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Author: nosepail
Date: 06-03-11 13:40
It truly is my dream, Rhett. Thanks for thinking of me. I almost swooned when I originally saw this announcement a few months back. Alas, the fuckers decided not to come to Boston, and I cant make the Brooklyn dates. But I am holding out hopes on a reunion album - Eric Bachmann could benefit from a true band context at this point in time. Enough with the acoustic bull - time to rock! And that reunion show sounded fabulous. His voice sounds, shall we say "less wracked" than it used to be
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 06-07-11 17:31
At least there are several opportunities to see Dinosaur doing Bug in its entirety in your neck of the woods (with Thurston Moore opening at the Northampton show):
Jun 21 Northampton, MA – Calvin Theatre
Jun 22 Boston, MA – The Paradise
They apparently ain't making it to the West Coast for this one, which is too bad since I love that damn album. It's one of the few in my life I can remember listening to every single day for several weeks after I bought it.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 06-28-11 14:32
Bought the Loaf ticket off Stubhub. Arranged a babysitter for my kid. Took the next day off from work. Booked the bus ticket. Arranged a place to crash in the city (not easy). Organized a mini-reunion of some old college friends. Packed the bag. Morning of: girlfriend breaks her foot while simply walking. Emergency room. No concert. Crushing disappointment. Night spent watching Glee re-runs in Boston, changing icepacks, and pouting. Sigh.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 06-29-11 00:28
Nose, I had a respectable amount of sympathy for you, until I reached the part about the Glee re-runs. Then my sympathy skyrocketed.
I must remember to express my appreciation to my wife (who just marked 20 years with me, BTW).
I have missed more than one concert because she's gotten sick ... but she would never add insult to injury by making me sit through anything as dreadful and soulless as Glee.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 06-29-11 01:24
Glee is unbearable. The message of "inclusion" the show theoretically espouses is so much more oppressive than any simple bullying most people face in high school. It really does feel like watching a Cambodian re-education camp the way they appear in front of that Glee Club and confess their homophobic crimes and other insensitivies. And the worst part is that a show which is theoretically ABOUT live performance totally undermines and destroys the entire concept of live performance by making the "performances" as fake and autotuned and canned as humanly possible. Oh, and they reguarly replace the normal 60 minute episodes with "very special" 90 minute episodes which have exactly the same amount of content and 6-7 5 minute commercial breaks! Ugh. Dont get me started. Thanks for your sympathy, Delvin. My woman is worth it.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 06-29-11 08:17
"The message of 'inclusion' the show theoretically espouses is so much more oppressive than any simple bullying most people face in high school. It really does feel like watching a Cambodian re-education camp the way they appear in front of that Glee Club and confess their homophobic crimes and other insensitivies."
My new favorite thing ever posted on this board.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 06-29-11 09:23
I still haven't actually seen Glee. But the CD I heard one evening, of the cast's renditions of Eighties hits, told me all I need to know. That miserable cast drained all the life out of several of my favorite pop hits from that decade, and managed to make the songs I'd always hated even worse. I didn't think I could possibly hate "The Best of Times" any more than I did. But the wretches from Glee somehow managed to drag that song down even further into the muck at the bottom of the river to Hell.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 06-29-11 12:33
My wife does a weekly ladies' night to get together with friends and watch Glee. There's a fair amount of campiness to their get-togethers and I think they mainly enjoy guffawing over Jane Lynch. But this same group of ladies also regularly does rent-a-room karaoke together, so I'm sure the goofy/crappy versions of 70s and 80s songs has some appeal to them as well. To her credit, my wife knows better than to ask me to sit through that shit. I will say though that when I happened to walk into the room and catch the Jane Lynch parody of the Madonna "Vogue" video (is that the song?), it was pretty hilarious.
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Author: Aitch
Date: 07-04-11 02:36
"The message of 'inclusion' the show theoretically espouses is so much more oppressive than any simple bullying most people face in high school. It really does feel like watching a Cambodian re-education camp the way they appear in front of that Glee Club and confess their homophobic crimes and other insensitivies."
That should be slotted straight into the tv guide.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 02-02-12 13:02
Just got a notification that Archers of Loaf is playing Boston in April! Tickets on sale tomorrow. Yippeee!!!!!!!
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Author: nosepail
Date: 02-04-12 22:22
Bought back-to-back night tickets for April. (yeah, I guess I'm "that guy" now) Any TP'ers in Boston around that time?
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