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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
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Uh, no.
Thank you for playing.
Pet Sounds, according to numerous interviews with Paul, was the inspiration for Sgt. Pepper. It came out a year before Pepper.
Many were knocked out by Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds at the time, itself a conceptual break through album of emotional content.
As to Sgt. Pepper, and this general topic of overhype, I can't disagree more. Far from overhyped, it is still a pleasure to listen to. Deals with a lot of interior content, even of the fictional characters. That's not cold, that's human. Plus early psychedelic spirituals like "Within You Without You".
A breakthrough production, prehistoric technical wizardry, it was a new way for rock and classical.
AN' I like it, like it, yes, I do!
That hot saxophone duet! I liked it better than the show!
Also, "Seventy-Seven, Sunset Strip"! (You meet the highbrows and the hipsters; the call girls and the phony tipsters. You meet most every kind of girl and guy, including a private eye!)
And as an artifact of the primordial music video age, don't forget "The Monkees".
And finally, two words: "Perry Mason". that was such a powerful opener, that as a little kid of about 5 or 6, long before I was old enough to enjoy the show, I would "mime" Perry's actions to the music.
And I may as well throw in "Peter Gunn".
No matter how the Ds scratch and fight and rumble and grumble, if any of them meet Bill Clinton, they say "Thank you, sir." He's a liability to virtually no Dems.
All the rest are very possible.
And, BTW, Tangerine, I like the "Republican clown car o' candidates" line, and have used it in numerous LTEs!
...as opposed to Paglia's fat-headed drivel.
Can't she be put to pasture with a lifetime supply of impressionable LUG coeds to wow?
I can't even bring myself to read her for the pleasure of dissing her self-important blather. Couldn't even skim more than the first half page.
Waste of pixels.
The concept of America as a nation of wimps merits exploration, but Strasbaugh blows the interview by getting too taken with his own outrageousness. Kind of abandons a neat premise in favor of currying cheap, Coulter-like gasps from the audience. The intellectual consistency just ain't there.
But we are a nation of snivelling twerps and knee-jerk cowards. I guess that was George W Bush's most spot-on assessment of the national character.
It's my unprofessional opinion that I read about male teachers being punished more severely than female teachers. My impression is that they draw about double or more, the sentence that women get in teacher/student sex cases.
Has anybody studied this aspect?
Dogs should not live in excrement and urine soaked filth.
These people obviously have more dogs than they can handle. They should try to find a new home for at least the youngest and healthiest dog, or, for the most purebred dog - most breeds have rescue societies to find homes for needy pups. They might try to do this with TWO of their dogs.
The remaining dog(s) could be kept closed in one room when the couple is out, and then they can walk the dogs when they are home.
Then they need to learn to train a dog - which makes the dog healthier and happier. If the best they can do is a lame-assed "They are pretending to be house trained", they should find new homes for all three dogs. They can have a pet when they are grown up adults.
It's one things to be a victim of your own slovenliness; it's quite another to make innocent dogs your victims.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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