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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,528
    Not bad! Still not enough for me to justify jet setting across the country.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    Much (much!) better setlist than last Sunday, imo.  Look forward to listening to the version of WES when it gets out there....
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    Who Ever Said!!! Nice

    Buckle Up is fucking awesome too. Fuck you to whomever disagrees
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    Yeah, Buckle Up = sleepy time.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yeah, Buckle Up = sleepy time.
    Beat it, Johnny Guitar
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    The Juggler said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yeah, Buckle Up = sleepy time.
    Beat it, Johnny Guitar
    Hahaha.  I don't love that tune but it smashes Buckle Up (For a Nap)

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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,911
    The Juggler said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yeah, Buckle Up = sleepy time.
    Beat it, Johnny Guitar
    Johnny Guitar is embarrassing for this band.  Buckle Up is just a snooze fest
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    edited October 2021
    Johnny Guitar is one of my favorites on Backspacer. Says more about my feelings on Backspacer than Johnny Guitar though. 

    As for the Phillies, hey, first winning record in 10 years. 

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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,358
    The Juggler said:
    Who Ever Said!!! Nice

    Buckle Up is fucking awesome too. Fuck you to whomever disagrees
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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,528
    edited October 2021
    Now that is less of a fest set last night, and right in my wheelhouse. Between the two shows it looked almost worth getting on an airplane. Margo Price on the bill made it very, very close.
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,528
    It good news there was an all out party of fireworks and cars doing donuts around cop cars at City Hall last night. I love this city, it's a damn shame the sportzball teams don't.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,026
    Jearlpam0925 said:
    It good news there was an all out party of fireworks and cars doing donuts around cop cars at City Hall last night. I love this city, it's a damn shame the sportzball teams don't.
    I will preface this by saying I love this city too and I doubt this conversation is going to go anywhere, but I am not a little bit of a fan of what is happening.

    Over the past 3 days...

    A 60+ year old was stabbed and killed in Queen Village

    Someone was shot and killed at the Wawa on Delaware Blvd, which as discussed is an absolute shit hole, but still.

    This terrible situation that happened at Jeff overnight.

    Not to mention there was a shooting with 20+ shots in broad daylight at 2nd and Tasker earlier this year on the exact route I take to pick up my daughter from daycare like 20 minutes before I walked by. I know there was one right by you too

    And I am not a fan of the dirt bikes.  Definitely old man of me, but my mother in law has been caught in them coming from Port Richmond to South Philly and was nervous for her safety on multiple occasions.

    In positive news, Johnny Doc goes on trial, though there is a 1% chance anything happens to him

    It's been a rough year for the city

  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,358
    How's it "old man" to be against allowing crazy loud polluting maniacs run wild all over the city with illegal vehicles? They are essentially terroristic.
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,026
    edited October 2021
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    How's it "old man" to be against allowing crazy loud polluting maniacs run wild all over the city with illegal vehicles? They are essentially terroristic.
    Yeah, I don't know. I don't feel like it is the popular opinion among a lot of progressives (probably not the right word), but I am with you.
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,528
    edited October 2021
    Conflating people in cars and dirtbikes with gun violence is dumb. Anytime the cops of this city are made to look like fools I'm a fan of.  Arrest rates for non-homicidal case are incredibly low. Somehow this is the DA's fault.....but but but Krasner. Nothing better than these dipshits making it political and saying "wahhhh our hands are tied." No, first, arrest people, then the DA does their job, it doesn't work the other way around. And tweets like these below by the sensationalist news love their relationship with the cops, while also using their dog whistles. Something not qwhite white about it, can't put my finger on it...





    Would it be better if everyone in Dilworth Park and drank wine on a picnic blanket and gazed at Billy Penn? Sure, maybe, depending.

