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  3. 3.

    cmorenc

    I am bored silly with award shows like the Grammys, Academy Awards, and Golden Globes. Just not my thing at all, even though many (not all, but many) of the winners and nominees have created quality performances worthy of special recognition.

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    God. They should have completely not named the new CSI franchee with Patricia Arquette CSI: Cyber.
    Because I totes want to cyber with her.

  6. 6.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Ok, I cannot unsee the things I saw in that slideshow.

    I’m only watching the Grammys because a friend of mine works the show every year (script supervisor, I think) and AC/DC opened the show.

  8. 8.

    PsiFighter37

    I usually don’t watch awards shows, but I did watch the Grammys last year – spent most of the evening making snide comments in between beers. The only memorable performance was Imagine Dragons and Kendrick Lamar doing a really good mashup live – everything else was pretty weak. I just got back from LA, though, and I’d rather decompress and watch ‘Better Call Saul’ in an hour then watch celebrities be their usual preening selves.

  10. 10.

    Gin & Tonic

    @efgoldman: I posted this downstairs. My back-of-the-envelope calculation is that I shoveled between three and four tons of snow off the garage roof today. Can’t take a snowblower on the roof. Well, not if you want to live.

  11. 11.

    FlyingToaster

    Shoveling here whenever the accumulation gets to 4 inches; probably about 11pm. The plows have come by once; we’re at about 2″ since the snow restarted. Watertown’s just far enough in from the ocean that the real accumulation won’t come until after midnight.

    The plan at Chez Toaster is for the adults to get up at 6 and snowblow a path out to the driveway; then shovel out the berm the plows have left behind. WarriorGirl’s school is cancelled; HerrDoktorToaster was supposed to have an interview at 9 but that’s looking increasingly unlikely.

    Then, of course, I will be making French Toast. This morning was pancakes, except for WarriorGirl who is on a diet of pączki and Annie’s pastae.

    Short rant: You’d think that relatively well-off communities like {redacted}* could plow their streets to 2 lanes wide. Especially when poorer adjacent towns can manage to do so.

    * Not Boston, Watertown, or Waltham. We’re relatively poor. And still, most of our side streets have more clearance than {redacted}.

  14. 14.

    Tripod

    Aww…. It’s a Grammy.

    “The music business is a cruel and shallow money
    trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and
    pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
    There’s also a negative side.” – HST

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    @FlyingToaster:
    Don’t know how much rain SF got since Friday but mathematically, infinitely more than January when they got zero inches. Here’s we’ve had three, which mathematically is a metric fvck-ton more than January’s whopping hundredth of an inch.

    Luckily, none needed shoveling.

    This will help the planet’s 2015 almond crop. Have y’all sent your bees our way yet?

  21. 21.

    the Conster

    @FlyingToaster:

    You should see the financial district roads – I work on Broad Street. It’s like carriages in the cowpath days with huge frozen snow ruts. total clusterfuck with trucks trying to deliver and everything and everybody has to go single file. But, we’ve been doing it because that’s what Bostonians do. My work just got cancelled because it’s becoming impossible for the commuters, and the rest of the city’s infrastructure is stretched to the max. We can’t let it break.

  22. 22.

    Belafon

    I caught a little bit of the David Axelrod piece on Face the Nation this morning. In 2004, Axelrod worked for John Edwards. I thought it was interesting what he said about Edwards. He said that while he thought Edwards was sincere in his concern for middle class and the poor, he was not someone inclined to actually try to do anything to try solve the problem. That was one of the reasons he later joined the Obama campaign. He felt Obama would try, and he cited the ACA as proof.

  23. 23.

    beth

    Is it just me or are these the most boring Grammy awards ever? Dull, sad songs sung by over the hill performers.

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    @beth:

    Dull, sad songs sung by over the hill performers.

    If I never see Madonna do a routine while dressed as a band baton twirler it will be too soon.

  25. 25.

    Elizabelle

    @efgoldman: Not to be a beyotch, but it got up to 68 today in DC area today. Twas criminal to not be outside.

    Am still hoping for one good snow before spring, cuz we haven’t had much of anything. That was not the consensus among my neighbors.

