godthedog

rolling stones - 'exile on main street' and 'let it bleed'. the former i only owned on tape for years, & left it at home. the latter i sold a while ago. i missed them both.

the high point of this thread. nostalgic favorites from associations with girls long forgotten edition: 1. sarah mclachlan - "fumbling towards ecstasy" 2. green day - "good riddance (time of your life)" 3. this mortal coil - "another day" 4. r.e.m. - "losing my religion" 5. death in vegas - "all that glitters"

the line is long. oh well. serves me right for asking for a thread & taking a nap right afterwards. i'm in.

do it. my advising appointment isn't till 1:30, and i have nothing to do in the meantime.

karaoke edition: 1. bonnie tyler - "total eclipse of the heart" 2. prince - "kiss" 3. beatles - "twist and shout" 4. rick astley - "never gonna give you up" 5. rolling stones - "satisfaction"

clapton unplugged (revised) signe - 5.5 before you accuse me - 6 hey hey - 5.5 tears in heaven - 8 lonely stranger - 7 nobody knows you when you're down & out - 8 layla - 8 running on faith - 8.75 walking blues - 9.5 alberta - 6.5 san francisco bay blues - 7.75 malted milk - 8 old love - 7.5 rollin' and tumblin' - 8 something clicked in the last month or so & i've really warmed up to more of it.

He got here before I did. Hater. don't hate on the haters. 5 is a middle-of-the-road rating for me, it's average. i think "purple rain" is an above-average song with a pretty good melody that's hampered by production that's too bombastic & shimmery, and i don't think the substance of the song justifies its inordinate length. it got the "you can't always get what you want"-type HEARTFELT EPIC POP SONG CLIMAX TO A SPRAWLINGLY GREAT ALBUM treatment, and the material just doesn't hold up terribly well to that approach. if you compare it to another heartfelt epic pop song like, say, "hey jude" its shortcomings are more obvious. i think it would've been a more effective closer if it was more focused, spare & tight, and didn't try so hard to be climactic. i have the same problems with "you can't always get...", only i think "purple rain" is a better-written song than the stones' epic number.

prince - 'purple rain' let's go crazy - 9 take me with u - 5 the beautiful ones - 5 computer blue - 6.5 darling nikki - 8 when doves cry - 9 i would die 4 u - 6 baby i'm a star - 6.5 purple rain - 5.5 i'll catch hell for that one. oh well. rolling stones - 'let it bleed' gimmie shelter - 8 love in vain - 5.5 country honk - 9 live with me - 6.5 let it bleed - 7 midnight rambler - 6.5 you got the silver - 7 monkey man - 6 you can't always get what you want - 3 yes, i think "country honk" is the best song on that album. i love it.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, MAN!!! THAT'S SUCH AN AWESOME STATEMENT THE CAPS CAN BARELY CONTAIN IT!!! seriously: congrats. have fun. i finally went to the village vanguard last night for the first time. don't even remember who i saw, but it was a 10-piece band with a boppish pre-'kind of blue' sound. i don't particularly like that sound, but they won me over after about 4 minutes with pure musicianship and played a fantastic set. played off each other really well, adding nice little accents while someone was soloing or seguing a solo into a bunch of dueling fills between saxophones. i went home happy.

ADDRESS: Danica Mckellar 6212 Banner Dr Los Angeles, CA 90068

it just occurred to me that said picture looks disturbingly like heather matarazzo's yearbook photo from 'welcome to the dollhouse'. and they both evolved into women i desperately want to have sex with.

Consider our recent AIM conversation nervous flirting on my part. I am the Kevin Arnold to your Winnie Cooper. so eventually we'll find ourselves making out in a barn in the middle of nowhere one rainy night, then i'll move to paris to study art & we'll never see each other again. cheers. i found myself in a situation like that with a girl not too long ago. except we'd only met a month ago, the barn was a hotel room in nashville, and she did come to see me after i moved up to new york. where we proceeded to make out some more. and i found the most randomly grouped picture ever on imdb that's composed of danica mckellar, mickey rooney, garret morris and salma hayek.

ben allison & medicine wheel - 'riding the nuclear tiger' saw these guys at birdland a couple months ago and they killed. fans of mingus would probably want to check this out, as there's HEAVY mingus influence going on in the approach: the bandleader is a fantastic bassist, there's a focus on playing with rhythms & pulse, and there's a huge emphasis on composition. i like it overall, but i have a lot of the same problems with it that i have with mingus: the approach is a little too tightly constructed, not leaving enough wiggle room for the musicians to take charge and really explore things. a little too snug & catchy & easy to listen to. i like to be challenged more. i may write up a review of it later if my motivation doesn't get lost in all the papers i'm supposed to be working on.

