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By: Ralf
Date: 6/21/00 8:06:31 AM
# Replies: 184
In the same vein as the venerable "what are you listening to now?" thread, I'd like to know about the last music you bought.
Not what you're listening to now, not what you nabbed off Napster, not what you heard on the radio/streaming-whatever... what was the last CD or vinyl disc you actually paid for?
Me, Thievery Corporation: DJ-Kicks. Just this past week.
Response #1
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/21/00 10:30:55 AM
Roy D. Mercer - Greatest Fits.
No, seriously.
Before that, I don't remember, maybe an independent album, dArIn by Darin Murphy.
Response #2
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/21/00 11:26:09 AM
Didn't this thread happen about a year ago? :-)
Negativland and Chumbawumba's 'ABCs of Anarchism,' which is OK if you like the feeling of being dropped into a blender with about twenty three different media sources.
Art of Noise's 'The Seduction of Claude Debussy,' which is nice. I wanted more actual Debussy, but instead got a few tracks featuring some rapper comparing himself to Baudelaire, which Just Doesn't Work.
Speaking of fin de ciecle French composers, I got a CD full of orchestral works by Eric Satie which includes Parade, Trois Gymnopedies, Mercure, and Relache. Reasonable recording, OK performance, interesting in a historical sense. (Satie was an inspiration to Debussy, and I'm gaga over Debussy.)
And just the other day, a friend gave me the CD he's been working on. Some of the folks from the now-defunct Joint Chiefs formed a band called Cheek, and the resulting CD, 'Sweet Metallic Sheen,' is pretty good, in that independent straight-ahead hard pop kind of way.
Response #3
By: The Professor
Date: 6/21/00 8:31:56 PM
10 years ago I think my musical tastes were similar to the above, but I think there has been a divergence of some sorts. (due to getting older and mellowing out I guess)
Response #4
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 6/21/00 10:00:40 PM
Last CD was...hmmm...it was either the Gladiator soundtrack or "The Ale is Dear" by Clandestine..a locally based celtic band.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #5
By: The Professor
Date: 6/22/00 7:38:10 AM
Nope, that one isn't in my collection either.
Response #6
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/22/00 8:35:54 AM
Last CD I bought was an import EP by Gomez.
I like Gomez.
Response #7
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 6/22/00 9:46:02 AM
the jelly boys, playing pop and mento hits
Response #8
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/23/00 1:44:30 PM
Oh geez. I forgot to mention XTC's 'Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume II'
Worth the price of admission for 'The Man Who Murdered Love' alone.
Response #9
By: sooz
Date: 6/27/00 9:23:32 AM
Does what Richie bought count? He DJs parties sometimes, so I think the last thing he paid for was Britney Spears. Ha!
And, frightening as it may be, I, too paid for a Roy D. Mercer CD, which was my last CD purchase.
Response #10
By: Roxanne
Date: 6/27/00 12:04:27 PM
No Doubt - Return of Saturn
Response #11
By: Fung Swazy
Date: 7/2/00 4:12:53 PM
Mad Season - Matchbox 20
Response #12
By: Fierce Pancake
Date: 7/6/00 7:13:21 AM
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Christmas Caravan
Christmas is just around the corner, ya know. I've already got my tree up.
Response #13
By: The Professor
Date: 7/22/00 6:31:32 AM
Just watched the Frampton concert on the dish. He lost the 'locks, but he still rocks!
I think Frampton Comes Alive was the last *album* that I bought.
Response #14
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/24/00 5:34:18 PM
Manu Chow is the artist. I don't know the name of the album, or even of the song.
Marco (aka M-Factor) made this tape for me. Manu r00lz. I just wish I knew Spanish so I could sing along.
Response #15
By: Ralf
Date: 7/24/00 6:46:06 PM
Just sing phonetically.
Response #16
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/26/00 12:27:03 AM
Well, I found out that the album is called Clandestino. You can hear some of it on CDNow. Bongo Bong is in English (mostly).
Response #17
By: Ralf
Date: 7/26/00 5:03:01 AM
I have ripped both Buena Vista Social Club CDs, in case you're interested. They are stunning, and quite indecipherable unless you speak spanish.
(And oddly enough, I'm legal. I bought them both from Amazon the day after I saw the BVSC movie.)
Response #18
By: Abalone
Date: 8/31/00 9:12:22 AM
System of a Down/self-titled....good, old fashioned political punk-rock
Response #19
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/31/00 8:32:14 PM
Last CD I bought was Neil Young's "Landing On Water" because it's out of print, I haven't been able to find it on Napster, and I stumbled upon it for 6.99 at Cactus.
Response #20
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/2/00 5:29:38 PM
Durn. I need to go buy some music so I can report it here.
Response #21
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 9/2/00 11:03:50 PM
Did anyone get Apple Venus Vol II?
Response #22
By: Ralf
Date: 9/3/00 9:12:43 AM
I just acquired the Dinosaur soundtrack, because it was composed by James Newton Howard. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Response #23
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/7/00 5:41:11 PM
Wasp Star: Apple Venus Vol. II is quite the tuneful happy-making CD.