    Kids running around in tee shirts and shorts. Delirious dogs.

  27. 27.

    PsiFighter37

    @Belafon: But, but, he went to New Orleans and helped rebuild the 9th Ward!

    In hindsight, he always did come off as a bit of a slimeball. But I rooted for him when he was on the ticket in 2004, and he was the only one really pushing solid rhetoric for most of the 2008 campaign – but with both Obama and Hillary in the race, he had no real shot. Good thing we dodged a bullet on that one in the end…

  30. 30.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Corner Stone: He’s a Scientologist, if that helps. I’m old enough to hear “Beck” and automatically think “Jeff Beck.”

  33. 33.

    Anne Laurie

    Thoroughly unworthy alte kacker comment: If there must be actual adults named Kelsey McKinney, Todd VanDerWerff, Alex Abad-Santos and Brandon Ambrosino, then of course they are working for GE (Vox).

  34. 34.

    Elizabelle

    Screamin Jay Hawkins cover. OK. Annie Lennox earns her keep. She kinda put Hozier’s song out of beat, but she’s redeemed herself.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    My son isn’t actually enjoying Annie Lennox. I may have to deposit him at the local fire station.

  36. 36.

    Poopyman

    @Elizabelle: Yes, it was a glorious day, but in the interest of full disclosure, the NWS says that in 24 hours it’ll be a sleet/snow mix here.

  39. 39.

    Tree With Water

    Someone did me a good turn many years ago, when he all but completely dissuaded me from ever again seriously contemplating moving permanently to snow country (in my case, the Tahoe region). As a piece of advice, it ranks right up there with the solid counsel I got to avoid buying a house with a lot of stairs. That type is a dime a dozen in the area in which I did eventually buy, and at one time I thought it would be kind of cool. Turns out, I nowadays avoid using the small staircase out my kitchen door more often than not, because the slope outside the other door is easier to walk than the dozen kitchen steps (times two). That’s how fucking lazy I’ve grown in my old age. Not that I was a ball of fire when I was younger, mind you…

  41. 41.

    the Conster

    @efgoldman:

    I watched in horror as that happened to a lovely young lady walking down Washington Street – strutting along in her high heeled boots and then BOOM! She wasn’t hurt, but, do.not.want.

  42. 42.

    Anne Laurie

    @efgoldman:

    We’re getting too old and disabled to shovel, and our wonderful neighbor who snowblows us out now has a broken snowblower. Don’t know what we’re going to do. There are no more teenage kids who come around for a few bucks.

    Assuming you don’t have a 911 emergency, you might try calling the mayor’s office tomorrow. You guys have an official ‘Snow Emergency Hotline?’

    In Boston, after the last couple storms, the Elder Services people coordinated a ‘compassionate shovellers’ Facebook page to link volunteers with people who couldn’t dig out their own cars or sidewalks. Or so the tv news told me. I’m not on the Facebook, but if Providence hasn’t got something like this in place already, maybe it’s time for someone to suggest it?

    (Maybe have Mrs. EFGoldman offer to trade Girl Scout Cookies for snow-blowing! :0 )

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    @Belafon: Don’t watch Sunday morning shows — not in my contract — but glad Axelrod gave John Edwards credit for being sincere about the Two Americas. I think he was. Flawed human that he turned out to be.

    And that Obama was the better candidate and better president to make a difference.

  44. 44.

    JPL

    @Anne Laurie: Earlier someone mentioned mud season and it brought back memories. I was raised in central MA and remember those times. I don’t remember Boston being snowed under so much though.

  45. 45.

    Elizabelle

    @efgoldman: I know. It’s hidden.

    Waiting for you and the missus to come back and help us spend the $25.00 Murphy’s gift certificate with no expiration date. Siubhan helped win it for you!

  46. 46.

    Keith G

    I was hoping to hold out til Sam Smith and my fav R&B (un)diva, Mary J. Blige, buts I gots to go to work.

  47. 47.

    Pogonip

    @efgoldman: Have you checked the Yellow Pages, if you still have one, for snow removal services? Also, if your state has a department of aging by whatever name, check with them.

  52. 52.

