Music for the Masters
 

Oh, come on.

Guys need seduction music.

Women just need to say "okay".

Music for the Masters
 

Hmmm. Maybe you should try the Rebirth.

As for Marley, I concur with Hank. Atticus may forever associate Marley with the underwashed pudgy white kid down the hall freshman year with the 17 foot bong and the horribly failed attempt at dreadlocks who was so earnest about Marley that he almost cried about the injustice of editing out the solo section of Stir It Up for Legends. But show me a woman who can't get busy to Burnin' and I'll show you a woman with no soul.

Hanibal Smith Hand-Towels?
 

Not quite. But is there a better way to start the day than with Mr. T Soap-on-a-Roap?

http://us.st8.yimg.com/store4.yimg.c..._1775_28550153

I pity the fool who doesn't get clean with Mr. T!

aV

Fuck Hitler
 

I am actually quite surprised that "Fuck the Nazis" is considered swearing in the UK. particularly at children. Isn't that the chorus of a bunch of school songs over there?

BR(tired, but obligatory: "but we didn't start anything!" "yes you did, you invaded Poland")C

It is very cool that Churchill's parrot is still alive, though. It's the next milenium and Churchill's parrot is still shrieking "fuck the nazis" at random passers by. Facts like that make the world a more interesting and amusing place in which to be alive.

edited to catch up and tell Atticus: Elephant! Still about the only thing I've ever liked Emma Thompson in. All the orange - it wasn't good style, but it sure as hell was style.

Music for the Masters
 

Until this thread, that was who I pictured was Atticus.

Starfish Stretching
 

Wait, Rush the man or Rush the band?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Jan24.html

Judith Martin becomes my sock puppet re: weddings and marriages (i.e.: anyone concerned about the sanctity of the institution of marriage should be far more alarmed by the couples currently practicing it than those aspiring to do so, and other miscellanous gripes about greed, "personalization," etc.).

"Those who want to protect the institution of marriage from mockery should shift their fearful attention from would-be marriage partners to weddings. It is not the couples yearning for marriage that scare Miss Manners, but those who are actively planning to enter into it.

After all, nobody can figure out why this person wants to marry that person or that sort. Despite centuries spent pondering the curious phenomenon of people choosing marriage partners who don't suit onlookers, it remains unfathomable.

But the current practices common in the ceremonial expression of marriage indicate clearly how most people regard the institution itself. As negligible, Miss Manners would say.

This attitude is by no means limited to people who decide that they do not need to get married in order to cohabit and/or to have children. It can be read in the choices made by brides and bridegrooms who are not only getting married but making a huge fuss over doing so.

Naturally it is not the weddings that they consider negligible. On the contrary, these are deemed to be of such enormous importance that a couple can easily put a year's planning and all of their financial resources (and then some) into producing a series of wedding events. They cherish -- and do everything they can to foster -- the belief that such a momentous festival requires everyone fortunate enough to be allowed to witness it to make major commitments of time, attention and money.

And they insist upon observing what they are pleased to call traditions, the foremost of which seems to be choosing what they want to receive as presents.

It is just the getting married part -- the actual ceremony that marks the legal and often religious act of marrying -- that is treated as malleable. The wedding has become a great blast of a party, which is stuck with a slow start when everyone is expected to curb the fun and pay attention. Symbolizing the relative importance of the activities, brides now dress for the parties that follow, in strapless ball dresses, rather than donning the often impossibly elaborate but still somewhat modest wedding dresses that long symbolized the dignity of the occasion.

Increasingly, the marriage doesn't even really take place at the wedding, where a marriage previously legalized may be a mere reenactment serving as the excuse for a big wedding. (By that standard, brides who postpone getting married until after the birth of a child, because of the importance of fitting into the wedding dress, seem positively sentimental.)

To whatever extent possible, the ceremony has become part of the couple's pageantry of personal display. As they inevitably declare, "We want this to be about us." So begins the reworking to "personalize it" with their own script. Not infrequently, this includes jokes and all-too-private reminiscences. Officiants, too, contribute their share in the spirit of undercutting the solemnity to make the ceremony entertaining. And guests recognize this with their applause.

Miss Manners acknowledges that this approach to weddings is consistent with the society's belief that vows and loyalties are binding only in regard to the amount of entertainment they continue to yield.

The idea of channeling the couple's commitment into the traditions of the society has been reversed, so that weddings have become opportunities for them to show off to society.

She wishes them well. Just don't expect her to shed the traditional tear over the significance of it all. "

Music for the Masters
 

I beg to differ.

I also do not have Dido nor do I have Sarah.

I would like to do a shout out however to all the lesbians who are into doing the seduction thing who might be lurking on this list. Country music isn't gonna cut it ladies.

Music for the Masters
 

Excellent call on Rebirth. Annually, they are in my top five shows of the year. They are a bit too high energy to make the night list, though.

Music for the Masters
 

In order to deal with all of the possible permutations and combinations in my already overtaxed and feeble mind, I am forced to over-generalize. Thus, I group by target.

For purposes of this topic, I think of you as an honorary guy.

The Office
 

They're coming out with an American version. Wonderful. Hopefully it will be just as good as Coupling*.

*which redeemed itself last night in a pretty funny episode (the UK version)

Music for the Masters
 

Bilmore, please. I don't own any seduction music. This is cause I never seduce anyone. I'm very lazy.

Music for the Masters
 

1. FNM is inherently unsexy.

2. You can't have sex to Marley after college.

3. I think "Easy" is a Willie Nelson tune made famous by Lionel Ritchie.

4. Trent Reznor escpes me. People keep telling me he's a genius, and I guess there's something unique about his music, but i just cannot listen to more then three of his tunes. There's something missing from his music and I can't put my finger on exactly what it is.

Great Moments in History
 

You went to school in the wrong town. It certainly was mentioned in my Boston-area schooling. Our dioramarama in fact had such a diorama, moving at actual speed when the heat lamp was turned on. The toothpick guys, remarkably, stood as if their feet were stuck in glue.

Oh, the humanity!

Starfish Stretching
 

Although I view 2112 as a crime against humanity, I do not wish any anal rape on Geddy Lee, mostly because he was involved in that Bob and Doug McKenzie movie which gave me so much amusement during the my early teens.

I may have overreacted in wishing anal rape on Limbaugh. As long as he loses his career, I'm satisfied.