I finally got ahold of Manu Chao's Clandestino on CD, and it's also tuneful and happy-making.
Also David Sylvian's 'Approaching Silence,' which is stunning, if you're into ambience.
Also, a recording of never-before-recorded compositions by Claude Debussy, which have been orchestrated by Debussy's contemporaries. And now we know why they've never been recorded.
Also, Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 musicians' which is also stunning, if you're into extremely repetitive music.
Also, African Head Charge's 'Songs of Praise,' which is their first CD, and which should be on heavy rotation on nunz radio.
Also Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon' which is walks a fine line with its atmospheric country grace.
Also California Guitar Trio's 'rocks the west' live album, which features their covers of bohemian rhapsody and Beethoven's 9th symphony, and you haven't lived until you've heard three guys with guitars play these pieces.
All in all, too much money spent at the record store.
Response #24
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 9/8/00 9:48:37 AM
AV Vol II, I can't quite decide if I like it that much or not.
It's...ok.
But it somehow seems like it's lacking that zing, that edge that Vol I had.
I've still been listenting to it, trying to see if I can overcome my objections. As much as I like XTC, I hope I can.
The new Mighty Mighty Bosstones however, I like VERY much!
Response #25
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 9/8/00 11:12:20 PM
Hot Club of Cowtown - Dev'lish Mary.
Western Swing in the tradition of Bob Wills and Django Reinhardt. I love this three piece combo and see them every chance I get.
It doesn't hurt that Elana is such a cutie.
Response #26
By: uberjeanie
Date: 7/29/01 11:57:49 AM
Persevere by the Proclaimers. Then I saw them last nite! They rock!!
Response #27
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/30/01 11:48:56 AM
'Twilight' by Seattle Guitar Circle
Response #28
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 7/30/01 12:46:46 PM
Gee, it's been so long, I can't remember!
Response #29
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/30/01 8:05:33 PM
"Hot Shots II" by The Beta Band.
Response #30
By: rorschach
Date: 7/31/01 6:00:51 PM
Rush "Loosing it"
(ok, so new music just doesn't do it for me....)
Response #31
By: Emil Lang
Date: 9/5/01 5:46:42 AM
Alexi Sayle - Lenin of the Rovers
Response #32
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/5/01 8:18:54 AM
The last album I bought was purchased yesterday. I bought a Seattle-based, eastern-European folky style band called "The Black Cat Orchestra". The album is "Mysteries Explained". It's been going round and round in my CD player for the last twenty-four hours. :-)
--Haze
Response #33
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 9/5/01 10:40:38 PM
The last album I bought was the new Bears album featuring Adrian Belew.
Response #34
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/6/01 8:03:35 AM
Anybody know of any good music web sites that have good bios and reviews of albums/groups (particularly non-poppy stuff)?
--Haze
Response #35
By: Da Sissop
Date: 9/6/01 5:17:44 PM
No, but if ya find one, I'd like to know about it too.
My primary means of discovering new music is to skim the usenet newsgroups for mp3s, sampling the flotsam and jetsam until I find something that catches my interest. Then I'll either go to CDNow and search for more info/reviews there, or else I'll just do a Yahoo search for the artist.
'Course, this method is ideally suited for a high-speed internet connection, and is probably painful as pulling teeth if you're using a 56k modem. But if this sounds intriguing, give a hollar and I'll try to post some sort of Usenet newsgroup mp3-skimming primer.
Gowan: there's a new Bears album? Cool!
Response #36
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/6/01 10:40:25 PM
I'm always on the hunt for good music review sites. But I always end up back at Amazon or CDNow. Ack.
I want something more... more... hmmm... well, listener-based, I guess. NOT based on the companies wanting to sell music and letting people post reviews. More like a site where anybody can post a critique of *any* group, and you can do a SEARCH by group name, and read reviews on them, etc...
I'm sure there's something out there. I just have too crazy of a schedule to do much in the way of real research.
--Haze
Response #37
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/27/01 10:46:22 AM
Got a great new album from Amazon yesterday. Woo!
GOLDFRAPP - Felt Mountain
Unbelievably unique. It continually amazes me how people can make ORIGINAL music, in this day and age.
This CD is dope! The music starts off (and fades in and out of) spooky, haunting stringed riffs. The singer also takes her presence in and out of the composition. Most times, she is singing in a WHISPER.
Through the haunting sounds of violins and other stringed instruments, bizarre otherworldly sounds make brief appearances - things that bleep, pluck, and scream. Some of the riffs would make a good soundtrack for Star Trek episodes.
Fabulous stuff. Both great for background music (for when friends are over) and for serious listening.
I was supposed to see them in concert at The Crocodile Cafe in Seattle but I got word yesterday that the show was CANCELED. Booo!!! :-(
Response #38
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/27/01 5:42:12 PM
Hey, sounds cool.
I still haven't gotten anything new since that last Bjork album.
Response #39
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/28/01 8:18:57 AM
Hey! I still need to get that one...
Did you get tix to Sigur Ros? (If your roommate wants to scalp any, I'll buy one.) :-)
Response #40
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/1/01 2:37:32 AM
Nope. I gave up. It pains me, too.