    Tree With Water

    @Elizabelle: If I ever meet Edwards, the first words out of my mouth will be a request for the return of my $35 campaign donation. I won’t be smiling when I make it, either.

  54. 54.

    Anne Laurie

    @Keith G:

    That’s what the fricking Sun is for.

    Around here, the Sun is for melting just enough snow off the roof peaks to drip on the steps, where it can refreeze as dense, immovable chunks of ice once it gets dark.

    That’s why “everyone” around here stocks ice melt, except the Spousal Unit couldn’t find the paw-safe ice melt he prefers (the dogs don’t go out the front door when there’s snow, but he doesn’t want the expensive cast-concrete steps spalting), and he was pretty sure we had some in the garage left over from last winter. We have since verified that there is no ice melt in the garage, and now there’s none on the store shelves either, assuming the stores were open this late on a Sunday, which they’re not. Somebody may need to go work on the front steps tomorrow morning with a hair dryer, and it is not going to be me.

  56. 56.

    FlyingToaster

    @efgoldman: Other direction. My 2-block-long street is plowed better than Beacon Street in {redacted} Centre.

    Redacted because the city councillors across the river seem to own flying monkeys. Also because I find it funny to redact them, the pompous swine. Since my daughter has 3 classes a week there, I’m sick and tired of their seeming inability to plow their streets or school parking lots.

    Belmont, like Arlington, has oodles of “private ways” that the abutters fail to hire plow services for. The through streets are actually plowed pretty well (I’m thinking Trapelo, Belmont, Common, Concord, Leonard, yadda yadda yadda).

  57. 57.

    different-church-lady

    When did you fellow Bostonians become such babies? At least it’s stayed frozen and relatively easy to move the whole time. The more prototypical Boston snowstorm is snow, followed by rain, followed by freezing temperatures.

    Eh, who am I kidding? I’m giving up on leaving the house for the rest of the month…

  59. 59.

    FlyingToaster

    @trollhattan:

    Have y’all sent your bees our way yet?

    I don’t think we send our bees west; usually they truck them from Georgia up to Quebec.

    Our local bees at Gore Place are staying put, thanks.

  60. 60.

    Crusty Dem

    @efgoldman:

    I was assuming Wellesley. Though I can tell you from my time living in the “slums” there 10 years ago (ironic name for the cheap little former summer homes near the river), there are parts of town that get plowed long after the rest of town… We also got the sewage backup whenever the pumps went down. Good times.

  61. 61.

    Keith G

    @Anne Laurie:Many moons age when I was living in Columbus, Ohio, An early January blizzard was followed by 30 days of sub freezing weather. Once we got our auto out to a street, one did not need to steer as the ruts in the ice would guide.

    Some lefts their autos as was til a thaw in early Feb.

  63. 63.

    Crusty Dem

    @Tree With Water:

    I’ve heard you can find him in the college bars in Chapel Hill trying to pick up young co-eds, in case everything you already know about him didn’t disgust you enough…

  65. 65.

    different-church-lady

    @efgoldman: Keep in mind that when I say I’ve given up on leaving the house for the month, it also means I’ve given up on having income for the month.

    Therefore the first statement is not meant to be factual.

  66. 66.

    Keith G

    This edition of the Grammies is showing the folly of caring more about the theatrics of the production than just ripping away with raw music.

    Yawnnnnn

  67. 67.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tree With Water: I don’t regret supporting John Edwards. He was talking about the Two Americas — and, if you believe Axelrod, sincerely — and somebody had to introduce that concept into the conversation. The unfortunate fact that he was also letting his little head lead him, well, he wasn’t the first & won’t be the last politician guilty of that.

  70. 70.

    Violet

    @efgoldman: Are there any students in your area that you could contract with to shovel your snow? High school or college age? Any neighbors know of someone? Any Balloon-Juicers in the area that could help?

    Seems like there must be someone who could help you out!

  71. 71.

    Suzanne

    We’re an hour behind. Ed Sheeran is currently putting me to sleep.

    Madonna is pushing 60. Fuck. I feel fat and ugly.

