Random Music Talk LXX: Original Theatrical Version

[IWasBored]

That girl with the hello kitty avatar asked me if I wanted to write something about one of the street dogs' albums one time, I think in an effort to get me to stop making new threads. I didn't.

 

[Danny Boy]

I'd be much more likely to read your review if you started a thread here as opposed to posting on the front page anyway.

 

[IWasBored]

Yeah I have never looked through the other non forum parts at all.

 

[the tourist]

I forgot there was a front page.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Wow, I am such an idiot. I bought a ticket to see Eddie Vedder last spring and when it was cancelled I thought I'd turned my ticket in and gotten a refund since I was ambivalent about going to begin with and decided I'd spent too much on an impulse purchase and wanted my money back.

But just now I was scrolling through my emails and discovered an "Event Reminder" from Ticketmaster, which prompted me to go look in the drawer where I keep tickets. And there was the damn ticket. I guess I was confusing it with the Ryan Adams show which was cancelled and refunded.

Getting old sucks, guys. Don't let it happen to you!!!

So I am going to see Eddie Vedder and Glen Hansard tomorrow night after all. Sixth row center.

This is more than I have ever talked about, or ever wanted to talk about, Eddie Vedder.

Spoiler

And wow, you really know how you feel about an artist when you forget you have a ticket to see them.

 

[u2popmofo]

Hahahaha. If it makes you feel any better, I completely spaced it on Father John Misty over the weekend and didn't go. Luckily I hadn't paid for a ticket yet, but I was still planning on going.

Have fun!

 

[PhilsFan]

Hopefully he surprises you.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Anyway, re the article in question...why don't one of you smarty pants go write something for the front page instead of making fun of what's there? The mods are probably trying to get new material but with not much forthcoming they're working with what they've got. I never read any of it so I don't really care if it's good or bad or whatever.

 

[Danny Boy]

Pappy is either still hacked, or really concerned about our waistlines.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Well, just because I don't want to write a sitcom, doesn't mean I can't make fun of Big Bang Theory and all those who watch it

I also have no interest in writing album reviews. But when a horrible one is dropped in front of me, I can't help but hate on it

 

[IWasBored]

Apathy, cynicism, and stuff.

 

[Danny Boy]

Buckner & Garcia of "Pacman Fever" fame wrote the theme song for "Wreck It, Ralph." How cool is that?

 

[joyfulgirl]

Well, just because I don't want to write a sitcom, doesn't mean I can't make fun of Big Bang Theory and all those who watch it

I also have no interest in writing album reviews. But when a horrible one is dropped in front of me, I can't help but hate on it

Good points.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Speaking of good writing, I just read the newish Christopher Hitchens posthumous Mortality tonight. A very poignant and thought provoking read. Very brief at around 120 pages, so you can get through it in a short time. Highly recommended. I miss his stinging wit

 

[joyfulgirl]

I had a love/hate thing with Hitchens but I definitely want to read that.

 

[cobl04]

Pappy is either still hacked, or really concerned about our waistlines.

Friggin' hackers

 

[Danny Boy]

 

[IWasBored]

I have a copy of god is not great that I will read one of these days.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I have a copy of god is not great that I will read one of these days.

It's fantastic. You can't help but hear his voice when you read it

 

[u2popmofo]

I know this is probably fairly common, but I've noticed one of my really close friends who's recently become atheist quotes and follows Hitchens, Dawkins, and the like to the point of it feeling as if he's just substituted one religion for another.

 

[LemonMelon]

That fact that one "becomes" atheist implies a sort of transformation in and of itself.

Frankly, a lot of atheists are more active in their religion than I am in mine.

 

[Danny Boy]

That fact that one "becomes" atheist implies a sort of transformation in and of itself.

Frankly, a lot of atheists are more active in their religion than I am in mine.

You would find the same enthusiastic zealotry in someone who recently adopted a new religion as well.

 

[iron yuppie]

Hahahaha. If it makes you feel any better, I completely spaced it on Father John Misty over the weekend and didn't go. Luckily I hadn't paid for a ticket yet, but I was still planning on going.

I had a similar experience with FJM, except I had a ticket but was simply too tired to go. I officially became an old man that night.

 

[iron yuppie]

enthusiastic zealotry

As opposed to non-enthusiastic zealotry?

 

[gvox]

I honestly wish the front page didn't even exist, frankly.

Its like splash pages on band (or, any) websites: who gives a fuck?

 

[u2popmofo]

I had a similar experience with FJM, except I had a ticket but was simply too tired to go. I officially became an old man that night.

We should all be ashamed of ourselves.

 

[cobl04]

I had a similar experience with FJM, except I had a ticket but was simply too tired to go. I officially became an old man that night.

I'd say but the same thing happened to me with Malkmus. Ticket cost me $40 but it was mid-week, I had no one to go with, was tired and didn't like the one album I'd heard by him that much.

 

[IWasBored]

I had tickets to see the Brian Jonestown Massacre and forgot about it til a few days after the show. I'll probably forget about the street dogs show in December at this point.

 

[IWasBored]

I know this is probably fairly common, but I've noticed one of my really close friends who's recently become atheist quotes and follows Hitchens, Dawkins, and the like to the point of it feeling as if he's just substituted one religion for another.

Yeah, those people suck too. I really don't care if you believe in one god, a thousand different gods, no god, or fucking space aliens. i care when you try to convince me that whichever you believe in is the right one. I happen to be an atheist, but I'd be just as hypocritical as the religious nuts I hate if I went around pushing that one everyone I talk to.

 

[Danny Boy]

As opposed to non-enthusiastic zealotry?

I'm claiming poetic license. Nothing wrong with a bit of redundancy for emphasis.