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If you'd like, I can get some more stats and show you exactly what style and color of Victoria's Secret panties that Ben Wallace wears...

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Spidey, I had some great trash talk for that, but I nearly offended myself.

It's not a chicken sandwich, it's a pair of championship trophies. If you can't tell the difference well it's no wonder your town doesn't have 'em.

 

Oh yeah, I like the talking of the shit too.  :wink:

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Hey, now! Do the Lions have 5 Super Bowl trophies?

 

Yes, I realize that doesn't apply in basketball, but it's all I got.

 

See, all great teams have that first championship season. We're witnessing ours down here. A 4th seeded 61 (possibly 62) win playoff team is going to mangle the opposition.

 

We just about owned the Spurs this season, even though we split 2-2. It should have been 3-1, but the Mavs missed the tying shot with 6.1 seconds.

 

Key stats:

 

In the Mavs' 2 victories:

 

................FG|3%|FT|TO|PP|Rb|OR|Score

Mavericks .51|.67|.73|12 |42|38| 14|103

Spurs ___ .41|.36|.85|19 |36|39| 14| 84

 

Mavericks .51|.43|.77| 9 |36|34 | 4 | 92

Spurs ___ .38|.50|.67|12|28|40 |14| 86

 

Average margin of victory +12.5

 

In the Spurs' 2 victories:

 

................FG|3%|FT|TO|PP|Rb|OR|Score

Mavericks .40|.36|.69|10 |42|46| 14| 90

Spurs ___ .47|.27|.65|10 |30|45| 8| 92

 

Mavericks .41|.19|.88|15 |46|42 | 8 | 89

Spurs ___ .49|.33|.72| 9|44|33 | 8| 98

 

Average margin of victory +5.5

 

In all 4 games, the Mavs scored more points in the paint, also known as "playoff points," because that's where the big men bang. The paint is supposed to be Tim Duncan's turf...that is, unless he plays the Mavericks.

 

And in each of the other categories, the Mavs have the advantage or the two teams are even.

 

2-2 for FG% and 3FG%

3-1 FT% going to Dallas

The Mavs had less TOs in 2, they tied in 1, and the Spurs had less in 1.

2-2 in Rebounds

And they are 1-1 for the Offensive Reb lead and they tied in the other 2 games.

 

So, not in any single statistical category did the Spurs ever have the advantage this season. The Mavs also win by a bigger margin than the Spurs, which means Dallas is in it and plays to the buzzer, likely taking the victory.

 

The Spurs don't scare us. They won't get to Detroit...unless they're buying their tickets!!! :cool:

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BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH Throw those stats out the window Spidey. The Playoffs is the Playoffs. Perhaps that is why your guys fold like a fucking lawn chair every playoffs. (Fuck I like to swear!)

Right now, I'm listening to Belle and....

 

Just kidding.

 

I'm listening to Exile on Main Street by the Stones for the first time!

 

So there you go.

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Ah, to be hearing one of the all time greatest albums for the first time. May the good Lord shine a light on you...

Twenty bucks plus those fucks at the Rock get you for parking. I have a great comic shop that is half the distance and I don't need to see Julie Newmar to (insert dirty thought ). Back in the day, we didn't play doctor. We played Batman/Catwoman, so as tempting as it is I'd rather meet folks for a drink and spend the $25 at the bar.

The odds of you making it through customs on the way back from Jamaica aren't good man.

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MOOOOOOON River!!!

Batman Year One - for clean straight forward super-hero storytelling

The Invisibles - for general weirdness and great storytelling

Safe Area Gorazde (or another Joe Saaco title) for the depth and potential of comics.

Big ass intergalactic space hero...well, he's an assassin really. He has these dreams of mass genocide, the wounds of those persecuted manifest in his flesh while he sleeps. He cannot rest until the source of this atrocity dies by his hand. just so happens he has the power of suns at his disposal too. That's handy, that is. So he goes around freeing persecuted peoples and killing the slave drivers.

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Nexus is one of the best comics ever. Steve Rude is a god.

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It's been awhile since I read Nexus. With the playoffs right around the corner, I may have to grab an armload of stuff Lou!

Word, the Cocteau Twins are my favorite band and I would have to have their tunes on a desert island. Problem is I'd have a hard time picking just one.

That's ubercool that spidey got to hang with them.

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Loucious, I've known you over ten years and I did not know this. I guess you learn something new every day. :p

Liz Phair had me for a lock with Exile from Guyville. I was a bit disappointed with Whip Smart but my god her next album Spaceeggwhatever ended any interest in her career.

