bicyclepirate

He's a cool guy, tell him Yann says hello (I used to be from Grand Rapids).

Which guy in John Brown Battery? I know all those guys!

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Torche-Meanderthal. Maybe it was the stupidly expensive packaging more than the music, but still not as good as the first album Thee Make Out Party lp on Recess. The early singles were great, full album completely sucked Witch-paralyzed, completely unlistenable. I really liked the first album.

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I have one I just started, not sure anyone here would get into it, but maybe? http://bicyclepirateadventures.blogspot.com

Myra Kornfeld's Voluptuous Vegan, and Carl Lewis' Very Vegetarian. We use these books all the time. The Very Vegetarian book is good for quicker, easier to make recipes, while the Voluptuous Vegan is great for special occasions and fancy meals. A lot of the recipes in there take a long time and ask for some not so easy to find ingredients, but every single recipe I have made out of that book has been outstanding.

Well, if she lives in Jersey with you, at least her vote for McCain won't matter much as Obama seems to be crushing McCain in the polls there.

I have the Denon 300F, in general I am pretty happy with it, and I primarily got it because it was the only midrange turntable I could afford that had an automatic tonearm. The one thing I don't like is that there is a tiny hum you can here when the platter is spinning before you play a record, but I have never noticed it while a record plays. I'm sure some crazy audiophile would freak out, but it is a definite improvement over the crappy Kenwood I had for years. I don't use the built-in pre-amp so I can't say anything about how that affects play.

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I'd like to know who that person is, how does one end up with all those records? He/she must have some special connection.

I couldn't get into the new Cold War Kids, the last one was good, but this one seems to fall flat.

Strike Anywhere-Chorus of One LP, Grey /550, 1st Press. $12.00 Christie Front Drive/Boys Life split 10" $9.00 (There is a yellow mark on the cover, maybe from a pricetag?) 88 Fingers Louie-s/t 1st 7" on Go Deaf Records $22.00 Cattle Press-Hordes to Abolish the Divine LP $3.00 Struggle LP on ebullition $3.00 Blue Meanies - Full Throttle LP $7.00 Sun Ra - Atlantis 180gram LP (reissue) $7.00 Bjork-Alarm Call 12" (Alarm Call-Reprosession Mix(DJ Krust)/So Broken-Dj Krust Mix) $6 Eric Clapton-Slowhand LP $1.00 Trouble-The Skull LP Still Sealed!! $50 The Fugs - It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest LP (original, not a reissue!) $15 Corrupted-Dios Injusto 7" $15 Witch/Earthless split 7" $6 Art Ensemble of Chicago-Great Black Music/A Jackson in Your House LP $7 High on Fire-The Art of Self-Defense LP +7" reissue $6 L7-Hungry for Stink LP (blue vinyl, partially opened to see color but the record has never been moved) $20 Shipping is by media mail, $3.50 with delivery confirmation, or $5.00 with insurance. I can send pics if you PM me your email address, and describe the condition better.

I used to live there... If you just walk around the areas near Vertigo and Yesterdog, you'll be in the major areas of town with the major bars, restaurants, shops, etc. There really isn't a whole lot to do, maybe the Division Ave Arts Coop has something going on, its near Vertigo and I think they have a website. If you are into older records (i.e. anything pressed before the mid 80s) check out Dodd's record shop across the street from Vertigo.

Miles Davis-Round About Midnight Can-Future Days Neu!-s/t Songs:Ohia-Didn't it Rain anything by Nick Drake

Yeah, not enough to sway a committed republican, but those are only about 35% of voters. That's not enough to win, and it will likely effect those people that aren't strong partisans.

Phonograph blues by Robert Johnson

Are your prices ppd? If not, how much to ship one LP?

Yeah, they are legit, pack their records well, and ship fairly quickly. But their website is not up to date and they always seem to be out of something when I place an order.

