MarcO

I'm enjoying this thread!

being alone

complaining

griping

staring

pacing

worrying

venting

cloudy days

laughing at the misfortunes of others

criticizing

being smarter than other people

sweating

making excuses for myself

my morning boner

KarinGarage = Post Of The Year!

I also like burgers. With cheese.

Why would you order a burger without cheese?

Are you a pervert?

it's not good.

is Booche gonna be ok on his own? do you have anyone watching him?

Isn't it Skinamarink?

is it? maybe it's skinnamarink?

THAT'S HOT!

326 - Lyrical Oddities: Songs With Rarely Used Or Unusual Words (give the word)

1. viperHouse - Swag ("Hegemony")

2. Zappa - Absolutely Free ("Discorporate")

3. Til Tuesday - Believed You Were Lucky ("Acquiesce")

4. Sharon Lois & Bram - Skidamarink (uh, "Skidamarink")

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325 - Songs referencing specific times

1. Bruce Cockburn - Mighty Trucks Of Midnight

2. The Who - 5:15

3. The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night

4. Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis

5. Rufus Wainwright - Dinner at Eight

6. The Vogues - Five O'Clock World

7. Bob Marley - Rebel Music (Three O'Clock Roadblock).

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are you gonna be ok there larry llama? do you need a time out or something?

skepticism is not the same as negativity.

and I never said I had the answers to this city's problems. What I can say though is this proposed venue doesn't seem *to me* to be an answer.

No, I'm not going to move to Toronto, thank you very much.

OH fuÇk YEAH!

OH FUCK YEAH!

I LIKE BEER!

nice! I'll put on DMB next!

#324 - Songs of Socities - Songs about towns, cities or villages:

1. Springsteen - Atlantic City

2. Blues Traveler - Canadian Rose

3. John Prine - In A Town This Size

4. Max Webster - Toronto Tontos

5. The Bicycles - Paris Be Mine

6. Gram Parsons - The Streets of Baltimore

7. Air - Alone in Kyoto

8. Richard Thompson - The Sights and Sounds of London Town

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Wilco, Sky Blue Sky

323: Songs referencing guns, knives or other weapons

1. Guided By Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife

2. Tom Waits – 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six

3. Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns And Money

4. Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot

5. Special Ed - The Mission

6. Drive-By Truckers - Nine Bullets

7. Slade - In Like a Shot (From My Gun)

8. Johnny Cash - Delia's Gone

9. KISS - Love Gun

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right on Aaron, I'm proud of ya!

llama - I take your points, and I think that the light rail system combined with a full-on GO Train service through Hamilton would be most beneficial.

I'm not so naive as to think that these kinds of investors and developers are clean, good-faith agents. It's just this man's crimes are so horrendous, and so *fresh*, and so close to his base of operations in this area, that it makes it hard to become enthusiastic that he's expanding his empire. Where others see money being spread around, I see sleaze being spread around. Maybe I just wish I didn't know about his criminal dealings, then I could be happily ignorant.

I do wish this project success, it'll be a boon for the whole downtown core. And it has been brought to my attention that Hamilton actually could use another hotel, far from my doubts, turns out rooms can be at a premium here. Who knew?

I just wish in my heart of hearts that this funky-ass city, full of soul and good souls, could get past it's formalized associations with the mafia and biker gangs and crackhouses and gangs and I want a pair of clean hands to lead the way into our redevelopment. I guess I'll have to settle for another pimp and sexual predator to lead that way for now. It's real but it still sucks.

Anyway, again, who on earth is going to play in a 2000 capacity club/theatre in Hamilton when they could go 40 minutes down the road and do the same in a bigger market? The current Canadiana scenesters aren't enough to make it work in the long run and harkening back to the likes of Big Sugar or Sloan makes no sense. Are the people of Hamilton accustomed to absorbing the current trend of concert ticket prices that it'll take to get the "mid-level" acts to come here? How's the Westside Theatre doing? It's not even a five minute walk down the street from this proposed site.

It's great that someone wants to invest in Hamilton's core. But let's aim for smart investments, not just throwing darts at a dartboard and seeing what comes up. Sinking $15 million with tax subsidies into a venue that is destined to grow idle and underused is just another stab in the corpse.

sigh...... you know, I want Hamilton to succeed as much as anyone, I love this city. And no, I don't have the magic answers as to how to make it work. But I don't know if we should be *knowingly* growing our attractions on the backs of pimps and sexual predators, like Vranich. The man opened a nightclub and assaulted one of his employees. He has a series of sexual assaults on his chit list. So, let's make a deal with him to open another project down the street?!? It launches a positive project in a negative light.

Also, again I'm a born pragmatist, not a cynic - but do we need another hotel? Is the Sheraton - one block away - at capacity any of the time, apart from a few weeks a year when a convention hits town?

I have a funny feeling this "House of Blues"-like venue will open as a live music venue and then quickly turn itself into a massive dance club and only perpetuate the problems of dealing/drunkenness/misbehaviour that really can be a problem for the Hess area.

Am I way off? Can Hamilton support a 1800-capacity live music venue? Will it really transform an area that is otherwise not troubled economically? Why would a major player in that area even wish to transform it? Do we need another hotel? How are the other hotels - all within three or four blocks of this proposed new one - faring? Does *any* of this make sense??

322: Well i guess it's the Remembrance Day w.e. theme then, songs alluding to or about a specific war

1. John Gray with Eric Peterson - In the Sky

2. Johnny Horton - Battle Of New Orleans

3. Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner

4. Michelle Shocked - Shaking Hands (Soldier's Joy)

5. The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Versus the Red Baron

6. Tanglefoot - Vimy

7. Bob Dylan - Talkin' WWIII Blues

8. Geoff Berner - Maginot Line

9. Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free

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Furthermore, the guy building the thing owns a bunch of bars in Hess and was convicted of a terrible sexual assault against one of his employees this past summer - read what a dirtbag this guy is.

you know, I did a google search on that name because I thought it was the same asshole I recognized from the paper..... nothing came up on a quick search that way, but sure, enough it's the guy.

great, so the guy who bought pubs in Hess, turned them into dance bars where he fondled his staff (to take his mind of prostitution charges I guess) is now spearheading a theatre in Hess for the arts? Why doesn't he just open up a sleazy strip club there and do what he's good at?

what a fucking creep.

I have some confidence that things are changing for the better in downtown Hamilton. I know, I've worked down here for over eight years now and I walk these streets daily. You see some condos being built, old eyesores being torn down and replaced with new buildings, art galleries opening, etc.

However, I don't really see much potential for a new venue the size of Massey Hall, at least as far as music goes. And doesn't Theatre Aquarius already serve the dance/theatre scene already? It could be good if HECFI isn't allowed to graft their arcane style of "beaurocracy" onto it, leaving the local promoters with less redtape and back-slapping in order to have access to a sizeable venue. Not wanting to be too cynical but let's be honest - Hamilton Place is a beautiful venue roughly the size of Massey Hall, and interesting acts aren't really re-routing from the likes of Massey Hall itself to play it too often. I know it doesn't sit empty, but it's kind of a B-list whistle stop.

And - practical question - where would all the 20 year old yahoos go if Hess isn't appealing to them? They're not just going to sit in their dorms or crackhouses.