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Sports and rock don't mix, especially when the Super Bowl stages a fake concert. But don't get me wrong, the Super Bowl halftime trainwreck is my favorite thing about the Super Bowl. Now I know that this year's halftime performer Prince is going to be good. Prince is always good. The cat just smokes. And even though I know that I'll enjoy his performance, I also know that the organizers will coat the event with a layer of cheese, I just don't know how thick it will be. That's the fun part.
First off, the people that are hired to be "fans" and froth over the performer on the field always look like a college pep squad who have never been to a concert. They look and smile at the camera more than the performer. And even when there's a good performance by the artist, the wacky camera angles and confusing editing just distract from the performer and make me wonder what the hell is going on in the control room?
I love a spectacle, I just reserve the right to laugh at it. So if you "hate the Super Bowl", get some friends with good senses of humor together and just check out the halftime show. There's nothing like a room full of people making fun of a shared American pop culture experience. The "spectacular" is usually so god awful over-the-top that it's brilliant in its bad taste.
The Spin I'm In: Are You Ready For Some Halftime?
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Spin Donita, spin!
Balrog rockin’ the zed!
I wonder if Prince’s music will actually be played live or lip-synched.
ZZ Top’s performance of Tush several years ago was alarmingly similar to the studio cut. Like note for note. Bah!
I’m sure there are other examples, though I think U2 was playing live.
I have always loved Prince and can’t figure out why we don’t see/hear more from him.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 1
Can you tell I’m working from home today?
I’m actually working, too…
Balrog @ 3
Every performer is different. The Rolling Stones last year and Paul McCartney the year before were live. In 2005, the infamous Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson show was taped.
Mary McCurnin @ 3
He’s from my hometown, yet I never really GROKed his music.
At the time he became big I was pretty focused on the Grateful Dead. I’d guess there is a lot of 80’s music that I’m clueless about.
The Stones were the highlight for me last year, although their songlist sucked (Start Me Up? PuhlEEEZ-enough already). Won’t see this year’s game, gotta work.
Mary McCurnin @ 4
Prince has his own club at The Rio in Vegas. He’s playing every Friday night. My friend saw him there two weeks ago. He said the crowd was unenthusiastic and lame which prompted Prince to say to them “Don’t you know who I am? I’m Prince, come on!”
Donita Sparks @ 9
This is a problem all over – clubs everywhere are filled with oh-so-bored lame 20 somethings in every city in America these days. It’s trendy to be mediocre and lame I guess. Fuck that I say, let’s rock!
Y’aint missed much!
Balrog @
7
is funny that I’m from Brazil but I enjoy superbowl… I’m a redskins fan, but I’ll be a colts fan this weekend… No P Control anymore but Prince will rock the halftime…
Bruno @ 12
ALLRIGHT! A COLTS FAN! GO COLTS!!!!! (I’m from Indy)
raven @ 11
Kramer please!
Try Gillian Welch and David Rawlings “A Bluegrass Singer can be a left winger”!
This is a problem all over – clubs everywhere are filled with oh-so-bored lame 20 somethings in every city in America these days. It’s trendy to be mediocre and lame I guess. Fuck that I say, let’s rock!
Hey if Donita (from Chicago) and I can work together, there may be hope for Congress and Chimpy to work together some day!
raven @
11
I was trying to be diplomatic. :)
Actually I like the stuff from Prince. Always have. I liked his flick “Purple Rain” too.
Hey Donita
I see you are from Chicago!` Dang, Rickie Lee, Spanky McFarlane. . .Warren Zevon!!!
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 16
Well, I haven’t really followed Da Bears since Walter Peyton and The Fridge, but I’ll be a faux fan on Sunday.
Have you seen the vid with him, Mikey Jackson and James Brown?
P, MJ, JB
Prince is high as the cost of living here.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 18
Donita Sparks @ 20
I used to be a bigger fan of football when I was younger and played it in school. I just can’t get uber hyper excited about professional sports in general, but I gotta say this Super Bowl ride for Indy has been a lot of fun. This city has been alive like never before for two weeks now. I’m proud of Peyton Manning and the boys, they represent all the best about the city I grew up in and call home.
Black churches are urged to denounce gangsta rap An influential pastor from Atlanta tells his peers from around the country that the music has a negative effect on young people.
African American churches need to speak out against gangsta rap and its negative influence on young people, black pastors from around the country were told this week in Los Angeles.
“The church ought to say, ‘If you can’t do more positive rap, shut up and get the hell out,’ ” the Rev. Michael A. Battle, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, told the third annual Pastors and Laity Conference that concluded Thursday night with a worship service at West Angeles Church of God in Christ.
In an impassioned plea, Battle, a Baptist preacher who heads the nation’s premier center for black church scholarship, said gangsta rap denigrates all young blacks, especially black women.
Battle, speaking at the conference Monday, charged that gangsta rap has stolen “the soul of positive rap,” meant to articulate the “sociological circumstances” of African Americans, especially men. Some raps capture the obstacles facing a teen as he tries to “become a man … somebody with character in their turbulent circumstances.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/lo…..-headlines
The issue with the Super Bowl is the combined issue of broad cast delay coupled with the NFL requirement of football broadcasting live.
