Edwin MacPhisto

That was hilarious. Two onside kicks returned for touchdowns by Breazell. I've never seen one, much less two.

Shock of shocks, my local CD store actually had a copy. Whaddaya know. It's great so far, and makes me want to drink good whiskey.

34-31! Go Hoos! I couldn't have been happier to be wrong in Bored's contest. Chris Long was a fucking beast today, and Marques Hagans, despite fucking up severely twice, otherwise had a career day. Wali Lundy sets the all-time ACC touchdown record at 52, and I head into the off-season happy.

I do that in my living room for free, though.

I can never find that or songs from it anywhere. Worth just ordering?

Great song. I don't think anything else on Closing Time is quite as good. "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You" is nice too. I've only heard the albums up to Small Change, so I can't speak on anything that came out between that and Swordfishtrombones, but Small Change is my fave out of the first few. Good blend of sad-sack piano songs and spastic jazzy spoken-word stuff. The first two songs, "Tom Traubert's Blues" and "Step Right Up," should give you a good representation of what the whole album is like.

Same story that Cal and Texas got the years previous. It's nothing new. Keith Jackson and Dan Fouts calling the Rose Bowl ought to be pretty damn good.

My favorite part about this game is that it's hardly a game at all.

I like it better with Rose McGowan.

Kotzenjunge and Agent of Oblivion

It's a goodie. Fine album, too. I see several people posting mix cd playlists, and while I'm not going to do that, I am going to encourage anyone who's ever stumped on how to open a mix to just use Bowie's "Queen Bitch." Tried it out this week and it's stellar for a starter.

I don't know. The Miami corners are good but they can get burned by smart playcalls and a big throw once or twice a game, as we saw in the Georgia Tech and Virginia games. Russell would have given them that a few times. Without Russell to provide an occasional deep threat, you think LSU is going to be able to establish much of a running game? I don't even know who the LSU back-up is.

He's one of my favorites, and I think the same could be said of a lot of the people who post here. Rain Dogs is my favorite and probably all-time top 10 stuff, but don't forget Bone Machine. Glad to see someone else likes Real Gone as much as I do; it's a bit overlong, but competes with the best stuff he's put out. I even like the pre-Island years stuff lately. Been listening to Small Change a lot.

I'm so tempted to go the show in D.C. It's either the night before or after the one at Sonar. I don't know that I can justify $50 on them, though.

He was really, really good. I felt like his character was a bit underwritten and had to work through the film's most obvious, hamfisted lines, but he handled it awfully well. He was especially good during the various assassination attempts and the scenes with Geoffrey Rush's character--see the movie and you'll see what I mean. Really glad to see him get another good dramatic role and follow up on the promise he showed in Black Hawk Down, after the nonsense that was The Hulk. Wasn't he a ridiculous comedian before he ascended to worldwide fame? An Australian guy I met a few months ago said his becoming a big-time acclaimed actor was almost as hilarious as Jamie Foxx doing it.

Of course, we LSU-pickers did that before they decided JaMarcus Russell wasn't playing. Miami should win in a walk unless they really play dead, even more so than usual.

I'll be watching, and surely giving you guys a recap that is interesting only to me. I didn't realize till now that this year's Music City Bowl is a "rematch" of last year's Bored Bowl--me repping Virginia, Vern for Minnesota. I'd be there myself if not for the noon start and insanely expensive Nashville hotels.

The only really cheesy scene is one in which Eric Bana is railing his wife under hyper-expressive lighting and sweating like he just ran a marathon in twenty minutes, while imagining the murders of the Israeli athletes at the '72 Olympics. And that's just so out-there and at odds with the rest of the movie's tone that it's kind of worth seeing too. Everything else is deadly serious and often very fucked up.

Well, I was hoping the intrigue would make you just go see it. It's the best movie Spielberg's done in a long while. No dinosaurs, but not everything can be Jurassic Park. In all seriousness, it is an anxious, gritty espionage thriller spurred along by great performances from about 8 actors, who are all so good that they barely even need to speak to get across what they're feeling. Any one of them could get nominated for an Oscar and I wouldn't be surprised. Exciting and terrifying and twisty on the most basic of narrative levels. It's also a tremendously bracing look at the actors and actions of terrorism, reprisals against terrorism, and the undercurrents that have spurred on Israel vs. Palestine for years. There's an extended sequence out at the ranch of a character named Papa (played by Michael Lonsdale, a big-time French character actor who you might know as the guy with the little samurai figurines who helps out DeNiro and Jean Reno and Ronin), that is probably my favorite 10 minutes of film this year. Basically, if you like movies, go.

That combo is gugly. I like their offensive moxie so far, but the Ducks are going to have to settle down if they're going to move on OU.

Maggie Lizer was hilarious. The dog in the garbage can actually made me spit beverage everywhere. Foolish me for drinking. I was high as balls too, but I bet it would have happened anyway.

Because the White Stripes have recorded the same fucking song over and over and over again, beyond the ridiculous AC/DC levels of redundancy, and they get praised for it. I could record the same exact bullshit over and over, but I wouldn't get praised for it. Hell, half of my band's songs sound alike aside from two parts of a riff here and there, so why aren't we topping the charts? Oh, I forgot: our drummer isn't some robotic piece of shit sister of an overrated indie fuckhead that doesn't know what the sun actually looks like. I'm not sure I see that. I've heard little of the latest album, but the only time they've ever really rehashed a song to my knowledge was on Elephant's "There's No Home For You Here," which was a clear (inferior) take on "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground." And the former wasn't even a single.

I managed 1240. Hitting two mines at once really sets you up nicely.

Terrible in every way.

I wouldn't call the album difficult (though "Within You Without You" is the lamest sitar song in the band's catalogue) and I do like it. But, it isn't as good as the albums you've pointed out. Much of its reputation must be attributed to it being that this was the time the Beatles were the most visibly 'artistic', dabbling in all the eastern stuff and very consciously classing themselves as innovators and great people--the cover art does that. I think, at the time, it was a greater mindfuck sonically than Rubber Soul and Revolver, and much more accessible than any similarly vital albums (you might call Pet Sounds one, and you and a few others have referred to Their Satanic Majesties). My dad, for example, remembers laying on a deck listening to "A Day In the Life." He doesn't have similar experiences with "God Only Knows." Really, the praise for Sgt. Pepper's is praise for "A Day In the Life," which remains one of the greatest songs I've ever heard. I'll also point out that I think most of the "greatest albums ever" polls that were a big trend maybe 2 or 3 years ago always seemed to put Revolver at the top. Maybe the tides are changing. And I agree on Abbey Road. They peaked with that, they stopped, and they'll always have a near-perfect legacy for it.