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Ok, so Wagner said that we should have a spot for posting urls. This is now the official spot.
Here's a quick lesson in html hyperlinks. If you just write the address, like this:
http://tastytronic.net/
it's not going to "light up" for people to click on it. But, if you write them like this:
<a href="http://tastytronic.net/">Tastytronic Industries</a>
The word Tastytronic Industries will show up as the link to the address in side the "a" (for anchor) tag, and be clickable. This is the preferred method, since it's easier for everyone else (except maybe you).
Ponder this mystery, and see if you don't understand, my young grasshoppers.
Rock Star
Hobo.
funny cartooni did it like you said, it better work
This here mulligan stew shore is tasty!
ok so i am bored, and was doing searches for the names of people i know, and i decided to post some of the interesting results. everyone i have searched for has had a bunch of links. but these are the best/most interesting ones for the attention-span deprived...this is somebody with the same name as me but he's in a chicago death metal band called Broken Hope
Whew! Sigh of relief.
THIS IS PHIL KUHL
Keeping an Eye on Big BrotherLet's all do our part...
I don't think mine worked....
YOu wrote html:// instead of http://Try again.
Keeping an Eye on Big Brother
The Hobbit Name Generator
yeah, as if there was a chance they were gonna go R&B or form an ever- so-popular 'boy band'...
FYI
George W. Bush: Ponto Chubb-Baggins.
What's the deal with the Belen, NM thing?
I may move to Belen, NM this summer. Big news to break so nochalantly over the web (only about 6 people know I am considering this, but not anymore obviously...) My folks live out that way, and I may take a teaching position in their school. Big decision.... The site- I was looking for info on the town and came across that page, I thought it was funny.
That's cool! That's a long ways away, but close to family is (hopefully) a good thing, in my book, anyway.
i typed in 'Rosy Cotton' which we all know is an actual hobbit name. the name generator spit out: 'Myrtle Knotwise of Michel Delving'i tricked it. frod baggins comes out frodo baggins.
also, 'Samwise Gamgee' comes out: Podo Danderfluff of Willowbottom. But so does 'Al Gore'. something weird there.
'Bob Dylan' comes out: Mongo Hardbottle
so i was searching mp3.com for a band called veronica. i got a bunch of different returns on my search, and this was one of them. i didn't actually listen to the tracks yet. i might.
I thought "beauty and lyrics" were YOUR special weapons...
you're status is hot and dangerous
you're status is hot and dangerous
she's hot... and she spits heat!! did you see that?id say that's pretty darn hot.
Oprah's Direct-to-Video Erotic Thriller Club
"They will enjoy it instead of Coke," he said.You know, I really don't find the dog-part of this story all that disgusting. I mean, it would be just as much of a bizarre story if it were cow or chicken, really.
But imagine the interaction:
"I'd like a coke please"
"Sure thing... yoink!"
i'd personally rather have a dog burger than a glass of 'dog meat juice' or 'dog meat tonic'. i mean, given the third option of:
C: neither
id go with C. but if i had to choose between a fido sandwich or a nice warm pint o' puppy juice, id go with the burger. i mean, at least its not THAT far away from the meat i normally eat. whereas i don't ever drink anything that comes from animal meat. (at least i hope not...)
Yeah, I mean, the fact that it is "meat juice" in a can is the worst part, but at least like, I'm used to consuming chicken and cow juice, albeit in more modest quantities. I'm familiar with the taste of those things, and I'm not particularly opposed to eating those animals.Which is not to say that I'm philosophically opposed to eating dog, but the idea that this can of fluid was once a dog, running around -- the images that conjures up is what's weird. I mean like, take an animal that no cultures eat, say like, the platypus. If you went to a place, that had both chicken juice and platypus juice on tap, wouldn't you think that platypus juice is a little more bizarre?
I guess what I'm trying to say, is that I acknowledge that the species of the animal is only weird because of cultural familiarity. In general, people from the West don't eat dogmeat. But I'm not afraid to say that since I'm not used to eating dog, it is definitely more bizarre for me to imagine drinking a frosty can of dog juice.
but very funny...a film series that focuses less on complex themes of seduction and betrayal and more on ass-cramming.
See, I'd eat a dog burger, and think nothing of it. I'd try bugs etc, since I don't really see any particular kind of meat as being any more disgusting than any other.I meant to say that I'd find it JUST AS BIZARRE if they had been serving cow juice. Like, I just don't think of animals as drink material.
Serve it hot and in a bowl and it becomes a meal rather than a drink.
Biblical Plague Snow Domes
i thought you'd all enjoy the Evil Plan Generator
Your objective is simple: Destroy the Earth.Your motive is a little bit more complex: Love (Yes, it works)
Stage One To begin your plan, you must first kidnap a rock star. This will cause the world to sit up and take notice, stunned by your arrival. Who is this unholy menace? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in a robotic exoskeleton?
Stage Two Next, you will destroy the Internet. This will cause countless hordes of mutant race to flock to you, begging to do your every bidding. Your name will become synonymous with metal, as lesser men whisper your name in terror.
Stage Three Finally, you will unleash your armies of destruction, bringing about something that\'s really metal. This will all be done from a Obsidian Citadel, an excellent choice if we might say.
These three deeds will herald the end, and the citizens of this planet will have no choice but to elect you their new god.
Trust us, it'll all come together in the end.
Say It MeanThis one is fun.
take the results from Evil Plan Generator and then cut and paste the results into Say It Mean .
wow...that comes out really really bad
Hopefully this will clear up those extra tags. </b></b> Now that I've tried to fix the extra <b> tags I should offer a link to the stew. I give you the pet shop boys, with a love song for eminem.
