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Government officials believe ancient knowledge of wind and sea movement may have saved five indigenous tribes

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The night was so fantasic, start to finish. Driven by pure energy and emotion, both band and crowd were surging, driving, straight from song one. My overwhelming thought all night was GRANDSLAM.

I

Whispy

Downside

Johnny Joe>

Basheeba

Holetown Charlie

Peaches

Solid start. LOVE the Johnny Joe, had never heard that one but thick and juicy.

II

Zedonk>

Auld Lang>

Zedonk

Year of...

Black Betty*>

Voodoo Lady*>

Bolero*>

Voodoo Lady*

401>

Centragnome>

RLH>

Centragnome>

Dr. Who>

401

AHAHAHAHAHHHHHH! Mind boggling. Ween so fun. Monster 401 with the first Dr. Who I've heard since my first Whipping Post Bootleg. * with Velvet

III

Breakline

CMM>

Miko

Darius

Lemondust>

St. Thomas>

Lemondust

Sgt. Peppers

e: Condor>

Steppin' Out>

Condor

The last setlist was an emotional rollercoaster and executed with, without hyperbole, unprecedented energy and build. Dance like it's your last and pray that it wouldn't be.

Thanks go to all the Ottawa crew who, as usual extended nothing but hospitality to me. Thanks especially to all the hosts of all the get-together's I attended.

Thanks to the Nero extended fans and family who hugged and shared and made this more than just a New Year's party.

And to the band, from a dusty afternoon set in Durham, across the province and back, with a dozen good times in between, Jay, Dave, Shane, Chris, Todd, your music will always stay with me but our friendships will be your greatest legacy. See you soon.

Love Scottieking

Todd, that is one of my top five moments of the night.

Home safe and sound. It's late. More to come. Operation Over and Out commensing.

"Hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over"

Operation Overdoit is to commence in T-minus 3 hours. Myself, Co-Pilot Guigsy (otherwise known as Team Scott) will be leaving for the Cold Planet of Ottawa to engage the enemy and plunge deep into the Sabbatical Abyss. Stay tuned, true believers.

If you are like me (and the rest of the world) I think the magnitude of this earthquake is really starting to take hold. As I read my newspaper this morning, I became quite overwhelmed with emotion and awe.

To start, the stories of surivial are just incredible. I've been to Thailand and can envision what the day must have been like just before the wave hit. I pray that my friends travelling are fine (one teacher I work with has a son he still hasn't heard from yet)

Then the magnitude of the event. According to the Globe, the eathquake was so powerful it actually shifted the earth casuing it to wobble on its axis and to increase the Earth's rotation by a fraction of a second.

But it all came crashing home to me in the picture of a young child , Karl Nilsson, age 7, holding a sign that says "looking for parents and two brothers". Stories of children wandering around alone, bodies washing ashore, complete chaos.

I'm sickened and stunned and helpless. And yet, it was an earthquake, a tsumani and despite the lack of early warning systems in enpoverished nations, I have little place to throw my frustration.

I'm overwhelmed by the hurt of the world. This most certainly stands to become a global defining moment. And all I can do is watch.

- Missed greatly.....

- Your continued happiness!

:: - New Years! See you tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Velvet. Looking forward to seeing you in a few days.

I don't know about best, but if you want the one of the WORST Let It Grow's, check out 6/18/74 Louisville. One of my favorite Loose Lucy's but further down the set, Donna Jean redefines pitch bending. I'm not hatin, but this is one of those ones I pull out when I need a good laugh.

So bad it's good!

Year Three, IN. Arrive in O-town on the 30th. Prepare.

This is the first I've seen it and it's making for some great morning tunes. I think it's going to launch a Beatles kinda day for me.

This is not fu©king fair nor funny! I start my Christmas holidays getting ready to get caught up on some TV I missed and my favorite source is gone. Not only that but Phoenix, Torrent Reactor. I missed the big court case, I guess, but these guys just folded like a cheap suit.

Lots of love from L-town. Can't wait for the New Year's Get Down. Get your freak on, fellow Sag!

A big fat congrats to both of you. You guys look great. See you at New Years?

Trust me, Monday morning, you will not miss them. They will not miss you. And they will still be there in two weeks.

Ahhhhhh, Christmas vacation. Now where's I put that marking? ::

Let's try....kittens.

Maybe it's looking for mitt as that girl's...

nevermind.

I think I just sh!t myself. That's my March Break. This is interesting. VERY interesting.

VERY.

The Esstential Series, from what I can ascertain, is a BBC radio 1 show that's been runnning for the last thirteen years or so. The copy I have is an FM rip and I had to section it myself. I d/l it from Suprnova about two months ago. It is a live set, chalked full of old school hip-hop and wicked cuts.

Umphery's - 10/19/04 - This is the one that made me a fan.

Kings of Leon - Aka Shake Heartbreak - don't wait til Feb!

Phish - 12/03/97 - I miss Phish

DJ Shadow -Essential Mix 2003 - Pumpin.

MMW - Dec 4/04 - Sweet.

Nice, Timmy.

Funny, I just found the pictures of that night (Sat) in the jam photos. See most intoxicated thread for details. ::

This just in....

Really drunken pictures of me on my birthday this year @ Benneveto/Russo.

I have NEVER seen my eyes do one lookin this way and one look that but this is scary.

Confirmed by this one.....

yikes (thanks for the memories, Mike)

Fragmented recollections:

Solid pre-party, met and re-met so many kind Skanks. You guys got a great scene up there.

Oh....the turkey bags...

what a way to deploy the troops and invade the Lanc (seriously, that was serious strikeforce action).

Great venue, reminded me of combination ski-lodge and Legion. So many familiar faces...the unoffical Southwestern Ontario Holiday Bash.

Mike and Jeff, thank-you, twice.

Nero, thank-you, 6 cities and a dozen times more. Carol of the Bells was my favorite yet. Your energy was off the charts. Echoes (shiver).

Then off to Max Webster's for late night antics. Mary slaps on the Dig A Pony right when I needed it the most, lots of smile and singin along. Home to crash (thank-you Schwa) and of my last memory being...biting a glass piece?

Jimmy's for the most unforgetable breakfast of 2004 and bobbin to Byrne all the way home.

Whew.

Can't wait for New's Years!

So I download Shareaza the other day to find some songs. Then I go to download a torrent. Shareaza takes over and is horrible for torrents. So I wipe both programs and re-install Bit Torrent. The problem seems to be that it can't create a file. Sometimes it says it can't find my temp folder. I'm looking for any suggestions. I'm stumped.

Mr. King is one class anyway from entering a telephone booth and re-emerging as the bearded boogie machine known as.....

scottieking.

Where to go before the show?

And what's a show at the Lanc without a blinding freezing rain storm to get to it. sOOn!

Dude, you're killin me here.

I am a faithful Doonesbury fan for years and read it everyday. In fact I own many of the original collections from the 60's and 70's. He is so bang-on sometimes.