So any pre-game show is done with a 7 second delay to prevent any “bad” stuff being broadcasted. Then it is switched to live game show then half time will again have the 7 or so second delay to guard against the public being damaged back to live game show. This is tricky technically but the way it has to be done.
My boyfriend is working the Super Bowl, has been in Miami for over a week at the compound out at South Beach. Every day the security has been increasing. Yesterday he was required to wear a specific wrist band just to walk around his commercial hotel that he has been staying in for over a week, now a specific parking pass at the hotel. This hotel was a hopping joint until last evening. DEAD…. no one hanging around
Security getting into the compound takes a police escort, each day taking longer and longer to get to the work site. The usual 20 minute commute to work was 2 hrs yesterday.
Not looking forward for this circus to move to Phoenix next year. Really glad it will be on the other side of town… out of sight, hopefully it will NOT impact my life.
Yo waddup?
Prince is a badass. His music will stand the test of time.
Purple Rain was the first concert I saw. It was in the 80’s. My mom took my sister and I.
Everything was cool until he stood up on the speaker and started jackin’ his guitar, then it shot water out on the crowd.
The part when Sheila E tied some dude up in a chair and started strippin’ him down was also a little uncomfortable.
Rock on.
Some Black preachers in Atlanta are strongly anti-gay too.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 24
I wonder what Sheila E is up to now. I hope she didn’t become a fundie like Vanity did. That was a sad ordeal.
T- @
26
Indeed.
My first concert was Who in 1976.
I was a little uncomfortable when the music made my head explode.
Bruno @ 12
Me too. And I live in Chicago. But I hate the Bears. I hope they all get really bad diarrhea at the same time – about halfway thru 3rd quarter. Not a Peyton Manning fan either, but I’ll root for anyone against the Bears.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 28
from wiki
Sheila E. has performed three stints with Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, in 2001, 2003, and 2006. Her drum “duets” with Starr are a moment of comic relief in the show, where they play the same parts but he quickly falls behind, shrugs and smiles as she takes off on an extended percussion solo.
In February 2006 Sheila performed with Prince once again at the Brit Awards.
Swine :)
Sparkles the Iguana @ 30
how ’bout those Oakland Raiders!
Here’s Prince in a different context than I’ve usually seen him. It takes a while…but it’s worth it.
punaise @ 33
Randy Moss!
Left the Vikings because he wanted to play in the Super Bowl.
Maybe Prince will invite him onstage.
Cowbell!
I saw the Turtles in the parking lot of the Oakbrook shopping center in 1966. . .they didn’t play, they just made an appearance and there were thousands there. Saw the Stones at McCormic Place on my 16th birthday in 65. . .and the joint was rockin, goin round and round.
Balrog @ 29
Balrog @
7
Just for that — the Suburbs!
“I like cows — and they like me. I like COWS. Just wait and see.”
raven @ 36
Flo and Eddie!
I’m yearning for the day they put Delbert McClinton in the halftime show. Now THAT is some good music.
It’d cost ‘em less, too.
I saw Sheila E. with Ringo a few years ago. She was off the hook!
Balrog @ 38
there it is, and Rueben and the Jets too!
Phoenix Woman @ 37
Hah! They actually played before the Twin’s playoff game last October.
My first concert was a historic one. I was at the homecoming concert at IU Auditorium in Bloomington, IN in 1984 when John Mellencamp performed. It was pretty cool, the BoDeans opened.
Donita Sparks @
9
That’s the risk you run.
That’s what I like about ol’ Delbert – timeless.
raven @ 31
Not surprising — As much as he admired Keith Moon, Ringo HATES doing extended drum wankery/riffing. He’d much rather sit back and keep the beat.
My first concert was The Beatles, Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 1966.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 43
Buddy of mine was the catcher on John’s little league team in Seymour. “Cougar” opened for the Kinks in Champaign in about 78.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 46
game, set, match.
RBG @
34
Yeah, I saw that clip. Prince deserves more props as a guitarist. He is outstanding and one of the most exciting performers on the planet.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 46
Yikes, the famous show from the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. . .”Further”!
RBG @ 34
WOW! I mean, like, you know, man, WOW!
Bruce Channel’s Hey Baby is one of the many records proving that, during a period in which rock has sometimes been characterized as near death, the form was continuing to evolve in unexpected and delightful ways. An irresistible mid-tempo shuffle from the first few bars of homespun harmonica (played by Delbert McClinton), it was a seemingly effortless blend of rock, blues, country, and Cajun beats, featuring Channel’s lazy, drawling vocals and an instantly catchy tune.
