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The blackout of CBS-owned stations and Showtime on Time Warner Cable ended Monday when the two sides reached an agreement in their dispute, according to The Wrap.
The nearly monthlong dispute involved fees paid by the cable company to carry a channel's programming and control of digital assets.
A similar dispute between Journal Broadcast Group and Time Warner, which has led to the blackout of stations including WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) in Milwaukee on the cable system is in its 40th day. There has been speculation that Time Warner put negotiations with Journal Broadcast on the back burner while it focused on CBS.
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How do you cure 'cabin fever'?
Asked at Speedway Shell, 1733 Massachusetts St. on January 9, 2010
"Get me a hot chocolate with a little 'taste' in it."
"I play games like checkers and tic-tac-toe."
"Get outside, no matter what the temperature."
"Get out and go shopping or run errands."
H_Lecter 6 years, 5 months ago
Surgically remove it.
Catzilla 6 years, 5 months ago
Like Theotis and Bill said, leave the cabin.
Christine Pennewell Davis 6 years, 5 months ago
move to hawaii:) Don't I wish.
Christine Anderson 6 years, 5 months ago
Sleep. Sleep all day. Huddle underneath covers and watch dvd's of "I Love Lucy". Take Lunesta and sleep off break-up. Celebrate adult daughter moving home soon, as it means she is leaving bad relationship.Cry over man. Watch scary movies-laugh at them. Cry over man some more.
Rae Hudspeth 6 years, 5 months ago
What cabin fever?
As an introvert with a job dealing with folks on the phone all day, I'M LOVING THIS!
Movies, books, hot drinks, making jewelry, eating, all the treasures of winter hibernation.
PS.. We find shoveling the sidewalk and drive is a really fine antidote to being inside, makes us appreciate it that much more.
My sympathies to the hard workers who don't have the luxury of "cabin fever" and my thanks for being out there in service to our community.
Mary Darst 6 years, 5 months ago
Well, the sun is shining in the south, so I opened all my shades to the top. The sun is so warm and the house is bright, just that makes me feel not so shut in. Will be looking forward to next week. High in the 30's and low 40's. Will seem like a heat wave.
AnnaUndercover 6 years, 5 months ago
How to bust up cabin fever?! I go to the finer establishments of Lawrence, KS of course!
Aside from the various ballerinas in the area, I still really want to see that (upcoming?) flick "A Spacehog Christmas" that was proposed a few polls ago.
And Spacehog, if you do want to film it, I would definitely help you put together the Youtube version (from behind the camera, where my talents definitely lie).
jhawk0097 6 years, 5 months ago
Jerry has the right idea.
Tony Kisner 6 years, 5 months ago
Taken my Swiss Miss over to Mr. Hunter's house tomorrow.
SLOPOKE 6 years, 5 months ago
There is much healing in going out side where the sunshine off the new snow almost blinding me. This really helps my depression,the more light, the better I feel. I love it!!!!!! GOOD STUFF...
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jerry is the smartest man in kansas. bravo, my friend. bravo.
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The holiday shopping season kicked off early, as several retailers began offering deals on Thanksgiving Day. Many people complained about the early start and the mad rush for deals — yet they went out shopping anyway. Deals aren't over yet, as big retailers believe they must continue offering them to lure shoppers.
Here's how the start of the holiday shopping season played out. All times are EST, unless otherwise specified.
— Friday, 5 p.m.: Black Friday may be winding down, but deals aren't.
Despite signs that the economy is improving, big store chains such as Wal-Mart and Kohl's don't expect Americans to have much holiday shopping cheer unless they see bold, red signs that offer huge discounts. As a result, shoppers are seeing big sales events earlier and more often than in previous holiday seasons.
Read more at:http://bigstory.ap.org/article/americans-not-willing-spend-without-deals
— Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Retail Writer, New York
— Friday, 4:55 p.m.: Don't bother telling Santa what you want.
Victor Gonzalez, 36, and his wife braved a rare Southern California rain storm at Citadel Outlets. He said his kids all want the new Microsoft game console, the Xbox One, "but they're getting clothes."