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Loved Exile. I see her now and say, "Whaaa?". I wonder how it will sound to my daughter when she eventually finds it (hopefully in her late teen years (she's 6 now)). From what I read she wants to be Avril Lavigne. Why?

Absolutley. Most artists get more conservative as they age - not more experimental. And for this (amongst other things) I celebrate Tom Waits.

 

 

I also like his more "unusual" stuff best, I think it's fantastic he's still trying to make fresh stuff, rather than recycling his past.

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Hell, I'd be disapointed in Tom if he was retreading his past. His recent albums have some good tracks, but I don't enjoy them as much as earlier stuff (their not as good for sing-alongs in the car with the kids for one). Whether I like it or not Tom always puts together a thematically solid album. And he is still on my list of 5 people I'd have over for a BBQ.

I had high expectations to Garden State, having heard and read it hyped as delightful and quirky and very original in a number of places. I just found it kind of...meh...not bad, but certainly not very good either. Of course, I found Natalie Portman's character tooth-jarringly annoying, and wanted her badly hurt or possibly killed in some painful and drawn-out way, instead of the upbeat, quirky and charming character she was no doubt supposed to portray.

 

Having also been on anti-depressants for several years, I refuse to believe that Zach Braff's character would be able to just cold turkey quit taking the cocktail of anti-depressants he was on, without careful medical supervison and an adjustment period of several weeks, maybe months, judging from the side-effects I had every time I went without mine for just a day or two.  It took me about 3 months to VERY gradually ween myself off my drugs, and I wasn't even on a very high dosage in the end. Braff's character had allegedly been on multiple kinds of strong anti-depression since he was a child; just stopping taking them would be painful and very difficult, not really the kind of upbeat and life-affirming process portrayed in Garden State.

 

But opinions differ.

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Well he's not a doctor. He just plays one on television. Perhaps that isn't enough research for his script. :p

Tom Waits lost me after Swordfishtrombone or Frank's Wild Years whichever came last. He has gotten too "experimental" (read noisy) with his sound, and his writing isn't as good.

Brutal Youth was the last Evis Costello album I bought.  It wasn't bad, it was just by that time I was bored of his always clever wordplay.  With pretty much every Elvis Costello album you know it will contain a good deal of finely crafted and well-written songs, but that doesn't mean every new album will be fresh, exciting, or interesting.

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Totally agree. Elvis and Tom Waits are two artists who I have a great deal of reverence for, and their body of work speaks for itself. They have earned the right to release whatever they want, and I will check it out. But lately it has been BORING.

watched Blood Simple by the Bros. Cohen the other night. It's slow in parts, but so fun in others. It was one of those films I saw by chance when it came out and it really stood apart from the big budget hollywood crap I was used to seeing.

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Blood Simple is what i love about some film debuts.

The energy is incredible, I dont remember slow bits but hey.

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That good energy makes you forget. You remember the kick in the crotch scene, the burying alive scene, the knife in the hand scene, and M. Emmett Walsh's great lines, but forget the drags and somewhat mediocre acting. They did pull a Lucas and change the bar song from I'm a Believer to Same Old Song.

Watched Spirited Away last night.

 

Hell yes!

 

Out of the staggering 2 and 1/2 Miyazaki movies I've seen, I think this qualifies as my favourite.

 

The animation was gorgeous, the score was excellent, and it was so much fun to watch. It made me feel like a kid again, and that's what I think I liked most about it.

 

My love for Miyazaki has been steadily growing as of late, and I think I'm going to rent Kiki's Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbour Totoro, and Nausicaa soon, and binge off their goodness.

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Everytime I see a trailer I think to myself I have to rent that. Do you think my six yr old daughter would like it? She is very into Harry Potter and Narnia plus the animated Justice League.

We just got a new cable channel called indieplex. I watched Blood Simple by the Bros. Cohen the other night. It's slow in parts, but so fun in others. It was one of those films I saw by chance when it came out and it really stood apart from the big budget hollywood crap I was used to seeing.

As my current semester contains quite the workload, and I stopped reading for a couple days, leaving me completely forgetting where I left off, I decided it would be best to leave A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man until a more appropriate time.

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I left Portrait more than once for a more appropriate time. I may pick it up again someday. I'm reading a Philip K. Dick collection and thumbing through the Norton Anthology of American Lit. I'm looking to get my poetry groove on once again.

