old cross-division format in the Big 12 -- home/home and then skip two years -- there was a period of almost a decade where that worked out really well for K State. They didn't have to play *any* of the four best Texas teams of the modern era - 04, 05, 08, and 09. If memory serves, the Vince Young juggernaut went two years with only one conference loss (12-0 in Dallas to OU), and the very salty Colt McCoy teams also went two years with a singular (but devastating) loss in Lubbock. K State didn't play any of those teams, but they did play two much more average Texas teams in 06 and 07 and a couple of shitshows in 10 and 11.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
I used to have a Pelham blue J-45. It was a nice guitar, but I think I like that one more.
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LSU vs KSU Crawdads vs Wheat
K State in a prime time blowout win... In the words of Norm Macdonald, "Box. Office. Poison."
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LSU vs KSU Crawdads vs Wheat
Ha ha.... shortest postgame in the history of televised bowl games. ESPN cut away from that garbage the instant the clock hit 0:00.
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LSU vs KSU Crawdads vs Wheat
How much do you have to fucking suck to be an also-ran school in a state that's shaped like a fucking rectangle?
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LSU vs KSU Crawdads vs Wheat
Watching the K-State fans celebrate in their goofy purple overalls, with their ridiculous powercat videos and their high school cheers... reminds me how fucking painful it can be to lose to a shitty glorified high school on the prairie. I don't know if that's the LSU fans' reaction though. If those hillbillies moved to Louisiana, they'd all be tutors.
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LSU vs KSU Crawdads vs Wheat
I just rewound DVR to see if this announcer was really saying that Nebraska and K State were in the same conference... yes, he said that. Obviously someone in the booth got his attention and got him to correct himself.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Nice. Are you Levon Helm?
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Top 10 Albums of 2021
Sat down to audition some of these records in this thread, and I got one band into the first post... Royal Blood. Inadvertently started to listen to their last record first... very garage rock, with decent songs, but they seemed to go to the same palette of sounds/production tricks over and over again. Then I listened to Typhoon, which uses a lot of dance-club drum sounds against fuzz guitars... an odd pairing but an original sound. Also better songs than the prior record. I dig it. Thanks for the recommendation.
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The Granddaddy of them all- 108th Rose Bowl Utah vs Ohio State
When Worthy got the unsportsmanlike call for that, a poster here claimed that spinning got flagged every single time. Apparently not.
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Liberty Bowl: Miss St vs Texas Tech ESPN 5:45
Just to add: Despite what I just wrote, I still root for Tech in most every game they’re not playing Texas. There’s a scene in Blues Brothers where they’re talking about an old booking agent who got the band a bunch of big gigs and showcases, and they name several of those venues. Then, as if tallying the score, Jake adds, “I got him laid. He owes me.” I’ve only been to Lubbock once. It was the weekend of a UT game in the 90’s. I had a great time. So if we’re talking Tech, I owe them.
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Liberty Bowl: Miss St vs Texas Tech ESPN 5:45
Good analogy. The further away he is, the more you can just be entertained by his trolling. To some extent, he’s poison to his conference as well. There was a period where Leach had Tech fans 100% convinced that the refs were conspiring against them… even though during that exact time period - Tech was called for fewer penalties every year… despite throwing it 65 times a game while magically going years without committing holding vs future NFL defensive ends (Kindle, Orakpo). I have several Tech friends who still tell me every year before the game how they’re sure the refs will fix it for Texas “like always.” It defies logic (and it defies the box score year after year), and I don’t think that started with Dykes or Tuberville or Kliffy or anyone else.
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Cole Beasley Sent Home From Bills Facility On Tuesday
Turns out the people who predicted more variants and spikes were right, weren’t they?
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Worst sell out?
Agree 100%. They had every bit as big a budget as any of their peers. But the drums sound terrible - and I’m not saying terrible compared to Bonham + Glyn Johns - but terrible compared to just about any band on a major label. Ditto for the guitars, which seem to be shooting for “muffled fart” sonically. And I understand that the whole thing was never intended to have any more integrity than a Wiggles TV special, but dammit if the Wiggles’ vinyl doesn’t hit a lot fucking harder.
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Share Your Music (it probably sucks but that’s not why we do it)
That’s fantastic.
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Worst sell out?
I've heard McCartney defend himself in interviews (this was decades ago).... paraphrasing "Everything I do isn't going to be better than the last thing I did. Some things will hit and some will miss." That said...
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Murders at Starved Rock - true crime documentary on HBO
No, I don’t think they did, and I agree that the film could have done a better job telling “whatever happened to…” with some of the main characters.