Sigur fucking Ros! I even called and tried to get tickets from KCMU... er... KEXP (heh) when they did a giveaway.
Response #41
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 7:59:17 AM
Feh!
Response #42
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/9/01 6:00:40 PM
Got a new album today. Can anyone guess which one!??!?
Response #43
By: bob
Date: 10/9/01 10:04:04 PM
nope
Response #44
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/10/01 6:03:28 AM
no
Response #45
By: sooz
Date: 10/10/01 7:17:13 AM
Negative.
Response #46
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/10/01 8:39:46 AM
Not even ONE guess?
Response #47
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/10/01 9:13:03 AM
The new album by Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute?
Response #48
By: rorschach
Date: 10/10/01 10:20:37 AM
man, I AM old... I don't recognise ANY of these bands (I have to assume they are bands.....)
Response #49
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/10/01 11:06:11 AM
the new enya album? (i just found out there was such a thing yesterday, even a music video!)
Response #50
By: sooz
Date: 10/10/01 11:46:49 AM
The new Richie L. CD, whose proceeds benefit the Red Cross?
Response #51
By: bob
Date: 10/10/01 3:34:49 PM
stang? (she may be a hellraiser)
Response #52
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/10/01 5:37:44 PM
I bought Ricky Martin "Sound Loaded" for my almost-9-year-old daughter. Oy vay! Now I get to dance Salsa around the house...
Response #53
By: Da Sissop
Date: 10/10/01 6:42:25 PM
I think that Ricky Martin feller is gonna be big one day.
Response #54
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/11/01 7:46:23 AM
oh, well i never would have guessed THAT!
can you guess what i just bought last week. hint: her name is "Glenda."
Response #55
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/11/01 10:17:56 AM
HUH? Nope. No clue. More hints, please.
Response #56
By: bob
Date: 10/11/01 10:59:37 AM
glenda was the name of my first "girlfriend". in quotes because i was in jr. high.
Response #57
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/12/01 4:51:44 AM
more clues? she has a small rear end.
Response #58
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/12/01 11:10:30 AM
Well, shoot. That could be ME. Except my name isn't Glenda.
Hmmm. (Back to guessing...)
Response #59
By: bob
Date: 10/12/01 2:24:14 PM
glenda grhondstat?
Response #60
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/14/01 9:48:54 PM
I just bought Sheryl Crow's "The Globe Session" CD. My musically inclined friend just asked me if I wanted to do a cover of "My Favorite Mistake". I'll let y'all know how it goes.
Response #61
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/15/01 8:07:05 AM
Not a bad album. But Sheryl Crow IN CONCERT outdoes any possible recording she does. She simply ROCKS on stage.
Response #62
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/15/01 8:51:04 AM
I hate live recordings. You got that audience noise thing going which REALLY bugs me. The sound isn't usually great at a live recording, either.
The only exception that comes to mind is those MTV Unplugged recordings where it's the artist playing live and hardly any crowd noise at all.
(None of these rules apply to "Peter Frampton Live!")
YMMV
Response #63
By: sooz
Date: 10/15/01 9:14:41 AM
I LIKE live recordings. There's all the extra energy, the interaction with the crowd, and the fact that you know tracks aren't being dubbed again and again until the players get 'em right.
Response #64
By: bob
Date: 10/15/01 12:35:36 PM
it is hard to sing to live recording though, since sometimes they change the songs. besides, playing a live album on shuffle play is quite annoy because the crowd noise tends to be mixed between the tracks, so you get these annoying jumps
Response #65
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/15/01 1:12:29 PM
I saw Sheryl Crow in concert way way long ago. She was opening for Crowded House. This was about a week before "All I Wanna Do" took off.
We CH geeks were all polite while she played, but we really wanted to see Neil Finn, so we didn't give her the respect and attention she probably deserved.
Response #66
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/15/01 1:18:14 PM
Well, maybe *I* liked her so much because I saw her at Lilith Fair and all these other women were playing who I did NOT like (Sarah McLauflin(sp?), et al) that I was happy as all shit when Sheryl came out and rocked the hell out of all the other chicks.
Response #67
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/15/01 4:06:50 PM
Roxy, was that in Houston? Because I saw them together a long time ago too on Richmond at Bayou City Theatre which later (or was it before) was 6400 Richmond.
That was back in 94, I think.
Response #68
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/16/01 3:04:04 PM
Gowan: Eerie! Yes, that was the same concert! Zane and I were there, front and center! The drummer for CH had just gotten pissed off and left the band...they let a fan come up and join them for one of the songs and Sheryl Crow's drummer was filling in for all the other songs.
Response #69
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/16/01 8:40:25 PM
yes!
It just so happens I know that drummer.
Response #70
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/17/01 10:05:08 AM
No kidding! Wow! Small world, ain't it?
Response #71
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/17/01 11:31:08 AM
I know the drummer for Alice in Chains. I feel pretty special.
Response #72
By: sooz
Date: 10/17/01 7:49:10 PM
How do you know which side the stage is tilting to?
By seeing which side of his mouth the drummer is drooling out of.
What do you call a drummer who breaks up with his girlfriend?
Homeless.
What are the words any band dreads hearing from their drummer?