Well that doesn't work very well. Stupid XML parser. So here's a another link for the stew: hypercolor cclothing!!
it's all... in... the wrists.
So, there are these guys, The Brothers Chaps, and they have a great website full of cartoons of some characters they invented. Homestarrunner is the protagonist, a good guy (but not the brightest), and there are all kinds of crazy crap there. It's really funny, although it will be a pretty stiff download on a modem, I think. But you should still try to check it out. I'd recommend watching the Halloween Cartoons first, and then maybe the Jumping Jack contest, or the King of Town Special Edition DVDs. And here is the link to Homestarrunner and Friends.DELETED!
Ok, the DELETED! thing was an in joke -- it's not deleted or anything liek that. If you want ot see the reason for the in joke, read the Strong Bad's email thing about "spring cleaning".Hahaha. Hmm, and now, what should I do with this post? I guess I'll sign it,
DELETED!
'who is the guy that wins all the contests... except one of the contests... or more than one of the contests...' great stuff.
Watch the "I am a vampire" one, that one still makes me laugh.
this dude is unemployed and made a bunch of cartoons about it, and a whole website that has grown out of control. or just moved away from the whole unemployment thing to other stuff. check it out.
they are hilarious. i like the one about band names. this website is so freaking funny. i have watched all the stuff except a couple of the kick the can episodes. marzipan's answering machine is pretty funny too. i think when i get $$ i am going to get a strong bad tshirt. cause thats cool.
they send you a reply, and a link to this 'behind the scenes footage' of Strong Bad, Strong Mad and the Cheat in the email processing center.
they aired it on the Leno Show.
Design YOUR Superhero Self
if this story was a rush lyric it would be "shatter the illusion of integrity", which, i'm thinking, is a really not the lyric at all. from tom sawyer maybe? i think it's "integrity" i'm getting wrong...anyhoo, i'm totally crushed.
in case anyone was thinking about trying to sneak a block of weed through customs any time soon, i thought i'd let y'all know that even the bees are against us. and against those nasty terrorists too, which is nice.
sometimes i'd rather not know that the emperor is nekkid. snooty wine connoisseurs beware - red #5 be all up in yo grill.
Shatter the illusion of integrity is a Rush lyric from the song The Spirit of Radio. Take off to the great white north.
i used to dig this stuff quite a bit. now it seems like chess to me, just a little more involved and a lot less fun. still, this here article, at least the first part about probability statistics and resurrection, reminds me of that goofy don-quixotic spirit that seduced me into philosophy in the first place - finding satisfaction in proofs of what you already believe so you can say "so there!" to all the people who scoffed at you before you knew the vocabulary to shut them up, if only they would take the bother to pay attention to you, which of course they won't. and why should they? the big question that no one seems to have much energy for after all the fighting about proofs and givens is, "so what?" stupid philosophers.
sorry, it's a new york times article so you have to sign in to get it, so if you don't want to and are jonesing to know what the probability of jesus' resurrection is according to bayes' theorem, i'll just tell you it's 97%.
lots of poker guys talk abou bayes' theorem. i haven't gotten that rigorous on the math of it all yet...
Bayes' Theorem! I have that in my notes somewhere around here. I'm taking Mama Stats right now.
like something you could post on here? i've always been curious, but i've never actually needed it for poker. now im super curious.
Do your own research
Am I crazy or what? I love spam!
There is someone; a) with waaaay too much time on their hands, b) who is very easily amused, c) who does not have to pay connection charges, file storage charges and cannot have a mailbox size limit, and d) who has a really awful picture.
Notice his profession:
about the writer
Barry Dennis is president of Netweb, an Internet and offline marketing and public relations agency.He's a spammer!
that's a somewhat misleading title, but it's still an interesting article: gummi thumb - the ultimate spyweapon. or: biometrics are for crap
for suggesting i discover the hilarity that is strongbad's emails. i just watched "brianrietta" and "i love you" and i'm crying. but maybe that's just because i'm drunk and alone.
he is the dopeshit.
SPAM quote from that site. "My spam is important to me. In this new age of the Internet, I need the information and opportunities that e-mail marketing provides. " what kind of person needs to be force fed marketing? who can't find the stuff they need by looking for it? what a system-driven android who is programmed to need what is marketed to him. this guy is crazy. i don't want any more adverts for enlarging my penis, a *free* dvd player, or hot anal sex in my email inbox. too bad that won't happen.
moonboots, see "trevor the vampire" and "spring cleaning", also "band name" and uh... I dunno. those ones are the best.
would you like to learn some dope new dance steps? "yersss!"would you like to finally find out what is funny to the middle-class of japan? "yerrrs!"
trust me (if you dare) - you will be satisfied, and you will be educated.
culture!
i haven't downloaded the whole thing yet but, that japan movie is wrong! what the f*&%!!!!
this is pretty funny...
i almost fell off my chair for that japanese one. cracked me up, niggaz!!
get your World Cup scorecard to help combat ugly american syndrome.
