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Do you have Sirius? I'm addicted to Jam-On. THE BEST RADIO STATION EVER! Listening to Gone Phishin' helped renew my love of Phish. I started losing interest during the hiatus. I went to a few shows in '03 and '04 and those really aren't my favorites. I've seen Trey a couple of times since they broke up. I'll refrain from commenting on those for fear of being smited. But I started listening to Gone Phishin' about a year and a half ago, and he's played a few shows that I was at and now I'm really starting to miss them.
Yeah I really started missing them lately. I think i might have traumatized after the break up and went into hibernation. It's not so bad I've found other great music but now I've been listening again. Trey band has had their great moments, I've seen a couple of them, but I agree there has been some others that i will refrain from commenting on.
I just realized you are in Naples. Whenever I think of Naples I think of our trip to Big Cypress. The gas station was insane and the locals were SO CONFUSED.... ha ha
I didn't go to Big Cypress. I moved to Florida in '03. For the Millenium 12/31/99 I got the behold the magic of The Disco Biscuits epic 12 hour, four set show at the Theater of Living Arts in Philly with about 800 other people. A far diffent, but I'm sure equally insane, experience than 100,000 people seeing Phish out in the middle of the Everglades. And there was corn of all varieties in abundace at both events.
But yeah, the locals here probably freaked. It's a bit different on the east coast. Here it's mostly rednecks and republicans. (My appologies to anyone that may consider themself a redneck. I mean not to offend thee.) They wouldn't know what to make of it.
East coast redneck is something special isn't it? Especially in the south... do they even have rednecks in yankeeland? If so, what do the call them? Are they just garden variety hicks?
I went to culinary school in Hyde Park, NY. That's about halfway between NYC and Albany, about 70 miles from either. There were some interesting folks in them hills. Rednecks? No. Hillbillies maybe? Hmmm... I've been to the far reaches of Maine a few times....
Gasping For Air! LMFAO! Too true. You ever go? I went to Limestone three times for Phish and I went to see moe. at some ski resort up in the mountains. Limestone was potato farming country. I didn't meet to many of the locals there. But them mountain folk were pretty scary. Not quite Deliverance scary, but definately all related. The whole town had a family resemblence. Weird.
Never got that far north, mostly stuck close to home in the southest.
I have "people" who still live in the back hills of TN. very odd indeed. When I was a hot little trick at 16 or 17 my cousin would go ape nuts when I would be dragged there for "family" stuff. He'd invite his buddies over and THAT was a very interesting bunch. Sociologists could've written a paper on them. I'd sorta just play w/ the little kids and stay as far away as possible... eew... ha ha
There's many ways of telling Hillbillies from Redneck and most have to do with money. I know people in the hills of TN that have never had running water and hunt for the majority of their meat. Some the nicest, most grounded people you'll ever meet, too.
Here's some helpful hints:
Redneck: Pickup truck Hillbilly: whatevers running that day (color usually bondo gray) Redneck: Cowboy Boots Hillbilly: Work boots Redneck: Y'all Hillbilly: You'uns
But the one sure way to tell which is which is if they play golf they're definitely a redneck. No way a hillbilly would play golf. You have to dress to funny and hang out with the wrong crowd, not to mention the cost.
Well that's a mini-golf thing (if I remember right.) That's about as far as hillbillies will go as it's cheap and only requires one club. Plus the scenery is fun. Hillbillies are not really impressed by bunkers and zoysia grass.
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Post by oatmealschnappz on Jul 21, 2007 22:54:57 GMT -5
Hilari rather enjoys the salad bar at Whole Foods. While I find the very concept of any buffet-type food a little disturbing, I decided to accompany her for lunch today. (when i was a small child i saw this guy in a tank top bending over a salad bar to reach the food on the opposite side. his hairy armpit was no more than 4 or 5 inches above some of the food and, needless to say, this kind of scarred me.) Today, while she was assembling her salad, I couldn't help but notice this total jerkoff just standing there and talking on the phone while he dug into the food with his bare hands and ate! I'm not talking about just one bite either (not that it would've made any difference), but multiple times! JESUS CHRIST! What in the hell is wrong with people?
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Post by strumntheguitar on Jul 22, 2007 11:47:58 GMT -5
Whenever I get really pissed off I go to the record store and, as they say in Almost Famous, spend a few hours with all my friends. Does anybody else do this, or am I really just giving myself more excuses to buy new records?
I like to do that too. Only now I live in Naples and there aren't any record stores. There are some good thrift shops, and I've spent hours searching through stacks of show tunes and Christmas albums to find one or two that don't suck. You win some, you lose some. Most of the time I find nothing, but every so often I hit the Jackpot. And at $1 each it's usually worth the effort in the end. Whenever I go visit my parents in New Jersey it's a different story. In Princeton there is the Princeton Record Exchange. I believe it is the biggest record store on the east coast. I need to plan a half a day to spend there. It's a bit more expensive than the thrift shops ($3-12 for most, a bit more for rare albulms), but the selection is unbelievable. They've got CD's too, imports, bootlegs, and such, but I really go for the vinyl.
Post by strumntheguitar on Jul 22, 2007 13:08:57 GMT -5
Flea markets are gold mines. I found a perfect conditioned Dark Side of the Moon for $8. Poor guy running the cash register didn't know how much more he could've gotten for that record.
Can we still be friends?