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by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:50:39

CrashburnAlley wrote:

It strikes me that there's overlap between making mistakes and learning and getting laid.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:52:10

jerseyhoya wrote:The best part about coming home for the weekend isn't helping my dad empty the attic so they can move.

Is he paying you at all? I helped my parents move, and dad gave me like $100 (I was in grad school). I later realized he was paying me less than he'd pay an illegal immigrant.

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:58:04

No, but I did have some of his Sierra Nevada last night.

by **MrsVox** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 13:48:51

viva technology!

i'm workingout and surfing bsg

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 14:10:08

i kissed a squirrel

by **CrashburnAlley** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 14:35:14

Houshphandzadeh wrote:i kissed a squirrel

Did you like it?

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 14:36:08

i'd do it again

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 15:23:08

Houshphandzadeh wrote:i kissed a squirrel

YouTube link...

by **Barry Jive** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 15:27:04

i've had "Ballad of a Thin Man" running through my head today even though i haven't heard it in at least two weeks. weird.

by **Barry Jive** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 15:31:17

Weird but awesome, by the way. I don't know what it is (heh) but Dylan has gotten better every time I've ever listened to him. I've always liked him, but I like him more and more all the time. Maybe he's kind of an acquired taste, but only in the sense that he goes from "good" to "great" instead of "bad" to "good."

by **CrashburnAlley** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 18:31:42

It's so refreshing to have project partners who are competent and actually respond to e-mails and text messages, and show up at group meetings, and put in a fair share of effort. They're one in a million, I'm telling you. :shock:

by **ReadingPhilly** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 18:36:34

CrashburnAlley wrote:It's so refreshing to have project partners who are competent and actually respond to e-mails and text messages, and show up at group meetings, and put in a fair share of effort. They're one in a million, I'm telling you.

i swear group projects cost me .1 or .2 on my gpa

by **kruker** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 19:46:59

If I don't edit my posts, I use the word "just" way too much.

by **phatj** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 20:03:53

kruker wrote:If I don't edit my posts, I use the word "just" way too much.

How many times did you edit this post?

by **Bill McNeal** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 20:56:23

Barry Jive wrote:Weird but awesome, by the way. I don't know what it is (heh) but Dylan has gotten better every time I've ever listened to him. I've always liked him, but I like him more and more all the time. Maybe he's kind of an acquired taste, but only in the sense that he goes from "good" to "great" instead of "bad" to "good."

I agree with this.

by **smitty** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 23:30:36

Bill McNeal wrote:
Barry Jive wrote:Weird but awesome, by the way. I don't know what it is (heh) but Dylan has gotten better every time I've ever listened to him. I've always liked him, but I like him more and more all the time. Maybe he's kind of an acquired taste, but only in the sense that he goes from "good" to "great" instead of "bad" to "good."

I agree with this.

Do you think it's because when you first hear him his voice is so jarring and whiny and weird that you kinda think it sucks even though he's DYLAN so you know he doesn't suck exactly. And then after you listen to him for while the stuff that makes him Dylan becomes more clear and the jarring, whiny stuff fades away? Eh, maybe not. But that's how it worked for me I believe.

Hendrix was sort of like that too for me.

by **Barry Jive** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 00:35:56

Dylan, I always thought was just a guy who had a specific audience. I guess I thought it was just a niche that was really popular, sort of how The Dead are (not that they're not good, but they certainly have a cult following).

I remember liking "Like a Rolling Stone" because I think the Stones released it back in the '90s and I probably heard it on the radio when I was a kid. I didn't really listen to Dylan until high school, when I listened to "Hurricane." I thought it was kind of a cool song, but now it's clear that there's way more to him than that.

I tried getting into his "classic" albums for a while in college, but it never really clicked except with Blood On the Tracks, which I've always loved.

I got back into him when the I'm Not There soundtrack came out and there were a bunch of bands I liked covering his stuff. I realized that in a lot of cases, the covers sound better than the originals, but I've always been of the opinion that in some senses the original can never be topped.

And now everything else is starting to click the way Blood on the Tracks first did.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 02:08:48

I don't know, sometimes I put on John Wesley Harding and then I'm like, Ahh fuck it

More importantly, I feel like at least once a month I want to murder a DJ

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 02:22:51

phatj wrote:
kruker wrote:If I don't edit my posts, I use the word "just" way too much.

Just how many times did you edit this post?

by **td11** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 02:26:59

Being a wingman sucks sometims

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