    And you're right, I'm not getting into it re: the gun violence. It's almost like we're in a record year(s) of some kind of catastrophic global event happening that are making things worse for those on the bottom, no matter what city or country you live in:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/fbi-murders-2020-cities.html

    There wasn't one "near" me, it was practically on top of us. I have the video on my camera if anyone would like for their viewing pleasure. Wife and I watched the cops dump the kid's body into a police car and speed off. I talked to this kid's dad and told him anything you need we'll help with, whatever it is, we'll do, as awkwardly as we could.

    The only thing that was solidified for me re: shootings/violence as a statistic, is that anecdotes aren't proof of what is. But it is certainly true that every statistic is deeply personal.

    Also the crime/violence rates are still wayyy lower than they were at their peaks, not even close. It's almost like access to data and media of this shit all the time magnifies it all 1000x. I guarantee you there's been someone killed in QV, society hill, etc in more ways than one over decades. All the people that moved to Jersey and other burbs act like it was better in their time, I guarantee you it was not. Crime/violence stats in the 70's/80's/90's much worse.

    If these kids wanna do donuts at City Hall as a big F-U to everyone around them - especially the cops - I'm all for it. Much better than shooting guns. But to conflate that with legitimate violence is a problem, one that comes with a shit ton of privilege.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,026
    Sure and there is a privilege in the feeling that the violent walls are closing in on us personally, while half the city has dealt with it daily for decades. I don't deny that. And I am not conflating whatever happened at City Hall with the violence. I just saw one video and granted it looked pretty cool, but it reminded me of the dirt bikes, then read about everything that happened over the weekend while we were at the shore (again privilege that I am not denying) and wake up to the Jefferson news this morning, where my mother in law spends way too much time (often literally on the 9th floor). It's just frustrating and sad and scary and I can't imagine people that have to deal with this every day.  

    I am also not pretending I have solutions for any of this. I don't and I don't pretend to.  It's just very frustrating.

    I didn't remember but now I do about how bad the situation by you was.  It's sick and sad and terrible and that's huge of you.  And yeah, the pandemic clearly plays a role, but I don't know. There has to be more to it. I know one side is going to scream Krasner, the other side is going to scream cops...meanwhile we're going to see 500 murders this year, many of which are kids and innocent people and there are going to be church and community leaders on the news every night begging people to put down the guns.

    Queen Village was a shit hole 25 years ago. Prayer for a city is literally about the towers and now it's probably a top 5 expensive neighborhood in the city.  A little perspective is defintely needed. New York, Philly, etc. were all worse a long time ago. There is no denying that, and that's great, but it's just frustrating and scary and sad everything that has happened over the past 18 months.

    And I am not saying we need a city full of wine drinking, picnic basket carrying yuppies. What makes this city great is the culture. It's just a sad and frustrating year and yeah, it feels like it's getting closer and closer to home and it's scary. The video of the shooting at 2nd and tasker, there was a couple walking a stroller and ran down Tasker, the guys gets out of the car and shoot all over the place in the direction the people with the stroller ran (which was also the way the car they were shooting at drove). That is terrifying.
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,528
    Absolutely can be terrifying, as can many things can be. Believe me, I'm no way trying to belittle or trivialize these things. It is(was) especially hard for me to step back and rationalize things after the fact.

    Personally, I'm more scared of the shit bags who don't stop at stop signs or when I'm riding my bike in the bike lane and still get hit.

    Things will get better, I believe that. The further we get away from Covid (whenever that starts happening here), and hoping that another catastrophic once in a century event doesn't happen in that time, that we'll be better for it all. I can see my block, city, in 5 years and it looks great.

    I'm actually reading Prayer for The City now. Not sure if I like it or not.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,026
    No doubt and it's a good point that these things are likely lower on the risks of stepping outside, but it's different.

    I liked it. I read it probably in my first 5 years or so that I lived here so was a good history of the past 30 years of a place I didn't know as well as I do now.  I thought the Navy Yard stuff was super interesting and it's awesome to see what they are doing down there now. I lived in QV for ~7 years or so, so that was interesting to me too. I do remember it me taking a while to get through
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,235

  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,358
    Always up for people trashing Ben Simmons, Nelson Agholar, etc. on the news.
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