In early 1962 the song caught on, and began to shoot up the record charts. It reached the number one position and stayed there for three weeks. Bruce Channel became a popular act. He began to tour, and his popularity caught on in England. It was while on one of these tours with a then little known group called The Beatles that Delbert McClinton ran into John Lennon. The two discussed playing the harmonica, which was a very curious musical instrument to Lennon. The Beatle procured a harmonica of his own and began to use it in his own group’s recordings, on such records as Please, Please Me and Love Me Do
raven @ 50
Cowboy Neal at the Wheel.
raven @ 36
I saw U2 in 1984 at one of those smallish, North Side venues. I’ve forgetten the name – it was really well known at the time.
Balrog @ 53
just so the youngins understand “my bad”!
The Kinetic Underground. . .I think Aron Russo’s Electric Theater became that. Or maybe the Aragon.
Beatles, Sept 6/64, Olympia Stadium, Detroit
raven @ 55
Sorry. Forgot my link. Furthur.
Donita Sparks @ 49
Hardly anyone ever mentions Prince in the ranks of great guitarists and I have always felt he was severely underrated in this regard. He is so outrageous and over the top performance wise I think people forget they’re also hearing some blazing guitar solos from him.
Donita Sparks @ 49
Definitely. We saw him on his last tour, and the showy numbers were a lot of fun, but the segment where he just played and sang by himself, sitting on a stool, were just breathtaking. I remember thinking, damn, that man can play guitar!
I date U2’s final, unvarnished sellout from their Superbowl halftime atrocity.
Prince, though? We’ll see. He’s one of the most underrated guitarists around: the man can play.
punaise @
33
Jack Tatum
;>)
Gee, maybe if he played it and let the freak show rest people would get it? Zappa has an album called Shut up and play your guitar. Pretty good advice.
Redshift @ 60
tangential Prince connection: a poignant break-up song from Sinead O’Connor –
Last Day Of Our Acquaintance
it builds to a powerful crescendo
RBG @ 34
Good one!
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 59
Add great songwritng, great producing and great singing.
He’s one of the best, obviously.
The Kinetic Underground. . .I think Aron Russo’s Electric Theater became that. Or maybe the Aragon.
Yup, I think it was the Aragon Ballroom. Unless it was one of those venues that went defunct. I see that Aragon is still in existence.
darkblack @ 62
Fred Belitnikoff! and the Snake!
This is the greatest YouTube Video EVAR!
Donita Sparks @ 49
Yes!!!
I’d like to add “Erotic City” “Head” and “Gett Off” to the list of great prince songs.
Sunday nite, watch him dance, then remember you’re looking at a guy who turns 50 next year. yikes.
punaise @ 68
Kick ‘em in the Head Ted, and 00
;>)
sticky @
71
Sho nuff, sho nuff
Saw Tull and Sha Na Nah there, talk about cognitive dissonance!>
Yup, I think it was the Aragon Ballroom. Unless it was one of those venues that went defunct. I see that Aragon is still in existence.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
6
When you say “taped”, do you mean pre-taped or lip-synced (I’m English, I don’t really get American football or its customs)? I only ask ‘cos if all that nonsense was over two people who can’t do their jobs, it’s entirely possible that I may have to throw things.
The more I find out about Timberlake, the more I seriously start believing that there is a Satan, and he’s a businessman.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 46
OMG!! I used to work with a woman who had actually seen them, before they became huge, in England where she was living at the time!!
I was just totally impressed and excited about it and all the ladies around me were just like, whatever. And I was like, this is SO COOL – woman, I am jealous!
So that is awesome for you.
sticky @ 71
When I was getting the Napster links for all the songs in this playlist last night I couldn’t help but notice that at least half of his songs had an explicit warning next to them. And this is not a lazy songwriter either, the guy has tons and tons of songs written and recorded. He has to be one of the most prolific songwriters in history. I just wonder where he finds all that sexual energy he puts into his lyrics!
HotFlash @ 57
Damn, damn! Were the girls crying and screaming orgasmically? Were you??
raven @
31
Fun Facts about Sheila E: She signs her autographs SDRAWKCAB, in a beautiful script.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 77
Prince isn’t as smutty as he used to be. He’s found some sort of religion. Doesn’t swear, etc. anymore.
Anyone go to Fillmore West, The Carousel, Family Dog, etc. in San Francisco in the ’60’s?
punaise @
33
I believe, I believe, I believe they sucked this year.
Hangs head in shame.
punaise @
48
Yep. My wife saw the Beatles in Chicago; I’m not worthy to touch the hem of her garment (but I do, nyerk). My first was the Monkees (yikes!) in 1966, but I was in the 6th grade, whadya want?
Oh, and the best thing about the Super Bowl is that it means that it’s only 4 more weeks until Spring Training!
Jacqrat @ 79
Hi Jacqrat. What does that stand for?
Daniel @ 75
Start tossing the candlesticks my man, they lip synced to that song and managed to have the “wardrobe malfunction” occur.
Satan’s real name is Lou Pearlman, a boy band promoter and manager from Orlando, FL. This man has been behind every horrible act of the last 20 years. He is currently wanted by every unsigned musician in America that seethes with the hatred you have in your own veins for the same reason.