"They're not going to be too happy about that!" he admitted, but said the kids already have an older-model Xbox "that works fine."
Meanwhile, Lois Scheer said her 11-year-old granddaughter wants "a computer" for Christmas, but instead she bought her a pink sweatsuit.
— Christopher Weber, Associated Press, Los Angeles
— Friday, 4:40 p.m.: Labor-backed groups target Wal-Mart on Black Friday
Labor-backed groups used Black Friday to launch demonstrations over wages and working conditions at Wal-Mart. They're also protesting what they believe is Wal-Mart's retaliation against employees who speak out against their jobs. Union representatives said there have been peaceful arrests in nine cities, including Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle and Sacramento, Calif.
But Wal-Mart said that only six workers have participated in demonstrations on Black Friday. The retailer has 1.4 million workers.
— Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Retail Writer, New York
— Friday, 4:05 p.m.: Formerly homeless man compares shopping frenzy to drug abuse
As Seattle shoppers cruised the sidewalks, Michael Wiggins stood in the crowd trying to sell a $2 newspaper that supports the causes of homeless and low-income residents. The 50-year-old himself was off-and-on homeless for 32 years but is now living in a condo with the help of rental assistance.
Looking around the crowds, Wiggins said he was concerned about the focus on spending and said it was sad to see people spending to potentially put themselves in debt.
"How are you getting ahead?" Wiggins said. "Why are you killing yourself for a pair of underwear?"
Wiggins said the shoppers were "fake" and not being honest with themselves. He compared their focus on acquiring items to how he used to abuse alcohol and drugs
— Michael R. Baker, Associated Press, Seattle
— Friday, 3:10 p.m.: Wal-Mart says 5 million shoppers took advantage of a one-hour guarantee program on Thanksgiving night. That's up from a preliminary count of 1 million. The strategy allows shoppers who are inside a Wal-Mart store within one hour of a doorbuster sales event to buy that product and either take it home that day or by Christmas.
Among the items: a $98 32-inch flat-panel LED TV.
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The putrefying stink of this past election, gets smellier as it's rotten cesspool is uncovered.
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This is exactly the kind of leadership we need and that is exactly why the Democrat Party of total corruption cannot allow this man to shed the light on all the evil they do in the dark. Obama is just the biggest turd floating on the top of that rotten cesspool ancientwarrior so apply referred to. These swine have ruined everything good in this nation. They will thrust the sword through the heart of America to finally destroy this great nation.
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OT – I was reading a comment on ACE about the lastest update of adding in Gen. John Allen into the mix with 20,000 to 30,000 emails and documents. This comment made me laugh!
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At least no twitter pics have surfaced. Yet.
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I posted this to the wrong topic. Was supposed to be posted re Petraeus. And now I learn that there are some twitter pics. I can be more wrong.
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LOGAN, Utah - Utah State University Director of Athletics Scott Barnes announced Tuesday a gift of $1 million from David Miller, Chairman and CEO of Hawks Bay, LLC, to help fund construction of USU's new strength and conditioning center.
Miller, who is a 1987 Utah State University Alumnus, also serves on the National Advisory Board for Aggie Athletics.
"Scott Barnes and President (Stan) Albrecht worked very hard to get Utah State into a better conference and I think it is only appropriate that all Aggies, including myself, step forward financially to whatever degree they can to help support USU Athletics and give the student-athletes every opportunity to compete at the highest level on their fields and courts," said Miller.
The $6.4 million, 21,000 square-foot strength and conditioning center was anchored by a $4.5 million anonymous lead gift and is expected to be completed in April of 2013, just in time for Utah State's official move to the Mountain West Conference on July 1, 2013.
All funding for the new strength and conditioning center came from private donations.
"This initiative simply wouldn't have gotten out of the blocks as early as it has without Dave's significant gift," said Barnes. "We can't thank him enough for his generosity. The timing was incredibly important in moving forward. Dave's loyalty and passion for Aggie Athletics and Utah State University is infectious."
The new facility will feature areas for weight training, cardiovascular workouts and speed and agility training, as well as offices for staff. Built on existing university property at the northwest corner of Romney Stadium, the state-of-the-art multi-level facility will alleviate overcrowding in the existing 5,800 square-foot strength and conditioning center and will accommodate almost 400 athletes from 16 sports programs.