  72. 72.

    gogol's wife

    @efgoldman:

    I hope you’ll be safe. Not looking forward to another Monday like last Monday, white-knuckling it to and from work. But it sounds as if we’re not getting as much this time as then (tfu, tfu, tfu).

    I’m not happy that Isis was listless tonight (the dog on Downton, I mean).

  76. 76.

    mainmati

    @Elizabelle: Silver Spring didn’t make it to 60 degrees today but was close. You must be in NVA. But I agree. I actually like cold weather and snow so havebeen disappointed this winter (so far).

  79. 79.

    GregB

    I’m in the southern NH snow belt that has been getting hammered pretty hard.

    The big clusterfuck today was when I was snowblowing out the mailboxes and proceeded to suck two Sunday papers in a bag tossed in front of the paper tubes and covered with snow, into the gears of the snowblower.

    Spent about an hour with a prybar, saws and pliers and hot water pulling the papers and plastic out of the blades.

    Fun..fun…fun…

    Going to get some sleep and will spent the next day snowblowing again.

  80. 80.

    Tree With Water

    @Elizabelle: What ticks me off about Edwards has nothing to do with his muddled personal life. He cashed my check not long after soliciting it, and not long before he dropped out of the 2004 race. That wasn’t long before the California primary, which is why I contributed in the first place- to help him campaign in my home state. His subsequent behavior lent pathos to my donation (on top of it having been wasted effort), but unlike his political calculations, his conduct then was really none of my business.

  81. 81.

    Corner Stone

    @Keith G:

    This edition of the Grammies is showing the folly of caring more about the theatrics of the production than just ripping away with raw music.

    What do you mean “this”? These artists have been nothing but international brands for at least the last ten years.
    They aren’t going to do a god damned thing that risks them getting a dollar of income in the future.

  82. 82.

    Suzanne

    @Anne Laurie: I would happily endure people making fun of my butt on the Internet for even 1% of her wealth.

    Seriously, I just found out how much Mr. Suzanne and I are going to have to pay on our student loans, and I want to vomit. The irony: while we were on the phone with the loan services, he said, “Wow, you guys make a lot of money.” FFS, we are like just barely breaking even. I’m driving a 15-year-old car that I can’t afford to replace. I need a Powerball RIGHT NOW.

  83. 83.

    Zinsky

    This Eric Church clown is just pathetic – he can’t sing and the background video makes no sense. And this is what country music has become? Sad.

  86. 86.

    GregB

    Figures I would turn on the Grammy’s for the country music medley.

    Country music makes me want to self-defenestrate.

  87. 87.

    FlyingToaster

    @the Conster: Yes, we’ve been watching the pictures that Cantore re-tweets, and various UHubsters tweet out of their office windows every day.

    Today, Plymouth County got hammered all the livelong day, and then the band moved into Boston (DTX to Mattapan) and dropped a fuckton of snow just for the hell of it. 8 miles west, I shoveled 3 inches this morning at 10, and we have about 2 inches down now (I keep checking, it’s just not accumulating yet).

  88. 88.

    Botsplainer

    Happy – had a major breakthrough that only came about when I announced that I was prepared to move out this week.

    When I further announced that I was prepared to fire sale our house and declined the months of expense and misery of upgrades and repair, it became real.

    Got a deposit on an awesome downtown apartment I’m losing, but this is the optimum result.

  90. 90.

    Suzanne

    @Botsplainer: I’m so happy for you. That’s great. Too bad it took losing some change to get the breakthrough, but it sounds like things are going your way. Congrats.

  93. 93.

    FlyingToaster

    @currants: Ding, Ding Ding.

    Spend 200 million rebuilding your high school, but fail to shovel the school lots around town. Fail to even shovel the driveway to one of your grade school lots. Yeesh.

  94. 94.

    Botsplainer

    @Corner Stone:

    Staying together; its a 25 year marriage. It would be stupid to split up. Neither of us is fucking around, no addiction or gambling problems.

  95. 95.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: Mr. Suzanne and I both had to fund our graduate degrees entirely on loans, since our families couldn’t help. I had a full academic scholarship for undergrad, but we have well into the six figures between us. It just feels like we will be scraping by forever.

  96. 96.