"Hey guys! I wrote a song!"
Response #73
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/17/01 11:02:47 PM
Oooh. I can't exactly say I've heard drummer jokes before, until now. Thanks, Sooz, for de-virginizing me to drummer culture.
Response #74
By: bob
Date: 10/18/01 12:38:00 AM
and you call yourself a nun, loosing your virginity, and in public no less.
Response #75
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/18/01 9:24:31 AM
If not in public, then WHERE?
Response #76
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/18/01 12:02:22 PM
Umm, is virginity a requirement for nun-ship?
Response #77
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/18/01 12:29:28 PM
If so, then I am going to have to be excommunicated. (So, who wants to do the honors?)
Response #78
By: Da Sissop
Date: 10/18/01 4:41:51 PM
Hey. Sheryl Crow opened for Crowded House at the Bayou City thingy? Was that the "Woodface" tour? I saw Crowded House, I don't remember Sheryl Crow. But how many shows could Crowded House have played at that venue?
Response #79
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/18/01 5:08:10 PM
Okay, so has EVERYONE here seen Sheryl Crow? Let's see a show of hands!
Response #80
By: sooz
Date: 10/18/01 9:56:31 PM
I saw Don Henley once with Gowan. That's gotta count somehow.
Response #81
By: bob
Date: 10/18/01 10:27:32 PM
gowan opened for dan henley? holy shit
oh, and my hands are down
Response #82
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/18/01 10:57:04 PM
You gotta remember, though, this was before she was SHERYL CROW.
She wasn't a big deal yet. Most of the people I knew completely ignored her set when she was on.
Response #83
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/19/01 10:16:36 AM
How could you ignore SHERYL CROW onstage?
Response #84
By: bob
Date: 10/19/01 10:42:52 AM
possible excommuntication offense, but, am i the only one that doesn't like sheryl crow?
Response #85
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/19/01 1:17:18 PM
Who said anything about LIKING her? I just said you can't IGNORE her onstage. She rocks. But I can't say she's one of my faves.
Response #86
By: sooz
Date: 10/19/01 1:39:06 PM
I don't have strong feelings about her one way or the other.
Response #87
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/19/01 1:58:08 PM
Gowan: Exactly! I remember getting feeling that the audience was thinking, "Sheryl who? Give us Crowded House already!"
Fang: Crowded House has played the Bayou City club thingy the two times that I saw them in Houston; though the name of the venue was different at one time.
Witch: It was easy to ignore Sheryl Crow at the concert in question because she hadn't developed her stage presence yet. She was obviously talented, but she hadn't hit it big; this was literally about a week before "All I Wanna Do" hit the charts. I remember seeing the video for it about a month after the concert and thinking, "hey, that's that chick who opened for Crowded House!"
Response #88
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/20/01 2:37:49 AM
How can one dislike a woman who, you know, all she wants to do is have some fun? And you know, I've got a feeling she's not the only one...
And now she's singing with Mr. Finn on his rekkid, so the cycle is complete.
Response #89
By: bob
Date: 10/20/01 10:58:36 AM
well, since she is not the only one, i would prefer to go with one that can sing an origianly song. all i wanna do was just repetative and annoying
Response #90
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/20/01 1:39:31 PM
Bob, what the fuck is an 'origianly' song? You're starting to sound like Dubya with all these 'new words'.
Response #91
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/22/01 10:26:05 AM
I bought a new album over the weekend.
St. Germain - "Boulevard" has a load of acid jazz, some subtle blues, and a whole lot of downbeat bass. Great vocals, too. I am in love with their album "Tourist" and recently saw them in concert, so I decided to expand my collection of their stuff. This album is just as good (if not better) than the other one.
Response #92
By: bob
Date: 10/22/01 11:19:39 AM
origanly = typo for original
Response #93
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/22/01 5:03:03 PM
Yes, Bob. I was able to figure that out. I was just giving you a bad time. (How unlike me.)
Response #94
By: sooz
Date: 10/22/01 6:29:44 PM
I listend to Gowan's "O Brother" soundtrack. Over. And Over. And Over.
Response #95
By: bob
Date: 10/23/01 9:35:17 AM
right, no one ever gives me a hard time about my third grade typing skills. but i will have to admit, it is fun to imagine gowan cringing with every one of my posts. hahahaha
Response #96
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/23/01 10:39:48 AM
He's not the ONLY one.
Response #97
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/23/01 11:53:54 PM
Yeah, some of us find it hard not to poofread other people's work involuntarily.
Response #98
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/24/01 10:24:43 AM
Especially since I'm an "editor" for a living.
Response #99
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/24/01 11:20:13 AM
I find it really hard not to "poofread", too.
Response #100
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/25/01 8:45:42 AM
Aaahahaha! Funny, I didn't even catch that! I'm used to all the misspellings in here, that I skimmed right over it. ;-)
Response #101
By: bob
Date: 10/25/01 10:47:35 AM
hahahahaha
Response #102
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 11/1/01 12:18:49 AM
I bought a new album.
Actually, I got it for free at Best Buy.
Alison Krauss and Union Station - New Favorite
You may all now mock my enjoyment of bluegrass.