Okay, it's about time someone posted a Brunching Shuttlecocks link in this entree... So, it's time for everyone to play Porn Star or My Little Pony? I got 8 of 12 right, see how you do.
i got 3 of 12, and even though that's an ignorance to be proud of, i feel terrible.
can't believe i've forgotten to check out last plane to jakarta for so long. oddly loquatious music reviews from john darnielle, who is the mountain goats (this is a pretty crappy site, but their mp3 page has two live versions of jam eater blues on it, so it's worth a link). he has a thing for death metal (and other metals as well), which he ranted about for months and months. the archive is chock-full of enthusiastic blather that gets me all excited about music i never otherwise would have considered worth my time, and also a fantastic set of delirious fever-dreams obsessing over each song on amnesiac.
i would like to bring to your attention an exceptional piece of writing - i know nothing about metal and will probably never hear the album mentioned, but john darnielle's gorguts review is the best piece of writing i have read in many moons. i promise you've never read a more imaginative or more finely crafted record review.
oldpossumus knows and/or really digs Gorguts. i've never heard their music.
go here
go here to check out the goings on at ravinia.
welcome. . .to zombocom!In other news, I got 4 out of 12. Ruby Lips indeed.
here's a link somebody gave me to an article in Harper's from DFW.
You too can have your very own Digital Angel watching over you... with red beady eyes and a scythe.
The Suburbs are 50 Years Old.
i think we should all email StrongBad until he answers one of our emails...
Steven Seagal was threatened by the mob!.You may have to "register" to read this. I think I made a user, named "zootboot", password, "zootboot".
maybe for his next movie - Witness Protection, or something equally as lame...
These guys are a gang of british poker players who have sort of stepped into the limelight over there. they are making the poker world look glamorous (at least a little bit) and fun. they've also been a huge part in a television show called Late Night Poker which is in its 5th season now. its a show with a bunch of people playing high stakes poker and telling funny gambling stories, and such. i haven't seen it, but it has been a big hit in europe (not sure just which parts of europe...) this site will have some things of interest to you even if you don't play poker.
Sometimes it's good to have a job where you get paid to work on the web... sometimes it can be distracting.I suddenly feel lik an amature. If I knew about this site in high school the area around Plato Center Illinois would have been a lot different.
only Sysadmins and webmasters can really appreciate this one.
This might be a little hard to get. Just click on it and check the address bar.
And last but not least... I know some of you have to be into words.
This is an awesome illusion. Focus on the black dot and move your head towards and away from the screen. This isn't one of those jokes with the screaming face or anything like that -- just a good ol' down home optical illusion, provided by Douglas R. Winslow III.
Drat that clever crow!
What's the different between a crow and a raven?
Learn the fascinating story of the creation of crows.
Uncle "Ant" Milton and his fabulous Ant Farm
Check out this breathtaking road trip journal from 1937!
ExpendituresItem Amount Price
Gas 229 gallons 40.02
Oil 8 qt 2.00
Cabins 9.25
Food-Miscellaneous 19.21
Films 6 @ .30 1.80
Developed 1.50
Cigarettes 1.25
Total 75.03
Neale has a whole bunch of optical illusions in his picture gallery.
a site has been put up as a part of the Oxford Virtual Tour. It's called TolkienTour and it offers loads of information about The Professor, and about his life in Oxford. But the coolest part are the 360 panoramic views of the most important places in Tolkien's life! They are amazing - if you ever wanted to see where he was buried, now you can, but you can see much more, for these interactive pieces are astonishingly detailed. There are also views of all the places Tolkien lived at, or frequented.
JRR Tolkien's Oxford
ouch!! watch this
this is for erik and wags
very nice. i knew he had an impact, for sure. but there are some very obscure bands and references in that article that just bring to light the vast impact JRRT had over metal as a concept. i think he doesn't have to be just metal though. i've always toyed with the idea of doing an album that was not at all metal, but had a very direct Tolkien influence. the name of the 'Artist' would be something like Nenya (which is the name of Galadriel's ring). and it would have songs about being a woman of power (which i know little about, and would have to recruit some people to help write), being susceptible to the darker powers of middles earth (One Ring, et al), her home, Laurelindorinen (or Lothlorien, as you may recognize better), the passing of the age of Elven influences and the subsequent need to travel to the Gray Havens, her buddy Gandalf, etc. i think it would be a cool concept to immerse oneself in. but, i do not have the time or resources readily available as of late. perhaps someday.
actually, thinking about it now, i realized that Nenya sounds too much like Enya. so maybe scrap that. go with Narya which is the name of Gandalf's ring. then do songs inspired by the character Gandalf (It Ain't Easy Bein a Wizard, Brandywine Blues, Saruman the Blue, Balrog on my Trail, Sweet Home Gondor, Goin Down to Moria, etc.).
Tolkien does have a lot of material that lends itself very easily to metal, though. Terech Ungol would be a cool name for a band, song, or album. (that's the name of Shelob's Lair, though i'm not sure if i spelled it right)
to hear the songs 'Balrog on my Trail' and 'Sweet Home Gondor'. That and hear your song about being "a woman of power". Wags, you are you are!I enjoyed the article, though I was disappointed that it didn't trace the reasons a little more. Metal tends to draw on the elements of LOTR's darkness and its nordic tradition (you're not going to see the band 'Burzum' - which is darkness in Ork tongue, and whose founding member is Count Grishnthlack or whatever - you won't see them dressing up like Tom Bombadil and building stage sets of the Prancing Pony).
Again, Jeremy, please write a song about being a woman of power.
Jeremy, if you write the music, redvinegar will be your backing band and will produce your 4-track album and release it on Tastytronic Records.
that sounds tempting. i will let you know. i do think i will work on that. like i said, i know very little about being a woman of power, so i'd have to recruit help on that one. i think that i will keep that as a project/goal in mind, something to direct my musical output for a while. i'd love to hear the finished product, esp. w/ redvinegar backing it up.
Tastytronic Dinner
dudes, check this site of the awesomest metal ever!!!!its for a band called SATANICIDE
Indie-rock Pete Hits Indie-rock Bottom.