Back in the day I had a housemate that ran a record shop. He always had a big box of tapes by the front door for us to rumage through. One day I grabbed a soundtrack from a flick called "I was a teenage zombie". Never saw the movie, but the soundtrack was great:

1 I Was A Teenage Zombie Theme THE FLESHTONES

2 Have You Forgotten THE DEL FUEGOS

3 Neverland THE DB'S

4 Halloween DREAM SYNDICATE

5 Good Feeling VIOLENT FEMMES

6 I Know What Boys Like THE WAITRESSES

7 Time And Time Again SMITHEREENS

8 Why Do You Do LOS LOBOS

9 Stuff ALEX CHILTON

10 Vibrato In The Ghetto BEN VAUGHN GROUP

11 Nobody Knows Where Love Goes BOB PFIEFER

That Los Lobos tune especially caught my ear. I picked up Kiko, which blew me away. I've seen them just about every time they came through town ever since. A terrific band that despite getting older continue to put out top notch material. Other older bands (cough cough rolling stones cough) should take a cue and either put up or shut up.

Another soundtrack was also instumental in my musical formation: Times Square. I saw this movie on late night cable when I was 12 or 13. It was so so, but the music:

Talk of the Town - The Pretenders

Same Old Scene - Roxy Music

Down in the Park - Gary Numan

Babylon's Burning - The Ruts

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Grinding Halt - The Cure

Pissing in the River - Patti Smith

Life During Wartime - The Talking Heads

Pretty Boys - Joe Jackson

I Wanna be Sedated - The Ramones

Take This Town - XTC

It was an ear opening experience that forever changed my musical taste.

Oh, you poor little whores! The Mavs tore up the Spurs yesterday

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I thought that was your birthday present!!! A special treat from Tim, Manu, Tony, and the boys.

You want horror I'll give you horror.

 

Check out this YouTube video of a

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Dude, that gave me a bad case of the heebie jeebies. I had to look away.

another fantastic horror flick almost nobody has seen: Dellamorte Dellamore (US Title is  Cemetery Man). a combination of zombie flick and Lynchian mindfuckery starring Rupert Everett. it's a very loose adaptation of the Dylan Dog series of comics.

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Yes! Love that movie! And that lead actress! Woo-woo!!

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I seem to recall she had tremendous assets. :lol: :lol:

Dazzler---- Excellent, I think you're the first person I've seen talk about Luna or any Wareham project on these boards.  I fucking love their live album as well as the Wareham/Philips album.  I have every Luna and Galaxie 500 album and they are all excellent "make-out" cds.

I caught Luna on their final tour last year, and it was absolutly brilliant. They played every song I wanted to hear except Anesthesia, but they finished up with Indian Summer which I didn't imagine they would play. I don't have any Galaxie 500, but it's on the list. Do you have a suggestion?

Wilco - A Ghost is Born - Outstanding. Reminds me of a wake-n-bake with the sun coming up on the Utah/Colorado border.

 

This is shaping up as one of my favourite albums ever - I've been listening to it for about 2 years now, and I'm still finding new things to love. Glad to hear you're grooving on it.

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Yeah, I don't know how it took me so long to pick up on Wilco, but a great group. Ghost has pretty much been in constant play in my car and work truck. I've got a couple of Jeff Tweedy solo boots I'm going to have to relisten to.

My music budget cuts into my miniscule comics budget, so I love my public library.

These are my latest checkouts.

Mike Gordon/Leo Kottke - 66 steps - Good housecleaning music

Wilco - A Ghost is Born - Outstanding. Reminds me of a wake-n-bake with the sun coming up on the Utah/Colorado border.

Ryan Adams - 29 - Three great songs + Six pretty good songs=Twenty-nine

Paul Weller - Illumination - The man is smoov. I really like two thirds of the album. The rest is ok.

Son Volt - Okema & the Melody of Riot - I'm luke warm on it so far.

The Essential Pete Seeger - Purely educational in preparation for the new Springsteen album.

Fables of the Reconstruction - R.E.M.

London Calling - The Clash

Closing Time - Tom Waits

 

That third was tough. Thought about many many others, and changed it a few times. First two are no brainers though.

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That three could have easily been mine as well, but Foreign Affairs instead of closing time.

Bruce Springsteen & the E St. Band @ the Roxy 7/7/78 (bootleg) - simply one of the man's greatest shows. The reason I've been working on that time machine in my basement.

Luna - Live - I love live music and Dean Wareham turns a phrase like no other. Back in the day I always got lucky whenever I played Luna.

The Charles Mingus Quintet - Live @ the Cafe Bohemia - A band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline. Favorite track Jump Monk

Gentlemen, raise your glasses to one of the classiest guys in ALL of professional sports. A fierce defender, a clutch scorer, owner of the "rainbow and it goes", player of string music, assembler of champions, the man who led us out of the teal years, my all time favorite Piston, and now hall of famer: #4 out of McNeese State Mr. Joe Doooomaaaars.

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