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Interesting - SW is doing a 5.1 remix of Close to the Edge! from Neil Wilkes (Opus Productions): I have just been told it is okay to tell you all about this at long last - so here goes. Featuring brand-new stereo & 5.1 mixes by Steven Wilson as well as some additional bonus material and the original stereo mix in glorious high resolution, "Close to the Edge" will be released in October this year. I cannot say too much more at this point in time, but will update this thread as & when I am able to do so. This has been a very long time in the making, but well worth the wait - the new mixes sound absolutely glorious!

Duncan and Kawhi Leonard played consistently for the entire series. The rest of the Spurs players didn't - they seemed to take turns getting hot. Problem is that nobody else was hot in Games 6 or 7, and Ginobili and Green were both VERY bad. Spurs should have won Game 6. For the Heat to only squeak out both wins on their home court with LeBron playing as well as he finally did, says alot for the Spurs.

I definitely agree on the first part. The Spurs lost that game more than the Heat won it, for a variety of reasons. Hopefully the second part is false. I see this as final game as a battle between the Spurs' intelligence and the Heat's (really LeBron's) energy.

How was the show? I'd love to see them again, after having seen Ely a few times solo since the last Flatlanders show here.

Lebron sits there and whines and flails his arms when he doesn't get a foul call. The other players have all run back down to the other end of the court and LBJ is still there jumping up and down and crying foul. Nobody does this as often as Lebron, in this year's playoffs anyway. I think part of why Ginobili traveled was because there was so much congestion and arms on him. Yes he traveled, but I think it was because he was being fouled at the time, so to me that's the correct call. Need to see more replay. Bosh also fouled on the last 3 point attempt by hitting Green's body before the shot, but the block itself appeared to be clean. However, Pop is still at least partly to blame for having Duncan on the sideline, when he could have been fighting for the rebound that Bosh got and kicked out to Ray Allen. Otherwise, despite poor play from Parker & Manu, poor foul shooting, poor officiating at the end, and a poor decision by Pop re:Duncan, the Spurs outplayed the Heat and shoulda won. On to Game 7!

I agree that Pop screwed up by not keeping Duncan in for rebounding, and that affected the outcome of the game. I also think the non-call on Ginobili on the Spurs' final drive was unforgivable. He should have been on the line shooting two (which he likely makes) and giving the Spurs the lead back, and possible clinching the game - who knows? Instead the non-call resulted in a foul the other way and the game for the Heat. Shame when the refs affect the outcome of the game as much as the players. What's worse is that is something that you can recover from in Game 1 or 2, but not Game 6 on the opponent's court, with a game in which you clearly played well enough to win.

Luckenbach, Texas - Population 3. 15 June. Pedernales Falls State Park, 15 June. Yours truly, exploring.

Happy Birthday!

I've got their other disc, "Talking Only Makes it Worse" (signed no less!), and it's pretty cool. Have to seek this one out sometime. I think I may have had it before when I was in a Charlie Hunter phase, but can't find it now.

Happy Birthday, Ray!

I liked this poster during the Pacers/Heat series:

Don't look now, but the Houston Astros are the hottest team in MLB at the moment, riding a 5 game winning streak! I'm shocked (SHOCKED, I tell you!) they've done that, but they've still got the 2nd worst overall record in baseball too, so it's hard to get too excited. Plus, outside of the season opening game against the Rangers, they haven't been on tv here in Corpus, so I haven't seen them play since.

Mine was too. He died from it at 56. Never got to meet any of his grandchildren. The thought of that happening to me is enough to make me never want to even try a cigarette.

It's interesting to see the opinions of this board on the JC thread that is linked in this thread. In particular one poster who belongs to both boards, who seems to particularly bash the O board, and yet posts and argues here constantly, and has done so for quite some time. If that person dislikes this board as much as he seems to indicate, it amazes me that he has continued to choose to be a part of this community. True colors, I guess.

I've seen Mike play in Austin at the Continental Club - his organ trios are fantastic! Need to get back up there and see them again (and pick up the cd, I'm a slacker!).

I don't think we have the chip n pin thing here - at least not widespread. It's Debit or Credit card (or cash) for most, that I'm aware of.

Are you really The Lil? Or just A Lil of many Lils? If you are The Lil, that's rather impressive, one should think.

Have a good one, Jim!

Ok, hasn't been much reason to check in here. I'm still doubting Goody's 3rd place finish prediction. 'Stros are 12-32, on pace for a 44-118 season. Ugh. 5 years away from being competitive, assuming everything breaks the right way. Not much incentive to make a trip to Houston for a game, which I used to like to do when I could. Gonna be a while before that happens again.

Happy Birthday, Chuck - wishing you the best for the coming year!

Happy Birthday, Larry! Thanks for all you bring to/share with this board!

What is this? Some sort of electronic tin-foil-hat device that attaches via electrodes to our noggins? <john tesh music>"...You will veer into the bike lane no matter what, but you will remain remarkably calm about it while doing so, biker present or not..."</john tesh music>

Buzzzzzz - I like that Hitchcock album, only one I have from your list. I ordered: Jukebox The Ghost - Safe Travels The Baseball Project - Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails Laika & The Cosmonauts - Cosmopolis Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing Bell X1 - Bloodless Coup

If anybody's interested, Yep Roc is having one of their semi-infrequent $5 cd sales. There's 100 titles available this time... List here: http://yeproc.11spot.com/sale.html