    Hal

    30 more minutes and I’m done with this BS overtime shift. I worked 11p to 7a Saturday night into Sunday morning and turned around and came back to work at 3. Off tomorrow, so I think I’ll make my way through the snow to the grocery store, stock up, and go home to hibernate tomorrow since I’m off. I’m still trying to decide between making a pork shoulder or pot roast tomorrow.

    Also, I’m still blown away by the fact the Edwards affair/love child was not a concern of his when he was running for President. I have to wonder who on the opposition side knew about that mess and was just waiting for the choice to be Edwards to drop that bomb. Idiot.

  97. 97.

    Violet

    @Botsplainer: Still recommend counseling. You came this close to splitting up. Something isn’t working great. Or at least it hasn’t been. Even if she won’t go you can go. Hopefully things will work out great from this point but if they don’t you’ve got support already in place. Worth the time to find a counselor you click with, even if you don’t go very often.

  100. 100.

    Tree With Water

    @Suzanne: I went camping in Big Sur once with a friend, his sister, and her future husband. This was not long after the Santa Barbara Bank of America had been torched by dirty, stinking hippies* (circa 1970-1971). My buddy and I were in high school at the time, and his sister and her boyfriend were attending Berkeley. We all got to talking about the attack, and all these years later I still remember them both wishing that the bank that held the paper on their student loans would likewise be burnt to the ground.

    *(memory does not serve what individuals, if any, were ever charged or prosecuted for burning that B of A.)

  101. 101.

    FlyingToaster

    @efgoldman:

    Do they still do the sheep shearing? We took our daughter when she was little.

    The Festival is usually the Saturday after Patriot’s Day. Rain or Shine.

    I’ve been walking over since 2003, and making Warrior Girl walk over since she was 3. I’ll confess, I mostly go to buy earrings and tie-dye shirts, but we did get WarriorGirl knitting needles and wool. One year she volunteered for the Revolutionary Army; last year she did carding and spinning. We also haul her up the hill to dance in the tent.

    Now that she’s learning to knit, she’s asked for more wool this year.

  104. 104.

    FlyingToaster

    @efgoldman:

    In the early 70s, Framingham built a new school … With a flat roof.
    The town abandoned it.

    Good Grief.

    I lived in a 3-decker in Somerville, and my landlord had bolted a ladder from the back porch up to the roof; I helped him shovel a foot of snow off the back, once. Normally I took care of the front walk, but the city robo-called warning that the snow was exceptionally heavy and to start clearing your roof immediately.

    Good thing they abandoned it; talk about a disaster waiting to happen.

  105. 105.

    Zinsky

    Prince is so cool, even the other music superstars are in awe of him! Beck wins another Grammy? WTF? He is a talentless weenie!

  106. 106.

    FlyingToaster

    @Crusty Dem: That would have been a close miss; but they don’t have a lot of welcoming afterschool programs for non-Swellesleyites.

    I haven’t even tried to go over to Wellesley in this weather; I remember slip-sliding after the normal rain-snow-mix storms and don’t really feel like repeating it. Fortunately, Wegmans went to Chestnut Hill.

  109. 109.

    Suzanne

    @Zinsky: I was surprised by that, too. Beck’s album seemed to make no splash at all, and the Black Keys and Ryan Adams both had great albums this year. And Tom Petty just is always great. Beck deserved that award 15 years ago maybe.

  116. 116.

    Corner Stone

    If Chris Martin + two time Grammy winner Beck doesn’t depress you then you are the Buddha or on chemical assistance.

  118. 118.

    beth

    I’m watching with some 19-20 year olds and they hate the show. It has no relation to the music they listen to or hear at the clubs.

  119. 119.

    Cervantes

    @Tree With Water:

    what individuals, if any, were ever charged or prosecuted for burning that B of A

    Months after the incident, seventeen radical campus activists were indicted — nearly all of whom had strong alibis, e. g., on the night of the fire they were already in jail for recent acts of protest.

  120. 120.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @beth:

    It has no relation to the music they listen to or hear at the clubs.

    When did the Grammys ever have any relation to the music that the young listen to or hear at the clubs?

