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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I can get on board with that.

    PBM

    i hope you're just talking about his sincerity re: politics and not his music. i think his heart is still in the music.

    but no, we won't ever see the same intensity as we did in the 90's with him. i mean, his whole pro-choice display on unplugged was really something.
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  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    distantsun wrote:
    i hope you're just talking about his sincerity re: politics and not his music. i think his heart is still in the music.

    but no, we won't ever see the same intensity as we did in the 90's with him. i mean, his whole pro-choice display on unplugged was really something.

    I think the intensity is still there, its just different. Its not the youth filled angst that he once had, but he's still pretty passionate, at least as far as I can tell with the music.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I think there is a happy medium though...you can create art which examines the flaws and encourage intelligent communication.

    Doing that, while on a stage after 3 bottles of red wine, isn't a good start.

    PBM

    Yes, yes, yes. Yield is that middle point, Ed at his best is the middle point. When he spouts off bits he's read here and there... not so much :)
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    meme wrote:
    Yes, yes, yes. Yield is that middle point, Ed at his best is the middle point.

    To borrow from another period: "Smallest oceans still make big, big waves"

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    yosi wrote:
    I think the intensity is still there, its just different. Its not the youth filled angst that he once had, but he's still pretty passionate, at least as far as I can tell with the music.

    yeah, i agree. also, this is a good thing. no one wants to see a 43 year old guy acting/speaking like he's 27. that's when rock becomes cringeworthy, you know?
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    distantsun wrote:
    no one wants to see a 43 year old guy acting/speaking like he's 27. that's when rock becomes cringeworthy, you know?

    I don't know, I cringed a couple times at shows last year. ;)

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    meme wrote:
    Yes, yes, yes. Yield is that middle point, Ed at his best is the middle point. When he spouts off bits he's read here and there... not so much :)

    this middle point you speak of is what gave them the security to be comfortable. and from that, I think, came yield. the album. and also the ability to yield. obviously.
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  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I don't know, I cringed a couple times at shows last year. ;)

    PBM

    There were only 4 times I cringed at shows last year. The first three, were each time MMJ got on stage. That singer has the worst voice ever. The 4th time, was when some guy in Camden puked a couple of rows behind me and it started dripping in my direction. Yuck.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    yosi wrote:
    The first three, were each time MMJ got on stage. That singer has the worst voice ever.

    (audible gasp)
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    yosi wrote:
    There were only 4 times I cringed at shows last year. The first three, were each time MMJ got on stage. That singer has the worst voice ever. The 4th time, was when some guy in Camden puked a couple of rows behind me and it started dripping in my direction. Yuck.

    the fact that you like riot act and hate mmj is not surprising.

    at least you're consistant.
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    distantsun wrote:
    the fact that you like riot act and hate mmj is not surprising.

    at least you're consistant.

    Bravo!

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Bravo!

    PBM

    i actually didn't mean that as a dig!
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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    distantsun wrote:
    i actually didn't mean that as a dig!
    yeah suuurrrrre.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • BlkFlg1
    BlkFlg1 Posts: 156
    glasshouse wrote:
    dude, that is awesome! really!! i need to tune in here a bit more maybe.
    deep stuff

    let me just see if i have it right: there's a novel depicting a character called the master whose writing a story (within the story) about Pilate and his affairs relating Jesus and his (not Jesus's) dog????

    fuckin sweet. i want to read that book


    welcome to the level of discourse on this thread! well done, willis (likepilate)
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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    BlkFlg wrote:
    welcome to the level of discourse on thsi thread! well done, willis (likepilate)
    Thanks. It's about time we had a YFC book club.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • BlkFlg1
    BlkFlg1 Posts: 156
    seriously though, its obvious weve been gone for a while, this discussion is amazing!!!!

    again, like YIH says- we are classing up the joint.
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    Thanks. It's about time we had a YFC book club.

    Seriously, I know you've touched on the themes of The Master and Margarita before, but this has really interested me.

    To quote David Spade, "I am not much of a reader."

    Is it a difficult read or fairly straight-forward?

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • distantsun
    distantsun Posts: 265
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    yeah suuurrrrre.

    no really! i am not one to cause problems!!

    i just meant that the two make sense in terms of their styles and sounds. although i am no musicologist..

    :)
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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Seriously, I know you've touched on the themes of The Master and Margarita before, but this has really interested me.

    To quote David Spade, "I am not much of a reader."

    Is it a difficult read or fairly straight-forward?

    PBM
    I wouldn't say it's difficult, but it is all over the place. There are so many characters and ridiculous things that go on that I could see some people being turned off by it. On the other hand, it's so original that it probably captivates most people. (The people I know that have read it)

    Part of the thing is that it is translated and there is a good deal of political satire that falls through the cracks since we don't live in 1930s Moscow. I guess it's more like a dream, in all the imagery and wild things that go on. You'll take from it what you will.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    I would highly recommend to anyone that does pick up the Master and Margarita to use this site as a guide while reading:
    http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/russ...v/public_html/

    It has lots of pointers and that fill-in-the-gap information that help in the understanding.

    Luckily, I read this on my own and then read it again as part of a college course, so it's still pretty fresh in my mind.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.

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