Bustednuckles @ 82
Imagine being a Chargers fan. :(
Ouch.
I saw the Who at the Fillmore West in ‘69. First “Tommy” tour. I also saw them the year before, at the original Fillmore. When I was a kid, I was the biggest Who fan living.
Deacon Blues @ 83
four words: “pitchers and catchers report”
Sheila E. is something else on ‘the skins’. And fascinating as well.
Decisions Decisions Decisions
I really like Prince and his music…he’s one of the most talented musicians to come along in this generation…
but
I absolutely despise the Superbowl Half-time show The organizers seem to have forgotten that, in the end, this is a freeking football game…
hizzhoner
Damn, for just turning 47, you guy’s are doing a hell of a job of making me feel better.
First concert , Van Halen ‘80.
I grew up in a small town and the nearest concert venue was 150 miles away.
I did make up for it though,*G*
Here’s one for you Colts fans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sct9igr7wMA
Here’s one for the Bears fans from some friends of mine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUffti-1PhE
My $0.02 cents on Prince Rogers Nelson:
1. A truly, terrifyingly gifted performer and musician. I’ve seen him four times, from small clubs to stadiums, and you can feel his presence in a way that I’ve never experienced from other rock n’ roll performers — not Bowie, not Bono, not Jaegger, not Townshend.
2. How can you have one favorite Prince song? 20 years after it’s release, “Sign O’ the Times” is still heartbreaking and topical — and it swings, and has some of Prince’s best, most subtle guitar work. I can keep going on and on.
I hadn’t planned on watching the Stupor Bowl until I learned his Purpleness was the halftime show. That’s all changed, now.
I don’t see how anyone can be a Redskin fan. I don’t mind the ordinary rank-and-file Redskin, but I canNOT abide the owner Daniel Snyder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Snyder
Here’s Prince “shredding off your face”
First concert also the Who in 1967; they were the bottom of the bill, top: Herman’s Hermits, middle: Blues Magoos. At Constitution Hall in DC
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 85
Wardrobe malfunction, he says
;>)
Pearlman’s a piece of work, but he’s just feeding the Beast – the real devils are the heads at major labels who think they know what’s what in spite of a busted business model, and will shove it down your throat at list price to prove it…Oh, and that retired devilress, Hilary Rosen.
Nothing like treating the consumer as the enemy…Really sells the concept.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 81
I came home from Nam Sept 3d 69. My buddy that lived in the city picked me up at Oakland Army base, we went to the beach during the day and saw Santana that night at the Fillmore. I had never heard of him until that night. Needless to say Carlos, and the purple mescalito, left a lasting impression. I was able to find the ticket for that show on Wolfgangs Vault, I think it was three bucks!
oxide @ 96
I am an American and canNOT abide the ‘President’ GWB
anybody else think “We’re at war with Iran” is going to go out with everything else on the Friday night newsdump?
CocoaBeach @ 98
Ain’t got Nuthin Yet!
punaise @ 89
Yeah, that’s in two weeks I think. I guess we’ll see how Dice-K is gonna do.
Oh, and there was life after the Monkees; the Who, Tull, Zep, Allman Brothers . . . I have a permanent ringing in my ears.
Damn. RBG, thanks for that link; while I admit to being very partial to Prince, he totally steals and earns that vid. It’s all him.
Disappointed to hear that he’s not cranking up crowds every week. Tells me that it’s time for him to do something new, something that pushes his envelope along with everybody else’s. Sure hope he does, he is too fine an artist to moulder away.
Deacon — Since the thread is music allow me this question: considering your handle, got to be a Steely Dan thing goin’ on here, no?
TiredFed @ 102
NOTHING would surprise me at this point.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 94
You asked for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx3iOihZDM
darkblack @ 99
My contempt for Hilary Rosen knows no bounds whatsoever, forever and ever, till death takes me out of this world. I detest Hilary Rosen with a passion unmatched except by the other objects of my contempt, Joe Liberman and John McCain.
For Donita: Da Bears
apologies if this has been posted; I can’t read every comment today.
Bonus for Fin: Indy is mentioned!
oxide @ 96
Well everybody hated Joe Theismann too, but we still rooted for the team.
twolf1 @ 101
I’m a Redskins fan and I’m from Brazil…I don’t know nothing about Daniel Snyder sorry… and unfortunatelly, I know much things about Bush… he’s a texas leaguer right?
We seem to have a duelling football vs. music thread going here! :)
I can discuss war or music, but not football. Completely immune.
Donita Sparks @ 108
707!!! [wipes tears from his eyes] Oh my god that is hilarious!
A high point from the 7th St. Entry…although I don’t remember much of the rest of the night.
My first concert was The Temptations in Knoxville, TN. 1969. Blacks on one side of the hall and whites on the other. I had just moved to K-town and was appalled. The music was good though.
retirin’ in five @ 106
You betcha. Smart, smart lyrics, catchy melodies, the epitome of cool.
Count me in the “Who First” brigade.
1976, “The Who By Numbers” tour, Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon. I was 14.