Response #103
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/1/01 2:01:11 AM
What's wrong with bluegrass? Bluegrass and the blues are the two uniquely American musical idioms. And both got soul.
Response #104
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/1/01 8:30:57 AM
Hell, yeah. Bluegrass rules.
And Homer, didn't jazz originate here, as well? I know they had some forms of it in Europe (called "gypsy" music), but it was a lot more freeform and had a latin sound (latin-gypsy-jazz, I guess).
Also, rap originated here. But I wouldn't call that a musical idiom.
Response #105
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/1/01 1:21:47 PM
Sure, rap's a musical idiom, but rap and jazz all stem out of the blues.
Response #106
By: sooz
Date: 11/1/01 4:34:12 PM
Richie played in a bluegrass band when he was younger. He still loves it. He swears that bluegrass and techno are essentially the same thing/same beats, just with different instruments.
Response #107
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/2/01 8:46:02 AM
(I was kidding about rap.)
Okay, so if we're talking about early styles, okay. But since the blues, we have so many uniquely American genres now.
Response #108
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/6/01 5:44:26 PM
On the way to the Wooden Phallus, I made Homer listen to my new "Falco's Greatest Hits". (C'mon! Der Kommissar and Amadeus RULE!) He wasn't really into it, tho. Hmm, can't figure out why.
Response #109
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/7/01 12:51:05 AM
It just occurred to me, and it pains me to discuss it for obvious reasons, but: I started getting car sick after we stopped listening to Falco.
Response #110
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/7/01 8:57:28 AM
In the future, I will have to recommend two shots of Falco for car sickness.
(It was prolly my driving that kicked yer ass, driving over those potholes...er, I mean sidewalk.)
Response #111
By: bob
Date: 11/7/01 11:08:43 AM
the little old lasies aren't too bad, but sometimes their walkers can really upset the ride
Response #112
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/7/01 5:43:04 PM
No, I didn't run over any old ladies. Sheeesh. Only dogs and cats.
Actually, at one point, I was driving around some people who were turning, and all of a sudden, we were four-wheeling it, because I thought the "potholes" were so huge (which is NOT out of the ordinary for Washington). But then Homer said "Those aren't potholes. You're actually driving off-road." I looked and sure nuff, we was on the sidewalk!
Response #113
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 11/7/01 6:39:33 PM
They must be "old lasies" if they're too slothful to get out of the way of a speeding VW.
Response #114
By: bob
Date: 11/7/01 6:48:01 PM
and homer still has some hair after riding on the sidewalk?
Response #115
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/7/01 8:58:27 PM
There wasn't a sidewalk! It was a bunch of mud with pothole-like potholes in it. Obviously other folks had had the same idea.
Response #116
By: bob
Date: 11/8/01 11:35:59 AM
excuses excuses
Response #117
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/8/01 4:41:51 PM
I was just testing the car's shocks.
Response #118
By: bob
Date: 11/9/01 12:04:44 PM
uh huh
Response #119
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/26/01 4:34:42 PM
Back to the original threads... I am listening to the Charlie Brown's Christmas soundtrack CD. That music is so old, it brings me back to when I was being potty-trained. I love it. Good schtuff.
Response #120
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/26/01 9:28:00 PM
Ahh.. Fond memories of being potty trained...
Response #121
By: sooz
Date: 11/27/01 11:31:45 AM
We listen to the Charlie Brown CHristmas music every year, yep.
Response #122
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/27/01 2:12:10 PM
My parents always listen to that music box Christmas album they have. And recordings of my dad's church choir doing carols.
I listen to Weird Al's 'Christmas At Ground Zero.'
Response #123
By: sooz
Date: 11/27/01 4:32:47 PM
I think that's the same Weird Al one Richie likes... is it the one with Cheech & Chong's "Santa Claus and His Ol' Lady" on it?
Response #124
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 11/27/01 6:41:47 PM
You people listen to Christmas songs?
Response #125
By: Da Sissop
Date: 11/27/01 8:05:48 PM
WebNuns Radio has recenetly been updated with a buttload of Christmas songs. Good ones, too, I might add.
Response #126
By: sooz
Date: 11/28/01 5:25:25 AM
How much is a buttload, when measured in ounces?
I have a friend that says "assload," and for some reason it cracks me up every time.
Response #127
By: WitchHazel
Date: 11/28/01 8:23:18 AM
Yeah, an "assload" doesn't conjur up really pretty images in my mind.
Response #128
By: bob
Date: 11/28/01 10:12:52 AM
a buttload, or assload, is a measurement not unlike to original measurements of "hands and feet". the amount depends on the person, and what has been eaten.
Response #129
By: Roxanne
Date: 11/28/01 1:20:36 PM
Christmas at Ground Zero...love that Al. He's so weird!
Response #130
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/29/01 1:36:03 AM
Hey.. It occurs to me that I didn't hear 'Alice's Restaurant' during Thanksgiving. Usually you can't avoid it. Maybe the afro-cuban drummers at the Thanksgiving party didn't know it.
Response #131
By: bob
Date: 11/29/01 11:56:02 AM
my grandmother has an alvin and the chipmunks christmas album that i do enjoy. it is funny because they all start argueing and yelling at each other.
