Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones! - Page 121

ThurgreedMarshall · 09-26-2005, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Yes. Same thing with NBA

Disagree on this one. If you can get within 20 rows of the court, it's much better being there for an NBA game.

TM

09-26-2005, 05:37 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

Speaking of Biggie smalls, I heard on Howard (my source for news) that Lil Kim is in the slammer and getting some bad treatment. What is she in for?

Shape Shifter · 09-26-2005, 05:37 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
All that factory stuff was supposed to be a little off. I like Velvets + Nico.

I like it too, except for the parts with Nico.

09-26-2005, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
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.

Do nto tell me you did not see the Black Crowes. They have been religious experience good this year. Consistently.

Gattigap · 09-26-2005, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Disagree on this one. If you can get within 20 rows of the court, it's much better being there for an NBA game.

TM

2. For NBA (and college hoops for that matter), TV angles seem to make the court look like its 3 times actual size. Seeing it IRL emphasizes how big those fuckers really are, and how little room there is to manuver.

Not Bob · 09-26-2005, 05:44 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Speaking of Biggie smalls, I heard on Howard (my source for news) that Lil Kim is in the slammer and getting some bad treatment. What is she in for?

I didn't realize that she reported to serve her sentence yet -- anyway, Kim was convicted of perjury, and got a year. As I learned yesterday (in an article about how Kim and others think that the perjury charge is a part of a general campaign by the police against hip-hop artists), the charge arose out of a shoot-out at a radio station between some of her friends and some friends of Foxy Brown-- she testified that she was not aware that two of her friends were present.

robustpuppy · 09-26-2005, 05:45 PM

That I broke one of my own cardinal rules, and I actually purchased something from a business that calls itself a "shoppe."

I am awash in shame.

J. Fred Muggs · 09-26-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Speaking of Biggie smalls, I heard on Howard (my source for news) that Lil Kim is in the slammer and getting some bad treatment. What is she in for?

Inability to use Google. Better watch out.

09-26-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Girl #1: Hey, check out that guy in the wheelchair.
Girl #2: He's dancing and he's got no legs!

--Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, Astoria

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/002798.html

My good man, do you really think youi are going to get SEbby and my wealthy looking asses out to QUeens for a non US Open event? Are we slumming?

Replaced_Texan · 09-26-2005, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Do nto tell me you did not see the Black Crowes. They have been religious experience good this year. Consistently.

We did not see the Black Crowes. We heard a few of their songs as we were walking back to our car, though.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 09-26-2005, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
That I broke one of my own cardinal rules, and I actually purchased something from a business that calls itself a "shoppe."

I am awash in shame.

Tangentically, I've always thought that 2 Live Crew should have named their song "The Fuck Shoppe" instead of "The Fuck Shop".

robustpuppy · 09-26-2005, 05:50 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Tangentically, I've always thought that 2 Live Crew should have named their song "The Fuck Shoppe" instead of "The Fuck Shop".

Coincidentally, my purchase was from The Fuck Shoppe.

09-26-2005, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Yes. Same thing with NBA

Yes. Same thing with NHL

I fondly remember a trip to New Jersey in my friend's limo sometime in the nineties. We drank champagne in the back bc we are classy and her dad hooked us up and rocked out to bad pop music. Then we got out of the car and it was as cold as it ever gets in the lovely Meadowlands region. After a series of trips to the bathroom to stand under the handdryer and defrost, we eventually jsut stayed in the bathroom as it was the only warm place. Disgusting, but warm. Thats how cold it was. Then we said, why are we here and left.

Football- the most overrated sport ever. How Buffalo has a team, I will never understand. Boring and freezing arent exactly things I look for as a fan.

Shape Shifter · 09-26-2005, 05:55 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
My good man, do you really think youi are going to get SEbby and my wealthy looking asses out to QUeens for a non US Open event? Are we slumming?

Looks like sebby may have already made his palooza to NY without you:

Guy #1: Dude, that chick is hot.
Guy #2: Man, I think I got a roll of duct tape somewhere with her name on it.

--23rd & West Side Highway

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/002780.html

Gattigap · 09-26-2005, 05:56 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
That I broke one of my own cardinal rules, and I actually purchased something from a business that calls itself a "shoppe."

I am awash in shame.

Look, there are only so many places that both sell adequate peanut brittle and are nearby when the impulse strikes. Don't beat yourself up about it.