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cheese is definitely what it is.
you'll get a kick out of this
I even sent them an email. here it is:
I want to commend you, first of all, on taking on such an innocuous-yet-controversial, thankless, thought-provoking task of compiling this list. I did agree with many of the entries. And I was impressed with the thought that went into making the list. Pat yourselves on the back. Then fade back to toiling away at tongue-in- cheek altruism in your corner of the internet. You do it well. I seriously dig a lot of what this list had to say.But, I also disagree with a few of the entries:
"U2 - The Joshua Tree Oh, to be earnest, politically correct, Christian, and filthy rich. It's been 15 years since the birth of this critical and popular favorite, and U2-worship still hasn't been eradicated. When will it stop? When you do the right thing and retire this pompous collection of religious rock songs, that's when. "
I disagree with the sentiment behind this choice. Sure, U2 has become a bloated Stones-like Monstrosity, an icon of what they used to be, even though they were too smart to let us believe their big fat wallets were a result of 'selling out'. But, is that a reason to give this album the boot? Also, perhaps you disagree with Christianity. Nothing wrong with that. But, again, when musicians write songs that flow from where their hearts are (wherever that may be), is that so bad? Does the Christianity so inherent on this album offend you? Are the ideals and hopes and dreams that U2 (or Bono anyway) espouse so far removed from the ideals of your enlightened list-makers? I don't think so. I also don't think that nixing this album is justified just because it was overplayed, got way too much adoration, and caused so many to define themselves by the words and music. Sure, the album is SO nostalgic of 'when U2 was really good', but maybe that's a good thing. While I can understand the point you're trying to get at, I would still disagree with this choice. I still listen to the album often. And I don't feel like a loser-cliche U2 fan. To each his own.
"Nirvana - Nevermind Yeah, yeah - I realize that this is the one that broke grunge's doors wide open and made Seattle a place to be reckoned with. Are we sure that's good? At best, Nevermind is an overrated Pixies tribute album that was blasted from every goddamn dorm room I skulked past in college (instead of the Pixies). Not to mention the fact that alt-rawk stations have bled this album of any magic it might have had by overplaying it. Fair to middling at best, but not the Second Coming. And "Smells Like Teen Spirit" IS the "Stairway to Heaven" of our generation, folks. This is the record you will embarrass your children with."
Yeah, Yeah - I realize that some songs from this album got really overplayed. But why throw out the baby with the bathwater? By the same rationale that one or two good songs don't justify buying or keeping an album, one or two overplayed songs don't justify trading this one in for a pack of smokes, either. Later in your list, you make an analogy about INXS, and how after a few big hits, the people in the room will request a disc change. I don't think this is the case with this album. Sure, its not one of those albums that we keep in our CD player for a month at a time. But, the times we do pop it in, we listen to the whole thing, smiling and shouting/singing along the whole time. And we're glad we still own it. I remember about a year ago, I didn't own the album, and a friend had it in the car stereo while driving to the beach. I remember loving every second of that drive, and thinking how much I had forgotten the raw energy and recklessness that Nirvana had, and how much that had an effect on me when the album first came out (I was in 8th grade, and still listening to radio hip-hop. I didn't know any better. I had just started listening to guitar-driven rock music, and was blown away by this album). Maybe its just a personal, sentimental thing. Maybe I'm too young to know the Pixies, or to care about them. Maybe I'm just right and you're wrong on this one. Either way, I disagree.
"Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti The primary inspiration for This Is Spinal Tap, and that's not a compliment. All the years of Quaaludes and teenage groupies culminated in this plodding, faux-blues double LP. The moronic "Kashmir" is ten minutes of pure torture and is symbolic of the entire affair. Albums like this helped usher in the 70s punk explosion, though, so I guess it's not a total disaster. "
OK, I'll admit that Kashmir has lost its initial appeal (especially after Jimmy Page re-recorded the guitar tracks and let Puff Daddy have his way with them for the 'Godzilla' Soundtrack). But Physical Graffiti is still a great album. Maybe I disagree because I'm such a big Zep fan. Maybe if you're not a big Zep fan, this album can be done without. However, I love it. Even though Bob Dylan's version was more raw, In My Time of Dying is still a great song, and Zep gives it a truly grand, unique treatment. Custard Pie, The Rover, Houses of the Holy, In The Light, Bron Yr Aur, Night Flight, Wanton Song, and Black Country Woman are all great songs. They justfiy the album (not to mention the rest of the tracks are pretty dang decent). Anyway, if you're anything of a serious Zep fan, you know in your heart you gotta have this one. So, I guess this entry is excusable if you really don't like Led Zeppelin. Otherwise, it is a must have.
"Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Since you've updated your collection with Marilyn Manson albums, are you really going to pull this one out? And if so, are you also going to put on your sister's old black tights that you ripped full of holes just to wear to the concert back in 1995? Probably not, because by the time the second song is over, you will be ill with memories of Doc Martens and bad dye jobs. "
Well, since I hate Marilyn Manson, am I excused for keeping this one? Sure, Trent Reznor isn't far behind Manson as far as pretense, and bad high-school-angst lyrics, but that was Pretty Hate Machine. Sure, strip clubs now play Closer for their dance numbers. But, again, is one song reason to purge this album from your collection? I submit that Mr. Self Destruct, March of the Pigs, The Becoming, Big Man With a Gun, A Warm Place, Eraser, Reptile, The Downward Spiral, and even the overplayed Hurt justify hanging onto this, despite the lower points contained in the rest of the album. There are a lot of really great sounds on this album. Reznor (and his excellent choice and implementation of guest musicians) really created a lot of musical depth (if not much lyrical depth) with this one. Call soundscapes cliche or overrated, but an album that contains a song created with such a feel as A Warm Place has without verbal suggestion (I would contend that the title of the song does nothing to aid or hinder the feel of the song) definitely deserves to be pulled out with a fair amount of frequency and experienced again. Maybe this is another of those that were significant in shaping the sound of my high school years, and is thus a personal difference. But, I think that The Downward Spiral is worth keeping in your car for a good listen every once in a while.