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Worst sell out?
Obligatory Bill Hicks reference...
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Worst sell out?
Prompted by the L'eggs commercial that was referenced in the ZZ Top thread... Worst sell out? ... and I don't think it's enough to just be a shitty band or a "band" that was from the beginning just a creation of a promoter or record label. The nominees have to be either a great band that sold out to some lame Madison Avenue bullshit commercial *OR* a band that could have made kick-ass music, but instead chose mediocrity and sweet, sweet money. I suppose we could debate whether Aerosmith was still capable of making good music when they made this in 1998... From the band that made "Crazy On You" and "Barracuda"
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Murders at Starved Rock - true crime documentary on HBO
I'm surprised there wasn't already a thread about this 3-part series. It's about Chester Weger - who was found guilty of a pretty horrific triple murder that occurred in a state park in 1960, his present-day quest for parole, and the ongoing debate around his guilt/innocence. It has the interesting twist that the film maker is the son of the prosecutor. It's one of the better films of this genre that I've seen in the last few years. It's remarkable how many family members/witnesses/jurors/lawyers/etc are still alive and how many participated in the film. I've seen it twice - the second time was when my wife watched it - and the second viewing only reinforced the opinion I formed in the first one. Part 3 drags just a bit, but they packed a lot of information, interviews, and theories into a reasonably short film (each part is under an hour). Mostly the pacing is pretty good, and the information is revealed in a way that may make you change your mind a couple times along the way.
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when does the United States crumble? will it happen in our lifetimes?
Yes, those tapes of Hillary demanding state-level election officials to “Find me enough votes” to allow Democrats to retain power in 2016… Or when Kerry gathered a mob and sent them to the Capitol to murder a few police officers and injure a hundred more I see what you mean about both sides attacking those halls.
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when does the United States crumble? will it happen in our lifetimes?
Dude, the loudest voice of the “RIGGED!!!!!” assholes was the fucking President himself. Is that a “fringe?” And are you telling me that there are voices on the left of equal number and positions of power subverting faith in elections in order to overthrow their results? So no, I can’t agree to your “both sides!” argument. I am definitely a patriot, btw.
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when does the United States crumble? will it happen in our lifetimes?
This thread is an interesting read, but I’m afraid this is the post that speaks to the thread title. The beaches of democracy have been getting shelled by far-right propaganda for years. The actual invasion comes when right-wing lunatics like Gohmert and MTG are joined by state-level opportunists like Abbott and Paxton - and the baseless accusations of fraud are used to subvert the popular vote of the swing states. There were a few principled Republicans (Georgia SOS) who prevented that subversion in 2020, but those people are being actively targeted and replaced in preparation for 2024 and beyond. Edit: There may only be 20-25% of Americans who are buying the Trump-Giuliani-Sidney Powell horse shit, but there are at least that many more who - having been softened by decades of propaganda- don’t want the tax rates to go back to what they were in 2001, and will thus be okay with the coup.
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Did the Beatles know Music Theory?
I cannot even get my head around that level of reading. It’s unreal that someone’s brain can digest written music that quickly AND have the hand-eye coordination to play and read simultaneously.
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Did the Beatles know Music Theory?
In that Beato video above, Rick says in passing, "Theory is just naming things," and I think that 5-word sentence pretty much sums it up. My mother is one of the best pianists I've ever heard. She was the pianist for whatever church she attended from age 14 until well into her 80's. For decades, strangers would come up to her after a Sunday service and say, "That was the most beautiful offertory I've ever heard!" It happened all the time. She'd be visiting with family or friends after a church service, and I'd see a stranger a few steps away... just sort of waiting their turn to talk to her, and I could tell from their body language what they were waiting to say. She can't read music... except looking at the top left of the clef and counting sharps or flats. She knows from the symbols what the root chord is - and that is all she needs to know. When I was a kid, she might say to me after a service "I just hate when (musical director) starts singing that song in four sharps!" I always thought that was a funny thing to say. She would never say, "I don't like playing in E." I never heard her practice. She'd occasionally go to the piano before we left for church on Sunday morning, and she'd play the offertory one time beginning to end -- flawlessly. But as far as hitting a bunch of wrong notes until she could figure it out... or struggling with a difficult passage over and over again until she got it right... I never heard that. Not once. Anyway, I don't know if it would be fair to say "She doesn't know musical theory." She may not be able to articulate what she is doing, but (like Chad says) she absolutely can speak the language. Theory is just naming things.