  121. 121.

    Mike J

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    When did the Grammys ever have any relation to the music that the young listen to or hear at the clubs?

    One of my ex-roommates[1] won a Grammy and I’ve never heard anything we ever listened to win one.

    [1] Group house had 2 dj’s, music director of the radio station of the djs, concert promoter, studio musician[2].

    [2] Later became a producer.

  124. 124.

    Cervantes

    @Botsplainer:

    Glad you’re happy. Not sure that happiness based on ultimata is sustainable. It does seem that at least you have her attention now. Good luck with whatever follows.

  125. 125.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m so glad you liked Ft Worth Blues, and assume you followed the related link to the TVZ tribute on Austin City Limits from which it was taken.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Always lovely, Ingrid Bergman.

  127. 127.

    danielx

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    When did the Grammys ever have any relation to the music that the young listen to or hear at the clubs?

    That would be never, as far as I can tell, although they have improved somewhat over the days when they didn’t want to admit rock and roll existed. That was in the seventies and eighties…when the young ‘uns had been listening to that bad music for twenty-five fucking years.

  130. 130.

    Corner Stone

    This is more like a gospel revival at this point. Why are my balls not being rocked off?
    Bored.

  132. 132.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Botsplainer:

    I agree with Violet that it’s a good idea to continue counseling on your own since there are probably a lot of patterns you’ve both gotten set into over the past 25 years that need to be looked at. One of the reasons marriages get into trouble during the “empty nest” years is that you have to re-learn how to relate to each other as a couple without the kids in between. Good luck and I hope you guys can make it work.

  134. 134.

    danielx

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Oh, I got that. It’s just remembering looking at the program of the show for years, and thinking something like “best new artist, starland vocal band….are you fucking kidding me?”

  136. 136.

    Keith G

    @danielx:

    the days when they didn’t want to admit rock and roll existed.

    From the 1969 Grammy Awards (via Wikipedia)
    Record of the Year
    Paul Simon & Roy Halee (producers) & Simon & Garfunkel for “Mrs. Robinson”

    Album of the Year
    Al De Lory (producer) & Glen Campbell for By the Time I Get to Phoenix

    Song of the Year
    Bobby Russell (songwriter) for “Little Green Apples” performed by Roger Miller / O.C. Smith

    Best New Artist
    José Feliciano

  137. 137.

    Corner Stone

    Oh oh oh ohhhh oh oh…stay with me….ohhhhh oh oh oh, won’t you…ooooohhhh oh oh oh….stay with me……oooooohhhh oooh oh oh oh. mumble mumble mumble….stay with me…..

  143. 143.

    srv

    All I care about is George Clinton is back here in March and I get to ride the fucking Mothership again.

  144. 144.

    Mike J

    Casablanca is ending on TCM right now., At the end, Sam tells Laslo, “Your girlfriend came to my house last night and I fucked her. I lied when I told her I liked her though. You take her.”

  147. 147.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Violet: Most dance clubs I have been to steer clear of pop – even remixes. But then I am a terrible, elitist, hipster, music snob, so my experiences may not be typical.

    @srv: The man puts on a hell of a show.

    @Mike J: “Your girlfriend wife came to my house last night and I fucked her. I lied when I told her I liked her though. You take her.”

    Fixed.

  149. 149.

    Another Holocene Human

    Madonna is still way the fuck more relevant than Sarah Palin. Even if she had to kiss a magic frog Britney Spears.

    Silly Britney, that was just the portal for Madonna to steal her powers.

  151. 151.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: I wouldn’t know, really. I only went to dance clubs a little bit when I was younger and pretty much quit going by the time I was out of college. Remember going to some gay clubs with a friend of mine from high school and they always had remixes of songs we knew, so must have been pop music stuff.

    I’m not a music snob in the least. I always dated music snobs, though.

  154. 154.

    Another Holocene Human

    @danielx: Ugh, I can remember watching the Grammys when I was in high school wondering who the hell are the people and why did Satan so hate the world as to create a category called “Adult Contemporary”.

  158. 158.

    Suzanne

    @Violet: Mr. Suzanne and I are both fairly snobby musically, and when we were dating in early days, we exchanged mix CDs with songs we thought the other would enjoy.