Hey Balrog! My first concert (sold out) the parking lot of the Houston Astro Dome July 1976 with the Who and Aerosmith.
The day I get high speed access this will be my first show to download. It’s a real gem.
Doc Watson, David Grisman, Jack Lawrence – 11/03/1989 – Boulder
OT: Charles Stimson – that deputy Defense official who threatened legal firms who represented detainees – just resigned.
Resigned
Swopa posted this graphic to help you keep track of who leaked to whom about Plame and when. It’s pretty good:
http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews…..chart6.png
Well, hell, I might as well check out because, now that I think of it, I have not even been to any of the coolest concerts like you guys.
However, I did finally get to see The Godfather a few months before he passed.
Damn glad you made it back, Raven.
Thanks for your sacrifice.
Jacqrat @ 110
You’re my Ditka.
mandrake @ 114
you are not alone.
I saw The Godfather in SanFran in 1974. Felt like I was tripping when I got out of that movie. Haven’t felt the same about theaters since. Cwazy.
Deacon Blues @ 118
That’s an excellent description. Side players. They got it all, IMHO.
My favorite half time show was KISS. A perfect fit for the Superbowl Halftime Show. Cheezzze on cheezzzze.
Sid
T- @ 124
Ditto. Can’t give you enough kudos, Raven.
I missed that garden party by one year; sweated the draft all through my teenage years.
T- @ 124
As Jeramiah Johnson said to Bearclaw, “Aw, what trouble”!
darkblack @ 72
00, Jim Otto – the perfect number for the name.
Marv Hubbard, Raymond Chester, Willie Brown (no tthe politician)
No matter who wins Sunday, Indiana as a state is coming out a winner. The northern third of the state here are Bears fans mostly. May the Battle of I-65 begin!
Deacon Blues @ 130
I was 19 when I came home, turned 20 in November. Ten days after I got home I got thrown in jail in Champaign for underage drinking. It wasn’t hippies that spit on me.
Well, the thread seems to be thinning out, so I guess I’ll mosey on.
Wouldn’t it be nice if someday all we had to talk about was sports and rock n’ roll?
Raven
Still love the Blues Magoos’ version of Tobacco Road. Total show stopper
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
85
RAGE!
However, I have nothing to hand that isn’t glass or expensively breakable (like my T.V.).
However, a good thing to come out out that insanity is that it raised the profile of the half time show – so now they can get acts that the 18-49 men who attend and watch the Superbowl might actually like.
Prince should be good (it’ll be on at three in at the morning but I’ve not seen the man live); I’ve only recently got into his work, through being a massive Muse fan – I was informed it was an inspiration)
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 133
Especially after the bullshit Sampson pulled with Gordon.
sticky @ 71
I like “Sexy Motherf*cker” myself.
hi donita!
thanks for the heads up! PRINCE!
i wouldn’t have watched had i not known!
smokin’ prince playlist! PEACH is one of my faves.
enjoy the spectacle! i know i will, thanks to you.
love,
nora
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
59
Not just a blazingly fine guitarist, but an astonishing composer and producer as well. Just your all-round musical genius.
I may have to watch the Super Bowl half-time this year.
Here’s another band I’m friends with, the Mudkids, that has a Colts video. This is getting some good press from USA Today in today’s edition.
If anyone has the time, can they call the Randi Rhodes show on Air America right now. She is talking about the note the referencing the VP. She says the only one talking about this is KO… wrong…. our FDL live blogging team is saying it loud and clear…
Off to a conference call…
(sigh) RIP, Frank. We miss you loads.
zig alert!
Sid @ 129
I seem to recall a Britney Spears/Aerosmith pairing that was especially bizarre.
I saw Prince in concert about ten years back. The entire show was a montage, not one song performed in its entirety. If he perfoms like that in Vegas I am not surprised his shows lack enthusiastic crowds.
RBG, per everyone else, thanks for the link.
darkblack, always great to see you. Talk about what I didn’t expect, a reference from you about Jack (They Call Me the Assassin) Tatum.
For anyone who doesn’t like football, and who has any interest in understanding it, I recommend ESPN’s Edge Matchup with Ron (Jaws) Jaworski and Merril Hoge, old Steelers running back. It’s a half hour, where they break down the film in slow motion. Football is an unbelievably complex and extremely violent game. I think the average NFL career is about three years and they don’t make nearly as much as guys in the NBA and MLB.
One final Super Bowl note, when the Packers fired an African American coach, Ray Rhodes, after one year, they took a ton of heat from African Americans. It was Tony Dungy who said that the Packers were one of the few NFL franchises to break with the whites only hiring policy for head coaches. He argued that if people criticized them for firing an African American, other franchises would be reluctant to hire African Americans. The contrast in character between Dungy and Joe “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Biden is too broad for words.
Deacon Blues @
83
Whooo … baseball fan!!! Be still my beating heart!!!
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
28
My dad loved Little Richard, went to his shows, until he became a preacher in the late ’50s.