Response #132
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 11/29/01 8:43:30 PM
The chipmunks or your family?
Response #133
By: sooz
Date: 11/30/01 6:35:45 AM
Hee hee. I've heard that playing cards with Bob's family is quite the adventure.
Response #134
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 11/30/01 7:43:22 AM
once that was blaring at four o-clock in the morning from the two amp towers for the weekly port royal friday night bashment. i dreamt killer robots with squeaky voices were attacking my family before i realized what was going on.
Response #135
By: bob
Date: 11/30/01 10:08:41 AM
gowan, well usually just the chipmunks but the annual heart game can get pretty viscious. sorry to bore anyone, but this year one of my aunts only got 8 points in the enitre game. they were playing 8 players with two decks, and she got all eight of her points on the last hand. it is pretty amzing in that game.
Response #136
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/2/02 11:25:01 PM
Okay, I just bought Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor. She sounds like a 19-year-old female Prince (or The Artist). While her CD just topped the charts, and she'll probably be considered Top 40 now, she's quite talented and deserves a nod for Best New Artist. She's original, she has talent, and she's a smart cookie (saw her in an interview recently). I love this album. It's slow funk, with some rap and R&B mixed in.
Response #137
By: bob
Date: 1/3/02 9:28:44 AM
i always thought prince sounded like a 19 year-old female, anyhow
Response #138
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/3/02 10:20:14 AM
ExACTly. See! She's the REAL THING!
Response #139
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 1/4/02 11:15:03 AM
me too witch hazel, i like alicia keys--she's real nice and cool
Response #140
By: bob
Date: 1/5/02 9:54:50 AM
speaking of a 19 year old..."nice and cool" translates to sexy as hell, right?
Response #141
By: sooz
Date: 1/5/02 12:41:08 PM
I have Michelle Branch singing in my office, at the moment.
Response #142
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/7/02 10:33:30 AM
19 and sexy as hell? Hmmm. I really don't go for people QUITE that young, but hey. She *is* rather beautiful and talented. I'm sure if you sent her the kilt pic, she'd notice you, Bob.
Response #143
By: bob
Date: 1/7/02 12:33:48 PM
a comedian wrapped up the whole isuue quite well i think.
when i was in single digits, i thought girls were icky. when i reached my teens, teenagers i found myself attracted to teenage girls. by the time i reached my twenties, i started being attracted to girls in their twenties, but i was still attracted to teenage girls. as i approach my thirties, i am attracted to women in thier thirties, but i am also still attracted to women in their tweinties, AND i am still attracted to teenage girls. by the time i am in my ninties, i will be attracted to all women, and of course, including, teenage girls.
Response #144
By: sooz
Date: 1/7/02 2:51:33 PM
That seems weird to me. Many guys I know lose interest in younger girls as they get older. I've certainly lost interest in 19 year old guys.
And people under 18 should just be off limits for adults, anyway. Ick.
Response #145
By: bob
Date: 1/8/02 11:03:15 AM
i shall answer thusly...losing intrest and finding them attractive is different, at least in my book.
Response #146
By: sooz
Date: 1/8/02 11:19:59 AM
I don't see a difference.
Response #147
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/8/02 12:10:39 PM
Nope. I don't see a difference, either. I'm with Sooz.
I don't even find teenage boys attractive, to be honest. For me, attraction starts with intellect. Brad Pitt could walk up to me and tell me he wanted me, but if he was STUPID, I wouldn't give him a second glance, and I'm not talkin' smack here. For me, it's all about brains. Maybe that's why, since I was a teenager, I've liked older men.
Perhaps it's the way of nature. Women like older men. Men like younger women. Hmmm. But then why are men in their sexual prime at 18, and women at 35? That doesn't seem fair.
Response #148
By: bob
Date: 1/8/02 2:38:00 PM
i guess it depends on your definition of "attractive". just because i find someone attractive doesn't mean that i want them. i can admire the beauty of someone without the desire to take them home. does that make sense?
Response #149
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/8/02 4:29:13 PM
I think some men are attractive, but that doesn't mean I'm gay or want to sleep with them.
(does it?)
Response #150
By: sooz
Date: 1/9/02 4:51:53 AM
I guess the line between "finding someone attractive" and "being attracted to" is a little confusing. I see where Bob's coming from... I think my mother-in-law is an attractive woman, but I'm not attracted to her sexually. And she'd probably be glad to hear that.
Now, as for Gowan the Gay... I once had a long discussion with someone about the whole "can you be born gay" thing. Turns out, the only thing we were disagreeing on was the definition of "homosexual." He thought you had to be having sex to be homosexual; I believed you merely had to be attracted to someone of the same sex to be homosexual. So, for clarity's sake, from www.dictionary.com:
ho·mo·sex·u·al (hm-sksh-l, -m-)
adj.
Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
n. Usage Problem
A homosexual person; a gay man or a lesbian.