To end on a high note, the entries that I especially agreed with were: The Prodigy, Violent Femmes, Sublime, Grateful Dead, Wallflowers, Offspring, Counting Crows, Sarah McLachlan, Green Day, Rancid, No Doubt, Arrested Development, Hole, Helmet, Beck, Pearl Jam, Oasis, and The Clash. I'm proud to say I never owned any of these albums. In fact, I only owned a handful of albums from any of the artists on the list besides the aformentioned, and none of them were mentioned in the list.
Thanks for your thoughtful list. Lots of props to you for having the balls to put some of this stuff on here. I'm just so glad you didn't put any Guns N Roses on the list. I mean, sure, the local Record Swap has about 27 copies of The Spaghetti Incident (rightly so). But, you already knew we weren't THAT stupid to still have it if we ever bought it.
Jeremy Wagner
Chicago, Illinois
Any opinions on this email?
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I think you're thinking of "Piggy".But anyway, yeah, I pretty much agree with what you said in your email, and I was personally ticked taht they put Tom Waits' Mule Variations on the list. Sure it's not as groundbreaking as Swordfishtrombones or Rain Dogs, but Waits' fans ought to realize that there was a time (a whole decade called "The Seventies") when Tom was putting out lots of albums that were great but were not a.) all that different from each other or b.) very "groundbreaking" (whatever that's supposed to mean).
Does an album suck if it's not as revolutionary as the most revolutionary thing an artist ever did? No. Is Mule Variations a song-by-song "remake" of those albums?
No!
Ripping up Mule Variations for being a remake of those two albums would be like ripping Train Song for being a remake of Anywhere I Lay My Head or Kentucky Avenue for being a remake of Ruby's Arms, or Step Right Up for being a remake of Diamonds on my Windshield, any song with hobos for being a remake of any other song with hobos, or to hit them specifically where they live, calling Big Black Mariah a remake of Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Aught Six. It's called a style, people. Artists have them!
Lighten up, Nancy!
Geez, Howard!
Wow! I didn't even know that the Beastie Boys had that many albums.
yep, they sure do. in fact, they have more than were mentioned in the list. at least they didn't say License To Ill should be done away with.
and no, im not thinking of 'Piggy'. im actually not a big fan of 'Piggy'. 'March of the Pigs' is track 4 on The Downward Spiral. 'Piggy' is track 2. I've actually been listening to this album a bit lately. my CD player busted in my car (though i do have it on CD), and i was borrowing some tapes from L.Carlson. one of which is TDS. the other 2 are some Nirvana live and rare stuff, and her GNR mix. kick ass!! (on a GNR note, i saw a really dope Appetite for Destruction shirt at the bowling alley tonight. and this dude we bowled with tonight, who i hadn't met before, had a reallllly dope GNFNR BELT BUCKLE!!! HIS DAD GAVE IT TO HIM!!!!!)
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Sorry, I thought you were saying that m.o.t.p. was on pretty hate machine. I really dig the beat and time signatures of m.o.t.p. probably my favorite NIN song for that reason.
I'd put Further Down the Spiral on their list before Pretty Hate Machine. This is not because I have any particular affection for Pretty Hate Machine (I don't own it and really can't remember what it sounds like), but god damn if you pick on Nine Inch Nails without picking on Further Down the Spiral... which I do own.
i knew he rubbed me the wrong way
I think he's got a couple good points, Phil. I think he is ugly and annoying maybe, but not stupid.
He does make good points, even if the anaolgy is a bit inappropriate.
wait, does everyone think that the bush vs. gore presidential election damaged democracy as badly as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hurt the nation? do you think we had a disaster in democracy?
i guess i don't feel that we did. i'm not saying that i like bush or anything but, to me i think that what happend in florida was more helpfull to prove to the country that every vote counts. i would just assume that that would be good for democracy.
but, then again. i didn't vote, i hate politics, i was kicked out of school for my grades, and don't think of myself as a smart person, so what do i know. i think alec baldwin plays the same part in(other than ) narrating)in all of his movies. and comparing sept. 11th and the florida voting/ballot problems is crazy.
but, thats just me.
...I really don't think that what happened in the election is really that big of a blow for democracy. Even if what happened was staged by the brothers bush, that kind of thing cannot happen on a regular basis without election reform happening. So even if it WAS crooked (regardless of how you feel about the candidates) the election was infinitesimally close -- america will move on. Hopefully we move on in part by doing things to insure that a race that close doesn't happen again, or that our voting equipment is unmistakably clear. But like i said, lots of crazy stuff has happened in american politics in our history. elections are full of crazy stuff like that, but america has survived. so we work to ensure that it doesn't happen again.but to say that it's worse for america than september 11th...? the WORST single attack on american soil (by a foreign enemy), ever? With thousands of civilian casualties and billions of dollars in physical not to mention economical damage? with pushing the country onto the brink of a new war/revenge mindset? with the added heat brought to the situation in the middle east? I personally think that mr. baldwin has his priorities out of order.
not because the election was trivial -- it wasn't, it shouldn't have happened, and we should ensure that it never happens again. but to say or imply that the election was a greater blow to america... to me that sounds like using the disaster of 9-11 to preach to the choir of people who are still bitter about the election. whether that's to motivate them, or solicit their donations, or whatever... i think it's ultimately using 9-11 for propaganda.
why not just say something like, "a disaster ALMOST as great as 9-11" or anything. I mean, whatever. i'm rambling. don't let the length of this make it sound like i'm mad or something. but i definitely think that 9-11 and it's aftermath (which is in part decided by bush, if you want to blame him for something) is a far more serious and historically significant and yes, damaging event in america's history. 9-11 will be remembered forever, whereas 80 years from now, only the nerds in high school civics classes will know about this election. they'll say, "did you know..." and giggle about how crazy it is that that kind of thing could have happened. But people will still be stunned into silence about the destruction and the audacity of 9-11. (Unless other things happen that make 9-11 look small, God please forbid.)