Then he gave that up, so my dad liked him again.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 147
Actually, my friend said Prince was great, the crowd was lame.
It wasn’t my first concert, by the first date for Ms. Redshift and me was a Who concert, Capital Center in 1979.
punaise @
132
Judge Lester Hayes, George “NFL Reject” Blanda, …and Mr. Raider, Touchdown Tim Brown
Eureka Springs, AR @ 147
That’s too bad. His last tour wasn’t like that.
tsk..kids these days. I always warned rabid anti smokers of the “other” consequences. *s*
Sid @ 129
One of the most terrifying sights I have ever seen was Gene Simmons on a Jumbotron…
Dave Casper, Ted the Stork Hendricks, Warren Wells, Lester (stickem) Hayes, George Blanda, Daryle Lamonica, Gene Upshaw, Art Shell (as a player), Marcus Allen, Phil Villapiano, Jon Matuzak, Lyle Alzado, RIP…..
The Heidi game.
Greetings, Firedogs! I have arrived in Washington! My dad and step mom are about to take me out for sushi.
TRex @ 158
You won’t enjoy this thread much~!
a propos of nothing:
Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Use your chopsticks, Dino pup. Sounds fabulous, I am jealous.
Sushi, eh? That’s a “raw” story!
John Casper @ 157
The Tuze, remember Joe Don Looney? And Mitch Rosivitch (sp) he ate light bulbs!
Bearsch!
Eureka Springs, AR @ 161
RRAAAAAAAAAHHHRRR!! CHOMP! CHOMP!
TRex @ 158
My first and only encounter with sushi was a week after getting food poisioning from seafood.
TRex, while in DC check out the REM album:
Oh, Potomac for the People
My wife is working at the Super Bowl this year (don’t ask, long story), but she was at the dress rehearsal last night. I listened to Prince’s performance (he did “Purple Rain”) through her cell phone, so I would guess it’ll be live. Technology can be so cool.
punaise @ 160
Well, there is a windy city angle there
raven @ 163
Cliff Branch. Ray Guy.
Sushi and the Banshees…
scory @ 119
ROFLMAO!!!
I saw them in the same place, about 10 years later on their “Farewell” tour.
punaise @ 170
The University of Mars. What about Freddie?
Anything major happening in the world today? I’ve been in media blackout.
One of the most terrifying sights I have ever seen was Gene Simmons on a Jumbotron…
Gene Simmons is an unabashed war-mongering right winger.
John Casper @ 148
And you also, JC.
Put Biden in the center slot, facing off against the 1974 Steelers’ front four…That’s a storybook.
…titled Hut Hut Splat.
;>)
Prince Rocks
He reminds me of Neil Young in that the vision may be skewed, but it is always true.
And he is a bitch of a guitarist.
There’s a song on Sign ‘o’ the Times with a guitar outro which smokes… and it fades before it peaks, leaving the listener wanting more every time.
Prince at the Superbowl will definately be a study in contrasts.
I can just picture him standing next to Tank Johnson at the afterparty…
TRex @ 174
watching cspan….the world is coming to an end via our neocon military machine. nah, nothing new.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 178
Bad storms in Florida, 14 killed.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 178
We’re fighting them over there so we can’t fight them over here.
TRex @ 174
George W. Bush is still a dick.
TRex @ 174
Tornadoes in FL killed some folks middle of the night. The dickhead Charles Stimson who threatened legal firms who represented detainees resigned from the Pentagon. Thats about it.
TRex @ 174
The Bastard in Chief hasn’t resigned yet.
of course, you wouldn’t need the media for that.
All the fireworks going off around the world would give you a clue.
Dubya is to Rove as H.R. Puffenstuff is to John Lennon.
Russia probes smelly orange snow
Russia has flown a team of chemical experts to a Siberian region to find out why smelly, coloured snow has been falling over several towns.
Oily yellow and orange snowflakes fell over an area of more than 1,500sq km (570sq miles) in the Omsk region on Wednesday, Russian officials said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6323611.stm
hackworth @ 184
And Rove is to Dubya as Jimmy is to the Magic Flute!
Whats your favorite sushi? I like the sashimi made from shark meat.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 185
It seems to me weird things happen in the Omsk region often. I keep hearing strange stories from there every once in a while.
Ok I have musical peculiarity happening in my house. Rearranging my living room this week the turntable ended up on the floor and my normally fearless cat is petrified of the turntable even when it is off. Not sure what to make of it.
My favorite last order at the sushi bar…just before green tea ice cream
Uni with quail egg
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 187
unagi (cooked eel)
spider roll
various sashimi like ahi, etc.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 187
All Tuna, all the time! Me rickey wellowFin; but I’ll try most of them.
I don’t do the eel or the sea urchin so much and there’s one whitefish on the sampler platter that, invariably, smells like bait. I usually take that one to the ice house to catch pike.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 185
Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow!
Its the end of the world as we know it.
Oh yeah, its Groundhog Day and the rodent didnt see his shadow. Early spring is comin’.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 193
Good, I’m tired of freezing my narrow ass off.
