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Superstition has maybe the best opening of any pop song ever.

That avatar DOES rock.

Yeah ... me too. Well, you know what I'm doing tonight, but I just hope I can hook up with some good people there and hang out afterwards. None of my friends listen to Travis, so I'm traveling solo tonight. Oh, I went and looked for digital cameras this morning, and the only I wanted, with a battery and more memory, was going to cost me over $400US so I'm going to wait a little bit before getting it.

I'm working, too :( And the internet connection at my house will be down until Monday night (at the earliest), once of the risks of livin' in the ghetto. What's up, V?

After I read your post I had "Saturn" stuck in my head all day. It's really great to hear people talk about Stevie Wonder. It's not hard to see his influence on today's music, and not just R&B and Hip-Hop. He's definitely in my personal Music Hall of Fame.

well, kinda :wink3:

Mid-Life Krysis by Travis

I'm sure you have many redeeming qualities. No use referencing her. She's nice and nice looking and all, but that's only part of the equation. Does she liberally use profanity? Probably not. Does she have in interest in neurosciences? Not. Does she have a concept of transcription beyond something a secretary does for a boss? Doubtful. See. She's chop livah! :lol:

^ Oh, that's OK. I didn't like most of the season, but I think Alton and Irulan were so romantic ... I probably would have a much different outlook on like it they didn't end up together. I feel strongly about this .

I must agree with Noni, that would be a wicked cool picture! :D I'm not 100% sure how to work that, but I am getting inspired to try and get it done.

Yeah! Robert rocks!

I'm debating purchasing a digital camera .... not only for the concert but for real life. If I get one, then there'll be a TON of photos to share ... ... they're not going to be as good as Mandy's, but it's not my fault she's better looking than me. If I had her to put in my photos maybe, but beyond that ... I think my seats are aways from the stage. But I'm still looking forward to it.

Me and my friends have started substituting 'a' for the vowels in sh*t and f(ck, so the words are now shat and fack. So I just tell people Peace the Fack Out, sometimes.

I'm a huge fan. Songs in the Key of Life is an absolutely must own work. It is to R/B music what Blonde on Blonde is to folk music. Stevie Wonder is SO underappreciated.

Awesome! W/ KoL and Ben Kweller! kewl!

I'd fluff him up with some questions like "What were the Aztecs like," but really, I want to know if he felt guilty. He killed a lot of Aztecs with his swords, but I'm more interested in his reaction, upon arriving for the second time, to the number of Aztec dead at the hand of European diseases he and his crew brought over. It was certainly an unintentional consequence, and I'd like to know what he felt about it. Also, religion was such a prominent part of people's minute-to-minute lives in those times ... I would want to know how religion motivated him and what he now thinks of the "New World" and the decline in religious observance. He was no theologian, but I'd still be interested. You seem to know a lot about this, have you read up on this info? I was more of a memorize for the test and then forget it all type of person. :confused: I forget why he came over here... was he only m otivated by religion? Do you really think that there is a decline in religious observance nowadays? I've read a few things on the conquest of the Western Hemisphere, but te main source I'd use if I had to cite the above would be Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel which was on the NY Times Best Seller list for a long time four years ago. By the time Cortez started coming to the New World, it was pretty much a race for land. Yeah, people will come up with more detailed explanations, but the New World represented a race for power. Spain was right in the middle of that. Cortez was a solider, but it seems he had a particular fascinating with Mexico. It seems like he was just power hungry. And in truth, it doesn't sound like he was a very good person. He toko advantage of Aztec ignorance and played himself up as a god. Regaarding religion ... yes, I think religion is less important in the average person's life than it was 100 years ago, but I'm also American. A Californian American. Religion is on the back burner's back burner out here.

Acually, I was being sarcastic. They're all very handsome. I suddenly have some adequacy issues.

I'd fluff him up with some questions like "What were the Aztecs like," but really, I want to know if he felt guilty. He killed a lot of Aztecs with his swords, but I'm more interested in his reaction, upon arriving for the second time, to the number of Aztec dead at the hand of European diseases he and his crew brought over. It was certainly an unintentional consequence, and I'd like to know what he felt about it. Also, religion was such a prominent part of people's minute-to-minute lives in those times ... I would want to know how religion motivated him and what he now thinks of the "New World" and the decline in religious observance. He was no theologian, but I'd still be interested.

I thought about that, too, but I think that Lennon and Ali would be funny enough, and if the conversation goes the way I would hope it goes, then I wouldn't want somebody cracking jokes. I would be really interested to hear Lennon talk to Roosevelt about nuclear weapons. Cortez is the odd-ball of my group, but the convergence of Europe on Meso-America has had such an effect on the evolution of man that I couldn't let the question pass without imagining an opportunity to question the man who was on the front lines of that union. Ugh.

With these things, there's always the danger of losing site of your choices in favor of those you think others would find compelling. I started falling into the trap a little ... my list went about 30 deep trying to find the perfect 5. In the end, I went with 5 people with were in the first 10 I'd listed: John Lennon Martin Luther King, Jr. Franklin Roosevelt Hernando Cortez Muhammed Ali

Wow ... no good looking guys this year, huh?

OK. Let me think about this for a little bit. Oh, wait: #1 with a bullet: John Lennon. OK, now back to thinking.

Does anybody have the vinyl for HTTT? I have a very still wrapped, and since there's no track list on it I have their weird feeling that there's some kind of secret or bonus song on there. True, or false?

I still don't like it ... and I did have a certain "What the fuck?" reaction to it ... ... but it's really not as be as everybody seems to think. Why get so upset at this song and not totally boycott a Britney?