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Now that's a nickname!

Jesus, I just went back and looked at the Ozzfest 2003 lineup. What a mountain of turd bands. Manson would be one of the best out of those especially since they had John 5 playing guitar in the band at that time. There were a few decent ones on the second stage such as Voivod and Shadow's Fall, but Jesus there were so many godawful white trash nu-metal bands on there. Thank God Maiden, Priest and Slayer showed up again the next year to sweep that shit away for good. That next Ozzfest is also the one that had Jada Pinkett-Smith's metal band on it. Here's a letter submitted to that sports/culture website Grantland this week:

Fact. People thought that would turn America back to 1962 or 1997. And the Dems are going to clean up this year because it didn't happen. Then in '14 the elephants win because it's still not '62. The realization that the end of American Exceptionalism has happened is the cause of all this political turmoil.

That picture makes it look horribly bland though. Look at all that white. Anybody remember when the lights in the mirrored part of the ceiling of the ticketing area were all disco? Or all that orange and yellow stuff on the way up to the upstairs cafeteria? Those were the days.

Yea she's still hot. If Eddie would have just put the bottle down he'd still have her... well maybe he'd have to also cut back on the unpredictable behavior such as trying to smash a window out of an airplane.

I had a friend that lived in one of the Ugly Sisters in the mid-2000s and it seemed really square at that time as far as partying goes. Maybe I just didn't visit on the right nights.

From 1995-1998 metal was a complete no-no in the mainstream. It's how we wound up with the Loads. The record label probably really wanted Zombie to incorporate those industrial/dance elements -- the same thing happened with Danzig V. The labels were like "What are we going to do with these metal bands? Tell them that they have to sound more like Enigma." It was a strange time. We'll probably never run into a situation like that where an entire genre gets completely cut off as long as the internet is around since it doesn't make music disappear overnight like radio and MTV did from time to time. Here's a tune off Danzig V as an example: Danzig - Sacrifice (with lyrics) People forget about that record, but it to me typifies the chain-link-fence-burn-barrel-club-Mortal-Kombat-industrial-dance-metal vibe of the time.

Heheheh, I had to get over the fact that a lot of stuff from that Euro Pop genre is never played live for real. In America, we demand that our pop singers be able to play live (with minimal tape), have hot dance moves, shoot off pyro and all this other stuff. Much of rest the of world doesn't care about that crap. "It's pop, who cares?" '90s rock record production overall was incredible. Brickwalling earned people the death sentence, records were usually not too wet nor too dry and they had access to quality recording gear.

I was just watching the news the other day and some little kid was molested or propositioned or something in Newark. The witnesses the news interviewed looked like big time troublemakers out of the year 2000. You could hear the gears turn in their head agonizingly slowly as they talked to the camera. I was like "Yep, that's Newark"

I wish I could take it seriously, but I can't. I just post crap like this:

I have to hide so many people its unbelievable. I'm down to like 15 active users that I actually haven't X'd out. And most of my friends on there are actually cool in real life!

Oh man KJP, you stepped into the Enigma zone! People in the States a lot of times think that Enigma is a bunch of druggies or only Pure Moods stuff for people in their 40s trying to mellow out after 25 years of partying. But, in all actuality they were a husband-and-wife act (with some help from their friends) that both had major pop success in Europe individually. Here's Michael Cretu, known as Curly MC in Enigma: Michael Cretu - Samurai (dt. Version) ( Musik Convoy 04.03.1985).mpg And his hot wife Sandra (they've since divorced). You know the Mortal Kombat music from the movie? Listen at the beginning and during the bridge for its origin: They never had Sandra appear in the Enigma videos because they probably didn't want people to think it was just more Sandra since she was very popular. That, and I doubt anybody involved wanted her doing stuff like that in a video. This is all great stuff that we missed out on in favor of a bunch of boring Bryan Adams and Johnny Cougar in the '80s. Cretu's a hell of a musician.

I always get nervous when someone proposes a solution by starting out saying "Just...." As if the solution is so simple. It's not. How many roads have we built that are not used as often as planned, or as they once were but aren't anymore? I can name many of them, starting with the West Shoreway. And you used "taxes" and "free market" as part of the same solution. I consider them oxymorons. If the free market should be at work here, then government should not be owning, financing and building roads. If the market determines there should be roads, then let the private sector own, finance and build them with no government involvement. Think the private sector doesn't belong in owning and financing roads? They were, in the 1800s. This included Detroit Road through Lakewood which was a private plank road financed by tolls. Here is a tollbooth for the Detroit Plank Road Company at Warren Road in Lakewood..... Of course, but I think privatizing the road system for the most part isn't really all that realistic, especially in a timeframe of less than 50 years. And there would be untold amounts of kicking and screaming by users -- much worse than an increase in taxes. Also, then you'd bring in both profit motive and it's dark side, profit need.

They don't now, but they will once the true costs of driving are bore by the users. edit: KJP's post slipped in

Just slowly raise the gas taxes to the amount that it takes to pay for the highways and let the free market decide what vehicles are produced rather than the government with CAFE regulations. People will be free to choose how much of their income they want to devote to driving.

I don't know if big chain fast food does that well in the kind of CBDs we have here in Ohio anymore. I know there's Subways, but when Downtown was at the bottom, it had a two Wendy's, a McDonald's (not the Market Exchange District one, the 2-story one across from the Statehouse and later the one by LeVeque). I'm trying to think what other ones it had in the '80s and '90s. But the Cincy CBD doesn't have much in the way of that kind of stuff either. Fast food needs either really high density or a busy drive-through these days or else it's really tough for them. I think a lot of downtown dwellers (both workers and residents) these days are against fast food or just don't dig it.

With the roads in screwy places we don't know which way we're facing all of a sudden. I mourn for the warp zone that you could use on 71N if you acted like you were getting on 670W but just stayed in the right lane on the road to the 670 ramp. You could floor it and pass tons of cars who instantly turned to rubes in your mind.

Jesus, how overboard can people go with the same concept? I blame Alan Jackson.

Bombed out, poorly maintained "ghetto" parts of town might as well be sprawl with regard to making kids fat. There's nothing to walk or bike to. And the easy-to-access food is crap. They're also so poor that they're too bummed-out to play sports and often have little parental involvement. You want to meet some gamers? Go to the 'hood. It doesn't take much money at all to keep yourself in a system and games, especially something like a PS2 where most of the games are under $7 used these days.

Man, that roundup's got it all -- Willyboy, Britney Spears, Bristol Palin and B105.

That's why the team sports lost a lot of kids to stuff like golf and motocross starting about 10-15 years ago. In those individual sports you get to select your class and you can feel yourself get better at your own pace. Though, when the economy started to slow down those got a bit expensive for people. Motocross switched to four-stroke engines at a really bad time because they're essentially Ferraris now and people don't have the money for that crap. And most people can't fix 'em themselves any more.

They need to go to OU! They're going to need to gulp some serious Xanny bars first or else they won't be able to handle all the social interaction of an OU party.

I'm trying to remember what kind of Roadhouse was there across from the megachurch on Ridge. They tore it down like 4 years ago. Both New Yorkers and Chicagoans seem to claim White Castle too. When really Wichita should be crowing, though they don't even have a White Castle any more.

Ahahaha, sounds like a zoo.

The newest roof concept looks like the set of You Can't Do That on Television.