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  1. Social Distortion, eh? I think I've heard of the band before, but not their music. But now I'm intrigued. Thanks for the recommendation, Slick, I'll give 'em a whirl.

    if you want to private message me I could send you Mommy's little monster. My brother seems to have stuffed his copy in my cd album. He usually gives me crap. It doesn't have the cd cover or anything just the disc though.

  2. rEmember when all street thugs included one guy with a mohawk. They all hang out at the local bar ready to divulge information to any strong armed super hero with tights who walked in. I'd really like to see a scene in a comic where instead of the tuffs wanting to beat up the super hero just laugh at his attire or tell him the transvestite bar is down the way. I think they could shame the hero out of the building.

  3. The released a new album last year. Their original guitarist died and put off the new disc for quite some time. Social Distortion is like Boston they take 4 to 8 years between records. Mike ness sort of models himself as a tuff 1950's thug.

    You might want to try out Mike Ness's first solo disc cheating at solitare. Social Distortions sound changes over time.

     

    first disc Mommy's little monster is a blend of pop,punk and metal. It really holds up well much better than some of their later stuff.

     

    Mainliner wreckage from the past:fantastic collection of their singles and b-sides

     

    Prison Bound- things slow down a bit. not my favorite but pretty much a blue print for their future sound.

     

    Social Distortion- I remember reading in the Washington post this would make them the biggest college band in the country. It has their biggest song Ball and Chain and a cover of the Ring of Fire.

     

    Somewhere between Heaven and Hell: sort of a more blues version of their last disc sounds lot like Mike Ness's solo disc. This is my favorite.

     

    White light, white heat: Social distortion revists it first album and updates it. This a very tight album with lots of great songs about drugs and racist's.

     

    Sex, Love and Rock and Roll: They jettson the punk revisitation for the Somewhere between Heavn and hell sound. The first and last song are totally amazing.

  4. Part of the problem is there really isn't any slow burn plot build ups in most comics everything just happens right away. For instance something like the character nimrod in x-men. He makes a brief appearance and over the course of god knows how many issue you slowly learn what his mission and capabilities are. Now you have plotting like Nightcrawler being a priest but a new writer comes along and wants him to fun again and just scraps it with an issue or two. I find most love interests now are pretty spontanious in comics as well.

  5. Husband defends his actions after killing his Ukrainian wife

    By Bo Rosser, Court TV

    Wed Aug 24, 6:15 PM ET

     

     

     

    MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (Court TV) — Although he is accused of terrible acts — murdering his much younger "mail-order" bride, kidnapping his young son — many of the questions facing Lester Stuart Barney during his second day on the stand were about actions he didn't take.

     

    "You didn't call 911," prosecutor Robert VanGilst said. "You didn't go in the day-care center."

     

    Prosecutors allege Barney lay in wait for his wife at a New Jersey KinderCare and attacked her with a steak knife as she was buckling the couple's 4-year-old son into his car seat.

     

    Barney maintains he was too befuddled to call police after a battle over the knife, but prosecutors say the defendant managed to return to the scene, take the murder weapon and close the door to the Chevy Cavalier.

     

     

    How, Assistant District Attorney VanGilst asked, did Barney have the wherewithal to take his son to McDonald's, buy him a toothbrush and gather his clothes, but not to call police?

     

     

    "I didn't make a lot of rational decisions," Barney said. "I tried to get myself together."

     

     

    Barney, 60, is charged with the first-degree murder of Alla Barney, 26, and kidnapping his son after the incident on Sept. 29, 2003. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

     

     

    Barney claims he acted in self-defense and called his lawyer immediately after the incident to say he was going to turn himself in, but police discovered him sitting in his car before he was able.

     

     

    As the trial's final witness for the defense, Carl Roeder, a lawyer who represented Barney in a domestic violence complaint, confirmed that Barney called the night of the incident to say he was going to turn himself in.

     

     

    "He said had been attacked by Alla while he was attempting to see or at least speak to her," Roeder said. "He wanted to turn himself into police."

     

     

    Roeder refuted prosecutors' claim that Barney killed his wife in a rage after a judge gave his wife temporary custody of their son and granted her a restraining order against him.

     

     

    "I had explained repetitively," Roeder said. "Final custody would be decided in matrimonial court."

     

     

    Both sides agree that the custody decision on the day Alla Barney died did not alter a previous agreement that had been in place for months. Thus, the defense concludes, Barney neither gained nor lost access to his son on that day.

     

     

    Solidifying the image of Alla Barney as aggressor, defense attorney Mike Riley produced a photo of Alla Barney's kitchen drawer, allegedly missing a kitchen knife. The defense contends Alla Barney packed that knife in her car and attacked her husband with it.

     

     

    "Take a close look at what kind of person she was, how she handled anger," Riley told the jury during his closing argument.

     

     

    VanGilst refuted the portrayal of Alla Barney as a violent woman, pointing to a domestic violence complaint she filed in July 5, 2003.

     

     

    "There was no physical violence on her part against him," VanGilst said in closing arguments. "This 5-foot-2, 109-pound woman didn't physically abuse this man. It's fantasy."

     

     

    VanGilst added that Barney's lack of control over the situation drove him to kill.

     

    "She's got the child. She's got the apartment. She's holding all the cards," VanGilst said. "And he doesn't like that."

     

    The couple met through an online dating site that pairs Eastern European women with American men.

     

    Jurors will begin deliberating Thursday. The verdict will be streamed live on Court TV Extra.

     

    More trial and crime news from Court TV

  6. i've had my e-bay account hijacked twice in one week actually 3 days. This is just horrible. I guess, i should of changed my e-mail account after the first hacking. I had a really complicated password full of symbols and capital letters and still got in.

     

    yeah, it souns like somebody has access to your email account, Lyra. that's not good.

    I know I changed my e-mail account and am going to call comcast about my current account today.

  7. This is true.  Brubaker has written one of the better story arcs in any title this year, and if he IS bringing Bucky back, at least he's doing it with some style and making it count.  I especially like the revelation that Bucky did a lot of the "dirty work" in WW2 that Cap couldn't/wouldn't do.

    The last Captain American Comics I purchased were the Gibbons Captain America lives 4 part series issues 18-20. I was very impressed with the covers, story and art. I guess what I would like to know is this new bucky series is supposed to be good? Is it Captain America or some different title? I'd love to know. thanks for any help.

  8. i've had my e-bay account hijacked twice in one week actually 3 days. This is just horrible. I guess, i should of changed my e-mail account after the first hacking. I had a really complicated password full of symbols and capital letters and still got in.

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