April 2012
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March 2012
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10 Things More Likely To Happen Than Winning the Mega Millions
1. Death by Vending Machine
2. Dying in an Airline-Related Terrorist Attack
3. Having Identical Quadruplets
4. Becoming President
5. Dying From Bee, Hornet, or Wasp Stings
6. Dying From Being Left-Handed
7. Becoming a Movie Star
8. Dying in a Plane Crash
9. Death by Flesh-Eating Bacteria
10. Getting Struck by Lightning
And yet, we keep buying tickets.
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R.I.P. Earl Scruggs.
“I always felt like Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball. He is the best there ever was, and the best there ever will be.” - Porter Wagoner
Another sad thing they never tell you is that when you really connect with a band when you're grown up nobody cares and there's no culture of peers around you with whom you can share the emotions, and if you do try you're just some weirdo.
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Looking For A Sign - Beck
Beck: “Looking For A Sign”
Something tells me Neil Young hasn’t left Beck’s turntable since last fall’s Bridge School Benefit duet, as today brings a one-off soundtrack cut with Harvest-era inspiration to spare. Hear his contribution to Jeff Who Lives At Home above. It’s been four years since his last studio LP, but with tunes like this and last year’s John Martyn cover kicking around, I, for one, don’t mind waiting while Beck searches for a “Heart of Gold.”
My neighbor has a Quicksilver brand mailbox and drives a white BMW. Needless to say, he is a total assclown.
“If love is truly going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured indifference to each other will be an even more contemptuous indifference to each others’ objects of reverence. I thought it was Iggy, you thought it was Joni Mitchell or whoever else seemed to speak for your own private, entirely circumscribed situation’s many pains and few ecstasies. We will continue to fragment in this manner, because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis’. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won’t bother saying good-bye to his corpse. I will say good-bye to you.”
—Lester Bangs’ famous obituary of Elvis Presley.