That's my 65 cents, anyway.
I think there is another question that should be asked:"Would Alec Baldwin be saying that it was a tragedy worse than 9-11 if Al Gore had won under similar circumstances?"
I doubt it. I realize that's the oldest non-sequitur in two-party politics, but I seriously question that he would be making the same statements if the tables were turned. That doesn't actually shed any light, logically speaking, on whether it actually was a greater tragedy, but it does illuminate the possible motives for making such a statement.
If Gore won, I doubt that Baldwin would be having a problem with it.But I do feel it was a thwarting of democracy. Partially, this is because I'm a democrat (though you'd be surprised how much I'm leaning towards the middle now that I've had a baby. I may even vote republican someday.) But mostly it is because I see that it was calculated that the votes of many people shouldn't count. I'd have been upset with either outcome. I'm an optimist. I vote. I like to think it's important that voices be heard, be counted, even if the drawbacks of the electoral college system are part of the big problem. Was the election as big a tragedy for democracy as 9-11 was for the American people? Hell no. I don't agree with his statement that it was a bigger tragedy, but I can see where it WAS... gosh. I can't use the word tragedy, that's for cataclysmic events, but it was a thwarting that just shouldn't have happened, and it shouldn't be forgotten until the problems are dealt with and resolved.
Just explaining my viewpoint more fully. With the field I worked in Pre-Anna, politics has become a pet topic of mine. I also get really mad at the redistricting here in VA that lessens the power of democratic districts... but that's another story all together.
Hi Jeremy,Thank you so much for writing back with your comments. It's very nice, and refreshing, to receive feedback on the "100 CD" list which is intelligent, coherent, and even-keeled. I know that the 25 contributors had a fun time working on the list, and that some of the entries were straight-up, while some were simply meant to provoke people to write in and submit their own material to Jaguaro.
You clearly know your shit, and you're exactly the type of person that we hoped to reach by publishing this article. Do you have any interest in contributing something to us (music reviews, essays, ?)?
Thanks again for writing -
Peter
I told them I'd be interested. Think they're serious? I think it'd be cool.
Dex: Yeah. It was a huge thwarting, and clearly a "republican victory" even if they didn't stuff the ballot boxes themselves. If real evidence ever comes out about that, it will be bigger than Watergate ever was -- because it really would have been truly a stolen presidency. And that's totally against the grain of what American Democracy is supposed to be about... so yeah, it is a huge thwarting, or like, a shame. A great shame, that the people we entrust with our nation would take such a great crap on democracy just to hold the job. To twist groucho marx' words: "I'd never elect someone president who was willing to take the job."Baggins: They sound totally serious to me. As the administrator of a few websites, it's pretty easy to tell the people who have worthwhile things to say versus the people who don't, and this guy is clearly not being sarcastic, especially with this:
" You clearly know your shit, and you're exactly the type of person that we hoped to reach by publishing this article. Do you have any interest in contributing something to us (music reviews, essays, ?)? "
That's totally genuine. You should take them up on the offer! That is super r0x0r!
There's just too much in here to keep up with but I'm keeping my Take Five and my Giant Steps and you can kiss off. Also, it's politics season around here with DC Mayor Williams winning the democratic AND the GOP primary! Dex, I thought I heard on the rdaio this morning that the VA redistricting was unconstitutional? Oh wait nevermind, it's going to VA supreme court. And for damage to deomcracy, the AP wire had a story about damages to civil liberties since a year ago. I grabbed it from tapped, and they don't link to the original. Consider this post as a touch of seasoning in the stew. One of these days I'll add some chunks of meat or a tomato or something. Or potatos. Hobo stew definitely needs potatos. Lots and lots of potatos.
but politics should probably pick up over in the apple pie entree.
Oops sorry. Here's a zany link of britney spears found-art to make up for it.
britneyunderground.com
heat vision and jack
dogmanphil, it's been around on #tron so it's well-known to anyone who's been hanging around in there for a while, but I don't think it's very widely known in general. I highly recommend it. Hilarity neverending.
this is thje guy i'm getting my new guitar from: John Covach
CHECK OUT THE MP3S!!
sorry about that! i know, preview is our friend. here is the right link:
John Covach
No credibility whatsoever. If I were you Phil, I'd back out of the deal rather than get a guitar from this guy. It's probably made out of styrofoam and duct tape. By "American" He means SOUTH AMERICAN -- it's an Bolivian-made Fender! Aieeeeeeeeee!
he teaches a class on the beatles and a class on the history of rock. i thought npu's contemporary, american, 20th century, pop class was fun!
Yeah, didn't you have some famous Chicagoan rock star come in and give a talk about songwriting or something? What was his name, Pedro Pedroson?
i'm not for sure i think i skipped that day.
this for all you guys that would come over and watch space ghost. "those brians their out there."
Help Brak
can someone please re-post that lady's photo album site. i don't know the address and i want to look at it again.
thanks
any way we can get that old photo album link back up?
