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Abso-fucking-lutely!!! These rules are a good start. I cut the max annual salary to $500k.

"…have you lived where a large influx of immigrants has essentially overwhelmed the area?"

I have and the impact forced us to leave a neighborhood we loved. The gang activity, graffiti, overcrowded suburban worker hostels, ESL impact on the schools, etc... Nope, nobody wants to talk about these things that come along with the failed current policies, they rather call you names.

It's strange how fast the pull back has been too. Here in Atlanta, the new housing market has gone stagnant and the wake that is being left by the illegal immigrant population leaving is visible for all to see.

I am as adamant about enforcing our rule of law with employers as much as I am with the border crossers. I'm astounded at the fact that that plant in the upper Midwest which was raided last week has not resulted in several arrests of company principles. It's just a tremendous injustice...

If millions break the law they should not be rewarded. If millions are hiring them, they need to be punished. Really quite simple. See andyswans comment above re: the asinine and irrelevant premise of slavery and homesteading to the issue at hand.

Appreciate your spelling correction. No, really...

Crock....

If the system of legal immigration is onerous (I'm certain it is), than we need to fix it right away. NEVER should illegal activity be rewarded, it should be punished. That includes the asshats who hire them. The whole idea of granting citizenship to those that snuck in makes a mockery of our constitution as does letting businesses that take advantage of those who hirie and profit from them.

It has nothing to do with zenophobia, it's a question of law.

A full review expected at Newcritics. No blogging, Tumblogging, Twittering, etc.. during the movie either:-)

Here's the rub... NOTHING Madonna has recorded or performed is rock and roll. It crap noise candy. If she wasn't hot would anybody give a crap? I'm ready to vote.

Here's some solid criteria for RRHOF... Have fucking guitar or real piano in the artists' music for STARTERS.

Here's why the RRHOF is bullshit... Madonna is nominated and Kiss and Alice Cooper remain on the sidelines.
Influence on the art form: can't be denied. Popularity: goes without saying. Quality: with catalogs as big as theirs there is some dreck, but LOTS of impacting stuff.

Rock is dead, long live rock!

Fuck rock, long rock!

He showed me the "bill" and all the mumbo-jumbo said was that based on their estimates, BMI was owed $3000 and something about his case being in "pre-legal" status. Now, he has no jukebox on premise, but does use a subscription music service for which he pays a commecial fee to pump it through his PA system between acts (My first thought was that they're gigging him for re-broadcasting music over the house).

The "pre-legal" thing is what really sets me off. This is the part that tells me this is nothing but an extortion tactic. He's pals with all the other venue and club owner's within a couple of blocks and apparently they all got these notices too.

It's unbeleiveable what it's all come to...

Damn Theo! You must have sat down for more than 10 minutes to put htis together. VERY well written sir. I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Tom was pushed his whole career to "stay with the times" and steadfastly rejected it. As he states in the book, with the one moment of weekness (Lucky), he just saw no upside to "competing" with the the others.

Pat attention Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Snow Patrol, etc... THIS is what rock and roll is supposed to sound like. Pick up a pencil and take a few notes fellas...

I can dig where these manuscript collectors are coming from.

I'm a huge fan of what I believe is a British TV series called “Classic Album Series”. You can get most of them on DVD at Amazon. For those that have never seen an episode, the show features a classic record and/or act and folks involved with the making of the album(s) dissect the process. Usually the producer and artist themselves sit in front of the studio console and break the song down and isolate certain tracks so you can hear how amazing the little bits that make the macro sound so great.

The best of the series hands down is Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”. Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” another. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” yet another. Even if you’re not HUGE fans of any of these particular recordings, I can’t see how anyone couldn’t at least come away with a huge appreciation for what goes into making a record and how fascinating the actual process is after checking one of these DVD’s out. All you have to do is hear the chorus to “Us and Them” soloed on the console to understand the utter perfection and genius.

Doesn’t ruin the final product at all for me, only enhances my appreciation.

For us users floating ignorantly above all the tech that makes it all work I simply have no idea what all the fuss is about. I have no issues with e-mail whatsoever. I get it on my desktop at work, home, and mobile devices and it works fine. I don't get 1000's of e-mails a day, but I do get quite a bit both personal and professional. I've followed all the discussion here on this, messaging, twittering, etc... and really can't figure out how any of these alternatives is going to usurp email as the dominant method for adults communicate in the non-voice manner.