This project is the latest in a series of recent athletic facility improvements at Utah State. In 2008, the University completed construction on the 69,000 square foot Jim & Carol Laub Athletics-Academics Complex. In 2009, USU opened the Steve Mothersell Athletics Hall of Honor as well as its new off-court basketball facilities, which include the Nate and Heather Wickizer men's basketball and MerLynn Pitcher women's basketball locker rooms. In 2010, USU opened the Dr. Randall and Julianne Stockham Student-Athlete Academic Hall of Honor and in 2011 a new synthetic turf was installed in the Stan Laub Indoor Training Center.
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He's not even 100-percent certain that GSP won't be moving up in
weight to fight Anderson
Silva next, but he'll be studying the champ anyway in hopes of
fighting him this year.
In a recent interview with the Sherdog
Radio Network's "Beatdown" show, Hendricks discussed the
possible matchup, St. Pierre's role in the next "Captain America"
movie and more.
On whether he thinks St. Pierre will look to wrestle with
him: "Yeah, because that's his bread and butter. I don't
think he wants to stay on his feet for too long knowing that he
does get caught and he can be dropped. Knowing that right there, I
think he's going to try to do a little bit of wrestling with me.
The only thing is, my wrestling, that last fight really boosted my
[wrestling] confidence into the MMA world. How my wrestling looked
in that fight and how many takedowns I got and how I used my hands,
now I'm starting to understand.
"If you watched that fight, Carlos
Condit did a great job covering up, but it left his legs wide
open, and that's really why I was doing so many takedowns is
because it's hard to give that up. I know my wrestling is strong. I
know MMA's a little bit different, but the difference is that I'm
not scared to get punched. I think that's one reason why it's
harder to take me down, and GSP, he covers up pretty good. I think
I'm going to use that and I'm going to use my left hand also to set
up some of the takedowns."
On St. Pierre's style: "I think I know it fairly
well. I want to know it extremely well. We got to study it for,
let's see here, about two weeks before I found out Nick Diaz was
going to get to fight him, and then the fight before that, it took
about two weeks before I found out that I wasn't going to get to
fight GSP. I've got about a month under my belt on training, but
now that I really get to sit down, man, I just can't wait to see if
I still remember it, for one. Two, to see if some of the things I
saw live happens in the Nick Diaz fight. Also just to study my
tapes. More or less, I'm more excited to study my tapes because
there's some things I did all right and there's some things I
didn't do very well and I really want to dissect my tapes before I
even get to GSP."
On waiting to fight St. Pierre: "Don't get me
wrong. It's getting irritating that stuff keeps popping up, but
you've got to keep your cool because whenever I do get to face
Georges St. Pierre, if I don't keep a level head now, whenever I go
out to fight him, you might be so amped up and ready to fight, you
can't think about what you're supposed to do in the Octagon because
of all the things that have happened. What I have to do is, I just
have to sit back and relax and say, 'Hey, I can't control that.'
The only thing I can control now is that I am the No. 1 contender.
I can go into the gym. While he's doing a movie, I'm going to be
training for GSP."
On not being a major underdog according to current
odds: "That's pretty exciting to know. A lot of people
believe that I can win this fight. It's nice to believe. I believe
I can win this fight. If I don't believe I can win this fight, then
I shouldn't be fighting him. I shouldn't be fighting in general. So
I believe I can win this fight, but knowing that there's that many
people out there that believe I can win it as well, that's great.
That's reassuring. It just helps build your confidence as
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i cant truthfully say i like every one i own, some i bought to check out and didn't care much for like D.N Angel or Reborn! but these days i usually just check out some chapters online but if im familiar with an author i'll still do the odd blind purchase.
as ZepysGirl says theres varying degrees of fondness for each title but personally i just love having a big collection (although it can stand to be alot bigger)
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Ah, well I have the tendency to buy what is recommended, or if the cover looks pretty, etc etc but when I try to read, I have the hardest time getting through the pages. So I sometimes wonder if at 900 vols I have titles I want to chuck, how can someone with 2000 (and I'm talking translated mangas which are limited to begin with) like all their stuff?
