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Well, I think the Miranda Rights is only if somebody's placed under arrest...and nobody was placed under arrest... And listening to the rest of this CD, I've decided it wears out after the first few songs. And I don't care for their cover of "Long Summer Day"...and he uses the 'n' word. Edgy. And I maintain that the videos are obscure at best. I'm not able to get an accurate picture so as to assess blame based on them. They're rather one-sided. And you seem to just dislike cops in general. Bad experiences?

I'm not gonna say that the 'fat twit' was right, but I'm not ready to pronounce 100% blame onto him. I don't think you can just automatically take the other side. It's basically the cop's word vs. the indie kids' word. The cop said he went into the club, asked management to turn the sound down and went to leave, at which time they turned the sound back up. If that's true, I can understand the officer being upset and trying to take other measures. I don't understand why he walked on stage, but if what's-his-name from the band called him a sexual obscenity and shoulder pushed him, that's enough for a cop to take action. Then, if someone did make a move for the cop's gun, which he says happened, that's enough to justify having to use further action. I'm not saying I believe the cop's side of the story and I'm not saying I believe the indie kids' side of the story. I do know that the few shows I've been to at Walter's, they open the doors ridiculously early, like...2 and a half hours early and the crowds there get incredibly drunk, even for acts like Two Gallants or Devendra Banhart. It's certainly a terrible thing that a 14-year old got hurt and that other people got hurt, but I don't know why I should just believe the indie kids and disbelieve the cop based on the fact that...what? one's a cop? I don't have the highest opinion of law enforcement, but I don't have the highest opinion of drunk indie kids either, so, meh.. Anyway, I downloaded the Two Gallants CD, and it's pretty good. I hope this event doesn't discourage them from coming back to Houston.

Hey, I kinda know that cop. He used to come into Denny's when I worked there at like...4 AM and eat breakfast. He was a decent tipper. Anyway, here's an article from the Houston Chronicle about the fracas, which includes the cop giving his side of the story: I wonder who the UH student that was injured was. I'll have to find out. I wasn't there and I don't know anybody who was there, so I'm not sure what happened...and the video of the thing isn't spectacularly shot so it's hard to tell the story. But yeah, that 14-year old getting injured thing is probably not going to be good.

Hey! Walter's on Washington...I saw Devendra Banhart there last year. Yeah, that was a pretty shitty thing for the cops to do. I can see a noise complaint being filed; the club's like...right in front of a neighborhood and a church and an apartment complex, but still...that's the first time I've ever heard of anything like that happening at a club...and I've been to a good many shows. I guess Two Gallants turn it all the way up to 11. Are they any good, by the way? I've heard of them but haven't gotten around to listening to anything they've done.

I just double-posted...cuz I'm a P-I-M-P. Word to Big Bird.

You can't just...assign me a name...unless it's really cool...like...Hotbutter Spoontoaster. Yeah...

Uh...I dunno. I guess. I don't speak Spanish. I only speak Latin, English, American Sign Language, Biblical Hebrew, French, Texan, Cajun, and a complex series of clicks and voiceless inflections that I call Onjawanjadoobie.

I think Slawyer has an eye condition where he can't see the letters 'la' in words...either that or he's a really big Will Oldham fan.

Well, those two emoticons are punching each other rather...slowly. That's us...I'm the blue guy. Edit: I'll write the second best Ted Hughes essay you've ever seen for...$37.50.

I came here for two reasons...to post emoticons wearing sunglasses and to whip your ass at Hungry Hungry Hippos. ...Looks like I'm all outta emoticons wearing sunglasses. Boo-yeah!

I bet I could take you in a fist fight...or a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

I certainly don't agree with that...but he's top five easily. My top three favorite authors (this is going to make me look very non literature-snobbish): 1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. Stephen King 3. Tim O'Brien I rulez.