Help me understand what it is I'm missing.

When I was thirteen, my dad turned me on to Robert Klein's "Child of the Fifties" and I've been sharing it with friends for years since. I was delighted to find a CD copy of it a few years ago since my vinyl copy skipped badly.

Steve Martin's "Let's get Small" would be my nomination for my generation.

I'll keep an eye on how things go with this and perhaps give it a whirl at my blog. I created an account, but it won't allow me to login here at your comments.

If you wanted to give these young musicians a lesson in rock you should have taken them to that Scorpions show a few weeks ago.

No slag against Bruce, I've got the new one in heavy rotation right now too, but they would have a new benchmark for what rock is walking out of that Scrops show.

I have no idea how you managed not to have fun in high school. I familiar with the story of the dude that terrorized you that you wrote about and can related, but we were terrorized too, but still managed to drink fully from the cup.

I enjoyed this post. I have a blog that is largely unread but for a few. I still enjoy writing it for no other reason than to keep family and friends up on my thoughts and goings on. I've got a music player that now allows me to accompany my music posts with the song(s) that I'm discussing. I love making stuff like that work. True to what you wrote, a couple of folks from my faithful readership have made overtures about firing up their own blog, but always make the same comment about having nothing to blog about. My response is always the same, "If you're alive, you've got something to blog about".

Yep Records offers a free download of each CD or vinyl record you buy, plus a free download of their featured album of the month. Very cool.

Way cool Fred!!!

Blue Girl,
You lose...

I hope that one of these recommedations works for you. PI makes make me as miserable as all get out and each time I get it the doctor tells me that there are only the marginally effective symptom relief measures out there and you're basically stuck waiting out the ten day/two week period of recovery.

I have long since learned that chasing a golf ball into the woods is not worth the potential of a PI dose, even if it's a coveted Titleist Pro V1 I sliced OB.

Turns out that rock stars are “at a disproportionate risk of alcohol- and drug-related deaths.”

Airplanes too.

All good stuff, but I grew up on a slightly different side of the tracks and the loss of a Californian by the name of Randy Rhoads was a crushing blow to my musical world at the time.

Listen to the outro to "S.A.T.O" from Diary of a Madman and anybody who doesn't hate rock will hear why this guys light went out WAY too early.

Bring tea for the tillerman, steak for the sun

Wine for the women who made the rain come

Seagulls sing your hearts away, while the sinners sin, the children pray.

Oh lord how they play and pray for that happy day, for that happy day...

I hate to burst your bubble, but I've been working in wireless for most of my professional life and as much as I'd like to see an "always on the grid" world happen soon, or even in my lifetime for that matter, it just ain't gonna happen. The whole idea is hugely cost prohibitive in every sense of the word. Ubiquitous wireless grid? Who’s going to provide coverage for Valdosta, GA? It’s been decades and the cell companies can’t even deliver decent voice coverage, how do you see them or anybody else doing that with thirstier demand for bandwidth?

Subscription music is for casual listening, but the commentor above is right, nobody wants or needs another pain in the ass $12.99 payment to make. You all keep trying to come up with technical solutions and answers for how the industry is going turn itself around and what you don’t realize is that you’re the reason it died to begin with. Don’t give me the labels are all evil bit either. Technology is NOT always the answer, and in some cases (i.e. providing the means to steal music as easy as wiping ones ass) it’s quite the opposite. Me and many others remember how perfectly happy we were going to record stores and actually paying for a record/CD. I wasn’t weren’t mumbling to myself about how put out I was and neither was anybody else so don’t even trip.

Fools all of you. Once you’ve burned all your energy beating this dead horse with tech solutions, perhaps you’ll realize that it has ALWAYS been about making great ALBUMS, bodies of work that stand the test of time. Perhaps if it’s not too late by then maybe things will begin to recover.

You can wish and hope forever and a day that subscription music is the wave of the future, but it just ain't gonna happen. Music IS something people want to own, period. Serivces are cool as an extravegance, but I just finished putting together my listening room in my new house and spun vinyl and CD recordings I've OWNED for years all weekend and I didn't have to pay anybody anything.

Rock is dead, long live rock!

Great Post Shamus. HUGE fan of this movie. My brother and I throw Everett McGill quotes at each other all the time.

There is only one response I can offer; Oh Hells Yeah!!!

Man, I wish I could've been there! Good luck to you guys and please tell me someone is taping the thing.