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i'll just go for books/music/clothes... gonna give books/music/clothes

he has absolutely nothing to say politically and i'm sure most of the people who listened to his show didn't do it to hear anything other than the made up phone callers he got. I'd like to see how much his ratings dropped when he goes on 30 min. rants on how "if you put your mind to it you can do anything!"

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 14, 2006 -> 06:56 PM) I thought that a lot of Illinoise was deeply personal or at least felt that way. John Wayne Gacy feels as much about Sufjan as Gacy. if anything i felt that JWG gave the feeling of being the victim of the crimes and having an almost sympathetic view of gacy.

an average fan? LOL i own all his albums minus enjoy your rabbit. I'm just saying I highly doubt he will be considered in the same realms of music greats unless he shows some more versatility than just 'adding more strings'. He's a storyteller, and its fun the songs he can make about any towns, like the NPR challenge where he had 3 days to write a song about some rural town, and made a nice diddy, but his recent work is so 3rd person i think it sucks that he isn't letting us know him. The introspective lyrics are gone, which is as arrogant as anything malkmus was accused of doing with his nothing lyrics.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Nov 14, 2006 -> 05:10 AM) I feel like Michigan and IlliNOISE are different from Seven Swans. Seven Swans is more banjo heavy as the other two are more layered and better built with trumpets (Seven Swans has a very light trumpet arrangement) and other instruments I don't know what are (flutes? clarinets? oboes?) yes it escalated, but in the same realm that coldplay escalated. I'm a sufjan fan, but i def. need him in small doses. He is a bit self-indulgent, illinoise ran damn lengthy, a real marathon to finish. That and his tempo changes are just predictable.

a sun came sounds pretty radically different but his 4 most successful albums, seven swans>michigan>illinois>illinois bsides, its not like if i just put those four on random i'd be able to specifically know which is which album if i erased knowledge of their placement.

his earlier stuff was more structured as joke stories though "my brother hired me and it sucked" as opposed to now, which is just him talking...

he sounds too similar on every album. I like sufjan, but he's rather formulaic.

i honestly used to like him, the first bit i saw on comedy central way back when. But the more i saw, the more i just felt like it was hard syllables and screaming, and then i'd talk to other people and they'd say the same thing...and it really just led to dislike. Tourgasm was the most godawful show i've seen comics put on ever, going off the first episode.

i liked the new album by the shins a lot. the dudes just make really nice pop music. Btw i thought i remember seeing a buncho trail of dead fans here, its been leaked a month...what do you all think? I love to listen to it, even though i don't find it a particularly strong album. I DO like the GBV cover, i think some people just think GBV is a band you should never cover but the rawness of all their songs i think leave open interpretations of them rather interesting.

I had to listen to hootie and theblowfish all weekend it was awful. I snuck in a van morrison album for my sanity.

they are screwed v. Grey's anatomy.

Jim faxing dwight from the future was hilarious

M-I-Z!!! eh, i got nothin.

i found this: What's in the box • iPod • Earphones • USB 2.0 cable • Dock adapter • Case • Quick Start guide "Case" is rather vague, but i'm leaning towards there not being a clip in there.

awesome journalist i'll miss having a role model like him.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Nov 9, 2006 -> 05:04 PM) The smaller version of the IPOD comes with a clip in the box...does this version also? oh i see what you're saying now, I honestly don't know the answer to that question, i'll look.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Nov 9, 2006 -> 04:58 PM) I mean a clip for your waist? well yeah, i mean there are a bunch of ipod covers with clips on them. Bestbuy.com or apple.com should have what you are looking for.

like, on the ipod? No. I mean you can buy these things with ipod covers.

the dems did need a candi with exec experience.

Well i never had a problem just putting it in my hoody, but i see the most people with the arm strap, so you may want to look for that one.

i don't know, no questions were really answered and they just ended it on a bigger cliffhanger than normal. It's kind of tiresome. While every other hour-long show resolves its main problems within the hour, lost just keeps rolling them over sometimes not even addressing them, and this is gonna go on for 4 more years? I mean its already getting wearisome. that said, last nights episode was awesome.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 05:40 AM) From Rottentomatoes.com director of such classics as "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream" "Aronofsky to Go Biblical for His Next Movie" you ready for 'the fountain'

if we aren't gonna talk about this then what WILL we talk about...?

neither will new original dino jr