Your priorities usually seem more professionally oriented than mine, but having it pretty good should never be underestimated.
I have plenty of friends who left their job for something that should have been better and ended regretting it.

Which abroad are you going to?

Congratulations!! I hope it will be a great place to work!

Happy birthday!

Oooh, I haven't listened to that yet.
They're playing here in a few months so I assumed the album was going to be released by then, but I haven't really been curious. I'm hoping it will still be in the vein of Congratulations, I just love the album.

I'm firmly in the Hogarth camp when it comes to Marillion (although I like the FIsh albums well enough).
Spock's Beard was also good fun, if not very original. Would you also still consider Porcupine Tree prog? They have a few great records.

Which album is the Hackett from?

Congratulations for job!
And sorry about Lady-Hawk, all the more so that she seems a decent enough person to stick with you during the job search.
But hey, on the plus side, employed should improve your prospects.

King Crimson's late albums deserve more love (Thrak in particular), but are they still prog?

Shuffle Thread

@avclub-8f09b270dacd2e783d0c25f669670902:disqus , I'm not really into jazz, but I always was under the impression that it was the genre where alternate takes and bootlegs were the more justified as the improvised sections would never be the same from one performance to the other.

Something by Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, To Be Or Not To Be, or Ninotchka would lift anyone's spirits.

Have you read Austen's Northanger Abbey? It's an earlier novel and already makes a great job of sending up horror/gothic cliches.

I know someone who watches Two And A Half Men! He was my boss, it made it hard to respect him.

But why? You're missing out on all the best screwball comedies.

That was seriously depressing. And it's all playground level as well: "The left keeps complaining that we're mean, but they're the mean ones" (I"m paraphrasing but still). 

I only saw Eraserhead once, at home, and I had to take a break and watch it over two days. It might have made the experience more tolerable, but I think that's wrong somehow. There are so many movies I love where the experience of living through them from beginning to end is an essential part of the enjoyment, I…

I haven't listened to the recording, but I'd heard him do it live and rather liked it (but it was rather early in my concert-going days, I might have a different reaction now), as you say, it's more suited to this treatment. Actually more than the bombast, for his Mahler 2, I was more annoyed by the complete…

It's typically the kind of movie I much prefer seeing in a theatre, the build-up of the wtf-ry, without the possibility of getting out of it (apart from physically going out) is one of the things that make it so great.
I haven't seen it since, and am not sure I want to (even though I actually bought the DVD), as I know…

Have you read something by him before?
I'm wondering what would be a good introduction.