There is a great bootleg called "Tales From Moondawg's Tavern" that is four or five CDs of songs, all with long introductions and stories. Absolutely fantastic. Another thing he says in his little se'f-introduction is, "Someitmes I talk for eighteen minutes and play for three".

Best Line Ever
"I'm sure she is but that's not all she is" from Just Like Old Times. So short but absolutely heartbreaking.

Lexi, I'm going to go back and reread this whole thread when I'm not jet-laggged as hell but I loved your comment about how the Beatles made it mandatory for bands to write their own music. I agree they killed the pop-songwriter model, but I don't think it stayed dead. I think Nashville Country is an extension of that…

What depresses me is that I think rock can't be saved anymore. Not that there isn't great music around; I think there are tons of bands in the last couple decades that had potential but (a) they don't get a chance to stay together long enough to grow and there is too much pressure to repeat what made them successful…

@ Powerez - You may know this, but you are not allowed to be without your weapon in a combat zone (depneding on the zone with various conditions). You have to carry it to the gym, the store, chow, everywhere. It gets old. What I remember most was on Sunday seeing some really cute young girl in her typical summer…

Actually, there is more alcohol in Iraq than in most muslim notions. Before our invasion, it was quite secular.

Where's the love
for Harper Valley PTA? What a great fucking song that was …. a nice little message that influenced my burgoning political sensibilities when I was young with a great hook and some absolutely KILLER guitar playing. And, one of the few songs of that error who's memory hasn't been raped by some awful…

The Wallmart thing was dumb ass but he did apologize. As far as Ticketmaster, he seems to be pissed off as hell about it so I wouldn't call it his antics.

Max's son can flat out pound the hell out of the drums. He played on about half the set when I saw them last week. Impressive. But, you know waht, his dad still kicked his ass.

Good thing you kept in shape with a few weak entries cause, cuz, you knocked that sonofabitch out of the park.

Good try pants, but you could have just printed Dylan's Lyrics to Tweeter and the Monkey Man. He already made fun of the Boss far more effetively than us mere mortals could ever do

Maybe everyone needs to keep a little perspective and remeber …. she's 21! (I think). Does she seem a little pretentious at times. Yes … she's 21! By the standards of 21 year old porn stars, she is remarkably together and intelligent. Is she perfect? No, she's 21 but she seems pretty cool to me.

Yes …. it's particularly cool when someone who lives in one of those nameless fucking suburbs of New Jersey 3 hours from manhatten is ragging on Charlottesville, Ashville, Boise, Santa Fe or any of the othr hundred pretty cool towns that people tend to forget exist

Leave Albuquerque alone! They ask "Red or Green?" with every meal and their baseball team is called the Isotopes. How can you not dig that?

You were much funnier on (drinks Diet Dr. Pepper) Dan Brown.

The diffeence is that Wierd Al has a recognizable, small talent - making cute disposable parodies of pop stuff - and milked his ounce of talent for all it was worth. Em on the other hand is drowning in talent - amazing wordpaly, a thousand different rhyme schemes - and is slowly wasting it.

@ I am Known. Sir, I accept my well-deserved mocking with humility and grace. I did indeed read a Dan Brown novel. It will never, ever happen again.

The Reason
that this movie "play's like a children's movie" is that the book reads like a children's book.

Words
"If say something, it's the truth. If I tell you I'm going to do something, I will do it. If I'm going to do something, I'll be prepared to do it, otherwise I wouldn't get into that area. "

@tropeof monkeys. Dude, if you had goten that one in, I would have burned my "I hate firsties t-shirt". Well played.