JohnSwifty – I think that’s the mackerel (akagai) it’s an oily fish.
punaise @ 190
Ooooooh I love unagi and any sashimi really. What’s the spider roll about?
Toro
from Matsuya in Chicago
Usual order
2 toro
2 hamachi
2 hirame
2 sake
1 scallop
Latest discovery in Chi is the suspiciously named
House of Noodles and Sushi
They specialize in maki
the Totoro is seaweed, tofu and (real) crabmeat
pretty tasty
Lunch special is 3 maki, miso soup and tea for $7.95
And they play some of the better dancy jpop
Bustednuckles @ 183
Oh, nothing much, just $245 billion more for Iraq.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 187
The one with soft shell crab rolled up in it. “Spider rolls” I think they call them at most places.
Prince hasn’t been good for a long, long time. The NFL should try getting someone from this century, not some five-foot nothing weirdo.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 195
I think you’re right. Enough wasabi and it’s dooable, but I can say the same thing about the flower in the table arrangement.
Prince is in town these days. Right up the street from my guys (he’s at the Rio, they play at The Palms on Monday nights). All the A-List players come to hang at my guys’ gig.
So, one night Prince showed up. The frigging security detail was ridiculous. I even got fussed at by this no-neck earpieced black turtlenecked Suit just for mentioning his name at my table up front.
‘Like, get the [bleep] over it.’
They seated him all the way in the back in the dark
Cats in his band still come in frequently, but he ain’t been back. Fine with me. It’s absurd. We see local news reports of the same heavy-handed security goons shit everywhere he turns up in Vegas.
TRex @ 199
Aha! I like that one a lot, just didn’t realize what it was named. Very tasty with some wasabe!
PoliticalCritic @
200
Weirdo, Prince a weirdo! Shocking.
PoliticalCritic @ 200
I gotta stick up for my boy, here. He didn’t do his best work when he was a SLAVE! So he stuck it to the man! Now, should he have signed the contract….maybe not….but we have this fabulous pop culture situation where a semi-major star went with a symbol as a handle for awhile. Now that’s too interesting not to appreciate.
They’re plotting, oh yes, plotting all the while . . . must be ever vigilant . . .
Eureka Springs, AR @ 178
We’re fighting them over there so we can’t fight them over here.
raven @ 204
this a site for, by and about 5 foot nothing weirdos
johnSwifty @ 205
Boy, damn, this new generation talks funny. What would Joe Biden think?
excepting Trex, of course
Deacon Blues @ 130
Am guessing Shrub never even worked up a sweat, knew he had things all tied up from the get go.
I’ve got friends that have a pornographic Superbowl party. We don’t watch the game. Instead, we rent the strangest X-rated films we can find. You know the kind? They feature circus performers and rooms padded with giant foam breasts? Everybody cocks their heads while they squint at the screen and say. “What is she doing? Is that anatomically possible? Hey, I thought that was a she! Ewwww.”
Excellent fun.
Prince did kind of go off the beam for a bit there, but I would still go see him in concert. He’s too kooky and mercurial to write off entirely.
My favorite Prince song is “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” from Sign o’ the Times.
Rushton @ 8
That was Lieberman’s concession song. Really.
Know what we call sushi in New Orleans?
Bait.
Sushi time!
portia.vz @ 211
Remember the WKRP when they were all in a 3D porn movie and all ducked at the same time!
raven @ 208
I’m in mpls as I type, he’s my home boy (’cause the purple one feels so close to a big, geeky, white guy from the suburbs, I’m sure :)
As for Biden, ask John Stewart’s makup lady, she seems to be writing Biden’s best stuff lately.
Sushi and Prince. This place is getting too elitist for me.
;)
Mary McCurnin @ 214
Thank you.
I thought I’d wait.
johnSwifty @ 217
I’s just foolin around.
raven @ 220
I didn’t need to axe.
close italics
Best sushi ever- Sushi Ran – Sausilito
TRex @ 212
I like “If I Was Your Girlfriend”
No real point to this post; just putting that out there.
This landlocked hillbilly likes to take some fresh garlic and soy when trout fishing. Trout sashimi in garlic soy just minutes after the catch is divine.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 225
Haha! I bet that there is some good eatin’!
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
203
Hopefully I’m not being too mouthy here, but putting in my vote.
We have a sushi place in Ventura California (I always forget the name but can tell you it’s on Seaward Avenue right next to the beach) and they have the BEST feta and garlic tuna. They also have a wonderful spider roll.
You guys are makin’ me hungry.
mandrake @ 218
Dude, you’re handle is a new age, psycho-active, root.
Do I need to break out my crystals to hang witcho?
I really wanted to hear about the Beatles concerts. Truly.
Oh, well.
Rat @ 227
[mouth drooling like an idiot] Feta and garlic tuna? Damn thats got me hankering for a trip to CA just to go there. I have this policy that states everything is betta with feta.
Prince is weird and not very tall, I guess. He is original and exceptionally talented. He wrote hit songs for others,
whom otherwise, may never had become one-hit wonders.