Usage Note: Many people now avoid using homosexual because of the emphasis this term places on sexuality. Indeed, the words gay and lesbian, which stress cultural and social matters over sex, are frequently better choices. Homosexual is most objectionable when used as a noun; here gay man and gay woman or lesbian and their plural forms are called for. It is generally unobjectionable when used adjectivally, as in a homosexual relationship, although gay, lesbian, or same-sex are also available for adjectival use. See Usage Note at gay.
homosexual adj : sexually attracted to members of your own sex [ant: bisexual, heterosexual] n : someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex [syn: homo, gay]
Bisexual is the same thing, but with both sexes, etc.
Now, where were we?
Response #151
By: bob
Date: 1/9/02 12:08:49 PM
well, i am in the office, you are on your soapbox, and gowan may be in the closet.
Response #152
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/9/02 12:25:12 PM
Humans evolved their sexuality in a world where living past 25 was a miracle. An 'older man' would be 25 or so in this world, and a man who had lived that long would represent a better set of genes than one who was younger and more unproven. Hence, women want older men. A younger woman would be more likely to bring a child to term and raise it, so men prefer younger women.
It's simple. :-)
Our genes aren't as modern as we are.
Response #153
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/9/02 8:16:23 PM
Call me Mrs. Robinson.
Hell, call me a slut, I think men of all ages have the potential to be "attractive".
And call me bi-sexual, I think women of all ages have the potential to be "attractive".
Disclaimer: *Children* are not attractive to me, of course.
Response #154
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/14/02 1:16:57 PM
I agree with Roxy -- guess I'm bi-sexual. I find people attractive, of both genders and all ages (except kids and really old folks).
Response #155
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/14/02 3:44:34 PM
There's something I never could figure about being homosexual. Lesbian women tend to make themselves more masculine; gay men tend to make themselves more feminine. So what's the point of being gay if you are just going to end up with someone who acts like the opposite sex anyway?
Response #156
By: sooz
Date: 1/15/02 7:55:21 AM
Disclaimer: I'm not saying all gay folks have been molested, thus making them gay. I'm giving one isolated case.
I know a person who was born male, and had a sex change as an adult, and is now a lesbian. She explained to me that she was repeatedly sexually molested by a male family member as a child. Thus, the idea of a penis is so repulsive to her, she doesn't want to have one or be near one. She acts pretty dikey, just because she's not inherently frilly. But penises? No thanks, for her.
Response #157
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/15/02 10:15:56 AM
All I can say is that I do NOT have penis-envy.
As for Roxy's comment... I have always wondered that, too! If I were to be a lesbian, I'd be a lipstick lesbian, because why would I want a dyke, when I can have a MAN? (Okay, shoot me, if you will, but REALLY here, folks. What's the difference, other than a penis/vagina.)
Response #158
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/15/02 10:29:40 AM
Yes, what Witchy said! I'd be a lipstick lesbian too! And I'd want other lipstick lesbians for my girlfriends! I wonder if butch lesbians leave the seat up...
I can also understand what sooz' friend experienced. At least he/she *had* an explanation for their decision.
I don't think I have penis envy either. I don't need a penis, cuz I got balls!!! Yep, I'm a ballsy chick! Eeeuuwww, that doesn't make for a pretty picture...
Response #159
By: sooz
Date: 1/15/02 2:17:56 PM
There's a HUGE difference besides penis/vagina. There's breasts, for one.
But besides, women (even dikey women) are softer and cuddlier. Men tend to be more "hard-body" sorts, with muscles and angles, instead of curves. They have scruffy facial hair, and a different smell.
It's not like dykes decide they don't want to be girly-girls. Probably, they're just not naturally girly. A lot of us girls aren't.
Response #160
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/15/02 3:01:10 PM
Huh, I must not be a man.
Response #161
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/15/02 7:34:43 PM
Next time you're around a bull dyke or a sissyboy, ask them what's up. You'll get a different answer for everyone you ask.
Response #162
By: sooz
Date: 1/16/02 6:13:31 AM
Ooo ooo, I work with a sissy boy, who can turn on/off his sissy thing like I flip the light switch in my bedroom. We've talked about it, and he's fascinating.
And I've hugged you before, Gowan. You're a guy. Stronger, scruffy beard, no breasts... you're just, well, a DUDE.
Response #163
By: bob
Date: 1/16/02 11:46:21 AM
wait, when was he in your bedroom? "um, ok, sissyboy, if you really want to try this, you are going to have to turn off that gay thing...it just isn't doing anything for me" hahahaha
Response #164
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/16/02 1:19:21 PM
Yeah, but I wouldn't describe myself as a ""hard-body" sorts, with muscles and angles".
Maybe I *should* look like that..
Response #165
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/16/02 3:15:42 PM
Oh, I don't know, I think it still comes down to the penis/vagina issue. Since you can find soft cuddly guys just as easily as you can find hard-bodied angular gals, there's got to be some other reason for sexual orientation. And for as much as I may find some women attractive and sensual, when it's time for the "down and dirty", I like penises better than vaginas. (I could get alot more graphic, but I'll behave myself...this time) ;)
Response #166
By: bob
Date: 1/16/02 3:51:27 PM
that is ok roxy, i am sure most of us are dirty minded enough to form all the graphics ourselves. but i do agree with your point, there is something that is different, but i am not sure what it is, either. perhaps it is feramones (even if they are spelled wrong). i really don't think that it is an issue of how you are raised, at least not in most cases
Response #167
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/16/02 4:15:13 PM
Yeah, I'm with Rox. I know some wonderful, soft, squishy guys with breasts. I also know some hard-bodied, flat-chested females. Not all dykes are soft and squishy, for sure.