@Rammsoldal: see, that's what I'm getting at... we're collectors; we like big collections. Maybe that's the real reason why half our stuff is there
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I make an effort not to keep anything that I don't like. Sometimes I wish my collection were smaller, but there seem to be few titles right now I'd like to get rid of. Sure, sometimes I'll get something for cheap and dislike it, that goes right onto the sell/trade shelf for me, so I don't count the things there as part of my collection per se. Actually, I made a list, of why I enjoyed every series in my collection, but more importantly, how happy it makes me to have it in my collection. Some were obvious keepers from the very start, but some made me realize that no, I'm just keeping this around for the prestige, and I don't like doing that.
I'm at about 900 myself I'd say. I do make a fair number of blind buys (if they're cheap), sometimes these decisions will end poorly, but then I also got all of Fruits Basket for around $75, and that ended up going very very well. If they end poorly I will do my best to sell them off or trade them.
But I do agree that it's not possible to like them all equally. I think the only reason I keep around Osamu Tezuka's Lost World is because I kinda collect Tezuka at this point (damn I want the bilingual Crime and Punishment so badly!) I think if my collection ever gets to 2000, that'd be cool, but I'm in no rush.
But for people who can read another language and who have easy access to manga in that language, I can understand their collections being bigger. You can't get Rose of Versailles or Tomorrow's Joe in English, but you can get them in French!
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|@classicalzawa: wow, you make a list of why you like them? I make a mental sweep across my shelves going, "Like, like, meh, like, meh..." whenever I run out of space and need to chuck some. I totally keep titles for their prestige too. There are ones I kept because they make my collection look smarter. But I gave up on that. There are also ones I hoard because they're rare imports. But in a fire I'd probably grab my smutty Totally Captivated at the expense of the others
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^It's something I tried for the first time. I've since tossed the list though. But I think it's still how I'd do it in the future.
Actually I do keep a full list of all my titles and when I want to re-read something but can't decide what, I find a random number generator online and ask it, lol.
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|My collection looks so small next to ya'lls. I only have about 50 volumes, with Saint Tail coming in the mail. So about 60 after that. I'm a little jealous, no lies.
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Every single one? I can't say that I do, but I can say for certain that I do like at least 95% of them. For those that I don't like, it's not that I bought them and hated them. That would be silly to buy a title I hate. Rather, they started off good, but the way they proceeded really made me lose interest in them, and in the case of an author or two, swear off from buying any more of their works. Live and learn. Anyways, the vast majority of my collection I'm quite glad I have, so I don't regret the few stinkers I have in there.
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|Sailor S - Which would you say are your stinkers then? I own ~800 volumes and whilst some series are better than others, I'm glad that I have them all. I've sold/traded things off over the years, mainly yaoi that I didn't care for anymore, but a few shoujo series as well. I also gave up on Bleach after the Soul Society arc.
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We all start small, so don't worry. Mine kinda shot from your number to 900 in a year and is now plateauing. So yeah, don't do what I do -___-
Having so many so quick made me feel manga-saturated to the point where I'd gobble up volumes for quick plot progression rather than enjoying the pace and artwork. I think I was trying to make up for lost time haha
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That's what happens when you get to point I'm at (with books in general, not just manga), with my collection nearing 750, not being able to micromanage, for lack of a better word, each series. What I do is try not to start too many new series. Collecting can be addicting, and frankly, I've only started series based on my means to be able to. The only series I've started that I weren't familiar with before are Blue Exorcist, Karakuridoji Ultimo, and Psyren. The series I do have that I'm keeping up on, including those three, are Tegami Bachi, Yotsuba&!, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Naruto, Bleach, Pokémon Adventures, Durarara!!, One Piece, Bakuman., House of Five Leaves, Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx, and Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal. Those include four series that have gone on for forever, with the rest besides Bakuman. being small series only thus far. I'd appreciate it if Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece were to end, as it would allow my collection some great comfort as far as growth is concerned. Two of those small series are to end within the next two months, Bakuman. is projected to end next March, by then cutting the sixteen down to thirteen. Blue Exorcist, Karakuridoji Ultimo, Yotsuba&!, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, and Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal don't have patterned release dates either, which makes, by March, only six of those series above regulars. Those ones that lack a pattern tend to release in few and have much time between them, which is kind of nice, because it does allow me to focus for the most part on those up-keeping series and revisit, in a way, those irregulars when they do come out.
