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I agree, though I lost interest after the first 3 albums.
Aerosmith - After 1979 they're dead to me.
Queen - Anything pre-1980. 'Jazz' last good studio album, 'Live Killers' best live album.
The next one could be regarded as low-hanging fruit, but I'll list it just the same.
Metallica - Post 1991 is not for me. 'Death Magnetic' redeemed them pretty good though, 20+ years later.
Judas Priest: Pre-1982.
Well, I'd say unusual in the sense that this spring was the most seasonal one we've had in about 5 years. It was very pleasant, warm days and cool nights. The tree pollen was confined to a smaller window and came and went gradually.
The past 5 years, warm to hot weather arrived earlier and "robbed" us of the vaunted spring weather this area is noted for. ( mid-southeast US ) and the pollen was very heavy, very dense from February through May. we'd joke you'd need a shovel to deal with it.
Mine too, and this is from someone whose favorite music is hard rock.
Great piece.
Just saw it on TCM: I really liked it. So much frenetic activity and in a manner one really cared about the protagonist(s) I was surprised it had such a short running length.
I like it enough that I want to buy the DVD/Blueray, plus just to piss off the OP's author.
On an episode of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' Ray and his mother were on a cruise ship. There was a scene he was eating a seemingly infinite supply of raw clams or oysters out of the half shell. Would that I could be in a shellfish cornucopia situation like that. Would not want to be on a cruise ship though...ever.
After the initial report, which would/should dismay anybody, I got tired of hearing about it, though to a lesser degree than I was sick of all the OJ Simpson coverage.
Stupid media bonanza that made me yell out loud "<i>Enough already!</i> every time they or anybody else brought it up.
Yes. Partly due to my work schedule, and partly because by nature I always hated getting up early ever since I was a kid.
Over the course of my working life, I've worked midnight shift ( basically 2300 to 0700, but the start-end times varied an hour or so ) for about 14 years of it. The thing is, you have to make it work. By that I mean one must make getting enough rest ( say 8 hours a day ) a priority, by alloting time to it. The guys who were miserable were the ones who basically tried to stay up all day and just fit a few naps in; they were dragging ass all night long and surly. Sleeping during the day was possible for me once I established the routine. I used blackout blinds and covered my head with pillows. The light was the least of it. The noise was a challenge: mowers, barking dogs whatever. I used a white noise machine and often wore earplugs. I never put myself in a position where the phone would wake me. I had my neighbors "trained" well: If you knock on my door, the house better be on fire. I was able to get good rest and was on my game throughout the shift. Biggest challenge is transitioning to and from your days off.
My favorite hours are the afternoon shift, basically 1430 to 2300. I go to sleep when it's dark out, and wake when it's light, though I rise at about 10AM, feeling good. No alarm clocks needed. I like going to bed late and waking late. Most of my peers who are early risers are dead by 6 PM. I rarely see the sun rise, but enjoy many a good sunset.
Waking up early when it's still dark never made me feel anything other than pissed off and resentful.
Yeah, I care. I like on-location settings as it adds realism and grittiness. Kudos to those filmmakers that do so.
Boo-hiss to those that use poorly disguised locations, and a pox on those that use phony looking backlot sets.
'Borat'.
Lame, forced humor. Inane.
Love the stuff from the time I first had it.
I love the Italian version as well; Crudo. Thinly sliced types of raw fish, calamari and shrimp.
Best pasta dish I ever had was a Sicilian dish: 'Pasta con di le Sarde'
Spaghetti with fresh sardines, raisins, pine nuts, and seasoned with fennel, and coated with some crunchy panko bread crumbs. A taste explosion.
Because the present system encourages and celebrates corporate greed. The vibe of the public is surging against this, and, as such, they're just trying to loot as much as possible before they're put in check.
'Quasimodo' astutely notes:
"<i>They'll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes</i>"
Though they think they'll bug out to some offshore haven to escape this before they're reckoned with. They'll have a hard time getting help though once they're there.
As I joked with others over the following days "You get two shots worth of side effects in just one convenient shot!".
Pleased and relieved for sure, and glad I now have a coat of armor of sorts.
I appreciate your concern, thanks.
Johnson & Johnson ( the one-shot vaccine ) just before midday 3-4 weeks ago.
Barely noticeable soreness about the injection site on the arm. Fatigue/tiredness built gradually but surely and by 9 or 10 PM I was so tired it was all I could do to undress for bed. I blew off brushing my teeth. As dead tired as I was, I. Just. Could. Not. Sleep. I felt tense, and my legs twitched. Every time I tried to relax to sleep I could feel myself tensing up. Pulse beating fast as though I just did 50 push-ups. Frequent desire to urinate, very thirsty but nausea about my gut made it hard to drink enough water to quench my thirst. As hours went by, only very brief fitful lapses of sleep. Around 6AM felt hot: hair wet, shirt wet. Changed shirt, changed pillow, stood under living room ceiling fan to evaporate the sweat. 6:30 AM, felt mild chills. Heart rate lowered but still higher than it should be at rest. Slept soundly the next 7 hours till early afternoon. Felt gradually better. Showered and mowed the lawn, but I sweat like it was 100 degrees and muggy. Checked my temperature: 101 and change. Re-showered and took it easy. Slept fantastic the next night.
Woke the next day feeling great.
Years ( 30+ ) ago, I co-worker said he would lend me a piece of test equipment and that it was in his locker. He gave me directions where his locker was and gave the combination of the lock. I then went there to get it. It was a large locker room with over a hundred lockers in about a half dozen rows.
I opened the locker but found no such item such as he described. I went back out, found him told him this and he said it was absolutely there and he came with me to find it. I swung the locker door fully open to allow him room to find it and he said "That's not my locker". Apparently I must mistook something like "The 4th locker down on the 3rd row" to something like "3rd locker down in the 4th row" or whatever...but the combination locks had the exact same combination. Quite a coincidence.
I think that was the issue with most of those that tried it when it was all the rage among them 15-20 years ago. They DID lose weight, some lost LOTS of weight.
The trouble was a good many of them said to me, privately, that it made them horribly constipated. Way too much meat for sure.
That and that if one had a small unadventurous palette to begin with, they got sick of eating the same thing and it was tiring to have a "sandwich" without the bread. I remember seeing lots of plates of cold cuts consumed.
They all lost a sh*t ton of weight, and they all gained it all back after they quit it. Every last one.
Well put.
As the joke/saying goes: "Idiocracy is a documentary".
'The Jerky Boys' movie.
I didn't see them in chronological order. The first C&C movie I saw was 'Nice Dreams'. It was in a movie theater was 19 and thought it was gut-bustingly funny from beginning to end. As I got older most of it just wasn't as funny to me, though there are scenes in it that are still quite funny.
Shortly after I saw 'Up in Smoke' and then 'Cheech & Chong's Next Movie' on cable TV. The former was great fun to me and even today the humor holds up. The latter falls between 'Up in Smoke' and 'Nice Dreams', and there are still scenes in it I still reel in laughter with.