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  1. 1. Call the Office, for sure. I saw Radiohead there. Nuff said.

    2. Salt Lounge is starting to get it together. Big room. Jimmy Swift played there last time they were through.

    3. Another option is the Embassy. Once London's true underground stage, I think the last band I saw there was the Rheos a few years ago.

    From there it goes downhill. Tequila Rose is a hip-hop club and The Last Drop isn't the greatest room.

    Good luck bringing us the goods!!

  2. Jaydawg, you are worst than the creators of Lost, leaving us with but a single question mark and the cryptic clue to over-analyze.

    get excited y'all - The y'all could be refering to you all, or could it be a harbinger of country fried sounds

    the old skool - while simply taking this at face value might be tempting, look at the spelling. Something more?

    is about to get nu-skool! - Perhaps a merging of old and nu or the New? What's the Deal?

    OMG - If you add the letters in the numbers of the phrase you get 4 8 15 16 23 42

  3. Here's a thread to champion something that you think the community at large may be neglecting but you think they would like. Today's edition, the obvious, music.

    My pick is Donavon Frankenreiter's Move By Yourself.

    If you heard Donavon live or own his last album, you (as was I) might be tempted to dismiss him into the Jack Johnson category.

    That is not this album.

    I don't know who is in this band, but I saw them on Conan and immediately thought "Wow! They gots chops". The album's got depth and serious, serious groove.

    I dare you to listen to the first track, all the way through and not be fully engaged in, at the very least, a vicious chair groove.

    Try it, you'll like it.

  4. I saw this double bill in London on Sunday. Elliot Brood is fantastic and I'm a big fan. Unforunately the venue was at Cowboy's, a new country bar. LOTS of shitkickers and tall hats.

    I appreciated Cord Lund and the Hurtin Albertan's for what they were doing. Good sound. Some authentic real good Canadian lyrics. But they just never got underneath me. Not enough edge.

  5. I am where I am today. In the classroom. I remember as a student told me what had happened (the first plane) By the time we had the radio on the second had hit. I think listening to it on the radio will forever stick with me as the images seemed so much more horrific in my mind. I remember the lump that was in my throat when they announced that the Pentagon had been hit. That's when the most unbelievable feeling of dread descended.

    Today, I am teaching four very important things to remember

    1)9/11 and the Iraq War have no direct connection (the number of students that still believe this is unbelievable)

    2)9/11 could have been prevented, but terrorist acts in North America were/are an inevitablity.

    3)9/11 may have changed the world, but the world didn't have to change the way it did.

    4)The sins of the father (read generation) will always revisit on the child.

    Afghanistan in the 1980's = 9/11

    Afghanistan in 2006 = ?????

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