...And when a series does end, it means you can look forward to the future, and how you may forget about the series, revisit it, and remember the reasons why you purchased it in the first place. ^^
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I'd have to say largely the works of Rie Takada. I liked her works at first, but a little goes a long ways, and they all come off as feeling the same. Another one I'm kind of burned out on is Arina Tanemura. I really enjoyed Full Moon wo Sagashite, and I still do, but her later works after that, I guess she's just not very good at making distinctive characters. The characters from one work look almost exactly like characters in the next work. About the only difference is a change of clothes.
There were some series that I voluntarily dropped too, like Boys Be and Cromartie High School. Those just didn't click with me in manga form, even though I enjoyed the anime of both of them. Maybe it was just the wrong time for me to read them and perhaps I'd find them more enjoyable now, but especially in the case of Cromartie, I suspect it would be difficult and expensive to find.
That's really all that's jumping out at me without actually looking at my collection. For the most part while not every other title is a knock my socks off classic, I find enough elements in them to enjoy that I feel they were worth the purchase.
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|When you have over 1000 manga, and you also are a big book worm in general, moving is NOT fun. I think next time I move I'm just going to hire movers.
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@Sailor S: I know what you mean about Tanemura. She draws very pretty stuff, but her story is lacking. I only own Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne and Full Moon and even those didn't make an impression.
@Littlegreenwolf: moving, 1. fire-hazard, 2. But books are so much better when you can flip them in your hand. Plus you can't exactly wave your Ipad around and be like, "look at my collection!"
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Oh yeah, definitely, I never want to get rid of my books. But last move I made I had five friends helping me (promised pizza and beer) and 20 or so boxes of books in they had an outright hate of books, cause really, you can only really use mid-size to small boxes for them because a box full of books will get really heavy. Final count they did was forty something boxes of books, the majority of which were my manga collection. It'll be hard to get them to help next time I move.
I'll take a photo of it sometime soon. Not as large of a collection as some of you but I did hit a thousand a couple months ago.
Then there's doujinshi, and artist books, and I dunno if CLAMP junk counts either.
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I'm envy of all this manga!
I look forward to building a nice collection.
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Thursday, 23 June 2016
The author Robert Harris tweeted last week 'How foul this referendum is. The most depressing, divisive, duplicitous political event in my lifetime. may there never be another'. Which just about covers it. Nigel Farage has forced a 'discussion' into public, a discussion which has unleashed all kinds of racist and xenophobic forces which have at least partly contributed to the murder of MP Jo Cox last week. Farage is a political charlatan, a fraud, a man who basks in a man-in-the-street image despite a wealthy, privileged background. A demagogue who hates the EU yet is paid by it, who represents constituents at the European parliament but rarely goes. A man who poses in front of Nazi inspired posters and complains that the murder of Jo Cox has 'taken the momentum out of the Leave campaign'. On every and any level, he is a disgrace.
David Cameron has to take the blame here too- despite being the leader of the Remain campaign, he is the one who called this referendum, a cynical response to the rise of Ukip and the defection of Tory votes, a piece of political opportunism that has blown up in his face, shown the cracks in his party and that he'll pay for politically at some point, win or lose.
Let's Kiss And Make Up
This is original The Field Mice version covered by St Etienne with their Eurocentric cover art.
A vote to Leave is a backwards step, a vote for a past that doesn't exist. I can't see any positives in leaving. Taking back control, taking back sovereignty is a smokescreen- how is leaving the 'undemocratic' E.U. increasing democracy in a country which has an unelected second chamber and is a constitutional monarchy? My vote today is to Remain. Let's stay together.
Enough preaching.
Stay is off Bowie's Station To Station, sometimes my favourite Bowie album. The choppy guitar part, Carlos Alomar I assume, is wonderful.