speaking of advice on life, have you thought about your prospects for higher education? there are some really wonderful options out there that you should know about. i think the only guy who came out of this thing looking good was loss. but maybe i just think that because i'm secretly attracted to him, so he always looks good.

fucking christ. i am so sick of this "holier than thou" shit this board has come to stand for, and i'm not fucking putting up with it anymore. i've been a regular contributor to this board for two years and maybe six people actually know who i am. and apparently one of those people thinks so "highly" of me that he brings it upon himself to start a thread about how nobody likes me. maybe he finds it funny, i don't know. maybe other people will see this thread and find it funny that nobody likes me, i don't know. maybe if these other people had bothered to read for actual CONTENT in this retarded fake community and not worried so much about popularity or asserting their own superiority to other posters, they'd see that i've actually made a lot of solid contributions that have tried (apparently in vain) to raise this board above the stupid, asinine name-calling and into some actual thought-provoking discussion. maybe if this board WAS about actual thought-provoking discussion i actually WOULD be liked on this board. well if i'm not liked on this board, the problem isn't with me; it's with the board. if this community doesn't want to appreciate me, then i don't want to be a part of it. nobody will miss my columns, since nobody read them anyway. nobody will miss my wit, since nobody understood it anyway. nobody will miss the voice of reason i tried to assert, since nobody heard it in the first place. i'll be fine, i'll get by; i'm used to people not knowing how to handle how smart i am & picking on me or ignoring me for it, i've been dealing with it from my peers since i was twelve. you people aren't even my peers. i can't believe i even considered any of you to be my peers, much less my friends. i guess i was stupid believing that friendship could be based on mutual respect and sharing thoughts, when in reality it's only based on shared putting-down of other people. well i don't need it, and i won't have any of it. i try hard not to bring up my personal life here, but i had a pretty fucking hard day today; a girl i know from st louis, who i've been crazy about for 3 months and is the first girl in two years that i've been able to really open myself up to, had sex with some random guy last night who she doesn't even know, and my so-called "friends" from class didn't think to invite me to a movie that everybody was going to tonight (who, by the way, wouldn't even know each other if it weren't for me since i was the only one who took the initiative to get phone numbers and get people together). so i came here to unwind, and i start to feel okay again, when i see THIS shit. and what really hurts is not so much that someone in particular said it; what really hurts is that ANYBODY here could've been the one to say it, since nobody likes me. in short: you won't have godthedog to kick around anymore. it's a bad habit i picked up from aol chatroom days. perpetuated by a phone survey job i got a couple years ago where you had to type as fast as you could in order to record answers to open-ended questions and not worry about capitalizing.

just for that, i'm buying a tindersticks album tomorrow.

no.

Everyone can learn from this thread. i don't object to the content. just the form it's placed in. if the topic had a title like "recommend me some tindersticks" and made a point to mention you in the post, it'd be cool. but if he makes it clear that the thread is made for you and only you (as directly stated in the "hey incandenza" title), then it shouldn't be public domain. can't have it both ways without incurring the wrath of picky little shits like myself. it would backfire. since no one's ever started a thread about me before, you'd only succeed in making me feel special.

this is what the pm function is for.

i was thinking this too. i'm shocked that something like this wasn't in effect before the year 2004, especially in the south.

that's pretty damn incredible. if you keep going tomorrow at that rate, you'll tie my personal record of 10 movies in 48 hours. i think i still remember all of them too. salesman shadow of a doubt passion through a glass darkly to have and to have not kwaidan stolen kisses stagecoach seconds as tears go by yup.

prince - 'purple rain' flaming lips - 'the soft bulletin' frente! - 'marvin the album'

the "amazing final shots" edition: 1. ran 2. magnolia 3. the third man 4. chimes at midnight 5. grey gardens

the "isn't a life term worse" argument makes no sense on its own grounds anyway, because the whole basis of argument against the death penalty is that it's cruel & unusual punishment. if the death penalty is cruel and unusual and life is worse, then why should a prisoner get life either? and if you want the punishment to be worse, why the hell should the death penalty even be an issue? this is true. but frankly, the purpose of the law is ultimately justice, not making the victims' families feel better. if a guy killed my goddaughter, i'd be very reassured if someone chopped off the protruding parts of his body and fed them to him till he choked to death on them, but that doesn't make it just. the law is supposed to be impartial and rational, and the views of the victims' familes, while very understandable and human, are usually irrational and inherently biased. this isn't to say we can't take them into account; but the law is there for keeping society safe and orderly, not for revenge.

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