I'm not sure what you're talking about...?
someone put a link up here awhile ago that was some album someone found. a few girls from the 1920-30's road trip.
jesus plays sports!
catholic supply
i like this one.
silly kid you can't tackle jesus.
and this one.
jesus is playing keep away.
This...and more
I don't think your "this" link is what you meant it to be, so I eliminated it. Please be careful about what you link to.
Hmmm... I'm really curious what I linked to in order to have it removed.Bizarro.
more news on the new album by The Fire Theft is up here.
TFT is comprised of members of Sunny Day Real Estate, if you're wondering.
here ake.
here is the trialer for TWO TOWERS!
A good critique of the news coverage the sniper has received:
no new strong bad email makes for a very disgruntled web of netfreaks nationwide... who knows what kind of damage this will cause. of course, there WAS a new 'toon. and its pretty good. with some stinkin hilarious costumes, and a few cool hidden things... angus young's suite was more of a navy blue, usually. though i have seen the brown that homestar was sportin.
'coach z, are you a poseww?'
'nah, man. im down.'
'down with last place. diIIing...'
go to this site.
its pretty funny.
i recommend the foloowing settings:
adam on drum loop 3
tommy on key loop 3
GJBeeJay on dj loop 5
Rachel on bass loop 1
Kristi on key loop 2.
Man, I used to love Night Court.RHEINHOLD? What kind of a person would name their kid RHEINHOLD???
grady told me about
great responses on the email page. shows the depth of stupidity in this world.
Hey, I have a black friend. I should totally be on that website.... (PS- Has anyone even seen my home-boy Jamahl lately?)
Must be a cultural thing, cause one summer I asked a Korean exchange student at North Park's ESL classes what us white people smelled like, and he said 'sour milk'. Course, maybe he meant us Americans.
there is a petition online to change the name of 'The Two Towers', due to its insensitive similarity to the events of 11.09.01.
yet it's ok for letterman and leno to frequently make jokes about death tolls in other countries that dwarf september 11... because that's entertainment!
Haha. It's a joke! Laugh!
[flynn(~)] dict yhbtFrom Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:
YHBT // [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: You Have Been Trolled (see {troll}, sense 1). Especially used in "YHBT. YHL. HAND.", which is widely understood to expand to "You Have Been Trolled. You Have Lost. Have A Nice Day". You are quite likely to see this if you respond incautiously to a flame-provoking post that was obviously floated as sucker bait.
[flynn(~)]
That said, I'm not calling any of you suckers.
That's okay, Eric S. Raymond and his army of super-monkeys did it for you.
The Rejection Hotlineladies... memorize this one.
Ulimate Flash Faceshow us your mug-shot.
couldnt find a female version... maybe i'm just stupid.
upload mine under the filename "gradydillenger"
ok, the features are adaptable for women and men. the facial hair threw me. i made a portrait of my roomate and saved it as "ohtom"
but some of the people that signed the thing were serious. im sure. they have to be.
Whi ch Trainspotting Character Are You?i'm spud.
MAD's Parody of the Onion.Only some of the jokes don't work very well because the folks at MAD can't use the F-word. Not that I'm complaining.
take the "do you spank your children" quiz. holy smokes thats so funny its scary. or so scary its funny....
Footnotes to History
go here!
I think that that sight is while not the funniest thing I have ever seen, definitely not crap either, I liked the sex part, huh-huh-huh. Who wants to go to the Admiral?
This is a site my roommate got as an assignment for her Humor Seminar. Check out the article first. Article
See "potter's field" or "murder in the red barn"
oh my god oh my god oh my god please say it aint so oh my god.
...we can go to the admiral.
just slide the mouse over the 'quote of the week' part on the top of this page, and you will see a funny pic. (bet it gets changed in a week, though. so act fast...)
I thought that link said ham reduction and I'm thinking, why would anyone want to reduce their ham intake?
Can never get enough ham right lukas?
When Are We Going To Stop The Scientists????
didn't anthony michael hall already do this?
and the new super-organism covered the earth and infected the urethras of all the animals on the planet.
...sorry. im just snickering at the phrase 'apocalyptic nut'. *teehee*
road trip anybody????
nevermind that. i guess i can't post a link to the page for some reason. basically what it is is the bbs at The Fire Theft's page. somebody posted that they have a show at The Troubadour listed on Ticketmaster for Jan. 23. is anybody interested in a road trip then? that would so way cool awesome dope fantastic. seeing Laura and Kelsey, AND TFT!!! who's with me?
show listing
id like a t shirt from this site...
hey wags, that is funny. i myself have a "stolenpicture" colection. whenever i end up at big parties and i dont know the people who live at the house (this is usually in az) i try and steal the funniest picture i can find on the 'fridge. i have quite a collection going. there's some stolen ones from friends as well as ones i find on the street.
hey wags, that is funny. i myself have a "stolenpicture" colection. whenever i end up at big parties and i dont know the people who live at the house (this is usually in az) i try and steal the funniest picture i can find on the 'fridge. i have quite a collection going. there's some stolen ones from friends as well as ones i find on the street.
maybe i will start adding to your collection. i don't go to too many parties though. at least not parties where i would steal from the people. i mean, im not taking a picture off kerry and jack's fridge. come to think of it, i don't think they have pictures on their fridge.
name gameit says i punch like a girl.
JEREMY MICHAEL WAGNER------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- From the Ancient Egyptian root meaning "Licker of Toads" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Characteristics jeremy michael wagner does terrible things to small animals with staplers. Personality jeremy michael wagner should never baby-sit.
Natural jeremy michael wagner collects body-parts.