It's not ALWAYS God...sometimes it's sex...or the lack thereof...or death...but yeah...sex, God, and death are the big three. But yeah, in Melville, Hawthorne (When I am voted king of the world, all books by Nathaniel Hawthorne will be destroyed), Daniel Defoe, etc. it's usually God.

This entire thread proves that reading=bad times. Ha ha, Czech liked wrestling...were you a....big Lex Luger fan? Yeah, I totally wasted my prime years watching wrestling, too. And I was in the gifted classes...and I now go to a state university...and I like baseball. This is starting to get weird. If I wasn't so much more attractive than you, presumably, I'd think that you like...did some Kurt Vonnegut stuff or something.

Oh, it wasn't just a Creative Writing course. It was a Creative Writing course at a Community College. They had this one girl in there that tried to rhyme the word "bereft" with "gift". ...dumbass. And they had a bunch of people who like...liked to hang out in coffee shops and they tried to be all dark and stuff...and they rhymed "love" with "above" and talked about crimson moons. And they had this one guy who wrote a one-man play called "God and Satan Converse Over a Cup of Coffee" and he proceeded to act out the play...in character. Every day I wanted to explode everyone.

I like hanging out with educated people that drink their malt liqour in glasses. For some reason I took a Creative Writing class in my Sophmore year of college. Never again...I hate people. Oh, here's my favorite section of a poem ever. It's by Matthew Arnold and it's from his poem "Dover Beach (1867)": "Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. " I love that. Outside of that poem, some other English Romantics and the usual "English major fare", I am completely unable to discuss poems. And I don't really care for Charles Bukowski.

I don't "do" poems. I just know what I like and what I dislike. I also don't really "do" pomo, but I'm more competent talking about it than poetry. I wish I wasn't the only person who read Garcia Marquez. Uh...Thomas Pynchon's middle name is Ruggles. I do know that. Edit: Eye ainslurrin'nuthinjewfuckinsombishdurtyfuckencokksukker... I feel like Hemmingway...or Faulkner. Why can't we do Southern Lit? Flannery O'Connor, anyone? When do we break out the Derrida?

I'm not surprised that Corso is buried next to Percy Shelley. Pretentious fucks. Corso's epitaph: "Spirit is Life It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea " ...interesting, but highly overrated.

I'm glad that nobody's mentioned Paul Austuer. If there's one pretentious fuck I'd like to smash in the head, it's Paul Austuer.

You guys are nerds. If I was going for a John Barth reference screename, I'd go for The Shirt of Nessus or The Sot-Weed Factor. If I were going for a postmodern Lit. screenname that didn't suck, I'd go for Flaubert's Parrot. Can I get a 'what what' for Julian Barnes?

There's been a few good tribute albums that have come out...not many in relation to the many bad ones...but they had a good Daniel Johnston one that came out not too long ago...and the Elvis Costello one wasn't so bad. The Rubber Soul one that came out last year or so was absolutely terrible. I thought that that Led Zepplin tribute CD, Encomium was pretty good...even the Hootie and the Blowfish version of "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?". And I thought the Working Class Hero CD tribute to John Lennon had some good stuff on it.

That Uribe thing reminded me...did anything ever come of Ugeth Urbina attempting to murder those people?

I remember hearing a semi-amusing joke one time about a Jamaican guy and Pokemon, but I can't remember it all. And slavery is never a laughing matter...Japanese trading cards, however, are always a laughing matter. I used to work at Burger King back in like...1998 when Pokemon was really popular and they were giving away those supposedly collectible gold Pokemon card things and I spent like 10 bucks buying all of them, but now they're completely worthless. I remember there was this big scandal and like...five people got fired for trying to steal boxloads of em. I still know nothing about Yu-Gi-Oh. I am, however, a Level 5 Gundam.

Well, I'm going to take President Bush out of my top 16!

On a scale of 1-18, how similar is Yu-Gi-Oh to Pokemon? I've...never heard of Yu-Gi-Oh.