And finally Portishead have released this cover of ABA's SOS, a tribute to Jo Cox.
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Labels: abba, carlos alomar, david bowie, jo cox, politics, portishead, robert harris, st etienne, the european union, the field mice
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Music's Not For Everyone Reprise
June edition, Andrew Weatherall, Music's Not For Everyone. You know the drill.
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Burn Me Out Or Bring Me Home
This picture is the Bagging Area eye view as I Wanna Be Adored kicked in on Sunday night and the rain continued to fall, Mani playing that two note intro and Reni thumping the kick drum. After those few seconds most of song, occasional bits of guitar aside, was inaudible. The crowd drowned it out. We were down on the pitch, jammed in tight, a sea of hands in the air and multiple arses sitting on the shoulders of others. Flares and coloured smoke all over the place. This is the gig as event, as spectacle. The following few songs were bellowed equally loudly- Elephant Stone, Sally Cinnamon, Sugar Spun Sister, Bye Bye Badman, Mersey Paradise, Where Angels Play. These songs aren't really built for stadiums, they're made for bedsits and back rooms, and playing them to 55, 000 people inevitably pulls and stretches them about as much as they can take.
It's difficult to pin down exactly why this particular group have struck such a chord. The Heaton Park gigs four years ago were mainly attended by the thirty to fifty-somethings. This one and the three nights before it were half-full with kids, wide eyed at their parent's heroes. There are groups with bigger back catalogues and with better singers. The Stone Roses are pretty uncompromising and unhelpful- no press, no concessions to the game- and surly with it. Ian speaks barely a word to the crowd all night except for a late dedication about father's day and three words to introduce All For One ('All For One' he says). If they hired an open topped bus and drove through the town centre I've no doubt thousands would turn out to cheer them. I can't think of another band so geographically defined who inspire so much adoration, the crowd willing them on at every turn. They've got some indefinable quality and the crowd fully expect to play their part. At times the scenes on the pitch are close to mayhem, the air thick with all kinds of smoke. But the PA is too quiet and the crowd too boisterous to really listen to the band- you can enjoy it, be part of it, soak it up and have a party, but not really listen. It seems much of the time we have paid £65 to listen to the people around us sing. The only song that gets anything close to an audience shrug is Begging You- and its a wild, squally live version well worth sticking with. On the other hand the visuals are stunning. The massive screens show close ups the band and crowd shots with Squire's artwork dripping and sliding over the top, trippy and brilliantly clear.
The band- John, Reni and Mani- are super tight and locked in. Squire in black jeans and leather jacket, hiding behind long hair and beard, peals off riffs, solos, chords and notes, switching from rock to funk to psychedelia but with hardly a flicker of emotion. Reni is like no other drummer on earth. Mani stands still, occasionally grinning. Ian's vocals are low in the mix and he sings fine, only really going astray on Made Of Stone. Most of the time, the crowd sing for him and with him. There are some real peaks musically- Fool's Gold is shimmering funk with a jawdropping extended section. Shoot You Down shows exactly how subtlety can work in a stadium, Reni and Mani's shuffling rhythms overlaid by Squire's restrained Hendrixisms and the crowd allowing the vocals to be heard. Waterfall is everything it should be, liquid and joyous, a moment in life turned into song. It segues into Don't Stop, the backwards psychedelia spinning out into the masses. During She Bangs the Drums I actually get a little choked up, a song about the beauty and confidence of youth being sung back by a mixture of the young and less young. Breaking Into Heaven is heavy and menacing, the difference between the lightness of the first album and the darkness of the second obvious. This Is The One is the highpoint- Squire hits the opening, chiming notes, the band totally in tune with each other and Ian in the groove, a song that shows that they wrote some affecting street poetry back in the late 80s. It really is The One. After that, as expected, it's I Am The Resurrection. Reni plays an introductory drum solo, rolling round the kit before hitting the opening beats as Mani joins in. The versus and choruses are once again inaudible as the crowd takes over. Then the wig out. The band take a bow, hug and join hands at the lip of the stage, finally departing as fireworks explode, a little limply, behind the stand. To our right a man drops down on one knee, produces a ring from his inside pocket and proposes to his girlfriend. The band have gone. Beautiful Thing rings out over the sound system. The lights come on. She accepts. Everyone nearby cheers and offer handshakes and pats on the back. That kind of night.
