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Re: Fox and Friends Claim McCain’s Economic Statements Saved the World

FlyingChainSaw — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:24:42 -0000

This comment system bites donkey balls!

Re: I’ll Broaden My Exposure If You Short Your Position

FlyingChainSaw — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:44:53 -0000

Right. Spraying more money around like we've been doing the last 15 years will fix everything.

Re: Episode 1: A Sake Situation

FlyingChainSaw — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:26:13 -0000

I think he is confusing marching bands with competitive drum and bugle corps. Actually, since they dropped the G instrumentation, I haven't been able to tune in. I remember Bayonne actually kept their old valve-rotor horns into 1978 and lacquered them. The sound of field bugles with (2- and then 3-valve) clusters could be OK but it was still not as broad as the old valve-rotor instruments. Now that they've switched to band/orchestra instruments, you don't get any of the sonic shock of the field instruments when you have twisted, haunted, enraged kids on them. It's amazing to listen to Anaheim's 1972 show - they won DCI - and realize they fielded 44 guys on the horns and turned the stadium to fucking talcum powder. This summer I saw 70+ man horn lines that placed in DCI but sounded like wind symphonies with dance companies. Prommy would have liked 1975 Chicago. He'd be one of those guys who stood and screamed all the way through Russian Christmas Music and spilled beer on people and gotten beaten up by alumni from the Toronto Optimists or something.

Re: Episode 1: A Sake Situation

FlyingChainSaw — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:37:40 -0000

Wow, sounds like a lot of stage work and a lot of money. My era was urban D&B, the last years of it, anyway, and the emphasis was maximizing exposure to error against performance quality. (When we played orchestral; or operatic stuff, for instance, the sopranos ended up with transcriptions of fucking violin parts.) Falcons was the epitome of that genre. Their OTL (which Gregg should still use as lead in music to his Podcast!) was considered really high end concert band literature, for a professional sit-down ensemble. Their redraft for a fielded D&B brass line kicked up the tempo on an already insanely difficult piece. I know a guy who recovered the chart and the soprano and mellophone parts look like clarinet etudes. Running sixteenth notes splashed across pages of manuscript. They came in 13th but, still, any time you mention Falcons around anyone who marched D&B in NJ around that time, they all squint and go, "oh, fuck; insane fucking show.'

Re: New Jersey cop indicted for assault of mentally handicapped man

FlyingChainSaw — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:04:02 -0000

The cop endangered himself. They should have put 16 rounds through the guy, called back-up and SWAT, a hostage rescue team and a helicopter. This police man wasn't thinking about officer safety.

Re: Fear of Fascism, ‘Gay Agenda’ Dominate Conservative Kickoff for Midterm Elections

FlyingChainSaw — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:22:20 -0000

Make no mistake: the genocidal afrosupremist monster Obongo is arming millions of gays, blacks and islamofascist who lie in wait in America to kill all the white males and take their women to breed more islamofascist warriors and take over the world.

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