To me, it's absolutely all about the person. For me, stimulating conversation is a powerful aphrodisiac. If a man OR a woman is a fabulous conversationalist, I might actually start imagining what kinds of things they might say in the bedroom (for one example). It's not all about LOOKS that attracts me. However, it HELPS, of course.
I'm sure there ARE bull-dykes that I would find attractive SOMEWHERE. But I would think that I would tend to gravitate toward a lipstick lesbian first, even though I, myself, am probably 75% female/25% male. (I certainly ain't no "LADY".)
Response #168
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/16/02 5:54:25 PM
Gender: Its In Your Mind.
Response #169
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/16/02 6:31:44 PM
Agreed.
Response #170
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/17/02 9:51:51 AM
Which leads to one of my big pet peeves: the use of the term "sex" to mean "gender".
It drives me bonkers.
Now, I know, according to the dictionary, they're supposed to be interchangable, so I guess it's just my personal preference.
Did I mention it drives me nuts?
Response #171
By: bob
Date: 1/17/02 10:14:49 AM
i have never understood that, what is the difference between sex and gender supposed to be?
Response #172
By: sooz
Date: 1/17/02 10:17:54 AM
You can have sex with someone of the same or opposite sex.
However, you can't have gender with someone of the same or opposite gender.
Gowan, yer nuts.
Response #173
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/17/02 11:11:19 AM
Hey! I never thought about that. You're right. That's stupid! What a dumb-ass term for gender.
Response #174
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/17/02 6:06:57 PM
Sex is either in your genes or on your body. Count the
Y chromosomes or count the penises (0 for female, 1 for male).
Gender is everything else, from whether you're supposed to play with dolls to how much money you make doing the same job.
Some folks say that sex is just derivative of gender, which is to say that we define sex in the first place so we know what gender roles to use. I think it's a weak argument, but there it is.
Also, there are some folks who say that there's no 'opposite' sex, and there's no 'opposite' gender. I think this is a strong argument. Witness our discussion of bull dykes and sissyboys. Bull dykes are neither girl-gender nor boy-gender; they are their own category of gender. What's the opposite of bull dyke?
Response #175
By: sooz
Date: 1/18/02 6:57:56 AM
I've probably spouted this theory before, but it's just an extension of what Homer's saying, which makes perfect sense to me. A doctor I once worked for told me he believed this:
Let's say we each get 100 gender genes. Some guys have about 99 male and 1 female, meaning they can possibly cry at their own mother's funeral, but that's about it... otherwise, they're all macho.
Then there's my sissy boy friend, who's buff-as-hell (has modeled in magazines), but can break into a swish REALLY fast. He's probably 70 girl/30 guy.
I guess in our family, Richie and I are both about 65/35. He does most of the domesticated things (cooking, cleaning), and I like to make money. He decorates the house, and I get the oil changed. He's not nelly though, and likes NASCAR and fishing. I'm not TOO dykish (I think), and I like Winnie the Pooh and fields of flowers. But I don't wear makeup or jewlery hardly ever.
So I'm with Homer, for a change... gender, it's in your mind. Be who you are, and don't worry what category you're in.
So what % are you, everyone? Huh huh huh?
Response #176
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/18/02 10:19:14 AM
70 - 75% female. It fluctuates. I love make-up, cooking, and getting pedicures, but I also love beer (but I'm a beer snob -- no Miller Lite for ME), I love to drive cool cars (and FAST!), I like sports (some), and in the summers, I'm kind of a "mountain man" (only a woman!). The rest of the year, I'm a city chick.
So, I really like a little of both. ;-) Variety is GOOD.
Response #177
By: sooz
Date: 1/18/02 12:30:09 PM
People should wear pink/blue lables, with their percentages in the appropriately-colored sections.
Response #178
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/18/02 3:42:12 PM
Agreed. Sooz, what would YOU be?
Response #179
By: sooz
Date: 1/19/02 10:52:07 AM
I guess in our family, Richie and I are both about 65/35.
Response #180
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/22/02 9:51:58 AM
How on earth do you even calculate that? Is there a test or what?
Physically, I'm definitely female; but mentally, I dunno what the heck I am...
Response #181
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/22/02 12:00:03 PM
Well, you're not a droid, so you must be male then! Woo!
Response #182
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/23/02 11:20:14 AM
But I can't write my name in the snow!
Oh well, there's no snow here anyway and I don't have to pee right now.
Response #183
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/28/02 2:13:05 AM
Speaking of gender identity, I got a new CD.
'It's a Wonderful Life' by Sparklehorse.
It's one of the few pop records I've heard that is utterly unconventional. Tom Waits and PJ Harvey make appearances.
Response #184
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/29/02 10:04:46 AM
Ooooh. Sounds awesome. I'm a PJ Harvey fan.