In truth I thought Heaton Park was better (and I'd far sooner see them indoors, in a much smaller room like at Warrington in 2012 or Halifax last week). I'm not sure I'd go to see them at this kind of gig again, much as I would hate to not go. As I said at the start, there's something about many of these songs which is the opposite of stadium rock. They're personal, little jewels that shine brightest when the subtleties can be heard. But they were ripped off first time around, still making not a penny on that first album, the one their entire reputation is built on. Who can blame them for wanting an easy payday? There will be 16, 17, 18 and 19 year olds last night who got their heads re-assembled in a new order, seeing things differently today. There are forty somethings who missed out who got their chance. And there's something about the late 80s sense of togetherness and optimism that has survived, briefly resurrected for two hours in the rain in a run down corner of East Manchester.
Breaking Into Heaven
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Monday, 20 June 2016
Tied Up
The 1990s frequently brought together strange bedfellows in remix terms- this 1994 release saw Spiritualized take on the Leeds bleep techno of LFO. Nine minutes of white noise and ambient drones. Lovely stuff.
Tied Up (Spiritualized Electric Mainline Remix)
Labels: LFO, spiritualized, warp records
Sunday, 19 June 2016
Revolutionary Generation
I'm going to see The Stone Roses in a football stadium today. Reports from the first three nights have ranged from 'great' to 'a religious experience'. Nothing if not enthusiastic, Roses fans. The support acts today are The Courtneeners (no interest from me I'm afraid, generic northern rock band) and Public Enemy (lots of interest from me, groundbreaking hip hop band who remain untouched in their field). Fear Of A Black Planet, their 1990 album, is a must own record from 911 Is A Joke to Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man, Brother's Gonna Work it Out and Fight The Power. And this one, which samples Musical Youth and Parliament...
Revolutionary Generation
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Labels: public enemy
Saturday, 18 June 2016
Psyche Out
Looking for something in this blog's back pages I was amazed to find that I've never posted Andrew Weatherall's 1990 remix of Meat Beat Manifesto. It doesn't have the 'everything and the kitchen sink' of his other remixes from this period being a more stripped down affair- some mangled harmonica, a rough two note bassline, a sampled moan and a definite foreshadowing of his later techno work. One for the floor.
Psyche Out (Sex Skank Strip Down)
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harvey is definitely the guy to own in this situation but i think there will be a good sell high for harvey at some point. hes balling and looking like he could break out but that doesnt always translate to a good second half (sale and strasburg last year)
Run to the bank, that's a good deal. People need to keep in mind that while Harvey is mowing people down now, he may see a bit less dominance once teams have seen him a 2nd or 3rd time.
Take him to the bank!
whoever gets harvey is winning that trade by a lot
I would want the Harvey side not much faith in Fowler
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Fowler is on pace to hit 200 HR...which means he will come back down to earth very soon. Harvey is a beast. Harvey will almost certainly have over 200K this year with a low ERA & WHIP.
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Hi Diane - You really have captured some beautiful Colorado images here. Wonderful photography. I really enjoy Garden of the Gods photos as I too got the opportunity to visit and capture my own set of blissful images. I do like this one with the fog and ice. A different perspective. L/F
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My kind of photo, it makes me want to go there.
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Every brain is 'spiritual', even those without a god presence. (or maybe especially those, as the god types don't indulge in original thinking!)
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We are a group of people in Essex, and in some cases beyond, who have no religious faith but support the principles of Humanism, including:
An approach to life based on humanity and reason
Decisions based, not on any dogma or sacred text, but on the available evidence and our assessment of the outcomes of our actions
Belief in individual rights and freedoms
But also that individual responsibility, social cooperation and mutual respect are just as important.
Our main monthly meeting is in Chelmsford on the 3rd Sunday of the month. We also have local discussion groups in North Essex, Southend & the London Borough of Havering.
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