Local record show finds, most of this stuff was $5-10. Its great when people have no idea about metal. Anthrax Fistful of Metal Celtic Frost To Mega Therion Cryptic Slaughter Stream of Consciousness Danzig s/t Danzig II-Lucifige Dewey Redman Look for the Black Star Grand Funk Railroad s/t Grand Funk Railroad live album Herbie Hancock Thrust Hot Rodders, The Big Hot Rod Jimi Hendrix Cry of Love John Lee Hooker Archive Folkways Keith Jarrett Fort Yawuh Keith Jarrett Shades Keith Jarrett Treasure Island Less Than Jake Making Fun of Things You Don't Understand Make Up After Dark Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Mercyful Fate The Beginning Necronomicon s/t Perez Prado Other Latin American Favorites Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Savoy Brown Blue Matter Sodom Obsessed by Cruelty Ted Heath Latin Swingers Ten Years After Sssh... Trapeze Medusa Winners, The The Checkered Flag

Rock bands that think it is acceptable to use the flute

This is worth reading: from: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/why-voters-thought-obama-won.html Why Voters Thought Obama Won TPM has the internals of the CNN poll of debate-watchers, which had Obama winning overall by a margin of 51-38. The poll suggests that Obama is opening up a gap on connectedness, while closing a gap on readiness. Specifically, by a 62-32 margin, voters thought that Obama was “more in touch with the needs and problems of people like you”. This is a gap that has no doubt grown because of the financial crisis of recent days. But it also grew because Obama was actually speaking to middle class voters. Per the transcript, McCain never once mentioned the phrase “middle class” (Obama did so three times). And Obama’s eye contact was directly with the camera, i.e. the voters at home. McCain seemed to be speaking literally to the people in the room in Mississippi, but figuratively to the punditry. It is no surprise that a small majority of pundits seemed to have thought that McCain won, even when the polls indicated otherwise; the pundits were his target audience. Something as simple as Obama mentioning that he’ll cut taxes for “95 percent of working families” is worth, I would guess, a point or so in the national polls. Obama had not been speaking enough about his middle class tax cut; there was some untapped potential there, and Obama may have gotten the message to sink in tonight By contrast, I don’t think McCain’s pressing Obama on earmarks was time well spent for him. One, it simply is not something that voters care all that much about, given the other pressures the economy faces. But also, it is not something that voters particularly associate with Obama, as the McCain campaign had not really pressed this line of attack. If you’re going to introduce a new line of attack late in a campaign, it has better be a more effective one that earmarks. And then there was McCain's technocratic line about the virtues of lowering corporate taxes, one which might represent perfectly valid economic policy, but which was exactly the sort of patrician argument that lost George H.W. Bush the election in 1992. Meanwhile, voters thought that Obama “seemed to be the stronger leader” by a 49-43 margin, reversing a traditional area of McCain strength. And voters thought that the candidates were equally likely to be able to handle the job of president if elected. These internals are worse for McCain than the topline results, because they suggest not only that McCain missed one of his few remaining opportunities to close the gap with Barack Obama, but also that he has few places to go. The only category in which McCain rated significantly higher than Obama was on “spent more time attacking his opponent”. McCain won that one by 37 points. My other annoyance with the punditry is that they seem to weight all segments of the debate equally. There were eight segments in this debate: bailout, economy, spending, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, terrorism. The pundit consensus seems to be that Obama won the segments on the bailout, the economy, and Iraq, drew the segment on Afghanistan, and lost the other four. So, McCain wins 4-3, right? Except that, voters don’t weight these issues anywhere near evenly. In Peter Hart’s recent poll for NBC, 43 percent of voters listed the economy or the financial crisis as their top priority, 12 percent Iraq, and 13 percent terrorism or other foreign policy issues. What happens if we give Obama two out of three economic voters (corresponding to the fact that he won two out of the three segments on the economy), and the Iraq voters, but give McCain all the “other foreign policy” voters? Issue Priority Obama McCain Economy 43 --> 29 14 Iraq 12 --> 12 0 Foreign Policy 13 --> 0 13 ========================================== Total 41 27 By this measure, Obama “won” by 14 points, which almost exactly his margin in the CNN poll. McCain’s essential problem is that his fundamental strength – his experience -- is specifically not viewed by voters as carrying over to the economy. And the economy is pretty much all that voters care about these days. EDIT: The CBS poll of undecideds has more confirmatory detail. Obama went from a +18 on "understanding your needs and problems" before the debate to a +56 (!) afterward. And he went from a -9 on "prepared to be president" to a +21.

I'm not really sure on the Christie Front Drive LP, but it sounds like a good deal (as long as it is near mint). The cd is out of print too, and fetches a little bit of money.

Their album that came out on Ghostly last year, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities-Lucas is one of my favorite records to come out in the last few years. I'll have to check out this money album...

I just picked up a copy of Choice of a New Generation at my local record store, for the right offer I might sell.