Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones! - Page 118

ThurgreedMarshall · 09-26-2005, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
so I was on a six hour drive this weekend and turned the music over to 3 young men who played solid rap. I found out I really like Biggie Smalls- great voice. so today I've been trying to figure out what CD to buy. I know with dead guys you need to be careful of the post-death "clean out the recording studio" CDs where record company publishes a bunch or crap the artist thought wasn't good enough to publish- but here it looks like they were all released after death.

Was he just coming up when he died? Any CD(s) recommendations?

Ha. Buy all of them. The "Life after Death" title was a follow-up to the Ready to Die album and both were made before he died. He was just obsessed with death.

Ready to Die is the first.
Life After Death is the Second.
Born Again was after his death, I think. But I don't own it.

TM

Hank Chinaski · 09-26-2005, 03:14 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Ha. Buy all of them. The "Life after Death" title was a follow-up to the Ready to Die album and both were made before he died. He was just obsessed with death.

Ready to Die is the first.
Life After Death is the Second.
Born Again was after his death, I think. But I don't own it.

TM

thanks.

I was going by release dates on some unofficial site I found. It had Ready to Die released in '97, but it looks like that was just wrong. I forgot that you can't trust all "facts" you read on the internet.

Flinty_McFlint · 09-26-2005, 03:15 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Me??? Some of my best imaginary friends/internet lovers are monkeys.

Monkeys? Plural? I could forgive you and your human fetish, but really, this hurts. Unless they were female monkeys, then that's kind of cool.

Not Bob · 09-26-2005, 03:15 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Um. Duh. I've been a chick for long enough to realize this.

Sorry. I get paid to re-state the obvious, so sometimes it slips (heh) into my posts.

Flinty_McFlint · 09-26-2005, 03:16 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
thanks.

I was going by release dates on some unofficial site I found. It had Ready to Die released in '97, but it looks like that was just wrong. I forgot that you can't just accept thing you read on the internet.

Stick to Juice Newton, old man.

Hank Chinaski · 09-26-2005, 03:17 PM

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Stick to Juice Newton, old man.

Restraining order from '92.

Do those expire?

ltl/fb · 09-26-2005, 03:19 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Restraining order from '92.

Do those expire?

In all places I have lived, yes. But I have never lived anywhere in Michigan.

Hank Chinaski · 09-26-2005, 03:20 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
In all places I have lived, yes. But I have never lived anywhere in Michigan.

Were you allowed to bother your crushes when they crossed state lines?

ltl/fb · 09-26-2005, 03:24 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Were you allowed to bother your crushes when they crossed state lines?

They learned to hide locations when they moved. And I wouldn't call them "crushes."

taxwonk · 09-26-2005, 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I had completely forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder! And nice touch of implying that there are various unidentified people who would really prefer me dead. Charming.

The difference was that ironweed and Ollie are funny about it, and you were just viciously, yet tediously, lashing out.

ETA see, like this isn't funny either; it's just pissy.

Disagree. It was funny. Very darkly funny, in a dinner with Hannibal lecter way, but funny nonetheless.

baltassoc · 09-26-2005, 03:29 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I wouldn't mind hearing about some of the festival highlights, either.

In no particular order, here were my thoughts after some thinking about it, and some of which with RT may(will) disagree:

Arcade Fire: like Lyle Lovette's Large Band playing the Sugarcubes with a touch of Cirque de Soleil and maybe the Mekons. Incredible show, probably would be even better in a more reasonably sized venue.

Robert Randolf: Yeah he's overhyped , but the man can put on a show. At one point he and his drummer traded instruments and he played drums like I've never seen before (the drummer held his own on the steel guitar, too). His set was unfortunately plagued with technical difficulties, which obviously had him flustered by the end of the set, and will probably keep it off the air.

Wilco: To quote the guy jumping through the crowd near us: "If the next song rocks any harder than the last one, it may kill me." He survived, but barely. Seemed to be the single biggest crowd of the show, although we didn't stay for Coldplay (who were playing without an alternate headliner).

Lyle Lovett: The man is becoming something of the BB King of his generation, the consummate showman.

Buddy Guy: He's back. Looking and sounding better than I remember.

Bob Mould: No Husker Du, but he still rocked and was very tight.

Robert Earl Keen: Solid show, but not remarkable.

Rilo Kiley: Should have gone to see Brave Combo instead. It may have just been too hot, but I thought they were very flat. RT liked a lot, though.

John Prine: Unfortunately, his voice sounded like crap, but he's still a great songwriter. Following in Townes Van Zant's footsteps.

Lucinda Williams: Heard some of this set in passing, and she just didn't seem on. We watched Robert Earl Keen instead.

Keane: Sucked. We were passing time until the next set.

Jet: Sucked. Ditto.

Oasis: Heard part of the set as we left. Very not impressed.

Biggest disappointment was the complete lack of an attempt by ACL to control the dust, which was a really huge problem. I'm still coughing up crap. It wouldn't have killed them to spray down the grounds Saturday night.

Edited because I finally figured out how to spell consummate.

taxwonk · 09-26-2005, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
1. I'm too old to be out seeing bands 'til 1:00 on Sundays.

2. Tipping your bartender is, of course, to be encouraged. But it can have unintended results. Like ordering a vodka soda as a slow-down move, but ending up with a tall glass of Ketel One on ice.

3. Destroyer would be a good band, but I can't deal with the singer's voice full-time. He's fine on an occasional New Pornographers vocal, but when it's just him...

4. The New Pornographers are a very deserving unofficial band of the Fashion Board. Very fun show. Maybe I'll transfer my school boy crush from Georgia girl to Neko Case.

You might get some mileage from that. I think she's from Tacoma originally, so at least she'll be in the same corner of the world on holidays.

taxwonk · 09-26-2005, 03:34 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Stonyfield Farm Organic Low Fat Yogurt comes in Vanilla, a normal flavor, and Banilla, a disgusting banana-vanilla concoction. The package is almost exactly the same, except for the B, and the fact that the accent color on the Vanilla packaging is a creamy pale yellow, while the accent color on the Banilla packaging is a creamy mid-tone yellow. These items invariable are stocked immediately next to one another on the refrigerator shelf in the store.

That's just wrong. They should really put a monkey on the package or something.

Are you sure that would really be enough for the monkey is the aisle?

Incidentally, their caramel underground is the bee's knee's over granny smith apples.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 09-26-2005, 03:35 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
I'm still coughing up crap.

Enough already about you and RTs' sex life, for cryin' out loud.

taxwonk · 09-26-2005, 03:36 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

Warning to the citizens of Chicago, I'm headed in your direction.

Cool. Let me know when. We'll see if we can't put a serious hurt on a bottle of Hendrick's.