    So about a month in, I somehow got the bright idea that he would just LOVE Ministry’s song “Stigmata”. He turned it on and immediately became scared of me. LOL. It’s amazing that he stayed with me. Hah.

    I redeemed myself with the Cocteau Twins’ “Carolyn’s Fingers”.

    FUCK, Coldplay are boring as shit.

  159. 159.

    patrick II

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I fell in love with Ingrid Bergman when I was seven years old when I saw her in the “Bells of St. Mary’s”. Due to her religious dress in the movie, all you could see of her was from just above her eyebrows to the just below her jaw. But that incredible smile was unforgettable.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suzanne: Avoid any Ministry song that is not off “With Sympathy” if trying to stir romantic feelings. Unless you know the person digs industrial music.

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    Suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: But “Stigmata” is fecking awesome. And I hate it when people are only into their one approved genre. I listen to alt rock, but also everything else, including opera. I consider narrow and/or bad taste in music, art, film, cuisine, etc. to be an intolerable character flaw.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suzanne: I didn’t say anything about sticking to one genre. I just said that the only safely romantic Ministry stuff is on “With Sympathy.”

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steeplejack (tablet): I also broke up with someone largely because she spelled the word “wreck” without the “w” in a letter. It is possible that I was a bit of a bastard in my earlier days.

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    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: A friend of mine refused to go out with a guy because he used ‘party’ as a verb. He was also a jerk. His jaw was on the floor when she told him that. Good times.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suzanne: BTW, that is why I never made mixes for people. I would have tried to impress rather than woo. My romantic skills, such as they are, lie elsewhere.

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    Tenar Darell

    School in my town is also closed for third Monday in a row. I think the town is going to have to come by with a front end loader and dump trucks to clear the sidewalks again. Oh, and Elizabelle, I have lots of unassembled snowmen in my driveway front yard and backyard. You are welcome to them.

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    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Mike J:

    As OO said, that whole plot point is that Ilsa and Laszlo are married and have been for years. When she was with Rick in Paris, she thought she was a widow, but Laszlo turned up alive after all. Laszlo knows what happened, but he’s willing to forget about it because he’s a friggin’ saint and also because he knows Ilsa thought he was dead.

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    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Suzanne:

    G likes to point out that when we met up in person for the first time, I was reading a book about the Nazis while I was waiting for him, and he talked to me anyway. It will be 15 years since that day on July 15th.

  181. 181.

    Suzanne

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): That’s awesome.

    Oddly, on the day we met up in person for the first time, we discussed our favorite blogs. And he told me about BJ, which is how I came here. He reads but lurks.

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    Mike J

    @Omnes Omnibus: That was the speech to which I referred.Very few people are that saintly, and even if a person were, I don’t think I would assume he was. Rick could have kept Ilsa or told the truth that nothing happened, even if they had a past. Instead, he came up with the worst possible story. He intentionally did the worst of both worlds.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Violet: Yeah, within days of ending that relationship, I was briefly dating a a South African bar waitress named Ingrid. I have no idea how well she spelled anything.

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    max

    @Omnes Omnibus: Avoid any Ministry song that is not off “With Sympathy” if trying to stir romantic feelings. Unless you know the person digs industrial music.

    I, on the other hand, would have thought that a mix with Stigmata was totally hot. Of course, I would’ve pointed out that ‘Thieves’ is better.

    max
    [‘So there you go.’]

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    Johnny Coelacanth

    @Suzanne: Heh. The live version woke me out of a sound sleep one night, after I fell asleep listening to the local college radio station. Scary shit, indeed.

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    Mike J

    @Omnes Omnibus: From the edit you don’t get the impression they did.

    Gaslight is on now and Ingrid Bergman has a very pointy bra. Unrelated, but I went out with a girl in Stockholm who had auditioned for Ingmar Bergman, and to this day I have to be pretentious and say “berryman”.

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    Suzanne

    Heh. When he played it, his eyebrows shot straight up as soon as the opening scream began.

    I love that song.

