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Here's a few off the top of my head:

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow - Funkadelic

Diana Moe Hum - Frank Zappa

Penguins In Bondage - Frank Zappa & The Mothers

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Downtown Train - Tom Waits

Marquee Moon - Television

London Calling - The Clash

Cortez The Killer - Neil Young

Sympathy - The Stones

Wharf Rat - The Dead

Tangled Up In Blue - Dylan

Pure And Easy - The Who

Lucas also borrows liberally from Kurosawa, Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad movies and allegorical mythology.

I fell asleep right after the 5th Element rip-off beginning. I was drowsy through the Spartacus/Gladiator rip-off scenes and could care less about the lifeless robots vs clones war at the end. My main problem with this movie was that it lacked any sense of excitement, wonder and/or magic. The CGI's always looked like CGI's. I didn't care about the one dimensional human characters, but Christopher Lee was good, and by far the most interesting human character in the movie; Yoda and R2D2 were fun. The dialogue was typical Star Wars dialogue, so it didn't bother me too much. I didn't hate this film, but it certainly should not be viewed as a great piece of filmmaking either.

My cousin from Calgary got her drink spiked a few years ago. Fortunately, she got home before she passed out. Equally frightening: recently, a friend of mine got his drink spiked by a gay guy. Fortunately he made it home alone before he passed out for 13 hours on his kitchen floor. This goes to show that straight guys are at risk too.

Duchesne may retire next year, but the rest on your list will be back ( and are under contract I believe ).

Hey Booche, I agree to some extent on Forsberg's exceptional play, however, he did take the year off, including and especially the Olympics. Spleen or no spleen, rest is so important in the playoffs, and none of the players and teams is well rested ( other than back-up goalies ). Yzerman is by far the most impressive player to date in these playoffs. After Detroit wins the Cup, Stevie Y will undoubtedly miss a good chunk of next season.

Hey Ace, if you like the Stooges and the MC5, you'll like The Hives.

I'll be in Kingston for the fight. I love The Hives, but the fight is too much of a draw for me - plus The Hives are a big touring band. Andre, I may go to the Ports, but I'm thinking the Sports is the best place to catch the fight.

What should I go and see on June 8th? I think that The Hives are one of the few " real " rock bands around ( although this list is slowly growing ), but my desire to see Tyson destroyed compels me to miss the concert.

Frank and Henry. Winchester is damn snobby-funny too.

Kirk Hammett never met a wah-wah pedal he didn't like.

I read that Pete Townshend plays lead guitar on one of Bowie's new songs. Bowie said it was like nothing Townshend has ever played before. I'm looking forward to hearing at least that song off this new album.

Phil & the boys were great. Nice new song from the new writing team of Haynes/Lesh/Hunter. Everyone I'm working with tonight thought the song and performance was great. I'm looking forward to Phil's deluxe cd edition: it's supposed to be out next Tuesday.

I'm working tonight peipunk. I won't be going to any gigs until nest week - maybe Wednesday in Kingston.

these upcoming concerts in Toronto. Just curious. I am.

Ratdog - Aug. 1, at Kool Haus.

The Hives - June 8th.

White Stripes - next month ( I forgot )?

I'd say that these music consumers have damned good taste.

I'd rather dance up close to the stage than up on the lawns any day. I like watching the band with my dancing.

Dave, get rid of the Lawns and buy scalper tickets. You'll be lucky to get an unobstructed view of the stage ( because people will be generally, standing ) - even then, Phil & Friends will look 2 inches tall. You still may be able to buy 200 Level seats through Ticketmaster. And no Dave, I won't be in Kingston this weekend. I have to work until Sunday morning.

Scofield is playing a free show at the JVC Festival in Toronto this summer. I'm there.

I totally forgot about when the tickets went on sale. Anyway, I bought 2 at 6pm - Section 202, Row VV, Aisle 2 - pretty good seats all things considered. I also bought The Last Waltz DVD at CD Replay/Edwards in T.O.. It's on for $23.99.

Hey Sloth, this last game was the best of a rather boring series ( so far ). I was excited. I would normally comment on Leaf loses ( on this site ), but I don't have a computer - I have computer access at work, 4 of every 8 days. Anyway, there was more intensity and hitting in the 3 periods of last night's game, than there was in the entire 5 periods of Game 3. As both teams start feeling more pressure, I think this series can only get better. The best hockey right now is being played in the Colorado-Sharks series. Too bad no Canadian networks are ( regularly ) carrying the games.

Nicely stated Dog.

It's the program Storytellers. Anyway, Tom's show is on at exactly 21:58 tonight on MuchMore. Check-out a musical genius and great live performer. It repeats at 00:57.

Hey Sloth,

I'm only stating that the Sens play a numbingly boring brand of hockey. The trap is like watching a counter-punch boxer run for 12 rounds without getting hit. I watched the Sens-Philly series and was bored to tears. The Sens are not the only trap-boring team in the NHL, but they may be the most boring in the Eastern Conference.

Ottawa's game-plan worked to perfection. Not only did they bore the Leafs to a victory, but they bored all the real hockey fans too. I'm not a Leafs fan, but I'd take the Isles-Leafs series over Leafs-Sens any day. At least there was emotion and body-checking in the Isles series.