Emotional jeremy michael wagner detests happy people.
Character jeremy michael wagner isn't fond of thinking.
Physical jeremy michael wagner punches like a little girl.
Mental jeremy michael wagner shouldn't be left alone with animals.
Motivation jeremy michael wagner will do anything for sex
Little Brother?
I met the guy they talk about, Steve Mann, kinda creepy.
ok ok ok i know youv'e probably already watched way too many animated turkey e-cards, but this right here is by far the best thanksgiving flash EVER
its only funny if you hate him as much as some people do. i don't. that's as far as i go re: talking about politics.
wether you hate him or not... the part where the explosions come and the part where he winks are soooo good.
http://charlotte49ers.ocsn.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/mandic_ivana00.htmlok so I'm no good at this spiffy make it a link stuff, but cut and paste this link into your browser for the best damn sports name ever!!
wow
also, go here
If you're not getting Johanna's mass list mailings, you should go here.
I need to get a website set up so I can get a girlfriend. Baggins you should try that. :)
Baggins, when I get my digital camera, we'll set you up with a spoof website like that kids -- and record a little mp3 greeting that will play when people load the site. You should wear your aviators and have a cigarette hanging out of your mouth.
If this doesn't brighten your day, you're dead.
All I got was a puzzle piece :<
It's one of those "Single White Female" files.
You certainly made Anna's day. Sht thinks that's hysterical (and so do I). What the heck IS a swf file anyway?
shockwave flash
No, I am not on the FBI's most wanted list. (not for anything listed there anyway)
I was meaning to call you and tell you to give those kids back, but keep forgeting, it was either that or see if I could get you arrested for a few days.
wow, dude! that was crazy! how the hell did you find michael, baggins?
it was from mulletsgalore.com. holy funny batman. hey, abaddon. when are we gonna get together and jam? i've been playing more recently. just rocked the bass til my carpal tunnel set in.
"If you are going to be my girlfriend please don't dump me after I like you. " -- this quote rules. also, if you click play on the thing on the page, you can get his recording going in like a round fashion... pretty dope.
i cant get into homestar!!! im going crazy. i want ... ok. it works now.
BLARG! BLARG! BLARG!(offensive...? with out a doubt! funny...? sadly, i must admit... yes.)
i am really excited to see my youngest brother this weekend.here is a really cool article my hometown paper did on him and how he is a musical genius. notice the mis-spelling of radiohead as "Radio Head."
Well, Radiohead took its name from the Talking Heads song "Radio Head", so it's not such an unforgiveable mistake.
I find it very amusing that I can rarely link to the posts on here because I only get online at school and they have massive filters. Ulyssess last post was blocked by the "tasteless" wizard.
i am hoping you are referring to www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com and not my hometown newspaper's cute lil' story on my brother....
The Art-o-Mat
i think that this would crack you up tissuesan
Yatta
this is fun. you can crush and recycle your spammail here. potatoland
A review and mp3 download on salon.
Cory Doctorow, writer and publisher of boingboing has released his new novel under the creative commons license. This means you can get it for free in several different formats and read it and print and give it away to your friends. The novel is called Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and I have no idea if it's any good. I did like his story 0wnz0red and he's also got some stuff published on scifi.com.
William Gibson has a blog. It has been linked to by about eight million other sites by now, so I figured, why not one more.
DC, the fake city.
"nipple scarfs"
Online Rubik's CubeUnfortunately you can't peel the stickers off, you'll have to go with the Optimal Rubik's Cube Solver
woot
from the manufacturer if these don't work. I wonder if I can figure out how to diagram my city's exit off I-90?
wags-this weeks strong bad e-mail could quite possibly be the best ever.
someone needs to ger erik anderson's ass in front of a computer post- haste.
An interview with peter jackson et al where he talks about TTT and some of the changes made to the storyline.
Lemonade Stand
Can a computer read your mind?
I used to play Lemonade Stand on an Apple II (lo-res graphics baybee) for HOURS ON END. That and Snack Attack.
I used to play a lot of Taipan on the Apple ][... and Conan, and Skyfox... and DUNG BEETLES. Why isn't there a Free Software implementation of Dung Beetles?
keep on poking the bunny
it looked cool, so i registered.
cool games
duh- he removed all of the cards... easy to win that way. Stupid cheating computer
yeah, amy. did you read all the replies from the morons who said he got it right less than 100%? or thought there was some device that tracked pupil dilation, or something. lol... monitors as input devices... what will the morons hope for next?
the many uses of the word "FUCK." (dont click on it if you're not a fan of the word "FUCK.")
I can't believe this is what passes for the North Korean government's official hompage.You can read more about the site and its maintainer here.
explodingdogThe maintainer takes various "titles" from vistors and draws a picture based on how he interprets it. Some people may think it's stupid; I suppose it depends on whether or not you like the drawing style and sometimes crude humor (which I do).
Some of my favorites:
i want to know you more
sometimes i stay up really late being bored
city could not stop
yesterday it was just a box
it looks like rainCheck it out.
i used to have an explodingdog shirt. but I lost it.Draw me a picture of THAT!
web collageits almost creepy.
from the web collage website:"This is what the Internet looks like.
WebCollage is a program that creates collages out of random images found on the Web. More images are being added to the collage about once a minute, so this page will reload itself periodically. Clicking on one of the images in the collage will take you to the page on which it was found.
It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned."
crrrrrrrrazy.
There's actually a web collage screensaver for linux. It's written by the same guy as that webpage, JWZ (Jamie W. Zawinski).
they look like a fun bunch.
But I can't remember: The Prejudice Against Country People