    I also introduced him to the Magnetic Fields’ “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” and Bob Mould’s “See A Little Light”. Both also excellent. He hates GbV, though.

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    max

    @Suzanne: I also introduced him to the Magnetic Fields’ “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” and Bob Mould’s “See A Little Light”. Both also excellent. He hates GbV, though.

    No accounting for taste. When I read the comments on Skinny Puppy videos and there are all of these women who like the Puppy, and I’m like, ‘where the hell were you?’

    @Omnes Omnibus: Also too, here are gogo girls. And garage rock.

    “We lived our lives in blood…”

    max
    [‘Which is not to imply the Reveonettes are uncool. Rather the opposite.’]

  199. 199.

    Tenar Darell

    @Omnes Omnibus: Dry winter in Wisconsin? Well, logistically, if you rented some dump trucks they could probably travel from here in Massachusetts to Wisconsin without the snow melting toward the end of the week when we get the cold front coming through. Looking at the forecast maps, the mild temperatures going way up the Pacific coast was troubling.

  200. 200.

    Suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: I love both of them. I think Mould is just great. Still plays with so much passion.

    @max: Heh, my ex-husband is a huge Skinny Puppy fan. And the German band whose name I can’t spell or say. I am not a big fan, but I enjoy it from time to time.

    German sounds like Klingon.

  202. 202.

    Tenar Darell

    Late night repeat of local news…it is clear to me that Charlie Baker is slowly working on his snowstorm uniform. He’s sweatered up.

  203. 203.

    Mike J

    @Suzanne:

    And the German band whose name I can’t spell or say. I am not a big fan, but I enjoy it from time to time.

    Sound of buildings falling down?

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    Keith G

    Interesting comments about Sam Smith, I guess. The kid is a multi instrumentalist and a song writer. His voice is amazing and seems to easily bring a simple intensity that most others can’t match. Most of his songs are very stripped-down in production. He is not afraid to use his voice as an unaltered instrument – very rare for a pop act in this decade.

    This guy is just getting started and he is very good.

  210. 210.

    Suzanne

    @Keith G: Considering that Tom Petty wrote his big hit, I don’t share your admiration of his songwriting skills. And he’s dreadfully dull. He will have one more hit and then he’s done.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Keith G: And his songs are boring. All of his talent is for naught, if he can’t be interesting. Unless he just wants to rake in the cash….

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    Anne Laurie

    @Cervantes:

    … nearly all of whom had strong alibis, e. g., on the night of the fire they were already in jail for recent acts of protest.

    Well, that just proves they were criminal types! (/snark)

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    Mike J

    @Suzanne: I always loved Massive Attack. Listening now it’s amazing how similar their sound is to New Jack Swing. It’s like white people in England who payed synths listened to black music from five years before and did their own thing with it.

  216. 216.

    Suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: Seriously, the Grammys are embarrassing. 90% of the time, they go to the worst thing nominated that year. The last fifty years are filled with great, groundbreaking, passionate music that loses to utter tripe.

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    Cervantes

    @Anne Laurie:

    Well, exactly. The powers-that-were just wanted to get rid of the radicals, by hook or by crook. It was too transparent for words.

    There were rumors that the bank was torched by undercover types working for the FBI, but I think really it was just students angered by rising rents (blamed partly on the big bank with the local branch).

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    Cervantes

    @Mike J:

    Someone mentioned José Feliciano above, albeit not in a nice way. Anyhow, his “Destiny” answers your description.

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    lamh36

    Man, that was long. I really was only interested in the final act of John Legend and Common with Glory.

    I’m finding it ironic that people seem to be upset bout Beck “robbing” Beyonce of her Album of the Year award, when Beyonce ended the night singing a song that has renewed reverence thanks to the movie Selma, as sung my Grammy nominated artist Ledisi.

    I know Gospel music may not be the thing for alot here at BJ, but believe me when I tell you Beyonce did NOT do the song justice. There was/is controversy over Beyonce being given chance to sing it over Ledisi, and with good reason, IMHO.

    Beyonce’s rendition, while perfectly serviceable had not real spirit or gospel soul in it. Please check out Ledisi’s version here:

    http://youtu.be/qxVpHiyT5kE

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