16 words I refuse to remove from my state of the union speech: I like Prince. I have always liked Prince. I have always liked Prince. I like Prince.
CFini FiniTOOBZ! @ 230
Come on out, I’ll take you. I know the chef there too. He’ll make whatever you want.
johnSwifty @ 228
Actually, my namesake is Group Captain Lionel Mandrake from Dr. Strangelove, but I don’t think anybody gets that. I guess I should have used a capital ‘M.’ I felt it was appropriate since I have been trying to keep people from blowing up the world since 2003. Like Mandrake, thus far, I have failed.
Also, I R a gurl.
I like weird.
Donita Sparks @ 235
That soooo needs to be your bumper sticker slogan.
mandrake @ 234
The sub-title to this thread is how I learned to stop worrying and love mandrake.
Pleased to meetcha ;P
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
236
right on brother man
Prince does not rock. Sorry.
johnSwifty @ 237
Likewise. All I need now is a Colonel Bat Guano and I’d feel right at home.
mandrake @ 234
That is one of my all time favorite movies. Everything about it is brilliant, but Peter Sellers is simply on fire in that movie. Plus, Slim Pickens is awesome throughout.
I agree with Balrog (3),
Halftime’s just a lip-syncing contest, a karaoke cavalcade of narcissism, like Shania Twain’s debacle a few years ago.
As for the dancers: “I’ve been hired to dance to the camera, and feigning like I’m making eye contact with you, yes you, Joey six-pack! Watch me dance to the piped in music by the band that isn’t playing, to the singer who isn’t singing.”
Sorry, too much cheese gives me gas.
Donita Sparks @ 235
Weird is a good thing. If some of us weren’t weird then more of us would be bland.
Donita Sparks @ 238
The celts had a concept called wyrd. I recall it was a combination of fate, destiny, the fickleness of the gods…kind of a grabbag of druidic determinism.
I like wyrd.
“Slim Pickens is awesome throughout.”
“Nucaler combat toe to toe with the Rooskies.”
Christy is upstairs,and she has been busy.
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..3/#respond
My favorite shushi bar name (in the states) Godzilla Sushi in SF. If it’s still there, get the T-shirt.
Oh Donita, I am a weird magnet. good thing I like it too…)
From wiki:
“Wyrd” comes from the Old English word meaning “fate” which is, in turn, derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *wr,ti-, which meant “a turning”. “Wyrd” is the root of Modern English “weird” and is also related to the Old English verb “weoran”, meaning “to become”. In its literal sense, it refers to the past, or that which has become. In its wider sense, it refers to how past actions continually affect and condition the future. It also stresses the interconnected nature of all actions, and how they influence each other. The concept has some relation to the ideal of predestination. Unlike predestination, however, the concept of Wyrdness implies that while we are affected and constrained by our past actions, we are constantly creating our own Wyrd through how we respond to present situations, an idea that is also prominent in the concept of Karma. More simply, wyrd can be said to describe ’cause and effect’ or ‘antecedent and consequent’ — a concept connected to the German word ‘werden’.
buckethead @ 239
See, he doesn’t do it for me either. Nor does sushi. Hence, I am “too red for this thread.” (However, not too white since I am nuts for The Godfather, may he rest in peace, someday!)
Why don’t y’all just go ahead and break out the frappucinos & lattes!
;)
mandrake @ 249
ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCINOS!
with sushi? yuck!
Funky godfather music in a sushi bar would be awsome though.
Firedoglake is wyrd.
Funky Godfather music, sushi and orange crush.
OK, I must be off to shop for Super Supplies. GO COLTS!!!
raven @
19
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Speaking of Warren Zevon and Prince, ever hear the “Hindu Love Gods”? Best version of Raspberry Beret I know — even if Peter Buck and Mike Mills were sloshed when they recorded it. Zevon had pretty well sobered out by that point (1987).
HotFlash @
57
**
Hotflash,
Were I not speechless, I might muster a feeble “I’m NOT WORTHY, I’m NOT WORTHY”
Redshift @
152
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Redshift,
My first “Date concert” was at the Capital Centre that same year, ‘79 and it was the Doobie Brothers. I turned 16 and had my first “driver’s-license-Date-concert” the following year at the Capital Centre as well. I remember that concert particularly well since, among other reasons, earlier that week in Ohio the Who played to a general admission audience and several people were killed/crushed in the stampede to get seats. I guess that would have been the tail end of the same Who tour you saw?
In any case Fleetwood Mac was sold-out general admission as well, and the Capital Centre opened its doors – opened EVERY door – earlier than announced and concert etiquette was at an all time high. The Capital Centre announced after that show it would no longer sell general admission seats (except floor seats) for concerts.
Have a good weekend everyone.
slainte,
cl
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 241
PBF
Donita, I forgot to mention, btw, great title.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
196
soft shell crab in a sushi roll….mmmmmm good
punaise @
48
My response is so completely EPU’d, but this exchange is what it’s all about. Kiddo, punaise, kudos.