Big Al

I was too scared to listen to Metallica before Justice! I was afraid that if I listened to Metallica, my hair would grow long and I'd get acne and I'd look.... weird! Seriously, Cliff Burton looked freakin' menacing, like if you looked at him wrong he'd come down off the stage and beat the shit outta ya with his guitar. All the metalheads at my school looked like the guys from Metallica, like they could get you in a shitload of trouble if you hung out with them. And he was only 24!!! He looked like he was in his late 20's/early 30's. One scary lookin' dude, but that added to the effect. It sure worked on me.

Phil Keaggy's THE MASTER AND THE MUSICIAN 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

***SPOILER ALERT*** I agree, it's just that Swinton's character was someone so cold and vicious that we were disappointed that she DIDN'T get killed. For that matter, it's amazing Clooney and McDormand didn't get killed given that they were just as cold and vicious in their own ways.

Y'know what sux is that I didn't get into Metallica until Justice, so I missed them at their greatest.

I'll never forget doing homework while watching a football game on TV, and they actually interrupted the game to announce that Miles had died. I remember having the same reaction when Art Blakey died: just sadness that it was over.

Burton was to Metallica what Keith Moon was to The Who. He was, and still is, irreplaceable. Had he lived, we would've been spared a shit-"load" (so to speak) of embarrassing music and antics by the band that called themselves Metallica. Having said that, though, I think their new one, Death Magnetic, finally gets them back on the trail they were blazing with Justice, but even then, Justice is no Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets. At least with this album, I feel like Burton has stopped turning in his grave.

Thanks, ubu! It sure doesn't help that the Verve website's been down for the last couple of days.

Go Blue! Helluva comeback today by Michigan, down 19-0 at the half! Don't you know that guy who was flagged for "ineligible receiver" that negated Wisconsin's 2-point conversion to tie the game up is kicking himself right now! When is UT gonna play a real team? Friends of mine, the husband is an Aggie and the wife is a Sooner (OU). I hate it when they have a good football weekend, like they did today.

Getz/Gilberto from the Verve Originals series. claimed by trane fanatic

And I had just the opposite reaction in a way: my wife and I felt like we'd just watched another Fargo. The movie just seemed kinda pointless. The performances were good, of course. We also felt like Pitt's character was killed WAY too early. Tilda Swinton was such a bitch we kept waiting for her to get killed (I won't spoil it for anyone wondering if she gets offed or not). This is the second movie we've seen with Frances McDormand and really enjoy her acting; she has such a "lovable goofiness" (for lack of a better term), but at the same time it felt like she was just reprising her role from Fargo (or maybe extending it, like what might happen if that character divorced her husband and started a new life in Maryland). John Malkovich looks as he always does, like he's one hour away from dying. It wasn't the comedy I thought it would be, but it definitely had its laugh-out-loud moments.

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I've Googled "Verve Originals" and nothing comes up. The Verve website doesn't list it as a series. Even Amazon's list isn't up-to-date. Does anyone know what all has been released in this series?

Not a song, but a whole album: Getz/Gilberto Once "The Girl from Ipanema" starts, I leave the whole album on and remember why this is and always will be one of my top-five albums ever. Love to hum along with Joao when he sings (and occasionally I get some of the pronunciations right!).

Looks like the front-office has already written off next season as well.... With Tom Hicks running this team (into the ground), I feel like we have baseball's equivalent of the Detroit Lions. Sure there are worse teams than the Rangers, but every damn one of them that have been around a lot longer (and some not even as long) have won a playoff series, some even a World Series. As long as shit like this keeps happening and as long as Hicks/Hart is still running the show, it's gonna be a looooooooooooong time before we see any post-season play around here. I've said it before and I'll say it again: if I'm Michael Young, I'm calling my agent and demanding a trade right now to a serious contender. This guy's career is going to waste on the Rangers, and if he was on a respectable baseball team, he'd be infinitely more popular. Having said all that, GO CUBS!!!!

I did not know that. Man, I really feel sorry for Lions fans! You'll be pleased to know that victory (38-6 win in '91) was against the Dallas Cowboys! Everyone's a comedian....

From the story at nfl.com: I did not know that. Man, I really feel sorry for Lions fans!

har har...

That's one thing about being a Rangers fan: that's a phrase we've never had to use around here. Instead, we learned this phrase: "Second verse, same as the first"

Title says it all. I wanna trade my McMaster of THE SCENE CHANGES for the RVG. Thanks!

why? For being a prima-donna crybaby who couldn't accept that his former team had decided to move on without him; for acting sulky when Green Bay took Favre at his word, as opposed to waiting on pins & needles hoping The Great Brett Favre might change his mind, come back for one more season, and lead the Packers to one final Super Bowl before riding off into the sunset; for not staying retired, thereby shredding any sense of dignity he might've had beforehand. For starters....

I like the pictures. Those are cool.

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3 times in '99, '98 & '96 each time losing in the first round to the eventual champion Yankees. Their moment of glory was winning game 1 in '96 vs. the Yanks 6-2. It was a close series as game 2 went 12 innings. Game 3 took a 2 run on-the-road 9th for the Yanks to win. In the clinching game 4 the Yanks came back from a 4 run deficit. In 1999 the Yankees swept the Rangers in 3 games and allowed 1 run for the series! Thanks for the reminder......

Can't believe I forgot that. Well, actually, yes I can, since they've never won another playoff game since then.